Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 97, 24 April 1922 — Page 6

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ic i iuut is vome 10 rraise God in Richmond, Says Sunday To Big Audience in Tabernach

Generations Still to ComeWill Bless This Campaign, Evangelist Declares in Impassioned Sermon on Sunday Afternoon --Now Is the Accepted Time to Line Up on the Side of God.

rma kichmqnd palladium and- sun-telegram, Richmond, ind., Monday, april 24, 1922.

iT?Lh0uex!"The h0UP comt" John 17th chapter, 1ft verse.4 In his Bermon on "The Hour . Is

Yune. ev. w. A. Sunday said Sunday afternoon:

It 13 very evident to mo that Jesus

vun "new- that God. the Father

X. uueraiana wnat He meant

"UCB c eaia "The hour Is come." T T MtM .

e ?.1Ji.not 1 h&ve met with Rome difficulties and discouragements down here In my mediatorial work: something we had not thought about, planned or expected would nr .

cur " But He did say. "The hour for

" came into the world, the hour

- r nuicn i Daae goodbye to the heavenly hosts, the hour for which I made my way down Into this vale of

a.io, me nour which was to surpass all other hours In importance in the history of the world, the hour which was to mean more to mankind than

u me nours combined, the hour

wuen i must go on the cross and bathe the world in blood and tears and open up a new redemption by and through the acceptance of which mankind might escape the eternal damnation which it deserves because -Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and sin and the death penalty passed upon the human race, that hour is upon the human race, that hour Is come."

It was the hour of the great struggle. The powers of darkness had : been looking forward for thousands of ! years, ever since the devil hid himself ; in a serpent and tempted Adam and , Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit and God gave the promise, when they sinned, that the seed of the woman should bruise the eerpent's head, meaning that Jesus Christ in the fullness of time would be born in fulfillment of that promise and the devil knew that hour would come, the devil knew the time would come when Jesus Christ would be born in the!

manger and when He would suffer and die on the cross and bruise the serpent's head. God Forsaking Him

was a Prophecy.

It was a matter of prophecy that

me jeatner wouia forsake Him, and the disciples would flee away, and the shepherds should be smitten and the sheep scattered. What an hour that was for the King of kings and the Lord of lords, with the nails through his hands and feet, hanging on the cross! The Father had forsaken Him for He cried, "My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me " It was going to decide whether or not the door of hope, opened through the promise of God, would remain forever open through the triumph of Jesus Christ. And Jesus Christ did triumph. , That is the reason we've got this tabernacle, the reason I am preaching to you, because the door of hope opened through faith in Jesus Christ has been ajar from that day to this

. ana it win be until He bursts upon the ( world to judge it in sin and righteousness, and It was going to decide whether or not the door of hope, opened through the promises of God, was to remain forever closed through the failure of Jesus Christ. Suppose He had failed to have risen from the dead the third day' as He 6aid He would. What do you suppose would have hen announced from the pulpits and synagogues of Jerusalem? I think they would have draped their pulpits in mourning. I think they would have nailed a black cross over the door and they would have said: "Three days have come and gone and Jesus Chrl3t Is still held by the last enemy death." When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit the death penalty was pronounced and Jesus Christ came Into this world born of woman, conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, crucified, dead and burled, lived a single life, and He triumphed over the devil in that the devil could not lead Him to sin. But another one of the penalties of sin was death. He conquered sin but He had to conquer death, so He had to burst the bands of death and He said:

"I will arise on the third day and I will conquer the last enemy of the human race death!" Man Hai Perverted God's Plan. If Adam and Eve hadn't sinned, we would never have died. Man has perverted God's plan and a man Is a fool that will defy God and while the angel's harps were still and the angel's voices were hushed, Jesus Christ arose from the dead and He folded the napkin from off His face

and He walked out of the sepulchre

on that Easter morning with the keys of life and of death in His hand, the cenquercr of earth and of hell and:

God rejected it because Cain did not come in God's appointed way. Morality And Culture Of No Avail. And you can ofTer your morality, and you can offer your culture and you can offer our social standing to God Almighty and He will spurn It But when you come by faith In Jesua Christ, then God meets you and God therefore will grant you salvation, so that is how they come. And. therefore, her stood the cross and on this side of the cross stood the priest, ready to offer a turtle dove or a pigeon for an atonement for sin and all that ended at the cross. And on this other side of the cross stood the twelve disciples commissioned to EO OUt and Breach salvatlnn

f.,1! - - . , - , . w uugiisu unit; run, free, perfect and eternal to every put her ear to the ground and ehe

man, woman and child that would ac cept Jesus Christ as thulr

He shed His blood in your place and mine, He became our security. So, therefore, when you sin, you don't need to take a turtle dove or a pigeon or a heifer or a bullock or a ram to a priest. You've got access to God through faith in Jesus Christ and not faith in a lamb or a bullock or a

pigeon, -mat is why God offers salvation to mankind through Jesus Christ and it is His last offer to this old world. So the priesthood, mv fripnd. nrr.

Ing a sacrifice on an altar for atone

ment tor sin ended at the cross. Salvation by faith began and that is the plan of God now and always will be. 8o, "the hour Is come." The hour Is come to realize first that you havreached the crisis. I believe that this city is facing the greatest crisis,

rengiousiy, tnat. she has ever faced. There never was such a chance in all your history for you to show your loyalty to God and to Christ, and by and through that loyalty, inspire others who have never walked the streets of your city, because whatever is enthroned in a city is going to give influence to the country round about Let a city be righteous and the whole country will be 'influenced to righteousness. They will be giving up the

oia ana corruption and vlleness and drunkenness and the whole country will be damned because of the damnation of the city. i Unborn Generations Will Bless Day. And generations yet unborn will be affected by this campaign because you yielded to Jesus Christ and you who are to become the fathers and mothers of the next generation then your life will surround them with religious influence. So for the next century, my friends, this city Is going to feel the influence of this campaign, which you and I are In the midst of, long after we have left this old earth and the Influence of this campaign will be felt In the lives of others. In every disease there is a crisis ah

the skill of the physicians on earth

can't make typhoid fever or pneumonia turn except on the seventh, fourtenth and twenty-first and twenty-

eisuiQ uays. iney are seven day diseases and the disease always reaches a crisis on the seventh day and if the crisis has been reached at the end of the first seven days, the chances are about three to one, they will mend. If the crisis runs to the fourteenth day it is about fifty to fifty. If it runs to the twenty-first day it is about three to one they wont live. And the longer the crisis is put off, the less and less "chance there is for the patime drawing upon your reserve Bource and the chances are that you will never get well. The soner they can be reached the better it will be for that person. In every battle there 13 a crisis. In the battle of Shiloh It was when General Bull camo on the field with twenty-five thousand reinforcements, and turned the tide in favor of the union forces. At the battle of Waterloo it was when the Germans under Blucher came to the aid of the British. All day long Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington had mati-h

their military genius and strategy, one against the other, and Napoleon had hurled the seasoned veterans of France against the solid phalanx of England until they had begun to stagger back under their assaults Rt

in reality it was a rain storm that turned the battle of Waterloo, for it rained hard and the roads were muddy and Marshall de Gouchy was scheduled to arrive at 3 o'clock with reinforcements and it wa3 nearly sundown before he arrived. The French had crumpled up and the victory was won and the Duke of Wellington stood in the sand ud to his antis .m

he bit his lips until the blood trickled !

him. You admire anybody that shoots

m you although he may I

ouuut your oia carcass lull of holes while he Is on the Job. Some Will Always Hang Back Of course, there are some church embTs that won't come to the meeting. They may be looked up to and respected in the community and you will find, perhaps, they are living dual lives, they don't want the sword of the spirit to lay bare their rottenness: they don't want to have their conscience, disturbed. No! They have been crying, Peace, peace" when there is no peace, salth God to the wicked, "for the wicked are like the troubled sea," they don't want the smell of brimstone and hell fire as it vomits from the inferno below. They want the deodorized, disinfected sermons of the tabloid sister, they want the sermons about the birds that sing in the woods and flowers that bloom in the spring tra-la, about the babbling brooks that sing on their way to the sea, rather than toe sermons about the songs of the redeemed, the Rose of Sharon and the waters of life.

wlL!ePt.uthem' iltl8h t0 Godjlfrlendi, you can always rf.p.nd upon rrlPTinu that ihmv wmtiri ).. i - . .1 . .f , r n

----- 1 - ' 7 : accent pusiio to riant the wrona the ears and cried. "Llfel Llfel and any community that would rather ure we wrong than Mghteousnes In It, If they had. I would not need to be ' community to move out of.

working my life out If they had' Most People are decent, most men1 cried "Life" and not listened to the and most "women are honest, most' tempter but they listened and ate j m6n women are virtuous, most the forbidden fruit, and the world be-!men End women are truthful. It la i came a human graveyard, for the on,y now and then you find, my death penalty passed upon the human rie,nd1B. the libertine, and the thief race. Md the .thug. Most people are sober, ' If they hadn't have sinned, they'd , 3,0,8 f?e& h,fUve all the never have died. God's plan was thai ' ieti are inthii n& Ur-ugly, they should live forever and If thev:80?.! tfv! l!,1' . . . J

hadn't sinned we- wouldn't have had!0f mint i,. a iena to work, but when Adam and Eve ate ?.mlln, UM tellB me the forbidden fruit that decreed the t iiJL v . length of the time that man should me Xt ffi'SXtStl teU5 live and Go id r ti,o ..f wat A toe matter with me and

wnr Tw h.n vn i? W I need-I like

all the days of. your life." "Life! Life!" We have reached a crisis and you, as Individuals, will reach it. During the English Mutiny in India the English were surrounded and in the battle of Lucknow they were giving themselves up to the fate which they believed, inevitably awaited every man, and woman and child. Outrage for the women and murder and massacre of children and men. There were 50,000 Sepoys clamoring and thirsting for their blood, and they were soon to be reinforced by fifty thousand more. The English garrison was giving itself up to the fate of death, when suddenly Mrs. Brown, the wife of one of the English officers',

lis

tened, and she listened. And sudden

ly, leaping to her feet, and with her hair streaming in the wind, she ran and cried out as she ran, "I hear them coming!" And the Scottish Highlanders, marching to the tune of "Annie Laurie," under the leadership of Colonel Campbell, fell upon the right wing of the Sepoys and beat them back and paved the ground with their dead bodies and set the Imprisoned garrison free. Hears Them Entering God's Kingdom. And by faith I can put my ear to the ground and I can hear them coming into the kingdom of God like doves to their windows. Thousands and thousands of them. We have reached a crisis. Now the hour has come to realize that the church is not an end but a means to an end. Education, my friends, ia the end, the universities or the colleges are the means to an end. j Any church that thinks It la an end

Is a curse to any city. Churches are not dropped down on a street corner to be known as churches of a certain denomination, but that church Is put In thig city to try and save this old city for Jesus Christ, and for no other purpose does she exist The church, my friends, is the means to the end: the end is salvation of

souls. A friend of mine told mn h

was at one time asked to become a pastor of a church. That he thought was the end. He never achieved to so much money and so little religion forty thousand dollars on the interior decorations and they to make their

servants sit in the gallery would not allow them to sit below. I want to say to y ou that the woman who scrubs your floors and washes your dirty duds is as good as you are If she lives square with Jesus Christ. It Is not down from the parlor to the kitchen, it is not down from the piano to the wash tub, it is not down from a pink tea to ascrub brush, my

rrienas, it is not down from silk to homespun, and the man that drives

your car Is as good as you are, you lobster, If he trots square. And he said they never took collections except for charitable purposes, for they had an endowment fund, the Interest upon which paid the running expenses of the church. And they used to come and hug their sleek well groomed sides and say, "This Is our idea of a church," and all the time the old town was going to hell so fast you couldn't see it Buys New Gospel Hymn Books Nobody was converted and finally he went around and bought several hundred copies of Moody's Gospel hymns and he scattered them through the pews. In the morning one of his elders came In and shuffled down the

aisle. He had to take so many pills his

joints were ball-bearine.

He came down and took a pew and he picked up one of the hymn books and he dropped it like a hot potato

tie snumed out and said, "What is

tnatT What is that?"

And the preacher .said, "A Gospel

LET THEM HUNT OWN ISLAND, HI3 OPINION The late United States Senator Hoar of Massachusetts said, "I am In favor of all nations of the world buying an island and letting all people in those nations, who don't believe In the laws governing those nations, to live on that island and have a government of their own." An Irishman who heard of it, said, "I am in favor of buying the island, all right But by golly," he said, "I am ia favor of taking the damn scoundrels on board ships and taking them out Into the middle of the ocean and dump them overboard and let them hunt their own Island."

Oh, There are some women of culture, perhaps and of society who wont come because their pink teas and the fridge and their theatre parties and their cocktails and the care of their poodles and the pomeranians, they have not time to come. Oh! No! No! No! Why should they cut out such a thing and sit on a wooden bench with their feet in baled shaving and sawdust, to hear a man preach of righteousness" and temperance and Judgment to come, when there are still pieces of cut glass and chocolate pots and bric-a-brac to be won by shuffling the pasteboards.

uooa Preaching Brings Results. When Finney went to London to preach a noted infidel went around to hear him and his wife noticed a difference in his actions. One day she ventured the opinion as to the cause, by saying: , "I know what is the occasion of this change in you, which is to me such a blessing, you have been to hear that man from America, Finney, preach." ! He said, "You insult him. That'

man, Finney, doesn't preach. He makes plain" what other

preacn. '

isn you might say that about

me wnne I am nerc, If good preaching

good; if good preaching had saved

you, you would have been in heaven long ago. You need something else, now, but good preaching. t And the foremost preacher of his day was the apostle Paul. What he preached was not so much an ideality or a practicality or a theology or didactics, or an exegesis but a way of life Ha! Ha! and I read about his ministry in Ephesus that there was no small stir that way. I tell you things got a move on them when Paul was on the job for God. Paul was no perfunctory parson dealing out soothing syrup to a fashionable congregation in a silver

piated spoon, careful not to rebuke

Jecta yon will offend her". She has

aauces ana nas a ballroom in her

nome ana sne nan all these accessories of society and, he said, her boy died of delirium tremens and I am afraid if you speak of those subjects you will offend her and drive her away." Old Dame Fidgets At Powerful Words. My friend got up. announced his text flew off on a tangent and for 45 minutes he shelled the woods. When he got warmed up to his subject this old dame began toildget as though she sat on tacks, she leaned forward and spoke to two girls that sat in front of her, who proved to be her daughters, tried to induce them to go out with her. They would not go, they'd never heard talking like that, they'd forgot their social poiso and their looks and grabbed the seats In front of them and were drinking in every word my friend said. This woman got up and went to the door, then she came back and sat down again bye and bye, and sat there and gritted her teeth and she took it. And when my friend got through preaching he turned to the minister and he was whiter than the necktie he had on. The minister blindly staggered to the pulpit and said: "We will dispense with the usual closing hymn. Arise and receive tlw benediction," and he mumbled through it and no sooner did he say "Amen" than this woman bounded

out in the aisle and headed for the front My friend saw her coming

and while he put on his rubbers and overcoat he heard the conversation. The woman said to the preacher, "Who in heaven's name is that young man and where did you ever find him?" "Oh!" said the minister, "Sister. I would have given one hundred dollars if he had not been here tonight. I was chagrined from the time he commenced until he was through and I hope you are not offended, those are simply his views." Listen! Her black eyes blazed and the tears rolled down her cheeks like rivers of water. She said: "I don't know who he is. I don't

know where he has come from, but his views are the right views and if my, poor boy had heard' preaching like that he would not be sleeping under the snow out in the cemetery. I think you ought to talk to us like that and tell us what we ought to do and how we ought to live." We Admire Person Telling Us Truth. We admire whoever tells us the truth and tries to help us live for Christ. .The hour has come for plainness of speech, the hour has come to believe in revivals. Some people don't; some preachers don't and neither dees the devil, so they are like their daddy. Put me down in favor of everything the devil's against, put me down aaainsti

everyming me aevirs In favor of,

Put me down against everything the devil gets most of his recruits out of, put ma down against It with every brain cell, molecule, artery. Joint

mire of filth and the cesspool of vice and she went home with the tears of repentance coursing down her beautiful cheeks. Oh, she doesn't think I'm vulgar. No! Another says he Is sensational. Nothing would be more sensational than If some of you would be decent. Nothing good was ever accomplished without sensation. Sensation Is life. Stagnation Is damnation. The bounding, rushing, tumbling, roaring, plunging mountain stream is sensational, yes; the stagnant pool breeding miasmatic germs and miasma, that Is vile. I choose Christian enthusiasm In place of putrid stagnation any day. I would rather be a guide post than a tombstone any day. It is high time we brought up the cavalry; some of our big guns are stuck in the mud, bring up the rank and file. One reason why sin triumphs, I think, is because it is treated as though it were a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake. You can't brush away sin with a feather duster. Prudery is no more a sien of virtue

than a wig is of hair both ar nnA

to cover a bald spot. Religions. I

ininK. is too often associated with

your cave? You might find a kindred spirit there, one that would help you and one that you can help so I offer as a slogan: 4 "Get acquainted with "your neighbor, you might like him." "The hour is come" to present ourselves to God. One life out of harmony and there Is no blessing. A preacher in discord won't come near the tabernacle, will keep the blessing away from his church, then when the revival Is over he will run around and knock and say, "Well, nobody Joined our church." Well, nobody ought to. either! They "We didn't get anything out of It's no more than you deserve. Discord grieves the Bpirit of God. Tells Story of Scotch Professor Did you ever hear the story of Professor Blackey, the eminent Scotchman? He was a stickler for class etiquette and discipline. One day a young fellow came and stood up to recite and he held his book in his right hand and with his left hand be-

'"vrm Professor BfackTy said

wuuugr ia nwaKB ana on in qui Vive but in religious assemblages, where

Christ used to be crowned, they are

Bomnamouiant. in financial gatherings, where dollars and cents are at stake, everybody Is alert, but in re

ligious gatherings where men are either going to be mansioned In heav

en or pauperized in hell, th pv aro

apathetic.

Trot 8quare with

God to Succeed.

In a court room where a man l on

trial and fighting for his life everybody sits forward and scarcely breathes, for they want to hear every word In the conflict, so I don't care whether you cry, whether you laugh, whether you hiss, whether you applaud, whether you stay, whether you go, so long as you will cut out

em ana irot square with Rod Al

mighty.

Lyman Beecher. after a motine-

said, "We had a wonderful rpvivai

They said, "How many did you take in?"

hymn, sir,

He said, "Take 'em out Let's have the old hymnals," and he kicked up such a row that in order that the service might not be spoiled mv friend

went and got the basket and the sex

ton gathered them up and put the old Dutch hymn books back into the pew. , He struggled along for monthB and nobody was converted. He said, "I don't propose that any God-forsaken, back-slidden old official should tell me how to preach. If he knows more how to preach than I, he ought to be preaching." So, without calling the officials together he had thousands of tickets printed and hired men to distribute them, saying that there would be a

gospel service on Sunday night in the

Up from the grave He arose. With a mighty triumph o'er His ' foes. He arose a victor from the dark domain And Ke lives forever, with His Baints to reign ; He aiT.se, He arose, Halleujah, Christ arose. Ho broke the bars of death that none e're broke before. And rose in conquering majesty to stoop to death no more. And I am not worshiping a dead Jew sleeping in the tomb of Joseph of Ariraathea, but I am worshiping a

living, ruling, reigning Christ at the right hand of Gcd the Father, who will come to judge the world in the

fullness of time. "The hour is come." And the cross was the connecting link between the

old and the new dispensations. On this side, the cross with a priest a

turtle dove a heifer or a bull on an altar as an atonement for sin. Even under the Masonic law, if a man or a woman sinned, they had to bring to the priest a pigeon or a turtle dove or a bullock or a ram and when they shed its blood, the blood made atonement for their 6ln. Abel brought a lamb from the blocks of his field, and Cain, in the spirit of rebellion, went out and brought, the fruits of the field and

down his chin and his clenched fist3 j old church. It created a senaation

lacerated the palms of his hands anil

his eyes ever and anon swept the horizon and he was heard to cry out: "Oh God, that night, or Blucher would came" and in the distance they saw the dust curling from the hisrh-

way and General Blucher with twen-

iy-uve mousana fresh reinforcements

reu upon the French, the battle was won and Napoleon spent hi3 last days upon St. Helena's barren reck. Democracy Rules World Today. In every nation there is a crisis. We are in the midst of one of tba greatest crisis of our history. Weare In the midst of a crisis where cur homes are in danger and the very principles of the government of freedom la in

danger all over tho land. Oh! Autocracy has been overthrown In China, overthrown in Russia and in Turkey, and the people rule in France, and the president of the United States has more authority and power than the king of England; the people rule in Italy and for us It is to determine whether or not we shall have the collar of Imperialism fastened around

our necKs, or whether we shall be

rree. Nations are In the midst of crisis. There has never been a time in tho history of the world when there was more turmoil, and more nations interlocked in mortal combat over the principles of free government on one hand, and military autocracy upon the other hand. So, we are in the midst of it. And Adam and Eve reached tho crisis in the garden of Eden, when the

,veryDoay flocked to see what his gospel service would be like with that bunch it was euch an innovation and the first hymn they started to sine

was "Ring the Bella of Heaven, There Is Joy Today." My friend said he heard - the vol

of the old elder ring out clear above

cier wnicn men will sleep and the

aevil will never be aroused to roar.

but the gospel rightly understood and

taunruiiy preached and proclaimed

mierreres with every form of in iquitous business, every species of il

licit raise faith and peace is a thing

greany io De prized but not peace at

any price. God Orders Him To Come Down.

I read where the parish priest of

usterty climbed up in a high church steeple so that he might be near God and hand down His word to his people, and in sermon script he daily wrote what he thought came down from heaven and he dropped it down on the people's heads two times ono day in seven and in his day God said "Come down." And the parish priest of Osterty cried out from the steeple "Where art Thou. Lord?" And tho Lord made reply, "I am down here on terra flrma, Come down." j Too much of the preaching nowadays is too pretty, It is too dainty. It

doesn't kill, It Is given for the literary excellence of the production and

if you got an adverb or an adjective

or a

"None. We turned out forty-seven." Did you ever read ths "Uiatnrv rr

it.- . :

luo oaivauon Army in India?" by Mrs. Booth. She tells the story of a pet tiger the children used to play with and one day the little girl was out in the yard playing with the tiger when it came bounding Into the bungalow, hair standing on end. eyes like balls of fire, his great claws distended, lashing its side with its great tail, and In Its tusks hung a fragment of the dress of the little girl. The mother yelled, "Great God, the tiger has killed the child." Not stopping to investigate, the father seized a huge piece of marble they used for holding the door of the bungalow open and he crushed the skull of the tiger and he fell dead at his feet. Then, they ran Into the yard and there found the little girl, her clothing torn to shreds, her body lacerated, otherwise uninjured and right by her another tiger disemboweled and its vital organs scattered over the lawn. It had come in from the jungle, scented the human flesh, leaped the fence and rushed to seize the child and the pet tiger had jumped between the little girl and the tiger and there was an awful fight and when the conflict ended the enemy was lving dead

"iic me tuuu sai oeneam the tree. When You Strike At Revivals You Err And when you strike at revivals vou ppit into the face of God Almighty and you tear the sides of .Tp

and you put a few more thorns on His

I . tl 1S uod 3 way to kePP People out of hell and if I didn't believe it, as a preacher. I would resign and get out of the church. I wouldn't insult God. The hour has come to go to the end. Vf for what He is going to do! Oh, the people that He Is going to sve! Thank Him for the crops that He is going to give us! Thank Him tor what He is going to do! I will give you an illustration. Over in the second Chronicles the children of Israel were on the march from Egypt to the Promised Land and they came to the country of the Moabites. They mdnt have power enough to force their way through and so there they stood and they said: "Lord, wilt Thou not hlAcm ittlo

great company, for wo have no might against them, neither kn

III uu.

And the Lord said. "Stan Hn

!S n eaIvati0Ii of God. you need not fight in his battlp. tho hoiti-.

not yours, but the Lord's."

Then we are told that tv

f t ' l116011 of Zechariah, and a whole lot of other people whose names you can nronnnTir n . ,r

framed it up to kill his flther and to nZr"

. J ' J V .1 V CUljlL til

their sins lest thpv mis-ht rup marrow, cuticle and corpuscle! No.

salary. sir! ' know there are some stiff

Oh, there is a kind of preaching un-' ne,CKea' twentieth century, theologi

cal, homiletical, hiah browed, eveaeti.

cal, bell-wethers for the devil, hypo

crites mat uon't Deneve In a revival. They say, "O, well, we don't approve of your methods." Old Nebuchadnezzer did not approve of the methods of the' three Jews that would not bow down and worship the idols of gold until he threw them into the furnace heated seven times over. He didn't approve because he could not dictate to Shadrach and Meshach and. Abednego. O, the political grafters, they did not approve of Daniel's methods that kept their hands out of the public crib and kept them from filching from the public treasury, for that brave, God fearing, loyal Jew stood firm cnri

as immovable as Gibralter. O. the

traitorous, treacherous Absalom did

approve of the way his father David

was running the kingdom, and so he

put the crown on his had an -if

down on the throne. O, the Pharisees didn't approve of

me raemous or Jesus Christ, when He drove the scalDel of

truth into their rotten, stinging, putrlfying abscesses, that bored their way t- their vitals and they nailed Him

noun or pronoun out of Joint, ' Ti. " . i Auey naea Him

then it Is all off. """" 'fy spit m His

bun m wis race an thsv

I had a friend and when I tell you

newspaper boys that he reported the Japanese and the Chinese war and the Brazilian rebellion you will get an idea of his brilliancy. He was con

verted and he was in great demand to tell his story out in the west Ono time he was approached by a pastor of a very rich and fashionable church

the $4.00i) sanrano un in iha out in one of our elite, little suburbs to

loft and this old fello whad a voice !come out and ve his Btory.and they

mat was a cross between a cane mill I Bai on ine P1"0"" waning ior mo

una jacicass. Ana when they got through they had a little after meeting and three young men came weeping out of their sins into the kingdom. The old fellow shuffled up to my friend annd said. "What kind of hymns were they we used tonight?" My friend said, "Gospel hymns." He said, "Bless God, let's sing 'em all the time. Let's use them Sunday morning put them In prayer meeting. You have my consent. Hymns that will sing like that let's use them all the time." No Need for Compromise While my friend remained pastor, hundreds pressed into the kingdom of God, the people woke up to the fact

mat ii was the means to an end. The end wag the bringing of people to Jesus Christ. That's the churches' business The hour has come to realize it and for plainness of speech on the part of the preachers. I dont believe In fighting as one that beats the air, I believe if you have anythinn to antagonize, out with it, specify It If there are abuses In society and In business and In politics, or If the rights of the people are being Ignored and trampled 'neath the feet, my

choir to finish up their vocal gymnas

tics and the preacher leaned over and said to my friend: "May I ask you, without seeming to trespass, upon what you intend to preach this evening?" My friend said, "I am trying to get a line on that now, doctor." "If you would permit me to make a few suggestions without seeming to

further trespass," he said, "don't talk about the liquor question, that subject has been tabooed from this pulpit" And he said, "Don't speak about the dance and the cards, the bridge." he said, "those subjects are tabooed, too.". My friend said to himself. "That is all the evidence that I need that the gang needs preaching to right along those lines." But the preacher sa$ to my friend, he said, "Do you see that woman sitting down there about fifteen seats from the front, a finely dressed woman?" great diamonds flashed in her ears. . "Yes." "Now,' he said, "she Is the leader of her social set and," he said, I am trying to get her into the church and I'm afraid it you talk on those sub-

yes,

walked down the street.

But God Almighty raised Him from the dead, put him at the right hand of God, the Father. Reforms Achieved Bespeak Truth O. the ecclesiastical crooks did not agree with Savonarola and Martin Luther and they incinerated Savonarola to ashes. They'd hava nnt u

over on Martin Luther if they could They didn't agree with him! Oh' you don't agree. The drunkards that have been made sober from the Atlantic to the Pacific they agree and the wives who are happy now, they agree. The little children who have plenty to eat and plenty to wear, they agree. Sometime ago when daddy came

nome, Us kids would run and hide. For he was full of dirty booze And he was bad inside. But now we're glad to meet our dad, He never, xever, falls, To kiss us and caress us, Since he hit the sawdust trail. Of clothes we hadn't very much And they were ragged, too, Our little shoes were all worn out And our toes were sticking through. But now we've dandy clothes to wear And ma well, she don't look so pale. Gee whiz, she's got a brand new suit. Since daddy hit the trail. Ha! Ha! They agree. And the poor girl who became heartsick and disgusted with a life of sin, and she crept and crawled out of the quag-

the Lord, and He said

Appoint singers," and they appoint'ed singers and they went out before T.Pnev and sang- "Praise ye the tfJty, Jey Went out Poising God for what He was going to do and God did it and the children of Ammon. Moab and Mount Sier and thev turned and fought one against the other and Judah gained the day. The hour is come to praise God for

WUdlJ "B is going to do in old Rich

Take your book in your left hand. .T,,J,ru,eB of this school room are. Hold your book in your left hand' bo comply or apologize." He did not comply and Professor Blackey jumped to his feet and 6aid: 'Come back, sir, take your book in your left hand or sit down." The young Scotchman took his left arm from behind his back and It ended at the wrist. He said: "Please sir. Professor Blackey, I have no left hand." And the students say that Professor Blackey Jumped to his feet and he rushed down the aisle, he threw his arms around him and Bald, "I beg your pardon, sir, I didnt know vou didn't have a left hand or I wouldn't have said that. I feel sorry." and the students cheered Professor Blackey. '

, . j ijoraon. the goldly Baptist divine of Boston, who went to heaven years ago, was telling that story In a sermon one Sunday night Back about twenty seats from the front in the middle section a man Jumped to his feet and said: "Dr. Gordon, will you please pardon the premature interruption? I know that story is true, i was that young man, Professor Blackey led me to Jesus Christ and I have been preaching the gospel for eleven years." and as he SRid it he raised his left arm above his head and it ended at the wrist. If Professor Blackey had not been riht he never would have made the acknowledgment. So, the hour has come to go out after the lost. The hour has come to go out after the lost people.. In Genesis, nineteen, we have the illustration of two angels going into Sodom. If angels are willing to go Into Sedom then we ought to be willing to go anywhere to try and help somebody to Jesus Christ The angels hastened Lot O, It Is almost unpopular to be enthusiastic, but I tell you very littl of the power of God will ever rest upon you as an individual or a community unless we show enthusiasm for Jesus Christ. They laid hold upon Lot, they actually dragged him out of the city, they laid hold upon him. O. where the sermon may fail, the warm hand c!a?D will do it

j Illustration of

Jenny Lind. Someone sent me an illustration of Jenny Lind, the Swedish nightingale When she was a little girl in Sweden one of her neighbors was a blacksmith boy named Max Bronson. Thev played together, wandered over the hills and fields of Sweden. She became the idol of kings and queens and of the world. He became a musician, a drunken vagabond, vile with hi. ambitions dead, and she was sinking in "Her Majesty's Theatre" In London, and Max, a penniless drunken vagabond, determined to see her. He watched his chance and when a great company of men and women clothed in silks and ermine went In, he crowded past the ticket taker, hid himself in a little recesa of the theatre. She stirred the audience as only Jenny Lind could and the applause was deafening. Max forgot himself, forgot where he was, forgot the stage, forgot the great throng, and he leaped to his feet, and

he saw only the little barefooted rirl

that he knew when he was a boy and he cried out: "Jenny I told you so, I told yon you would rule the wo: Id with your voice." The people cried out, "Put him out, put him out! He is crazy." She said, "Wait! Hold! Let him tell the story." He said, "I heard your voice and I stole in. I wanted to see and hear you once more. 1 am Max Bronson. the blacksmith boy." She said to the people: "He was my first and truest friend and hfk rr&.

ated an ambition In me to become great. My stage was the lichen covered logs of the forests and the flowers he threw at my feet relolced

more than the gifts you shower now " She said to him: "Max, no longer be a vagabond, be a man, don't be a drunken sot and Bell your manhood."

K L7son?vCbaU8ettf Gd aDi f R Te trChr?sTandTf uesus, His only begotten son. Gt sr. h . 1

tiuvjc, my hicuub, won in me royal courts never did Jenny Lind do

yuaimea with your neighbor you might like him. You might! Out in a western state a young preacher went to a town as pastor, he found selfishness had the upper hand and the social castle springing up and waa blightine the irood in An.

ences of the community, so he started

uie eiogan: "Get acquainted with vour npfphh