The Washington herald., 1918-01-19
FAITH in THE SAVIOUR
IS JUST AS POWERFUL
T0DAYASM THEPAST
THE EVENING SERMON.

WELL" when he has a disease. Not at
all; II Is all folderol.
What he wants Is to get the disease
out. He says. I'VE will get the. devil
out AMI the man will be good and he
will do right but how can he be
good when the principle Of evil II in
him?
He can only, get that out by faith in
Jesus Christ. and nobody ever wins by
a compromise. You admire your op-
ponent who fights open and fair. In
their hearts, the saloonkeepers are my
friends. They don't hate me. They
know 1 don't compromise one inch
with their dirty. rotten, sinking busi-
ness, and they know 1t 10 a dirty,
rotten, sinking business. as well as
do, my friend They are only in Il
for the money that's attached to It. Do
anybody good? No. they never did
anybody good with a glass Of beer In
their iife. They couldn't do it.
where Trail branches.
And il will be interesting. when l get
to heaven. to learn how much that
fellows testimony hurt the hog trade
over there in Gadara. So that's what
Jesus does today. He comes down by
you go back among your friends ana
tell them what I have done for you.
You 20 back and tell them how / saved
you and kept you"
And IL is the same principle that
Jesus works on to this daN
/ Ny friend, the. late Jack Crawford,
used to be chief OF scouts for Uncle
Sam and he spent many Of his years
out on the plains after the hostile In
dams; and years ago he became sep
arated from his command and for
thirfty-six hours he hadn't had q
morsel of food nor a drop Of water.
neither he nor his horse. She browsed
here and there uopn the buffalo grass,
and his eyes were red and bloodshot.
his face was dry and parched. and
he could scarcely walk and neither
could his mare.
They went on and on and they
came to where the trail branches to
the right, and when the mare reached
there she stopped, threw up her head
\ and snuffed the air, and although
the trail straight on was the best
beaten, she turned to the right. He
said:
Don't you go down there. We are
about head; let's go straight on"
And he turned her into the other
trail, She stopped and wouldn't go;
shook her head and went back to the
fork in the trail and turned around.
We'll" he said, there do be times
when dumb critters know more'n
men," and he said, "You have brought
me this far. my gil, go ahead"
So she went down the hill and then
turned around a spur of the hill and
| then turned up a little ravine. He said
they went on for a few miles when he
heard the finest music thai he ever
expected to hear this side OF the gates
of heaven. He heard the gurgle OF
! falling water in his ears. and out
| through a crevice there leaped a
stream and It fell down into a little
! nook in the ground and filled pool
He said the mare scented it and sight
ed it the same time he did. He yanked
her bride off and they started out.
and they both hit the pool at the same
time. He buried his face in the water
and she buried her nose in the water,
and he said they drank and drank and
drank and drank. Then he splashed
water in his face and on his hair. and
then he took her saddle OF and washed
her eyes and nose and ears, then he
washed the alkan dust and the sand
off. He took bath himself. and they
drank and drank and drank.
Thought Him 'InJun.-
Then he put the saddle and bride
on and got on her back. She felt re-
\ freshed and they rode on and on. He
looked and saw a cluster of trees, and
he saw a fire burning and some hu-
man beings around il. He put the
spurs to his mare and she dashed off,
for she had some Kentucky thorough
bred blood in her. and when he came
| up closer he heard some fellow yell
"Intuns"
And my friend jerked his old Win
chester out and threw it over his arm
and shot the spurs into her and she
leaped forward.
Jack said. Where are the Injuns?
Show me!'
And a fellow walked out with a
Winchester and said, There amt
\ any Injuns around here, but We
] thought you were one, and il we
! hadn't Just discovered that you were
a white man. your hide would look
! like a woven-wire fence now" He
said, ''who might you be and where
do you come from?'
He said, MY name is Jack Craw-
ford. l am chief of scouts for Uncle
Sam. L have been out here fighting
Indians. got lost and hadn't had
a drop of water or a morsel of food
for thirty-six hours until I got a
drink down here. I'm nearly starved
to death"
The man said, Jack, you are well
come. Tether your mare out there,
/ and take your knife and cut a hunk
of that meat OF there, and see II it
isn't the finest piece of meat you
ever put your teeth inside of. We've
been prospecting out here and we
kind Of lost a little time, and we
heard there was some whiskey over
here on the Missouri and we sent over
and corralled a jug OF 1t and we are
celebrating the Fourth of July. Won't
you join us?"
His Father Drank.
Jack said, "I am a patriotic Amer
lean citizen. You are a little behind
| time. boys-this is the eleventh day of
August, but will join you anyway"
So they said to him, well, sir,
when you get a piece Of meat, take a
drink of whiskey. There she is"
He arose with the hunk of meat
IN his hand and said, Boys, have
never tasted liquor in my life"
The man said. "Well, sir, II you
stay around these diggin's, youTl
drink. Take the jug and drink"
Jack said, wait a minute before
you decide whether or not I'll drink
Let me tell you q little story. CAN
I?''
And he said, Yes"
Jack said. MY father was a drunk
ard. He died when was a chunk of
boy and was denied the rudi-