ike, and he
spoke to the chorister, but the chorister replied: "You attend to your
end of the church, and I will attend to mine." You can not expect the
Spirit of God to work in a church in such a state as that.

UNCONVERTED CHOIRS.

Paul tells us not to speak in an unknown tongue, and if we have choirs
who are singing in an unknown tongue, why is not that just as great an
abomination? I have been in churches where they have had a choir, who
would rise and sing, and sing, and it seemed as if they sung five or
ten minutes, and I could not understand one solitary word they sung,
and all the while the people were looking around carelessly. There
are, perhaps, a select few, very fond of fine music, and they want to
bring the opera right into the church, and so they have opera music in
the church, and the people, who are drowsy and sleepy, don't take part
in the singing. They hire ungodly men, unconverted men, and these men
will sometimes get the Sunday paper, and get back in the organ loft,
and the moment the minister begins his sermon, they will take out
their papers and read them all the while that the minister is
preaching. The organist, provided he does not go out for a walk--if he
happens to keep awake, will read his paper, or, perhaps, a novel,
while the minister is preaching; and the minister wonders why God
don't revive His work; he wonders why he is losing his hold on the
congregation; he wonders why people don't come crowding into the
church; why people are running after the world instead of coming into
the church. The trouble is that we have let down the standard; we have
grieved the Spirit of God. One movement of God's power is worth more
than all our artificial power, and what the Church of God wants to-day
is to get down in the dust of humiliation and confession of sin, and
go out and be separated from the world; and then see if we do not have
power with God and with man.

WHAT IS SUCCESS?

The Gospel has not lost its power; it is just as powerful to-day as it
ever has been. We don't want any new doctrine. It is still the old
Gospel with the old power, the Holy Ghost power; and if the churches
will but confess their sins and put them away, and lift the standard
instead of pulling it down, and pray to God to lift us all up into a
higher and holier life, then the fear of the Lord will come upon the
people around us.

It was when Jacob put away strange gods and set his face toward Bethel
that the f