The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-04-22

Dllnu see the dbaI near ana the WINGS
obey His command, and He was a
wonderful man.
Other influences, the Jews and
other people brought pressure to bear
on PLATE and urged him not to yield.
The Jews had been very bitter against
him because of his cruel treatment to
them, and they had shortly previous to
that time sent a delegation to Rome
to see Caesar in an effort to de-
throne PLATE. Then PLATE, seeing
that the Jews had no love for
Jesus, saw a way to win back
their friendship and to drop the
charges they made to Caesar. PLATE
thought that If he did not have any
thing to do with Jesus the Jews would
like him and he could thus win back
their friendship. He was willing to
turn him out to the cut-throats to be
brutally murdered to win a few
friends. and so are some OF you people
in Fargo willing to do the same thing
to make friends with a few UNI
soaked degenerates.
A Man or a "Mutt."
PLATE knew Jesus was the son of
God, but he was afraid that If he
would acknowledge Jesus, Caesar
would chop his head off. Yet know
ing all these things, PLATE was willing
to turn him over to those low cut
threats aud murderers, a bowling mob
that took his life On the cross. 1t
was up to PLATE to see whether he was
a man or a mutt, on the square Of
a mollycoddle, and the same thing
faces you people today.
Seated on his throne, PLATE had
Jesus enter, and on seeing him said,
Are you Jesus, son of God?' And
Jesus replied, / am Now, Jesus
either was the son of God or a bas-
tard. Away with your Unitarian ideas
of Jesus. I would hate to have to
answer Il God il / were some OF you
Unitarians. / was taught that this
book is the book of God, and / be-
lieve everything in 1t. Yes, / would
certainly hate to be you Unitarians
that nave called Jesus a bastard.
Condemns Jesus.
Then PLATE asked for a basin of
water, and after putting his hands in
it said: find no fault with him, but
kill him quick There has come to
us from acros the sea a book written
by a man named Mcdonald, which is
a book from hell. PLATE is shown with
his hands in a stream of water. Seems
to me it is a joke for anyone to think
Of a stream running through hell. The
trouble with novels Of today is that
many of their writer's have wild ideas
about religion.
THE blood OF Jesus Christ was on
the hands OF PLATE, then and it is on
his hands in hell tonight. PLATE
knew Jesus was right, yet he did not
have enough nerve to tell that howl
ing, bloodthirsty mob so. Had he done
SO Pilates name tonight would go
rulers in the world. What If he would
have been a martyr.
80 are some Of you people false to
Jesus. You believe in Him but you
have not the nerve to acknowledge
Him. You should pray God to give you
two strong legs so that you could hit
the trail Why. some Of you seem
to have locomotor ataxia.
"They they took Jesus before Herod
and Herod thought Jesus was some
kind Of a sleight of hand performer
or a chautauqua entertainer or some
thing like that. Then he asked Jesus
and Jesus did not reply. They put a
wreath of thorns on His head and sent
Him back to PLATE. / can just see
that dirty woman around the chariots
with Herod and can hear John, the
Baptist, tell Herod that he should not
have the wife OF another with him.
Herod wanted Jesus but he wanted
that woman. Just like a lot Of men
today do. 1t is Jesus Christ or nothing.
"Once there was an infideI whose
father and mother were inadels. A
preacher asked him to come to church
and he did. The preacher asked him
why he could not become a christian
If he was no longer an inideI and the
man replied that he was a dope fiend.
IF there are any dope 1ends here
tonight, you can get away from 1t
with Gods help.
Lives Forever.
Jesus Christ is mightier than Ma
poleon, Caesar, Washington, or any
other man. You go out to the grave
yard and see on the tombstones the
names Of men in Fargo hat were the
leaders of the city twenty-five years
ago. They are forgotten; you never
hear OF them today. Their names are
gone and forgotten. but Jesus name
stands forever.
I'VE will have other famous paint
| ers, generals, rulers, etc., but Jesus
viii stand forever. I don't ask you
to worship a dead Jew In a tomb, but
the reigning Jesus Christ.
Concluding his sermon, Rev. Mr..
Sunday delivered one Of his very inn
pressive prayers. He said: Jesus,
oh, Jesus, Jesus, Oh, Jesus, ! have
tried to uphold you. I am so tired /
think / will fall. / want to preach for
you n to try and save the people of
Fargo. Now let US become Christians
After asking the blessing on the peo-
Pile Mr.. Sunday asked for converts, and
119 "hit the TRAIL
The Sermon to Men.
The text of the afternoon meeting
for men was Psalms civ, 80, LET the
sinner be consumed u Of the earth
and let the wicked be no more" He
said in part:
This is a peculiar verse Of scripture,
but I did not choose II because OF
that, but because 1t contains a thought
/ want to develop in my message to
you today. There is no verse ii the
scripture misunderstood or misinter-
preted more than that, and many a
man gives that as his reason for going
to hell. When David offered that
prayer, a fragment of which I have
| chosen for my message today, he
said, Let the wickedness Of the
world come to an end"
Let the people keep the law. IL