‘AND YESHALiL KNOW THE (TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH
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(Pftper read at tire Presbyterian Woriers’ Confe
Haines Institute, Augusta, Ga., Japuary 3lst to Ft
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By Rev. I. H. Russell, D. D.
Mr. Chairman, Father® and
Brethren:
Hie representatives of all
walks and businesses of life
must know what they are re
ding, Bp they canj^sent
iey are offering. The am
bassador for the Lord must
must know his line and be able
to present it in a manner that
wiHbe effective and acceptable.
One of the' fundamental
things in winning souls is, first,
to show them that they need a
Saviour. To do this, have them
to read from the Bible, if pos
sible, such Scripture passages a?
will appeal to them. The fol
lowing pasages are good : (1)
* Alt have sinned.'” (2) “Gbd died
fof the ungodly.” (3) “Christ
died for all.”
Plead with them to depend
upon God and His word, and do
upon self and your
wo:
in the
Qod is more interested
_ Stoner's salvation than
you are, so look to Him to do the
saving.
Show them how to make the
Saviour their Saviour. Use such
Scriptures as these: (1) Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ arid
thou shalt be saved.” (2) “Him
that cometh to me, I will in no
wise cast out.” (8) “Whosoever
believeth in Him shall receive re
mission ofsin.”
.ites of Christ, must
word in Season and
out of season, be prayerful,
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Some excuses offered by sin
ners are: “Not now,” or “not to
day,” “I’m not a sinner,” or “not
a very great sinner.” To Offset
these arguments quote the fol*
lowing: (1) “Choose you this
day whom ye will serve.” (2)
'‘All have sinned.” (3). “1 can’t
hold out.” (4) . “Fear thou hot,
for I am with thee.” (5). “Be hot
dismayed for I am thy God; I
will strengthen thee.” (6). “I am
persuaded that neither things
present, por things to come
shall be able to separate us from
the love of God.” (7) Believe
. .and thou shalt
he saved.”
U there are hypocrites, what
is that to thee? “Follow thou
me ” “Prepare to meet thy God.”
There cannot be a counterfeit
unless the real thing exists. One
who stumbles over a hypocrite is
stumbling over one that is ahead
of him.
Jesus says: “I am the way;
no man cometh unto the Father
but toy me.” You cannot work
S-—r way into the Kingdom of
yen; if you could, you could
there ... without . Jesus and
without the price of death being
paid for your sins.
“The; wages of sin is death.”
Its penalty has to be borne by
yourself or you can escape the
death penalty by receiving
Christ for your substitute by
faith or trust.
You are never too great a (tin
ner. “Christ died for the ungod
ly” “This is a true saying and
worthy of all acceptation, that
Christ : Jesus , came into the
world to save sinners of whom I
am chief.” “Though your jms
toe as scarlet they shall be as
white as snow.” “For God sent
not his Son into the world to
condemn the world, bujt that the
world through him ' might, be
saved.”, .
To those who deny there is a
God quote the following: “The
fool hath said in his heart thefe
is no God.” ,
The ones who say God is good,
He will not send any one to hell,
say this to them: “He that be
tteveth not shall be^ damned.”
“Be not deceived, God is hot
locked, for whatsoever a man
• that shall he also reap.”
ffj foe says, “I cannot give* up tfoe
things of the world,” give' this
;:“What shall it profit a
** foe gains'the #ho!e world
lose his soul?’>KjOd is a lov
__ wa^ats the child’s
cup of joy not oplV^uil; but run
ning oyer. God oid^' desires to
eliminate those thin® from the
life which work hart$t.
Gove not the world, neither
the things that are in the; world*
fqr the ' '* ‘
_ .he world is! the enemy Of
God. If you can love God’s ene
mies, and can't love God and tpe
things of God, you will have to
go to hell where all of God’s en
emies go.
[Other excuses can easily be
met and answered from the word
of God. “Search the Scriptures,”
“show thyself approved unto
Gpd.” Analyze the passages you
use, .cahihg attention to the
principles they teach.
After presenting Christ as
the Saviour and meeting the ob
jections, press for a, decision for
Christ. Pray and get the seek
er to pray for hfthself. ri Preach
the word. God saved you fof
His service. One souil is worth
more than all the world. Souls
are dying without hope and
without God. -
“Who will go?” “Here am I,
send me.” “Work for the night
is coming” ...
Be a Master Personal Worker,
for Jesus* . .y ' J1
“He canie to die,
He died to save.
He comes to reign.
Preach it, teach it,
Tell it wherever you go.’
, Now as to the means that are
employed to develop a revival in
the church: First and foremost
I mention preaching; and in or
der to do this, much depends oil
your own state of mind. I think
that almost always a man has
in his own heart the prophecy
of these things. I have Waked UP
in the mornings arid the air has
smelt^ differently frdm what it
did before.. I have gone out of
doors, not thinking that it was
spring, but it was brought home
to me by the changed aspect of
things around.
So I have found in my own
ministry that when my heart
was right for this work of God, I
somehow had, it brought to me
in a way which inspired courage
and Zealand purpose: there was
an intensity of feeling that as
sured me I was going to suc
ceed,—not I, but the grace of
God that was in me. I had a
courage, a sort of certitude in
me, “The time has come!” “The
time has come!” and I went
down into the work with a feel
ing, “I will not be denied! I will
have this blessing! Slay me, but
give me this!’! and where a man
has even the smallest beginning
of this feeling, he is pretty sure
to impart it. ^
Now, how shall a man come at
it, if he hasn’t it?.I might say
to a pastor, “Art thou a master
in Israel, and knowest not these
things?” You have not had a
charge, and so I don’t blame you.
In what way shall a man who
who has the cUre of souls and is
waiting, for souls; who believes
in God mid immortality, in the
Lord Jesus Christ, in the dying
and necessitous condition of
men—in what way shall he come
into active sympathy with
them?
Suppose a surgeon should
say to nie as he goes down to a
great Military Hospital, I am
going down to a great work, and
I don’t know but what my zeal
anq courage will flag. How would
you advise me to prepare to take
an interest in this thing and
sympathize with' these poor
wounded soldiers? If he needed
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tilling he would not be fit to be
aj surgeon. The circumstances
themselves should be all the in
citement heneeds. When a man
Idoks over his congregation, and
thinks of them, feels for them.
prays for them, carries them in
h:s heart! when they are really
dear to Him,—in part because
they are 'dear to Christ, who is
dearer to him than life itself,—
it! seems to me he needs very,
little instruction on this natter.
•Only this: if yod have fears
that are frightening and har
raissing you, lay them aside. If
you have worldly business or
anything of that kind, that is
absorbing your time and prevent
ing the kindling in you of an en
thusiastic devotion to your work,
pi^j&at aside, no matter what ,
it may cost you. If you find
ydur own spiritual feelings have
been scattered, take those means
which you recommend to your
people,—your Bible, your clos
et, Humble yourself before God.
But I beseech you to avoid that
kind of crawling, that prostra
tion that takes the very man
hood out of a mas, I don’t
think God wants a man to crawl
before Rim like a worm, I don’t
thjink He is any more pleased to
see that than you would be to see
y»ur children act so, If I had
a child that acted so toward me,
I should not esteem him as much
as I would "a manly child. Now
a child does not know any bet
ter, but a man ought to. ’
Now, I have seen men w^>
seemed to think that if they
emptied themselves before God
and made themselves mean, and
said all manner of self'abating
things, it would fit ■ them for
work. No; manliness! No doubt
enough to:
to Him as though they were,
his sons,
I am a son of God, uncrowned,
dishonored by imperfection, by
manifold transgressions, but my
Father’s blood is in me. I am
a son of God! I will confess my
sins, but I will stand before Him
as His son still. I am willing to
be chastized, but I am not will
ing to crawl in the dust, as if
[ were not an immortal creature.
It is not necessary to weaken
yourself so, But pour out your
heart with strong desires before
add. Love
Work!
men! Love God!
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into that state, if he is going to
be successful, his preaching will
be intensely earnest, it will be
exceedingly clear, it will be per
sonal. So much for the mind of
the minister preparatory to
preaching.
At other times you are giving
general instruction, but now you
converge the knowledge that
men are supposed to have. You
are bringing it to a definite pur
pose.
When a man is stating law in
the lecture-room, he pursues one
course; but when he stands be
fore a jury to win a case, all
that he ever knew is concentrat
ed for a definite purpose. He
thinks of their verdict. We
preach a great many sermons,
and properly, which are to pro
mote meditation, which are to
bring forth their fruit gradually
in the family and in the com
munity at large. That is well
enough; but when revivals have
set in, our preaching is for im
mediate results in the hearts
and souls and consciences of our
fellow-men. .
So that while every sermon is
an instruction, it is also a plea.
Every sermon is to have in it a
grasp, an intensity of hold upon
men, that shall from day to day
and from week to week have its
influence. You shall feel in your
self that every time you preach
a sermon you have drawn some
man. That is ideal; that is the
aim. . . . -
* lit preaching m revivals of re
’ ligion the great things you wish
t to secure are the reason, the
moral sense and the imagination
of men. Men work more by
tion than we suppose;
le form in which it is as
with poetry, but With
ton that brings invisible
to sight,'which enlarges
nb of existence,—in short
'rings the eternal future
ar men. * -
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SeMyions mast bring out those
truths^ of God’s word that are
sunr$ have effect. They mast
bnrigpot those truths which
satisfw-the judgment, the com
mon j£nse of men; which also
frpqainlly arraign and satisfy
the conscience; and which # do
these pangs in the light of the
higherfrelations which men must
sustahk to the future and the
gqvermnent of God.
I ail this because many peo
ple suljpose that in revivals of
relighmithe only thing to do is
to! addfess the feelings, to- sing
to exhort men along,
to; carr^them along they scarce
ly know how.
Thes is a place for sihging
and f^podal exercises in sub
ordina# meetings; but a miri
ister (g*ht never preach so well,
so st*j|§Jy, so clearly, and so
coini^lpf, never with such ap
peal; J||a man’s deepest nature
and thipugh his imagination to
hi? whwpiheing,,*& in the. initial
state of|a revival of religion,
t»i the Morning.
“I meytod in the mbrning, • '
Whjyjffe day was at its best;
Afn<liiSK^bsehcd came like sun
lory in my breast.'
day the Presenee Un
ay He stayed with me;
wRM perfect calmness
troubled sea. - •
Other
And We wind that' seemed to
drive them,
Brought me to a peace and rest.
“Then I thought of other morn
ings,
With a keen remorse of mind;
When I had loosed the mooring,
With the'Presehce left behind.
“So I think I know the secret,
Learned from' many a troubled
way, _
You must seek Him in the morn
ing,* . ■ " ;
If you wish Him all the day.”
CHRISTIANITY SUFFERING
FOR LACK OF CHRISTIAN
PRACTICE,
By Rev. J. Burton Harper
Science in all of its power is
just what man knows about
some of the things. God has
placed about us. There is no
conflict between the things and
God, though there may be much
conflict about- the knowledge
man rnay have about things and
the Glorified Deity. The world
is suffering for lack of the prac
tice of Gie policies of Jesus rath
ar than from a so-called scienti
fic aspersion o f the things God
has hidden in varied nature for
our needs. . . ,
The one great thing so badly
needed everywhere is a willing
ness to do right unto his neigh'
bor on the part of man as found
in the recesses of the conscious
soul; for no man can mistreat
his neighbor without having a
pungent notice of it. This no
tice is brought about through
the psychical nature of man and
the Almighty God. ? -Man in a
large degree is too content to
follow his own interpretation of
his, duties rather than the plain,
straight forward- instructions
God has given through-His Son,
Jesus Christ. Cain well knew he
he had slain Abel his brother,
and the Pharisee,-the hypocrite
blew that his neighbor had fall
en pmong thieves ; he heard his
groans, but the Pharisee, went
quietly on hfe journey. f
(Continued on page 2)
Do you know that of the many
thousands of dollars given to
mission work by the Young
People’s Societies, Catawba
Presbyterial has not credit for
a cent for the year 1927. Can
Catawba stand this? No. What
can we do? Well, we have a few
days of grace—until March 5,
1928—to redeem ourselves. Fill
out the annual report blanks for
Young People’s Work which you
have received and send them at
once to your Presbyterial Young
People’s Secretary. If your
young people have given no
money to missions this year,
urge them to do so at once.
Send; this money to Mrs. J. A.
Rollins, of Gastonia. Read this
letter received from Miss Glad
felter:
Board of National Missions
of the Presbyterian Church in
the U. S. A.
156 Fifth Avenue, New York,
N. Y. ; ... %
.a February, 1928.
Dear Miss Chresfield:
Yhe December “Carry All”
rave the gifts received" to No
vember 1,1927, by the Board of
National Missions from young
people, seniors, intermediates
and children. Other contribu
tions have come in since then
so that we ate now reporting the
following contributions for Na
tional Missions to January 1,
1928:
'' Amt. Total Pctg
Rec’d. Budget
Children up
ate Seniors
12-17 years.-—15,360 44,268 34
Y. P. 18-23 14,402 37,762 38
Totals _$38,060 $101,331 37
In other words, $63,270 are
needed to complete the total
budget of $101,331.
You, personally, will want to
know the total gifts received to
January 1 from the correspond
ing groups in your Presbyterial
Society—Catawba.
Children ---T—
Intermediates and Seniors
Young People —-—
What are we going to do about
it? Well, one thing which you
can do is to compare the gifts
received from the groups for
which you are responsible with
their apportionments and then,
in consultation with your Pres
byterial Treasurer, endeavor to
reach each individual organiza
tion, We rely on you to so pre
sent the National Missions field
that money will be given, not
just to meet an apportionmnt,
but as the medium through
which schools, food, clothing,
doctors, nurses, teachers, com
munity workers and Christian
training may be provided for
other boys and girls and young
people.
Another thing which you can
do is to help us solve some very
perplexing questions. Why is it
so difficult to secure equal quar
terly payments from children’s
and young people’s groups?
How can we create such a gen
uine interest and enthusiasm foi
the extension of God’s Kingdom
on earth that missionary giving
will be a natural and inevitable
result? These problems are
yours and ours; perhaps to
gether we can find the answers
Faithfully yours,
KATHERINE E. GLADFEL
TER,
Director of Young- People*!
Work.
ANNIE A. CHRESFIELP,
Catawba Presbyterial Secre
tary Young People’s Work.
115 N. Morgan St.,
Monroe, N. C.
t Miss Ruby Lowmans, a second
year student in the High School,
any of the High Schodl students.
: Miss Esternette Moore and
Miss Nina Joe Moor? have been
promoted, to the thiSrd and Sec
ond year high school classes Pro
spectively, due ‘ to their very jzk
cellent work and general schol
1 Mr. Preston Whitley, of the
Junior College class, made a
very commendable record in the
heavy schedule he is carrying.
Mr. Robert Jeans, Junior High,
has returned, to us frbdf'Memi
phis, Tenn., where he was caffed
on account of the death of his
mother.
Prof. Robert E. Lee was.called
to Nashville, due to the death of
his sister. .. .
The following article was •
written and read at our Chris
tian Endeavor Society meeting
last Sunday evening by; Miss
Estemette Moore, one of four
Junior High School students,
from Chatsworth; Ga. - '
“Ideals for Choosing a Life’s
Partner.”
Since in choosing a life part-'
ner, we take the first step:inva
hew way of living, the first ideal
to be considered - is happhiess ; -
without happiness no ]
as one; that is, the persons who
are to become life partners must
have the ability ahd willinghess
to work together.
The next is character, because
it is a gem of greatest . Vklde
that we ought to seek m choos
fng a life partner. The next
ideal is love; if one person does
not love another , he will not be
willing to do what th other one
wants to make him happy
though it may be right; but if
love is present one will gladly
suffer to make the other happy.
\ Both persons should strive to
make the union happy andpcpm
fortable. If this is not done,,
they will become tired and be
like a merchant who is unsuc
cessful : they will have a sale and
sell out. Without happiness and
character married life will be a
failure.
The next important thing ,!?
to have a vision of the home ...
they are going to make. Some
persons marry without stopping
to think of what is to come after,
the marriage^ They never think
of the home and family which ;
married life presupposes. Un
less people marry with the sum
of a home and family life, then
marriage is not sacred—it is
just a business proposition.
Marriage is one of the. sacred
acts of the Church arid it. should
be kept so, for in choosing ft life
partner we should ,, chooseone
whom we wish to share th§home
life with us and be the mother ,
or father of our children, com
panion and helper, ajwi a sharer
in our joys apd sorrows.;
A husband should, bp an up
right man with highJdeals and
ambitions. His-mtelleetual abil
ity should be the equal if not a ;
^ grade higher than that of his
! wife. He should: be prepared to
shoulder the responsibilities of a
' husband and father. -
Due prepagat^ph should be
' made for the typQ before mar
riage and daSPbartner should
1 know the fafflls of each other
know the faults, the vices, and
the short-comings, as* well as the
- virtues of each-other. I-think
with these views, marriage
would be happy and divorces
few. • ; •< ; '