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[[bold, large font]] "A Disordered And Disturbed World" [[/bold, large font]]
[[italics]] Alabama Baptist Convention, Fairfield, Ala., 1948) [[/italics]]

TEXT: [[italics]] And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. [[/italics]]
ZECHARISH 3:1.

[[italics]] We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in dispair [[sic]]; Persecuted,. but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroy. [[/italics]] II CORINTHIANS 4:8,9

[[italics]] And they stood every man in his place round about the camp. [[/italics]]
JUDGES 7:21

   It is said that a Hair-lipped man and a man with a Saint Vitus' Dance formed for themselves a hunting party.  They put up a wager of $5.00 as to who was the better shooter.  They agreed to try birds.  The Hair-lipped man took the first chance and his shot resulted in two birds. Then, the man with Saint Vitus' Dance nervously took aim and finally brought down several birds, and his friend stammeringly said, "You--you--you ought to beat me shooting for you--you--you aimed over--over--over all the world.

   Brethren, to preach effectively, today, the preacher must aim over all of this world.  Of a truth, disorder and distrurbance [[sic]] are felt in every age of life.  In the intellectual world we have a war of ideas; morally we are faced with both disorder and disturbance; we have our economical upheavals; politically [[sic]] battles are being waged for supremacy; and spiritually we are battling for our rightful place in life.  Disorder-Disturbance.

   Ministers of the gospel who have any degree of experience know full well that he who sets out for the heights has to run pass [[sic]] a number of danger zones.  All the time one is climbing he can feel a terrible pull from below.  To move up and onward one must be given to struggle.  Psychologists of our times have strange names for these daring and vicious forces that are on the war path against us.  They call them complexes, and inhibitions, and associated recations [[sic]], but by whatever name they may be called, be it remembered, in the end they are just reduced to one single status: they are nothing less than forces that must be brought under subjection before one can make a go of life. These forces come up like a pack of wolves, organized about some powerful instinct, and there is no living with them until they are caged--conquered. It must be confessed that ours is not an easy world to live in. We see obstacle after obstacle bulging

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