Hatching Chickens for the Hawks

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: oyster suppers, strawberry festivals, rummage sales, auction sales, fairs, bazaars, and many other catchpenny schemes to raise money have been inaugurated to keep the drifting church from going on the rocks financially. ADRIFT ON THE TIDE F. M. Lehman. The church is adrift on the tides of sin, With the world in her

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leaking hold; No more does she know how lost souls to win, For her altars are dead and cold. The church is adrift in the thick'ning fog, With the rocks on her listing lee; Her rudder and chart and her well-kept log Have been lost in the churning sea. The church is adrift, and the souls on board See no danger and death at all; With rocks on the lee, they, with one accord, Only laugh at the danger call. The church is adrift, but the captains sneer, And the voyagers dance and play; Then, "On with the dance!" and, "Away with fear!" And, "Away with the Judgment Day!" The church is adrift! Would you stay on board And go down with the ship at last? "Come out from among them!" thus saith the Lord, And vour lot with the ransomed cast. chapter{Section 4CHAPTER III THE "SOCIAL" CRAZE Among a few of the very many socials churches have had and are still having that bring the blush of shame to the cheek of all who have principle and a regard for things sacred, the following set forth to what lengths a fallen church will go to gather shekels. What would Wesley say, were he here today ? The Toe Social. A sheet is drawn across one of the rooms and certain female members of the church remove their stockings and then push their toes underneath the sheet in sight of the congregation. A sum of money is paid for the privilege of guessing whose toes are thus exposed. The Shadow Social. The room is darkened and a sheet drawn at...

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