The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-05-13

twenty Of them burst through the at
tempted barriers and stood in front OF
the building, laughing and jumping UP
and down, and before hands could be
laid upon them eight of them had
leaped into the flames and were con-
sumed.
But l think that is a type of insan-
ity prevalent even now. Men and
women seem to be inviting Gods judg-
ment. God is doing all He can to push
you away and some of you are doing
all you can to get into hell, while He
is doing all He can to keep you out.
+ / believe many have come to this
meeting tonight with an honest desire
to serve God, but you have put off
yielding to Christ, and tonight there
are scores, yes, hundreds of you, with
out Christ, and If Gods judgment
would fall on you, hell would be your
portion. But 1 pray God may come to-
night and end the struggle.
Who is the man or woman who can
honestly tell me that tomorrow" has
never interfered with you, or your life.
or your plans? ..
The thing that has no real exist
ence, the day you will lever see. You
say: Tomorrow 1 will do this and
that"
You should yield yourself to Jesus
Christ. You have said, Il will tomor-
row." ..f ,
It's no use to spin our words in an
ANALYSIS. of the thief of time. Take this
for your motto;
ST will not think of tomorrow. MY
possessions are of today, and ! will do
all 1 can today. 1 will not lull myself
to sleep for tomorrow will never
come"
Tomorrow is a soft couch upon
which multitudes lie down and never
awaken. 1t takes an effort of the
brain to say:
81 will"
Ought to Accept Christ.
You ought to accept Christ for sew
eraI eason
First: Because by so doing you
would be relieved of the burden of sir
in this life as well as the dread ol
The future consequences Of sin, an1
every man and woman bearing thai
burden of guilt, by yielding to Jesus
would be relieved Of the sin, for there
is not one that does not know tina
to have one u~nforgiven sin in your life
you stand in the awful peril of Gods
judgment. There is not a person here
tonight that doesn't know that yol
could submit to God by faith, coult
forsake the Vilest sins if you woulC
submit to God by faith in Jesus Christ
It is said Of Sir Walter Raleigh
when they led him to the block and h,
placed his head thereon, the execu
toner, through kindness, said to him
"Sir Walter, how lieth the head"
He replied:
ut matters little how lieth the heat
SO long as the heart condemneth the
not"
Your heart has grown hard, until
If YOU keep on, in a degree you vii
become like Gibbs, the pirate of ole
When he stood on the scaffold, h
said:
Finally Grew Hard.
"When / started on my mad, will
career, the thoughts of it troubled m
until I could neither eat nor sleeI
When we went up by the side of tn
first vessel and made fast and too
the first life, for days / couldn't ca
nights g couldn't sleep. The FAC
haunted me until / almost cast my
self into the sea, l was so troubled.
"But / went on, driven by avaric
and greed, until I grew SO hard ths
we could come up by the side of
ship. tie to it, rush over on the dec
and lake children and M Iii
them over the gunwale and hurl theI
into the sea and then stand and laug
until the tears ran down my cheek
watching them struggle and see tn
sharks cut them to shreds as the
fed on them.
II got so hard that we could rnuI
der passengers and crew, and with til
deck slippery with blood, with dea
bodies lying about me, / could take
, corpse for a pillow and lie down an
sleep for nine hours and never awake
Think what a man had to do
get a heart like that.
Think Of the ermon you ha'
had to resist, the tears and the plead
) ings to which you have had to a n
II has taken years to get into II
hardened condition that many of yc
!. here tonight are in. Listen! If
were you and had made up my mir
that I never would be a christian.
| would leave the building now.
II / were you and had made up n
mind that | never would be a chris
ian, I would leave the building nc
If I were you and had made up n
t mind that I never would be a christia
would run from anyone who spoil
{ Of religion. and If ] heard a churs
j bell toll a funeral I would stop n
/ ears. and IL ever ! saw crepe from
! door knob or q hearse going down Il
street I would shut my eyes and
/ never would darken q church door
III ] wouldn't so within the sound
the voice Of q preacher it / had ma,