Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-25

night said:
Text, Exodus viulO. And he said to-
morrow"
For $50 years the Jews had been In
Egyptian bondage. They had made brick
without straw and barred their back 10
the lash Of the taskmasters, and they
had been compelled to submit to all the
barbarites and cruelties that a powerful
and hesrtless nation could inflict upon
those who were their vassals and slaves.
God had told Joseph that lie would come
and lead them out. Generation after
generation had been born, matured to
manhood and womanhood. developed into
age and decrepitude. and still God had
not come. until have imagined that the
people had begun to think that God had
forgotten and that He would leave them
forever to be the slaves OF their mas
tiers, but God never forgets. When God
tells you that He will bless you. and
when He tells you He will damn you II
you don't do II. He will damn you.
His judgments may be delayed. He may
keep you waiting until your hair is gray,
but his Judgments will surely come or
His rewards will follow. And at the APP
pointed time, TO the very day that God
said He would come, He appeared under
the leadership OF Moses TO lead them out.
and old Pharaoh, the king. refused to let
the people go and God was compelled to
inflict him and the people with plague
after plague, and It was during the prev
alence OF one of these that the soliloduy
between Moses and Pharaoh, of which
my text is a fragment, occurred. II was
the plague OF frogs. Pharaoh sent for
Moses and Moses said TO him, when
shall I entreat the Lord that He take
away the plague7" And he answered in
words Of my text, "And he said tomor-
row." never thought that argued much
for the common sense of Pharaoh, be-
cause he had sent for Moses oftimes and
answered his prayer ana the plague had
been stayed, and he knew from expert
ence that there stood the only man in
the nation that held the secret of the
touch with God and that man OF all men
could utter the words that God would
hear and God would stay His hand and
remove the plague. And the people were
suffering; they were dying and were cry
ing to God. And he said tomorrow" I
say It never argued much. in my judy
ment, for his common sense.
. There are many that are saying. "I
wouldn't have done that" but you have
been aoing It, many of you, for five years,
and some Of you for fifty years.
l believe many have come to these
meetings with an honest desire to serve
God, but have put off yielding to Christ,
and even tonight there are scores, yes
hundreds OF you without Christ, and II
Gods Judgment would fall on you, hell
would be your portion, but / pray God
You may come tonight. End the
struggle.
Who is the man or woman who can
arise and honestly tell me that ''tomor-
row. has interfered with you, or your
life. or your plans The thing that has
no real existence; the day you will never
see. You say tomorrow" you viii begin
some new work. You say, IT will to-
morrow" You should give up some as
sociate or companion and you say. IT
will tomorrow" You should begin 70
save money and lay 1t by for the rain,
day that will come to everybody and
you say. II will tomorrow" You should
yield yourself to Jesus Christ and turn
from your sins.
Requires Grit to Say "I WILL"
It's no use to spin out words in an
alysis of the thief OF time Take this
for your motto: II will not think of to-
morrow. My possessions are today and
will do all can TO-DAY. 1 will not
lull myself to sleep promising myself
about time that will never come" To-
morrow is a soft couch upon which null
titudes lie down and never awaken. It
takes an effort of the brain to say IT
will" 1t takes an effort of manhood and
womanhood to say. II will"
Now. you ought to say IT will" for
several reasons, First. because by so
doing you would be relieved of the bur
den OF sin in this life as well as the
dread Of the future consequences Of sin.
Hear me! or all the times you ever
had 10 fit your souls for heaven you
have had It in the days that have come
and gone. God never flashed such light
in your face. You never had such an OPP
before and you never will |
again.
Procrastination, irresolution, languid- |
ness, idleness, weakness OF character are |
the milestones along the great highway
OF life which lead over the precipice we |
call Failure" and there is where you
stand. Great opportunities love great
company. They always do. They rarely |
travel alone. They are gregarious in
their flocks. travel in herds.
Waiting Too Long.
You are like a man heard of who
was wrecked near the shore. He and
his wife were cast on a rock. They
threw the lifeline and after nine at
tempts 1t fell over the rock, they then
drew in. Attached to it was a strong
rope. He fastened that about his wife
and said: when the wave breaks off
the rock leap upon it's breast and they
will pull and you will reach the shore. &"
The wave came In and he said: Get
ready hurry, now leapp But she hesi-
tated and chung to her husband. Finally
she threw herself into the sea and a
huge wave caught her and hurled her
back, and they dragged and pulled her
on the shore. They threw the life line
again and he fastened II beneath his
arms, and when the wave broke at the
rock he leaped and just missed It. OPP
portunities have come, but you waited
until they are gone. And he said to-
morrow"
You ought to say To-day" because
your Influence is needed. At no time or
in no place have / ever preached where
people have been more ready to receive
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