The Washington herald., 1918-01-23

for you, and your mothers prayers.
IL they could, would have saved you
long ago"
He said. Another thing. I own
100 acres Of land out here and It is
all underlaid with coal
1t was in the bituminous coal
region and he said. They have
prospected and found a vein in
there sixteen feet deep and another
one three feet. / could sell the coal
privileges on the land at $3.50 an
acre and that would be enough to
take care OF me and my wife and
two daughters, and I'd go up and
down the land and on street cor
rers and on dry goods boxes and
in halls that I'd rent. and I'd plead
and I'd beg and beseech OF people
to be reconciled to Jesus Chrlst-if
l only believed they were lost"
HE that believeth not Is con-
demned already"
Jesus Christ didn't come into the
world to condemn the world. The
world was condemned before He was
born in the manger. He came to open
up a plan of salvation, to save the
world. He didn't come to condemn it.
He came to save it, and that is His
mission on earth.
Lost without Jesus.
mo man cared for my soul'-they
fail to realize that without Jesus
Christ they are lost You think that
people don't care to talk about it, l
know there are q few people that
don't. but where you would find one
fool enough that wouldn't, you would
find a hundred that would. Then let
the one go to the devil and try to get
the ninety-nine for Jesus Christ They
are in a sad minority, and SO I don't
consider that 1t il worthy of atten-
ton. my friend. They do care to
talk.
I preached out in a town in Ne
braska which was originally settled
by lot of infidels and they gave that
cast to the rest of the section of the
county out there. There was one fell
low out there, he was a blacksmith,
and he had a drag with the crowd;
and asked the Methodist preacher,
who was afterward chaplain of the
senate Of Nebraska, Have you been
around to see him?'
He said. NO.
They were afraid to ask him to give
his heart to God. / went down and
got him and he yielded his heart to
the Lord and brought seventy-eight
men of his type into the Kingdom in
O week.
People do care. You will find a
few people that don't care anything
about it
mo man cared for my soul" There
are special times when you ought to
know-times Of trouble. Many q man
has lost his property. tried hard to
weather financial blasts. Oh. but he
bought when prices were high, was
compelled to sell when the bottom
had fallen out of 1t. And so he tried
hard. but the best he could do, he had
to go to the wall. Why, men used to
walk across the street when they'd
see him coming down; they were glad
to welcome him at the club. Now,
like Shylock of old, they demand a
hundred cents on the dollar or their
pound of flesh, next to the heart. He
gets bundle Of letters, he goes home
they broke him up, and he rolls and
cries, Nobody cared for my soul,
only my pocketbook."
Time Of troubled When death comes
and they back the hearse up in front
Of your house-rnaybe the Lord will
Gail dT0uHQ Win u Wnlte one. may US
he will send. my friend, before he
will ever get into your heart. God
will come kind and gentle, trying to
win people from sin. but II He can't
do it one way, the Lord will try an
other to keep US out of perdition.
Plague In Iowa.
Years ago out in a town Of Iowa,
they had a plague Of diphtheria and
seventy-three children died in three
weeks. and they came mostly from
the homes Of non-professing Chris
tians; and at last the dread maIady
reached the home of a man in that
town that was an infidel and he edited
an infidel paper and he had a boy six
teen years Of age associated with him
in the editorship Of II His wife had
died with a broken heart; she'd gone
to a premature grave because she
couldn't stand the sneers and ostra-
cism OF the community because her
husband was an infidel and because Of
his blatant infidelity. 3. 5.-
The dread rialady reached his home
and his little girl, seven years of age,
at last suocumbed She kept begging
her father to send for my friend, DR..
Knox, who was then pastor Of the
Presbyterian church at Cherokee, Me-
brasixa Or. Knox has since been
bishop of the svned of Indiana but he
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