Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-10-07


into the church. plead with you
parents not to accept the DEVILS
third compromise, but come with
your whole family to the worship of
the Lord.
Nv. EMPTY HANDED
Moses went out from before Phar-
ach and more plaques came down up
on him until he finally called for
Moses again and what do you sup
pose the fourth compromise was?
Well, here II is, go we serve the
Lord; only let your flocks and herds
be stayed. Let your little ones also
go with you" That sounds a great
deal different than what he has been
saying He first said, "Serve the Lord
in the land" and second, Don't go
very far away" and third, Leave
your wives and children" and now
he says, you can go out of the land
and go three days journey in the
wilderness and takes your wives and
children along" WELL" says some
one, What more do you ,want?" Lis
ten to what Moses said in reply and
you will see. "Thou must give us
also sacrifices and burnt offerings,
that we may sacrifice unto the Lord
our God. Our cattle shall also go
with us; there shall not a boof be
left behind; for therefore must we
take to serve the Lord our God; and
we know not with what we must
serve the Lord, until we come
thither." The trouble with us today
is, we have some in the church who
have accepted the DEVILS fourth COM
promise They have come out to
serve the Lord, but are empty hand
ed, they leave their stock and posses
sions back in Egypt No wonder
brethren, we have such hard time
trying to carry on the Lords work.
l once heard of man who had
been converted and with many 9TH
ers one Sunday afternoon was being
immersed in the river. He was led
down to the waters edge by good
brother who escorted him to the min
ister's side and as the candidate was
standing out in the water, the broth
er said to him, Say John, you for
got your pocket book. You gave me
your watch, you better give me your
pocket book too Never mind, eld-
err" said he, II want my pocket book
baptized for the Lord gets 1t too"
| tell you, what we need today is
many more consecrated pocket books.
There never was a time when the
Church was so rich and so stingy as
now. The battle of the Christian
life is very largely the battle of the
pocket book. God will never bless
stingy church. You good sisters,
should give something more to the
cause of Christ than the old clothes
that you can no longer wear. If the
women had to wear the clothes in
heaven. that they give away here,
they wouldn't go calling much.
Moses might not have been elo-
quent, he might have been of slow
speech, he might have made some
mistakes, but he did have judgment
enough, and religion enough, and
moral courage enough to stand up
before the king and say, 1--WE are not
going to accept such compromise
as this" ! would to God we had
more men like Moses today who
would say, 1--WE are going to be out
and out for God" That's the only
kind of a Christian that's worthy of
the name and / tell you in this meet
ing we don't want to make any lit
tie puny, wish-washy, white washed
Christians. We want the three days
journey kind that. will come with
their entire possessions to God l
believe in personal conservation and
] also believe in "purse-and-all con-
secration."