The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-09

With a swing enthusiastic and ire sistible, the old revival hymns led ty Mir and Mrs Loren Jones filled the-auditor- ium of Highlands Methodist Church at the Il o'clock service yesterday Every body sang.
 After the church had been filled to it's capacity, crowds and more crowds were turned away from the doors with re- serve tickets for services today.
 The people who were fortunate enough to find unified pews. came early, and entered into the spirit of the service from the opening prayer led by the pastor, pr Wells. to the closing hymn. when old and young alike accepted the evan gelists invitation to come to the altar offering self-surrendered lives.
 Rev. Bob Jones messages. so full of forcefulness. of power more than kim self, at once vigorous and persuasive, are never delivered with view to con- ciliating the judgment of his audience, but rather with the one thought that ac- count must be given to his Maker for the uoS ol His tune, anu the manner CT ms speech
 His sermon yesterday was directed especially to church members, a message from the eighth chapter of Acts, beginning with the twenty-sixth verse, where Philip obeyed the voice of the Lord when he was commanded: Arise. go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza.p Philip prompt obedience without questioning God was the point the evangelist stressed Tis obedience without the quibbIing of argument enabled him to carry out Gods purpose when he met the man of au- thority riding in his chariot; ''and Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, under standest thou what thou readest2
 And he said. How can I. except some man should guide me?'
 Then Philip began at the same scrip ture and preached unto him Jesus" If Philip had stopped to talk back to God, he never would have caught that char iot," said the preacher. But church peo- pie stop to argue with God so much they miss many chariots going by loaded with souls that are headed toward eternal ruin.
 "Pve heard you talk back to God he said I've heard you tell Him YOU were just little different from most other people, a little more cultured and re- fined. That you were willing to serve Him, but things would have to be ar ranged your own way.
 Now, a little money, a little culture and an automobile do not make man need God any less than the other man living in the lone mountain cabin.
 "The truth is.' said the preacher, driving it home folks are all just alike, only some are a little meaner than oth- CTS"
 Rev. Bob Jones started Philip on the right road in obedience to the voice of the Director of life's pigrimages. Ee kept him on the right road until God purpose for his life was accomplished. But there were firstly, secondly. thirdly and fourthly guideposts along the way that often enable one to write the outline of a sermon before the preacher reaches his fourthly.
 There was just one great. yearning impelling plea for sincerity in the life of the Christian. for implicit obedience, for surrender of self and self-will to Cod and for faith evidenced not only in words, but works.
 In the evangelst's own inimitable style, the substance of thought conveyed to his audience was that the only way to i've SD d-S npt to -idNc JuSb CioNbh " lfgion to make one uncomfortable" is in complete self-surrender to God He em- phasized that if conditions of obedience and self-surrender were met by the Christian, Gods part would never fail in opening the way and in guiding to the end.
 Woven into the virile message were the sentence sermons that follow in the words of the evangelist himself:
 sThe average church member is not doing as much to win men to God as the average politician is doing to win votes, sIf you believe thing, act like you believe it.
 "Every mans work is his dead level best, and if you don't do yours, while the eternal ages roll, it will go undone. Dc your own work or explain to Goa why you haven't done it. God never tells you or me to do thing without opening the way, and giving us power to do it. The trouble with this world is that too many people want to have their own way This broke up paradise. It leads 1 to the divorce court It was the cause ! of the world war. It is populating the states of the damned.
 l Take the reins but of your own nanos 1 and turn them over to God 1 'I'd rather be crank for God than i world wise man
 T know that the man who comes to 1 Jesus will not be turned away. For He said Himself Him that cometh unto