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

Continuing his topic of Personal
Work. begun Wednesday, Rev. W. A.
Sunday said Thursday afternoon:
So, in the work of the church, Jesus
said, Follow me, and will make you
fishers of men,"
The Medical School says, Follow
me and l wifi make you a doctor"
The Music school says, Follow me
and l will make you musician"
The Law school says, Follow me
and | will make you lawyer"
But the church says, Follow me,
and l will make you fishers of men"
That is. I'll show you the way; how
the words of God are the salvation OF
the lost.
That's what the church is for! That's
what Jesus Christ came into the world
for and died on the cross for, to open
up the plan of salvation for us. A
church that's not doing this has no
right to claim to be church of Jesus
Christ
/ read Of an association of church
letter sometime ago, which said,
Members received this year-nope;
dismissed-none; died-none; mar
ried-none; given to the missions
nothing; paid the pastor nothing.
Pray for us, brethren, that we may
hold our own during the coming year"
Churches Must
Be Purified
And sometimes preachers report
the bright side of things; | am afraid
their heads would come off if they
didn't. AS a result, some of our
churches are in bad shape. That's
why we have a lot of these isms and
schisms and faith cures, and holy roll
ers, and holy howlers, and holy jump
ers, and great variety of fads that
have swept through the church to take
people away from Jesus Christ, and
anything that takes you away from
God comes from hell and it comes from
the devil!
The devils business is to inspire
people, by the evil spirit in them, not
to pray, not to be decent, not to serve
God-that all comes, from the devil.
And anything that's advocated that
doesn't advocate Jesus Christ as the
Saviour of men, is of the devil. The
devil. you know, transforms himself
into an angel of light and he mixes re-
ligion up with a lot of these fads just
to fool the people,; to make them
think that he's very Jealous for right
eousness, when he doesn't give a pic
d
very beginning, and that's his bust
ness,
That's why we have these things,
and many times find preachers are
chasing after these fads instead of
after souls, instead of trying to win
people for the Lord. Some of them
are in society and they are popular,
rather than being in the church to be
soul winners.
| like to see people afraid that | will
talk religion to them. That's my bust
ness TO talk religion, but it's no more
my business than it's your business
It's no more the business of the
preacher to talk religion than it's the
business of the Sunday school teach
er, or any others in the rank and file
It's just as much your business tC
help win people to Christ as it's the
preachers business, just exactly! The
general can't do all the fighting while
the rank and file sit round and gat
and talk and chew the rag. Every
body is supposed to do something.
In the days, of war. there is some
thing for everybody TO do. For every
man on the firing line it takes -four
people back home to keep them in am
munition, guns, clothes, and food; sc
one man on the firing line. So you
see, there's something for everybody
to do. Put million men out on the
firing line, and four million have got
to work back home to keep then
there, and they will have to have am
munition and clothes and eats, anC
they can't make any of it themselves
ii all has to be handed to them. There
is something for everybody to do
There's no chance for any loafer, eth
er in the Kingdom OF God or in YOU
country Whether you are a live one
or dead one, everybody will either
be a patriot or traitor-one Of the
two: that's all there is to it.
No Choice Possible Under
circumstances.
There's no other side to the PROPOSE
ton; you can take your choice.
And so it is the church's only bust
ness 10 talk religion. It's the Christian
man and womans business to hell
bring people TO Jesus Christ, by you
light. Find the lost and bring then
to the Lord.
| think we have got the thing al
wrong nowadays. Why, we have twt
weekly meetings q year in SOM
churches that do have them, and som,
your church never had revival sine
you can remember. Now, take it OIL
the square, isn't that true? Can yol
remember when you heard you
preacher preach an evangelistic sci
mon and give an invitation for any
body to accept Jesus Christ? YoI
bet your life, you didn't
And, if there were only SO weeks
year to the saints and two weeks
year to the sinners. Now it's not tn
Church's business to educate people
There are thousands of graduates &C
ing down to hell The chureh's bus
ness is to save people from hell LIE
the state do the educating Let othe
institutions do the educating, m
friends.
II ! had a million dollars to Civ
away tomorrow, I'd give nine hundre
and ninety-nine thousand dollars I
evangelistic Christianity to where T.
give one dollar to education. Not tina
have anything against It, for
haven't, and ! believe in it with boa
hands up. All the power In my hear
and life! But you can get all the edu
cation on earth and all the iearnin
and all the knowledge out of all tn
books in all the world, and that won
save your soul; while if you knol