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nent lawyer, who was a church member," stood in idleness during the after-meeting. He stepped from the platform and said to him, “Why don’t you go to work? Try at least fo win a soul to God.” The man started. He went back to a newspaper editor in the rear of the building and said to the editor, “Come on down and get relig ion.” The editor laughed and said, “You are just joking, aren’t you.” The lawyer answered, “No sir, I mean it.” Said the editor: “I have as much religion as you have and I think it is time for you to go down to the front and get religion your self.” The lawyer responded, with some ? spirit: “What do you mean sir? I have been a church member for twenty years.” The editor answered: “I never would have picked you for a church member. You were with us at court a short time ago. You drank beer at the same bar with the rest of us and you told dirty stories in the hotel office with the rest of us, did you not?” The lawyer admitted the charges against him. It was too hot for him in that end of the building so he came back to his place near the platform and my friend asked why he did not keep at work. “It is because I am not naturally adapted for that sort of work,” he said. The trouble was he had too much natural adaptation. He needed super-natural adaptation and that means a clean heart filled with the Holy Spirit. I really believe that, there are hundreds of church members in this city who would do personal work and try to lead'souls to Christ if they were not facg to face with their unclean lives. They know that there are people in this com munity whom they could not approach on the subject of religion. Therefore, because they are unwilling to clean up they live in idleness and their strength is to sit still. A CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS • When Isaiah was clean he heard the voice of the Lord saying “Whom shall I Send and who will go for us?” Be care ful Isaiah; this may be a call for foreign missionary work or home missionary work. You may be compelled to go down in the
the street but did not see the one running down the hill on the other track, so in avoiding one car he ran immediately in front of the other and was instantly killed. His mangled body was brought back to our door in less
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