The Washington herald., 1918-01-10
Neutrality-suspicious.
NO CLASS OR SECT, SAYS
] SUNDAY; PRAISES PIOUS
EVENING SERMON
J A C B

fools trying to work the same game
on God today. They think that they
can put few stained glass windows
ir a church and give little money
for an endowment fund to put pipe
organ up in the corner and that they
can pull the wool over and put one
over on God and he will pass them
through on the day Of Judgement Oh
no. nothing doingi
Now Jacob was afraid Of the sin
that he had committed twenty years
ago when he robbed Esau Of his birth
right. And the mother Of these boys,
ah, she was chump. She played favor
ties. Now the motive that prompted
his prayer was selfish. And even at
that God Almighty heard him and
blessed him. oh. there are lots Of peo-
pie that praise God in their distress.
Then they will forget him in their
prosperity. oh. when you think the
undertaker's coming to pump you full
Of embalming fluid. measure your
carcass to tell the grave digger how
long to dig your grave. then you send
out the S. o. s. But when 1t Is all
past and you can get up. Pick up your
long scissors and cut your coupons off
on interest day, crawl into a white
shirt with a diamond shirt-pin as big
as a hickory nut. get into a Tuxedo.
put on a silk lid. get into q taxi with
some bird, and you come home soused.
oh. you put your thumbs In the arm
holes Of YOUR vest and say. '-Good-by-
III see you later. God" You wait and
see what He will do. You can't put It
over on the Lord.
How many people pray in real sin
certify? Then seem to dress up for
the occasion like some grocer who puts
the large apples on the top Of the
barrel and the worm-eaten windfalls
in the bottom Or when you go to
buy Strawberries you find the red one
are on top and the green ones in the
bottom, and maybe the box is a half
inch shy. Or you walk UP to buy a
basket of peaches; they look ripe un-
der the red mosquito netting, but I'll
bet that you could kill man at thirty
yards with one of them. They are so
hard!
How many people pray for humil-
/ ity, when 1t is pride that they want?
Multitudes of people go to church
Sunday morning and they will shut
their eyes and duck, and they will
say, THY kingdom come. Thy will
be DONE" andf think that with
I half the people that utter 1t. It is a
! lie. II you wanted Gods kingdom
/ 10 come, you'd put out of your life
everything that prevents it. II you
wanted Gods kingdom to come, then
you'd work hard to remove from the
earth everything that is preventing
Gods kingdom from coming. No
man can pray Thy kingdom come"
I and then walk up and vote for the
dirty, stinking saloon. He can't do It.
You can't pray Thy kingdom
come" and keep booze on your side
board, Anheuser-Busch, Schlitz, and
Pabst on tap in your icebox. You
/ can't pray THY kingdom come" and
go down to a Dutch lunch and hit
it up. You can't pray Thy king
dom come" and keep somebody on
the side and disgrace your wife and
your children and your family name.
No! No! No!
saloons Unchristfan.
Someone says, Can a Christian
go into a saloon and take a drink"
! Not on your tintype. A Christian
walks with Jesus, and when YOU
cross the Threshold of a booze-joint,
Jesus Christ parts company with you
right there. Some people attempt
to serve God in a way that reminds
me of things that boys play at Hal
lowe'en. They go up and stick a
ticktack on some fidgety woman's
window. or go up and ring the door
bell and then beat it. They never
expect her to open the door, and IL
she did they wouldn't know what to
say. They didn't go there expectinz
that. And some people pray. and
II God should open the door they
would say, "Oh, are you there, God?
didn't expect you" Some people
pray as though they expect nothing
and they are never disappointed,
was preaching in a town in Iowa
one time and fellow came up to
me and said. ''win you pray for a
friend OF miner said, Sure, does
ne come to the meetings." Yes,
regularly" And so this fellow that
mad made the request went and sat
down about three seats from the
'front.' right on the end. He hadn't
Deen there more than five minutes
when an usher brought a young fell
low In and gave him a seat In front.
saw this fellow bow his head on
the back of the seat and remain in
that attitude most of the time / was
preaching. When 1 got through 1
gave the invitation. and the first one
TO come was this fellow who had been
sitting here In front Of this other fell
low. When the service was over the
man who had made the request Of
me rushed up, his face aglow, and he
said, do you remember whom / asked
you to pray for?' He said, ct had
no sooner taken my seat than the
usher gave him a seat I'D in front of
me. and when you gave the invita-
ton he was the first man to go to
the front, and I never was SO sur
prised in all my life"
tell you it's a wonder God is do
ing as well as He Is with the bunch
He has got to work with in the world.
One night in mission eleven peo-
pie went to the front They had nice
pretty things<to say to God They
kind Of tried to stall the Lord of.
They seemed to tell the Lord how
glad he ought to consider himself and
how highly complimented to think
that they eondescended to go to such
place, or IL after they arrived there
was anything that they could do to
improve their condition. But one Of
them was a poor. wayward, wander
ing, wretched girl. selling her virtue
in the redlight district. without a SEM
blance Of decency. and she lifted her
hands from the depths Of squalor and
degradation and she said. ''oh God.
save me for Jesus sake"
True Repentance.
Another was a poor. hopeless. stag
gering drunkard, and In his despair
he cried. "oh Lord. IL you ever saved
a poor helpless drunkard, save me for
Jesus sake Only two were saved.
Only two Of them told God what they
were. God has nothing for you IL you
think you are good enough. II you
think that. let the Lord alone. But