Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-17

see IL you don't lose your patience with
the Jews about ten times in every
hour. They nibble at this and they
nibble at that You don't need to read
the Pentateuch. Just watch your own
life or your next door neighbor, or
your church. Are you Methodist?
Then watch the Presbyterian. II you
are Catholic, watch the Protestant.
Protestant watch Catholic, and It is
nibble at this and a nibble at that
anything but to do what God Almighty
wants them to do. I never could I'M
derstand why Gods sheep wanted to
leave Gods clover patch and go into
the back yards and chew rags with the
billy goats. When see women sitting
down to drink champagne and wine,
or playing cards, say: "You may
be a sheep, but you have the appetite
Of a billy goat If you do things like
that"
So many Of our church members
have not read the bible, Why? Because
you want to sit down and feast upon
novel all the time.
Story in Electricity.
But we have another class that in
terests me more. They were sober,
thoughtful, intending to go all the way,
but they were not sober enough. They
didn't start family prayer. They
| wanted to compromise and still keep
in connection with the world, and you
can't do that and have any power al
all. You have to cut loose from the
world.
was down thru the National
Malleable Works one time. We went
into the engine room and the master
mechanic said, Put your hand on the
dynamo, Bill, 1t won't hurt you, but
keep your hands off everything else" 1
held my hand there and felt no SEN
sation except warm feeling, but if
had reached out and touched some
thing else 1 would have felt it, Just as
soon as you stop the connection
your power is gone. saw a fellow
running an electric soldering machine
that you had to put wooden hood
over your head, and the hood had a
piece of stained glass to look thru,
or you couldn't look at the machine.
One Of the boys looked at it and ev-
erything he saw for five hours was
blue. saw the great cranes and I
saw them hook up a big cauldron
holding twenty-five tons of melted
steel. All came from that dynamo.
They attached the electric magnet and
ran it over the car and it sucked up a
ton of pig iron. But as soon as they
shut off the current it was gone. And
| if you keep your power for God some
thing is going to happen. The preach
er lays hold of God, another does, and
then up steps an old card playing
church member and the power is gone,
for he is non-transmitter. The
preacher and a few others join hands
and up comes a beer drinking church
member and joins them but they have
not any power, for the beer-d drinking
members are non-conductors. You let
the church of God get down on her
face and you will see the power of God
swept over our land and taking men
out of their iniquities. ALI Of the mag
nets on Gods earth are never going to
pull men out of the grog shop, out OF
1.-THE arms Of prostitute away from
a pack Of cards. The little slot in the
top of the gambling table is not very
big, just big enough for dollar, but
many man has showed his wife thru
it. and if he had farm he showed it
thru.
| Confessed Baekslders.
| A friend Of mine, preaching on back
sliding, suddenly stopped in the mid
die of his sermon and said: GLOW
many of you are backsliders?" Forty
or fifty arose, and in that mute,
ashamed-faced way acknowledged it.
They sat down and he said: 81 wish
you would tell me what caused you to
backslide. why you left the gospel train
and didn't get back on" Twelve or
fifteen arose and made a specific an
nouncement as to the reason. One
woman said: "Why, a young lady
friend of mine gave a card party and
thought had to play the plan of
reciprocity. and give one too, and
among those to whom issued an in
v1tation was young man who didn't
play cards. didn't know that, and
when he learned Of the cause for which
had sent the invitation he picked up
his coat and hat and walked out. ]
made up my mind that as long as /
did such things wasn't worthy to be
a member Of the church" "A good SEN
stble reason. One man arose and said:
II think backslid when kept INV
store open for little while on Sunday
to accommodate few straxglinR GUS
TONER'S"
One young lady arose and said: .1
think mackslid by and thru the
dance" Sure. She said: "A person
could be a member Of the church and
dance" Yes, and prostitute could
be a member Of the church and be q
prostitute. Or thief could be a mem
Der of the church and be a thief. Or
burglar, or a hoodoo, anything. 1t is
one thing to be member Of the church
and another thing to be member Of
the body Of the Lord Jesus Christ.
There are lot OF people looking into
my face tonight who belong to the
church and II they were to die to-
night they would be in hell before the
whistle could blow tomorrow morning.
The girl said: why, person can
dance and be a member OF the church.
attended dance and found my de-
sire to read the bible diminishing. ]
went to another dance and my desire
to read the bible was entirely eli,ni-
mated" never saw a card-playing.
theater- going. whisky dane
ing church member who was worth
three whoops this side Of Peoria. They
ere not the ones God is using to move
this old world. and you know it.
have the honor to be the father of
a girl 10 years Of age. I love Helen.
1t she grows up 1ust to have sarsa