The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-23


Thou are weighed in the balances,
and art found wanting" was the text
of Evangelist divers discourse at the
Tiff church last evening. Before l be-
GIN, he said, Il want to state that as
the congregation was leaving the
church last evening, overheard some
one remark: He never touched me- If
he is here now, want him to under
stand that 1 was shooting at brains
last evening; I'll shoot a little lower
tonight. ana maybe I'll hit him.
The heart Of every man and woman
who is interested in the work Of saliva
ton is saddened tonight by the sad
news of the passing of Dwight Moody.
l have talked with men from all over
the world, and every one of them be-
heved, as l do, that he was sent on
earth for a special purpose; that he
possessed gifts from God 10 enable him
to carry out his noble work.
He came in time to overthrow the
specious arguments OF the skeptic In
gersoll, and he put that red flag artist
TO flight every time he battled with
him. He refuted every statement made
by the agnostic and 10 me it seems as
if there was special acc of Providence
in permitting him TO live just long
enough after the death of the leader
of the SkepticS to capture the remain
ing fragments of his army of teachings
ans thus make the victory complete.
Hearing From the Enemy.
I'VE are hearing from the enemy on
all sides these days; they're growing,
and that's q sure sign we're pounding
on their sensitive spots. The profession
of religion is not a guarantee of a seat
in the new Jerusalem. Tonight we are
IN a lie n Of
and see if We have enough good stock
on hand to make the total worth 10
cents on the dollar. Some may have,
but l guess the majority of the 10-cent
pieces have holes in them.
salt Lake City is in the balances;
the officials, the preachers, the mayor,
the common council, the newspapers,
are in the balances, and l reckon most
Of them are found wanting. If you don't
feel away down in your hearts that
you would sacrifice everything; that
you would die for the sake of the soul
that you are trying to bring to God,
you are in the balances and wanting
a great deal to counterbalance the
other scale pan.
1.-The chicken hearted way that some
people go to work about saving them
selves and Others reminds me of the
old chap who got up in meeting and
said his experiences had filed his pail
half full fifteen years ago, but that
nothing had been added to it since then.
BY gum said his neighbor, I'll bet
that spiritual pail of yours has got wig
gle tails in it,
House-cleaning Suggested.
IF the churches and the faint heart
ed preachers in this city would get to
work in this city tonight and clean
house, we'd have the greatest victory
for God that has ever been won in-the
west. Churches are here for work of
this kind, not to stand on street corners
taking up valuable space and self-satis-
fed in the possession of a clear title
and couple of stained glass windows
The trouble with the churches is that
they are too self-satisied in thinking
that they are the end itself, not the
means to produce the end.
THE world never has, nor will II
ever be brought to salvation by an I'M
aided clergy: it's high time the church
members got together to do something.
But l tell You that when they do get
together and the chariot driver goes
tearing down the street cracking his
whip. there'n be the biggest skecad-
ding of sin-coated devils the world has
ever seen
God is going to save this Ubiquitous
city of Salt Lake in some miraculous
way, but we must have unity of senti-
ment and action among the preachers
before the outposts can be taken. Now.
don't think that what l have said about
the preachers is meant IN derogatory
way; l love the preachers because !
know that they are the best men on
earth. There are $4,000 of them in the
United STATES, and last year only
twelve of them went wrong; of this
number five were from Iowa,
''Selfishness is at the bottom of a
good deal of the wrongdoing in this
world 1 want you to be mole-eyed as
regards yourself. and nlinX-eyed as re-
CARDS your neighbors, when II comes
to the weighing of things in the bal
ances- The an-seeing eye of God per-
vades everything, and can discover hu-
man motives. however deep hidden the
wonderful X-ray machine Is a slight
example of the way God exposes things
Salt Lake Dangers.
The New Testament tells US about
the man who stood in the market place
all day long and piped while nobody
danced. You can't say that of salt
Lake City people; they dance all day
and all night, piper or no piper At the
Feast of Belshazzar king OF the Chal-
deans. the 2nnointed golden vessels OF
God were desecrated. and riot ran
through the wine-sOaked veins OF the
guesss.
.AIl Of a sudden the handwriting APP
pearel on the wall: Meme. Meme, Tekel
Upharsin.' Call up Daniel, the sooth--
sayer.' said the king. And Daniel inter
preted the message to read: Thou art
weighed in the balances, and art found
wanting There are city officials,
church members. preachers. all classes
OF men and women who would be found
wanting even more than Belshazzar,
should they be put in the balances to-
day.
There is going 10 be a tremendous |
awakening in this town IN the next few !
days, and well fine out how to fight the
devils in iniquity that seem 10 have tue |
place by the throat ! declare war. Wa |
TO the bitter end to9ight against BIAS
phen1y. selishnesS and al, forms or |
vice. I am going to shoot, so hold up !
your hands. Take warning by the dire |
fate of Lot. Go home and write in
your prayer books that Lot tried 70
get away by pitching his tent towards |
Sodom: next he moved into SodOm, and |
the next day Sodom moved Ito him = i
II was nearly dead with dyspepsia. |
tried doctors, visited mineral springs |
and grew worse. ! used Kodol Dyspep- |
STA Cure That cured me-" 1t digests |
what you eat Cures Indigestion, sour /
stomach. heartburn and all forms of /
dyspepsia. f. c. Schramm, Mccormick |
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