The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-04

your works, then relentless logic will
drive you either to change your re
ligious belief or cease your assaults
upon ours; and if your belief is not
real, not proven by your works. might
there not be suggestion of safety
to.you in the caution to jewellers in
\ glass houses.
Test OF Belief.
Your worship of God is the infallible
test of your belief in God. / venture
to illustrate my position Suppose
some gentleman should arise and say
to this splendid audience, my friends,
believe that alcohol has brought
more sorrow into this world, more
heartache and heartbreak, has DESC
lated more homes, wrecked more lives.
drawn more tears than all other things
combined. | byiieve in my very soul
that every place where intoxicating
liquor is sold as beverage is but
ticket office to hell, and that the face
of every honest man and woman
a
horrible, CHASTITY practice and hav-
ing said this should go out of the house
and stop at the nearest ticket office of
this character and by a few tickets
for himself and some for few near
friends, from whom he does not wish
to be separated wherever tae trans.
portation might carry them, would YOU
not know every one of you every
child in the house know, that that man
did not state his real belief, or If he
did, that he was amazingly attracted
to the lurid terminus of the transpor-
tation purchased? The illustration I
nave employed is not far-fetched. Few
of us indeed have escaped furnishing
example of the same inconsistency.
Preaching the Gospel
Have you ever thought for moment
OF the tremendous import of the fact
that Jesus never preached but one
sermon in all His life and never re-
peated that? Far less than one-fiftieth
part of His active life was given to
the letter of the Gospel and all the
balance of it to its spirit, to it's prac-
tlcal application, to doing, not SAYING.
to healing the withered hands of men.
to breaking the jaws of death, and Civ !
ing the sons and daughters of men
back to life and love and hope. And
SO in the example of this ministering
messenger of God do we not find
the cheering consolation to yours and
mine, viz, that although we may not 7
have the tongue to tell the sweet story /
That Jesus came to tell, still, if we
but extend cup of cold water in His /
name, we will preach the same sweet I
Gospel that the loving Son of God
and preach 1t precisely the
same way? Learn indeed, may we not,
rom the works of Jesus that you and
were included in His declaration t,
,ne who questioned whether he had
earned the redemption the Master came
o bring, and in the midnight of his
ioubt uied out to the Savior, When
saw | thee hungry and gave thee to
Eat, naked and clothed thee, sick and
ninistered unto thee?" And by and by
ne still small voice that speaks to
-ou and to me tonight, and has spoken
o our fathers through all the ages
zone, made reply: "lnasmuch as We
lave done it unto one of the least of
hese my brethren, We have done 1t I'M
o me- And this religion of works,
II help, of love- is the redemption that
'esus brought to the world, and by
he sweetest and hottest ministry
has known, impressed upon,
eft, with the wrold.
Mrs. Eddy's Teachings.
And now one word about Mrs Eddy,
he great woman who has with rare
eviction to humanity and marvellous
pirftual conception restored to the