Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-15
Billy" Sunday breaches On
Gods LoUe for the WorLd'

''Bnly'' Sunday preached yesterday aft
srnOon a new sermon. The text was from,
John HIS:
For God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son, that whose
ever believeth In Him should not perish.
but have everlasting life"
The Bible Is such complete system
that II this nation were governed by no
other laws than those found within its
pages. II would be enough.
II contains everything needful to know
OF 20 be done.
II affords a copy for the king or for
The president.
II affords also rules for the subject.
counsel for the senate, for the governor
or for the mayor, caution for the wit
Aess.
II requires an impartial verdict to be
rendered by a jury.
II tells children to honor their parents;
II tells parents to provoke not their chill
dren to wrath; It gives a directory for
weddings; It Is a guide for funerals; 1t
Beaches men how TO set their house in
order to make His will supreme in their
lives; It appoints a dowry for the wife /;
u defends the rights of all and reveals
vengeance TO the defamer.
First and Best Book.
The Bible is the first book. 1t is the
best book, the oldest book In all the
world. To understand II and obey 1t is to
be wise-to spurn It and reject it is to be
= fool.
II God provides salvation and man
doesn't take advantage of It. then man
Il to blame and not God.
II isn't Gods fault that man goes TO
hell. And yet a man will go around say
Ing that he isn't getting a square deal
from God when all the time God is Civ
ing him a chance to do right and save
himself from slipping down the road to
hell.
II reminds me of man who talked so
much about the love he bore his wife
and yet he boosted that she had worn
the same hat for twenty years. Fine
kind Of love. that And the love that
some men profess for God isn't much
better.
There was another man who was al
ways talking about what a fine wife
he had. And when he was asked why he
had married her he answered that 1t
wasn't because ne loved her or because
The was pretty and virtuous. but because
che had the reputation of being the hard
est worker in the neighborhood. and the
fellow to whom he told this rejoined that
he knew a man who had bought a mule
for the same reason.
On the Firing Line.
The trouble with most men is that they
don't think of God until they get sick or
on the flat of their backs. take my hat
Oft to the man who is on the firing line
for God Just as I take my hat off to
you men here who were on the firing
line for yeur country in the sixties.
The world doesn't care a rap about Ma
poleon of julius Caesar, or Hannibal, or
any of those other old ginks who used to
juggle power and mems lives, but the
world does care about the man who has
gone out on the firing line for his coun-
try.
God appreciates q man who 10 on the
firing line for the flag of Jesus Christ
in orAaR to keep 1t waving as a beacon
light Il salvation, and the Lord will re-
ward sAe man who works and fights for
Him just as you men fought and worked
for your country when its days were
darkest.
a German loves. he gives" believe that
Is true of all nationalities. We measure
love by our gifts. know OF a man who
told people how much he loved his wife.
yet boosted that he made her wear the
same hat for twenty years. That fellows
love was all in words-not deeds.
Love that IL Genuine.
It's the love that breathes itself in
action that Is genuine. lincoln said at
Gettysburg: THE world will little note
or long remember what we say here. but
it will never forget what we did here"
We do not care for those who have ruled
us. but we will never forget those who
have served us.
1 often think of that great American
and Christian whose hands were hard
ened and whose face was bronzed by toll
and who was polling a flat boat and
working hard before he began to mount
the golden rounds of the ladder to fame
and success while the other fellow was
sleeping off drunk in feather bed.
Lincoln often was discouraged as he
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