Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-03

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! And you people who arc running 20 me
/ telling me how to preach my sermons are
wasting your ink and paper. II you know
more about preaching than I, why don't
! YOU preach yourself? Say. II every one
| lived like he expected others to live the
/ millennium would be here.
Fifteen years ago the devil fought in
I Bob Ingersol.'s infide'ty.
! Now he battles with some faxed stuff
he calls rel gion and then he gets here
I tics for him. This stuff has got just
enough religion In It to float IT, but it's
heresy. rotten sinking heresies. don't
care three whoops In perdition who
starts any Of these heres.es. III fight
! them to the finish.
The devil has been going for 5000
years His joints never get stift. The
world is I'm darkness and II Is our bust
ness to take the light Of Christianity TO
the people
Are you keeping your light from shin
ing because you are ashamed TO own
jesus
You ought to be proud TO belong to the
kingdom Of Jesus Christ.
The very first place In which you should
let your light shine Is your own home
The members Of Your family ought to be
the very first to know that something
new las come into your life.
There is something wrong with your
religion IL Il doesn't make your home
happier and better.
Don't be afraid to use your light.
Don't turn 1t down as you turn down the
gas to keep the meter from running so
fast. I hate to visit a home where there
ia a fussy woman following me around
turning down the gas
You ought TO live so that every one
about you, every one who meets you
knows that YOU are a Christian. DO you?
Does your milkman know that you are a
Christian! Does the man who brings
your laundry knew that you are a Chris
tian? Does the man who hauls out your
ashes know that you are a Christian
Docs the newsboy who throws the paper
on your doorstep know that you are a
Christian? Does the butcher know that
you are a Christian? Some Of you buy
meat on Saturday night and have him
keep it over night and deliver II to you
on Sunday morning, just because YOU are
too stingy to have ice, and then you
wonder why he doesn't go to church
Say, II you had TO go TO heaven on your
washwomans testimony do you think
you would make it?
If any of you business men called on
your stenographor's testimony to get you
past the pearly gates, do your think you
would land?
Let Your Light shine I'm business.
Let your light shine in business. A
man ought to be as religious In business
as he is in church. lie ought to be as
religious in buying and selling rs he Is
in praying. Men ought to deal with
weights and measures that will not
shrink on judgment day
Let your light shine in your neighbor-
hood Every church should be q refuge
for the homeless, the drunkard and the
harlot. They aren't, though. Half Of
you would freeze them up by the way
you look at them.
You should love your neighbor as your
self You ask me what that means. and
I'll tell you. Well. you feed yourself when
you are hungry. don't you? Yes. You
give yourself a drink when you are
thirsty, don't you? Yes. That's how you
love yourself Love your neighbor that
way. Feed him when he is hungry. Give
him drink when he is thirsty Treat
him as you do yourself
DO people know you are a Christian?
They all ought to know. Let your light
shine
You can't all preach, and you can't all
do great things. You can't all Je Peters
and James and Johns, but you can all
be barley loaves and fishes for God. You
can all wipe away the tears from the
eyes of sorrow. You can all go TO church
when 1t rains or looks like rain. That's
when the preacher needs you. No man
can be eloquent to wood and vsrnish
The Lord had n hard time when He was
on earth: He has a hard time now. We
can all have kind words and deeds Don't
look as II religion hurt you. Don't look
as II you had a number three shoe when
you ought to be wearing a number five.
Don't look as II you were wearing a
twenty-five r. G.. when you ought to be
wearing a twenty-eight
| see some women here this afternoon
who lock as IL they had the toothache.
That won't win anyone for Christ. Loo
pleasant. Look as II religion made you
happy when you had it.
M~ke G00I RESOLUTIONS
Don't try to shine yourselves. Let your
light shine-which is a very different
thing. How can you let It shine? Well,
II you are a banker, be a better banker
than that miserable old sinner across the
street. II you are a horseshoer be the
best horseshoer in town.
Resolve each morning that you will
do nothing that will bring disgrace upon
Jesus. Determine that you will make n
success i'm Christianity. even II you tail
in everything else. But, IL you succeed
as a Christian, you won't fall in other
things. The man who has 1t in him to be
real Christian has the stuff In him to
make good i'm other things. Be a sue
cess in all that you can, for then you will
compel more respect and can go out and
win more respect for Christ. Be Bible
Christian. a praying Christian.
Oh, there are so many church members
who are not even known I'm their own
neighborhood as Christians. out in Iowa
where a meeting was being held a man
made up his mind to convert a tough old
sinner and after chasing him around for
three days he cornered him and talked
10 him for two hours. The old scoundrel
stroked his whiskers-and what do you
suppose he said? He said: why, We
been a member of the church down -hare