Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-20
'REMEMBER NOW THY CREATOR


them.
I'm other words, start right when you
are young, and when you are old you
will not bemoan the fact that you have
not lived right. Start right and you VIII
serve God. The time to start right Is
when you are young Most Christians
have become Christians before they were
20 years old. In an audience Of 1000 a
preacher asked them when they had ac-
cepted Christ, and he found that out Of
that thousand 1893 had become Christians
before they were 20 years Of age.
II was out in brlckyard several years
ago and saw them making brick. They
would put the clay in a big machine
something like a huge sausage grinder
and grind II up fine, and then spread IL
out on q big platform and smooth II out
Just the thickness of the brick, and then
man would turn a big wheel and the
knives would cut up the clay; the fellows
would put the pieces in wagons with
shelves and carry them to the kiln and
burn them,
II picked up some OF the clay before 1t
went to the grinder and could mold II
any way ] wanted to. / picked UP one
OF the bricks after 1t came out OF the
grinder and could stlll mold II. picked
up some clay that had laid in the sun
for several days, and by trying hard l
could still bend It, but when picked up
a brick after It had come out Of the kiln,
try as hard as l might, could not even
dent It. It was burned hard and 1t would
always remain that way.
Boys and girls are like that clay.
When they are young God can mold them
to do His way or the devil can mold
them to do his way, but after they are
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HARD TO CHANGE HABITS.
'It is hard to change habit. II you
don't think so some of you boys just
try it. Try to get UP early every morn
ing and wash your face without being
told and see IL 1t isn't hard.
Everybody wants to live pleasant
! life and there is no life as pleasant aA
the Christian life. Every one wants
peace and my Bible tells me there is
no rest for the wicked.
you don't have to be told that an ap-
pie Is good. You don't have to be told
that bread and butter Is good for you
/ when you're hungry or that water Is
! good for you when you're thirsty. You
| know 1t from experience, you've tried IL
| | don't need to tell you that religion Is
| good. have had the experience and l
know that there is no life so pleasant as
| the Christian life.
$50 start when you're young and you
| will always feel better. My experience
is that you will feel better IL you live
right .,,. -,
and shortly after she was born her eyes
| became closed and every one was afralo
| ahe would be forever blind. Time Wen'
ON and the doctor told her mother one
dav he thought all that was the mat
ter was that there were cataracts or
the child's eyes and advised her TO &c
to a specialist. So she took her TO
specialist and he said that was all tha'
was the matter and he peeled back th'
stin and nut the medicine in and ban
daged her eyes and told the mother u
keen her in a dark room for three
months At the end of that time sh'
had put in the medicine every morning
noon and night, the specialist said ina,
she could take off the bandases' ane
then her mother took her out and sh'
saw the flowers and the trees and th'
grass and she said: 'Oh, mother, why
didn't YOU tell me everything was 81
pretty?' Her mother told her sh'
couldn't describe them to her and le
her know OF the beauty so she couit
understand, that she had to see Ior her'
self to really know. So you have TO eN
nerience religion to know the JOY or 6
true Christian life. 1 can tell you abou
IT, hut YOU won't understand until yor
have tried 1t.
LIVE USEFUL LIFE.
"You want to lead a useful life. Nc
mother or father want their children
10 be useless. Every boy and girl wants
to be useful. You can graduate from sew
eraI colleges and be professor or Q
doctor, but unless you're Christian your
work will be failure. You must serve
God to do your best.
"I had a friend who was asked In by
a Vice President to see him when ne
| was diving The Vice President was Han
nibal HamlIn. My friend went and be-
gan to talk of politics and money and the
| events of the day. but the Vice President
stopped him and said: Don't talk OF
politics and money. That isn't what
want to hear now. All that comforts me
now is religion, and the knowledge that
| L am saved
80 IL you live and be President and
have not been a Christian you have lived
a useless life, but II you have lived
Christian life and are not President or
useful life, and II you have God In your
life you will go to heaven.
| 'FWhlle l was In the Y. M. Q, A. In
Chicago was standing on the corner
one night and man came along win
his toes sticking out and a ragged suit
=
dime to get something to eat. 1 told
him 1 wouldn't give him dime, because
he would go and get drink. He said,
You wouldn't let me starve, would you?
1 told him no, but that wouldn't give
him the money. for him to come TO the
Y. NJ C. A. with me and stay until after
the meeting and I would take him out
and get him a good supper and bed. He
wanted me to do 1t right away before
going to the Y. NJ. G. A., but told him
no, / was working for some one until
10 O'clock. So he came up to the meeting
and stayed through the after-meeting and
was very much interested.
"I saw that he used excellent Language
and questioned him and found that HI
was a man who had been adjutant gen
eral OF one OF the central States and haC
at one time been editor OF two of tbs
biggest newspapers. But he said he go
started wrong. Instead OF going to schoo
he had played hockey and instead OF go
ing to Sunday school he had gone ans
played cards and he had taken to drlnl
and this had pulled him down to his pres