The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-01-14
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Evangelist jones Preached 10
Large Congregation Again
Wednesday Night
TELLS OF DEVILS SLY WORK

Evangelist c. o. Jones preached ut
the First Methodist church last night
on The Prodigal Son taking as his
text the following
And he said certain man had
two sons, the younger Of them said
to his father father give me the por-
tiOn Of goods that fHlleth to me. And
he divided unto them his living"
II infer from this statement that
these two sons were the Ouly children
this father had The younger made
Il request, not II demand The request
wa, granted The division Of the
property was made, aud not many
days after he gathered all together
that Is, his cattle sheep, servants,
and such other things as helped to
make up the wealth Of the country
ut that time
1T was the custom among the Jews
that the eldest son should receive
twice ms much as the Youngest Some
holy In speaking IT this prOdigal son
said he was quite sure that he was
not an evil Young man and that when
he left home he had New Testn
ment In his pocket have thought
/ ~ this Young man as being IA big
hearted fellow, a liberal sOuled fellow,
hale fellow well met just such II
/ young fellow Hs the dPyil cnn use to
tremendous advantage
1T is remarkable how the devil
can use some folks There are some
people though, that are not much ac-
count anywhere You take big
souled fellow aud It is remarkable
how much influence he has, and how
many people he can carry with him.
| envy the devil fellow like that
and he has a lot Of them
Il would rather take II great big
sinner and try to get something out
OF him than all old skinflint church
member
The Devil In Business.
The devil hasn't single decent
business, not one and II we are 10.
ing to serve the devil we are going Ia
do something that IL degrading u
manhood and wOmanhOOd. II YOU gu
with Il gang, II will not be- long un
Ill you will be doing like they do II
you 20 with the dancing and card
playing and show going crowd. II
won't be long until you will be- doing
Just AZ they do.
IL have seen the old devil put peO
pie into the very worst things h'
could put them into, and after whil'
they were put out OF even that-nO
needed In that any more. | nave seeI
this thing time and again Here Is 1
man who begins to drink little II
ulOr He is always welcome visit
or at the saloon. or wherever he get
his liquor. You take any welltu-d,
man aud when he gO,s into salOOl
the saloon keeper is always glat
tu see him
But you take this same man an,
let him put all his money into that sa
loon and all his property, and thei
let him 20 out and make few dollar
aud few quarters. at odd Jobs. AM
] the same saloon keeper viii take thOs
s few dollars and quarters.
No Money, No Friends.
. Then let him beg dime, and thi
.uloon keeper viii gladly take tha
lime. Hut let him go into this sam
,aloOn without single dime, after h
las put his last cent into the bust
ness, and ask this saloon Keeper L
=, give him drink, and he will hc
lin ont aud say. You old scoulldre
= get out " here We don't want yo
Z In here Yes, that is what they vii
do. every time
q And after while he came +
himself
u II wish lot Of people In this tow
Z would do this same thing wish
1 | lut OF people would wake up and com
r To themselves and realize where the
lrp going NV observation Is tina
when men get to seeing themselves n
they really are. we don't have yer.
much trouble in getting them to be
come Christians,
II don't care where Young fellow
comes from, ur what his name IL, u
what his family amounts TO- whethe
he Is rich or poor. II he has got tn
p win he will succeed, | don't car
p where yOu put him You cRn take on
Of these fellows from the mountains
/, green, don't know much, but he ha
some muscle has a will. He Ny
a am going 10 make man out u
myself | am going to get an educu
tlou. And he win You cant kee
4 him down,
y story Of Bishop Quayle.
" The story IL told of young fe
tt low In Kansas who decided that h
wanted an education, so he packed u
e all his belongings In little bandann
u handkerchief and started for Bake
\ University. He went to the presidei
h and said. I haven't any money, bi
can work, and | want al education
The president looked him over, deci'
ed that there was some good stun
If him, aud put him to work The youl
10 follow went right tO studying al
working and he graduated IN th'
u school married daughter Of one
~ the professors, later became presidei
~ of the school From there he went
"A.