Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-09-12

fellow today goes to church and Just
gets religion enough 10 make him miser-
able. Like an old fellow in Iowa came
to me and said, Bill l have been 20
hear you every night and you have done
me a lot Of good I used to cuss my old
woman every day, and / amt cussed her
for week. 1 am getting little better 4"
The trouble with many men is that
they have Just got enough religion to
make them miserable. II there Is no
Joy in religion. you have got leak in
your religion. Some haven't religion
enough to pay their debts. Would that
1 might have n hook and for every debt
that you left unpaid / might jerk off
a piece OF clothing. II 1 did, some of
you fellows would not have anything on
but a celluloid collar and a pair OF socks.
Some of you have not got religion
enough to have q family prayer. Some
Of you people haven't got religion
enough to take the beer bottles out of
your cellar and throw them In the alley.
The trouble with you is that you are
20 taken up with business, with politics,
with making money, with your lodges,
and each and every one is so dependent
on the other. that you are scared to
death to come out and live clean cut
for God Almighty You have not fully
surrendered yourself to God.
The matter with a lot of you people
IL that your religion is not complete.
You have not yielded yourself to God
and gone out for God and Gods truth.
Why, I am almost afraid to make some
folks laugh for fear that will be ar
rested for breaking costly piece Of
! antique brtc-R-brac. You would think
that II some people laughed 1t would
break their faces. To see some you
1 would think that the essential OF ortho-
dox Christianity Is 10 have face so
long you could eat oatmeal out OF the
end of q gas pipe. Sister, that Is not
religion; / want to tell you that the
happy, smiling, sunny-faced religion viii
win more people TO jesus Christ than the
miserable, old grim-faced kind will in
ten years. i pity anyone that can't
laugh There must be something wrong
with their religion or their liver. The
devil can't laugh.
oh. laugh and the world laughs with
Weep and you weep alone;
/ It's easv enough to be pleasant
When hfe goes s r3R %itth 2 song tSs man
| who can smile
When everything goes dead wrong
wish 70 God the church were as
afraid of imperfection as It is OF per
lection.
| The First CRATER.
Naaman dipped himself seven times in
the Jordan, "and his flesh came again
like unto the flesh OF little child. and
he was clean" He offered Elisha OF the
store Of gold and other precious metals,
but the prophet would not take any OF
It, But Gehasi. servant to Elisha
counted the goods. ana ran after Naa-
man, saying that Elisha had changed
his mind. Naaman dumped n pile OF It
on the ground. and mark this, the lep-
rosy of NaamAn infected Gehazi. He was
/ the first CRATER mentioned In the Bible.
/ saw a woman that for twenty-seven
years had been a madam. and I saw her
come down the aisle. close her doors
turn them out of her house and live for
/ God. saw enough converted In one
town where there were four houses to
close their doors; they were empty they
had ali fled home 10 their mothers.
Listen TO me and l am through. out
IN Iowa a fellow came to me and spread
a napkin on the platform-e napkin as
big as a tableeloth. He said: II want
a lot OF shavlngs and sawdust." What
for?'' "In tell you; 1 want enough TO
make q soft pillow to have something In
my home to help me think OF God.
don't want 10 forget God. OF that was
saved. Can you give me enoughr l
said: yes. indeed. ana IL you want
enough to make a mattress. all right;
take Il; and II you want enough OF the
tent q was preaching in tent them),
20 make a pair OF breeches for each OF
the boys. why take your scissors and cut
Il right out II It will help you 10 keep
your mind on God" That Is why like
to have people come down to the front
and publicly acknowledge God. l like
to have a man have a definite experiences
in religion. Something TO remember.
COnfoaRdinG the Devil.
I once read of preacher who used 10
quarrel with his wife. That was before
he became a preacher; no one can quar-
rel with his wife after he becomes a
preacher Abe and his wife used TO fight
because Abe was an EpiseOpalisn and
his wife was a Methodist. Abe said to
his wife; See here. all they do down