Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-29

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90 mat. It's no wonder that so many
people say; Wei, II those people are
Christians ] don't like the bunch. They're
not my kind of a crowd That's why
you don't win men for Christ.
can't understand how you can keep
sun when God offers so much and hell
Is so terrible. 1t is said that n boy who
was deaf and dumb saw a man about to
XIII King Croesus with a sword; and his
horror was so great that 1t burst the
impeachment of his speech and he cried
our, Don't slay the king!' An auto
mobile was struck by an express train
at a crossing down In Connecticut last
summer and all of its six passengers
were killed except one little boy who
mad been deaf and dumb. The shock
was so great that he found his voice and
cried Helpl Help! | don't sec how any
body on Gods dirt can keep still when
SO many arc in danger.
You say. 7 feed the hungry So do
|. You say you do It in the name of
humanity I do II in the name of Jesus.
When you do It in the name of humanity
1t will die. When II Is lone In the name
OF Jesus 1t is written down for all eter-
nifty. And let me tell you this-you who
talk so much Of humanitarianism. there
was no humanitarianism before Jesus
came. Jesus is the name that builds
homes, the name that inspires character,
the name that sobers the drunkard, the
FNN ''A'h e'AS Nv llbfl NlAAN lI'ts Alt
name that will transform this old world
ana make 1t n paradise Of peace.
BASE lNGRATtTUDE.
Behold, l stand at the door aud
knock The Utcpit we have pictured
In our dreams must come through Jesus.
How ungrateful then to keep out Of
your life an influence that wants to help
you. A friend of mine who had heard
me tell a story told me that he had wit
messed the incident. or one just like it
az the battle of Antietam. It was on a
part of the field where the Federals were
pressing after retreating Confederates.
and a Federal colonel saw a wounded
confederate lying in the blazing sun. He
dropped down beside the man and gave
MN water from his CanteCn. then spoke
kindly to Kim and started away. The
confederate used what strength he had
10 raise a rifle. He took aim and the
bullet crashed through the colonel who
mad Just befriended him. That was an
ACT tar better than that of the man who
Keeps Jesus Christ out of his heart.
Many years ago a steamer left New
york bound for foreign ports, and when
the passengers assembled for dinner a
man whose muscles on one side of his
race were all drawn, so that his appear
Ance was most unusual, came in and sat
down. After this meal the ladies at
whose table he had sat went to the cap
tain and said: Captain, please see that
that man never sits at our table again.
lis face is hideous. We never can eat if
you don't take him away from our
table The captain promised TO do what
he could, and he souEht out the man and
told him what the ladies had said, The
man took 1t very kindly, but he said,
Just let me take my supper at that table
and I'll never ask you to let me eat there
uBstln, JDSt do that and I'm .,F d, A.,
steeraEe for the remainder of the yoy-
age, II you say So
The captain agreed, and when the man
came to the supper table he said: La
dies, my mother was left a widow when
l was very young. She was poor and
nau 10 go out and do washing Tor a
living. l had a little sister, and one day
when mother was away at work the
house caught fire. / ran in to get my
little sister. | wrapped her in a blanket
and got through the flames with her. but
one side of my face was unprotected as
l did so, and I was burned. That is why
my face is SO drawn. If you could see
my sister, you would say she was hand
some. Now the captain has told me
what you said to him, and l am willing
to leave your table But the ladies'
would not have it so. They said: sit
down. If you leave our table we will
not have a desire to eat any more. You
are the handsOmest man we ever saw.
We want you to stay and eat with us
That man was eX-.Attorney General
Brewster. The protest of those ladies
was noble compared to the act of those
who keep Jesus outside.
ut Is a wonderful book from which we
take our text. 1t is the love of God that
keeps Him from striking us down in our
sins today LID
GODS LOVE BOUNDLESS.
How can any man fail to respect Jesus
Christ? I'll confess l can't understand
1t. Why, it is nothing but the love OF
God that keeps Him from sweeping the
world into hell, He brought about that
awful tragedy on Calvary through His
love for men, He said, If the world
won't come after that it won't come at
ALL Note Calvary's appeal to the rela-
ton of son to father! Every man has
been or will be a son or a father. God
knew that in touching the string that
binds son to father He was touching one
of the tenderest strings of the human
heart.
'I see two lives start from the same
home. One accepts Jesus and the other
.repudiates Him.
Fright where the two roads through life
diverge God has put Calvary, There His
put up a cross. the stumbling block over
which the love of God said, "Inl touch the
heart of man with the thought of father
and SON. He thought that would win
the world to Him, but for 1900 years men
have climbed the Mount of Calvary and
trampled into the earth the tenderest
teachings of God, Tell me-get right up
and tell me, IL you can, here in Phila-
delphia- how much more God could have
done to keep you out Of hell! If YOU
think He could have done any more get
up. Ia like to look at you! I'd like to
see what kind Of a mutt you are.
"After Jesus rose He said TO His disci-
Piles, Go pack 10 Jerusalem and tell that
man who stabbed me that there is "a
shorter way to My heart han his spear
found, Tell the man who put the crown
of thorns on My head that I've got a
crown of eternal glory now; and tell
them that l forgive Them
Down in Jacksonville, Fla, a man,
Judge Owen, quarreled with his be-
and to try and forget he went
Oft and worked in a yellow fever hospi-
tai. Finally he caught the disease and
had sucoumbed to 1t. He mad passed the
critical stage of the disease. but he was
dying. One day the lady, his sweet
heart, met the physician on the street
and asked about the Judge. He's sick,
he told her. How bad?' she asked,
We'll. he's passed the critical stage, but
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