Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-14

against him and David was forced te
flee and hide in cave. While there
he let out the wall of my text, 'tNo man
cared for my soul!'
Same Cry To-day.
THE same cry Is going up today, and
passing strange as 1t may seem, those
who utter it are right. They express
the true condition of affairs when they
say, NO man cared for my SOUL
How great Is our concern and in
terest in times of great physical dis
tress. When the message came tha,
Frisco lay helpless, we ran our hands
into our pockets up to the elbow, and
an endless stream of gold poured to
the coast to aid the stricken people.
1t is solemn thought, when it may
apply to people who come to your own
church, that no one cared for their
souls. Possibly there are in your
church men and women who have
been coming regularly to service, but
who have never been asked to become
christians.
Church Stands Accused.
Many man has a right to say that
this or that great church did not care
for his soul, because it has shown ne
interest in him by trying to bring him
to Christ by personal Invitation.
There may be those in your home
who can say the same I will wager
my entire life tonight that there are
persons looking in my face who have
never asked single soul to come to
Jesus. You fathers, you mothers, can
your boy say my parents cared nothing
for my soul?
do you care for mems souls, you
church members? People get their
estimate of religion from what they see
in the lives of those who are called
christians" In this connection he paid
his respects to the card party at the
Pilgrim and those members who at
tended
Church Must Get Right.
Il believe if the church of Christ does
not get right with God that the Lord
VIII send some power up and down this
land, and all true and earnest christ
tans of every denomination will leave
their church and form themselves into
great praying, working church of
God.
There are those who can saw in the
present tense, No one cares for nv
SOUL How have you influenced those
you meet on the street. in your homo
and in business. Have you spoke TO
them about or influenced them for
God! O for men and women in these
days, who will say like Isaiah of Did
Here am I Lord, send me-
We Fail to Realize.
THE trouble is we fail to realize
that without Jesus Christ the world is
lost. They that believeth not are lost
already In every community there are
few leaning posts for morality or i'm
morality. Every town has a few men
that whatever they will do the town
Will do. can name you fifteen men in
Marshatltown who, If they would take
their stand for Jesus Christ, would in
fluence 1000 for God in two weeks.
I'VE fail to realize that without God
we are lost. Some people seem to think
tnat they are not quite good enough to
go to heaven and not quite bad enough
to go to hell. But I want to tell you
that God does not keep halfway
house for anyone, and 1t is either feav-
en- OF hell for every man, woman and
child.
Men Do Care.
Men do care about their souls. be-
lieve there are multitudes of men to-
day who are just waiting for some one
to speak to them about Jesus. There
are special times when men and wom-
en- want to go to God. When it is the
time Of trouble, when the death mes
senger has come, then is when men
and women are especially susceptible
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on the door, when the store is closed,
when the hease has backed up to the
door for the coffin, then is the time
when men and women wonder if there
is any one who cares for their souls.
II tell you that the hearts of men
and women yearn for the old time re-
lfgion to lean upon. Infidelism seems
mighty good during prosperity and
health, but when death has swooped
down on you, you send for the preach
er. You do not treat him fairly. You
never send for him until you have but
a few hours to live.'
God Comes in Various Ways.
II tell you the Lord will come as a
nurse to soothe and win, you, but If he
can not win you that way he will come
to you as a surgeon, to cut into the
canker and diseased d>spot of your soul
We have got to cut into the very quick
Of some people to bring them to Christ
'In. times like this you must have
eyes in the back of your head If YOU
can not see that there is a great re-
ligious awakening sweeping over the
community: when the subject of con-
versation everywhere Is religion, and
that it is easier to go and win men for
Christ than at any other time. When
God tells you to go. go friends, and
bring men in.
No Man Cared for Me.
"Do not let any man in Marshalltown
look you in the face and say, no man
cares for my SOUL There are men in
this town who are troubled They are
asking, how much Of the bible is true,
how much is figurative; how much is
literal?' They are waiting for some one
to speak to them about Jesus.
"Who cares for your soul? The poll
tician and the merchant; do not. They
want only your money, and to send
you staggering and drunken to your
grave. The world does not care for
your soul. How melancholy have been
the closing days of those who have
climbed high on the ladder of fame
and whom the world have called great,
but who were without God. Caesar was
stabbed on his way to the throne. Rob-
ert Burns life went out in a moral
eclipse. Napoleon, who made the
thrones of Europe tremble, died on the
barren rocks Of ST. Helena.
Tho World Does Not Care.
"The world does: not care for your