The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-23
PERSONAL WORK
Is NEEDED NOW
Sunday Doesn't Iant the
People to Sit Around
and Get Mildewed
CHALLENGE TO DEVIL
Try to Win Somebody for
Christ and All Hell Is
at Your Back


Rev puly puuday gave out 1T
Ito inside information about tho
devil for tho benefit OF church Nom
bers at the afternoon service tues
day
"You can pin badge on sald
tho cyaugsi.et, "uahrr people 20 tholr
fcatH. pAsH tho collection plato, he
an elder or a deacon or a steward.
go 30 church. aing IN the choir ana
be mombcrH OF homo or foreign
missionary society..the dcvil viii lot
you attend Bible conference, but
tho minute you begin 10 do personal
work. 10 try 90 Ret somebody 10
take n stand Tor Christ, all the dcvila
iu he'll viii be- ON YOUR back for
they know that's % challenge ~ the
devil and hia forcoF
And ! hone" continued sunday,
that the work NJ leading people 90
Christ by personal effort always win
be- hard I have no gympathy for
folks who ntc looking Tor something
easy"
sunday said quito frankly that tho
world was going To the devil And
no Wundor-.Wo never do anything
II get no sick" he said. "ur people
bcng dead You've pct around 30
long you've mildcwod'"
Appeal for tho doing OF personal
work right now was the burden OF
tho afternoon sermon on the sub
icct, "Vast Multltudcs,' He said In
part:
"Out I'm western state whore I
lived four years ago they made
report that during the yoar--now
there were 400 churches OF that de-
nomination In that state and they
sncnt $500 600 for current expenses
they held 5000 meetings aud
during the year there were just 81
men and women converted and
Joined those churches on confession
Of faith I suppose tnat IN this safe
and sane evangelism that ! hear 80
much about
"It wouldn't take the world long
20 got into hell II that's all there II
to itl
"And In Chicago. Just few years
ago the church made report and
there was an average OF five Joined
each church on confession OF faith
some more, some less--hGt 1t aver
aged up five for n year
And last year 7 500 churches OF all
denominations made reports ana not
one accession this year on confession
OF faith. All right, look at ~ just
face the conditions and you will see
why talk probably In way that
may CRATE on your nerves But YOU
will realize that | am only tcning
you tho truth: you VIII all open your
eyes.
Now. what's iarking7 why these
mcager results7 Why the oXpcndi-
tura OF 50 much energy and time and
money! l will tell you why II ia.
ITS because there is not II def
mite effort put forth to pcrsundo a
deanlte person 20 accept definite
Saviour AT n definite time-and that
time NOW. That's the whole thing
IN nutshell. boiled down into the
fewest sentences ! can put 1t In
because there is not put forth n dofi-
mite effort to accept "A definite ba p
Vious, Jesus Christ. at definite
time, and that time NOW, NOW
That's why we are not making head
way
"But watt This element OF failure
Is not simply confined 20 the church,
Nincty-nine per cent OF the business
men fail. A banker told me IN thi-
cpFn that 40 years ago there were
100 business houses. any one ot
whose paper would have passed
without protest, and today only four
OF those houses were named, The
rest Of them have been ruined, gone
into bankruptcy. out OF business
-Four of them. after 40 years. and
they all passed without protest at
any bank,
"Aud only about three men out oi
900 succeed iuat about thrc"
Scvcnty-tvc per cent uf tho lawyer
who graduate from law school fhi
60 make good. sixty tive per cent
my friends. ~ the physicians fail &
make good, and the failure OK thes
three classes is due largely 90 TIA
lack of definite systematic work. N
political battle IL won on the stunlr
IL Is not the apell- -binders from tn
rear end OF a special train that tur
the vote. Sometimes q hlear- eyed
bloated- faced. hull-necked, whisky
soaked, tin-horn politician viii wi
moro votes than the most silver
torgued spell-binder that eve
spouted the principles from the rea
OF special train-put NOR
into it!'