Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-13

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escape being paupers and criminals, and
they settle here and become carbuncle
on the neck OF the body polite.
America Is Europe's Back Yard.
All over America there are patches of
Europe. until America has become the
backyard in which Europe Is dumping its
paupers and criminals
Now, have not one word to say against
any man or woman who was born or has
come across the seas. We all originally
came from across the sea.
My mother came from Scotch and Welsh
stock and my father was OF SAKE oburg,
and l will be among the first to stand at
Ellis island and extend the hand Of well
come to any man or woman who wants
TO come here and assimilato our ways and
conditions, and live beneath the stars and
Stripes, but, so help me. God, II | will
yield to any class or clique.
But II they don't like 1t here let EN-
go back to the land wh,re they were
kenneled. Sixty-nine per cent of our
criminals are either foreigners or OF for
eign parents. You walk the streets OF
New York or Philadelphia or Chicago and
not one out Of three faces will have in
them the strains of pure Americanism.
1 can go up on the Manhattan building
and in radius of twenty miles see where
one-eighteenth of our population lives.
They turn our idea of the Sabbath into
I the continental idea, with their beer
gardens and beer drinking.
Too Much Negative Preaching.
I We have listened TO fifty years Of
negative preaching. The world needs
the work and words of Jesus Christ
and is crying out for him. lie is look
: ing for some Moses to lead 1t out Of
bondage. In a labor meeting in New
York City once a man got up and cried
! Let's give three cheers for Jesus
Christ" But we have many a preacher
who serves out some nice review of
fiction from his pulpit or tells of the
wonders of science or a new discovery
until you can't tell whether you have
been to church or 10 a geological gar
den.
There is a crowd that gives us
fascinating mixture of ethical culture.
higher criticism and new thought. The
Bible says there is nothing new under
J the sun: II is the same old devil that
inspires what you call new; 1t Is the
same old stuff, only 1t has a now name.
The world is looking for some Moses
to lead 1t out of bondage. want to
tell you that the biggest mistakes 1
have ever made was when 1 temper
lied with the devil. When have been
firm and true to God and refused to
bow and scrape and truck with the
world, when l have hurled anatheinds
of God against ranks Of sin; when
refused to subsidize my fear of crit
cisms; when 1 stood four-square TO
the wind. / have been blessed.
Must Go BACK TO OId-Timc Truths.
We've got to get back to the old
time truths. back to Jesus Christ and
the apostles and back to the spirit of
our forefathers. Veneered gospel will
not grip the hearts of the people. and
everybody knows the church has been
successful only in proportion tibet st
has been evangelical Any church here
that is not evangelical owes Omaha an
apology. for it is absolutely of no use
whatever.
Science and all that stuff have been
trying to put new dress on sin. They
have called the drunkard dipsomlniae.
but he is still the same old drunken
kleptomaniac. but he's still the same
snesking crook. And they've called the
adulterer-Oh, no, they say, that Ia
merely an affinity.
We're going daffy trying to shove
people into heaven on the strength of
culture. Don't let anybody lead you
astray like that You need a new
birth in the spirit and not a new grand
father or new sanitation. There's a
three-fold tendency on the part of the
ministry. One crowd seeks TO please the
world another ignores the cross al
Jesus and tries to make women and
men their own savours. The third
breaches without fear or favor, and
they are the chosen mouthpieces OF
God
| Says He Is DoEmatic.
, / am dogmatic. 1 never use perhaps
, in connection with anything in Bible
You can't be a minister OF the gospe
!, and not be dogmatic. When you Sei
down TO trimming the word OF God e
suit that Collaboration bunch, you'll
have nothing left but a lot of largo
, that won't be worth the paper it's
printed on. And just to please a lot OF
NUTS! Say, IL the world is against
/ Jesus Christ, then I'm against Tho
world.
You throw away your belief in faith
the resurrection, the atonement and the
, rest, you leave nothing for the SHINE
/ but a reed that will break and run int,
, his hand. Doweylism, Unitarianism
Christian Science. and all the other in
r sane delusions. are entering orthodol
a homes. All, these false gods are gettin;
their recruits out OF the church pews
because one-half Of the people have NJ
experience in religion. The isms an,
schisms have got your gang with thei
tongue hanging out.
We need a new article in our creed
believe I'm hell, not in hades. or any
thing that tame Plain old hell-H-E-L-L
The mouth of Jesus has spoken IT, w
need more ringing preaching of hell TO lie
the people know the danger of their goin
into hell fire and birthstone. / don't be
lieve in lying and humanity can't blam
me for not telling about IL.
OF the Kingdom of God.
Don't you have the audacity TO insuI
. God by sneering at my preaching an
calling 1t out OF date / know there ar
thousands OF ministers that can prcac
better than l can, but there is not
minister on Gods dirt that can preach
} better gospel. Nobody can say that
} don't love the church. love the ehurc
. with every drop OF blood in me. 1t ha