Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 18, 1915, Page 5

Too Few Give Anyr Help to the Preacher, Says Sunday in Sermon Bermon at the tabernacle Friday The difference ‘ vetween the twenty- elghth and twenty-ninth chapters of Sec- ond Chronicles s much like the differ- ence In some churches today. One time you ses great enthusiasm and every one burdened for the salvation of souls and the advancement of the Ki:ngdom of God. At another time there is a depres- alon; the church is abandoned for the haunts of pleasure; the church is dead and lifeless and too much like an amusement bureau. You see it in fami- lies; you have known of families whose very name was synonymous with eve thing religlous, but who allowed some- thing to creep into their lives, and now you seldom, if ever, see them at church. You have seen it In churches, you see an individual always ready to help the preacher and do anything for Jesus; now he mever helps in any way, and, if any- thing, 18 & discouragement instead of a help to the preacher. Ahas was an idolater of the greatest sort. As you live in your home, so will your children be. The judgment of God will fall on your and your home. One trouble with a great many communities, the wrong gang got there first, and started the Godless, irreligious, sneering caste. That's what's the matter with lots of towns, and they never amount to anything until a lot of those old lobsters die off. There is no worse sin a Jew could have committed than gathering the vessels of the house of the Lord together and cut- ting them to pleces as Ahaz did. At last he dled. He had lived such a Godless, dis- honorable, dlsreputable, irreliglous life that when he was dead they would not disgrace the sepulcher where the other kings were buried by placing his body therein. They did bury him in the cor- porate limits of that city. From a parental standpoint, Hesekiah had much against him. He had a Godless, repro- bate of a father, but his mother was one of the most noble women who ever lived. Influence of Mothers. I have known boys to make a success in lfe who had an old materialist, irre- ligious reprobate for a father, but I never knew of one to succeed who had a God- less, card-playing mother. The mother can usually hold her son to everything g0od and noble that she follows herself, The trouble with many is that they are outgrowing the confines of the home and are turning it Into a booze joint and gambiing hell. He had a Godly mother. Corinth might have been called a city of gods. They had shrines and temples to every known god but the true God. You are going crazy over culture clubs; libraries and morale are going down. You are getting back to the heathen days; wealth and culture aidn't save Greece, and it will never save America. The women of Corinth were not re- spected for their virtus, but the woman who could boast of the most paramours and most debased character was re- spected. You ean put a library on every corner and let every church member be a college graduate and that will never save you from hell. You need the old- time religion. You don't need more cul- ture or money, but & floodtide of redemp- tion. You can have your clubs, lterary societies, Keeley cures; you can go into the red light districts and the slum and have & girl add & few rutfies to her dress to lengthen it, you can scrub the hobo, but that will never save any one. Gospel of Cleanliness, Do you supposs God wants to look through eyes red with the dissipation of the might spent in debauchery? Do you suppose God wants to work with hands that are 1ifting a beer glass one moment, & deck of cards or a novel the next? Do you suppose (God wants to use feet that can walk into a booze joint or & house of jll-fame one night and into ohurch om | Sunday? Never. You wouldn't walk into a church where the janitor had dumped last winter's ashes in the alsles, or where the cattle could stroll through, and gaze. The Holy Spirit will not live among limburger cheese, Anheuser- HBusch or Pabst. It will not swim in to- bacco julce up to ita eyes You have a © keep your body clean, ”'?:a > m:»qlpp};wtrfill organization ever organized was the Soclety of Jesuits, or 1t was so powerful that it was sed by the pope at Rome ament of Parls. No mem- a mind or will of his own, bul :u:l\::lldhe will and mind of the superior No one ever went a lot of Jesus ordered suppres: \d by the Parl and followed that tlone, but siways two by two. If the church would put these two principles into practise the power would be ln‘chu'l- culable. When -any ome eees you they should see the will of God manifes in vou. It is not the will of God that any hurch member should be a booze-tighter ) ambler. ‘F‘;,—‘rlgmvrn years there had been no song in lsrael. Religion is inseparab from songs. From the days of the re- formation when Martin Luther walke (hrough the streets singing, through the days of Wesley and of Whitetleld, of Moody and Sankey, down to your day, religion has been inscparable from song You'll mever draw nearer unless you aing. When you are asked to sing do %o, Do something for God. Be a litter, don't always be a leaner. You may not be @ prima donna, but contribute your little mite and do something for the Lord. More Psalms were written and sung in The United Presbyterians the temple. h are.not 80 far Off. They're biblical. The twenty-fourth Psalm must haye been sung in the temple, and the twenty-third Psalm David used to sing before King Saul to cheer him from the melancholy and sad moods. As to Smging. Many & life knows no song. They seem to say: ‘‘Where is the joy that once I knew when first I loved the Lord." It's back there where you left it. When you started to play cards, and dance, when you stopped reading your .Bible and started reading a novel, or the Phil- Istine, and that's a little sheet I wouldn't have in my house to kindle a fire with. It you have one in your home burn it. Right back there where you sidestepped your virtue and winked at another & caso, then thought about it, and said “Wife, T'll see you in your coffin before I'll give you beer.” 1 think the doctor was a llar, and the doctor who prescribes beer is nothing but a jJackass. 1 used to go to theaters. Some shows are rot- ten, some only half bad and some good; some actors are as good as you or 1. But I haven't been Inside a theater for twenty- five years, except to preach the gospel. | I don't want to go. And 1 can go into any theater in the country and not pay one cent. In the summer time a ball plaver is flush and lends money to the actor; in the winter time the actor has ocash, while the ball player is hitting the free lunch counters; and some of them eat so much bologna #ausage they come near having hydrophobla. They lend money to each other. I used to hit the booze, but don't any more. 1 haven't touched a drop for more than a quarter of a century. I haven't any desire. God has taken the desire away, and He'll do the same for you if you give Him a chance. Lord Wilj Care ror You. T give my heart to Jesus Christ, and curl up on the paw of the Lion of Judah, and then say: “Come on." The Lord will take care of you, and He'll remove the desire. It is the motive God looks at and not the act. What motive prompted you to join the church? Was it because you thought you could be a better man or woman? Or was It because you | | thought it would ket you votes, or trade; | was it to afford you an opportunity to walk down the alsles late to show what fine duds you wear? God will judge acconding to the motive, ; Do you lean toward the world and sin or toward the church? What is your trend? The ball player gives the trend to the ball and causes it to shoot straight into the hands of the other player, or to bend and curve this way or that, by the twitching of his fingers and his wrist, There 18 & point some place between heaven and earth which is known as the point of equipoise. Anything in that point will atay hanging unsupported in midalr. If it deviates up, it will go to the sun; if it deviates down, it will fall to the earth, You are balancing betwen the devil and the church. Which point draws you? The Spirit of God will come in and help you over the acts you fear in the world, and help you do €0od of humanity. God shows some a duty, but they refuse to obey; He shows some a hill to climb, but it 18 too steep and they refuse to tread it because it is rough and dark, and they will never be blessed iIn the world, | God may not ask your life, but He wants you to be ready in case He wants it. It He thinks I cain advance his cause better in the coffin than out, I am ready. I believe God. Do you? If you do, don't loan yourself to the devil. Your husband wouldn't stand it for you to live with him part of the time and the rest of the time with another man. And God says ye cannot serve God and mammon. He began with the priests. That was something nobler for the | | establisn it | in the | | | first act of the first month of Ahax's God would convert all the preachers until they would stop fighting their little theological sham-batties and stop preaching hypndtism and shams and fol-de-rol and anarchy, and clean uj you'd see the greatest tidal wave of re ligion since the Pentecost Stop your wordline break the jugs you'll have more word of God to ohildren to love you'll see the greatest tidal wave of re burn the cards and and then influence and take the church and teach truth and hate bottles your a lie, and liglon that ever awept the land. You are going to the devil Second Ahaz cleaned the inner part of You'll find that schools, the the the houses of the Lord represented In the Sunday teachers and officers. One-halt of teachere in the Sunday schools never had | a religlous experience and they try to teach your children of the Lord on Sun day ana through the week go to card parties, theaters, drink beer or cham pagne, And yon never cven read the Bible in your own home. No wonder the children are growing up like wild asses If I took a superintendcy of a Sunday school 1'd never allow a teacher to bring a lesson help into the bullding. Must Restore the Bible Restore the vessels of the houseof the We must restore the Bible: bring Lord the Bible back to the home, the church the Sunday school and the pulpit. Many preachers are unfortunate to have becn followers of higher critics who took thelr sermons from literature or novels, and not from the doctrines in the book of God. Some have stopped reading the Hible in preparation of thelr sermons ani their efforts are nothing more than liter compositions. The preachers have a hard job to bring the Bible back in the prayer meetings and There was r oa time influences were at work to get people to sneer at the Bible You ought to know by a sermon if you are lost No mere platitudes go. Prayer is not merely a performance 1t 1s when the heart feels what the lps say; it is not an attitude of the One of the biggest farces c2 the church today Is the prayer meeting. There a « scores of church members who do not go. You say you can't go. You lle. You can com> here night after night, but can't g0 to prayer imeetings. I want the preachers to take a good look at you they'll not see some of you again until the next revival. They are glad to know you, to get acquainted with you. They never see you except at a funeral or wedding or a reception Kindle a fire in your heart; start fam- ily prayer; do something for Christ, and begin to s fying, and when it is clean, it will again begin to sing and take the place in the world it ought to have, (Copyright, William A ary got omes when more subtle body Sunday.) CORRECTING THE LIST OF TABERNACLE TRAIL HITTERS Sorting out of the cards signed by trail hitters has resulted in reductions of the | first count figures. The number an nounced Wednesday night was 278. Later count gave the correct number as 212 The number announced Thursday night was 1% and the later count was 119, Sundayisms at the ‘Tab as Caught by Our Staff Artist THEIR FAVORITE SONGS RING THE BELLS OF HEAVEN ng. The church needs puil- | 19 SUITS ME” | | | | IS THOROUGHLY DEMONSTRATED IN THE FOLLOWING SUPERIOR MAKES AND QUAL- ITIES OF AMERICA'S FINEST AND BEST KNOWN TAILORS IN THE WORLD. 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