The Washington herald., 1918-01-18

tonight In the name OF the Lord!'
will stifren and you will never win
Gods marathon.
A rich man heard a sermon one time
and he went home and it troubled
him. He said, That preacher made
me look into a glass this morning and
what / saw there made me ashamed
Of myself
His wife said. why! You are a
generous giver. You give money to
the church"
Why some people think / do but
earn three or four times as much
as most OF the members Of that
church and they give three or four
times as much as do. am going TO
give something that will miss and
1 am determined that It shall cost me
something. I smoke big cigars and
pay good prices for them and / am
going to quit and turn that money in
to the church. Will any OF you Join
mer
The wife said, II like tea Young
Hyson and Oolong mixed. I will give
that up"
<E1iu LhEhOu " lIlC OduknlcT anu
she liked a lot OF nice things and
finery and with much regret she spe-
cited some things that she would give
UP.
And he turned to the boy who was
feeding his face with mashed potatoes
and chicken gravy and he said. What
will you give up?'
The boy said, IT win give up salt
mackerel. I never did Hike the darned
stun anyway"
|, "Good Enough for Good
We have got too many salt mack
| erel Christians. II they have some
thing they don't want and nobody
else wants they give it up for they
think it Is good enough for God.
Like two little girls playing Noah's
Ark, in the bath tub until finally they
got tired and one of them pulled out
| the stopper and said, The flood is
| over"
But the other little girl knew the
Bible and she said. mo. When the
! flood was over Noah came out of the
Ark and built an altar"
So they took the soap dish and
turned 1t upside down. Then they
hunted up a toy sheep which had a
leg on and they put it on the altar
and said. THAT is good enough. We
don't want It anyway"
And there are a lot OF folks doing
the same shell game today. You
think anything is good enough for
the Lord, my friends. No sir. Not on
you life. God wants your bodies and
blood in them.
Gains altar made ten times the
! show that AbePs did, but Abers had
one little lamb. but it had blood. II
was Gods appointed way. God ac.
cepted Abel but he passed Cain Ut
like hobo does a wood-pile.
Now some love PROVES it's love BY
the way 1t gives. The man tina,
gives his wife a ten-cent pin-cushiou
at Christmas to show her how much
he loves her, he is the Devils ides
Of what a husband ought to be.
How thankful you ought to be, in.
telligent and rational beings, that
God gives you a chance to show
Heaven and Earth and Hell what
you think Of the Lord. How thank.
full you ought to be that God gives
you q chance for you to show your
colors for Truth.
No, I don't believe the most glori.
Gus singing angels In Heaven have
any such chances as we have. No.
body up in Heaven can sufrer-they
are done. Nobody up In Heaven car
make sacrifices-all is over. Angel,
may claim they love God but they
haven't the chance to prove 1t by sac.
rifices that we can make.
Il beseech you by the mercies OF
God present nresent-p
What would you think Of a soldier
when the officer said "Presen
arms" IL he said IT will tomorrow.
Present arms''-'T will when I ge,
a clean uniform"
Present arms"-'T will when tn,
fellow next to me does"
Present arms"-"I will after pa,
day."
Make q Gift to God.
Present-do 1t now, right of the
reel. That is what God wants. Make
a present. The most glorious presen,
Is not the one that presents tn,
most. God wants US to make him q
present and God wants US to show 1,
by giving him our hearts.
When you give a gift, It has left
your hands; It Is gone forever.
A little girl was showing a friend
Of mine some Christmas presents ant
the friend said, How beautiful, but
how long can you keep them?"
They are presents, / don't hav,
to give them back"
Yet there are some people that will
snatch themselves back from Go,
when their ardor cools a little bit.
A man will rob God a good dea
quicker than he will rob fellow man
Yet you can rob God OF your money
and rob him right and left and thini
nothing of II.
And your bodies-that takes, you
head as well as your hands. Goo
wants brains as well as muscles ant
bones. His business is the Creates
in the world and He wants YOU
help.
o., is there any reasonable. ration.
| al. Intelligent being that would re.
fuse to give God his ,help2 woult
you refuse to give your country youl
help? Then you don't deserve t
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