Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-23
GOD CALLS MEN FROM
.LOWLY -CHENAuIT
Pastor Of Broad Street Metho.
dist Addresses Epwor,h
League Institute.
DEFINES REALLY GREAT MEN
Bnses Remarks ON Moscs' Vision of
God In Turning Bush-CnII TO
ChrIstlan Leadership and Scry-
Ice,

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ChrIstian Leadership md Scrv-
Ice,
The pulpit OF Broad street Metho-
'diHt church was filled yesterday
morning by DIR. George Wesley Jones.
presiding elder of the dictr!ct At the
evening service the speakers of the
"hyins squadron" delivered addresses
| and Senator Walter Mapp presided
over the meeting. Rev. Fred r. Che
nault. pastor Of the church. gave the
| closing address OF the Epworth
| League Union Efficiency Institute.
| Sunday afternoon at Centenary
| Church at 1870, O'Clock Mr.. Chcnaul,
based his address to the young peo-
! pc. which was "a call to Christian
leadership and service. on Moses
vision of God in the burning bush.
Mr.. Chenault spoke. in part, as fol-
lows:
Moses. l believe. saw the fire in
the burning bush. because he had the
fire hrst in his own heart His hear,
burned for the freedom OF his pco-
| pie. therefore. God gave him u vision
and showed him the way. If you
want a thing. YOU must live for it, II
was an idea that built the nrst
| steamboat. II was an idea that laid
| tho transatlantic cable, IL was an idea
that made the first telephone. 1t was
an Idea that gave us tho modern
miracle Of wireless biography. In
rentlons and discoveries. art music
and science have been the creations
| or men with passion. All reforms.
have been by men who died some
times in body, somctins in soul,
| sometimes in both. for the achieve
ment OF the supreme object OF life
In the Faith Of Duty.
| Moses found God I'm the path Of
| DUTY. The really great man is the
man who does the least duty in a
big way. lie that is faithful in that
which ~ least is faithful also in that
which is much prcsidcn, Wilson'S
democratic principles AT Princeton
University made him the Democratic
Governor OF New Jersey. and his zeal
for the higher things in that office
exalted him to the presidency. When
| God chose Saul. he was busy looking
| after his fathers asses. When lie
chose David. lie was in the field tend
ing sheep. When he called Peter
and James and John. they were cast
ing their nets or mcnding them
When he called Moody. he was SELL
Ing shoes. II you expect God to
call you. don't sit around waiting for
a call; get busy at something
| Moses did not get away from God
because he went To u foreign land !
believe that Moses had "a call from
his youth, and imagine that when
he went 10 the land of INDIAN he
felt that he had gotten away from
call that he wanted to shirk. but no
man can get away from God. II God
calls you. II you don't answer that
| call you VIII pay the price of your
neglect sometime. No doubt God sent
| Moses into the wilderness for pur-
pose. God has purpose for every
life. and Moses needed the wilder
ness as school OF experience. He
| had TO have the training OF the will
| derncss TO qualify for leadership. The
/, man who is born in the lap of luxury.
i'thc woman WHO never has any re-
| sponsiblity. are not TO he cnvicd;
| they are to he piled. II we obtain
the crown we must bear the cross.
Vision Changed Moses.
Moses was changed by the vision
| he had. The vision marked an epoch
In his life. 1t gave him stability OF
| character. 4 man may be brilliant
| and charming or self-sacrificinG. and
yet the secret OF mans strength is
stability OF character. Aaron was
| great orator. brilliant speaker, but
| he didn't know his own mind. Moses
whole purpose was changed from this
day. When Moses suffered the com
| plants and murmurings OF the chill
| dren OF Israel in the wilderness, IL
| was this roadside vision of God that
| sustained him. Every man whose life
amounts to anything has a mountain
| top experience. We all know that
| there are certain great events that
have marked the turning point in
our life.
Moses vision was primarily n Wis
ion OF service. God appears to men
| always with purpose. He comes
| because He wants TO manifest Him
self through them. God does His
work always through human instru-
mentality. No man can really see
God without seeing his fellow-man.' y
man who does not love his fellow
man and strive to serve them has
| never really seen Jesus Christ When
| n man sees God he sees the need OF
| his fellow man; he cannot disasso-
| ciate the two. Let a man have a
vision of God and he at once has a
vision Of his duty: he is then ready
to let God work through him: he Is
\ then ready to empty himself. to yield
| his own interest to the Will Of God;
| he Is willing then TO suffer for the
| sake OF others. Moses was ready to
| be blotted out for the sake or his
| people IL God would only spare them.
| No man can walk with God and be
| Indifferent TO the sins and sufferings
| OF mankind. Our apathy towards the
crying needs of our day is our own
| Indictment. If we want the vision OF
God to come, IL we seek to know His
| will and are ready to do 1t, ~e will
| find II. The bush that was not con-
sumed is a symbol of His vision that
vii, never leave the hungry soul of
man."
Declines to Accept Indignation.
| Especial TO The Times Dispatch.l
| I.YNCHBURG, VA. Jan. 22.-The
| First BAPTIST Church here today, upOn