Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-25
TAYLOR STRIKES
STRAIGHT FROM
The SHOULDER
SAYS YOUR WIFE'S MONEY MAY
KEEP YOU OUT OF THE POOR
HOUSE, BUT HER RELIGION
WON KEEP YOU OUT OF
HE'LL"

The tabernacle was we'll filled
again last night, the singing by the
! chorus choir was excellent, the or
chestra delighted the audience with
/ fine selection, Rev. Davis Errett
offered the opening prayer, Mr.. Veg
ner sang 81 Am Satisfied With Je-
sus, Is He Satisfied With Me?" very
! effectively. Mr.. Taylor took occa-
sion to pay his respects to certain
people who are circulating reports
/ calculated to keep people away from
! the meetings and especially one in
which it is charged that Mr. Taylor
| had held up a five dollar gold piece
and said that he wanted every man
| in the tabernacle to come prepared
to give that much to him next Sun.
! day afternoon. Mr.. Taylor denied
unqualifiedly that any such express
sion had been made and said that
not only would no person be COM
! PEELED to pay anything to get into
the tabernacle, but that no person
would be compelled to pay anything
for hts services against his will. He
| also remembered the author of an
| UNANIMOUSLY obscene screed which
! had been written and passed in the
tabernacle in a way that would
surely set the man who was the au-
hor of it to thinking.
The subject of Mr.. Taylor's SER
mon was after the Funeral
WHAT" His text was from He
brews 9:27 ut is appointed to
men once to die and after that the
/ judgement" Mr.. Taylor said in
| part: Every man must die. We
know that that part of the text is
! true. If God told the truth in that
! part of the verse, why not accept the
other part You cannot prove to me-
that you will live through this night.
You may, be even now in the shadow
of your coffin. The gospel is a
warning light which may mean
either danger or safety according to
the position from which we look at
it. If you were in a contracting
cell such as was made for the pur-
pose of torture in the olden times,
and should see the cell steadily con-
tracing, and knew that it was only
matter of little time when it
would crush out your life, you
would be thankful to me if l should
open the door and tell you that you
were free Jesus sees us in the con-
tracing day of grace that is fast
narrowing us down to the time when
we must pass into eternity and says,
81 will give you life, liberty, saliva
ton. l do not want to depend on
any guess work when 1 cross the
bar. / want to know with Paul that
there is no condemnation to them
which are in Christ Jesus. wish
that 1 might say something that
would shock you and set you to
thinking. There is little use in
preaching a sermon on swimming to
a drownded man. The funeral SER
mon is of little use to the man un-
der the coffin lid. I want to preach
your funeral sermon while you are
still alive and it can do you some
good. Shakespeare says, For in
the sleep of death what dreams may
Gomez" After the funeral-What?
THE Bible says every man shall
give account Of himself before God"
You cannot do this by proxy Your
wife's money may keep you out of
the poor house. but her religion
won't keep you out of hell Your
fathers politics may put you in Of
fee, but your mothers religion
won't put you into heaven l would
rather have standing room in heaven
than to own the universe and be
lost soul. There are many things in
the bible that we cannot understand, |
but We can understand that God is f!
ready to save us if we will let Him |
do so. Some of You sreer at God 7
and think you can cheat Him. oh, |
that | had words to paint the judg- |
ment, the lightnings flashing, the |
elements in turmoil, the world melt
ing with a fervent heat. Come on |
you who have trusted in sophistries
and false reason, look at the skele- !
tons of your missed opportunities. |
you who have trusted in your day /
books instead of your bible, in gold |
instead of God, come up and see
what fool you were. Your only /
hope is in the mercy of God Accept |
His mercy before 1t Is too late.