The Washington herald., 1918-01-20

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arguments about God. all arguments
heaven, all arguments about hell to
my own satisfaction, but I couldn't
answer the argument Of the bright.
cheerful look In his face" 4
And wherever It goes. I say II makes
lives brighter and shines this OLD
world up, and he said that God loved
everybody and he went about trying
to show that that was true.
Made Many Miracles.
He cured the sick. He opened the
eyes Of the blind. He unstopped the
ears OF the deaf. He raised the dead.
He cleansed the leper. He helped
everybody that asked Him and He
helped a good many that didn't ask
Him. and He never sent anybody away
with q heavy heart. The only one
that ever went away with a sorrowful
heart was the rich young ruler, and
II you go away with a sorrowful heart
1t Is your own fault. not Christ's.
II you will let Him help you. you
will be joyful. This young fellow
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get along without Jesus.
Jesus never attended q funeral. He
never followed anybody to the grave.
He never preached funeral sermon.
That was out Of his line. He came
that they might have life and that
they might have II more abundantly.
The man that's sober has life more
abundantly than the drunkard. The
haf aaf ho fa h,,r
dantly than the thief. The man that's
than the man living in vice. The one
abundantly than the infidel, who
doesn't believe in Christ.
II Jesus Christ should become pas
tor Of one Of the leading churches in
this city and talk as straight to them
as he did to the treacherous Jerusa-
lem set in the temple, wonder how
long he'h hold his Job. think some
of these elders would be pulling their
long whiskers.
Then the prudential committee
would get on their high horse, and
the vestrymen would hit the ceiling.
Then the stewards that are always
making q muss out OF the stew; and
the church dignitarfes that are dig
ging for the devil would kick.
Take his rebuke. my friends, to the
Jerusalem crowd and see IL he was
always the weak, two-by-four, three
carat, sissified Jesus that . lot Of
people are always trying to picture
him.
am sick and disgusted with peo-
pie who are trying to picture Jesus
Christ as though He was a dough-
faced nonentity. He was the bravest
preacher that ever breathed. Why,
that invective stings in words like
a whip-lash or a cat-o'-nine-tails, ana
as a piece of concentrated damnation,
it is without a peer in literature;
Did Jesus ever show the white
feather? No! No! When the mob
charged upon Him with clubs and
stones and the disciples forsook Him
and fled, He stood His ground as
immovable as Gibraltar. They spat
upon Him. They stoned Him, and
Damned Him, and scourged Him.
Never PaIed Once.
He bore Himself like a king when
He stood before old PLATE. Not once
did He turn pale. Not once did He
show concern or fear. Not once, my
friends. can you fnd any fault with
Him.
The first recorded words Of Jesus
Christ was when He was u years
old. "Wist We not that must be about
My Fathers business?" His last re-
corded words were on the cross, TT
is finished
When He hung on the cross, 81
years of age and IN the twenty-one
years crowded in between the first
recorded words, nothing found place
in His life that wasn't for the glory
of God and the good Of humanity.
II find no faudlt in Him." said His
bitter enemy, PLATE. II there had
been, old PLATE would have dug IL
out, for he was looking for q chance
to put something over on Him II he
could. Now, 'T find no fault in Him"
He had faith in His Father. Faith
says, God did It. Christ says IL II
believe 1t. That settles It." That's
faith! That's faith!
He had faith in his Father. A
mans faith links him to God. III
am chained to God not by money,
culture or such things. but by
faith.
If your faith isn't used, Il will
shrink and die the same as IL your
system isn't used, 1T will
become useless. Take what faith
you have got and start out. If you
know enough now to start and II
you use It. you will get more.
Mind you. In business, there isn't
a man in 1t today that didn't start
poor. Did J. p. Morgan start rich? ?
no! Did Rockefeller? No! Did
Judge Gary? No! Did Vanderbilt?
George Perkins? Mol Peter Ar
mour, Of Chicago7 Marshall Field ?
Mo- He used to be a travelling man,
sold goods for 500 q month.
Andrew Carnegie started for 81 a
week as a stockboy in q mill. Char
ley Schwab crawled out of the dirt
and out of the SCOT and coal of
and Bradford. No, not
= one started out rich.
Take what you have got. Use Il
and you will get more. Start with
your faith. Use It and you will get
more. 1t will grow.
Faith Is the hand by which my
soul touches God I can't touch
God with my hand. I can touch
you. You are flesh. bones. and so
am I. God Is spirit. I can't touch
God with my hand I can touch
God with my faith. 81.
Faith Is a sort Of q wireless teleg-
raphy which communicates with the
sky. Faith is to the soul what the
law of gravitation is to the world.
Here is a book. I hold. it in my
hand. I take my hand away. What
made 1t fall? There Is a reason. Oh,
gravitation yanks everything to the
center of the earth. See? That is
why.
Therefore, we find that faith IL to
my soul what the law Of gravitation
is to the world. The law of gravity