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

repentance and faith or you wouldn't
be happy If you were In heaven to-
night You win have the same char
acter when you die that you have now
Death won't change your character.
You will die, and that's the kind of
character you will have all through
eternity.
"Supposing you were up In jail sem
fenced to be executed for killing a
man, and the governor pardons you,
The sheriff ome and tells you that
you are free and that your wife and
children are without waiting in a car
riage TO drive you home. You go home
but at midnight arise and tell your
wife that you must so that you can
hear the voice Of the man o killed.
and can fel his bloodwith your fin
gers. You hvae ben pardoned for the
crime, but that makes no difference.
God not only pardons, but he forgives
and justifes.
"Gn Luke xvi God tells us
Of the rich man mad Lag
arus. The rich man died. He had a
big family. In hell he lifted up his
eyes, being in torment and he saw
Lazarus in the bosom OF Abraham.
Send some one with water to
moisten our lips and Abraham said:
&" why, there is a great gulf fixed;
we can't get to you; you can't get to
u.s.
And he said to Abraham:
I've five brothers on earth. Send
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them
And Abraham said:
They have Moses and the proph-
cts; let them hear them
"He didn't want his brothers to go
to that place of torment. In hell he
remembered the kind OF life he had
lived. In hell he remembered that he
had left five brothers and they were
all living when he left earth, the same
kind of life he had lived, and he knew
they would go to hell where he was,
and he wanted to keep them out OF
there, mad he wanted Abraham TO send
somebody back from the dead to tell
the people on earth what kind Of a
place hell is.
II tell you, If God would let some
body crawl out OF hell and stand on
this platform to tell you what hell is.
you wouldn't believe Jesus Christ If
you don't believe what ] tell you.
Abraham said they would not be-
lieve though some n arose from the
dead.
"If they won't believe Moses and the
prophets they wouldn't believe some
one that arose from the dead.
"If you won't believe what Jesus
Christ said, you wouldn't believe what
a man said If he crawled out of hell
and preached to %
"How shall we escape II We neglect
so great a salvation
Tn hell mans memory is active. You
will remember this tabernacle, and my
face and voice as / pleaded with you.
"Your mind will be just as active In
hell as it is tonight.
"'How shall we escape If we neglect
so great a salvation
years ago a steamer backed from
the wharf in New York and started
for the open sea. She crossed the bar
and the cry rang out:
An Insane Act.
"'Man overheard
'"They hurled the life line. He seized
1t, they put out the life boat to get him,
and just as they were near him he took
the life line, doubled it up in his hands
and hurled it toward the ship with q
laugh and was gone. You say:
"A man that would do that must
have been insane
""They say he was. They say he had
escaped from an insane asylum, gotteT
on the ship, leaped into the sea and
took this means of ending his life.
But / think that is a type of san.
ity that is prevalent. God hurls to you
men and and women, struggling in sin,
the lifeline Of salvation and you push
it from you.
God hurls it in the rmo and
you push it from you.
"How that insane man differs from
the old sailor upon the Cunarder. She
battIed through the storm. He was NJ
on the mast putting on her new dress
He lost his hold and fell into the sea,
The cry rang out:
IMAM oyerboard!'
''They hurled the life line, drew him
by the side of the ship, lifted him on
deck and laid him down. He never
moved. Physicians worked over him
for over half an hour, but he neve
moved. Finally they say his eyes
tremble and his lips move and the
captain said:
"'John, let loose the lifeline; you are
not in the sea- but the sailor made nc
reply.
They worked over him fifteen min
utes more and the captain said:
"'John, you are not in the sea, yor
are On deck the old ship. Open youl
eyes; let loose the line, john and they
saw his lips tremble and they benz
over him, and he said:
Captain, / can't let loose, ! grippet
her for my life
"And it was four hours before the
muscles in that mans arms and fingers
relaxed so that he could let loose oi
that line, so tightly had he grasped It
Il hurl the line out to you.
"How shall we escape If we negleci
so great ~salvation?"
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