The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-03-19
Rev. Wright Takes for His
Subject Friday Evening,
Old and Familiar Sub
ject-W0uld Have
Men Awake.
READ and Be CONVINCED

doubt his absolute sincerity.
On last Friday evening the subject
was Repentance" Relative to the
subject, the speaker said in part: Il
notice this: that whatever is meant
by the word repentance" it certainly
is a very prominent doctrine in the
word of God. When you open up
your new testament and begin to read.
you very soon come upon the word
Repent" John the Baptist, preach
ing in the wilderness of Judea, said
Repent We, for the Kingdom of Hea-
ven is at hand" Jesus afterwards
preached the same doctrine, and it
must be very important doctrine if
Jesus would preach it. But except
you repent you shall all likewise per-
isb," Whatever this means, Jesus
says it is necessity. The men who
would not perish must repent.
And then l notice that when he is
waging his world wide commission for
his disciples to make konwn God, he is
represented as saying: 1T was nee
essary that Christ should die and rise
again from the dead on the third day
and that repentance and the putting
away of sin should be preached in his
name on all the nations beginning
from Jerusalem"
read also in the second chapter of
Acts when Peter stood UP with the
eleven, he quotes your testament pro-
phesy that Jesus was the Son of the
living God" and at the conclusion of
this statement it says this wise:
"Now when they heard this, they
were pricked to their hearts and cried
out, What must we do? Peter speak
ing as the Holy Spirit, said Repent"
God now commandeth men that
they should all everywhere, repent"
and so might go on, book by book
through the testament until we come
to the very last book and there upon
the message by one of the Angels, Re
pent and at the first words, or else
will come unto thee quickly and will
remove thy candlestick out Of his
place, except thou repent" 1t is not
something that we can suit ourselves
about or that time, custom, and so
forth, can change. We feel at perfect
berty to forget some things that
were said in the new testament but
there is one thing no man may do and
that is to push this thing called ire
pentance," out of the way. 1t is old,
fashioned things but is it one of the
old fashioned things that perservers
and never can be changed.
But what is this thing that Jesus
and John the Baptist, and the Apostles
were talking about when they talked
about Repentance. Let me say that
repentance is putting a locomotive
back again after it has gotten off the
track. What wonderful thing To-
connective is when it is on the track
and doing it's best, but of all the good
for nothing and helpless things that
you ever saw, the worst of all is the
locomotive when it is off the track.
Repentance is putting a man back on
the track again. The most wonderful
Of all the things in the world is not
the locomotive, but it is the mar
that made the locomotive, and
that ten years from now, will make a
better one. OF all the heart sickening
things there ever were is when a man
gets off the track and wrecks his
morals and his manhood, when his
virtue is gone and he is down and out
The locomotive is made to run on a
track and so, please God, is the man.
There is way that is meant for the
man to run on. Man is made to run
on the way that the Master spoke Of
when he said Il am the way" In the
case of the locomotive that is off the
track, we can get crew of men to
put it back on the track. But there
is no force in all Gods universe that
can quite put the man on the track
again. The locomotive has no will
power, it can be put back by crew of
men, but no man can be put back on
the track unless he wants to be on.
God wants him on, Christ wants
him on, good men everywhere want
him on. Yes, and bad men and bad
women in their own hearts, like to see
a man get back on the track again.
They admire and encourage a man
who can get back on the track and
stay there but mark you that though
even bad ben would like to see you
back on the track and good men want
to see you back and God wants to see
you back on the track, all Of these
back on the track, all Of these could
not put you there unless you want to
be there, because you have what a 10.