Evangelism v. Fossilization--Who said it?

"The church that does not evangelize will fossilize." A lot of you may have heard that quote. It's a funny little saying, and even I must admit-I have it in my book of neat little quotes.

Who said it though?

I had always seen it referenced to Oswald J. Smith.

Smith was a Canadian evangelist and pastor who lived from 1889 to 1986. It is indeed a fitting quote to have come from an evangelist, especially from one known to make similar pithy sayings. And no, if you're wondering, that is not a picture of Oswald J. Smith.

It is a picture of Bible teacher Arthur W. Pink. I have been reading through Iain Murray's Life of Arthur W. Pink. Like every other book of Murray's I've read, it is amazing. However, I learned that in 1927, Pink was forced to resign from a pastorate in Australia, for being too Arminian!

In all of Pink's writings, I had come to know him as something closer to a hyper-Calvinist than an Arminian. Pink was neither. He was strait up biblical. He preached a sermon at a Particular Baptist church in which he made a call for human responsibility to be preached. He criticized the denomination for being afraid of certain texts of the Bible, just like Arminians. Needless to say, it didn't go over very well.

The interesting thing that ties together this whole post follows. In Pink's sermon (and subsequent article in his magazine Studies in the Scriptures) Pink makes the following comment: "...I want to tell you frankly that if a church does not evangelize it will fossilize: and, if I am not mistaken, that is what has happened in some of the Strict Baptist Churches in Australia." (Pink went on to say it again a few lines down.)

This comment was printed in 1927. So, here's my question: who said it first? Oswald J. Smith was old enough and in the evangelistic ministry at the time, so it is within reason that Pink heard it from Smith and took the line from him. However, Smith's ministry extended long after Pink was dead (Pink died in 1952), and it even went on for several decades after Pink made this comment, So it is almost more reasonable for Smith to have taken the line from Pink. Who said it? I don't have the answer, as I could not find a reference as to when Smith said the statement. I'm posting this to see your comments. Do you know who said it?

More importantly, does it convict you? Do you get the real point of Pink's use? Do you emphasize God's sovereignty to the point of neglecting human responsibility to repent and believe the gospel? Do you emphasize man's responsibility to the point that you leave out any work of God himself in our salvation?