Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-15

tellect would exhaust it in two or tare'
sermons.
Know God Through Bible.
We have cut loose from the Bible, and
any man who is living contrary to the
Bible is a sinner, whether he feels Ike a
sinner or not. Every man who is living
contrary to the laws is criminal
whether he feels like 1t or not. a man
who breaks the law of God is a sinner
and is on the road to hell, whether he
feels like it or Ike saint. Jesus came
into the world to reveal God TO man, and
man reveals him to man. The only reve-
lation we have of Jesus is through the
Bible. You have got to know the Bible
to know Jesus. You have got to know
Jesus to know Cod that's how / sc:
through here. There Is no revelation for
God to make of himself greater than he
has made through Jesus Christ. 1t is not
impossible for the human intellect to
have greater conception of God. Every
man needs Christ. Jesus is the savior
that he needs and he has got to know the
Bible to show what It is that makes
Jesus the savior. He needs a savior and
now is the time to accept savior and
Holy Spirit Necessary.
Then you need the Holy Spirit; without
him you can not do anything. The spirit
of God works through clean hands. There
are too many dirty, hands. too many
dirty people trying to preach clean gos-
pei i have known men that have
preached the truth and God has honored
the truth, although their lives were not
as they should be, but God honored the
truth and not the people who preached
the truth. But II they had been Chris
tlans themselves then God would have
honored them more because He would
have honored them and the truth.
If you don't believe me. then believe
the truth itself. BY their fruits ye shall
know them You bet your life the devil
had nothing to do with my coming here,
he had nothing to do with sending me to
Omaha. or the DEVILS gang. didn't
come by the invitations OF the brewers,
the saloonkeepers. the madames and the
gamblers. That gang didn't invite me to
town. They had nothing to do with Il.
They have no use for me. Nor 1 for
them.
No Family Prayer.
Prayer, three-fourths Of the church
members have no family prayer. I will
bet my life against cancelled postage
stamp today that half the people here
did not read the Bible nor pray before
you came here today. You wash your
hands, wash your face, dress yourself.
you get your breakfast, your dinner. yes.
Did you read the Bible? No. Did you
pray? No. II you cared for the physi-
cal manhood and womanhood the same
way that you care for your spiritual
manhood and womanhood, you would be
Just as dried up, and useless. and weak
physically as you are spiritually. ! have
a physical nature that demands food and
care Then. too, / have spiritual ma
ture that demands food and care, and
the word of God. You let your spiritual
life starve. That is the reason your
pews are full of driftwood; that Is the
reason that religion is but mirage.
Pray God to give you power Pray God
10 give your power TO carry on His
work after you have become converted
| don't preach a sermon that I don't
pray God for help, and l never finish n
sermon that don't thank God that l
nave preached II. ] never finish a ser
mon but that I ask for power to carry on
the work. strength to carry It along. 50
get ready BY praying. never preach
sermon that don't soak it in PRAYER
Horse Sense to Preaching.
Pure hearts. II 1 have any iniquity In
my heart the Lord will not come in. We
need a wise head. We need horse sense
In preaching. We need horse sense I'm
what we do. l think God Is constantly
looking for a company OF men and
women that are constantly alive. There
arO too many dead ones. lie needs men
and women that are always at II, not
only during the revival: we need 10 be
full Of faith; dead in earnest. never give
up, bulldog tenacity and stick-to-it-
iveness for the cause of God Almighty.
That Is what God is looking for. Many
have done things just for the applause of
tne world. Newton would study all night
TO get sentence TO embody a thought.
Reynolds would sit for 80 hours without
food TO get the right word TO write an
ode. Wesley used 10 travel from 5000 TO
LOO miles year on horseback in the
days OF itinerant Methodism and get
most OF his rest and sleep right in the
All lllneIdQL
preacher In Illinois in the days of Lin
coin, travelled from Cairo 10 Heland Ill,
riding horsebaek-what would he do?
He used to have TO swim rivers five 10
seven times day; he would have 10 find
foot log and cross the foot log; take off
MS clothes and leave them on the opposite
bank, come back and get his horse and
swim across; night would overtake him
and he would sleep on the prairies, lying
down there without anything 70 eat
Church ApatheJIe to Loss.
The church Of God has not smelled
gunpowder for $50 years that is what Is
the matter with IL; Il has become proud,
naughty. arrogant, self-centered and
apathetic to mems lost condition; there
Ii not church In ChristendOm that has
not occasion to thank God for Lyman
Beecher. He preached and John Newton
was converted. Scott heard Newton and
Scott was converted. A peddler went 90
home and sold a Bible where there
was little boy named Richard. who read
H. Richard Baxter wrote Saints Rest. &"
Philip coleridge read Saints Rest and
he wrote The Rise and Progress Of Re-
igion." Wilberforce read the Rise ana