Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-12

fellow today goes to church and Just
gets religion enough to make him mser-
able. Like an old fellow in Iowa came
to me and said, Bill 1 have been 10
hear you every night and you have done
me lot OF good. l used to cuss my old
woman every day, and l amt cussed her
for week. 1 am getting little better"
The trouble with many men is that
they have Just got enough religion to
make them miserable. II there Is no
/ Joy In religion. you have got a leak in
your religion. Some haven't religion
enough to pay their debts. Would that
might have a hook and for every debt
that you left unpaid / might jerk off
/ a piece OF clothing. II l did, some of
/ you fellows would not have anything on
but celluloid collar and a pair of socks.
Some OF you have not got religion
enough 60 have q family prayer. Some
OF you people haven't got religion
enough to take the beer bottles out of
your cellar and throw them in the alley
The trouble with you is that you are
20 taken UP with business with politics,
with making money with your lodges,
and each and every one Is so dependent
on the other. that you are scared to
death to come out and live clean cut
for God Almighty. You have not fully
surrendered yourself to God.
The matter with lot Of you people
a that your religion is not complete.
You have not yielded yourself to God
and gone out for God and Gods truth.
Why, am almost afraid to make some
folks laugh for fear that l will be ar
rested for breaking costly piece OF
antique bric-a-brac You would think
that IL some people laughed 1t would
break their faces. To see some you
would think that the essential of ortho-
dox Christianity is to have face 80
long you could eat oatmeal out of the
end Of q gas pipe. Sister, that Is not
, religion; / want to tell you that the
happy, smiling, sunny-faced religion will
win more people to Jesus Christ than the
miserable, old grim-faced kind will in
ten years pity anyone that can't
Ieugh. There must be something wrong
with their religion or their liver. The
devil can't laugh
oh. laugh and the world laughs with
Weep and you weep alone;
IT'S easv enough to be pleasant
When hfe goes Sr3R S,4hg vySS XIII 2 s9ns' tSs man
who can smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
wish to God the church were as
afraid OF imperfection as 1t Is OF per
lection.
THE First CRATER.
Naaman dipped himself seven times in
the Jordan "and his flesh came again
like unto the flesh OF little child, and
he was clean" He offered Elisha OF the
store OF gold and other precious metals,
but the prophet would not take any OF
IT, But GehaSi, servant to Elisha
counted the goods. and ran after Naa-
man, saying that Elisha had changed
his mind. Naaman dumped a pile OF II
on the ground, and mark this, the lep-
rosy OF Naaman infected Gehazi He was
the first CRATER mentioned In the blole'
/ saw a woman that for twenty-seven
years had been madam. and saw her
| come down the aisle, close her doors
turn them out OF her house and live for
/ God. 1 saw enough converted In one
| town where there were four houses to
close their doors; they were empty; they
had ell fled home TO their mothers.
Listen 10 me and l am through out
In Iowa a fellow came to me and spread
! a napkin on the platform-a napkin as
big as a tableeloth, He said; Il want
a lot OF shavings and sawdust." What
|
make q soft pillow to have something in
my home to help me think OF God. l
don't want 10 forget God. or that was
saved, Can you give me enoughT l
! said: "Yes, indeed. and IL you want
enough to make a mattress. all hight;
take Il; and II you want enough OF the
tent q was preaching in a tent them),
20 make a pair of breeches for each OF
the boys why take your scissors and cut
Il right out II It will help you TO keep
your mind on God" That is why l like
to have people come down to the front
and publicly acknowledge God like
to have a man have a definite experiences
In religion. Something to remember.
ConfoundinE the Devil.
once read OF a preacher who used to
quarrel with his wife. That was before
he became preacher no one can quar-
rel with his wife after he becomes
preacher. Abe and his wife used TO fight
because Abe was an Episcopalian and
his wife was a Methodist Abe said to
his wife; See here. all they do down