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On the campus of a certain Chris tian college I was giving some ad dresses. Knowing that there were at least a few who were struggling with the matter of a definite commitment to Christ, I suggested that those \yho were interested meet me in a certain small classroom at the close of the evening lecture. To my surprise, in stead of, a handful remaining, one hundred and fifty-seven students had to move from the little room into a small auditorium. That was an eye- opener! That on a campus, of a Chris tian college there should be found one hundred and fifty-seven students who Continued on Page 248]
viction upon which the mighty lever of the cross can operate. A Clarion Voice It should be a clarion voice, calling to action. The task of the pulpit is to bring men to Christ, and etched into the pulpit furniture must always be the words, “Sir, we would see Jesus.” In some way, by some method, the pulpit must urge to definite decisions. I am sure that a great outstanding preacher was right when he said, “Protestantism Sometimes fails to give Christians • a definite technique. It tells them to climb the ladder, but it puts no rungs in the ladder.”
... a Voice
By LOUIS H. EVANS Hollywood, California
C H O S E N V E S S E L S
Copyright 194) by Kathryn Southern
KATHRYN SMITHERS
K.S.
plain.” There is a technique in Chris tian living, and vve ought to make it clear to our people. A Voice of Repentance Again, it must be a voice calling to repentance. ‘‘Repent ye: ior the*king- dom of heaven is at hand." ‘‘Turn, ye, turn ye,” is our message of trumpeting boldness. This kind of preaching cer tainly is not the prevailing voice of today. Seldom do we hear sin dis cussed. Only now and then do you hear a sermon that mentions hell. Sin has become simply a ‘‘psychological complex,” and the average youth is more afraid of a psychosis, of a com plex, than he is of hell. Sin—we have explained it all away, or rather, the world has. The task of the pulpit today is to declare that sin is sin, and that, ‘‘There is none righteous, no, not one . . . all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” “Cry aloud, spare not; lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgres sion, and the house of Jacob their sins.” There will be no particular fun or ecclesiastical pleasure in talking about sin, in reminding people of their trans gressions; but it is necessary. Miscel laneous subjects may probably serve for a time to cover up the timidity of Cowardice. Other doctrines less foun dational than redemption and the cross may seem to prove more popular. The cross has always been a stumbling block to some men, but it is still “the. power of God unto salvation.” It is not- for us to take excursions into by paths of non-essentials, nor is it our duty, or even our privilege, to invent a message, but to transmit a ftiessage, whatever it may cost us. The gospel message may change our minds through the years, but our minds must never change the gospel message. Let us be definite! Let us call to repentance! There is but one thing the cross of Jesus Christ needs as the lever to lift merf from sin to God, and that is the fulcrum of the preacher’s con
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