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

revenue he's q moral pauper already
and has nothing to lose, I don't care
whether he ifs a millionaire broker IN
Wall streets or a niger crap shooter
in the cellar.
If you're In a business that would
go out when christianity ONE you're
in q mighty dirty stinlen business. old
man. Christianity never injured any
thing decent. Paul and Silas were
given ver to the jailor. The world
has to learn one thing.
You can imprison the messenger
but you can't stop his message any
more than you can sharpen a knife to
cut a sunbeam or put out a fire by
stopping your ears when the fire bell
rings.
Paul and Silas sans and prayed in
the jail and I'll bet it was the first
time those old walls had ever heard
anything OF the kind. They were
more accustomed to groans and curses.
Then God shook the jail as though
with a mighty wind and its walls fell
and h gates dropped from their
hinges.
1T was the law that If a jailor all
lowed his prisoners to escape he
should pay their penalty and the
Roman jailor was about to kill him
self with his sword when Paul shout
ed. Hold on! Do myself no harm.
We are all here
The jailor couldn't believe his eaTs
but rushed in with his lantern and
counted them n they were all there.
Then he fell down and cried in the
words of the text, What must / do to
be saved
Must Believe.
Paul didn't tell him to get elected
governor of North Dakota; get elected
congressman at large: buy a section
Of land in the Red river valley, or cor
ner the wheat market. He said, Be
lieve in the Lord Jesus Christ and
thou shalt be saved
Salvation means the bringing of a
person from an u~nfavorable condition
into n which is favorable. Sin is
transgression of the law and God has
the right to tell how to escape pun
ishment, and there is no chance for
the man who r~epudiates Gods plan.
Charles " one owed a large sum
of money which he could not pay and
the merchant, appearing before the
king, called for a platter and burned
the note. We are all mortgaged to
God and the note was due and we had
nothing to pay it with, but God held
it in the fire which streamed from
Calvary and said, Accept your bonds
man and escape punishment Saliva
ton to some people e a great
change, because they have lived in
wickedness while other men have lived
upright lives and their names were
good as government bonds, and they
were kind and generous and phi
lanthropie, and it doesn't mean such a
change to them.
God didn't cure the blind men all
alike. Some Of tenn he cured on the
installment plan, like you buy furn:-
ture, and some he cured instantly, but
it was all through faith in Jesus. The
ways of receiving salvation are as diff
ferent as the ways of healing the blind
men.
Some people have a deeper convic-
ton Of sin after they are converted
than before, and can tell the day and
hour they were converted, and others
grew up into christian lives and cam
tell when they were converted.
Some Are Emotional.
"Some people are emotional ant
show their feelings, but you can't SAL
q man isn't saved just because HI
doesn't 'boohoo.' He will have tn,
same disposition after he is converteC
as he had before.
Religion and Stomach Ache.
81 was holding revivaIs once and /
man came forward and sank into
seat, then dropped to his knees; anC
finally he fell on his face in the saw
dust. where he rolled and groaned anC
carried on at a great rate.
What's the matter with the Eel
Iow?, / asked.
"tHe's got religion a Methods
: preacher said.
Looks more to me as though h
!, had the stomach ache I told him.
Just then a great big, fine-lookin
man with a Prince Albert coat tina
. reached to his knees and a damon
in his shirt front as big as a hickor,
( nut came down and took my hand an
! said, Mr.. Sunday, I accept Jesu
/ Christ as my Savior
Nov would you say that the fel
, low lying upon his face and kickin
up the sand was more thoroughly o
, verted than the other? You could tie
, by his face and clothes that he ha
been up against the booze game, Will
the other had always lived q temper
ate life and convictions affected ther
I differently.
! t'The people in Africa never knee
! that they were black until they sa'
livingstone and his white friends.
breaches for No Church.
d 81 don't preach for any specis
8 church. My position Is like that OF
recruiting officer. / get them to en
list but I hasen't time to drill then
4 That belongs to the other fellow. It
my business to get them to hit tt
4 sawdust trail to the arms of God an
d it's up to the preacher to do the doc
trinating.
"I don't knock baptism or the cate
6 chism Of the Thirty-nine Articles I
Confession and / don't preach churc
unity. / preach christianity. Differ
emit denominations represent differei
i temperaments.
~ try to answer four questions. AL
y you saved? Are you Iost2 Are yc
2 going to heaven? Are you going
hell2
g ssSome little shallow pated sou
q stand up before God and try to arg,
q with him. They are like a skept
n / $3.50 A~MA - La-A#---L-.