THE HKK: OMAHA. SATl'TWAY, SEPTEMBER IS, lfHo.
Too Few Give Any
Preacher, Says
Help to the
Sunday in Sermon
Sermon at the taNrnsde Friday:
The difference oetween tne twenty
eluhth and twenty-ninth chapters of Sec
ond Chronic! is much Uk the differ
ence In some churches today. One time
you see greet enthusiasm and every one
burdened for the salvation of souls and
the advancement of the Klrngdom 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. Tou tee It in fami
lies; you hare known of families whose
very name was synonymous with every
thing religious, but who allowed some
thing to creep into their Uvea, and now
you seldom. If ever, see them at church.
Tou have seen it In churches, you see
an Individual always ready to help the
preacher and do anything for Jesus; now
he never helps in any way, and, if any
thing, la a discouragement Instead of
help to the preacher. 1
Aha, V n Mnlat,, f that arrAltiAflt
sort As you live In your home, so will
your ohlldren 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 Qodlees, 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 la no worse sin a Jew could have
committed than gathering the vessels of
the house of the Lord together and cut
ting them to pieces as Anas did. At last
he died. He had lived such a Godless, dis
honorable, disreputable. Irreligious life
that when he was dead they would' not
disgrace the sepulcher where the other
kings were fcurted by placing his body
therein. They did bury hlra In the cor
poraU limits of that city. From a
parental standpoint, Hexeklah 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.
Iaflnence of Mothers.
I have known boys to make a success
in life who had an old materialist, irre
ligious reprobate for a father, but I never
knew of one to succeed who had a God
less, oard-playlng mother. The mother
can usually hold her son to everything
good 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 boose joint and
gambling 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.
Tou are going crazy over culture clubs;
libraries and morale are going down. Tou
are getting back to the heathen days;
wealth and culture didn't save Greece,
and it will never save America.
The women of Corinth were not re
spected for their virtue, but the woman
who could boast of the most paramours
and moat debased character was re
spected. You can put a library on every
corner and let every church member be
a college graduate and that will never
save you from helU Tou need the old
time religion. Tou don't need more cul
ture or money, but a floodtlde of redemp
tion. Tou can have your clubs, literary
societies. Keeley cures; you can go into
the red light districts and the aluma and
have a girl add a few ruffles to her dress
to lengthen It. you can scrub the hobo,
,but that will never aava any one.
Gospel of Clea.aUs.esa,
' Do you auppose God wanta to look
through eyas red with the dissipation of
the might spent In debauchery T Do you
suppose God wants to work with bands
that are lifting a beer glass one moment,
a deck of cards or a novel the next? Do
you suppose God wants to use feet that
can walk into a boose Joint or a bouse of
Ill-fame one night and into ohuroh on
Sunday? Never. Tou wouldn't walk into
a church where the janitor had dumped
last winter's ashes In th aisles, or where
the cattle could stroll through, and gase.
The Holy Spirit will not live among
lot of llmburger cheese, Anheuaer
Husch or Pabst. It will not swim 1 to
bacco juice up to Its eyes. Tou have a
Hunt to keep your body clean.
The most powerful organisation . ever
0,T8.nl.cd was the Society . I Je-ulU ;or
i .... it was so powerful that It was
ordered suppressed by the pop. at Rom.
and by t" c Parlament of Paris. No m.m
Lr hld a mind or will of hi. own, but
nd the win and mind of the superior
and followed that. No one r went
alone, but always two by two If the
hur!'h would Pt these two principles
I to pracuse Ve power would be Inoul
Liable. When any one .ee. you they
rch moerhouM'be a booe-f.ght.r
UVor8hteeen year, there had been no
n In Israel. RellKlon is Inseparable
from Jong. From the day. of the re
t nnaHon when Martin Luther walked
Syof.n"--r-oownruf.."
r -on ha. been Inseparable from son
Yoll n.ver draw nearer unless you
.in. WhJ you are asked to sing, do
T' Do .omethlng for God. Be a lifter
don't always be a leaner. Tou may not
IT I Prima donna, but contribute your
little mite and do .omethlng for the Lord.
More Psalms were written and sung in
the temple. The United Presbyterians
.rror.oar off. They're biblical. The
twenty-ourth Psalm must have been
sung In the temple, and the twenty-third
Psalm David u.ed to .lng before King
Saul to cheer him from the melancholy
and sad moods. .
As to Straglag.
Many a knows no song. They
seem to say: "Where is the Joy that
once I knew when first I loved the Ixrd."
It's bac there where you left It. When
you started to play cards, and dan.-,
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.
If you have one in your home burn It.
Right back there where you sidestepped
your virtue and winked at another
woman. Tou know where you left it, and
you know how many years you'll have
to go back to find it. Some will go five
years, some twenty-five.
It Is the things you do that condemn
you. Faith claims to deliver us from the
devil and give us power to keep from do
ing the things wa know wa should not do.
I claim Jesus Christ can remove desire.
I used to play cards and lie and cheat
Just like many of you, and I've just as
food a right to play cards, but If I did.
you wouldn't walk across the street to
hear me preach; I've got Just as much
right tu put my arm around a woman and
waits over a dancing floor as you have,
but If I did you wouldn't think murh of
nie, and I wouldn't give three whoops In
perdition for you if you did. Jesus Christ
will remove desire. The more you trust
Him the more happiness lie will give
you.
Onre, when my wife was 1,1, the doc
tor sau itt should hae b r I oidntd
a raeo, then thought about it, and said:
"Wife. Ml see you in your coffin before
I'll give you beer." I think the doctor
was a liar, and the doctor who prescribe,
beer is nothing but a Jackass. I used
to go to theaters. Pome shows are rot
ten, some only half bad and some good;
some actor, are as good a. you or I. But
I haven't been Inside a theater for twenty
five yearn, except to preach the gospel.
I don't want to go. And I can go Into
any theater In the country and not pay
one rent. In the summer time a ball
player Is flush and lends money to the
actor; in the winter time the actor has
cash, while the ball player Is hitting the
free lunch counters; and some of them
eat so much bologna Sausage they comej
near having hydrophobia. They lend
money to each other. I used to hit the
boose, but don't any more. I 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
chanoa.
Lord rare tor Yea.
I give my heart to Jesus Christ, and
curl up on the paw of the Lion of Judah,
and then say: "Come on." Tim l-nrd
will take care of you. and Hell 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 get you votes, or trade;
was It to afford you an opportunity to
walk down the aisles late to show what
fine duds you wear? God wll'. Judge
according 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 hand, of the other player, or to
bend and curve this way or that, by the
twitching of his fingers and his wrist.
There Is a point some place between
heaven and earth which is known as
the point of equipoise. Anything In that
point will atay hanging unsupported in
midair. If it deviates up. It will go to
the sun; if It deviates down, it will fall
to the earth.
Tou 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 something nobler for the
good of humanity. '
God show, some a duty, but they refuse
to obey; He shows some a hill to climb,
but It Is too steep and they refuse to
tread It because it is rough and dark,
and they will never be blessed in the
world.
God may not ask your life, but He
wants you to be ready in case He wants
It. If 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
the first act of the first month of Ah. i s
relitn. if God would convert all the
preachers until they would stop flghtln
their little theological sham-battles and
stop preaching hypnotism and shams and
fol-de-rol and anarchy, end clean tip.
you'd see the greatest tidal wave of re
ligion since the Tcntecost.
Stop your wordllness; burn the csrds.
break the Jugs and bottles, and then
you'll have more Influence and take the
word of God to church and teach your
ohlldren to love truth and hate a lie, and
you'll see the greatest tidal wave of re
ligion that ever swept the land. Tou are
going to the devil.
Second Aha. cleaned the Inner part of
the houses of the Lord. Tou'll find that
represented In the Sunday schools, the
teachers snd officers. One-half of the
teacher. In the Sunday schools never had
a religious experience and they try to
teach your children of the Lord on Sun
day and through the week go to card
parties, theaters, drink beer or cham
pagne. And yon never even read the
Bible In your own home. No wonder the
children are growing up like wild asses.
If I took a .uperlntendcy of a Sunday
school I'd never allow a teacher to bring
a lesson help Into the building.
Most Restore (k Itlble.
Restore the vessels of the houseof the
Lord. We must restore the HIMe: bring
the Bible back to the home, the church,
the Sunday school and the pulpit. Many
nreachers are unfortunate to have been
follower, of higher critic, who took their
sermons from literature or novels, ana
not from the doctrines In the book if
God. Some have stopped reading the
Bible In preparation of their sermons and
their efforts are nothing more than liter
ary compositions. The preachers hae
got a hard Job to bring the Bible back,
establish it in the prayer meetings and
In the hemes. There was never a time
when more subtle Influences were at
work to get people to sneer at the Bible.
You ought to know by a sermon if yo.i
are lost. No mere platitudes go.
Prayer Is not merely a performance.
It is when the heart feel, what the Up
say; it is not an attitude of the bodv
One of the biggest farces cf the church
today is the prayer meeting. There a c
cores of church members who do not go.
You say you can't go. Tou lie. You
can coma here night after night, but can't
go to prayer meetings. 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 i
wedding or a reception.
Kindle a fire in your heart; start fam
ily prayer; do something for Christ, end
begin to sing. The church needs puil
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. Sunday.)
CORRECTING THE LIST OF
TABERNACLE TRAIL HITTERS
Sorting out of the cards signed by trail
hitters has resulted in reduction, 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 IX and the later count was 119.
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