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THURSDAY THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS SEPTEMBER 25, 1919.
Li iiwopr actios 2
1)
'ear Billy Sunday
OOO
CILLY 'ADJUSTS'
,000 INVADING
,S.G. STUDENTS
Chiropractors From Dawn port
School (enter of Attraction
at Sunday Meeting.
BY COTTA BAnTHOlOSTETT.
It was P. S. C. (which Inter
preted means Palmer School of
Chiropractic) night at the taber
nacle yesterday evening and as the
horde of students began to wend
its way from Davenport it looked
like an invading army. The future
chiropractic dwtcira. extended in
double formation from one end of
the government bridge to the other
and they numbered not less than
2,000. They were headed by their
band of 19 pieces directed by Bob
Kerns and George Trimby acted as
marshal of the eight. Special seats
.vere reserved for the crowd in the
tabernacle and everywhere could
be seen " white badges op. whicn
we-e I. S. C.
After the crowd had gotten into
the tabernacle, the band took
places on the platform and playe'l
several selections. George Trimby
acted as yell leader and "song di
rector and called for selections by
the P. S. C.s, and they gave with
a vim "Homeland," "Here's to the
P. S. C," "So Pack Up Your
Troubles" (with emphasis on the
So) and "Brighten the Corner."
They could make lots of noise and
pretty good music, but we dare not
say it could equal that of the taber
nacle choir.
But they had a lot of pep and
enthusiasm and gave their yells
with the answer "absolutey" with
a shout that threatened to raise the
xafters.
Witticisms Pew back and fort'J
about adjustments and Kodey got
off a lot of puns and stories about
osteopaths, and chiropaths and all
the other paths leading to the gravo
anyway, so jt didn't make much
diflerenre which one you selected.
Mr. Sunday, when he took the
plat'orni, raid he never remem
bered seeing so large a delegation
from any one school since lie had
conflicted his evangelistic cam
paigns, so he would have to give
them the banner on attendance.
Again the tabernacle was tilled to
Its capacity and more. People
were again standing around the
side walls and the windows and
doors were full. Inierest grows
apace with the meetings and the
attendance is larger :.bac the build
ing can accommodate.
75 Oi'.Vfi'tS.
At the close 01 ilie services
evenine 75 people made put
their confession oi faith, coming passed, because some people seme- , such vicious tastes it is almost im
forward at the urgent invitatioa ot i times would rather give notes in- possible to eat; and you oaght to
Mr. Sunday, to shake his hanu and j stead of money." Get it?
pledged tli'tiiKiolvi'S to better lives. ;
IncluiSvi anion. tho converts were' That subject of Billy Sunday's
many yinm n.ea and it is a clnht I acdrc-as i'or rue a o:.ly next Sunday
not 1 5 ha f'vgottcn to see them ; s-f ernoon is "The Devil's Bootaer
eorne fo.-va-d with a new ht;H m ! ang Up to Date, or iiot Cakes Off
lh''ir !:,cos unashamed thai tl-.e-thJ Gndcie." He sai.2 it so fast
W'lild shall kn yx on which hide j the first tin e we missed the "up
thev stand in the causa of Christ, to-date" clause.
It takes more t;ian a Kttle man to j
have the courage of his convictions- The raecti;iK.s for CTmf:: Sunday
to publicly take a rtanu lor right- ; Rrte -r001 -n be held at the foi
eo.t&iifss and to acknowledge the lowing places: First Methodist
risen Christ. .
TUe ope.iing prayer last evening !
w.i". cUen bv Rev. VS. 11. F. Juus
of L'ie EJsewcoU Raprist church, j
Hoceheaver sani? a solo number. '
-I Walk With t'le King" and tho ,
chrlr was there with its snlenaia
music.
Mr. P'.mclay tort as ihc theme for
his s -rnun iai evening. the
M-reics . f C'.i!" and in the course
at his remarks a?c the modern;
dam e fl tcrrit'ic lambasting -ind ihe j
I. W. W.'s got theirs' and Mr. Sun
day said that was oi.ly a foretaste
at what is coming la'er. "I am
t g to sti.-tls jv-u tome eve:i iu
i i.. ' ha1. 1 ha e f say abc.u the
ia . j tie inituv.tion of th: 'lev 1.
'. ihs I. W. W." He alsj il
oo e afain on his defamers in
U,,ck l!a:id and called them all
tht :iis:s he forgot to call them :
the e.ening before. He promises j
that he is going to do all in :11s
Dower to wipe out, "skin
the i
up
bunch and "they won t bare a sera;)
f iii'e left vnen Sunday bids them
soodbye," he said. "If I had a v
aibulary of ten million words I
sou Id not describe the baseness of
ieople of that ilk," he continued.
God's Many Jiercies.
In his sermon Mr. Sunday point
id out the great mercies that God
ihowers upon his people, the Just
ind unjust alike, and which comes
sister than they 'an be counted
Did vcu eve- tuank God for yot.r
'vt-'ght. did you ever thank God
iT.r vour hearing, for the blessing
f taste, that you den't have to
.nl i vnr nose every time you sit
lown at tho table, that, you can I
rc-ith. that vou can sleep? If not,
f i wns the Lord I'd keep you
twake for about a month until you
.ppreci'itel it.
"Did you ever tbauk God for the
ireai you eat, tor tne arougnt tnac
iev:u- '-a-'ie. for the lie that some-
' i
iodv utter, d about you derogatory; ..-ui
... r ,n,i urn hAfameltag me from one end of the land
K. ?sTn Ltbe tace of th. rep-
bau that dared spew it out to
V5Ssshiate your character; for the
tealth that enables you to sit here
rhile others are writhing on the
led of pain?"
Mr. Sunday then plead that the
lodies of the people be given as
acrifice and pointed out in his
rraphic manner the innumerable
ravs in which this can be done.
In religion we keep on shooting
fith the same old fiint-lock, smooth
ore. muzzle loader. We" keep
I'htVig with th same old tallow
ant le. We keep traveling over
he same old course, God Almighty's
line is any time and all the time."
Own Conversion Hard.
With his fund of illustrations he
jctured in vivid terms the de
jands that God makes, never Im-3f-ible
but often not easy. He
,jt the story of his own conver
U.n as a task that was hard at the
einning and progressing In Its
tiling worked himself into a high
itch of excitement, so that at its .
lose he eat down exhausted. "I!
SUNDAYISMS
Thts professed child of God who
doesn't do a thin ior oU inn t
north a nickel a banch."
f i t ,... !.. !..
Ajivn BVIUC Jn ..... H 1 i n 1-' n T.
study cushions need half soliisg first verse: I beseech ye, there
more than their shoes." i fore brethren, by the mercies of
"Some people are working so ' God, that ye present your bodies a
hard with the muck rake that they ; iiTmg sacrifice, holy, acceptable
are going to lose the crown that! , . .
I.od h Jf KtretcAed above their i unto GoL T- Mr- Sunday last
heads."
"They were having what they
called a 4dresH ball' nndressed
bail' would be nearer right. They
did noi have clothes enough ou to
pad a crutch."
The man who gives his wife a
10-ceni pin cushion at Christmas
to show her how much he loves
her, he is the devil's idea of what
a husband ought to be."
"1 like to see people just as nat
ural in religion as they are in so.
ciety."
The church needs a baptism of
horse sense."
'Anything that makes me sick is
to see a man get all puffed np
he gets a little money. It shows
their head is full of btuik and saw-
dust,"
'-Uilliard halls are first cousins
to saloons."
"This old world would be a ves-
tibule to clorv and a suborn of
heaien ii God only had our hands."
"Pure religion wiU do more for the
world when God has something
more than nickels and pennies to
work with. Some people hae a
sort of skim-milk religion. There
is no such thing as a barg?,i coun
ter proposition with God Almighty."
--Some of our chorcu pillars
would not be so noisy in politics
and so quiet in religion, if God Al
mighty owned their months."
"-Christianity gives an adjust
ment for sin, take it."
"Decollete means collar around
the waist."
"He has a face long enongh to
m&ke a tire escape."
"A dude is a missing link be
tween the ape and man."
"The lion and ihe lamb will lie
down together and the lamb won t
be Inside the Hon."
on onrnlloH m.tWhln nf Sfirt
voices, pretty evenly divided, and
they sure can sing, the volume of
the tone thrilling one.
.
Homer Rode'ieaver keeps his
audience in good humor while coil-
ductir.8 the musical nart and last
church. Itoek Island. Miss Flor-
ence Kinney, speaker: Firs: Eap-
.ict nhY, 'jmu m wiin
Asher. speaker; St.' John's Metho-
dfst rhrch. Davennort. Miss Orace '
c.v. sneaker. I
Noises annoy Billy Sunday I
"-.nmethtnir wfr on,! tie i,it '
fnn't Talt- ivhan tliro ic a prriti r
child, and you know he has to con- :
serve all his strength from day to !
day so he doesn't like to be an- !
toyed. Mothers are asked to
check their babies at the nursery
?.t Bna-iTay Pre--h.vter ?an enrfc1).
Tt lprr't vr-t 3 'yt'";: r-1 thev
t-'-V t r- -. - ori ' t' e : c-V rs
w!U he f:ff !" r - ny tv.e service ,
an-1 tbe src;.r vi'l rot have to
lc?o time by va'tiip for rju et nor
will he be further annoyed. ;
The man with 'he big vo'ce and
white coat who acted as yell lead-.
er for the P. S. C.'s is George Trim- j
night when time came for ihs tak- ; are people that caa not teil by taste : 'f' "i-" .- 'to
ling of the collection he said: "Let's ' whether they are eating strawber- elPreES yur osat. vhat I preach is the truth and
lat have music by the band instead of ries and cream or baled shavings.! Most ot your enemies are witnin you reject it-tben God will damn
. . . nnmoil coo cnilf PHHlii'itV 1.1 1 Urt'l I It'o n - mA nil I
i:- e'.ln0 t.- crY i .kf1n V, o T.JT.a -hr or iTrl V 1 ILIA UiX V CUUUJ t.'Ufc lUUt, tuui . u u . 11 it lCLlfc LllH UUU, lUfn
by. formerlv assistant to Dr. Le- you will goto bed hungry? "e 'a1 " -""f"
ror Coffman at the First Presbv- Did you ever thank God for the have reported the last sermon;
terian church. Davenport. The I drought that never came; for the I wnen I have given the last myita
band leader was Rob Kern, and did I fact that America has never scraped j tlon- and 1 dnft out w,tn lne Vde'
you notice that the band contained : the bottom of her meal barrel, j and Durst through the gates m o
o mn mnmher in oitrtitirtn in i npvor for thn nttt ,,, i that city, and look mtothe face of
the 18 males?
Saturday afternoon the meeting.
which is to be especially for the
students and young people of the
city, is to begin a half hcur earlier
than usual, at 2 o'clock, instead of !
2:30, and the meeting will be over
in time tor tnem to go to tne loot-
ball game. Rev. Hilly Sunday
promises.
have gone for 21 years and held up
the bleeding form of Jesus Christ.
I have gone into the ranks of sin;
been lied about; slandered, black
mailed, framed-up, and the whisky
I. ...... 1. : 1 l .... i . v. l : .
to the other to vomit, puke and
spew out their malicious dictations.
They have threatened my life from
the Atlantic to the Pacific; Insulted
my wife and children, and when
at last, I have preached my list
Bermon. when they have built the
last tabernacle; when the boys
have reported the last sermon:
when I have given the last invita
tion and I drift out with the tide,
and burst through the gates into
that city, and look into the face
of Jesus Christ; walk on the golden
streets hidden behind the pearly
gates; the Lord will call an angel
and say 'Show Bill to his mansion'
and when I go in and sit down,
Jesns will say "Bill, that was the
reason.
"And I will say, "Lord, I am
satisfied.'
"I beseech you to present your
bodies' for reasonable service. God
does not ask you to do anything j
that is not for your own good. No.
sir. Aren't yon glad that he gives
you a chance to show him that you
(Continued on Pag Seven.
THE MERCIES OF GOD ARE POURED
OUT LAVISHLY UPON ALL HIS PEOPLE
Selecting the verse In the
twelfth chapter of" Romans, the
I right drew from it the great les -
erssons that are taught through the
' mercies of God. In part he said:
Let's see if we have anything to
. thankful for, if God has done
be
anything for you worth consider
ing. I don't care, you can sit there,
a vile sinner, and yet God Almighty
has done something for you that is
worth considering, although you
have never taken His name on your
lips except in blasphemy and de
rision. All "liu. Ilia Tvi'la n9 Ci.A f
Let s do a little counting. Mark
r.uv Pie-r wa m,t nn. Min?
! with his UtUe girl. It was a beau -
whcn;tiful night, without a cloud In the
I sky, and the stars were twinkling
and she threw her head back and
I said, "Oh, Papa, look at the stars.
My aren't there a lot of them! 1. 2,
1 3, 4, 5. 6, 14, 15, 125, 126." She
1 said, "I'm tired. I didn't know
: rh
j They have counted 65 million and
! haven't started yet. The mercies
of God you might as well try to
: count the drops of water in the!
ocean. You might as well attempt
! to count the grains of sand by the
seashore.
to count office-seekers after a u lor "'"'"-et r' "
presidential election. reason why he can not do the same
Did you ever thank God for your thiKJ for. you; , v
eyesight? Whenever you look into , And loL of J?e?le haV! b
the sightless eyes of a man or worn-! claiming that God s yoke is easy
an you ought to thank God that He'fnd nl1?(,burdlen Jjf. but U proats
has given you eyes to see this old 1 them lllle'hcn lo,ck ln,to the
world, filled with beauty; to see ! m'rror nf T wh, J J ee'
the rose and the sky, the waterfall.': th dovli would bank his fires
the snow-covered mountains". the lock the doors of hell to go to
Rimriap tb .nui t,Q ,ink
and the storm cease. Oh, never
again look into the face of your
mother or your children without
thanking God that you can see, i
while others lust a., rrwl na Wm.
are groping and feeling their way j J riena- . Brl.E"n up Hand ,w.hi
to a hearse tne wl11 00 and ,f God has
"By the mercies of God!" Did!ouJ faces he ha.Te our vaotaL
you ever thank God that you caa ! Language-that is one of the
hear-hear the voice of your fr,eat,es' Pft3 to mankmdinnTfi
friends, your dear ones, your wife-late dictionary KfVe3 400.600
or your children, and the sound of word3 l,he Ehsh language.
Tftln -hiWIron nlai.-
' can drink in the melody with
j which God has filled this whole
world; hear the word preached and
I near them sing it?
I Showers of' Kesslngt
Did you. ever thank God for th
Mcssincs o f aste? You know there
uhank God for making so many good
; triors t;.ste good. God mi?!ic have
made cur food taste like nine or
. ' rbage, but He didn't..
' Talk about the dlsas.-eeable
. tmsgs jirst stop where you arc.
Td:rk about th-i cool im'ngs in the
.world, and then thank God that
you don't have to hold your nose
and ma'ic a fce every time you sit
. vvn at the table. '1 liere are peo
p.'c that don't know what it means,
no, sir.
Did vou ever thank Gnrl th.it von ;
hrootho hrmri,. ithnt 1
thnt von havo rnnH in.' rif n'wou!d tell the truth, everybody
the people who die in this country. I
one out of 11 die from conmimn- '
tion : and of all the women who die. i
one out of eight die from cancer.
Did you ever thank God that you
can sier n' if not if I vs tho 1
T.nrd I'll Irapr vnu aa-alo coru .
night for about a month until you
appreciated it. There are a lot of
people that don't know what it is
to sleep unless they take an opiate,
and then they work over in their
r-'Mid v hat has been their calling
V'i !e diy.
TV yY. f.-- jvjrjt G"-d f- fn
ho r'taU? Vli you ever thark
Ge:l for the doctors? Ever thank
Gnl for the nurses?
U'd you ever ..hank God for all
the wonderful blessings in the
world, by the mercies of God? For
the bread you ate for your supper.
while other people just as good as j
sand hills: for the lie that kohia-
body uttered about you, derogatory
to your character, and that be
; came a boomerang in the face of
'the reprobate that dared spew it
out to assassinate your character;
for the health that enables you to
sit here and listen while others just!
as good are writnmg m pain and
suffering in some hospital or
home?
Present Body as Sacrifice.
Present your body, your individ
ual flesh and blood and bone; that
body that can act; that body that
can bleed; that body that can be
racked with paiu; that can be ex
hausted with insomnia. Do you
love God enough to trust Him to do
what He pleases with you by the
mercies of God?
If God could only get possession
of the flesh 'and blood that belongs
to Him, what a commotion He'd
create on earth and in hell. And if
God had some of your feet. He'd
point your toes in different direc
tions from what they have ever
gone before. God would make
some of you fellows walk straighter j
in politics and religion than you
ever have done in the past, take it
from me.
Oh use your hands to pull people
out of the mires and not to shove
them hellward.
"By the mercies of God" give it
to the world. ,
Make this Vorld better by the
influences you possess.
The Epworth league motto is
"Look up and lift up. Oh, you will
not do verjr much lifting up unless
Gd Almighty has hold of your
hands to help you to do something.
And if God will get hold of your
hands you will stick them down in
your pockets and you will take
them n 7.7 XZ.T
"6 J"'
i will pay God's expenses quick and
get them out of the way.
About the first thing he does is
cut the purse strings around your
pocket-books.
We have got too many salt mack
erel Christians. If they have some
thing they don't want and nobdy
else wants they give it up for they
1 thinlt lt i8 good enouga for God.
No, I dont believe the most
glorious singing angels in Heven
STL.anT B"cnchances M w? have
body nR ta- HeIe" ? J",1? 1
rlflces all is over. Angels may
claim they love God but they
haven't the chance to prove it by
sacrifices that we can make.
In religion we keep on shooting
with the same old flint-lock,
smooth-bore muzzle loader. We
keep lighting with the same old tal
low dipe. We keep traveling over
1 Buue UUU-.BC " v
'"S eyes up to the ceiling llkJ
! a.dying calf and say, 'burely it is
""i,"1'8" wo .'
God Almightys time is any time
and all the time.
Always God's Time.
It was always God s time to give
us machinery. Always God's time to
give us steam. It was God's time
i to give us electricity long before
Benjamin Franklin flew his kite.
u bas alwaTS been Go1 3 tlme to
Eive us labor-saving machinery,
Give God your Drains anJ tnen
oil tnem, up &ud n? TU1 dlg out a
thousand things that you never
i knew were there. That is what he
cuurcn anu near a ieuuw me uiai
give his testimony.
God doesn't want us to look as
though having religion was worse
than having a tooth-ache. Let your
i "B same lor jebus jurist, my
i l"ey J iMiancsycai c uau 1110 muai
' extensive vocabulary of any human,
L1I1S- He COU d Use 5' words. :
T,he av"in"f man, or f.!on';m uses
; about 1.000. Rufus Choate could ;
j use 11,000 words, and MiUoa co ild !
' ns? ?'000 wrds' tnr.,?h yo,,r. VO" '
canuiary. -ery worm cornea 01
may slander me and they may want
to kill me, but, O. the people who f how me that what I preach isn't
talk about you never harm you. . the truth, not from the standpoint
When I hear anybody talkns about' of some old theological "beli-weth-somebody
else, you can bet your er. but the word of God. Come and
sweet life that they are trying to Fhow me that what I prsach hasn't
drag somebody down to the low, the word of God behind it. The
st'nking. God-forsaken cesspool Christ'an people, I thirk. are re-
levei wnere tney live uu
higher up. !ot. Th? opport"';'ty to do som?
If God had possession of our ' thir f'T J-r.rs Chr'rt is never a
' mouths, we woL.ld sea the greatest sent. I "- '.U be porronal. I am
revival the world has ever known. : ?oi..:' to bo a florist, too:
No lie, no misrepresentation, no de- ' there i too muoh theorizing and
cel1- DO wrong.
no back-biting, no
knocking, no sinners.
Everybody :
wou,1 speak words of encourage-
mcnt- f erynooy wouia cue you
the lad band.
Nobody criticizing.
wnire-ne ia.-s-;.
oh' lf od Almighty only had our
mouths how much he could keep
OUt that the devil StUffS iU.
On,
what a time we would have.
Suffers World's Torments.
I have gone for 21 years and held
up the bleeding form of Jesus
' a -s to tag me f.m one end or t io
land to the other to vomit, puke
and spew out their malicious dicta
tions. They have threatened my
life from the Atlant!c to the Pacific;
insulted my wife and children, and
when at last, I have preached my
last sermon- net lDeJ DU1U
Jesus tnrist; want on me goiueo
streets hidden behind the pearly
gates; the Lord will call an angel
and say "Show Bill to his mansion"
and when I go in and sit down,
Jesus will say "Bill, that was the
reason."
And I will say, "Lord, I am satis
fled." "I beseech you to present your
bodies", for reasonable service. God
does not ask you to do anything
that Is not for your own good. No,
sir. Aren't you glad that he gives
you a chance to show him that you
want to give your mind, your
thought, your influence and all to
Jesus Christ to help him work out
his plan through you? Are you
ready to do it?
In the Day's News
Admiral William S. Benson, who
will be placed on the retired list
of the United States navy today
for age, has toeen chief of naval
operations since that office was
created by congress several years
ago. Next to the secretary of the
navy the post is the highest in the
service. Admiral Benson is a
Georgian who entered the naval
academy soon after the close of the
Civil war. Since he left Annapolis !
in the (0s his serv:ce has com
prised the customary routine of
alternating sea and shore duty.
Early in his career he participated
in the Greely relief expedition, la
later years he served as first com
mander of the -dreadnaught Utah,
as chief of staff of the Pacific fleet,
and as commandant of the navy
yard at Philadelphia. With the
Hatit h rf 1 rliti i r 1 flanAn I U
.v" ",..:. ' "c u,e
' "'"b uji.cr Vl me navy.
Christ. I have gone into tne ranks -;-''" ' ,'. "; 'J"';;
of sin; been l'ed about; slandered. I' 1 wlflshne ha-e absorb-b'aek-mailed.
frr-m-d-. p. and th- t rTers -v the ".
r Vt i c- l-vr hiinfih h "a h ff!'. ji "a - fVI - v .-
THE BUSINESS OF THE CHURCH IS
TO SAVE THE SOULS OF MANKIND
The business of the church is to
save souls, said Mr. Sunday in his
sermon this afternoon at the taber
nacle, when he chose for his sub
ject "The Business of the Church."
He took his text from Proverbs
11:13, "He that winneth souls is
wise," and pointed out the neces
sity of personal effort in tho vine
yard of the Lord. Personal work
it is the 3train upon which Mr.
Sunday constantly plays. He said
it's the church's business to save
the people. Other people can do
the other part. There are other
institutions to educate them. That's
their business. That's what I do to
win people to God. Because if
everybody in the nation knew ev
erything there is to know, and
didn't know God. what would bo
the condition ot the people in the
community. So 50 weeks ought to
be spent in going after the un
saved, and two weeks a year talk
ing and preaching to the church,
and we want soul-winners in the
pews and the platform and the
cnoir loit. une person can set a
church on fire with holy zeal for
Jesus Christ, the same as one
match can burn a city. And the
church of the future must work
more for sinners or it will stop;
and it must work for all. rich,
poor, great, small, learned or illit
erate. It is something everybody
can do, and God will bless you
whether you have got much or lit
tle, whether you wear home-spun
or silk, whether you ride in an
auto or whether you hot-hoof it,
whether you have got a servant to
wait on you or whether you have
to wait on yourself, the Lord can
honor you. and will, if you will do
His will and help bring somebody
to the Lord.
There was a time when a
preacher was looked upon as a
sort of an ecclesiastic locomotive.
I and they thought hfs whistling and
blowing off steam and cinders was
enough to bring the whole bunch
to glory. It won't do it! Every
body's got to do something to help.
Now the majority of Christians
never speak a word or do a thing
to bring the interests of religion
before the mind of the individual.
Personal work is the business of
every minister and deacon and
every member of the church, and
you ought to begin at home among
your own friends and your own
family too.
I Preach, Yon Refect.
So ir I stand up and preach the
!.r,!th .and you 6lt -tn"e and reJect
it. ana you go to nen. mats up to
God will damn me. You come and
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' not rno -zn practice in ir.e cnurcn
loday. negating over tn:s or ttiat
nogma win never give spiritual
life or power never and real, ef
fective results are obtained by per
sonal contact. When you ask an
individual, meet the individual and
speak wi"h that individual. That's
where the groat work is to be done.
So many of them do nothing.
That's the reason we are not ac
complishing more; they are doing
nothing at all; they are .lead ones.
I think that soul-seeking is be-
ir-n-lr " :mhe -e-s o .'3' Inn.-
and endless maihinery have crept I
in to take from the individual tho
respo-sihiiny to do it for God. No
wonder, when many of our semin
aries minimize, if they do not ig- '
nore this altogether; or when they,
do turn out preachers, they are a j
lot of two by tour infideis who get i
up and spout something, some stuff
that they have gotten down there
from some Godless old professor.
They blight the faith of the peo
ple. I blame them for it, and
three-fourths of the teachers in
our seminaries never had any ex
perience in winning anybody for
Christ, and the poorest personal
worker you ever looked at is a
young fellow that's Just graduated
from some theological seminary,
because he wasn't taught there to
do anything for the Lord Almighty ;
he was only taught to build a ser
mon like you build a house. Some
people don't even know where to
put the lightning rod on a house.
ChnrctTs Opportunity.
God Almighty is throwing before
the church of this city the greatest
opportunity and privilege you ever
had to bridge the chasm between
the man and the dinner bucket.
He thinks you don't give a whoop
for him. Show him that he's wrong;
that vou're interested in his soul.
See w:hat God will do. He will fill
your old icehouses chuck full with
life, my friends, throbbing human
ity, if you will get out and win the
men that are to be won, and they
are susceptible, but you can't do it
through the indifference of the peo
ple toward it.
And so, whether yon buy or
whethar you sell, whether you
pray, whether you write, whether
you print, whether you teach,
whether you are a doctor, whether
you are a mother in a home,
whether yo-i are a laborer, a'ti
alone life's highway you find men
j and women that don't know Jesus
No matter how much you may
have or how little you have, there
is somebody you know that isn't
Christian. You are the person to
win that person to the Lord!
There are many professors who
think that Job belongs to the min
ister. Well, if I thought for one
minute that you Imagined that I
. ..... .
was going to do an tms worK, id
patjt my trunk and go home
SO
1 quick that it would make your
head swim.
I didn't ask for the privilege of
coming to this city. They begged
me to come. They have been ask
ing me to come for years. We are
here in response to the appeal of
the preachers and the church and
the people that want to benefit
their fellow-men and fellow-women
with the gospel of Jesus
Christ. That's why we are here!
I am here to do my part, and I
guess I have been here long enough
for you to know that 1 will not
shirk it. I will go the limit of my
strength every time for God and
for the truth. I expect you to do
the same. I have got just as much
right to expect you to do your best
as you have got a right to expect
me to do my best. And I will do
It, but you must do yonrs.
Confession 'ot Knough.
And so many think that once
they've made a public confession
of their faith, then their hope of
eternal lire is secure; there s noth
ing for them to do. The church
members are a tarot for the world.
It's not enough to have the love of
God in your heart, but that love
must express ifself in words and
in deeds.
What would happen if the farm
er left all of his grain in the gran
ary and never planted any of it?
You'd never have any crop never
in tho world.
And so, don't leave religion in
your heart, but let it work itself
out. Teach others if you are go
ing to be a benediction and a
blessing. You have got to be care
ful of your behavior. The Lord's
hand is not so short that Ho can
not save; neither is His ear so
deaf that He cannot hear; but your
fins have separated yoii and your
God, and get your face away be
fore Him and you will not hear.
God says, "You cannot serve God
and mammon."
Just as God haa said, a bird can
not fly without win9, you cannot
see without eyes, you cannot hear
without ears, you cannot breathe
without lungs, you cannot serve
God and mammon. You cannot be
partakers of the table of the Lord
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and the devil, too. You can't please
God and the de.il. You can't live
half a day with one man and the
other half with another and then
please your husband. That's right,
now! You can't do It.
Well, supposing I could change
lumps of coal into diamonds. Sup
pose I could change cobble-stones
into gold. Supposing the govern
men assayer would pronounce it
i 24 carat fine. Supposing 1 formed
a stock company to manufacture
gold and diamonds and I could get
a million dollars a share for it.
Well, there's no such company
that will ever be organized, but
I've got something better than that.
I have a proposition I want to tak-!
stock in. What is it? It's tho
power that can take a drunkard
and make him sober; take a thief
and make him steal no more; take
a quarrelsome man and make him
pray. It's the gospel of Jtsus
Christ! I want you to take stocK
In religion. That's the power!
Change the City.
Change this city! Change your
husband to a man that will love
you and be kind to you. Change
yourself so you won't turn your
old gatling machine-gun tongue
loose.
I think the lack of general effi
cient personal work is one of the
weakest spots of the church. It
don't seem to enter the mind of the
average church member that there
is anything for him to r.'o. lt is the
business of a flour mill to make
flour. If. is the business of the
sawmill to make lumber. It is the
business of a saloon to niako
drunkards. It is the business of a
medical college to make doctors.
It is the business of a law school
to make lawyers. It is the busi
ness of the church to make Chris
tians! That's the church's busi
ness: not to entertain them or
amuse them! Save them for Jesus
Christ! Too much of the work
done today is like a squirrel in a
cage lots of activity but no prog
ress. You have seen them in a
cago with a wheel in it, goins
around, but they never get any
where; and so it is with some of
us, we are thinking to beat the
band but we do not make any
headway.
It don't require any spiritual life
to play cards, run a bazar or a
rummage sale none at all but it
o - '
1
does to help somebody to be w
!to Jesus Christ. It don't ref ii.
! much wisdom to win a mauY
i tricnrihip; if he is low dosvn. helj-
him, flatter him, patronize him. am!
you can win him. Oh, you can set
some fellow to vote for you for a
j few years, maybe: a $5 bill will
sometimes cause a nmn 10 uu mui.
A man who will sell his vote
ought to be deprived of citizenship.
Any dirty. Mack-hearted whelp
thut will tamper with the Ameri
can ballot box ouKht to bo diB
enfranchised, and where tho min
ority may defeat the will of the
majority they ought to be dicen
franehisr"! and thrown into prison.
If 1 had anything to do with it.
'hat's where they would be driven.
I don't know whether there would
be any plaiu to send them I don't
think they want them in helL
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