The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-02-15
Addresses Delivered at the
All-Night Meeting
1913 1919
Continued from last week.
ADDRESS BY ELDER TINDALL

| CONTINUED from last week)
ADDRESS BY ELDER TINDALL
There is passage in the Word of God which
says:
"They that wait upon the Lord shall reaew
their strength"
| | have talked to some people and they do not
understand how we can possibly stay up all night
| A great many people who are not with us in Zion,
| think our meetings are terribly long. | do not
understand what some of these people would do
in Heaven.
"Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life: and | shall dwell in the
house of the Lord for ever Psalm 23:6.
Notice, it says we will dwell in the house of
the Lord forever"
AS near as l can understand it, I think we
will have meetings in Heaven large part of
the time.
I suppose everyone here has given, as web as
received the salutation, Happy New YeaTP'
/ was thinking as the meeting began, us it true
that we will all have Happy New Year?"
In neighboring city, Presbyterian minister
resigned who had been preaching there for twenty
years. He said the people were more interested
in amusements than in religion. At his midweek
meeting, he had just two people. The remainder
of them were having their pleasures and helping
that it was not worth while to spend his time with
that church.
Zion does not solve the amusement question
in that way We do not propose to have
moving picture show or billiard hall in the back
ROOM
How many of you remember the first song we
sang after the intermission?
Happy day, happy day,
When Jesus washed my sins away;
He taught me how to watch and pray,
And live rejoicing every day;
Happy day, happy day,
When Jesus washed my sins away"
! l remember good many years ago in the
Methodist Church, preached on the following
text at union meeting:
"Rejoice everymore.
pray without ceasing
I'm everything give thanks: for this is the
will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you LII
Thessalonians 5:16-18.
When the weather is good business fine, the
cost of living reasonable and everything going
Just right person is pretty happy and feels like
rejoicing; but when the tables turn, and the cost
of living goes up, the allowances go down and
everything goes wrong in general, it is not very
easy to keep up courage and be happy. | find
that God has made provision for us to be hap
by, even when the sun does not shine There
is such thing as being happy, just as we have
sung:
"He taught me how to watch and pray,
And live rejoicing every day.
The preachers in the churches do not say this
because they suggest the theater, card parties,
ball games and all kinds of things God has
way to solve that question, and it is practical
one.
If man can keep happy all the time, that is
one of the signs of the fruit of the Holy Spirit
which includes love, Joy, peace
This is the solution of the amusement question
The Lord shows us how to keep happy. The
world is looking for pleasure. The people seek
it like Solomon. He had great riches - houses,
barns, cattle, lands, silver and gold-and he
tried to be happy in that way. He made one
trial after another, and you will remember that
he said:
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is
vanity Ecclesiastes 1913.
I thank God for His goodness to me. I hope
that God will give you all Happy New Year,
and that you can DO as the Apostle Paul said,
"Rejoice!"
God has been good to us and there is plenty
to keep us happy, if we know how to get it.
There are all kinds of creatures 20 of
them is bee and another is buzzard A bug
zard flies and does not stop till he gets to a car
cass Some people read their Bibles that way.
They come to Zion and they can do nothing
but pick flaws. They are not attracted by any
thing but dead horse. Of course, they can get
considerable cheap food, if they like that kind
There is another class of people that is like
the bee The bee flies all over the fields and never
stops until he sees nice flower. That is the way
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