The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-01-19
Strenuous Evangelist Creates a
Religious UpheaveI.
ROASTS CLERGY AND SINNERS
Lays Down Hard on the Man Who
Gives Testimony But Does Not
Live Up to 1t.


the people of this city. He is creating
the greatest religious excitement ever
known in this section All classes, rich
and poor, high and low, good and bad,
refined and uncultured go to hear him.
His sermons are out Jof the ordinary and
contain no hackneyed expressions or
chestnut phrases. He deals out sledge-
hammer blows and with equal force
roasts the ministers for not doing as
they should and in an instant is hauling
the hardened sinner over the Goals.
With coat, vest and collar off the ex-
base bali player jumps into his subject
and lands on the ungodly with force
that is simply astonishing.
"What must | do to be saved?" was
one OF his texts, and from it some clear
truths as to how to get the obstacles
out of the way to be a Christian. Mr..
Sunday related an incident which oc-
CURED only a few nights ago in which a
young man asked him the question:
"What shall l do?" and he now referred
to that young man and asked his care
full attention to what he had to say and
he would help him. He also made the
statement that if the young man was
honest with himself after he heard the
sermon, he would be the first one to
come forward, and he was among the
first who walked out and gave Mr.. Sun
day his hand.
"What shall [ do to be saved?"
Get corner on the wheat market"
"What must [ do to be saved?"
'Get elected to the legislature"
"What must / do to be saved2"
"Stand pat on the tariff"
"What must | do to be saved?"
"Get a gold mine in the Klondike."
what must [ do to be saved?''
Graduate from the state university"
"No!"
With the rapidity of a machine gun
and showed the makeshifts of many
men and brought into the limelight.
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved.'
"The trouble with the church today
is that it does not pray enough" came
at the end of short talk to the church
members.
eve need men and women of infu-
ence, but we also need them with power
in prayer" "Power to pray the jail
down!" came like thunder bolt as he
made another reference to the prayers
of Peter in the jail and the unceasing
prayers of the church in his behalf.
God made the law and has right
to name the conditions by which you
may be restored to his favor if you have
broken that law" was another reference
to the difference between the man who
throws himself upon the mercy or who
meets the justice of God. "The first
steps in the matter is deep convistion
of sim" Then the speaker made several
clear, striking illustrations of the sense
of need that ought to be felt and the
feeling of unworthiness.
IF the love of that crowd you are
in will keep you from serving the Lord
Jesus Christ, then God pity you,'' was a
startling assertion relative to the man or
woman who cannot cut loose from the
crowd they associate with.
Mr.. Sunday gave short time to the
matter of the different effects that con.
viction will have upon people, and also
as to the exact time in their lives at
which they were converted, some of
whom could not tell the place of CONVEX
sion.
Stanley says that there are people in
Africa who did not know they were
black till they saw the representatives
of another race" came in the way of an
illustration.
eff you can't live Christian life in
Rochester where will you 60 and not
find the devil?" was another way of an
swering the man who makes the asser-
ton that he will have to leave his pres
ent surroundings to be a Christian.
81 don't care a rap about your testi-
mony if you don't show it in your
works."
"Going to church don't make man
a Christian any more than going to
stable makes man horse"
"My creed is, believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ, or be lost" was the way
Mr.. Sunday showed up the person who
processes with his lips, but does moth.
ing with his hands.