The Washington herald., 1918-01-21
AFTERNOON SERMON
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the Union Pacific transfer at Coun.
Gil Bluffs, when George and the fire.
man got out. they were so weak they
could hardly stand up. She. had rat
! tied the headlight loose.
He put her in there three minutes
ahead of time. and the Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy hauls the fast
! mail today from Chicago to Omaha.
Righteous Trail.
/ All right. get out, hit the track foI
God Almighty, and other people will
follow you. Get out! Get free from
the clutches of the devil and other
people will follow you as sure as you
live and breathe. Go ahead.
1 am pleading for you; am plead
I ing for your kid that's going to be
born; am pleading for others IN this
old universe that you can get out
into the world and be better and serve
God and keep His commandments.
And the Lord wants you to do that.
and that's why I'm trying my level
best to get you to turn to God and
! live decent lives.
You want to show a deep personal
interest in that woman who has left
her home to go live with YOU. You
want to treat her as a companion, not
simply as some one to patch your
breeches and darn your socks: you
want to treat her with affection.
Every woman naturally Graves those
three things-a deep personal interest
in her, being treated as a companion,
and being shown affection. A woman
Is not simply frame to hang clothes
on-no sir! The big thing about a
woman is her Immortal soul.
had a friend who used to be a
professional gambler-if I'd tell YOU
his name you'd recall him, because of
his reputation. He got into a poker
game and finally a row started and
he whipped out his revolver and shot
man. He was tried, convicted and
sentenced to be executed.
Executions in those days were pub
lie, and a scaffold was built and il
was estimated that twelve or fifteen
thousand people witnessed the exc
cution. They put a rope around the
mans neck and a shrould about him,
and Just then his little boy about four
years old came climbing up the steps.
He ran up and threw his arms around
Dap's legs and said: Papa, come
nome Win me.
He looked down and said: Il can't,
son."
The sheriff, a blg-hearted fellow.
stopped down and unbuckled the strap
from his legs and his arms, and the
father, STOPPING down, picked up his
little boy, pressed him to his heart
and hugged and kissed him
Come on home, papa" pleaded the
little boy.
Murderer Must Hang.
II can't, l can't"
And he stood there with his little
boy in his arms. He said: Men and
women. for Gods sake, I beg Of you,
don't let my boy live the way / have
lived"
And he reviewed his life and showed
them where he had made mistakes,
and, sir, they passed around the hat.
They took up ss53 in a collection for
the little fellow, and they put the
buckles on the father again, and the
shroud and he shot through the scat
fold.
Ihey put the boy in the keeping Of
Christian man and woman and they
put the money out on interest at 6
per cent When the boy became Of
age they gave him the principal with
the accumulated interest. He started
out on bad, wild career. Oh, he got
SO lowdown the dogs seemed to know
him. He got so lowdown the police
used to tell him not to came around
the station any more to sleep on the
stone floor.
On, men; blood will tell. Blood will
tell! Although he was surrounds,
with the best influences. yet it seemed
that he was tainted with the heredi-
tary desires of his father. They drar-
ged him down and wrecked his life.
But, glory to God. there is an altar
OF salvation full. free, and eternal.
and thirty years ago. one dark, stormy
night i staggered out of sin and out of
condemnation into the open arms Of
Jesus Christ. who kissed away the
stains. and. men. ] have followed hin,
from that minute until now
How many of you men will saw.
Bill, believe the Christian life is
the right and manly life. and by the
grace Of God. from now on III do my
best for the Lord and His TRUTH"
Do you believe it's right. Do yo,,
believe it's manly? Are you ready to
take my hand and say: Here's INV
hand and here's my heart to live for
God and for Christi" Come on, men.
let me see YOU. Come on Come on,
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