Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-22

ana ne took UP his Bible to see what
Jesus had said on an occasion like that.
He found, he said, that Jesus had never
preached sermon at,a funeral, but that
He broke UP every funeral He ever at
tended by restoring the dead to life. He
always turned q house OF sorrow intu one
Of happiness and joy. Don't you wish
that jesus had been there when your III -
tic baby died2 Don't you wish that He
had been there when your wife went
away forever and left you with that lit
tie brood to care for? Don't you wish
He had been there when your mother
was taken from YOU?
Are you In IA or Of anything Jesus
Christ Is against? Has any one done YOU
a wrong? Jesus Christ Is against IT, Are
you2 II you are His, you are. lie Is
aRainst all wrong Has any one cheated
or defrauded you? Jesus Christ Is against
whoever did IT, Has anybody ever lied
about you? Jesus is against them. Are
you in favor Of honesty? So is Jesus
Christ, Do you think that labor should
have its Just due from those who em-
ploy2 SO does Jesus Christ DO you be-
lieVe that capital should have square
deal? So docs Jesus Christ He is for
absolutely fair play. The principles Of
Jesus Christ will make capital and labor
shake hands. There Is no question So
cial or business, o. war. that cannot be
settled by the principles OF Jesus There
never was squarer dealer on earth than
Jesus Christ He gives everybody a
square deul
DO you believe that there ought to be
S6 inches to every yard, 1000 pounds to the
ton, l6 ounces to the pound avoirdupois
and " ounces to the pound troy weight?
So does Jesus Christ. Are you against
all crookedness and fraud. against the
gros shop and brewery, deception and all
that? SO Is Jesus Christ
Jesus shot His preaching into the big
gest guns in the synogOgues In His day.
There's lesson for the preachers In the
way He did II. He said: oh you scrbes
and Phnrisees! You Holsters, you false
alarms, you four-nushers, you excess
baggage you vipers! You arc like white
sepulchres, nice without but all rotten
iess and dead mems bones within. You're
fine bunch of guys You rob the
widows and the orphans you Holsters!
The whole bunch OF you ought to he In
jail' That's the way Jesus Christ
preached.
FOR THE GLORY OF GOD.
"The first recorded words of Jesus we're
spoken when He was 12 years OF age
Wist ye not that I must be about My
Fathers business?' The last were uttered
on the cross when He cried out, ut is
fnishedr Between those two sentences
were crowded the words and acts Of 81
years, and not one thing did He do or
say that was not for the good OF man
and the glory of God.
"He had faith in His Father. Faith in
the coupling between the world and God.
Start with the faith you have and farm
that. Take what faith you have and go
into business with It for God. Use what
you have, and you'll get more. Don't use
1t, and you'll lose what you have. Faith
Is strengthened by use.
ut Is by faith that we get Into touch
with God 1t is the power that controls
the world. If we had no faith we would
have no electric lights, no trolley cars
You can't get married without faith
faith that the man you marry or the
woman you marry will be true. You
can't send letter without faith that
Uncle Sam will see that 1t Is dcliv-
cred. You can't eat a meal of victuals
without faith-faith that 1t will give you
strength. You can't farm without faith
faith that the seed will grow and the har-
vest will some We can't live without
faith. Man believed in the steam engine
before he had even seen one. Elias Howe
believed he had an invention that would
save women the labor of sewing by hand.
He mad never seen sewing machine
but he had faith, so he worked for years
to make one If friends hadn't taken
care of his wife and children they would
have been hungry.
"His clothes grew old, but his faith
was strong and he kept on working and
finally he had the sewing machine. Eli
Whitney had faith In the cotton gin long
before he had ever seen one. He per-
sisted for years until 1t stood complete.
Everybody who has accomplished any
thing has first believed There would
have been no Jewish nation II Abraham
had not faith.
Faith is what gives n man backbone
in science, literature. education and In
agriculture. Faith is to the soul what
gravItatlon is to the earth. A gravita-
tion draws us toward the centre of the
earth, so faith makes me gravitate to-
ward God, instead of toward the saloon.
l cannot touch God with my hand. but
carA touch Him by faith, Take faith out
Of the world and see what a place It
would be.
Take away Christianity and the world
would be two hemispheres of lazarettos
two hemispheres of brothels and all the
vilest olf-scourings of the earth.
BELIEF WON'T CHANGE A FACT.
Jesus said that all who believed on
Him WILL be saved. Wrong belief makes
everything wrong. Some say man, be-
lieve what he likes and so long as he
is sincere, all will be we'll with him. You
are fooled. man may believe that he
canShandle nitroglycerlne without dan
ger, but If he monkeys wlIn II you'll have
to take him up with broom and a DUST