The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-11-04

drop tkstr business interests to raise
money. . PAY OF the church mort
gage, and thsn neglect their prayers.
There hever was q day in the his
.lory of"ths church when we have
mad such magnifieenb church buildings
AN. we do now; there never was time
when We have had such magnificent
music or more able ministers in our
pulpits of when the laymen have Civ
en- SO much Of their means and time.
Take the buildings, the great ora
Cors, the beautiful music, the culture
and consecrate them to the cause of
Jesus, but without prayer they all
,,ome to naught.
The placing of Christ before every
thing else is essential. The church.
of Jesus cannot play second fiddle to
anything without losing out, without
dying spiritually.
Do you pray? Are you intimate
with God? 1t was the passion of
Christ's life to help the lowly and
.he afflicted. When he went into a
town it was to get hold of the lost
man, woman or child, whom nobody
else wanted to have anything to dc
" ith. In one instance Jesus stopped
a woman of ill repute, who was shun-
ned by all others because of her BAD
character. He talked to this woman.
She took an inward look and got u
vision of herself and when she left
| Jesus she went back to her village and
| as the result of the message she took
with her, she caused a revolution in
the life of that town. When she met
Jesus she was a sinner, but when she
eft Him she was saint.
And so, the spirit of Jesus has en-
| tered the hearts of hundreds of the
worlds greatest writer's, orators, phi
!osophers, statesmen, artists and
poets.
The Gypsy tribe of which l was a
member was regarded as the scum of
| the earth. No ministers ever came
to our tribe and told us the story of
the life of Christ, but an old Meth
odist layman, who could not speak a
half dozen words of the Queens Eng
Iish correctly, did, and as result our
ola tent began to shine with the light
Of the truth. The result of that un.
pretentious missionary work is being
felt today, and five members of my
Gypsy clan are today dedicating their
lives to the spreading of the gospel
in various parts of the world
! Any fool can sing "Rescue the Per-
| ishing," but have any of you Christ
lans ever taken off your coats and
helped to do any of the rescuing?
tell you that it is downright bias
phemy to sing "Rescue the Perish
ing," and then stop there. Your pray
ers never reach fulfillment until you
dix est yourselves of your coats and
start doing some rescue work of your
: cwn.
Il you are a follower of Jesus
Christ you will select a day now anc
then, drop your work and see if yor
cannot bring some young fellow thai
Is in danger Of going wrong. How
many of your Christian women have
put your arms around an erring gir
and said: "My dear, want to helr
you?" More likely you have beer
among those, that instead of helping
have pushed her farther down. The
Bible cannot be fire escape for those
who stand by and. see unfortunates
go to the devil.
Iiave you ever gone off the we'll
beaten path to bring some sin-cursed
soul to the living Christ? Religion
does not consist only of singing pret-
ty songs and pious hymns. Religion
is in helping to bring sin-cursed souls
back to the Master.