Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-19

the pound troy weight so does Jesus
Christ Are you against all crookedness
! and fraud. against the grog shop and
brewery. deception and all thatg so is
Jesus Christ
Jesus shot lie preaching into the big
gest guns in the synaEoEues In His day.
There's a lesson for the preachers in the
way lie did Il. lie said oh. you scribos
and Phsrseesl You Holsters. you false
alarms, you four-nushers you excess
baggage. you vipersl You are little white
sepulchres, nice without. but all rotten
ness and dead mans homes within. You're
a fine bunch OF guys. You rob the widows
and tho orphans you Holsters! The whole
bunch OF you ought to be in jail Thata
the way Jesus Christ preached
The first recorded words OF Jesus wore
spoken when lie was u years OF age
| 'Wist we not that must be about Afy
Fathers business Tho last were uttered
on the cross when He cried out IT 10
/ finishedr Between those two sentences
I were crowded the words and aots OF
twenty-one years, and not one thing did
lie do or say that was not for the good
OF man and tho glory OF God
Faith strengthened by Use.
He had faith in His Father Faith In
Start with the faith you have and farm
that. Take what faith you have and go
into business with 1t for God Use what
you have and you'll get moro. Don't use
II, and you'll lose what you have. Faith
is strengthened by use.
| 1T Is by faith that we get into touch
with God. II is the power that con-
!, trolls the world. II we had no faith we
would have no electric lights, no troll
ley cars. You can't get married with
out fsith-faith that the man you marry
or the woman you marry will be true.
You can't send letter without faith
that Uncle Sam win see that e Is deliv-
cred. You can't eat meal OF victuals
without faith-faith that II will give you
strength. You can't farm without faith
faith that the seed will grow and the
harvest viii come. We can't live without
faith. Man believed In the steam engine
before he had ever seen one Elias
Howe believed he had an invention that
would SAVE women the labor OF sewing
by hand. He had never seen n sewing
machine. but he had faith. 30 he worked
for years to make one. II friends hadn't
taken care Of his wife and children they
would have been hungry. Ills clothes
grew old. but his faith was strong and
he kept on working, and finally he had
the sewing machine.
What Faith Does.
Eli Whitney had faith IN the cotton
gin long before he had ever seen one.
He persisted for years until It stood
complete. Everybody who has accom-
plished anything has first believed.
There would have been no Jewish nation
II Abraham had not had faith.
Faith is what gives a man backbone
in science, literature. education and in
agriculture Faith is TO the soul what
gravitetion Is to the earth. As graVita-
ton draws US toward the center OF the
earth, so faith makes me gravitate to-
ward God, instead OF toward the saloon.
I cannot touch God with my hand, but
I can touch Him by faith. Take faith
out OF the world, and see what place
IL would be.
Take away Christianity and the
world would be two hemispheres of
lasarettos, two hemispheres of brothels
ana all the vilest offscourings OF the
earth
Jesus said that all who believed In
Him would be saved. Wrong belief makes
Everything wrong. Some say a man be-
lieves what ne likes and 80 long as no
Is sincere. all viii be well with him. You
are fooled. A man may believe that he
can handle nitrogiyoerin without danger,
but II he monkeys with It you'll have to
take him up with broom and a dust
pan. Just so out and jump off the bridge
and believe you won't drown. Belief
won't change a fact.
| One Man COants.
DO you find any fault with His atone
ment? He tested death for every man,
for the man who owns the mine, for the
man who works In Il; the president of
the Pennsylvania railroad and for the
man who works on the section. II there
were q man In this world who wasn't In
eluded in the plan OF redemption, Jesus
IIChrist would come down and suffer death
again. Just for that man. Twenty-six
years ago I accepted Jesus Christ, and
He has saved me from my sins He
has saved my wife, and he has saved
my children. He did for me what l
couldn't do for myself. You can't save
yourself Jesus Christ must do that
Il had friend who had been a drunk
ard and had gone down the line, and
had done time. He had a place on the
police record and they knew him as a
} man TO be watched. Once In a hotel I'D
, In Minneapolis he met an old pal ana
asked him to have a drink. His old pal
sad; No. don't want one. This pug
zled him. You don't mean that you
WON'T he said You don't mean that
. you don't want III He couldn't under
stand why the man did not want it. He
. could conceive OF the man refusing IL
on principle, but not 10 want Il was
past him. His old pal said: I mean
don't want IT, He explained that he
had been converted and that he did not
care for liquor any more.
Living Down Past Life.
never heard OF anything like that.
said my friends. The other took him
down to the mission. and he was con.
yerted. He tried to live down his old
reputation, but II was hard In towns
where he went the police would tell him
TO move on and sometimes would pick
him up. When he told them he had re-
formed they thought he was lying After
five years he went to Chicago and went
to see old acauaintances. Robert and
William Pinkerton. and told them that he
wanted TO get his picture from the police.