The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-03-23


last sentence to his fellow Christian.
task of Christianity. 49,
q ~ a., 80
speak in Commercial terms. Thu
world is I, market and every human
being salesman. The merchant
sells his goods; the philosopher sells
his theories, THE promoter sells MS
proposition; the preacher sells the
gospel. IN = u
The merchant groups his statesmen
at a, luncheon, gives them the STRONG
points in the sale, inspires them with
pep, they go forth and bring in the
| orders. The minister gathers his
salesman. at the altar, gives to them
| the rules of the sale, urges and exhorts.
They pass out and return sbetines for
! their instructions but report no sales.
There is q reason, Continuing COM
mercial terfns--a man must be himself
sold to an article before he can en-
Enthusiastically and successfully offer it
to another. The most splendidly Or
kganized activity have witnessed in
Birmingham was that of the. Allied
Army" organized to sell, Liberty bonds
to save our boys in Khaki who We're
facing the enemy on the battlefront.
Every man surrendered his business
and his own interest and entered the ar
duous task of selling a bond to every
citizen of Birmingham. The. result
furnishes our most splendid example
of community interest. unity of effort
and brilliancy of success. The secret
of it all was that every man was
thoroughly sold to the Importance and
necessity of the, proposition We
find men sold to their luncheon clubs
because Of delightful companionship,
cooperation in business and community
service; sold to fraternities on the
theories of brotherhood and helpful
ness sold to political parties on some
theory of state or national govern
ment. We find them. on all occasions
soliciting their fellowmen to join
them. No one seems to- have, any
embarrassment; or hesitancy in APP
preaching his fellow and soliciting him
to join some fraternal circle.
The church is the organization hold.
ing the Bible from which every Or
ganization gets every principle worth
holding to five minutes; it is the or.
ganization of the highest love, the
most perfect brotherhood with God him
self as the Father and every man
d brother; it is the organization which
offers erything that any other order
: could possibly offer together. with, the
eternal values of life and destiny
Why so little enthusiasm such. feeble
effort and such meagre success in win
ming our fellows to the church of God
Are we not forced, however great the
humiliation, to admit that we ourselves
are not thoroughly. sold to the church
of God as the best institution on earth
the institution that offers the greatest
and the finest opportunity for the best
inspiration to high living, the riches
service to our fellowman and to society
at large, and besides all this the hope Of
eternal life and happiness! ~
Do we not need to, revalue Oul
church and Christianity; revaiue oul
religion, in its power to save from
death and. destroy sin? This is an as,
when more intelligent consideration i
given to scientific and sane efforts II
destroy disease and save human lifi
than any other known period of his
tory. The various schools Of alopathy
homeopathy, Osteopathy, chiropractic
Coue praetic, Christian Science praetic
auto suggestion practic and all tn,
other practices were never so discusses
and SO propagated. Proprietary med
II icines, standard medicines, nostrum
Il.
Gus. Every one who finds for an.
disease the remedy becomes an earnes
advocate and propagandist. The sub
ject is brought into almost every con
yersation and. to every group and es
pecially if anyone is found in any wis,
connected with one afflicted with sucI
disease, the urgency and pleading be
comes persistent. know one VIII
had a grandchild peculiarly afflicted
In the dire grief of the family a RENE
dy was found; the child was restore,
! to health. The grandfather heard q
another child afflicted with the SUM
malady. He journeyed more than
thousand miles at MS own expense Il
q find the parents of the. child and tel
them of the remedy. a father who's
only little boy became helpless Grip
pie, spent his fortune in building
hospital for crippled children. A mai
whose wife died with tuberculosis ha
offered 100000 to be given as a priz
to any man who will discover a rene
ly for this dreadful disease.
Have you been healed of the malad,
of. sin? Have you been brought from
death unto life? If so, how can yol
keep the secret from the dying al
about y0u: Shall we not put a new
value on our influence? Ask the pro
prietOr of cigar store why he ha
the chalk Indian standing in front o
his store, and his reply will be, so
his influence" In an effort. to fint
! out in what direction my own 'littl
boy was looking, ON one occasion, !.
asked him il he ever saw anybod.
that he wanted to be. like. He names
a young man who was clerking in |
clothing store as his model. asket
the young man for private interview
and said to him, My little boy ha
selected you as his ideal. desire :,
apprise you of this responsibility
He replied, Il am astounded; 1 die
not know that anybody's birddog woull
follow me a block" Everybody fol
lows somebody. / remember the yea
when some man in the United State
began to part Mis- hair in the middle
He had an influence; il you dom
think so, look at the heads of the mel
in the next audience you get into.
young woman a few years ago boobies
her hair. 'Nuff said No one ha
ever measured the subtlety and powe
of one human being over another
There came under my observation thi
case. In prominent town lived al
influential business man. He wa
wrapped up in. his business and ignore,
the church. There was q little girl il
the town to whom he had been quit
friendly on account Of her resemhlenc
;. to his little girl whom he had buried
The little girl attended a revival sery
u ice and heard, the minister preach 4
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