New-York tribune., 1917-04-09
Sunday S F mst Two Sermons
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-.,ooclsts Opening Talk Here Beginning with Attack
on white Livered Wcasels of the Booze Gang"
Peases All His Hearers

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come food for thc sharks. f they Will
f,l the trenches oE Shiloh. Cold Ha.-
Dor. Charlottesville, with their blood
and leave their bones 90 bleach i'm far
away Russia. Turkey and European
trenches, 81. under The inspiration o.
human leaders thev viii cross the Alps
and dye the snow red with their blood.
and viii wsGe breast deep IN the SHOWS
OF Valley Forge. what do you suppose
we ought TO be able 20 DO with Jesus
F Christ as our leader?
Down here the batter.ng rams Of
wee pound az your homes. Down mere
the devil has forced the issue. For
4 100 years the Church has been on the
defensive II is time for the Church
10 assert itself and come into its own.
Too many people just play at religion.
; You are afraid YOU Will STIR the devil
up; I'm afraid | won't.
Gods army ia not made up Of con
scripts. God doesn't want any man
} that has 20 be forced. Gods army Is
made up Of volunteers lie viii judge
/ your ability b. the way YOU work.
The Holy Spirit army will never he
wha; it ought TO be. There are hypo-
crites in the Church says some one.
, Yes. and in the lodge, and az home.
Dor't hunt through the Church for
hypOcrite Go home and look i'm The
glass. HypOcrites in the Church? Yes.
and see that YOU make the number one
/ less.
"The Lord had twelve and had
] rough time with six Of them sup
/ pose YOU can find the same proportion
in the Church.
The man who would lift his hand
against the Church Of God is so low
down that ne would need an airship
TO get TO he'll. II | stood up and be-
rated my mother, nv father. m wife.
an asbestos newspaper would be re-
ouired to print what was said about
me. Better than all OF them is the
Church. No one would burn down d
church.
"Out in certain state they built
town with no churches or no preachers.
il burned down. They rebuilt it. Then
the Sioux Indians raided IT, There wa
another fire that burned 1T down. They
rebuilt it. but they sent TO a missionary
society for a preacher.
You can afford TO put the hand Of
charity on the imperfectIons in the
Church; because i is the greatest and
{ best institution that We have. 1t has
furnished every force for deccncy IN
the world
"When Nelson went into battle al
Trafalgar he run up TO the masthead
The message: England eXDccts every
man 10 DO MS duty.
Tells OF Alexander
alexander the Great had soldier
- no had broken every military regula-
ton. the patience Of the officers was
exhausted and le had been punished
with every punishment they knew how
Co ineict He violated the rules again,
A i l.. 1 fc
presence He came like d belabOred'
Cringing. whipped hound and his plea
FOR lerIency was made on the grounds
that his name. too. was Alexander.
"When he heard this, Alexander the
Conqueror leaped TO his feet IN high
indignation. and said: What? Your
name IS Alexander. Then honor that
name or forever disown it Be what
YOU profess or profess what you are.
IN Gods name. instead o. trying to
play the battledore and shuttlecock
with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Faith is a giant that never flies the
signal Of distress. Faith never gets
cold feet when The hons roar.
Il want you to understand that
Christianity is suffering as well as
pleasure. hardship a well as delights.
Doa't forget tina, for a moment.
a little drummer boy i'm the Ma
poleonic army during battle,
when ordered TO beat a retreat, said,
sir. ] don't know how 20 beat re
treat. but | can beat a charge
And the little boy beat a charge,
and over the bodies of their fallen
comrades and the ramparts formed by
the bodies Of dead horses the army
charged and turned defeat to victory.
I've don't know how 10 beat a re-
treat, but we can beat charge that
will put all hell out Of business and
the oevil in the hospital
Then. with vehcmence thai fairly
took his auditors breath away. he
took up the present crisis and answered
those Of his critics who had insisted
that he said the entire German nation
should be wiped of the face cf the
earth.
81 never said. either i'm private or
publicly. that ! wished the German ma
said. what did say. and what / now
rcpeat. is that German imperialism
ovcht TO be blotted of the map. For
the German people ! have nothing but
love and pity. They are being mislcd.
Will Find Them Loyal
81 believe that you will find there
will be no more loyal and patriotic pco-
ple than those with German blood flow
.nc through their veins. II is the sal
vation OF the German people that has
caused us TO enter into this conflict
We do not want their gold, we do not
want their land. What we want is 20
set them free from Prussian mill
tarism.
"If il had not been for the British
feet New York would be a junk heap.
German militarism is doomed and the
guns Of the United states are gong 10
lelp dig its grave. Some one has asked
what kind Of an epitaph would be NJ
for Germany. Here il is: Here lies
buried Prussian militarism. the outlaw,
the murderer II died IN 1917. aided by
every liberty loving nation on the
Garth
Then the evangelist sraspcd his chair
and sprang upon il IN one Of his char
acterirtic outbursts OF energy.
"And / want YOU 20 remember tha'
cur flag never has been unturlod DID
vain" he said. I'VE arc now unfurllrg
10 for the liberty Of the world
Whereupon he produced flag from
, beneath the rostrum. and, amid storm
! Of cheers. sprang upon the rostrum and
waved II. while the choir burst into
My Country. Tis Of Thee
The Afternoon Sermon
Al the afternoon service the title of
Nr Sundays sermon was Have ye re
ceivcd the Holy Ghost - the nine
tccnth chapter Of The Acts and the
second verse: "llRye yo received the
HOLY Ghost since yc believed ~
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