The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-05-11

Kept his money for months. He came
to me n day and asked for 1t.
.slIe used to come to the noon meet
ings every day. Finally / missed him,
and I didn't see him again until I'm
June, 1898, during the worlds fair. he
walked into the Y. M. @. A.
II said:
" why Frank, how do you dor
He said:
" How do you know roe 2
ST said:
I have never forgotten you; how is
your mother?'
BE smiled, then his face quickly
chnaged to sadness, mad he said:
" she is across the street in the
Brevoort house. She is dying from
consumption. / am taking her to Cali
forria to fill her last days with sun
shine
Mother Died Happy.
Three months later, out in Pasa-
dena, she called him to her bedside,
drew him down, kissed him and said:
Good bye; / can die happy because
l know my boy is a christian.
With her body embalmed and her.
meticaIly sealed, he came back to Chi
cago on his way to Boston to bury her
in Mt. Auburn cemetery near the grave
Of the poet Longfellow, upon which /
have dropped tears and lowers.
ut is a great salvation hat a
reach down into the quagmire of filth,
pull a young mar out and send him
out to hunt his mother and fill her days
with sunshine. 1t is a great salvation,
for 1t saves from great sin.
'It's great. I want to tell you that
the way to heaven is a blood stained
way. No mar has ever reached 1t
without Jesus Christ and he never will.
" I'll tell you what I'll do
" 'what?'
" I'll cut out the booze and get on
the water wagon
{" Good, what else?'
I guess I'll quit my cussing.'
":All right. I think a man Is as low
down as he can get when he cusses,
What else?'
OF course I am a gambler; TIL
quit gambling, and I'll never touch a
pack of cards.
All right, what else?'
"He said:
=" II / quit these things ] think they
cover about all. I'll quit drinking,
swearing, stop gambling, and I'll quit
being impure
Il said:
Good, give me your hand and say
you'll accept Jesus Christ Is your
Savior
"He said:
" No, I won't. If I stop those things
I won't ned to do that
lis that so? That's mans way Of
salvation. Those are simply resolutions.
Resolutions have to do with the present
and the future, but never with the past.
"Supposing you owed a man $a5 and
you would go and say to him:
I've made up my mind that I'm
going ia pay cash for what l get from
now on
Good; I'm glad of that resolution.
But you owe me $25, what about that?'
'oh, If I pay cash from now on,
that will call us square,
You try to pay the debts you owe
God by simply reforming and see
where you lose out.
Must Pay Old Debts.
"Supposing a man in this town
would break into a building and crack
a safe. He would leave here mad GO
to another state and live a law abid-
ing citizen for ten years. The officers
of this country would hear Of it, arrest
him and bring him back for trial.
Would the fact that he had lived q
law abiding citizen for ten years atone
for the fact that ten years age he
cracked a safe?
mot much. No matter how a ma
lives from there up to here, it won't
atone for what he did from there UP
to here. Now. let me make that plain,
"You were born there. You reach
ed the gaze Of accountability here. The
law say when a boy is 6, Z or 8 yeras
old he knows right from wrong to the
extent that they can send him to a
reformatory. / pity the boys mother
who says he is too young to join the
church.
81 don't know what you have done,
but listen! You hear me preach, you
say I'll quit drinking, I'll quit lying, I'll
quit swearing, I'll quit being impure,
and you make those resolutions to-
night, and you start out of here, and
you live to reach that spot, it may be
a year or twenty years from tonight
when you die.
"You are lost or God lies.
"You are lost. Listen! What you dc
from the time that you reform and say
I'll quit doing from here up to the
time I die, what ! did from the time
that / reached the g that / knew
right from wrong until the time / made
the resolution that I would quit, what
YOU do from there up to here don't blot
out the fact that you sinned from there
over to here, mad there is nothing but
faith in Jesus Christ that can blot out
and make your record as though you
never had sinned from there to here.
" How shall we escape If we neglect
so great a salvation"
" It is great in it's pardon, forgive
ness. justification. God says:
/" I'll remember your transgressions
against you no more forever
" Sin shall not have dominion over
you
some men seem to think that they
would be happy If ouIy in heaven. II
God should reach down out OF HEAVIER
now and take you out of your seat ant
take you to hevaen without your frs
being saved, your attitude towards Goo
would not change one iota from what il
Is this minute when you sit and lister
to me. God has to get in your hear
by acceptance of Jesus Christ. Gods
nature has to come into 0 by repen-
lance and faith.
On the Wrong Boat.
'Down in front Of the Monongahels
house in Pittsburgh a boat az back.
ing away from the dock and a fellow