The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-04-17

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Revival Diseases"
I know a lot of fellows, too, who
feel ten times worse now than they
did a week ago. Ask some Of those
old sinners to come to the tabernacle.
and one will say: II can't stand the
crowd; / would have nervous prostra-
ton It's wonderful how many dis
eases they get when there is d revival
on. just pra God to give you d back
bone SO that you can walk in that
door and stay there and take your
medicine. Pray God to give you legs
TO walk in paths or righteousness.
Some will say: Il see you are GO
ing to the tabernacle. l think Sunday
10 q wonderful entertainer. It's SO In
teresting to see the expressions on the
faces OF the people. / like to 90 to
study human nature. Yes. It's a won
derful place" You know that's a lie.
You know that your heart Is reaching
out after something you haven't got.
and you are wonderfully disturbed
over your sins. Keep on coming. n /
tell you God will get you sure.
| once heard of a young fellow who
look his bride to Chicago on the hon
eyrnoon. They ven to the theatre
the first night, and the next night he
went back and bought the same W
seats for the same show. He went
back night after night for one whole
week, every night buying the same
seats for the same show. until he ex-
cited the attention Of both the man.
agement and the actors, as well as
the actresses. The next night he ask
ed the ellow at the ticket Office If he
had those same seats, and he said:
Yes, and I'm glad to sell them to YOU:
would be glad to sell you the whole
house, but If you will tell me what
brings you here. night after night. to
buy the same seats for the same play.
you VIII crafty my curiosity" Said
the fellow: You know that part of
the play, where the husband comes
home and almost catches that fellow
in the house with his wife ?" yes
Wen, If the son-of-a-gun keeps that
up much longer he's going to get.
caught, and I want to be here when
it happens
There are a lot of fellows today
VINO have religion enough to make them
miserable. They have enough to 60
to church and get their names on the
church record, but they haven't enough
to pay their debts, or enough to let
another mans wife alone. Just have
enough to get their names on the
church record. That's the way a lot
of old sinners are living today. I
am almost afraid to say something to
make some of them laugh. I pity
anyone who can't laugh. There must
be something wrong with their religion
or their liver. The devil can't laugh.
God likes to have a little fun. That
is seen by the fact that he made the
monkey, the baboon, the donkey-and
some Of you people.
That is why you ought to have fam
lily prayer, so as to have something to
keep your mind on God. That's why
we have churches and Y. M. c. AS.
Out in Iowa a fellow came up n
day and spread on the platform a
napkin as big as a young tablecloth.
He said: Il want a lot of shavings
and sawdust." What for?' I'll tell
you. / a enough to make a sofa
pillow. Right there / knelt and was
converted, and my wife, my four chill
dren and my neighbors were ave
ed. Now o are going to close the
meetings and go away, and after to-
morrow the tend will come down and
| would like to have enough shavings
and sawdust to make a sofa pillow to
have something in my little home to
help me keep my mind on God. 1
don't want to forget God, or the meet
ings, or that / have been saved. Can
you give me enough to make a pill
low?" yes, indeed, and il you want
enough to make a mattress, take IL.
If it will help you to keep your mind
on God. Anything to do It," That is
why l like to have people come down
to the front and publicly acknowledge
Jesus Christ. / like to see a man step
UP to the front and say that the best
he knows how, he is going to try and
be a christian.
/ one time read or an evangelist in
the south. He was a mighty power
Of God. Abe and his wife used to
fight before he became a preacher. ono
one would fight after they became a
preacher). Abe and his wife used to
quarrel, and here was the trouble,
Abe's wife was an ~Episcopalian and
Abe a Methodist. Abe said to his wife:
See here, now, you have no religion
down at your church. All they do is
read the prayers. Why don't they a
them like we do?" Abe's wife said:
Look here, I've watched your life and
my life and I've made up my mind
that it isn't my church or your church,
or whether we read our prayers and
You say your prayers. but it's the kind
of a life we live, and I'm compelled
to say, without egotisn, that ! live q
better life than you do. It's the kind
of a life you live. If you would come
up to our church and get some religion,
you wouldn't fuss with me-" It made
Abe mad and he walked out, and the
devil said to him: go back and give
her a blowing up" Abe said: sPll do
it." But when ne got to the door the
good spirit seemed to say, Don't do
it" And the good spirit prevailed.
Abe went out into the yard and thought
it all over. He walked around the
ash hopper. Can ash-hopper is a
thing you build with four sides. small
at the bottom nj large at the top, and
is %grooved, and you put it on a slant
ing platform and fill It with hickory
ashes, and then pour water on the
ashes and let the water percolate
through, and that makes I've, ana out
Of that I've you make soap, good, old
fashioned soft soap. and you don't
know anything about it until you have
washed with that soap. There are a
lot Of people that can make .liep with
out water and ashes). Abe went out
and got down behind the ash hopper
and commenced to pray. and he said: