The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-11-10

This story in the second chapter OF
Mark issthat of one man who neys,
could have got to the Master. and
would never have been healed unless
somebody loved him enough to have
gone out Of the way to bring him to
Christ. have often imagined what
kind Of fellows these four friends of
his were, and sometimes while think
ing Of them I have, named them.
The first man have called him Mr..
Love. He Is a,ereat fellow to have
IN the church, and your church work
and your husinessSsround the church
is only SO much fuss unless you have
love. The disciples looked around at
the multitude and .ysaid ssrag weed >,
Jesus said harvest" 1t takes love
to see. don't know Of any harder
thing under the sun than to try to
win man for Jesus Christ unless you
are moved with the same motive that
moved the Master, and that was COM
passion. Love sees beyond the ex-
terror. Love looks behind all the
ugliness and bitterness of life and
sees the soul that Christ came to
save" Here Mr.. Smith referred to
the experience Of some slum workers
who rescued poor fallen girl. She
had no place to go, so they sent her
to an old German washerwoman. She
was kind old lady. For DAYS the
poor girl was very i'll. One day in
her partial consciousness she thought
that the old lady had kissed her. She
wondered if it were true. She thought
If it were so that the old woman
would do SO again. When she came
In later with tray of food the sick
girl pretended to be asleep. The old
woman sat down the tray, and with
one wrinkled hand she smoothed back
the girls hair, then stopped down and
kissed her on the lips. The girl op-
ened her eyes and looking up, said
us God anything like that? If God
is like you can love Him." You can't
drive people and damn them and hit
them. but you can love them to Christ.
The greatest devils in hell once had a
spot in them that might have been ap-
pealed to by love.
The next man at the other corner
of the couch, / have called Mr.. Faith.
He Is another big man. You can't dc
anything without faith. You remem-
ber great crowd followed Jesus one
day through certain city, and they
wondered why He did not do any bic
things. Then they followed Him out
OF the city and thought He hadn't
done anything great in. our, city, and
He had done in other places. But
Jesus gave q reason. 1t was because
Of their unbelief. Unbelief builds a
wall between you and Christ. Faith
IS like trolley pole. There is, the
wire full Of power and the car full
Of people, but the car doesn't move
until the pole touches the wire. God
Is onIHis throne. He has, all power
sufficient to move worlds. We can
claim 1t by faith, and when we reach
.
IN the power comes.
Here Mr.. Smith asked the congre-
CATION to listen to q personal expert
tnce. He said that six> weeks after
ne was born his mother took. him to
the old Methodist church, of which
she was a member, and later on his
younger brother likewise, and dedi-
Gated them to God for the ministry.
When he was Is years Of age, Mr..
Smith said he went to his parents and
told them that he wished to go to sea.
His mother said, "Let him go and get
II out of his -system. He will be ready
to come back in year and 60 to
school again" He shipped on an old
sailing ship for Australia. But from
there they were sent to Japan, then
to China and from there to, Chile,
thence to Hamburg, and to Liverpool.
He had been gone two years and
three months when he returned, and
was as big as he is now, and didn't
want to go back to school. He re-
manned on the sea for nine years, and
at the end was second officer OF, an
Atlantic liner, but his mother told
him, "You will never do well until you
get into the ministry" He married
and obtained good position in Amer
lea. But twelve months after he came
to New York he was converted. After
a time he went to q theological semi
nary to study for the ministry. Upon
his graduation day. a Western Union
messenger boy handed him a cable
gram signed by his mother. He open.
ed, and,it read: 81 told you so." That
is faith.
At the next corner of the couch il
a man I have called Mr.. Persistency
or should have called him Mrs. Per.
sistency? Because it is usually the
women who keep. on in the. work o,
God. Business men 60 into the church
but they usually leave their brains
n the Office. II you men, would. run
your. business a. you ldo the church
you would soon 60 into bankruptcy
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