Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-03-21
Be CHRISTIAN
and PAY DEBTS
Evangelist Jones Talked on Com
mercial Value of Christianity
Last Night

Christianity has a commercial value
according TO the sermon preached last
night by Evangelist Robert l.. Jones
at the First Presbyterian church, and
he told the audience that the man who
don't pay his debts anc belongs to the
church will do more harm to the
cause of Christ than a dozen saloon
keepers. He declared that some peo-
pie would go TO hell for two cents and
challenged the church members to
go and talk religion to their creditors.
BLESSED is the nan that standeth
not in the way Of a sinner" is the
text used, taken from the first verse
Of the first Psalm, and Mr.. Jones
spoke in brief as follows: "The best
argument in favor of Christianity is
a good man or a good woman, not a
fanatic on religion but one who lives
upright and fair and square every
day. w. ". - .,.i
Wicked to Loaf Monday.
cit is just as wicked to loaf Mon.
day as it is to, work on Sunday. If we
found a man out here ploughing lis
field on Sunday. some good people
would soy. oh my, he ought to go to
the bad place. But that man is not
one bit worse than the man who loafs
on Monday. The Bible says, Six days
shalt thou labor and on the seventh
thou shalt rest;' it is just as much OF
a command to work the six days as
it is to rest the seventh, therefore we
have got to be mighty careful what
we do on Monday and Tuesday and
the rest of the week if God is pleased
with us on Sunday.
Our Christian life is positive as
we'll as negative. Some Of you church
members are always telling what you
don't do. You say, 4 don't play cards
and l don't dance and / don't go to
the theater.' Well, what do you do
but sit around and tell what you don't
do? You say that you don't play
cards or dance or 20 to the theatet
but I want to tell you that you'll go
to hell for all that. That isn't going
to save your soul. Some Of you peo'
Pile who wouldn't pay a game of cards
will sped an afternoon g%ossiping
about your neighbcrs and l would
rather play cards all day than to Cos
sip fifteen minutes.
Drank Sour Milk
GA small boy in the city who deliv-
ers milk said to me one day, 'Mr.
Jones, if you want to test Christian.
ity just drive this milk cart awhile
The boy explained how people had de-
frauded him of many a dollar. One
family after the bill got to be twelve
dollars refused to pay it because they
said the milk never had any cream
on it and was always our. They left
town with the bill unpaid and the boy
said, If that's Christianity, l don't
want it. Isn't it strange that a fam
lily could drink up twelve dollars
worth of sour milk and make no COM
plant until the bill became SO large?
Blessed is the nan that standeth not
in the way of a sinner
Jones Got Mean Letter.
"Some years ago I gave this talk
on paying debts at Troy, N. Y, and
for several days afterwards kept re-
ceiving anonymous letters, none OF
them very complimentary. I filed
them away in the waste basket, as
always do such letters. One commun-
ication came from a good sister in the
church and it was especially sharp;
she gave me to understand that
could mind by own business and that