The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-27

I MT care. The politician doesn't
/ care. The sulOonkeeper doesn't care
/ for your soul All he wants Is your
nickel and you can have MS booze.
| The world doesn't care and the devil
1 doesn't care lie leads you on 20 In
| dulge and when az last YOU awak-
on 20 your peril YOU will cry out,
! oh wretched man that | am: who
VIII deliver me" God pity you, The
devil doesn't care But I want 20
tell you heaven, earth and he'll are
all interested IN this tabernacle.
Earth wants 20 lead-Xnu hell damn
you and heaven save you, Above
your heads are the angels OF light,
snow white from the throne OF God,
and around you are the devils OF
darkness. black pinioned from hell.
and they rip and tear with beak and
talon. and you have II 10 say who
will win. heaven or hell You have
II 10 say whether. with shrek,
they grab your soul and go 10 perdi-
ton, or whether the angels viii
take Won and mount up With wings
Of love and burst thru the gates OF
heaven,
"All earth and hell are interested
in these meetings. But | tell you.
you are like a chip at sea. Yonder
she goes. careening on her way, and
they discover Are In her hold.
They rush 10 the captain and say:
Captain, the ships aflre. Let's IRE
the gun. let's wave the signal and
the captain says: No, no; I'm cap
tain OF this ship Close the port
o ferkf
the ship in the harbor at Liverpool,
or I'll put her at the bottom OF the
sea- But they say: Captain, that is
foolhardy; the flames will soon be
thru and down we go. Captain
yOnder goes Cunarder, the Majes-
tic; there goes the Lusitania, theirs
goes the Cedric. there goes the ST.
Paul, OF IN American Line. God.
captain. shoot the gun. fly the sig
nal. wave the flag The Waterman
viii see Us, and they will pick us
up NO commands the captain.
I'll put this ship in the harbor at
Liverpool or down at the bottom OF
the sea
Tabernacle Evidence OF Salvation
And there are men like that. IL
| you would lift your hand, walk
down the aisle. tell your wife, tell
the people, you want 10 q Christian.
all heaven would hurry TO your aid.
| If you would just fly the slightest
| signal OF distress: just give God the
slightest Indication that YOU want
| TO be a Christian and want TO do
| right. The devil doesn't care. but
Christians care. Friends. hear me,
If | didn't care, do you think I
would come all this distance. with
all my helpers, and put all the
money ! haze IN these meetings? DO
you think would stand up here
and work ms hard az I do-study
until 2 or o'clock in the morning
do you think | would do il. IL
didn't carer Every board in this
tabernacle, every nail, every cleo
trio Hight, is an evidence that people
care and want TO see you saved.
| God has been waiting for some
4, OF you men for thirty, forty, fifty,
sixty, seventy years and you haven't
come He cares. Listen God cares,
Jesus cares ans the Christian cares
Don't you think you ought to care
little bit? II there Is so much in
terest manifest for you. think It Is
the height OF manhood and woman
hood 20 show your appreciation. and
think the most unmanly and I'M
womanlv thing you can do is not
care when heaven cares and hell
doesn't
"If you'd walk down that aisle and
hand nae q quitclaim deed 10 the
world and ask me 20 give up my
hope in Cod, I'd turn you down I'd
rather have standing room in heav-
on than own the world and go 10
hell
| Copyright, William A. Sunday)