Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18
1t is Appointed to All Men Once to
Die and "Afer Death Judgment

DSOSH SuSA6HtCttt
ture II was only the trick OF an orator.
Let me paint for you picture. and see
II Il doesn't make you feel like leaping
and shouting hallelujshs.
would rather have been a French
peasant and worn wooden shoes; I would
rather have lived m a hut with a vine
growing over the door and grapes grow
ing and ripening in the autumn sun;
would rather have been that peasant. with
my wife and children by my side and the
open Bible on my knee, at peace with the
world and at peace with God; I would
rather have been that poor peasant and
gone down AZ least in the promlscuity Of
the dust with the certainty that my name
was written in the Lambs book Of life
than TO have been that brilliant infidel
whose tricks of oratory charmed thou
sands and sent souls 70 hell 1nfIdeHty
has never won drunkard from his cups
has never redeemed a prostitute from
her unchastity. It has never built hos
pital for the crushed and sick Il has
never dried tears. II has never built
mission for the rescue OF the down and
out. IL wouldn't take a ream. or a quire.
or sheet, or even n line Of paper TO
0OHN2
better and gladden. the world.
Well may Christianity stand today ana
point 10 It's hospitals. It's churches ana
its schools with their towers and spires
Vomiting 10 the source of their inspiration
am say; These are the works that
de do"
I plead In the name OF God. with every
ounce Of my strength. that you win 20
decide that you viii not have to say, III
I only hadi II only had"
Your conscience Is the ability OF your
mind TO distinguish between right ana
wrong. Every man knows what is right
and what Is wrong. NO man ever goes
bllndly through this world. You know
what you ought TO do. You are resoonsi- /
bic for what you do. BE a man and do
what you ought TO do.
Remember. that your mind is immoral. |
Nothing FOrEotten.
Every county has a recorders Office
where records Of land ownerships and
transfers are kept. II you want to know
who owns piece OF land you go to the
recorders office and see what the records
say. They are absolute. What was set
down there long years ago Is still there.
Nothing is forgotten. So It IL with mem
ory.
Some men have long memories. Some
have short memories. Lord Bacon said
that men never forget anything-that at
some time or another they win remen-
Der every impression they have ever had.
or that such an impression can be re-
produced.
King Cyrus could remember the parpea
OF 5000 men in his army, and II Raya
him wonderful power over them.
Horace Greeley could read several COL
umns OF the New York Tribune ana
repeat what he had read. word for word.
DR.. J. NJ Buckley OF the Christian
Advocate" Of New York could read whole
columns and repeat tho words just as he
had read them.
l saw a Japanese student at Armour
Institute In Chicago. who could quote the
first five books OF the Bible. the Psaima
and aii OF the New Testament.
Moody met man In Scotland who
could repeat the whole Bible from Genesis
to Revelations. II the Bible were to be
destroyed today IL could be rewritten from
the memories OF men.
You must meet your memory In judg-
ment-every fact of your life. God Is
writing a book OF every life He puts
everything In and he leaves nothing out.
II you were making a tree OF the an
cestors and one OF them had been hung
for horse stealing. you might put that
branch around at tho back. whore no.
body would see II. But God puts every
thing TO the front. whore IT viii be seen
in Judgment.
DO YOU lie? DO you steai9 DO YOU
commit adultery? Are you keeping some
body on the side7 Some day, God viii
rip the bark off OF you and show that YOU
are full OF worm holes.
Sometimes people say to met what
viii be the outcome Of the labor qnSs-
uonY' I don't know. Sometimes they
ask mo how the problems of capital are
20 be solved. don't know. But l do
know that there viii be a Judgment ana
that Il won't be a class Judgment Capi-
tai and labor. rich and poor. toiler ana
idler all will stand alike in Judgment.
II you sin there are just three ways
Ia which you can escape
First, because the law doesn't make
you out q criminal. You may be ar
rested. but 1t may be found that there