Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-28
SUNDAY in GREAT
SERMON ON PRAYER
Continued from Page one.)

will pray when the doctor shakes his
head and the family is getting ready
to call the undertaken There is many
a man will pray when they get ready
to measure him for shroud.
But before Jacob met his brother
he prayed. The devil had almost
backed him off the board and he had
him down for about the full count"
While on the subject of prayer he
pray but who don't believe what they
are saying and know it.
If you wanted Gods kingdom to
come, as you say when you pray, YOU
Wouldn't vote for the saloon, you old
sinner. You pray Thy Kingdom come
Thy will be done if I can still have
my glass of beer. Your prayer don I
amount to that" swapping his finger.
"if you don't back it up with your
life
If you will get down and tell God
what you are, there is nothing too good
in heaven for YOU.
Jacob Said Deliver Me-
Jacob, when he began TO pray said,
deliver me, and as he prayed he
wrestled with the angel and his thigh
was broken. God has got to reach
and throw you down, and He has got
to push you so close to hell that you
can smell the sulphur fumes before
you begin to pray. Everybody who
delivers an honest prayer will say, God
deliver me- There isn't an angel in
heaven who could train with some OF
You people and get back to heaven
without being fumigated or regener-
ated
God is wrestling with you &C
down TO your office tomorrow and pay
back the man you skinned in a real
estate deal. or TO whom you sold a
spawned, ring -boned horse for a SOUND
animal.
What's Your Name
God said to Jacob, What is your
name And Jacob replied, Jacob And
God said it ehal be Jacob no longe,
but Israel, and he blessed him. Cod
says to you, What's your name Not
the name people know you by, but the
name that God knows you by, be-
cause. of your deeds and your life. God
says, you miserable old skinfiint, &c
pay your bills. God says you miserable
old liar. you are as puffed up with
pride as a poisoned pup. Confess your
sins as Jacob did and change your
name. It doesn't make any difference
to God who you are. You all look
alike to him. God plays no favorites
1t does not make any dinereno
whether you are janitor or bank
president. The only qualification is
are you on the square with God.
Lay Hold of God.
when the people begin to lay hold
of God as Jacob did with the angel
the devil will get cold feet and have
pneumonia before morning"
Sunday told a pathetic and at tn.
same time humorous story of searching
after a hayward son for father ant
mother and at last finding him drunk
en- and besotted. 1t was then that h.
said, christianity and red whisky dom
stay in the same skin together
In explanation of his declaration
that man only had to comply with
and not break the laws of God to b,
a christian, he explained how tn
farmer complied with the laws of ma
ture, instead of disregarding them
and thus rotated his crops SO that tn
nitrogen from the air would be re
turned to the soil by some plants to b.
stored there for others, SO that hi
crops would be large and his sol
would remain fertile.
: II tell you, church of God, you mus
comply with Gods laws"
, Not Weak to Pray.
, you think it weak to pray Peopl
of Marshalltown, the brains wfic
; laid the foundation Of this government
} prayed. The keel of the ship Of stat
: was laid in prayer, and it wa
, launched with prayer. The declaration
$ of independence was signed in prayer
, Lincoln prayed for the boys in blu
at Gettysburg. Mckinley prayed fo
guidance in the retention and contre
Of the Philippines. That monarch Q
t 1.-THE west, Theodore Roosevelt, too
Japan by the throat and Russia b