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

wagon loads Of sermons.
They Were Warned.
They have been warned, but they
refuse to heed. Just as you men and
women sit there night after night.
1T is great because it is the only
salvation,
1.-THE scheme OF salvation, the COM
ing Of Jesus. are proofs positive that
God wants men and women to be saved
whether they will be saved or not, and
the reason men and women are not
saved is because OF their own free
choice of evil, not Gods desire to pun
ish them, and the bitterest dreg you
will have to mix in your cup is that
you have nobody to blame but your
self. If you are ver in hell, you will
have no mi to blame but yourself.
Years ago in Niagara Falls, four
men hired a boat, got fishing tackle
and whisky, got in the boat and were
seen to row to the Canadian side, and
as they rowed they drank the whisky.
They fished and drank, and then they
rowed the boat and fastened it to the
limb of a tree at the waters edge, but
the boat became loose and started
down the falls.
ut was overturned and three of the
men shot over the falls to their death.
1.-The other fellow seized a rock fifty
feet above the falls on the American
side and there he chung. Soon the re-
port spread. 1t was estimated that
10000 peopIer ushed down to look
inside Of an hour. A man offered $1,000
to anybody that would save him. The
mans name was Avery, and he was a
German, and his German friends had
painted in great, big black letters with
white background:
Hold on, Avery, we will rave you,'
but they fulfilled their promise.
For twenty-six hours that poor fell
low chung to that rock, when, worn out,
a huge wave struck the rock, dashed
the spray in his face, strangled him,
he threw his hands to his head and
with a shrek of agony heard above
the roar of the falls, he fell to his
death.
But poor Avery, clinging to that
rock, was not In one millionth part the
danger o are in without Jesus
Christ.
ut is great because 1t saves from
great sins. God uses the worst terms
He can find in order to tell you and
forgave them and He will forgive us.
A Chicago Story.
when / was secretary of the z. M.
G.. A. in Chicago / stood on the street
corner n Sunday night giving out
tickets inviting men to the mems
meeting in Farwell hall. Along came a
young fellow. I should Judge he was
80, who looked prematurely old, and
he said:
"sPard will you give me a diner
"I said:
"rNo, SIR
He said:
ct want to get something to eat
"I said:
"'You look to me as though you
were a booze fighter
81 am
ct said:
"Tll not give you money, but I'll
get you your supper
"He said:
"'Come on, / haven't eaten for two
days
my time is not my own until Il
o'clock. You so upstairs until then ano
III buy you a good supper and get you
a good, warm, clean bed in which to
sleep. but I'll not give you the money.
"He said:
THANK you, I'll co.
H stayed for the meeting, I saw ne
was moved, and after the meeting ]
stood by side. He wept and / talked
to him about Jesus Christ, and he told
me this story.
There were three boys in the fam
lily. They lived in Boston.
"The father died, the will was pro
bated, he was given his portion, took
it, started out drinking nj gambling.
At last he reached Denver, his money
was gone, and he got a position as
fireman in the Denver & Rio Grande
switch yards.
"His mother kept writing to him, but
he told me that he never read the let
tiers. He said that when he saw the
postmark and the writing he threw the
letters into the firebox, but one day. he
couldn't tell why, he opened the letter
and read 1t:
Dear : ] haven't heard from
you directly, but / am sure that YOU
must need a mothers care in the far
off west, and unless you answer this in
a reasonable time I'm going to Denver
to see YOU and she went on pleading
as only a mother could, n closed Il
Your loving mother
Destroyed Mothers Letter.
"He said:
81 threw the letter in the fire ane
paid no more heed to it. One da,
about two weeks later / saw a woman
coming down the track and I SAID
to the engineer, That looks like M,
mother
'She drew near and / said:
eyes, that's mother
What do you think / dida said,
"fWhy you climbed out of your en-.
CINE, kissed her and asked God to for.
!, give you.
HE said:
ct did nothing of the kind. / wa,
/, so low down, I wouldn't even speak t,
my mother. She followed me up ant
down the switch yards and even fol.
lowed me to my boarding house.
went up stairs. changed my clothes
came down, and she said:
.Frnak, stay and talk with me-
pushed by her and went out and spen
, the night in sin. / came back ia tn,
morning, changed my clothes and wen
: to work. For four days she folIowe,
me up and down the switch yards an,
then she said; Frank, you have brok
{ en- my heart. and / am going away to
! morrow.
HE said:
i Happened to be near the depo
with the engine when she got on th
train and she raised the window ar,
said: