Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-22

pan Just 90 out and jump OF the bridge
ana believe you won't drown. Belief
| won't change n fact.
DO you find any fault with His atone-
mehtE He tasted death for every man,
Tor the man who owns the mlne for the
man who works In Il; for the president
| OF the Lehigh Valley Railroad and for
| the man who works on the section. II
there were man in this world who
wasn't Included In the plan Of redemp-
ton Jesus Christ would come down and
suffer death again. Just for that man.
Twenty-six years ago 1 accepted Jesus
! christ and He has saved me from my
sins lie has saved my wife, and lie has
| saved my children. lie did for me what
couldn't do for myself You can't save
yourself. Jesus Christ must do that
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 up
IN Minneapolis-no, II was st. Paul-he
| met an old pal and asked him to have
n drink. His old pal said NO, don't
want one This puzzled him You don't
| mean that YOU don't want it?' He
couldn't understand why the man did not
/ want II. lie could conceive Of the man
1 refusing 1t on principle but not to want
IL was past him. His old pal said: T
mean | don't want IT, He explained that
| he had been converted and that he did net
care for liquor any more.
CONVERTED AT A MISSION.
" I never heard Of anything like that
said my friend. The other took him
down to mission, and he was con-
verted He tried to live down his old
reputation, but Il was hard. In towns
where he went the police would tell him
to move on, and sometimes would pick
him Whom hn taII hot hn I,s
formed they thought he was lying. After
five years he went to Chicago and went
to see old acquaintances, Robert and
William Pnkcrton. and told them that
he wanted TO get his picture from the
police, lie said that he had changed his
way Of living and didn't want to be
known to the police as crook Mr.
Pinkerton said: IN get it for you. Bill
and he did.
"Then my friend went to the great
lawyer, Luther Latin Mills who ia now
dead, and asked him to help him get his
picture back from the penitcntiary peo-
pie at Joliet, and to get his Bcrtillon
measurements destroyed there. Mr..
Mills said he would try, and he wrote a
letter to the warden Of the penitentiary.
When he got the answer 1t said: You've
got another guess coming You may get
the records away from the police of Chi
cago, but you can't get them from the
State Of illinois, He went on preaching
the gospel.
Some time after my friend, who was
nervous and in poor health, went to
Battle Creek to stay for awhile at the
sanitarium, and while there he made a
speech Three Governors were there
Altgeld, of Illinois; Culbertson, OF Texas,
and Johnston, of Mississippi. He told
the story Of his conversion and of his
attempt to get th6~rccords away from
pyh hn rns IAH
p Altgeld was wiplng his eyes.
I'll see what l can do for you,' he
said.
"A month later my friend received n
letter marked, Executive Mansion,
Springfield, State of Illinois 1t said:
My dear Mr., Callahan, it gives me pleas
ur, 10 nclose y.ur uho;o rnph from the
penitentary Mt Joliet, and to tel YOU
that your Bertiliion records there have
all been destroyed. There is no record
except in your memory that YOU were
ever there You have the gratitude and
best wishes of your friend. John p. Ait
"e'd.' You can 80 to New urk now
and down on Bowery mission you will
find my friend Callahan preaching the
gospel.
Accept Jesus Christ and the re ord
of the past will be wiped ou,. Oh. what
a Saviour! What a Saviour
Can you find any faul In what the
teaching of Jesus Chri I has done for
the world? He has made the world to
blossom as rose. He has made thieves
honest, He has maze l.beIrles and
adulteresses pure. He made liars truth
full. He has reformed ind vIduals and
nations. Before Jesus Christ came there
wasn't n hospital in the world, there were
no asylums or eleemosynary inst tutlons.
no provision for the orphans, the blind,
the insane or the lame.
Before Jesus Christ came woman was
n slave, a beast of burden. Today she
is free All that YOU have OF honor and
respect to womanhood is due to Jesus
Christ. and you are ungrateful when you
turn up your lip and sneer II II hadn't
been for Jesus Christ you women wouldn't
dare to he out on he streets at night.
You ought to fall at His feet in gratitude,
and If you are not grateful you are a
fool! a fool! a fool-I don't care who
you are.
when some people die they leave lands
behind them, Some leave the memory OF
good lives. They had characters behind
them. They leave bad names to poster
ity. About all that some men leave to
their children Is the memory OF an old
profigate Some men, when they die, be-
queath weak bodies to their offspring;
some hequeath weak minds, and their
children become imbeoiles; some bequeath
a taste for drink, their children become
drunknrds. Jesus Christ bequeaths us
His peace. My peace I leave unto you,'
He says. Can you find any fault in that?
Why. then. should you be sad and
gloomy?
SMILE AS If 1T HURTS.
'some people wear faces as long as II
they thought God Almighty were dead
They smile as IL II hurt them. and you
are glad when they quit II Paul and
Silas had gone TO jail looking as glum
as you do that old jailer would never
have been converted. God doesn't want
you 10 look pesslmistic when you are
putting on your clothes on Sunday to go
to church Some OF you are praying God
to use you. You had better pray, 'oh.
God, help me to stop looking sour and
then help me 10 live Christian life"