The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-05-06

for the raw Will neauLlIy On IAS 49,
direction morn when sepulchres ana
tombs will crack open like chestnut
burrs and you will meet again those
that have gone on before.
Nov, we are certain that David
wrote this psalm, and we are certain
that he wrote seventy-one others that
bear his name.
Possibly David used to sing this Tor
old King Saul when he had the govt,
and when he felt grouchy, and I have
often tried TO imagine hearing David
sing it. and if he did sing it as a song
how he must have played emphasis
upon the personal pronouns.
The Lord is my Shepherd; | shall
not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green
pastures; He Ieadeth me beside the
still waters.
God had done all that for him and
that song was his experience.
1t is a great thing, sir, I don't care
who you are. Sit down and think OF
the benefits that have accrued to you
by and through christianity.
You yourself may be an old cusser,
an old booze fighter, an old libertine,
and yet there are benedictions and
blessings that surround you due to re-
ligion, not the religion you have lived,
but ecaus you lived in a community
where are religious influences.
And there it not a man and woman.
who is decent, that would live in Far
go or any other town if there were
no churches or christian influences.
What would it amount to?
You take the churches away and
drive the christian people out of Far
go and your real estate would not
be worth 10 cents on the dollar in
side Of six months,
1.-THE Lord is my Shepherd" The
word Lord" is printed in italics. 1t
means Jehovah.
reverence God that the name "Jeho-
yah" vas pronounced only once a
year and that on the great day OF
atonement and then only by the high
priest, after he had gone into the
Holy of Holes, screened and shielded
by the blood of the sacrifice.
If the Jews saw a piece Of pareh-
ment on the street they never would
step on it without STOPPING down and
looking on the under side, lest the
name Jehovah would be written there,
and by stepping IN that they would
show disrespect for God, so marvel
ously did they reverence God,
My, how we have changed in our
day. To listen to the conversation OF
the average group of me~ on the street
IL 49, ~wrA,,Il ALg-I- go
demon and a wretch and that H never
had a thought Of love toward people
to listen them drag His name in then
filthy conversation as they stand and
spew and vomit vi their oaths.
Died With Psalm on Lips.
Once a shepherd would pick up his
field glass and sweep the valley an6
see where the sheep were, and wher
they had wandered to a place beyond
safety he would speak to the collie
dog and say: isis, they are toe
far away; bring them back, will your
And she would hurry and take q
circuitous route and turn them all in.
to the foot hills. And he would smokt
and blink and dose and they would
roam and browse and feed, and ht
would pick up his field glass, and hi
would sweep the valley again and say
to the dog:
isis, get them again, will your
And she would hurry away and turr
them into the foot hills. From thai
eminence he sat and overlooked the
sheep.
Christ Always Sees You.
And Jesus Christ from the right
hand OF God, the Father, sees you
going into a booze joint every night
and blowing in your money. That:
the reason when hard times come
you haven't anything in the bank.
Jesus Christ saw you go into the
house of her whose door swings into
hell. He saw you laying your snaret
and pitfalls to rob that girl Of heI
honor. He saw you wandering away
You got tangled up in society. YOU
got crazy after the goddess cards and
the gang in Fargo that does
l. thing but fol their time away with
that fol-de-roL
You have drifted away from God
He saw you wander away and God SEM
it. Sometimes God sends a hearse
Sometimes He sends a white one
Sometimes the black plurnes nod from
the top.
You are too tangled up in business;
you are too crazy after society. Goo
wants to do something to try and gel
you and he is watching us from the
right hand Of God the Father.
A man says:
'Mr. Sunday, I would like to be a
christian, but / am so weak. I'm
afraid I'll slip and fall"
God will strengthen you in your
weakness il you will trust in Him.
It's the fellow that gets "chesty" and
says:
when I'm a christian, I'll show
you"
Yes. you old lobster. but why don't
you show us now?
Some Of o fellows have said:
When /" until you are gray-headed
Some # you have said:
When T." until the undertaken puts
you in the coffin.
God says, II you only had manhood
enough and womanhood enough t.
walk down the aisle and accept Him
His son., Jesus Christ says:
7 would feel myself repaid one
thousand fold for every thorn in the
brow. for every nail in my hands, FOL
every stone they hurled against me-. fo1
every oath they spewed and vomiteS
out, for all their bIasphemy."
God has been waiting for some 8,
you men and women to be decen,
enough to acknowledge that He ha,
been a help to you.
God pity your I wonder at God,s
mercy. wonder He doesn't damn
some of you In hell before morning.