Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-23


at the tabernacle was Excuses The
sermon was an arraignment Of men and
women who make excuses for not ac-
cepting Christ and REPUTATION OF their
arguments Mr.. Sunday said
John " 40: And We will not come TO
Me that ye might have life"
I think Of all the words that ever fell
from the lips of Jesus of which we have
record. TO my mind these are among the
saddest.
God came to you and offered salvation,
and you spurned Il; and after you have
run the earthly career and gone into the
grave, then you will just think over your
life and remember the things that Kept
you from taking your stand for Christ
and you will think what a fool you were
to do It.
Nobody Is lost because he needs TO be
lost because the salvation OF Jesus Christ
covers all the sins of all the people He
tasted death for every man.
Man Is not lost because OF any pur-
pose or decree on the part Of God.
We all deserve hell II we get our just
deserts. for salvation does not come as
a reward for merit. Everybody Is weak.
but Gods strength Is made perfect in
weakness. Don't look at your weakness,
but at the Saviour that you have. Well,
then. why don't you come to Christi
Kept Away from sin.
Well, 1 hope tonight, with the help OF
God, to answer a few fool excuses peo-
pie offer. don't know whether God
Himself would answer them all or would
try, but 1 will try to answer a few OF
them.
In the first place, because of sin. Sin
has kept multitudes away from Christ.
Moody preached one night and pictured
sin in all its black responsiveness, and
when he gave the invitation a man lifted
his hand, and a worker went and talked
with him and said:
"will you give Mr. Moody your handT'
mo, I won't. I'm held in the meshes
of an awful sin, and as result of in
diligence in 1t. 1 make money out of 1t.
and to take Mr.. Moody by the hand
means that / would have to give It up,
and l won't do It,"
And he turned his back on Jesus. Sin
is keeping many a man from Jesus Christ.
With others II is the love of money.
Many know that If they become Chris
tians they would lose money by the deal,
and there are certain things in your bust
ness that you would have to give up If
you became a Christian and took your
stand for Jesus Christ
Many a man will not sacrifice the
crooked business or the crooked price of
an honest business.
There is many a man chooses a larger
income and turns Jesus Christ down.
Many a man would have to give up his
situation.
c..---.. A.. ..,. -. ., ooo =, ,.oor qua
live for twenty years. that would be
$4,000 and you would sell your soul to the
devil for $4,000.
II 1 should tell you you are not worth
that, you would be offended, yet you sell
your soul for less than that
That is what IL the matter with the
whisky business. i know of brewery en-
ployes that have taken their stand for
Jesus Christ. and they have gone back
to work only to be discharged because
they chose to be decent. Better men In
the town have given them jobs that are
paying them far better salaries.
Business Dishonesty.
I will tell you: would rather walk tC
heaven over a rough and stony road will
bare and bleeding feet. than to ride tC
hell on dirty money.
Say. God will damn in the hottest way
any merchant that will make his clerks
lie to sell a few dirty goods from hit
shelves, in order to put money in his till
He will damn you, wherever you are.
There is many a man grown rich By
over-reaching his neighbor. He robs tbs
widow and the orphan. He does II by
legal means, he is too sleek to get caugh
in the meshes OF the law. He lives In {
magnificent home. and he rolls down thu
street in a faultless equipage, and SOM
old fellow with a child stands on thu
street and says:
There goes Mr.. so-And- Sol And hi
name b known and honored, and it's onlI
necessary to attach his name to an!
project to insure success. l wish you L
do something more than to grow up t
emulate his example"
Bye and bye he dies and there is al
uproar and a fuss. and a pow-wow owe
his old carcass at the funeral and the
pass resolutions as long as from here {
the back door, and send a copy to hts wifi
and members OF the club, and the lodges
and all the other things he was mem
Der of, stating whereas and whereas an
resolves, etc. while the bones of his vac
Tins lie rotting yonder In the potter
field.
Tell me that there Is no nell lot
scoundrel like that7
Hard to save shyIOcISs.
Man will live with no thought abot
God In business, home, society or tn
company that he keeps.
l had rather undertake TO save te
drunkards than one old financial sh!
iock-it would be easier.
A friend OF mine went back to his hon
town in Ohio, and there was a rich ms
there who was very Ill. and he went
relieve those that were watching by h
bedside, and he sat talking with him OF
night, and the deRth-dew was on h
- brow. and the death-rattle I'm his thros
1t was 2 o'clock In the morning, and Il
sick man rolled over and said
Say. do you know a place where
can invest my money at per cent fir
mortgages7 l am only getting with Il
money in the bank7"
There was that old sinner only To-
hours from the hearse, and instead
getting ready to meet God he was wo
dering where he could get per cent I
his money.
Some man says: you give me prese
possession; / don't care anything abo