The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-27

hHS NhuiSh - uOliis tHe greatest NOIk
in the world or that has ever beei,
done in the world But think of the
slnan percent, that are really working
at the Job. Out of something like
large churches, according to DR.. Strait
ton. the figures disclosed the fact that
only 4 people out of every huniired
were engaged in any sort Of soul win
ming activity. We have cheap way
cf tossing serious questions aside,
questions that mean more to US than
life AMI death. Questions that involve
all ot ihe deepest and holiest problems
and pe ssions of existence we toss
asue. We do not care to think SER
lousy. We do not care to sound the
depths OF life. Flippant, easy goine,
we lake jazzy attitude toward reli-
gion. And as result the great fun
G2nental principles of life such as
religion, brotherhood and moral life rot
down into their tomb. Old fashioned
religion that makes men honest, clean
and upright in their relations to So
ciety has become matter too hard
Tor us. 1t is pitiful enough to see
the Jazz spirit in other things that I
have mentioned above but when 1t
lays its light, fantastic fingers upon
the very heart Of the church It be.
comes problem too deep for tears.
When Jesus was among US, He
lookei at men with the spirit Of the
Pharisee and called some Of them liars,
- .,go
whited sepulschers and wondered in
the white heat of His indignation
how they could escape the damnatioh
Of he'll. He told them that the place
where they were going there would b.
weeping and gnashing of teeth. He
Looked at others who were giving their
children Goddess lives and raising
them in Goiless homes and said: 1t
would be better if you had nillstons
tied about your neck and were cas-,
into tine middle Of the sea.
The Heart Of Christ
Think what the heart Of Chris,
must feel when He sees the tendency
Of mo1ern times. Today in this coun-
try there are great modern city
churches dying of spiritual dry ROT,
We are chasing the god Of Mammon
all the week till we are 50 worn out
that if the preacher breaches over 2s
or 80 minutes and does not make il
snappy people do net go at all l.
Is too not or they are too tired.
noticed where one church had chang.
ed its service from IL o'clock TO 10
| O'Clock in order that the congrega.
tion might have more time to swim
and play golf on Sunday afternoon.
There is a tendency to push even the
worship OF Col off inro a corner ana
make the Sabbath day generally a
feast OF Bacchus. In other words thers
is a great demand for jazz religion.
I say It with bitterness Of heart rhat
there are hundreds upon top Of hun
dre3s even Of our preachers who have
put question mark and a guess
/ upon the cross and the atonement,
and the poor starving sheep are no,
fed. Some preachers even, for the
poor honor OF being called broad mind
ed, have turned the world, the flesh
and the devil loose in the church.
One Thing That viii Save
There is just one thing, men ana
women, that can save US and rhat Is
the truth OF the eternal God. Jesus
IS saying unto US today that with all
our luSuries and with all OF our pea.
cock paraphernalia we are wretched,
ani miserable. and poor, and blind,
and naked. Oh! We must come 10
understand that Christianity is a
mighty heroic remuneration OF the
world, that II means victory over the
world, not cowardly surrender to IL.
God grant that we may hear Jesus
solemn cords as they come to us yet
once more today, in the light Of pres.
ent conditions and in the face of the
appalling needs Of a sin cursed and
sin wasted race: I counsel thee to
buy of my gold tried in the fire that
thou nayst be rich and that thine
eye be anointed with the salve that
thou mayst see. Be Jealous there
fore, and repent"