Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-06-29
aREVIVALs.
Sermon by Cyclone Mack" at Rocking.
ham June Is. 1927


And from that day he had been
, everlastingly fighting the sin bust.
ness. He said that he was an
American, dyed-in-the-wool, stamp
ed on the cork and blown in, the
bottle, and was standing for vital
Goodness and American institu-
tons. And he yielded allegiance to
no one except the Lord Jesus Christ,
Cyclone Mack opened up his cam,
paign in his great gospel tent by
saving "A revival along Bible lines
is the superlative need of the TWEEN
tieth century. There is wide
spread ignorance relative to the fun
damentals of our holy Christianity.
We are living in days of mental
confusion, with regard to spiritual
things. The very foundations are
being denied, and nothing but the
genuine can withstand the attack.
This is the age of new things. So
many discoveries, SO many inven-
tons, so many new combinations
that the people are all at sea. In
this new age we have new thought,
new voices, new books, new theolo-
gies, new psychology, new philoso-
ply, a new religion and everything
that hell can suggest and the devil
can concot. But God and salvation
are the same yesterday, today and
forever. We must have revivals to
keep our bearings.
1T has gotten out that Christian
| ity is not what it used to be. A lot
of -whiskered NUTS are tellfiS.1
us that the Bible is not the Word
of God in the sense that we thought
it was, that the old doctrines of the
new birth of repentance, of witness
of the Spirit, of depravity, of .judg-
ment and hell-that our fathers be-
lieved in-are dead and buried, that
the church is not worthy OF any
serious consideration; that Jesus
Christ and His claims are not so
important after all. The twentieth
century is trying to forget God.
They are pleasure mad, money
crazed. Earthly, sensual and devlish
will describe the whole sections Of
our country.
ITS a revival in America or a
revolution. If the church survives,
| she must be revived. Judgment
must begin at. the house OF Goa.
It's not more members that the
| church needs, but the old bunch
stewed over. Multitudes have the
form without the power. Thousands
pay no attention to their church
vows. Many have never been con-
verified. Many are back-slidden, and
multiplied hundreds have never
front-slidden. Many are doing moth
| ing for Christ, and a lost world.
Where is there a Moses crying,
God save these people or blot my
name off the book?' Where is there
a Nehemiah that surveys desolate
Jerusalem at night with tears?
Where is there a John Knox crying,
oh God, save these people, or die
Where is there Fletcher staining
the walls of his study with praying
breath?
Our children are growing up and
they must be saved. A generation
have grown up who never saw a
great revival. The overwhelming
need of the hour is. spirit-filled,
blood-washed, fire baptized messen-
gers OF God with divine fire burn
| ing their souls to unmask these dc
vices of the devil and to tear down
the strongholds of satan, whether
in the high places or the low.
God deliver us from the effim
nate, three-karat, pin-whiskered, an
mated question marks, standing up
in their pulpits and oozing isms,
splitting out Greek dipthongs, and
breathing an air of hieroglyphics
and propounding pious platitudes,
splitting hairs and whiting moth
ing off to a point, Keeling off laven-
dar scented bouquets, while dance
halls and low-down God forsaken,
licentious, suggestive leg-shows that
pamper to lust are crowded with our
young people. The majority of the
people in this twentieth century are