The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-05-07

Centuries ago Jesus Christ uttered
these words but they still have power
to save men from hell, because they
are from God and they reproduce
themselves, and they do it every day.
Still they are making drunkards
sober; still they are making liber-
tines pure; still they are knocking
infidels to their knees; still they are
causing me to change from trickery
to Jesus Christ, so the christian re-
Hgion is not a dogma, or doctrine, or
creed, but it centers about a personal
Christ.
You can preach Buddhism without
old Buddha; you can preach Moham-
mechanism without old Mohammed;
you can preach Confusianism with
out old Confusius. No matter what
kind of a man Confusius or Moham-
med or Buddha might have been you
will find a line Of teaching for every
devotee to follow not matter what the
individual might have been but not
SO with Jesus Christ.
World Without Christ.
Jesus Christ is the center, the cir
cumference and the nucleus of the
Bible. You can't preach christianity
with Jesus Christ. You can preach
Buddhism without Buddha and you
can preach Mohammedanism without
Mohammed, but you can't preach
christianity without Jesus Christ.
Without the life of Jesus there
would be no perfect teacher. without
the death of Jesus Christ there is no
atonement for sin, and without the
resurrection of Jesus Christ we have
staked out salvation on a dead Jew,
sleeping in the tomb of Joseph OF
Arimathea; so in Jesus 1 have my
f. Way, my Truth and my Life clear and
plain, and He comes to me and asks:
I stand at the door and knock, and
If you let me come in l will sweeten
your life where it is bitter, make ii
light where it is dark, where you
drink make o sober, where you
are a thief make you steal no more,
where you are a libertine make you
pure If you let me come into your
life, and / will show through you, %
the world that christianity is some
thing more than going through a little
Journalism and saying a few clikety-
click prayers when you go to church.
-CN 80 .SSAAAC III # lS S61NlES
God wants is service to humanity In
the name Of Jesus. / have got to
Come to God, accept Jesus Christ as
my Savior, before 1 can render any
service to God that amounts to g
snap of your finger.
Jesus Christ viii stand and knock
but if you want Him to come in you
have to open the door and invite
Him. If you don't He will never cross
the threshold. That's the reason He
has been waiting outside until some
of o men are g~rayheaded. He has
knocked, but you don't invite Him In
and He won't come in. Never viii
He do it.
Some have let Him in and hav,
shut Him up in the spare room. DID
you eve see a spare room? Have
you one in you home? Did you evel
sleep in one. Were you ever enter
tanned in a spare room. It's usually
the northwest corner room and they
keep it for preachers and evangelists
It's enough to give a man pneumonia
to look into a spare DON I'd Al
lief crawl in between two cakes o.
ice as to crawl in a spare room.
IF you are willing to pay the price
of a Christless life / have nothin,
more to say to YOU. l have preached
my mt Listen to me. You viii
gain some things by not being
christian. Yes, you will lose som,
things by being a christian.
II tell you, if you go t. hell, yol
ill have to go over every sermon
can preach, every song we sing, ever!
prayer that has been offered for you
il you go to hell. God has piled al
that in front of you. He said: BE
hold. l stand at the door and knock