The Evening herald., October 23, 1937, Page 10, Image 10

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RAILROAD MEN
GIVEN TRIBUTE
BY EVANGELIST
Friday night at the tabernacle
Dr. James Rayburn, who is con
ducting the union evangelistic
mission in this city, paid high
tribute to the fidelity. courage
and heroism of railroad men. He
himself worked for years on the
railroad and, as he says, "speaks
their language."
His subject was "Three Liars
and What They Said." The par
able of the king making a great
feast and inviting men to it and
their excuses for not coming
was the basis of the masterful
sermon. "And they all began to
make excuses."
"Yes," said the evangelist,
'they had to manufacture ex
cuses. They had none. The first
liar said, 'I have bought a piece
of land and must needs go and
see it.' The second said, 'I have
bought a yoke of oxen and
must needs go and prove them.'
The third said. 'I have married
a wife and of course I cannot
come.'
"God is going to close some
folks' mouths who have held Him
in contempt. They asked to be
excused and God will excuse
them, shutting them out forever
from His feast. That's all He
can do."
The second week of the four
weeks' mission of Dr. Rayburn
was to be completed Saturday
evening, when the evangelist
was to speak at 7:30 on the
subject, "The Anchor of the
Soul." The junior choir of grade
school children, under the direc
tion of Robert Rayburn, was to
sing several number& The meet
ing was to be brief.
"There are a number of things
that are in evidence regarding
this united movement of the
churches under the leadership of
Dr. Rayburn," a ministerial
spokesman said Saturday. "One
is the absolute unanimity among
the pastors and participating
churches. Christian harmony is
In evidence on all hands. All are
delighted likewise with the
evangelist. In a most remarkable
degree the evangelist is the
spokesman of the churches and
they offer no apologies. Dr. Ray
burn has more than met all ex
pectations. There is no doubt
also that there is a rising tide
of interest. The services, rever
ent and free from commercial
IBM and the clap-trap connected
with many evangelists of the
past decade, appeal to thinking
people.
"Dr. Rayburn himself does
not take advantage of anyone
There is no abuse of individuals,
city officials, churches or lead
ers in the community. There is
no attempt to hold up Klamath
Falls as a center of wickedness.
Repeatedly the evangelist has
stated that conditions here are
similar to those the country
over.
"But these he regards from
the religious and the larger pa
triotic standpoint as alarming.
Al a demonstration he has had
the members of the various
churches present counted, de
nomination by denomination. In
this concrete way his main con
tention is proved that approxi
mately only one-tenth of the
church membership here and
elsewhere la 'vitally concerned
about the work of the church.
"As he states, 'A nation that
forgets God is doomed; God has
wiped out many other great ma
.. tions and empires of the past.
In every case it was because
they forgot God. America needs
to awaken before it is too late,
for communism is on its way
and fascism is on its way and
back of all atheism is on its
way. The American people
should realize that we are just
at the beginning of our labor
trouble. The one solution for all
problems must come through the
application of the teachings of
Jesus'."
Friday night Dr. Rayburn said
in part:
, "All through the Bible is the
invitation 'Come.' Over against
God's desire to save men is the
natural man making excuses and
his excuses are manufactured.
They are falsehoods one and all.
Jesus pictures the foolishness
and dishonesty of the human
heart in this parable of the ex
cuses, seeking to prevent the en
trance of God's mercy, and love
and goodness.
"People say. 'I believe in the
church and in Sunday schools.
They are good things in a com
munity. But I pray thee have
me excused.' The devil doesn't
care how you turn down God's
Invitation, so long as you turn it
down. The excuses of these
three men are silly and ridicu
Jou' on their face. What man
would buy a piece of property
before he saw it? What man
would buy a yoke of oxen or a
team of horses without trying
them out? ' And then there is
that old, ridiculous, silly excuse
of Grandpa Adam, 'The woman
Thou gayest me.'
"Trying to put the blame on
the woman and back of her on
God. Why can't men be men
and stand on their own feet,
facing the results of their own
acts?
. "Excuses are as old as the
race. Some say, 'When I I get
ready, I'll join the church.'
That's pretty fine talk. That
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sounds as It ou bad all the
say-so. That sounds as if God
would send the invitation only
when you are ready. Nobody
ever came to Christ because he
was ready. God says 'Now.'
"Then there is the excuse of
the boob. 'It's too bard. I can't
hold out.' That makes God a
liar, for God says Na will keep
you. God saves and God keeps.
He guards from stumbling. The
boob says, 'Oh, yes. I believe
the Bible. I would like to be a
Christian If I could Just hold
out. I know that lawyers and
doctors and businessmen and
others can. but, you see. I ant
a boob at the tail end of the
procession and I can't hold out.'
"You've got it wrong. It's not
you that holds out. God holds
out. You just hold on. God says,
'As thy day is so shall thy
strength be.' After all has been
Mid, we live a day at a time.
We're Christians a day at a
time. If you can hold out for a
day, God will help you that day
and the next day and every day.
'Then some say. 'I would lose
my friends, if I came out for
Christ.' I have talked to audi
ences made up entirely of cow
boys and I have had rough fel
lows come up and take Christ
beta them. Did their mates
ridicule them? No, they shook
them by the hand and said.
'You've done the right thing. I
ought to do it too.'
"I have seen saloonkeepers
and gamblers that were men
enough to congratulate a man
when he took the right stand.
If you have that kind of friends
that will ridicule you when you
stand for the right, you have
some pretty poor friends. You
would be better off without
them. Friendship is made out of
better stuff than that.
"Then another excuse is 'I
would be a Christian. but I can't
because of my business. 'What's
your business? Are you a boot
legger? Are you a horse thief?
If you got a business that you
can't be a Christian. either you
ought to be in another business
or the sheriff ought to get you.
"I have heard railroad men
say that, but I have known
railroad men that were some of
the finest Christians I have ever
known. I have known engineers
and conductor, and brakesmen
and flagmen and dispatchers and
master mechanics and all classes,
who accepted Christ and were
recognised as great Christians.
I knew one engineer on the
Kalispell division that bad more
funerals of railroad men than
all the ministers in the county.
Men came to him for help. Ile
had his Bible with him and his
religion with him every day.
Don't talk to me about railroad
men. I've been a railroad man
and I know them.
"Then there Is that thread
bare excuse, 'I don't want to be
a hypocrite and there are so
many hypocrites in the
churches. Yes, but what about
the hypocrites outside the'
churches? We've got a few little
runts in the church, but the
great - big elephants are outside.
Then,, too, you can't hide behind
something smaller than yourself,
so you must be pretty small to
bide behind the hypocrite. Be
sides that, I'd rather spend a
little time here on earth with
a few hypocrites in the church
than to go to hell and spend
eternity with all the hypocrites.
because that's when they are
all going.
"But the most cold-blooded
excuse of all is 'I haven't time.'
Some day the rider on the pale
horse will come to your door
and you'll have time for him.
Harriman, the railroad magnate.
owned the Union Pacific. the
Southern Pacific. the Oregon
Short Line. the Oregon and
Washington Railroad and Navi
gation company. He said he
didn't have time, but one day
he dropped dead. He had time
for death, when he came.
John Converse of the Baldwin
Locomotive Works in Phila
delphia employed 19.000 men in
his great factory. He bad time
to care for his men in a Chris
tian way. He never has had a
strike in his shop. He served
for 10 years before his death as
chairman of the general assem
bly's evangelistic committee of
the Presbyterian church. He had
time to go out into the sur
rounding towns and testify for
Christ.
You say. I haven't time?'
How much time do you want?
You have as much time as any
one else. You have all the time
there is. If you haven't time for
God. you have some things in
your life that ought not to be
there. This excuse is the one
given by the liar that is here
in the tabernacle tonight. He is
in this very community.
'Keep on excusing and excus
ing and the time will come that
God will say to His angels. 'Ex
cuse him.' The last call will
come some day and than you
will be summoned into the pres
ence of the righteous Judge and
you will stand up before Him
and present your excuses and
then. as the lawyers say. God
will rest His case. It will be
too late then."
rRayburnisms
"One reason why the worM
hasn't joined the church is betabse
the church has joined the world."
"All through the Bible Is the
invitation, 'Come, and it's found
three times on the last page."
"If I had come into your ton
to make husbands less true and
wives less faithful and children
less filial, you might have reason
to Oppose me."
"A revival Is a better thing for
the town commercially, socially.
politically, and in every way."
"A revival makes homes hap
pier, reunites parents and cares
for abandoned children."
" 'They began to make excutos.'
Yee, they bad to manufacture
them, for they had none."
"In this parable of men making
excuses not to attend the feast,
Jesus Christ pictures the foolish
ness and dishonesty of the human
heart."
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ell way to prevent the entrance of
the merry and love and aoodnoss
of God."
"The devil doesn't care how you
turn down Gods invitation, so you
turn it down."
"If there la anything that a
bride wants to do. it is to dress.
WbY her father had to get a now
dress to get rid of her."
"I wonder if people think that
preachers are boobs. If you could
hear pastors' brains clicking when
you make your silly excuses, you
would be emend."
"We are Christians a day at a
time."
'Some say, 'Oh, I an't hold
Out.' If a fellow in a marriage
ceremony. when asked, 'Do yuu
take this woman to be your wife?'
would say. 'Ob. 1 want to, but 1m
afraid 1 can't hold oul'--it a fol
low made a break like that, we'd
think she had a cuckoo."
"The Gospel is so sensible that
any one who will face it honestly
will accept It."
"You could have 10,000 brains
Ilk. that fellow's and put them
Into a mustard seed and they
would rattle 'round like a coffee
bean in a barrel."
"Some say, '1 can't be a Chris
tian because of my business. If
you've got a business that you
can't be a Christian, either you
ought to be in another businera
or else the sheriff ought to get
you."
"This Bible will help solve all
the problems that are pestering
the American people today."
"You can be a church weather
and be most anything."
"That counterfeit 50-cent piece
didn't have any more ring than a
biscuit. It came down like a wet
sock."
"Anything that is good can be
counterfeited."
"What about the hypocrites out
side the church. We've got a few
little runts of hypocrites in the
church. but the great big elephants
are outside."
"You can't hide belling anything
that is smaller than yourself. A
Than in the hayfield would have to
be pretty small to hide behind a
pitchfork handle, and you must
be pretty small to bide behind a
hypocrite."
"I'd rather be In the church
here on earth with a few hypo
crites for a little while than spend
eternity in hell with all the bY110-
ernes. because that's where they re
all going."
The most cold-blooded excuse
Is, 'I haven't time.' You have as
much time as anybody else. You
have all the time there is."
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SUNDAY ACTIVE
p AT TABEHOCIE
Saturday evening Dr. Janie
Rayburn was to speak in the
tabernacle on the subject. "The
Anchor of the Soul." The junior
choir of grade school children will
sing.
Sunday morning in the various
participating churches the regular
Sunday school services will be hold
as usual. In some churches the
opening hour has been moved for
ward 15 or $0 minutes. In every
case each Sunday school is asked
to dismiss earlier in order that
the people may reach the taber
nacle for the opening at 1045
o'clock.
The union services of all the
participating churches will owin
Sunday morning in the tabernacle
at 10:45 o'clock. when Dr. Ray
burn -will speak on "The Ore
Thing God Requires of Mc"
The meeting for men and boys
will be held in the tabernacle at
2:30 p. m. Admission will be by
ticket. - A very limited number of
tickets has been distributed. It is
for men and boys of any religious
faith or no faith.
Mrs. James Rayburn will ad
dress the women's meeting in the
First Methodist church at 3 p. nt.
Robert Rayburn will address
the union young people's service
in the First Methodist at 630
p. m. All young are invited to at
tend this youth meeting.
Sunday night. Dr. Rayburn will
speak on "Hell, What It Is Not
and What It Is." He says. "It's
not what some preachers think It
Is. The president of a great state
university said to me. 'Rayburn.
where did you get that sermon?"
I replied. "I got it out of my own
head." And he replied. "That has
helped me more than anything else
you have said."
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