Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-22

gambler or drinker you will influence
those with whom you come In contact. If
you are a godly man your influence
will be for God. No man lives for self
alone. Your wife, your children, your
lodge and business associates all have
a right to know that by an open con-
fession of your life, that insofar as you
know, you are going to be christ
ian.
Two Ways to Learn.
"There are two ways that we can
learn of Christ and christianity. One is
| theoretically, the other is by practical
experience. You have got to admit
there is something in religion when 1t
will make drunken men sober and
! keep them sober, or you have got to
take down your sign as an honest man.
"To understand all about God is i'm
possible for any one man. To do so
you would have to know all about all
| time, all about the world and its his
tory and the universe. But all Of you
have got to know of God is to become
a christian. AS you will to know SO
you shall know.
Religion is Reasonable.
"The most reasonable thing in the
world is religion, and the most rea-
sonable man or woman is the one who
accepts and believes in religion 1t is
impossible to know of God except by
giving yourself up to him.
Belief, faith and the acceptance of
truth on the authority of other peo-
pie, is the basis of judgment of our
courts and the foundation of all bus
mess. did not live in the days of
Jesus, but accept the gospel as truth
on the testimony of others. never saw
Caesar, but I believe in the testimony
of the historian that he was murdered
on his way to the throne. Am I a rea-
sonable man to accept history and not
accept the bible? No.
II am a fool If l believe one and do
not believe the other Faith is the basis
Of everything we do in life, so there
fore, we must believe in the authority
| of others or cease to exist.
Start to Live Gods Will.
"You start to live out what God
tells you to and see if he will not make
cut OF you what he said he would.
But you do not want to do that, and
you say that God will not do as he
says. How can he when you will not
do as he wills you should.
EVERY man and woman has a per-
verted will. They do things because it
pleases them When you will to do
Gods will he imparts his nature to you
and you then will to do his will. That
| is why it is foolishness to tell a man
to be good. How can he be when he
has got the devil in him. Get the devil
| out of him and get Gods will into him
and God will lead him to be sorry for
his sins I believe the nearer you get
to God the more sensitive you are to
sin,
All May Rise From Sin.
Il believe there is no gambler stalk
ing his all on the next card, believe
there is no harlot merchandising her
body for gain, / believe there is no
man or woman bound by sensuality or
sin, who can not rise from their sin
| by doing Gods will. Some men have a
queer idea Of what 1t means to do
Gods will. The only object of a move-
| ment like this is to make people as
God wants them to be. AL the infidels
| on earth or in hell can not make a
| man leave his cards or drink.
Some people seem to think that be
cause they do not understand all about
God there is nothing in religion Many
man does not believe in God because
he can not explain the creation. That
infidel rot is jackass jargon.
Denial Is Foolish.
ITO try and solve the mystery of the
creation, and then deny the creator be-
cause you do not understand it, would
be just as reasonable as to deny the
existence Of the dynamo because you
do not understand the mystery of cleo
tricity. Skeptics do not believe the
bible. Their fathers did not believe in
the telephone or telegraph because
they did not know enough
'If you will to do Gods will the
STUN bling blocks will be removed from
your path. If you will tell me where 1
have failed to skin the hypocrites in
this town, and you have the biggest
bunch ever saw, will take night or
two off and devote especially to them
you say you do not believe in re-
vivals. Well, if you do not, go down
and join a church where the thermom-
eter is >26 below zero. know one in
this town.
II do not believe the hypocrisy of
any man or any church is keeping any
man or woman out of Gods will. It
is because they do not want to do his
will.
You say you do not believe in that
baptismaI business.
'Well let it go, and settle 1t after
awhile.
Jeers at cowards.
With scathing sarcasm and jeering
words, Sunday hooted at those weak
kneed ones who say they. would be
christians but they are afraid they can
not hold out. "Great God!" he said,
that is what some of you have been
doing for 80 long-holding out against
God-that you have not a hair be-
tween you and hell.
+. Religion is like marriage contract
A lot of things will come up in married
life by which the one will know his
partner better, and they will often dis
agree, but they do not separate just
because of each disagreement. They
give and take and meet each other
half way.
'"Fhe man who begins to live out his
belief, his belief begins to grow. You
say to me, MIR. Sunday, the christian
life is a mystery , ], tell you that two
times two is four is complicated COM
pared with the simplicity of the gos-
pels.
Square Your Il ia