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Show P 1 I There never was a time. iffTT 1"A J D L when (lie church needed jyj Lemands r reaensrs powPr Irom on high mow Use More Dynamite , tbantw- Political meet, B, REV. A. E. SAUNDERS ings. labor meetings, lam! P"torofFok,Mc:hedislEPU,p.ichuich.Chic0 shows, Ftock shows, football' 1 ganic-s, saloons and theaters are crowded, whi'ie our churches ar"oti!v LiaLf fi'Jcfl One do!io:nir,At:on i-eporte.J that one-tin rd of their churches had no -Rssjons last yea-. The Reformed Churches oi America report that they lost as many men: Keys ii two years as. they gained in three. Tiie lack pf spiritual power in clergy and laity is the answer to the question. Why is it that we have not the spirittiai power today with men that "Wesley, Luther, Whitfield, John Knrxs, Finney anu Moody hid in their d.:y? Why is it that Evan Roberts, tne Welsh coal miner, could delugf- M ales wirh religion and Gypsy Smith create a greater spiritual atmos-' atmos-' jiliere than any other preachers? These men are baptised with the power of God, f We throw porch? of truth into our congregation? and they co o:T like a Fwki?th of Je)y s.-.eib. Xo on? is hurt or slain, j - The I.dym::rlcet bomb that sent many to death a few years r.go in I this eity was filled with dytacvite. "We fill our sermon bombs with saw- dust, and then we expect results. Sawdust preaching is not calculated to j convict men of sin. There seems to be no spiritual "ginger" in our 'preaching in these days. T:-?ays of a rosewater type of theology, preached in a h-If-hearfed. i apologetic style falls fiat on the ears of men anJ women struggling with, j h? cares ard hurde'is of l'?e. r I |