Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-19

on the floor was more converted than
the other fellow? You could tell by
| the look of the one fellow that he had
been a booze fighter. God Almighty
doesn't change a mans disposition. If
man cries easily before he will cry
easily afterwards. and if he doesen't
before he won't afterward.
| am the same kind of fellow now
that I was when I played ball. only
I gave all to the devil then. / served
the devil then just as am serving
God today.
Stanley tells us that he found people
in Africa that never knew they We're
black until they saw white men. They
had never seen white people; they had
never seen the representatives of the
white race and when Stanley and his
followers stood before them, then for
the first time in their lives they knew
thai there was a race of another color.
/ know something about sin tonight,
but I expect when / stand in the
presence of Jesus Christ to know some-
| thing about 1t that I don't know to-
night and never will know as long as
am on earth, but so far as know
am living with all the light / have.
You can't be saved without con-
trite heart. God is ready and willing
to forgive you. but he can't forgive
you unless you are willing for Him
to forgive you. There must be con-
triton. and the very moment you man
ifest it He is willing to forgive you.
Some people think they need new
surroundings. If you are a booze
fighter in Marshalltown. and you go to
Peoria, you will fight booze there
Here is my watch. 1t doesn't keep good
time. It doesn't run. Til take it out
of this pocket and put it in this other
poke, but that doesn't change it.
Your clock in the parlor doesn't run.
You carry 1t into the kitchen, but that
act will not change 1t. It's wrong In it's
works. II you booze in Marshalltown
and go to Peoria you will booze fight
there. If you commit adultery in Mar
shalltown and go to Peoria you will
commit adultery there. You are wrong
in your works, that's what's the matter
with you. You don't need a new
town, you need new nature. a new
heart. You can change your sur
Iroundings every twenty-four hours. but
that won't help you. You have the
devil in you, and when you have him
In you, you will go to the devil where
ever you are. So. a lot of pe>ple are
Trying to figure out that what they need
is new surroundings. Nothing of the
kind.
heard of a father who conceived
the idea that his son needed a change,
SO he purchased him a lieutenant's
commission in the Russian army IN
the Crimean war. One day the young
fellow sat down with a ,enc'' and paper
and tried to figure out the total
amount of his Indebtedness. and the
sum overwhelmed him. He wrote
beneath it. "Who will pay all this?"
and fell asleep. The Car was walk
ing among the troops, saw this fellow
sitting there asleep. He saw the
paper, stopped down, read the fig
ures and the sentence underneath. He
stopped down and signed it and seal
ed it with the royal signet. When the
young lieutenant opened his eyes he
was astonished and alarmed. He
showed the paper to his friends and
1t proved to be an order on the treas
ury for the amount. He presented II
to the treasurer, who refused to pay
it unless 1t came thru the regular
channels with voucher attached. The
young fellow made his appeal to the
car and the car ordered the treas
| urer to pay it. and it was paid
You can figure up and pile up all
! the sins you have ever committed
} every lie you have ever uttered, every
time you ever committed adultery
every sheer, every OATH every time
you blasphemed. and you can pile
your sins one on top of another until
you have a pile higher than the Rocky
mountains, then in your hopelessness
you will say: "Who will absolve all
this guilt" All the education, Gull
| ture, literary societies. or lodges on
God Almighty's dirt, can never put
away your guilt. Jesus. blessed Jes-
[ US. He alone can cleanse you from
J your guilt, and yet you stand before
, God as tho you never had sinnel
t, There must be conviction if you ever
expect to be saved. What must d.,
| to be saved?"
, You say, ooh. I would, but the
churches are full of hypocrites" So
is hell. and IL you want to escape
, that gang, come into the church now
where they are few. I know there
are hypocrites in the church and hell
, is chuck full of them. and if you don't
want to be with them, give your heart
to God and escape them.
A man says: 81 can be a christian
and not join a chuch." Sure! You
, can go to Europe without going on a
, ! boat. Swimming is good, but the
sharks lay for the fellow that takes
that route. I have never seen a hap
Ply christian in my life that stayed
out of the church. If you are truly
converted, the first place you will hunt
will be a church. A man says: ~
love all the churches. 1 can help
them ALL" I would be a queer duck
If I'd say to you: 1T love all the wom-
en-" I love one better than all the
, rest and / picked her out and married
her. Sure! have great respect for all
women, but I love one. Certainly.
You say: "Mr Sunday there are
mysteries about this religion" Ger
tainly! There are mysteries about
planting a seed. I have been riding
in the country and have seen the
seed in the ground you trust to the
law you couldn't understand or control
the law of nature, and when you put
, the seed in the ground you are all in
!, You can't make 1t grow. That's
Gods part. That's the mystery. Your
. part is to plow the ground and plant
the seed, that part is not mystery,