Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-02

for this evening and Mr.. Jones prom.
ised to exhibit two life size portraits
of the Devil-front view. The Satur-
day night meeting also promises to
be Of special interest at which time
Mr.. Burch will sing "The Ninety and
Nine" Mr.. Jones will speak both
Sabbath morning and evening and the
meetings will continue all next week
except Monday night.
Preacher Gone Wrong.
81 have known of some church
members said Evangelist Jones last
might, who thought it a great sin to
play a game Of cards, and yet they
did not hesitate to spend al entire af-
ternoOn gossiping about their neigh.
bors. II at the close Of this service
tonight I went out and got drunk, the
people of this church would not al
low me to preach here again, and
every person in town would know all
about what Fad happened before to.
morrow night.
"The newspaper would come out
with big headlines, Preacher Gone
Wrong: Evangelist Jones got drunk
while conducting a. series of meet.
ings.' This would be copied. in all the
newspapers where / have ever heM
meetings it would travel faster than
all the sermons have ever tried to
preach.
Preferable to Gossip.
ttn,,t T ,,,ioht 0nnon RI v01,r h01co fN-
morrow and spend the afternoon gos.
siping about a brother minister or
about your neighbor across the street
and yet be looked upon as a consist
ent Christian and remain in any
church in town in good standing. If
I had to choose between two evils, l
would rather be a drunkdrd and have
my nose as red as this hymnbook,
than to be a gossiper gadding about
the community sowing the seeds Of
hell.
stick Out Your Tongue.y
In a certain Pennsylvania atown
where conducted meetings some
years ago, there vas a large class of
people who claimed to be entirely
sanctiied. The acid test of this state
of grace, according to the scriptures,
is the tongue, therefore said to these
persistent brethren, Stick out your
tongue and | can soon tell whether
you are sanctiied. Are you a busy.
body? Do YOU delight in whispering
bits of scandal? Then you are not
sanctiied,' for as the Divine Writer
said, If any man among you seem to
be religious, and bridleth not his
tongue, that mans religion is vain
Movies Not So Bad.
"Some Of you church members
think it a terrible sin to 60 to the
movies or attend a respectable theat-
er and yet you would gladly rehearse
some morbid scandal or suggest some
uncharitab..e motive for Mrs, So-and
sos going to Fargo. | have known OF
husbands and wives to be separated
and children scattered because of n
or two gossips in a community. Young
men have become disheartened and
young women have been driven to
despair because of old Mother Grundy
and her allies. Christ referred to a
class, of peonle who went about with
sin under the tongue as a sweet NOR
sell and if you are at all in doubt as
to whether you belong to this class
of evilIdoers, it can readily be deter
mined by your anxiety to tell others
what they say and Of course, all this
you learned 'on good authority
Spurious Salvation.
'If your salvation don't save. you
today, it won't save you in the sweet
bye-and-bye. | would not give four
cents for this Bible and the religion
that we proclaim if it didn't make M
a good man today and help me to
these miserable traits OF
character which destroy not only the
happiness of life but the souls of men.
The highest conception some people
seem to have Of .Christianity~is that
Jesus died a long-time-agoN to save us
from hell away off in the future. But
the real truth is, Christ is saving men
every day from these sins. which so
easily beset us and He declared that
if we follow Him day by day we shall
not walk in darkness. but shall have
the light of life He did not say if
we assent to somh creed or phase OF
religion, but he that 'followeth' ChTst
is certain of the reward" a
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