Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-25
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condition. That is because your heart has
grown hard because YOU have grievcd n
Spirit. II you keep on, In a. gree you
will become hardened like Gibbs, the
pirate OF old. When he stood on the scat
fold he said
when 1 started on my mad, wild
career. the thoughts OF Il troubled me
until 1 could neither cat nor sleep.
When we went up by the side Of tho
first vessel and made fast and took
the first life, for days / couldn't eat,
nights couldn't sleep. The face haunted
me until l almost cast myself into tho
sea. l was SO troubled.
But l went on. driven by avarice and
greed. until l grew so hard that We could
come up by the side OF ship, tie TO Il,
rush over the deck and take the children
and women, lift them over the gunwale
and hurl them into the sea and then
stand and laugh until the tears ran down
the checks. watching them struggle and
see tho sharks cut them to shrcds as
they fed on them. could take baby
by the heels and dash its brains out
Il got so hard that we could murder
passengers and crew, and with the deck
slippery with blood, with dead bodies
lying about me, could take corpse
for a pillow and lie down and sleep for
nine hours and never waken."
Think what a man had TO do to get
heart like that.
Invites Anti-Christians 20 Go.
Think OF the sermons you have had
to resist; the tears and the pleadinEs
TO which you have had TO say No 1t
has falrrp %, Int hn "a
condition that many Of you here tonight
are in. Listen! II l were you and had
made up my mind that ] never would
be Christian. / would leave the build
ing now. II standing, go II sitting, arise
and will wait. Worm and elbow your
way TO the door, get out and hurry down
the street and get away from the sound
Of my voice. II were you and had made
up my mind ] never would be a Christian,
I wouldn't wait. II ever man spoke TO
me Of Jesus Christ 1 would run from his
presence, and II l heard q church bell
toll funeral would stop my ears. and
IL ever I saw crepe hanging from the
door-knob or a hearse going down the
street would shut my eyes, and l never
would darken a church door. 1 wouldn't
go within sound of the voice of n preacher,
IL 1 had made up my mind that l never
would be a Christian. 1 would get out
of here now, for every minute of added
light makes added guilt to your poor
miserable soul.
/ had friend in Peoria william
Reynolds who used to be member of
the International Sunday School COM
mittee. Reynolds was very tired and
was going into the country TO take a
vacation on the farm Of a very rich man.
down in the famous corn belt and the last
thing before he left, some OF his friends
said. William, don't say a word to Doc
about religion. He is a fellow who doesn't
60 to church. but don't say anything to
him. II you go TO talking religion. your
stay will be unpleasant. but II you keep
stu. he win do anything for you"
Reynolds had been there for a day and
Doc said to him. Say, William, come
with me-" and he took him on top of
the house. an old-fashioned house with
cupola. He took him in the cupola and
said: II want you to see what / have"
Look away off over to the north, see
that?' Yes" See that town? That's
on the north boundary of my land l own
the three largest buildings there" Look
away off yonder TO the east See it?''
Yes" That's mine" See away off
yonder TO the south where the sky and
the air seem to meet. That's mine. See
away off yonder to the west, that's the
Illinois river. own down to that"
My friend said: you are very rich"
He said: Yes. came hero without q
cent and have $500 acres all paid for,
well stocked. don't owe a dollar"
Reynolds put his hand on Docs shoulder
and said: How much have you got up
yopderT''
He said: II haven't thought Of that; /
guess nothing. I've been so busy piing
II up here I haven't thought of over
yonder."
Three months later thoy laid his body |
beneath the sod of Illinois and his heirs |
are still fighting over those $500 acres.
Laying Up Treasures.
Rich here-nothing yonder. You ought |
TO choose tonight. because by so choos-
Ing you begin to lay up treasures In |
heaven, where thieves do not break |
through nor steal.
Three great men all died on the same |
day. am not going to tell you this story |
to suggest anything TO you relative to |
that when death came they had TO go. |
One was the king OF Spain, another Han |
nibal Hamlln and the other William X. |
Out In front OF Vanderbilt's brown stone |
mansion In Fifth avenue. New York |
City. assembled 5000 people on the day
Of the funeral A reporter Of the New
York Sun stood near the group OF work.
Ing men and one fellow was heard to
make this remark: "Well. well. well, so
that's Vanderbilt in that coffin that
they're carrying down the steps, is it?'
as the pallbearers came down with his
body. That's Vanderbilt in that coffin
that they're carrying down the steps,"
Yes. "Well,' he said. Boys I've stood
Just about here many a time and have
watched Vanderbilt walk down these
steps with his body guard. enter his car
riage and drive away to Wall street
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