Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-17

all right. but since I've become decent ]
have to be lied about. II. when l quit
playins ball, instead II becoming a min
lister l had been = tout for the races,
or run booze Joint and was God
| forsaken whisky-soaked chump, l might
have been good fellow" with lot Of
miserable ours that knock me from one
end OF the street TO the other.
hut the Lord has prepared a table be-
fore me in the presence OF that bunch.
The devil used to feed mo on cornod
beef and cabbage. but God gives mo
porterhouse beetsteak.
You can take your free lunch counter
and your booSe ~ you want H. but
don't or your slop, No, sir, l don't
want II.
when Jesus Christ went to Bethany He
went bodily.
He went into heaven. into tho clouds
bodily. He arose bodily. He returned
bodily.
will bet you every dollar have that
Jesus Christ will walk this old earth
again.
Now listen. Absolutely certain.
II go to prepare a place Cor you. In
my fathers house are many mansions
II 1t were not 30 would have told YOU"
God HAS Done All lie Can.
The provision for your entrance 70 the
/ pearly gates rests with you and the judg-
ment that will fall on you will be that
you knew what TO do, but you wouldn't
do IT,
You might have been saved. but you
would not. God has done all He can,
and the fault is not with Him.
| Reformation will not take you In
have signed pledges that would run from
here to that back door, 1 have made
resolutions enough 70 pave hell, but they
never did any good No, sir.
But twenty-nine years ago l gave my
self up TO Him, put my hand in His and
by faith He has led me ali the way
That's what II is. not reforming, not
making resolutions but giving yourself
up to Christ and letting Him lead you,
and He will do II II you will only trust
| Him.
Listenl The gates shall not be shut at
all by day. for there will be no night
there. Every time a watch ticks soul
enters eternity.
Every time the sun rises and sets the
gates are swinging shut until there may
come a time when the sun will come up
for the last time.
| There will come time when the door
will be shut and believe that through
this meeting God is holding the door open
for some OF you men and women to en-
! ter. and II you don't yield, believe that
so far as your opportunities are con-
cerned. 1t will shut forever In your face
l have sometimes thought l would like
to go as did David Livingstone, in
Africa. on his knees. pleading with God
! for the people OF the dark and benighted
region.
Tired, weary. worn, his faithful serv-
ants had carried him In his wicker chair,
and they came to bamboo bungalow.
where they carried him in to rest
| They placed him on the bed and he
asked to be left alone. He slid onto his
knees. buried his face in his hands.
] In an hour or 30 they looked in and
saw him in an attitude OF prayer. They
went back in an hour and said
"shl the white man prays. How long
he prays. but he prays."
They went back later, entered, and ho
was dead.
They carried him out, laid him beneath
tho trees, and In their crude way they
opened his abdomen, took out his vital
organs beneath the trees he loved they
buried him, and in their way they en-
balmed his body. sewed II up in cloth.
fastened 1t TO pole, and with that on
their shoulders for twelve months they
waded through the swamps, swan rivers
and creeks, fought the birds of prey by
day and the beasts OF prey by night.
At last they reached the seashors. got
into communication with England and II
sent a cruiser which brought his body
back
Tonight ne sleeps In Westminster abbey
waiting for the trumpet Of Gabriel to
sound
I have often thought would like to go
pleading with somebody and helping
them to see the light and get out Of the
clutches OF sin and the devil.
Yes, God tells me OF the blessing,
Goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life and ! shall dwell
In the house OF the Lord, forever"
A friend of mine told mo that he was
down In Boston. and while there visiting
in a home Gods time had come for an
old pilot, who was harbor pilot.
An ocean pilot never takes q ship out
Of the harbor, neither do they ever bring
a ship in.
Pilot saw the Light.
A hArbor pilot goes miles out at sea
and meets the incoming vessels and