Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-09-09

into church and knelt beside the duke
Of Wellington. The fool kid usherette
told the man not to kneel there, as that
was the duke of Wellington. and the
duke replied by putting his arms around
the man and saying: When we kneel be-
fore God there are no dukes. princes or
earls, but we all take the same level.
Power I'm Extremity.
You will have power with God when
you reach an extremity. II l had my
choice of a tabernacle filled with praying
Christians and one of nonchristians
would take the former, for If we get the
inside right we can get the outside. The
city doesn't stand that won't move for
God II the church people do. Omaha,
Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and
London will fall on their faces In repent
ance II the church people move.
AT one place where | was preaching a
mother came to me asking me to help
save her son who was a drunkard, who
was breaking the heart of his parents,
his sister and his wife. I searched for
him, but could not find him. That night
in the tabernacle l led a drunken man
from a post against which he was lean
ing down to the altar. There was a
scream. and the mother and sister came
running forward They had sown In
tears, they reaped in Joy. They had
reached an extremity.
II think the Church of God has been
eating too much. sleeping too much and
taking things too easy. Man should be
an active force, not a Dead sea. On one
day in the week you live like saint and
the other six like a devil.
IAN sorts OF crime are on the increase.
| Listen. I'll give you some figures that
will startle you.
/ There is one murder for every hour
day and night, year in and year out in
! this country Eighty-six out OF eighty
seven murderers are never caught. In
Germany there are eight murders to
/ every million in population; in England,
nine: in Canada, fourteen; in France, fif-
teen; i'm Belgium seventeen; in the United
J States, eighty, and II is a i0-to-1 bet that
they never get caught. and s0-to-1 bet
! they will never be hanged
Graft has a strangle hold on religion.
on everything. Investigation shows IL
permeates everything. l know Of an I'M
dertaker that offered a preacher a rake
| off on all the funerals turned his way
! School superlntendents are offered graft
| by publishing houses II they will recon-
mend their books. Labor leaders call
| strikes because contractors won't come
/ across.
Church members rent their property
/ to saloons. II you do you are just as
! low as the saloon. II you rent property
/ for houses OF I'll fame you are living di-
/ rectly off the product of graft. Graft is
/ destroying religion. 1t has Pennsylvania
! by the throat. II won't let you vote for
| local option, but It makes you vote for
some judge who is to do the deciding.
/ The present political system is one OF
graft and plumber.
AduIterated Foods.
Or. Busby tells me 1000 babies die
every year because Of impure food. Food
I adulteration in our country Is amazing
Mud is shaped like coffee beans. glazed
with egg and sold for coffee They grind
peanut shells and sell them for breakfast
] food Glucose is sold for maple sugar.
There is nothing 80 hard on the kidneys
as glucose. 1t causes many cases OF
Brights disease.
Crime produces poverty. and IL you do
away with that which produces crime.
| three-fourths OF the poverty will be abol-
ished. The cause OF crime Is the saloon;
| get rid OF that. What's the cause OF all
| this? The political economist says II is
because the working man Is getting a
higher scale OF wages than ever before
and he is not prepared to Withstand the
increasing temptations.
BAH How much does butter and eggs
and meat cost today? With the high
! prices 1t Is not hard to see where the
workingmans extra money goes. l tell
you l wonder how the average man gets
along and keeps his family out OF poverty
/ and starvation.
After the country freed itself from
I England there we're four strong states.
! each jealous OF each other. and nine
weak states. all Jealous OF the strong
ones. When they were Joined into a ma
ton II was by prayer. suggested by BEN
| Jamin Franklin. the wisest Of our po-
litical forefathers. Our old ship OF state
was launched in prayer. AT Valley Forge.