The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-02-25
MILKING BUSINESS CHRISTIAN
mot slothful in business, fer
vent in spirit. always loving and
serving the Lord" Rom. 12-11.
BY r. ASHLEY CAKE

The light of Christianity in the
world today, is seyen-fold brighter
than the brightest light of the sun
at midday, why Modern Society
will continue to increase it's devo-
ton TO amusements, Sabbath desc
Grafton. and business, wherein the
Sermon on the Mount is ignored
Why SO many of our churches will
continue to let down the bars to
the desires and itching restlessness
of the multitude and be so uncon-
cerned, instead of rebuking in the
right spirit the pleasure-loving and
dollar-chasing men and women
many of whom are members OF
churches. is indeed an APPALLING
state of affairs.
Is this not materialism Eccles-
iastical history shows conclusiyely
that fer half century every de
cade shows a further decline in our
religious life, and an increase in de
yotion to amusements and business
We are living in day of crowded
schedules, splendid programs, over
worked printing presses, over-work-
ed cinemas, many of which are
throwing broadcast what starts
many a boy and gu toward ruin,
thus many are too restlessly busy
to do hard meditative thinking, the
consequence is society is COINS
down deeper into what eventually
destroys noble manhood and yIrtu
GUS womanhood
Ii is common TO ask today con
corning a business man How
much is he worth? The reply to
slis will be measured in terms
money value, because a hundred tC
one the question will be understood
has he-How much stock, boIds
and mortgages Not what kind of a
man.
OF how many, women we hear the
remarks, how wen she looks" how
nice she dresses.
knew one who was an Eyange
list He was holding a revival. if
it could be called such The temple
was crowded, night after night. and
the altar was crowded. If one soul
was saved it would more than pay
all efforts put forth. but when l saw
and heard him telling seekers that
they were saved, Ifelt there was
terrible discount on the work. No
minister has any right to place
himself between a seeking soul and
the Holy Spirit. telling him he is
saved. That is the work of the
Holy Spirit and none other.
The real test of mans worth
is not in showing of gain and prop
erty valuation. nor is it in goi
geous rituals, high-flown music, or
what might be called "Fancy-Fair
religion" calculated to hull into self
satisfaction. but the real test is
character in this day. How many
satisfactions, delights and amuse-
ments are at our very doors, entice-
ing. alluring and in so many cases,
allowing to enter lovely Christian
homes, where they smother. suffo-
cate and ruin the best capacities OF
so many boys and girls and leave
them nothing but miserable exist
ence.
Read XXIII Matt. see what Jesus
Himself says. His words consti-
tute the most terrible incentive in
all literature. and then let us moi
forget whatever be our profession
in business or pleasure under the
pressure OF conventionality, We
must seek with the whole heart de-
Iiverance from shams and preten-
sions.
We must ring true so that men
may not only know but be made to
feel in their hearts that man does
not live by bread alone, but by every
word that proceedeth out Of the
mouth of God"
Leo XIII saw the deluge coming.
he gave the warning, he pleaded
with his people TO leave the valleys
and seek for the purer air of the
mountain. Likewise, in this dis
course suggested by the splendid
editorial / suggest that we as min
listers of God take heed unto our
selves, be instant in season and out
of season" Waste no time. Preach
the Word and do not ponder to
the deadly influences of the world.
Never mind" Jim said a half
drunken driver, 1--WE shall all be
angels by and by
The disposition to think that men
can go on in their evil ways, and
that good viii eventually come is
tinetured with that kind of false
theology. We need to get back to
the teachings of Jesus.