The Nevada County picayune., 1923-03-22
NOT FORSAkING THE ASSEAlB- LING OF OURSELVES TO CIPHER AS THE MANNER OF SOME IS.'-Heb. 1925.

1 There iS smaller percentage of the people of America today attending church regularly than in any age of our past history. The time k almost here when the preachers of our day will have to go to the streets and other public places to preach the gos pcl of Jesus Christ
 We find that the Apostle Paul had to urge the people in his day to as scmbIc to worship God The church was persccuted in every way in Paul'S time buf this is the greatest problem that confront~ the church of God to- day. If eyer there was time when this teXt was appropriate. if k BOW.
 Paul tells nS in Tim. 3: 1-5 of the coming nineteen signs of the times. but in closing he says from such turn away Why is the house of God for sakenE Will you help me answer this question today:
 Everything has been done most to get people 10 come to church Fine churches have been built. fine music furnished. good pictures put on the screen. scholarly preaching been had, social programs have been put on. Sabbath laws have been enforced these have failed to reach the masses. he ,f h1 1f 1,i world are going to hell as fast as time will take them there. What is To he done: Brother here is my theme: Christ conquered this world with love. Dry. cold sermons will never reach them; war talks won't: toWe1y ser mons won't reach them formality nor pride will ever reach them; but the pure gospcl. of Jesus Christ preached in the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit will halt the throngs. It k the only thing that#wil
 Beloved l covet not riches or other mems gifts. don't want to he ia nous but the thing I want is the power of God that. moves men and women =to Jesus Christ Thank God for David'S expression. T had rather he doorkeepcr in the house of the Lord than 10 dwell in the tents of the wicked And again he said. T was glad when they said. Let ns go 10 the house of the Lord"
 Any community will go to the devil when the church is forsaken. Any church will go down when it's mem hers quit assembling together When the church goes down. everything goes down-socety goes down. prosperity goes down. value of property goes down, and. worst of all, the people go down; and when the church goes down. diStills go mp; and when peo- pie quit going to church they go to other places
 l am told there have been three large distills captured in this commun- ity. don't wonder at it. If I were going to start a distillery I would go to place where they had no church every time.
 Brother. what do you want here4 Dc you want distiH in your midst? or do you want Jesus Christ in your midst: Here is the language of Christ his own words as they cane from his lips Where two or three are gathered together ill my name, there pm in the midst of them
 You go about with long face and cry, prouth, drouth, l am going to leave these Ozark Mountains. What causes these drouths: Don't study the moon; don't study the stars; don't study the weather prophets Just read one verse in Jeremiah 1417. And it shall he that Whoso will not come up of the families of the earth into Jeru~alem to worship the King the Lerd of hosts. even upon them shall he no rain Jeremiah was one of Gods prophets If you will read the next verse Cthe 1Sth) you can see what brings so many plagueS on the people. Ii is for the same reason, because they won't come mp to wor- ship the King
 This is Gods plan dear ones. He calls men and women 10 preach the gospel; hut God gives this call to the church. to assemble at the house of