The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-07-07
Methodist Church Notes
Rev. c C. Wier, Pastor, Residence
236 Olivier, Phone Alg. 1873.

our members, but the services at
both hours were well attended. The
night congregation was the largest
we have had for some time. The
choir rendered good music, in spite
OF the fact that there were so many
absent. At the morning hour, DR..
Browning, who has charge of our
Spanish work in New Orleans,
preached. 1t was his first visit to
our church, but the congregation was
delighted with his message.
At night, We had a patriotic SER
vice consisting of patriotic songs and
special music by the choir for the
occasion and sermon by the pastor
from Psalm 9:17, The wicked shall
be turned into hell, and all the ma
lions that forget God" The average
man or woman has already accepted
it as just for a man to suffer for his
individual sins, but we must go all
of the way and observe that the ma
tons that forget God are punished,
and that il is true today and has been
true all through the history of man
and nations; suffering for our sins is
fact and one of the most awful sins
is to forget God. 1t is a mean COM
pliment to pay any one to forget, and
no one feels complimented by being
forgotten, and yet men think that it
is all right to forget their Creator.
but His word says otherwise Psalms,
50:22, Now consider this We that
forget God. lest l tear you in pieces
and there be none to deliver" God
calls men to remember him and they
forget him at their own peril. THE
wicked shall be turned into hell, and
all the nations that forget God" We
have no right to forget God. He
calls us to him in many ways. He
will show mercy, but he will not al
ways chide. We owe so much to
him let us as a nation remember all
his benefits toward us.
We have no right to forget God.
We should not forget God as indi-
no state religion and should never
have, but we should have a quick
ened spirit toward the things of God
and do his holy will in all things.
We, as a nation. have cause to re-
member his mercies Our whole his
tory is one that gives us cause to
remember him We need to take
warning and get right with him and
ever remember him. When we cele-
brate the glorious Fourth let us do
so with grateful hearts that remem-
Der his mercies. We have not always
done this. When the armistice was
signed we were called to our knees
and many mistook it for a call to
their toes and got to tangoing in
stead of praying, and have never
gotten into the right position. We
got excited and have not got back to
a live consciousness toward God.
wish to call attention to some facts
I quote from the the Lords Day AL
lance as follows: Do you know that
the Bible and the Sabbath are the
pillars in the temple of our republic
by which it stands or falls? That
If the Christian Sabbath falls the
church goes down with it?
That nearly 100000 laborers are
at work every Sunday, half or more
of them should be released?
That 10000 caddies are on the
golf links every Sunday in season,
tempted away from Sunday school by
men (many of them church men,
bers), who for selfish Sunday pleas
ure are robbing the boys of moral
and religious opportunity and train
ing?
That Sunday automobiling for
pleasure, sports and similar activities
are keeping hundreds of thousands
of church members away from public
worship on Sunday and furnishing an
astoundingly bad example for the
young people of the day We see
many signs that indicate that we are
not remembering as we should, but
we have other signs that show an
awakening. All of the churches are
aroused and most of them are cry
ing out. Most or the churches are
aroused to the call for Christian
training. Again 1 see that there has
gone a cry for the sanctity of the
home and home praying. In our own
church, and We are only part of
the kingdom, there is an awakening
in the matter of home religion. The
strength of this nation is not meas
ured by the money she has, but by
the stability of the home. have not
the records of any other church, but
in our own Zion we have had pledged
to daily family worship more than
$4,000 homes. This is an appeal that
means a stronger and better land.
The goal is one family altar for every
twenty members. Some pastors have
far exceeded the goal. The Rev.
Fred B. Faust, Pecos, Texas, has one
family altar for every twelve men,
bers, and the Rev. Clyde c. Frazier,
Bushnell, Florida, has still better
report-one for every seven men,
bers. This is a church wide move
ment to get people upon their knees
as a family. Let us all take the