The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-05-11

1891
Yes. sir. I have never gotten SO
damnably low down as to have the
audacity to put my mediocre, asinine
reason up by the side and in defiance
God.
Believes in Entire Bible.
IF the time aver comes that / don't
believe the word of God from cover "a
cove I will leave tile platform.
There may be other modes Of pun
ishlnent which would be as excruciat-
ing to you as burning.
There may be. Surprising this:
"Supposing / saw an assassin lean
his ladder up against the house and
stealthily entered the room where my
children were sleeping and in his hand
Is long razor-like dirk, and he is
about to pierce that into the hearts OF
those I love dearer than my life.
Surprising / can stand here and look
upon that scene. I can't warn them.
But ~supposing some one would say
to me, and / could absolutely believe
them:
Pull off your shoes and stockings
and walk on these burning Goals and
that will secure for you the life of your
wife and children
SHOW me the man that would hesi-
tate a minute. The mental agony
through which she would pass would
be a thousand fold more than the phys.
ical suffering he would endure in walk
ing over those burning Goals.
There might be other means of pun
ishment, / say, which would be as ex-
cruciating to you as burning.
Never mind. God says you will be
damned.
Down south in Savannah, Ga, was
a mother whose children were i'll. The
physician changed the medicine and
they became convalescent.
He change it again and said:
You give at 6 and IL and at g. She
gave it at 6 and laid down on the bed
worn out by her ~eeaseless vigil, and
didn't awaken until after 2.
1.-THE light had burned low, anC
partly asleep, she took down the med.
icine from a shelf, poured out a tea.
spoonful to the first, to the second anC
the third, corked the bottle, put it back
on the shelf, threw herself down OF
the bed again and went to sleep.
I'm the morning when she awaken
ed the sun was streaming Into the
room. She spoke to the children anC
there was no response.
"She touched the cheek Of the first
the second and the third and the,
were all dead.
"she hurried to the physicians of.
flee crying:
Gave the Wrong Medicine.
"'My God, he gave the wrong med.
icine and my babies are dead, the!
are dead,
"She hurried to his ONCE and TIL,
physician said:
Not so fast, woman, wait an,
he 'phoned for the coroner
They, accompanied by others, wen
to the druggist, found the prescrip
ton as he had given it, carefully pre-
pared, and then, accompanied by 9th,
ers, the physician and the corone
went to the house and there they fount
on the shelf four ounce Walls, one con,
tanning medicine and the other con
tanning a rat poison.
In the night the mother had takel
the bottle containing the poison ant
given 1t to her babies.
For a week and a half she neve
tasted food. She never closed he
eyes in sleep day or night. They woult
attempt to restrain her, but she woul,
burst every barrier n rush to tn
cemetery, fall over her babies grave
and shrek Ind cry, moan and wrinI
her hands.
'She struggled and ran to TIL
graveyard, and on the morning of tn
ninth day she fell down over the littl
mounds, and the post norton examin
alton revealed a broken heart.
The mental agony was more thai
she could stand.
What would physical suffering b
compared to that2 Want somethinI
you can't get-that is hell.
wonder Of wonders to me is tn
plan of salvation. 1t is so wonderful
that no man, with the greatest min,
the world has ever known, has eve
yet been able to master it, and it is s
plain that boys and girls can do an
accept Of it and are saved.
Paul meant to teach in his lette
to the Hebrews that it is possible 70
a man to know what to do and not d
i~t-possible for a man to believe he i
lost and still neglect to accept saliva
ton.
you might have read 1t, for it wa
an Associated Press dispatch.
steamer was hurrying across til
ocean when the cry rang out:
MAN overboardi'
''They hurried to the gunwhal,
looked into the sea and saw a ma
struggling.
zone man cried out:
Zone thousand dollars to anyon
that will save him!' It was hi
brother.
.eThe sailors, anxious to secure tn
reward and save a life, launched
boat and put away.
They reached out and drew hir
into the life boat, then turned an
rowed back to the great ocean grey
hound.
They threw a rope over her side
fastened it beneath his arms, and a
they were reaching down to cate
him by the hand the rope snapped an
back he went into the sea, his hea
struck the edge of the life boat an
his brains were dashed out. "A hug
wave caught his body, swirled
around the PROV of the boat-and h
was gone.
Left Town to Escape Revival.
Il have known men in Fargo /
moved by the spirit OF God that the
can scarcely eat or sleep. / know me
in this town SO moved of God tn;
they can scarcely attend to bushes
I know men who have actually lie
town for no other reason than to e,
away from this revival. for they kne