The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-05-08

God says:
my spirit will not always strive
with man.
No n act, but constant repetition
of the same thing. Let me illustrate.
No matter what Jesus said or did,
the Jews r~epudiated and spurned him.
He stepped to the grave of Lazarus
and said:
Come forth"
And he said to the Jews:
rs that enough to prove that I am
the Son of God?'
And they said:
Away with Him.,
No matter what sermons, or who
pleads with you, Or who sings. you re-
to accept until God will ask you
for the last time to do 1T.
May aefuss toe Long.
A woman who used to be in a Meth
odist church in Indiana told this Incl
dent. She was working in a town and
preached, and in one of the meetings a
young lady, a leader Of society, she
tried to induce to be a christian, hut
she spurned her. And the last night of
the meeting came, and my friend went
down and talked with her thres times.
but she said, mo"
Later she saw her turn to her conn
panion and draw a pencil, and pull out
q hymn book, and write something on
the fly leaf. She went and plead with
her again, but she still said, mo-"
Eight months afterwards my friend
went back to this same town, and they
said:
You remember Miss b., W |, she is
dying. Won't you go and see her2'
As my friend entered the bedroom
and the girl saw her, she said;
didn't send for YOU, you are too
late. If you will go to the church
where you held the meetings and find
the hymn book YOU will learn the rea-
son. They got the book and on the fy
leaf they found this written:
7 will run the risk; ] will take my
chance"
When she wrote that and dropped
the book the spirit OF God left that
quick, 1t was the last call that God
ever gave her,
This revival campaign is the call to
the people of Fargo. / believe
there are people in this city whom God
is letting live through this campaign
that they might have a chance for sal
walton.
Xou never hear a sermon preached
that God does not call somebody for
the last time to turn from sin.
Who can commit it?H
used to think only an immoral man
or the lowest down people on earth,
but listen:
Who did Jesus Christ warn?
The Pharisees, and who were they?
The people with the best morals.
There Is not a man that is looking In
my face who has a higher standard
of morality. You nay be man enough
to defend all that is noble, and defend
this meeting and you may be my best
friend, and you may believe in the
Bible and religion. but let God try
to get into your heart and induce YOU
to walk down this aisle ana get an
acknowledgment from you that YOU
believe that you are a sinner. and
your heart and your lips are sealed,
and God cannot get in,
Plea for Converts.
A lot of you here tonight have spir-
itual locomotor -ataxia. You need ia
pray God that he will give you two
good legs to walk down the aisle. You
win need them for the journey by
which you win Tetrace all your past
sins.
What is the office work Of the holy
spirit. To save your soul? No, you
sit there and hear a sermon, and some
thing in 0 says, II ought to be a
better man."
What is that? That is the spirit OF
God striving to pull you out of sin,
and o resist every influence brought
to bear to do it. Then you say:
EVIL ! ought to do that"
And at last YOU are induced to weld
and Q ask God, for Christ's sake. to
forgive your sins.
1t took the Holy Spirit to conyert
n the blood of Jesus Christ to open
the plan of redemption, and it takes
God to pardon you, It takes the Trim
ity to keep you out of sin.
How does it show itself? How car
/ know Listen! 1t shows itself us.
ually in one or two ways. There are
many subdivisions of each. First bit.
ter malignity. Take a ma that has
sinned away the day of grace, and vol
have heard men in this town thai
there is nothing that so disturbs them
and makes them so mad, as to hear
that this tabernacle is packed might
after night.
Bitter malignity.
And there is not a man in Fargo
that they win say meaner, more scur.
rilous things about than /. I will moi
compromise with sin, but I love the
sinner. I am not fighting him but sin
that damns him. and IL in order te
fight the sin / have got to be you
enemy, then l will take your enmity
Bitter maIignity.
Beyond Redemption.
An old saint OF God was holdins
meetings in New York and the as
night a young man came down ant
asked him to pray for him. But tina
vas all that he would do. The meet.
ings closed and eleven years afterwar(
that sans old mar was in Philadelphis
and went to a hotel to see d man anf
while his card was being sent up b,
stepped past the door Of the bar room
and saw q maj pouring out a glass o
whisky. And he was reflected In tn,
mirror SO that the man who was abou
to take the drink Of whisky saw hin
and he turned and set the whisk,
down, and came to the door and said
us not your name SO and so, an,
do Q remember me, and do you re.