Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-30
CLEANSING SOUL IS.
NEEDED IN GENERAL
CLEANUP Of NATION
REV. GEO. w. cHESSMAN DELIV-
EREs EXCELLENT SERMON AT
BAPTIST CHURCH - EUROPE
= NOW PASSING THRU PROCESS.

a.
just.a as necessarily az the body or the
home, Rev. G. w. Chessman at the
Baptist church last night spoke inter,
cstingly OF. the need of rejuvination
thruopt the world Of things spiritual
In one OF his best sermons of the
season. Besides Rev. Cheeseman's ad.
dress there was music by the Sun.
day school orchestra and large Choir
us choir Rev. Chessman said in
part:
House cleaning is an ancient and
hOnored custom. 1t is the time house
wife rolls up her sleeves in earnest.
Il Is the time carpets come up and
curtains come down, the scrub buck
ct comes In and dirt goes out. 1t is
a time of dismay for men folks, pri-
walton for children, and even despair
for. the house cat
Cities have adopted this good old
custom We now have Claiming up
Week." all over the country 1t is
FESTIVAL Of renovation: crusade
Of transformation. Down In Panama
sanitation squads made II safe and
pleasant for Americans to live while
the canal was In process of building.
The sanitation squad always proceeds
the array nowadays and the casualty
Hist. Is no longer greater from disease
than from bullets. believe colossal
clean up process is now on in Europe
There Is happening publication of
national ideals, some are going or are
yet to go to the scrap heap. After
the war the nations will have left be-
hind snme Of the rubbish which be-
fore time was esteemed of great value,
"All this activity Of universal clean
up lends itself admirably to the point
Ing out Of crying spiritual need.
Jesus used the commonplace activi-
ties of every day life to convey spir-
itual truth. In this earthly house of
The immortal soul there must be pc
/ raodSFOf clean up There must be
tlm1hf protracted meditation, the ex-
selma from the hearthouse Of subtle
seiashness, unworthy ambitions, evil
i thnpl hits, unholy hopes and pleasures.
Wh0 Is there who needs not to cry
With y4he Psalmist the petition Of our
exE6earch Me, o, God, and know My
! He'd @-Asy. ana and know my thoughts
end see Il there be any way In me?
INFUSED to be the universal custom
for Hohurches to hold periodically a
seaSOh Of protracted meetings 1t was
= TIE OF revival, spiritual refreshing
fred 9start. RECONSIDERATION. Goodness
Indifference, apathy, spiritual solvent
nessss evaporated under searching
preaching and continued prayer Bill,
Sunday stirs up church members wher
ever he goes. He kindies the divine
spark In the human soul and churches
take on new life.
ss"if Is easy to grow spiritually care
I8tS AS a garden runs to weeds Il
intended so II Is with the soul except
tkare be watchfulness there occurs
eyblution backwdards, deterioration
| Spirttual declension. When Lot part
ed from Abram he got away from th'
prayer meeting habit. the devotional
habit. Not to be wondered at tina
when he pitched his tent toward son
dom he soon moved all the way in AM
was one with the crassly worldly Sc
tiomities.
let us remember then, In this TIM
of universal clean up, the heart need
nurifying. There is rubbish in tn
soul TO be expurgated and It is Co
and God only who can cleanse the III
clean heart We need to go Him WIT
the cry Of the Psalmist on our lip
and from our hearts. Search Me, I
God, and know my heart; try me an
know my thoughts, and see II there b
any evil way in me- Wash me an
/ shall be whittier than snow
Presbyterian Church.
Yesterday was good day at tn
Presbyterian church; the service
the Sunday school was a fine prepa
alton for the service Of worship thu
followed. The children's sermon q
the Magnet held the attention III
only OF the younger folks but tn
adults as well.
Hope was the subject OF the Sc
mon for the morning. Hope Is II
anchor or the SOUL was the text Ia
en- from the book to the Hebrews; ar
the pastor, Rev. John Vonckx, Gale
the attention to its restraining po'
er and also to its work as an ince
tive to achievement.
Hope prevents retrogresslon,
makes one hold his own, to fight Il
temptations that would rob him
his standing, his strength, his chara
ter; II leads one on into the futur
Il is the pilot of life. Everyone h
pilot that is directing his course, OF
hat has been definitely, conscious
ohao- ,osen, or one that has been develo
'wegl by the course OF the life. Son
DIV Gel' Vie can tell without a moment
peech IN ion what their pilot is viii
; says a ais,ve to stop and examine the
~ me oispa'@e they can tell; In the II
1 of Berlin as -. ,,,,o, hoe heen dow