The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-05-08

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pray"
Il will do nothing Of the kind
And with an oath he walked back
to the bar end drank several glasses
Of whisky and then threw down the
money and went out pouring forth
oaths. Bitter malignity.
Second, Indifference. Sermons will
fall as unheeded on the ears as il II
was water dropping on q steel plate,
have never said all unbelievers
would suffer, but / am not much Of
a believer in death=bed repentance,
It's q pretty mean trick to cast the
dregs Of g mis-spent life in the face Of
God.
I don't go much on death bed re-
pentanee. AS a rule as a man lives he
viii die, Here's another thing. Don't
get mad when you ask 3 preacher to
conduct the funeral services Of a
member OF Q u family and he doesn't
pack the funeral sermon up with q
lot of lies that viii boost the dead mar
into heaven. You know he is friyzling
in hell. An old physician told me
out of 800 unbelievers he only remena
bered three death-bed r~epentances.
In his days on earth Ingersoll said:
IF God cannot forgive sin. He is
not divine. r. He will not forgive, He
is not lovable.'
Is that SO? 7 win prove that it
isn't out OF the mouth of Ingersoll
himself. God says, "AH manner Of
sins will / forgive
Suppose there is here tonight q
thief, will God forgive you?
He says All manner Of sin He will
forgive.
When Wanamaker was postmaster
general of the United States, one day
he received q letter like this;
Thief Returned Half Bills.
my Dear Sir; / send you today a
bundle of half bills. lThe man had
taken some money and cut the bills IN
two in the middle.l / send you today
half bills to the amount of s1.5a0 to
be sent to the treasury of the United
States to be matched with half bills
that they have there. defrauded
the government postefRce twelve years
ago, and / want to return the money
and right the wrong
All manner of sin-God will forgive
you.
All manner of sin He will forgive,
"A man was travelling through France
and the first place he visited was the
Louvre. Everybody who goes to
France visits two places, always the
tomb Of Napoleon and the Louvre. He
looked upon those paintings, magnih-
cent masterpieces, and he stood In
front of a painting and looked at the
face of Jesus. The guide touched him
on the shoulder and said:
"You are like all other tourists, you
stand and look at the face of Christ;
look at the face of the kneeling woman
at his feet. He lowered his eyes and
looked at the Woman It was Mary
out of whom he had cast the devil.
However much the enmity of the
people against Christ, they could not
drive her away from him. All manner
of sin will be forgiven.
Sunday illustrated with a story
about q fallen woman who was told
that sins 'even as scarlet would be
forgiven her. He continued:
A friend of mine was preaching out
in Iowa n time and a a came te
him after the meeting and said:
"Win you talk to me for half ar
hour?" MY friend said he wouldn'
for $50, he said he was so tired.
The man said;
ST have been here to the meeting:
every night for eight nights and
haven't closed my eyes and / haven
tasted food, and I think 1 will die
My friend told him to come to his
room at 10 o'clock and he would give
him five minutes. The man said;
"If I am alive l will be there
The next morning at 10 O'clock
there was = rap at my friends deor
He said:
"Step in"
And in stepped the mar with whom
he had had the conversation the night
before. MY friend said:
We'll, sir, what can | do for your
The fellow said:
81 am a murderer
Confessed a Murder,
"Stop, I cant sit here and listen t.
you for I would become an -accesser,
after the fact. 7 can't listen to YOU
story without telling the officers
The man said:
! know all about that, and ! an
ready to 60 on the scaffold, or ] an
ready to go 70 the ~penitentiary fol
life, and ! VIII die II / keep this II
myself. ! feel better after having
told Just this much"
We'll" said my friend, with tn,
understanding that / can make THU
known to the officials you can 81
ahead with your story. Otherwise,
don't want to hear what you hav,
to say