The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-04-10

and throat and others confne their
attention to specific diseases. All of
them specialists. And SO there are
SPECIALISTS who are preaching the word
of God. They are evangelical spe-
cialists-evangelists.
Mr.. Sunday sprinkIed in a few
amusing little stories now and then
that kept his audience c~onvulsed with
laughter. He decr1ed the idea of rails
ing boys and girls in the thought they
were christians and church members
simply because they had been bap-
tised, confirmed and knew their cat
echisms by heart.
THAT doesn't make christians out
OF them any more than a mummy can
speak OF bear children hi shouted.
Then he related some funny expert
ences of his about the duarrels of two
Presbyterian ministers in a town
where he went to hold a revival which
entertained his listeners until he was
ready to spring his next dose of cold
facts.
"Dont Sidetraek God"
THE trouble with our churches to-
day is that the church has Joined the
world and not the world joined the
church." said Mr. Sunday, America
needs a panic of religion. No nation
will stand that puts God in on the
sidetrack n then locks the switch.
All of them have fallen-Babylon,
Rome, Greece Il all those other CIV
citations.
"In this revival 1 am against the
world, the flesh n the devil. And J.
mean that in every sense of those
words. I'm against the whisky gang
that has deiled my character and
the character Of my wife n four
children. I've been twenty-five years
building UP my character and I'm not
going to let that gang of moral assas-
sins get-me.
II went into the store of a Fargo
merchant today and told him 1 heard
he had said certain things about me
and that If he said them he was a
dirty degenerate liar. / told my wife
and four children I'd take care of her
husband and their father and / mean
to do it."
The Great E~vanseIists.
Mr.. Sunday named over the great
evangelists of modern times. begin
ming with Roberts, the Welsh miner.
DR.. Torey, Chapman and Gypsey
Smith. He said the Lord had called
on these men when it was said there
was no more need of r~evivals in the
world and that they had all responded
and had saved thousands and thou
sands of souls.
do you think I'd come here all
these 900 miles if I didn't believe in
what / preach? If / don't live UP to
what 1 preach I'll leave the platform
tomorrow. / want to try to make 1t
easier for men to do right, try to
make it easier for my three boys to
do right. That's what / want to do.
go IN working this way, that I'll be
"The doctors tell me l oughtn't to
dead before my time. They urged me
not to come here to Fargo. but to go
to a hospital for an operation, but !
wanted to come, for / may grow old
soon enough, and / want to bring men
to Christ. And the way to bring men
to Christ is through a revival. You
can't scald a hog in ice water. And
the trouble with the church is that il
has been sc dignifed that it's petri-
fled.
What we want is a tidal wave OF
redemption. l believe in a revival for
better homes, a revival for more mer
in the ministry, for there are few
young men today who can be persuad-
ed to enter the ministry for it offers
such a starvation salary. DO you know
the poorest paid people in our coun-
try today are the ministers and the
public school teachers? 2" The latter
remark was greeted by much ap-
plause throughout the front of the
house.
Follow Phillips Brooks.
What we want today are more mer
like Phillips Brooks, the great Episco-
palian minister, who fired men to be-
come ministers. We want men who
will follow in his footsteps, who will
give the call of God to young meT
who will become fired with the de-
termination to go out and spread
Gods word"
In his closing remarks MT. Sunday
said he didn't want the praise 81
every man but relished having this
enmity of the kind who belonged t
the devils forces. He said recently
during his revival in Canton, o.. hi
had been requested to speak at the
Mckinley memorial services and thai
I6 Qdu UFGu LOAQ tIAL 4irt WLtA w AAh41lL
Mckinley, had been one or the only
two men who had been able to spiritu-
ally move a certain citizen Of thai
city.
Two very dramatic and thrilling
stories concluded the evening. One
was an incident In the life Of BenJa-
min Harrison who once helped a cir
cult judge in Indiana to accept
christian life. And the other was ths
story OF Ed Spencer. the Northwestern
student at Evanston who saved 81
many lives in d wreck on Lake Michi-
gan and who had been compelled Il
give up his life's ambition because q
his energies on that occasion and wht
had not been thanked by q single on
he had saved,
That's the way you've been will
Cod" said Mr.. Sunday. you've M
thanked Him yet for saving you"
And he asked everybody to turn GU