The Washington herald., 1918-01-19

and in legal way. as was the case
Of those long-talled. double breasted
coated. kid-gloved. horizontal. perpen-
,dicular. stifr, petrined, miidewed.
stamped-on-the-bottle old Pharisees
who nailed Jesus Christ on the cross
simply because He wouldn't do things
the way they wanted Him to do it,
bless His old Heart.
Thank God. He has the same kind
Of a heart and the same kind heart
that mother has when she sees
her little one fall fiat, doing its best
to come to her when she calls it; and
He sees us coming, my friend, IL we
will come heart first. / don't care
a rap how much you stumble. don't
care how little you know. Jesus will
always let healing virtue go out to
the man or woman that is trying
to fight. Do your best. Never mind.
Just go on with the knowledge that
you have now.
There are people that earnestly and
longingly want to be Christians. I bet
there are hundreds of you here to-
night just as this poor woman-she
didn't want to be sick but she could
II AClP LOu UdNo DtGn HNlnB,
my friends, without God, and you
Everybody has failed. When she
went to Jesus, she found peace. Try
it tonight. Will you?
Way of Salvation.
I say there are people that want to
be Christians just as this woman
wanted to be well, but you have felt
that you are losing out and you have
tried and tried and resolved and pledg-
ed and broken them, and you have
reached out toward Christ and you
have stumbled and blundered. Thank
God, you were saved.
Thank God, II was that way with
me. On. when came to Jesus thirty
years ago, one dark, stormy night in
Chicago, / Stumbled and blundered.
didn't know much. but I did the best
that knew. l made my plan. and
l acted upon It and it worked. Bless
God, it worked and He has kept me
from that day until this sir.
Therefore, 1t may be your last
chance. just as it was hers. Make
your plans. act quickly, beg of you;
anything rather than nothing, and IL
you are right in your heart it does
mt make any difference IL you
are ten miles Off in your theology.
Jesus will understand and He will save
you, and so come to Christ.
Many of you in the church perhaps
are as bad Off as that poor woman
You have been more dead than alive
in the church, and you have had no
strength to help anybody else to
Christ and you have had no joy nor
sunshine in your religion. You have
never counted one in the prayer meet
ings and you have done nothing in
the Sunday schools, and your voice
has never been heard in prayer and
you have never asked anybody to give
their heart to Jesus Christ, and any
body who knows you says, well, if
that woman has religion. 1 want
something else; and if that man is
going to heaven. 1 will take to the
woods"
N"Don't stand StIII.v
And that's the way you are. That's
what you are doing in the world.
Oh, you have been dissatisfied with
yourself. and you have prayed, and
you have tasted, and you have wept
and you have read your Bible, and
you have made your children stay in
the house and keep still all day Sum
day, and not whistle nor laugh; and
you have gone to church, wet or dry,
hot or cold. You don't see how you
can give up, you don't see how you
can go on. Oh, what will you do?
You have got nobody to advise you,
nobody to help you make a plan. Don't
you see there is only one thing to do?
Oh, do as that woman did. Deter
mine to get to Jesus somehow. Don't
stand still. Don't go back. Put out
your hand. Touch the thing Jesus
Christ is in and the blessing will come
to you. Get up and come down and
say, by that act.
Just as l am, without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
Oh, Lamb of God, come, come.
IF 1 may touch but his clothes.
shall be made whole"