The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 09, 1948, Image 3
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CHUOWtCLt, CAMDUI, —UTM OAWOHWA, FHiPAY, APRIL % 1f4l
tue» Monday
NiahtSe
To Join Onii-ch
rhan Anything Else In
Says Gipsy S
Smith, Jr., the noted
»«»- St, who is now con-
icting a revival at the
rst j^ptist churoh of Cam-
tn, preached a sermon
I “Partakers"' Mdnday
yht to a cong^regation that
Jed the church.
Gipsy
gngelist
came hi some Sttndajr morning into
onr churchea and pulpit, we would
- • * an
/** W*-. --
Hr. Smith read for his erening
SOB from the ISth chapter of
itthew, beginning at the Uth
rie:
‘Then said Jeftos unto his dia-
iles, If any man will come after
, let him den^ blmnelt, and take
><>« cross, and follow me.
vtu
not dare stop and cry to the deTll,
“Stop thief!” for he would only
be taking those who belonged to
him.
We hare made It too easy. People
hare slipped in. We hare a crowd
In erery church whose names are
on the chnrCh roll, who count fi
naneially, and who count socially
who count numerically, but
apirltual, dynamic force, if they
dropped dead before tomorrow
morning, the church would not
miss them, only adclally, financially \niki do
and numerically. I waht you to ask ^
I yourself how far that is true with jg ,
We hare made it too easy, jg
his cross, ggye 1*^*1 L^teni Christ never made it easy.jgnd jewels a
#
anothms, who nerer aOowed hla
reason to count the coat, and said.
“Lord. 1 will follow Thee whither-
soerer Tbon goeat” And the Mas*
ter said. “Hold on.” He said, ‘The
foxes bare holes, which is home,
and the birds of the sir hare nests,
which is their home I haren’t any
home. I nerer know where I am
going to eat I never know where
1 am going to sleep, whether it is
ander a roof, or whether it is tm
the MoQQt of Olives with a sod tor
my ilUow.” And when the young
beard and saw something of
divlae program and the hard-
and the denial that It was to
be turned on his heel and
was^ver heard of again. And to
^ crowd that was following
^“'“Ijast as though Jesus was
they had not grasped
the geiW o( His mesage. that they
%inK of the divine pro-
***“• *Vtopped them, and He
held«upVro88 and said, "Look
, ^paan would be my dis
ciple, letv deny himself, and
take up u%ngs and follow me.”
>ow about a cross?
OQ know anything
silver and gold,
mt
8t1
Por whosoever «•».. »—
ill lose It; and whosoever will
ie him life .for my sake shall find
Tor what is a man profited, if
-i,,u eain the whole world, and
-K.ll
Father
shall gain
le his own
man give
al? For the Stfn
me in the glory of -^is
tb bis angels: and then he ^all
A'ard every man according to his
irks." ■ . .
In these days we have cheapened
lags, we have vulgarized them,
d if you will pardon the eapr^-
ID. we have prostituted the Qoo-
1 of Jesus Christ. In our anxiety
A - A
inadl
There was a man who came lavalier, or >
to Christ on one occasion, and watch-^aia.
said: "Lord, are there few that saying words
be saved?” And Jesus said. "You meant It
soul? or what shall strive, you struggle, you agonize jje nerer
in exchange for his to enter at the straight and narrow disciples never
of ■ Man shall gate." Another man ame to Him, meant loss of ho|
on one occasion, a wealthy man, meant separation
popular, refined, cultured, one of u meant being a
the leaders In his own social circle, gake. It means bein'
and be said, “Lord, what must I do Christ’s sake. It.
to inherit eternal life?’* And the maimed for Christ’s
Master put his finger on his spirit- of them had to go ou
dal pulse, and after He had dlag- where they
with diamonds
angs from yonr
acelet, or your
esus was not
sting t{me. He
y, and the
it easy. It
>r them. It
^oved ones,
T Christ’s
clzed for
being
some
cities
their
axe
the
uld
nd
fW
Uai PU1B«» -1 j
nosed his case. He said. "You'arel
01 a wealthy man, *—**— ® block, and
ministers and officers 10 get your social poslLuu ^nwn and
n ail into the church, to get the ood. Reverse the jKwltion "oet rid ^
rt man and the last woman of of these things sS coine iin! lost their
r different persuasions into oil* hands with Me and wa will
Church we have and do^TthtaVo^i ZSgM
9 easy, and we hare lowered the oyot and unstopping de^ ears and ®**‘*J^ fathers nerer
indard until today. Hear me!— atialghtenlng withered liSi ’ HJd remember whea
d I say it reverently. It I. far bSng coif^ tTSoie X sSJ * preachers a
« to loin the Masonic lodge sorrowlW and we
church of_ Jemis th^worW'th^Jrelt of ^.ristlanlty was an etmy
- - 'God. Come.” iSd hriookld at the
lonely ostracized Jew, with a few ®®’'**'®*^**®®*
-ow. wun a row ftey thundered out great text
- ' * **'*• Wnw often 1
he tte wlt&eee oTthe. Splritr Tsj
he ctmsclofii* of'* hie Beloved?”
There was anocher: 'fHas he got
liberty?*’ Liberty from what? Prom
hell, man. from the thraldom of
the devil. It was a procees which
he was golpg through. They were
anxioes that that thing we call con-
rereion should take idace, and they
would pray with thehi, and they
would plead witii them, and they
would work with them, and they
were anxious that that mas and
that woman should be able to get
up on their feet and say, "We
know.” Ton could Question tke
average man today, and ask him
if he Is a Christla:^ and he would
tell yon that he la trying to be.
Men, I am not ^ng to be tbe
sen of Rodney Smith and my moth
er. Annie Smith. I am their son. I
am not trying to be. The moment
I was born, they were my father
and my mother. I don’t tfye to be
up his cross and follow me,” Have
you' done this? or hare you joined
a church? Jesus said, "I am the
vine, ye are the brsnches,” Are you
rooted and grounded in Him? *
Paul said. "He is my Master after
Christ.” Paul said, "Christ died for
me.” But you have read that so
often that H has become very dry.
has it not? I hare seen some people
that could pick up s novel and cry
over it. I hare seen some folks look
who could go to a funeral and cry
Qver It. I hare seen ome folks look
at the Son of God on His crocs,
shedding His blood for their sins,
and never bat an eye. “Christ died
tor me,” and Paul didn’t stop tbM^e.
He said, ”I died with Him. I am
crucified with,Him, and now for me
(Paul) to lire is for Christ to lire
over again In me.” Do yon know
any about It? or hare yon simply
Joined the church? You can join a
church and know nothing abont
prtvilefe ffls life was completely^
changed, and those childno
It, and they grew up to
that they wanted to be Ukp>^
they didn’t know Him,
know Christ, but they^ ^
be like tbelr father. And
my father, a little share
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a Christian. I am a Christian, sir,; this, but when this has taken place.
,rder to Join
an it Is the
irist. in the state of South Caro-
ta. We hare allowed people to
me in Just as though they were
eased all orer ^—«i
and If the devil
itihrills Pain
a quick, deUshtfoUr eoAforttag help for
iSM and pains of ahewmstlaw, Axthritta
nrttU, Luasbaco, SciatlM, MlUranlgia try
msM. WorkaUtraafh tbs Mood, yint tSosa
rasUr starts sUsviatlnf pStn M ytm eaa
sit. ecjor Iite and sleep mort eomfoitably.
St ReMiad at druftlst today. Qakk. cooi-
lete latufactloa or moQer ba^ SsatrsDtoed.
lonely ostracueu
folks a^nt Him that didn’t ^onnt Scripture like this. How often
to much, aiw he looked on the oth- you heard these texts of Script
Bide at his ^tle^s and his so- preached in the last thirty yes
cial position and^ the things that <^iqq out from among them
eUfvedr
by an aqt of the Holy Christ, be
cause I dropped on my knees and
said, "Oh, (iod. If you will forgive
me and will help me from thiaj
moment, I will begin to lire more
like the man that yon want me to
be." That moment, by a creative
act the Holy cjhi^st, I became
a child of God. I didn’t try to be
it I am. I don’t say I am perfect
I am far from it old man. I- have
spoiled every day, from that day
to this, but atm*I am Hla child.
My - boy Is my boy, whether he
goes to Frisco, or to London, or
to South America, or to China, or
tQ Japan. He is my son, and I am
his father.
Oh, we have made It too easy.
We have said—listen—we have
said, “Come up here and shake my
hand, and I will make you a mem
ber of our church: Come and join
our church.” And I want to say to
you—listen— tonight we ministers
can take you into the church, we
ministers can baptise you, we can
administer to you the Holy Com
munion. We ministers can confirm
yon, we ministers can wrtte your
name down on a chnrch roll and
ut It back in tbe archives of the
lurch, but if you ever become s
d of God it will only be as you
made so by Uie Holy Spirit,
^man can do that no church can
at, no bishop, no ecclesiastical
that is, the creative act of
bly Ghost, sir. and I want
ann
thing, anc
cial poBiuou
hla wealth could buy, and he turn- touch' not the unclean
ed on his heel said bocdt-bye to j -^jjj bg ^ father untd"yoa, and ye
Jesus Christ 'The Master asked gball be my sons and mr dau^-
him to do the hardest thing he saith the Lord God Almighty."
could ask him to do. ^ Here is another they thundered at
And another man came to Him ^g. “Obedience is better than sac-
on one occasion, one of those men fifice, and to harken than the fat
who are completely moved by their qj rams; for rebellion is as the
■ sin of witchcraft and stubbornness
... Tri/vl
See a demnstreth^ today
/
you—listen—Hare you obey-
’ I read to you a moment
any man will come after
im deny hlnuelf and take
old man, you can’t hide It You
won’t have to tell anybody you are
a Cbristion. you can’t hide it.
My grandfather, after he gave his
heart to Jesus Christ, couldn’t read
and he had no Bible, but he did the
next best thing be could do. he
came home to his Gipsy children,
and the first thing he did two hours
after he had heard of Christ was
to gather those fire children in
that wagon and put his arras
around them, and said, "Don’t be
afraid of me. God sent home a new
father to you tonight,” and before
they knew what was happening he
haddropped on his knees, while
those ■ little children looked with
wide open eyes to see who he was
talking to. They didn’t know. He
was asking God that tbe same ex
perience that had come into his
heart might come into the hearts
and lives of those little children.
And that big, rough Gipsy i man,
whose life was changed, didn't
drink any moi%, be didn’t corse any
more, he didn’t steal any more, he
didn’t pnt his horse to grate on
another roan’s field without asking
parmigskm or paying for the
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is as idolatry, saith the Loi^ God
of Hosts." T^ere was another one
they preached, '‘Be not conformed
to this world, but be, ye trans
formed _by the'renewing your mind,
that we may prove what is that
good and acceptable and perfect
will of God." And then they preach
ed to us, and they dropped down
on their knees in the pulpit, and
then they would pray that God Al
mighty would convict the folks that
were there that morning. They
didn’t care whether they were pop
ular, or not, with us. They did eare
I It they were popular with God. and.
they were true to the revealed will
of God, as He had given it to them
in this Book; and they would pray
that God would convict us of sin
as we sat in front of them; and
then, after the service was over,
they asked _us to stands and they
i dldn^ aay, *'We are going to throw
open the doors ef the church this
morning,” and they didn't say, "We
will sing a verse of a hymn, and
any of you folks that want to nnite
with the church, come dowi^ this
aisle.” They said, "If there is a man
or a woman present this morning
that ia anxlou about their sours
salvation—” They didn’t take a
chap into the church, in those days,
until he was converted. Llstah!
They said, "It there Is a man or a
I woman anxious abont their soul’a
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woman anxivus
salvattob, won’t you come down the
aisle while we are singing this
I verse, and come back into the vea-
I try roonv and some of* us will
gather and pray with you and rsed
I God’s word to you.” I have gone in
there aa a boy with my mother,
time and time again, and those men
and women would take their open
I Biblea, and they knew them^ too,
and they wonld pray with them,
land nobody asked how long they
iwere praying. Then they would
turn to the Scriptures, snd would |
I show this man the eon^tioM of
1 salvation, and they would aay,
"Look here. If you will meet these
I conditions, here is the promise.
iThis is what God will do for yen,,
and you will be His child, beouise
I God Almighty says so. (And they
I would pray with Him and sing vrlth
I Him and read to him, and. then,
I among themaelves, they would use
expreesions like this: Listen?!
I "Has he got through yet?” “Has
nNAL DISCHARGE
Notioh Is hereby given that one
month from this date, on April 2f,
194S, L41a B. Skipper, will make to
the Probate Ck>nrt of Kershaw Coiw-
ty her final return as executrix of
the estate of James B. Skipper, de
ceased, and on the tame date she
will apply to the aald Ckmrt for a
final discharge as said executrix.
N. C. ARNBTT,
Judge of Probed.
Cemden, 8, C., Mar, », 1148. Me |
CITATION
The State Of South CaroUnn.
Oounty Of Kendanr.
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