The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-05-10
Sunday Told Of Heaven
and How to Get There
IA We're Converted
CONTINUED rrrom pare one.
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WOuku ne a 100 ana you TOO II you
would make a similar choice. There's
lots of things money can't do. Money
can't buy life; money can't buy health.
"A steamer tied up at her wharf,
having just returned from an expedi-
ton, and as the people walked down
the plank their friends met them to
congratulate them on their success or
encourage them through their defeat,
when down came Mr.. Lippy, formerly
secretary of the Fargo Y. M. c. A.
Friends rushed up and said, why, we
hear that o were very Fortunate
Eyes, wife and / left here six
months ago with hardly anything. Now
we have $250,00O in gold dust in the
hold of the ship
Then somebody looked around and
said, Mr.. Lippy, where is your little
boy?'
The tears rolled down his cheeks
and ne said, We left him buried on
the banks of the Yukon, beneath the
snow and ice, and we would gladly
part with all the gold if we only had
our boy
But all the wealth Of the Klondike
could not open the grave and put that
child back in their arms. Money
can't buy the peace of God that pas
seth understanding. Money can't take
the sin out of your life.
He Who Courts Death.
"Is there any particular kind Of life
you would like? If you would, live 100
years you wouldn't want to die would
you? 1 wouldn't. / think there is
always something the matter with the
fellow that wants to die.
go to your philosopher. He It Is
that reasons out the problems and
mysteries of life by the application Of
reason. Say to him, Good philosopher,
l have come to you for help. I
want to live forever and you say that
you have h touch-stone of philos-
ophy and that you can describe and
solve and dissolve doubts and mys-
terles. Can o help me?'
H says to you: Young man, my
hair and my beard have grown long
and as white as snow, my eyes are
dim, my brow is wrinkled, my form
bent with the weight of years my
bones are brittle and I am lust as
far from the solution of that mystery
and problem as when / started. I too.
sir, must die and sleep beneath the
sod.
Cannot Buy Salvation,
Il go to the millionaire and I say,
oh, man Of wealth, you will not die,
you can bride death. You bribed legis-
latures, city councils, you nave bribed
law makers and congressman. Ger
tainly you can bribe death? Tell me,
I want to live forever
| HHn saws IT ran hir. AZ ISzA SA-..
on both sides of the Atlantic and I
can, bring to my beside the skill of
the world, but ali! they can't prolong
life.'
"In my imagination I have stood by
the bedside Of the dying Pullman pail
ace magnate. George M. Pullman,
whose will vas probated at $40, 900, 900
and I have said, oh, Mr.. Pullman, you
will not die, you can bribe death. And
1 see the pupils Of his eyes dilate, his
breast heaVes, he gasps-and is no
more.
II wan to show the absolute and
utter futility of pinning your hope 10
a lot Of fool things that will damn
your soul to hell. There is only n
way: AS Moses lifted UP the serpent
in the wilderness, even so must the
son of man be lifted up, that whose
ever believeth in Him should not per-
ish, but have everlasting life.' Search
the annals Of time and the pages Of
history, and where do you find prom
ises like that? Only upon the pages Of
the Bible do you find them.
"Lots of people will acknowledge
their sin in the world, struggle on
1ysf1oar,+ Taut1u HtI,~9ok - l. ALas, Nn.k
to live honorable, upright lives. Your
morality will make you a better man
or woman, but it will never save your
soul, in the world.
THAT which is flesh is flesh, no
matter whether it is white or black,
no matter whether it is cultivated flesh
or ignorant flesh, 10 matter whether it
is P. E. o. flesh or common, ordinary
flesh. That which is flesh is flesh, and
all your culture, all your l~iteraries, all
your lodges, all your money on God
Almighty's dirt a nev change your
nature. That's got to come by and
through repentance and faith in Jesus
Christ. That's the only way of trying
to get into heaven, and there's only one
way to do and that is by and through
repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.
Morality Won't Save.
Morality doesn't saw anybody.
Your culture doesn't a you. / don't
care who you are or how good you
are, if you reject Jesus Christ you are
doomed. God hasn't one plan of sal
walton for the millionaire and another
plan for the hobo. He has the same
plan for everybody. God Isn't going to
ask you whether you like it or not
either. He isn't going to ask your
opinion of His plan. There it is and
we'll have to take as God gives it
You get out Of your head as quickly
as you can the idea that God owes
i you salvation. Some people seem to
think that God will be so pleased with
their superior attainments as a reward
of merit.
When ! was a little boy out in
Iowa, at the end of the term Of school
it was customary for the teachers tc
give us little cards, with a hand in one
corner holding a scroll, and in that
scroll was a place to write the name
Willie Sunday, good boy Willie
Sunday never got hump shouldere6
Juggling them home, / can tell you.
never carried off the champion long
distance belt for verse quoting, either
The Divine Plan.
"You are mistaken in Gods plan Of
salvation. Some people seem to think
God is like a great big ~bookkeeper III
heaven, and that he has a whole lot