The Washington herald., 1918-01-19

i nave looked down the uu@1ie VI
= winchester, and men have told me
sir, I had TO drink. but l have never
tasted a drop. You say l have got
to dink II stay here. do your" And
he reached down and picked up the
Jug of whiskey and he'd 1t up, and as
he did, bangi rang out a revolver,
and the bullet struck the jug and
broke It Into a hundred pieces. The
whiskey sputtered down into the fire
and a blue flame shot up. and out
walked a cowboy carrying a smoking
gun and with the tears trickling down
his cheeks. he said.
Hold on, Jack. There can't any
man drink liquor around here when
you talk like that"
He Signed the Pledge.
He said, at had a good ma back In
the sunrise country" that's what they
call the East, and he said. II was on
the streets, and ! smoked cigarettes
and sold papers. I got to gambling
and I shot a man. The only comfort
my poor ma had was that didn't kill
him but couldn't live there and when
my ma died, I couldn't go back to the
sunrise country to bury her. Jack.
she Is up there in heaven with your
ma, and when she heard my pistol
shot ring through the canyons of
heaven, she know'd that her big
wicked boy had signed the pledge.
Put her thar, Jack, sir, I'll stand by
you on the proposition that you can't
drink liquor"
And from that day until they found
him lying on Custer's battlefield,
scalped, he never tasted q drop Of
liquor from that minute on. No!
Now, early the next morning. Jesus
was walking with the disciples when
a rich man named Jairus came run
ming up with a great trouble in his
heart and said to Jesus.
my little daughter. she is lying at
the point OF death. Won't you come
up to the house and lay hands on her
and she will live?"
And Jesus. followed by great crowd
started down the streets OF Caper-
naum. There Is no case on record
where Jesus Christ ever turned a deaf
ear to a father or q mother, and he
is Just the same tonight in this old
city.
To Save d. c. Homes.
Oh, how many little girls over in
Gadara at the point Of death might
have been saved II their hog-raising
daddies hadn't demanded Jesus Christ
to get outI Oh, how many happy
homes there would be in this old town
tonight IL men only had the courage
and the manhood to walk arm in arm
with Jesus Christ, and IL your mothers
would live for Him, and the sons
and daughters; but the man who
would rather have sin than have
Jesus Christ. my friend, can't expect
that his children will be saved, and
the maR who will engage in the busi-
ness that will damn other peoples
children, he has nobody to blame, my
friend. IL his own are lost and a curse
that is wilfully turned loose upon
others will return to you, and it ought
to come back.
Jairus, hurried down the street. Sud-
denly Jesus stopped and He turned
around and said. who touched me?
Who touched me?'
Like little children at school, when
something has been suddenly discov-
cred to be wrong. everybody said,
Not T."
And Peter, is his usual brusque. OFF,
hand, impulsive way. said, why,
Master, what a question to ask with
all this crowd rubbing elbows and
pressing up against you, to ask Who
touched meT"
The next moment a timid woman
crept out of the crowd, fell on her
knees at His feet and declared, be-
tween sobs OF Joy. that she had touch
ed His garment. and the instant that
she did it, she felt herself healed
from a disease. an issue of blood that
had been eating out her life for l.
years.
Powers of Jesus.
Now, perhaps Jairus was chafed at
the delay caused by this woman, who
sought to get a blessing without any
body knowing anything about it, and
he said,
well, now, we will be too late.
My daughter will die before we ever
get there. Why couldn't she have
waited a little longer? She has waited
u years; two hours more wouldn't
have made any difference with her.
Well, it might make a good deal with
me-"
Oh, nobody loses anything by wait
ing on Jesus. He can drive back
death. He can say to disease, Co..
and it will stink away like a wolf in
a den. He can say to the storm, like
He did to the Lake Of Galilee, Peace,
be STILL" and the waves will quiet
like a babe tugging at its mothers
breast.
You don't lose by waiting on Jes-
US Christ. If he undertakes your case
he will see you through to the last
ditch. depend upon it. Don't worry
about His part Of the work. Oh, 1
am not worrying about Jesus part
Of this proposition. / am worrying
whether you will be honest and do
your part, and not God, and 1 do not
beg of the Lord to do anything, He
is ready and willing to do. He may
seem to llnger, but He is never too
late.
Now that the scene is before us,
look at a lesson or two from this in
cident, will you? 1 believe that Jesus
halted that throng that day to give
encouragement to His disciples, to
show them that you can always count
on results in the name of Christ when
you are doing your best, even when
none can be seen. 1t was necessary
for the disciples to begin to learn by
faith. You can't always Judge by ap-
pearances just what God Almighty is
doing. A lifelong impression was
made upon the disciples that day by
halting the crowd In the street to
show that a great work had been
done when they hadn't been expecting
it. They had been used to violent
manifestations of Jesus power. They
were Just back from Gadara, where
he had stilled the tempest. They had
seen Him cast the devils out Of the
man and they had seen Him cast the
devils out of the boy. Probably the
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