Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-09-27

the days of thy youth. and walk In the
ways Of thine heart. and In the sight Of
thine eyes; but know thou, that for all
these things God win bring thee into
judgment. - cclesiastes, ii:s.
BE not deceived; God - not Knocked;
for whatever a man soweth that shall he
also resp"-Galatians, vi:7.
In other words, do just as you please.
lie IL you want to, steal II you want to;
God won't stop you, but He will hold you
responsible In the end. Do Just as you
please until the end comes and then you
are ell in.
No one Is living in ignorance Of what
will become Of him n he does not go
right and trot square. He knows there
Ii a heaven for the saved and hell for
the damned, and that's all there is to Il.
Many men start out on life OF pleas
ures, Please remember two things; First,
pleasures soon have an end and. second,
there IL a day of judgment coming and
you'll set what's coming to YOU. God
gives every man a square deal.
! IL n man stood up and told me he was
going to preach on the things l am this
afternoon. I'd want him 70 answer me
several questions, and II he could DO that
Ia tell him TO go ahead.
First-Are you kindly disposed toward
me?
Second-Are you doing this TO help me?
Third-Do you know what you are talk
ing about?
Fourth--Do you practice what you
preach?
That's fair Well for the first. God
knows / am kindly disposed toward you,
Second God knows ! would do anything
in my power to help you to be better
man. ] want 10 make II easier for you
to DO square, and harder for you to go
to hell. Third. know what I'm talking
about for ! have the Bible 10 back me
up ia parts and the statements Of emf
nent physicians in other parts
Can show Nothing Against Him.
And fourth. DO ! practice what
preach9" / will defy and challenge any
man or woman on earth, and I'll look
any man in the eye and challenge him,
| in the twenty-seven years I have been
protesting Christian. 20 show anything
against me.
II I don't live what 1 preach. gentle
men, I'll leave the pulpit and never walk
back here again. live as preach and
! defy the dirty dogs who have insulted
me and my wife and spread black-hearted
| lies and villificstions.
I was born and bred on a farm and at
the age of II held my place with men
| in the harvest field. when 1 was only 9
I years old / MIXED ten cows every morn
ing.
know what hard knocks are. | have
seen the seamy side OF life. have
crawled out OF the sewers and squalor
and want Rave struggled ever since
! I was years old. an orphan son Of a
dead soldier. up to this pulpit this after
noon.
] know what II is to go to bed with
! an honest dollar in my overall's pocket,
| when the Goddess Of Liberty became a
Jenny Lind and the eagle on the other
side became a nightingale and they'd sing
! poor. homeless orphan boy to sleep
I'm not here to explode hot EN- and
] theories to you.
| Some men here in town, IL their wife
{ asked them II they were coming down
here, would say. ''oh no, I don't want
Z TO go anywhere can't take you. dear {"
. The dirty old dogs, they've been many
I place they wouldn't take their wife
and they wouldn't even let her know they
were there.
II sin weren't so deceitful 1t would not
he so attractive. The effects get stronger
while you get weaker and weaker all
the time and there is less chance of
breaking away
Many think Christian has TO be a sort
Of dishrag proposition. a wishy-washy.
sissified sort OF galoot that lets every
BODY make a doornat out OF him. Let
me tell you the manifest man is the man
who will acknowledge Jesus Christ
Before I was converted could 20 five
rounds, 80 fast that you couldn't see me
Tor the dust, and I'm still pretty handy
with my dukes and ! can still deliver
the goods with all express charges pre-
paid
Before l was converted I could RIM IN
yards In ten seconds, and circle the
bases in fourteen seconds. and 7 could
run just as fast after I was converted
/ 80 you don't have TO be dishrag prom
osition after all
! remember when was secretary NJ
the Young Mems Christian association
In Chicago had the saloon route. I had
TO go around and give tickets inviting
men to come TO the Young Mems Chris
tian association services.
ANA one day ! was told 10 count tho
men going into a certain saloon. Not
the ones already IN. but just those going
IN. In sixty-two minutes ! could count
Just 1904 men going In there.
! say n sin wasn't so deceitful IL would
not Re SO attractive. Every added drink
makes II harder
! Christianity is the capital on which Won
build your character. Don't you let the
devil fool you. You never become a man
until you become a Christian.
I Christianity Is the capital on which
] you do business. It's your character
that gets you anything. Your reputation
is what people say about you. but your
character is what God aud your wife and
the angels know about you, and know,
you TO be. Many have regulations Of
good being, but their characters would
make black mark ON a piece OF coal
or tarred paper.
Trusted HIN tn VauIts of hank.
was over In Terre Haute. Ind. not
long ago and | was In Il bank there Al.
miring the beauty OF It when the vice
president. Mr.. Mccormick. a friend OF
mine. said:
Bill you haven't seen the vault
yet and he opened up the vaults there
N..nn.