Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-19

soul? lie has resumed tobacco,
The fact IS, we all know in our own
experience that habit is a taskmaster.
/ tise us; but. let MS resist, and we find
that we are lashed with scorpion
whips and bound with ship cable and
thrown into The track OF bone break
/ ing Juggernauts.
The rrodigars Return
The prodigal wishing to get into
good society. enters a prayer meeting.
Some good man without much sense
grocts him by saying: why are you
here? You are about the last person
that ! expected TO see In prayer
meeting Well the dying thief was
saved, and there is hope for YOU Nou
do not know anything about this un-
less You have learned that when a
man tries to return from evil courses
Of conduct he runs against repulsons
innumerable
We say OF some man, "He lives a
block or two from the church, or half
a mile from the church In all our
sroat cities tlere are men who are
5000 miles from church-vast deserts
of Indifference between them and the
house OF God. The fact is we must
keep our respectability though thou
sands perish. Christ sat with publi-
cans and sinners. but II there come TO
the house of God a man with marks
OF dissipation upon him people are al
most sure to put up their hands in
horror as much as to say, rs ii not
shocking?"
How these dainty. fastidlous Christ
ians in all our churches are going to
get into heaven do not know, unless
they have an especial train of cars
cushioned and upholstered, each one a
car to himself They cannot go with
the great herd of publicans and sin
ners Oh. ye who curl your lip of
scorn on the fallen! tell you plainly
that II you had been surrounded by
the same influences instead OF sitting
today among the cultured. and the re-
fined, and the Christian, you might
have been crouching wretch in q
stable or ditch covered with filth and
abomination. 1t is not because we are
) naturally any better. but because the
mercy of God has protected us. Those
that are brought up in Christian cir.
cles and watched by Christian parent
age should not be so hard on thu
fallen.
First Get Ashore.
Why. it reminds me of a mar
] nj ro In hn
puts out for him, and the man in tn,
boat says to the man in the water
Now, If | get you ashore, are yol
2 going to live in my street," First ge
r him ashore and then talk to him abou
> the nonessentials of religion. Wh'
= cares what church he joins II he onl!
= joins Christ and starts for heaven
J Oh. you, my brother of illumined fac
} I'D hearty grip for every one tina
, tries to turn from his evil way. TAX
! hold of the same hymnbook with him
= though his dissipation shake the book
/ remembering that he that "convertetl
! a sinner from the error of his way
= shall save a soul from death and hid
e a multitude of SINS
= Now, / have shown you these OBJ
/ stacles because / want you to under
D stand / know all the difficulties in tn
l way. But am now going to tell yol
( how Hannibal may scale the Alps an,
how the shackles may be unrivetel
- and how the paths of virtue forsakei
! may be regained. First of all, throw
[ yourself on God Go to him frankl,
81 and earnestly and tell him these habit
/ you have and ask him, II there is an,
? help in all the resources OF omnlpo
a tent love, to give it to you. Do not g
e on with a long rigmarole, which som
= people call prayer made up of obs an
y abs and forever and forever amens! G
d to God and cIy for help.
!, Healing Balm for Wounds.
a remember that while living in Phi
;, adelphla, at the time | spoke OF
e minute ago. the Master Street hosplti
y was opened, and a telegram was re
s ceived. saying; There will be 3C
wounded men tonight. Please TAX
care of them" From my church theI
@ went out twenty or thirty men an
s women. AS the poor wounded me
= were brought in no one asked of thei
v from what state they came or VIII,
g was their parentage. There was
2 wounded soldier, and the only questio
II was how to take off the rags mo-
II gently and put on the cool bandag
d and administer the cordial. And whe
h "a soul comes to God he does not as
q where you came from OF what yot
2 ancestry was. Healing balm for a
= your wounds; pardon for all yot