The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-13

tionalism as well as sentimeneal ra- tionalism.'
 pr. Ostrom told lengthy story about man who got on a sleeper bound for Boston. He did not know the presi- dent, vice-president or directors of the road, or the ticket agent, the engineer, fireman. conductor, brakeman, or DOT ter of the train, each of whom was treated of separately, but he knew he would wake up in Boston in the morn ing, because his ticket read to that place and the timetable map showed the road went there.
 But I don't ask you to be a Chris tian on don't-know principle. I'll in- troduce you to Christ, the manager of the road, and you'll have car all to yourself as a director because you'll be child of the King.
 Tn the panic not long ago the cry was: Confidence, confidence What Is confidence? Who ever photographed it? Who ever fed it blue points? It is an emotion. but on it the church Is built
 He told of Thomas Bridges who went to Terra del Fuego. where the natives .jabbered." He learned how to 'Jab- ber, too. ard brought them the truths of the church till even the sceptical Charles Darwin gave three contribu- tions of e20 each.
 "A man tells me I'm never tender hearted He Is heroically spectacular. l tell him. My friend, be sure and not overdo it. He Is like the man who comes to me and shows me his arm. It is soft and flabby, isn't it?' he says I advise him to go to a gymnasium, but, no, he bares 1t to the shoulder and thrusts 1t out the window where 1t Is 10 degrees below zero (acting the scene out vividly). At the end of ten hours he shows it to me. It's hard now and firm.' he says. Yes. my friend I re- ply, but you've hurt your arm; it's frozen The man who is never tender hearted is no more manly man than that muscle is the manly muscle.
 'All the lectures on the Bible are not so good to read as the old Book It. self squeezed dry like an orange is squeezed. The trouble is people don't read the Bible. They are like starv- ing man walking about a food-laden table, but never stopping to eat bite
 Some men say they find difficulties with the Bible. It isn't the Bible; it's themselves, over their eyes, under hat tc pI {l,ai 11y
 The man who tells me he cannot see how the whale ever disgorged Jonah Is like the man who takes fish, when 1t Is served him. and carefully separates the flesh from the bones,and then be- man who says he will not walk till he knows the length of every muscle he uses.
 Now, the plain truth of the matter Is this Men. I know you need God and God wants you. Furthermore. can show you thousands of men who found God in the church. The manly man believes in prayer, Every man be- lieves In rayer--when there is an earthquake or a shipwreck. It is the better part of judgment to find out the best way to port. Prayer is too good thing to miss. It is better then as- tronomy. or geology, or botany.
 The manly man Is clean man. A British medical examiner said that he believed the people of America would be swept off the face of the earth. I asked him why. and he said they had all the vices of Greece and Rome. I think we are to have a great spiritual awakenng; we are going to harness our nassions.
 "The great sin of America is not drinking; 1t is nos gambling It is rac- lal corruption, Ii Is the social evil No '0an has right to do anything to an- other mans daughter he would not al- low done tn his own
 Nor $ there any difference between Jrousers end pctti oats In the igdgment of morals; no difference In judging. psb- pie Of hiFh social station and Of low. Terrible disease Is The result of the so- aial gin. There is fire in the Book of inc Commandments. and fire Is the phy. sical result
 Fhe extent to which social. sin has gone n America can bn sear from the fact that seventy ror cent of the male Population Of Indiana have diseases re- sultinG from the sin
 "The all around man wants to be free from that taiut The feeling<for roo,r Is growing throre bout America Atr6 place has there been more response t. preaching than in New England No part of America will sooner stand for what is right"
 Following Mir Ostram's address he called for all those who wished to be Christians to rise. The response at fi~sr was very slight but after laborlng con scisnuously for nearly half an hour, all but about twenty in the house had risen.