Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-19

the christian, and they believe in I'M
mersion. My position as an evangelist
IS like that of a recruiting officer in
the army. It's his business to get men
to enlist, and the officers have to do
the drilling. Its my duty to get you
10 accept the Lord Jesus Christ and
the ministers have to do the rest.
Don't scrap with some other denom-
nation because they don't preach what
you want them to. These denom-
national scraps are Of the devil. Don't
russ with an Episcopalian because they
read the prayers and you get down
ana say yours. A lot of people get
nearer to God reading prayers than a
lot OF Holsters know do by saying
tnem. It's not the way you say them;
It's the kind of life you live.
| 1t Is a mistake to believe and not
confess. A woman said to me: "Mr.
Sunday, confess with my influence
said, "The bible says If thou wilt,
confess with thy mouth" MOUTH
don't spell Influence" and the mouth
is the largest part of some people, any
way. IF thou wilt confess with thy
| mouth" Confession is better than
stubbornness. 1t is a good deal more
manly to submit to God than to be
stubborn and not do it. 1t is good
deal more womanly to be a christian
than not to be. You never could do
more womanly or more manly act
than to stand out for Jesus and you
couldn't do more unmanly or UNI
womanly act than to refuse Jesus
Christ.
| Some shallow fellows, who can make
an arc light, swell up as big as if they
can make a sun. Some fellows pile UP
brick, stick their name in stone and
blow as If they created the Rocky
mountains. An old skeptic stood on a
mountain and said, 81 don't believe in
God; defy Cod" He kept his mouth
open and an ant crawled in and choked
him to death. You would naturally
think, to see some people live, that
they could make ladder, lean 1T up
against the sky, crawl up and blow the
sun out. There is very little hope for
the fellow that hasn't sense enough to
make for the cyclone cellar when the
storm comes. And the fellow that
hasn't sense enough to come out pub
licly and do what God tells him to do,
he, sir, is fool. You have whole
lot of fools, too. Instead of doing what
God wants them to they sit back and
argue.
Now, surprising you were i'll and I
We're a physician and you would send
for nc. would write out nrescrip-
ton, and after I had gone you would
say, Let me see that" You would
say, Check off that 1 don't like it,
it's bitter; never did like calomel;
take it out. That's nauseating, cut
that out" You would say. Now take
that down to the druggist and get it
filled" You take 1t and you don't get
any better. You nave no right to kick
about the doctor. You didn't take my
medicine. you took your own prescrip-
ton. If you take a dose of Christian
Science, why don't growl because you
didn't get anything. That's not Gods
dose for you. that's the DEVILS dose.
You can't get any better by swallow
ing the devils medicine. What must
1 do to be saved? Now, Jesus is the
Great Physician and He has diagnosed
our difficulty and has written out a
prescription. and it has two component
parts: IF thou wilt believe in thine
heart the Lord Jesus Christ, and con-
fess with thy mouth, thou shalt be
saved" for with the heart man believes
and with the mouth confession is made
unto salvation. So you have to COM
nit yourself. You have to come out
publicly. The truth of the matter is,
I think, that we all have a little yellow
streak in US somewhere. Own up hon
estly, haven't you little yellow
lew ao1r
streak Of waller as the old darkey
would say. lot of people have come to
Marshalltown and have kept their
church membership at home, kept it a
secret when their confession would
have helped them and helped the relig-
ion of Jesus Christ. You have smiled a
sickly, idiotic grin at some smutty
story that some one has told you, and
YOU never chirped. You stood in a
crowd of scoffers that sneered at
Jesus Christ, and if they had talked
that way about your mother you would
have knocked them down, and when
you have been asked to stand up and
publicly declare yourself, you have
gone out of here like the miserable old
turn that you are. You haven't
grit and courage. You have yellow
streak in you. You are a coward.
What must do to be saved?"
A friend of mine told me that he
was in town one time, sitting in front
Of the hotel, teetered back against the
wall, doing in the sun, when a fellow
came running down the sidewalk
lickety switch and another fellow after
him swapping gun and saying Halt!
Halt! Haiti" My friend said: whats
the matter?"
That's the sheriff trying to arrest
that man; he's a desperado"
Ny friend said: "1'll help him. LIE.
him deputize a lot of us fellows"
man walked up to my friend and
said: you're a tenderfoot. This town
is in two states. The state line runs
down the middle of the main street
That man is perfectly safe over there"
The fellow got across the street into
the other state and the sheriff hadn't
the power to arrest him. HE will
have to. go and get requisition papers
from the governor before he can get
out of his territory into another mans
territory"
Say! Here you ARE in the devils
territory. You want to be a christian.
God wants you to be. Your nature
cries out. How are you going to get
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