Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-31
breaches STRONGEST SERMON
OF CAMPAIGN FOR MEN TO
BE SAVED.
slxTY-FouR CONVERTED
AT AFTERNOON MEETING
Most Earnest Plea for Men to Be
Christians Made at Any Similar
Meetings, Delivered by the Evansel-
ist to s,5oo-With Burning Words
Sunday Scores lneersol.

BY far the strongest argument for
christianity. and the greatest plea for
Christlike life, which Rev. Mr.. Sun
day has made before an audience of
men during his five weeks campaign,
was given from the platform of the
tabernacle to $500 men at the Sabbath
afternoon meeting. The sermon was a
direct exhortation for men to leave sin
and become christians, and into his
more than an hours address the evan
gelist put every ounce of strength and
particle of earnestness which he could
muster.
The net result was that sixty-four
men came forward and started the
christian life. Not even Sundays fam
Gus Booze" sermon held more close
attention than his great plea for sail
walton. For minutes at a time scarcely
a head in the audience moved, as he
argued, pleaded and urged men to be-
come christians, or told touching and
pathetic stories illustrative of his ar
guments.
Choose We This Day.
His text, taken from the words of
Joshua, spoken to- the Israelftes, as
you this day whom We will serve" His
sermon was in part as follows: II
would like to appeal this afternoon to
your manhood and your sensibility of
right and wrong. 1 can not define a
man by his avoirdupois, size or stat
ure. Those things do not constitute
manhood. 1t is the heart and not the
size that makes the man. 1 meet many
men who push the religion of Jesus
Christ to one side by giving excuses
But no man lives who can give a real
reason why he is not a christian. There
is none.
do you know why some of you fell
lows are not in the kingdom? III is be-
cause you are not man enough to be
a christian. You have. not manhood
enough to come down here and take
me by the hand and start the christian
life. You have not manhood enough to
take your christianity into your bus
mess, your lodge or your home. il
takes a man to be a christian. There.
fore to be lawless means to he les:
than a man. g
Fast Life No Evidence.
"Fast life is no evidence of manhood
1t does not take manhood to booze
gamble, or study the race track dope
sheet or knock the white collar off
glass of beer
rs the saloon full of men or WON.
en-? Men. Is the gambling hell full o
tracks crowded with men or women
Men. Are the churches full of men o.
women? Women. Seventyytwo per cen
of their membership is women. Tn,
places of charity and the churches ar,
vacated by men, while the haunts o
sin are packed with them. Its a dis
grace to your manhood, and you hav,
not got the manhood to be christia,
or you would be one.
"There are men here this Afternoon
who, by their example and their in
: fluence, have stifled the influence o
Jesus Christ from their homes, from
wife and from children. You are jus
as much under obligations to lead you
5 boy to Christ as you are to pay TO
his education.
Prefer Christ.
Men of Marshalltown l would rath
err have the worst Of misfortune, I'm
happiness or disease that is known i
this world than live without Christ.
ut pays to be a christian. Boys, hea
me men, / want something more to di
with than the thought that / Nigh
;, have been a great business man.
: want something better to die with tina
courage however much it is to be ad
4 .mired, as 1 admire it.
: Say men it is human to stand wit
l the crowd 1t is divine to stand alon
S for the right. 1t is human to compro
mise for gain, it is God like to stan
$ alone for his truth. Jesus stood alon
q and died that man might be saved
when / come to die want some
: thing more than a brilliant intellec