Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-21

and night. She had always kept a light
| In the window for me and an empty
chair at the table. Why, boys, I used
to telegraph home. paying 50 a tele
| gram rather than write. I was so
| conscience stricken that I could not
write 7 have paid as high as $40 for
| a telephone message just to let the
! dear ones know that I was i'm the land
| Of the living. A mothers love always
came back over the wires. That was
| five years ago. I can tell you tonight
| that Christ not only saves, but he
| keeps. When temptations come l
| breathe a God help me- and there is
always an immediate answer. His
promises are true and I find that they
are being fulfilled during the arduous
| hours Of a business mans life. Just
as these promises for the present are
! being fulfilled, the future holds more
/ and more in store. Every day is one
of progress and growth. A man cannot
stand still. He either rises or falls
! He either is I'm light or i'm darkness.
! SO, I press forward to the mark of
my high calling in Christ Jesus, the
Lord
my brothers, this is just page
| from my lfe simply and sincerely told.
/ love to tell the story. The dead past
in my life has buried itself. The pres
ent is full of beautiful opportunities,
]
| greatest Of which is Christs.
"I have been united with my family,
have been restored to Christian citizen
ship. God bless the name. have all
the material prosperity that a man
need ask. There are blessed assurances
for the future. Christ pleads for you
| to accept this life.
"As an evidence of the fact that the
wages Of sin Is death, physical and
moral, let me point out to you a recent
incident. ] lately went back to New
! York and hunted up some of my old
| professional friends to whom / bade
! good by five years ago. out Of the
list of twenty-one l found that four
had reached untimely graves because
of so-called good fellowship. Several
of the boys. however, had embraced
Christianity, and we shook hands as
brothers in Christ.
After my reformation 1t was my
honor and pleasure to work in the
slum districts of Paris, London and
New York. In some of the most no
torious dives, there was absolute heed
lessness to our appeals until the magic
name of mother was spoken, whereup-
on we always secured an attentive
hearing from the most dissolute and
fallen men and women Literally and
! figureatively, all hats were doffed
Those same men would kill a fellow
! being for $40, and yet the mere mention
of mother proved an entering wedge
and they were led to the foot of the
cross.
Befriended outcast
''In the course of my mission work
L befriended poor outcast who ad-
mitted that seventeen years before he
had killed a man with an umbrella
piercing the victims temple, for $50,
on the London dock. He had been paid
for getting the man out of the way.
That confessed criminal is now a great
| Christian worker AM man among
| men. His heart was touched by my
showing him the picture of my moth
er's face upon the dial of my watch.
In the course of our talk the truth
gradually came out, and he said: is
it possible that man as black as I,
| having killed one man, can be for
| given" l answered him in the affirm
ative, saying Though your sins be as
scarlet. they shall be washed winter
than snow, though they be red like
crimson they shall be as WOOL
! Let me tell you, boys, in all kinds
of dangerous places, when 1 showed
my watch with my mothers picture
1 was never harmed in the least In
fact, 1 have had for my escort home
at all hours of the morning, some of
the most desperate men of New York,
| VINO were aware that L had money.
My mothers face was the charm.
mo matter how black the heart
there is always a white spot left, and
if it be only as big as pin head, so
to speak, it can be reached by the
blessed name of mother.
Among the pathetic and tragic, God
has given us saving sense of humor.
one Sunday morning on the steamer
st. Paul while crossing the Atlantic 1
was asked to conduct the morning re-
l1g1ous service. In the course of my
remarks / referred to the cleansing
process through which the regenerated
man passes. I spoke of the Christian
as clean in person as we'll as in morals,
incidentally saying that there was even
religion in tooth brush. A woman
| sitting near me hooded affirmatively
and passed out of the room. She soon
| returned, saying that she had lost her
upper teeth but had retained her tooth
brush, infering that she had that much
of religion remaining in the rough
voyage on the Atlantic.
| Now. to come down to personalities,
some people claim that a man cannot
practice law and be a Christian. The
! truth is quite to the contrary Chris
ton living is plain and practical, and
further, mans law is based upon Gods
law. / have found it just as easy to
be Christian in the court of justice,
| in my office and in law library, as in
a church pew on Easter morning, lis
tening to $4,000 church quartet, with
| new Easter bonnets all around me-"