Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-15

struggled on toward his goal. but when
ever he felt down In the mouth the
angels would clap their hands and say
/ Cheer up. Abe: don't give up; we're
with you" And he struggled and worked
on and one day as he stood in the slave
mart at New orleans and saw there the
disgusting sights slavery was response
BILE for he pounded one OF his gnarled
fists against the other and said IF l
ever get chance to wipe out this evil
IN do It," And one day this sleepy.
drowsy old world rolled out of bed and
hunted up Lincoln's log cabin and, bang
ing on the door, gave him the oppor-
tunity to carry out the vow he had made
at New orleans.
Less TO Church Than for Tobacco.
l once knew of a man who would come
to church regularly and tell how much
he loved the Lord yet he would 80 out
and spend more for tobacco in one year
than he had given to the church or to
the Lords work in ten.
In Chicago 10 a gang on the street cor
ners that preach infidelity. tinctured
with anarchy. Their ar xuments are very
subtle; they evade the police; they say
il God gave His son to die then He's a
murderer and not fit to love. and that
the Bible is not fit to be In the home.
You go TO some Grand Army of the Pc
public post and tell that old father when
the war broke out and his son enlisted,
OF when the Spanish-American war broke
out and another son enlisted, that he
did not love them because he was willing
for them to fight and die for their coun-
try-just tell that old father that the
sacrifice Of his two boys was no evidence
of love--see what he would say.
The government pententiary at Fort
Leavenworth is as much evidence OF the
love of our government as the United
states mint, II we had no law and no
penalties life and virtue wouldn't lie
worth the snap OF your finger.
Anarchy on Way.
You let every man do as he pleasss,
anarchy would prevail and we would
have a red flag instead of the stars and
Stripes. have no interest in a God who
does not smile. 1 cannot understand
all Of Gods methods of dealing with us.
cannot harmonic all of His laws with
what 1 know in my soul to be His true
nature, but 1 am not fool enough to
spurn Him just because OF that.
God gave His only son to the world
to die for men just as your fathers gave
their sons to their country to die FOR H.
You made sacrifices for your country
and your country rewarded you. nd
will reward you for making sacrifices
for Him. but He will punish you II you
disobey His commands.
Why, there are men In the penitentiary
who are there for three reasons; ~
To keep you safe from their brutality
and cookedness; 90 To make them good
citizens, II such thing is possible; go
To punish them because they have dis
obeyed the laws OF their country.
II Gods laws are not obeyed. you may
rest assured that you will be punished.
personally have no doubt that God Will
snite those who are unrepentant, and
believe that He does right to smite those
who disregard his commands. I believe
in Gods love for man, but believe that
God should smite those who disobey His
laws just as the government sends to
prison the men who disobey its laws.
Love without Law.
have not no use for the kind OF peo-
pie who have got the notion that all
God has got for them is a great big
It is a nameless thing that can't be
talked about in descent mems homes.
God loves men, but God wants them to
obey His laws and when they don't they
should expect to pay the consequences
and not go wandering around and ours
ing God and crying out against Him.
why Does Man Need SaVinRf
Why does man need saving? Because
sin surrounds US on all sides. We run
against sin every time we move. Sin
hurls us to the ground; 1t batters. il
bruises, it mangles. III we say we have
no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth
is not In u.s. .-
This old world for thousands OF years
has been full of lying. drunkenness. adul-
terry, profanity and murder. Therefore We
say the world is full of sin. Prove to US
that these things do not exist and we will
believe there is no sin.
Sin is a terrible fact; the world is
blighted. stained. cursed. ruined by sin.
Sin Is the cause of disappointment, pain,
shame, degradation and sorrow; sin is