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

you until you are willing to forsake sin.
You've got to choose between sin and
salvation.
remember one night in Elgin, ILL.,,
walked into the audience to. clean
cut, good-looking young fellow, and =
said: Good evening" He said:
"Howdy."
I said:i 'Are you christians
what church do you belong to?"
sNone."
when did you confess Jesus
Christ?''
Il never did. I don't need to con-
fess him nor join the church."
| said: ssYou are not christian"
That's a matter of difference of
opinion"
said: ITS a matter of revelation,
not of opinion. It's the word of God.
You are not christian at ALL" /
looked at his coat and saw he was
"a Mystic Shriner, a Mason. ] saw his
button, and said:, II see you are a
Mason"
Yes, SIR"
"a Mystic Shriner?"
Yes, sir"
"Supposing you say to me, Mr.. Sun
day, are you a Mason? Yes
What lodge?" mot any; never
joined" Ever pay your dues?" mo,
SIR" Ever initiated?" mo, SIR" I
am just as good a Mason as you are
christian. If stand up here and
tell you that I am a Mason when I've
never been initiated, never paid my
4 dues. never Joined, would lie, and if
you stand up here and tell me you
are christian when you have never
accepted Jesus Christ or Joined the
church, you lie. God has just as good
right to tell you what to do to be
saved as men have to tell you what
to do to be a Mason, or an Odd Eel
low, or an Elk, or any other lodge.
NO matter how much l believe in Ma
sorry, that doesn't make me a Ma
son until I am initiated and nav nv
dues. No matter how much you believe
In christianity. that doesn't make you
christian until you accept and ack-
nowledge Jesus Christ as YOUR savior.
lie said Mr.. Sunday, thank you"
1 never had it put up to me in such a
common sense way in my life"
!
Eyes, sir" He turned to the two
young men sitting by him, about IA and
IL Years old, and he said: "Roys. it's
time we were heading in; come on"
He walked down the aisle with his
two sons and they accepted Jesus Christ
as their savior and joined tine Cuuyre-
gational church in Elgin.
Some people won't give I'm their
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for them. have no hesitancy in tell
ing you that you can't hold on 10
Jesus Christ and the mug of beer at
the same time.
Some won't give up their adultery.
1here is no salvation for them. You
can't hold on to Jesus Christ and that
woman you are living with In sin at
the same time.
some won't give up their lying
I'There's no salvation for you. You will
nave to admit you are a lost sinner
Some are so proud of their morality. of
their social standing, or of their money
which gives them sort of respectable
lily that they wouldn't have without
IT, Some are SO proud of their culture
OF their education and Of their manner
ana OF their clothes, but unless YOU
are willing to acknowledge you are a.
sinner, there is no salvation for YOU
what must do to be saved?" Come
unto me-, says Jesus--not the church.
Come unto me"-not the thirty-nine
articles. Come unto me"-not the
rector Come unto me"-not the
BISHOP Come unto me"-not the
priest. Come unto me''-not the pre-
siding elder. Come unto me"-not the
pope. Come unto me"-not the car
alfai' Come unto me-" Jesus Christ,
and l will give you rest"
Walking with the army doesn't make
man a soldier. Carrying a gun
doeshf make man a soldier. Wear
ing uniform doesn't make a man a
soldler. Before a man can become a
solder he has to stand out on muster
day and take the oath of allegiance
what must I do to be saved?"
Philosophy has never answered II.
inhdelity mocks at 1t. Gods answer
is plain: by grace you are saved
thru Jesus Christ" believe on the
Lord" Let Him be king in your life
Ihou shalt call His name Jesus and
11e snall save His people from their
slhs. 1t takes q Jesus to save YOU
and to stand by you after. Give me a
Savior, one that has a sympathetic
eye that can see what am up against:
one that will help me when I am
ABOUT to slip; a Savior that has an ear
that can hear the slightest sigh that
arises from my lips to be decent. Give
me Savior that's what 1 want, not
some laborious dissection and jargon
Of meaningless sentences. / want a
Savior. Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ" What for? He is at the right
hand of God, the Father. He is the
goes between. am mediating. I am
standing between God and this audi
ence. ! am standing as Gods mes
senger. A mediator is anybody that
go between. 1 am mediating. / am
mediates between the wholesale house
ana the retailer-the grocery store
ana tho grocer mediates between the
wholesale house and the seller. A fell
low sits down to milk cow He is
the mediator between the udders and
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