Declares in Tabernacle Sermon That the World
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caps and Harlots
Today Does Not Really Know the Teach-
ings of Christ—Preaches
Sermon on Publi-
Dr. George Wood Anderson spoke
last night at the Tabernacle on
“I’uliliciins and linrlots." lie declar-
ed that the trouble with the world
today is that it does not know what
Jesus Christ taught. lie remarked
that in many states the bible read.
ing was barred from the schools and
he added that few church members
know anything about the New ’l‘os-
lament——
Dr. Anderson saith»-
Pulilicans and llarlote.
Text: "Verity I say unto you that
the publicann and the harlots go into
the Kingdom of God before you."—
Matt. 21:31.
When God sent His Son to live and
die on earth He gave ifs more than
salvation from our sins. In tiio
teachings of Christ there is tho so-
lution for every social. industrial. na.
tional and international problem that.
confuses ustoday. Christ in His life
and teachings meets every need and
yet after two thousand years of his-
tory the world has not ever put Him
or llis teachings to thetcst. In fact.
the trouble with the world today is
that it does not know what Jesus
Christ really taught and there are
very few in the churches today who
can give any information for the
New Testament is almost a closed
book. .
Buried in Schools.
In many States of the Union the
Bible has been shut out of the pub-
lic schools and in 90 out of 100
Protestant homes it is never opened
to be read aloud as part of the daily
devotions. There is an old joke that
one prominent lawyer wagered an-
other prominent lawyer $100 that he
could not repeat the Lord's Prayer
and when the judges assembled, the
lawyer whose knowledge of' the
Scripture had been assailed. respond-
ed: 0
“I Will now repeat the Lord's
Prayer: 'Now i lay me down to
slecp'—- “Slop." said the challeng-
ing lawyer. “i did not think you
knew it."
I doubt if there is a member of
the church who does not know how
to recite the Lord‘s Prayer, but there
is not one out of ten who realize that
the social and spiritual teachings of
that prayer it followed out would
shatter and completely reconstruct
our entire social habits. but the New
Testament; today is a. sealed book.
bound not: with chains he in the days
of old, but bound with the cobwebs
of neglect and indifference.
Preachers to Blame?
Who is to blame i do not know.
Sonic tell us that we preachers are
to blame and that in our eagerness
to meet the applause of men. we
have been courting the favor of the
world. rather than proclaim the
whole teachings of Christ. I do not
know how inst or true that state-
ment is. 1 am so busy preaching and
holding between six and seven hun-
dt‘cd services every year that l have
no time to attend other services
where my brethren of the ministry
teach. hilt if a lot of the stuff that. is
printed in the daily press is an ac-
curate report of some of the. sermons
‘ preached. may (iod pity the people
who have to feed on such liusks.
They have neither ll. living or a dead,
Christ to offer the. world and lili-
manity stands like Mary in the gar-
‘ den saying to one whom she believ—
ed to be the gardener:
“They have taken away my Lord
and we know not where they have
laid Him."
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Preachers
There are preachers who have,
robbed the Gospel of its virility by
attacking the deity of Christ. but
they are soon forgotten. Without
Jesus as the Son of the. Living God
the best scholar on earth has noth-
ing to preach and the only thing
that holds the hundfu of regular
ttsttifindants on his ministry is the
excitement of seeing how a man can
keep talking an hour and success-
fully dodge every idea in the uni-
verse.
\\'ith preachers like that. the
”world will sink in despair and be
lost former. Our task is not to dis-
cuss the philosophy that men have
woven about the personage of Jesus
but to preach and to live what He
said. We have something greater
to give than a review of the latest
novel. play or work of art. These
things may be used as illustrations
but our message is as far above
them as the stars are above their
faint reflections in the woodland
lake. ,We are to bring back the
words of Jesus to a. world that is
bewildered and stupified by the con-
fusion of tongues that always fol-
lows man's efforts to reach God by
building a. tower out of the sun dried
bricks of human reason. The world
has progressed too far to build an-
other tower of Babel which always
fails in reaching its objective and
always ends in a confusion of
tongues. We do not have to use our
inventive genius to find a. way up to
God or with human reasoning build
a stairway to the great White
Throne. We find God through the
words and life of Jesus Christ who
came down from heaven to meet us
on our own level. that knowing the
will of God, we might escape from
sin and live the life triumphant
while still on earth.
Faithful Ministers
We preachers may be partially to
blame for the present condition of
he world and its ignorance of the
‘teachings of Jesus but we are not
wholly to blame. for no age had
more faithful ministers. i know
preachers who are as true to Christ
as a magnetic needle is to the pole.
They are as pure as Joseph; as
fearless as Daniel: as loyal as Paul
Ind many of them are suffering the.
agonics of a crucifixion as they lin-
dertalte to serve a pleasure seeking.
godless and worldly generation. The
- minister must accept his share Of
blame and the pew must also take
its full share. The New Tcstamf'nl
is a sealed book because this con-
harlot tvill repent and enter the King-
ilier read the social columns or the
sporting page of the daily papers.
They are content, with being mem
bers of the Church as they may be
members of the Masonic or other
lodge. if. the Church isn't a lodge.
it is a lodging place for many a per-
fectly good conscience which has
been lulled to sleep and spiritual
powers that have become dormant.
A log jam at the bend of u. moun-
tain stream is a snow flake compar-
ed with the spirit of indifference to
the teachings of Jesus that. obstruct
the progress of Civilization and
which may after a. while break
way in the horrows of another in—
,fidelic Russian revolution. Men are
willing to confess Jesus with their
lips and serve Him with religious
term and pious ceremonies. not
knowing that with this confession of
Christ by their daily lives. other-
wise the confession of uthe lip is
mere chatter.
The fact that pubilcans and har-
lots may enter heaven while church
people may be shut out is one that
Christ emphasizes on more titan one
occasion. Early in His ministry,
Jesus nskcd'the question:
"Why call ye.lne Lord! and do
not the things I say?" my.
on much as to say: .
“Why do you call yourself a fol-
lower of Mine it you do not fol-
low?"
Christ and Moses.
Christ's teachings are far more ex-
act than'tliose .of 'Moses. Moses
said:
“Thou shalt not kill.”
Jesus said:
“Whosoever is angry with his
brother without a cause is guilty."
Moses said: .
“Thou shalt not commit adultery."
Jesus said:
"The impure and unworthy dc-
slre is sin."
Moses said:
“ An eye for an eye and a. tooth
for a tooth."
Jesus said:
“Love your enemies; bless them
that curse you and pray for them
who dospitefully use you."
Moses said that the one who
broke the law should be stoned to
death—~Jesus taught that the plln~
isliment for sin is not physical but
spiritual, not temporal but. eternal."
Moses said:
"Without the city."
Jesus said:
“Depart into everlasting
inept."
Moses warned us against offendink
’God. Jesus not only warned us
against offending God but against
it. ruined character and a lost soul.
saying: ‘
"lie that hearcth these sayings of
Mine and doeth them not. shall be
likened unto a foolish man which
built his house upon the. sand.”
To refuse to do as Christ. reason-
ably asks, means,_a sure collapse of
character and loss of life. Nothing
can take the place of obedience.
Picturing the last day. Jesus. repre-
sents some one knocking at the
door: “Lord, Lord, open unto us“
and when they were refused as be-
ing strangers, they replied: “We
have eaten and drunk in Thy pres—
ence and Thou hast taught in our
streets." They had sat at the table
with Jesus! They had permitted
Him to teach in their streets and
they thought that that was all that
was required. Just as many a. formal
church member believes that since
he has made it possible for Jesus to
have His truths presented in Sunday
school, special revival or street
meeting that he is entitled to heav-
cn. He gave a quarter to the Sul-
vation Army and now asks a. dead-
liead for heaven. or course. Jesus
said: "I know not who you are or
whence you came."
A Parable.
It is necessary to confess Christ
but what you do after you make the
confession. tells whether you have
spoken from the heart or from the
lip. That is the thought of the par-
able connected with my text. A cer-
tain father had two sons; coming to
the first son he asked him to spend
the day working in the vineyard.
The angry lad refused. saying, “i
will not." Shortly after he became
repentant and ppent the day toiling
in the vineyard. Making the same
request of the second son. the fath-
er received a hearty response: "I
go.” but he went not. "Which did
the will of the father?’ 'asked
Christ. and when the Pharisees au-
swered. “Better than the one who
said he would go and did not, is the
lad who first refused and then be-
came obedient." “Truly." said Christ,
"and that is the reason why pub-
licans and harlots may go into the
Kingdom of God before you."
‘ That does not mean that heaven's
door is opened to unrepentant men
and unconverted women. No sinner
can ent‘er heaven. but‘it means that
there are two classes of sinners;
those who have refused to accept
Jesus Christ and live in open rebel-
lion against Him and those who
have confessed Him with their lips".
serve Him with form but having not
Christian spirit. refuse to do His bid-
ding. One class is immoral. the oth-
er is moral and trusts in his own
goodness and. of the two classes of
sinner. the moral crowd is the hard-
est to reach. \\'ith the same preach.
ing and religious effort. publican and
,punish-
dam of Godnwhile moral men, trust.
ing in their own righteousness, will
refuse to do the will of Christ and
be eternally lost. ‘
An out-and-out sinner always on-
derstsnds Jesus. A self-righteous
man seldom does. An out-and-out
sinner will yield to Jesus because he
feels his need of Him. A self-right-
cous man will not yield to Jesus be-
cause he does not feel his need of
Him. That is the parable that Christ
speaks of in such earnest, tender
but emphatic language. Why should
any of us boast of our goodness when
down deep in our hearts we know
that by nature we are sinners. You
eratiun rim-s not want to know what
Jesus: Christ said. They would ra-
a.
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ing its most out of the wny and un-
visitod people and you will find no
people anywhere who does not feel
that in his heart he is a sinner and
make atonement with God. The
people in darkest Africa realize it
and have weird religious chants and
dances. They know out in the isl-
ends of the sea and offer human sac.
riders to escape it's‘ punishment.
They know it in ludla and torture
themselves with indescribable pain.
The A‘ztics knew it, and climbing
to some lofty height, would break
open his daughter's breast with keen.
out edged stones and thrusting in his
band. grasp her throbbing heart, tear
it from its place and hold it aloft in
his plea to the unseen God. The re—
cognition of slii is universal except.
where men pride themselves upon
culture. education and self-righteous-
ness. as though the training of the
brain and the surroundings of. life.
would change the natural tendencies
of the heart. Their very actions
show the folly of their position. If
they were really cultured. they would
not want to hand the Christ on chip.
1y heart. If they ever truly edu-
cated they could study their own
condition and see how empty and
lifeless his negative goodness. If
they were truly good. they would
pray. and praying to the spotless
Christ they would see how the best.
of self-righteousness is but filthy
rags in the sight of God.
By nature. we are sinners and
what others have done we would
have done had we been put in the
same position. "We have little to
brag about for maybe we are good
because we had parents who made
Ins do the right thing when we did
,ii'ot have sense enough to know the
right when we saw it. By nature we
are sinners and we cannot overcome
ttlie evil luv simply doing good. You
!inight as well try to pick yourself
iiip in your own hands and throw
yourself across the Atlantic ocean.
as to try to save yourself from your
self. We must come not in our
own strength but in our weakness
confessing to Jesus Christ our sins
and receiving forgiveness, spend our
day doing what tie tells us. Our at-
titude must be, right towards God.
One day a I’hnrineo invited Jesus
to take dinner with him. While
they worn at the table. one of the
fallen women whom Jesus refers to
in my text entered the open door,
kneeling at his feet. bowed her head
to hide her fast falling tears. lie
knew that she was a sinner and
came confessing it. Her tears fall~
iiig upon lite unsundulcd {cot and
discovering that her tears had
stained iiis i’ect. wiped them dry,
covering them with kisses and then
breaking an alabaster box of oint-
ment. poured its fragrant contents
upon ills feet. It was ii bea‘uliful
.tribute to Christ. from one. who
knew that she was a sinner but to
the I'liarisee. it was it disgusting in~
tirleiit. With tightly pressed lips,
he thought to himself: "if this Men
were a prophet. lie would know
what kind of woman touched liini."
Discerning this. Justin said: “Smith.
1 have something to say to you." and
Simon said: "Say on. .".l:ister.i say
on." Jesus responded. "A . certain
man had two debtors. one owing
500 pence and the other 50. When
he discovcrtd ihfll'lli'iiill'l“ could pay
'hisobligatlon, be gladly forgave
them both. Tell me therefoiv.
which will low him the more."
.\n_v fool would know that so tin-l»:
could answer the Iziiv"lllCllI "\'.'li,.
lie to whom lht' mom anus l'oirinn.
tor for My feet. This suntan in, .
came ye gate Mc no kiss of \wl
come as ye would have. done to our
whom you considered :in equal. 'i'h'n
woman hath covered My feet will
kisses. Ye. did not even annoint M;
head. This woman hath nnnointt
My feet. She has ill.'t‘ll illl ouiczi:
but lll'r sorrow for lain and her lov
for Me hath made llt'l‘ a l‘t‘t‘lf'elllt‘t
soul to enter into the Kingdom (.
God. while you who are proud am
disdaintul. are shut out."
Christ into the heart. We mus
welcome Him as an honored goes
and treat Him only as love know.
how. That. in the. reason Why publl
cans and harlots when once saw.
from their sins make such might
workers in the Kingdoi‘ii of‘ God
That is why. a drunken criminal
finding Christ as he knelt in the fol:
coil of the Old 'l‘onib‘s prison 01
New. York became so ‘zealous fol
his new Master that lie is known
the whole world reund. That is why
Sam Hadley. on his way to the liar
River to commit suicide. hearing
music from a mission. stopped i.
listen. and touched by the spirit L.
and rose a saved man to become on.
of the noblest men and tii‘elvsr‘i
workers I had ever seen. ‘
I shall never forgot on Sunday
evening that I sat in his presence.
I was but a. lad beginning my min-
istry. I 'sat on the grass at his
feet as he sat on a log at the edge
of a woods. As i looked up to him
his face appeared as beautiful and
as radiant as an angel as he told
me, a. mere lad. what he was do-'
ing and what he hoped to do for
the kingdom of God. That is why
John B. Gough. once saved from
the death grip of alcohol became
the mightiest champion of temper.
ance the world has eyer known.
They had sinned much. They knew
they were sinners. They confessed
that they were starters and being
Converted became workers that nev-
er needed to be ashamed. While the
self-righteous man. satisfied with
his self-righteousness lives a cold.
eutere. and'critical life and failing
to acknowledge he is a. sinner. he
‘never know: the power of Christ.
They are lllto' unto four men who
starttd out to the upper Niagara
for amicasure ride. when the boat
capsized. throwing them into the
upper Niagara. three of them,
knowing their utter helplessness
may travel around the World search.
caught hold of the life lines that
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"l-Ixat‘tly," said J N. :s il-- lu.u'~d'
to the woman. :.u t... u ll. s vo-
innn, when l rain-,- .ulo ;.u. r I.lllli'k' ,
you felt so suptrior to w...- curs: .
that you did not l..'.n. .: we. Minty , '
to extend to Mr. ili.~ .i - ii «on l~ ,'
esics of the day. l :..;i.~' .i t. .l'l i. '
your home. yet you gal. i: I v. :i '
washed My feet with tours. “but i .
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It is not enough to invite Jean: ._
Christ. entered and fell at the altr. . ‘ ‘
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were“ uremia tam and ten to:
to a strength :b'eyond 'titelr.’ ‘o .
reached thesshore in safety. The
fourth lay hold of e rook and also:
to it with all his might. Men-tried
to throw him the rope but he held-
ed not their efforts as though some-
how. the firmness of the unmoved
i'ock amidst the whirling ’ stream
ereiited n falsa'sense of security.
Far 20 hours he clung to the rock
until after a while the cold numbeo
his fingers and he sltped away and
plunger over the falls. No matter
how strong righteousness is if it‘ll
self-righteousness. it cannot save
the life. What every man‘ must
know is that he must h'ave help be-
loud his own as he contends Christ
and then does as Jesus Christ asks
lilnt to do. ‘
Then. let us bid the public-n and
.sillllt‘r come welcomotho vitest man
and woman for God can use them
and surely our churches need them
but you come with them too. Do not
let. them pass into a. life of useful-
ness and you spend your days ass.
negative quantity. Surrender to Jos~
us Christ tonight for he who has
lived a moral life can do far more
when he once gets right with God
than any publican or harlot. Willi
your culture. refinement and ed.
ucatlon. acknowledge the sinfulnssn
of your heart and let Christ make
out of your life something beyond
anything you ever dreamed. Such is
as the life ot Horace Bushnell, the
cultured college professor of New
England. who for years was an nth-
clot and satisfied perfectly with his
life until he realized one day, “that
his influence was bad on the young
student life. Kneeling in prayer. he
admitted his shortcomings. dedicat-
ed liliiiself.,to Christ and went out.
to do his will. becoming the greatest
preacher of his day a man who has
won thousandsand fits of thous~
ands for Gel and whose influence
will never cease to bless the world.
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will be on the meridian duo south at
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