The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-04

ers alone; l am not talking about the
rank and file of membership. Just
each preacher win twelve souls to
God, that's one a month. they could
win 100000 souls, my friends.
If each of the Baptist members
were to win one soul month, they'd
win 426,000. and if each of the Pro
testant preachers were to win twelve
souls month, they'd win over
10000 in a year, and yet, as l have
told you, $500 churches made reports
last year that not one member joined
this year on confession of faith.
What's the matter? Dead, Dead!
Dead! That's all, it's dead! They've
drawn their breath and their salary.
Dead.
Now, Jesus said, $50 we into all the
world and preach the gospel to every
creature"
Everybody that's accepted Jesus as
their Saviour has a responsibility laid
upon him to win somebody else to
Christ. It's great privilege too My,
it's wonderful privilege to work for
God Almighty. to be a co-laborer with
the Lord! There are a good many
departments to th:s-listen! The Lord
always had a quick eye for things
that needed to be done. One day he
passed by Mathew, the publican, who
was sitting in the seat of custom in
the temple, and he saw an opportun.
ity to turn a multitude from sin by
winning Mathew, an opportunity that
perhaps not one of his disciples saw
or figured; they'd overlooked it. Peter
might have said, There is no use OF
paying any attention to that miser
able, old publican; he can't see any
thing but money, and for you to talk
religion to him would be like casting
pearls before swine"
No Time to
Find Fault
John might have said. Mathew
a thief and a robber and I'd like tC
tell him if | had time to talk with
him"
James might have said, 1T isn't q
good time to talk religion to fellow
when he's busy; he'd resent the inter
ruption. I'd wait until some day wher
| you find him alone, and then it car
be done"
the same frame Of mind that he was
that day.
There are men and women in this
city in a frame of mind toward Goo
and Christ and the church at this
meeting, that have never been in thai
attitude before since they were born
and if you don't win them to Jesus
! Christ now. you never will God AL
mighty is throwing before the church
of this city the greatest opportunity
and privilege you ever had to bridge
| the chasm between the man and the
j dinner bucket He thinks you dom
| give a whoop for him. Show him tina
| he's wrong; that you're interested il
his soul See what God will do. n,
/ will fill your old icehouses chuck-fuI
with life, my friends, throbbing hu
mainly, If you will get out and wir
| the men that are to be won, and they
are susceptible. but you can't do /
through the indifference of the peopI,
toward it.
| And so. whether you buy or wheth
| er you sell, whether you pray, whether
| you write, whether you print, whethe
I you teach, whether you are a doctor
whether you are mother in home
whether you are iaborer, all alont
life's highway you find men and wo
men that don't know Jesus Christ, il
your circle.
One Man Cannot
Do All Work
No matter how much you may hav,
or how little you have, there is some
body you know that isn't a Christ
liam. You are the person to win tina