The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-10-11

by Righteousness in
the home and in the world. Right
eousness must bring about peace, we
cannot have peace while the world
is rotten.
You know the history of Isarael.
How the king was so weak married
Jezebel and was ruled by her. You
know how Israel turned from the
God of Abraham and of Isaac and
worshipped Bael. Darkness fell up
on the nation. And | want to say
that the individual or the nation that
invites God to withdraw from them
invites calamity, politically and NOR
ally. And the community that in
vites God to withdraw from it and
turns its back upon Him invites unto
themselves utter darkness without
any way of getting out of it. And
darkness comes upon the individual
who dares to invite God to forsake
him. Wen God withholds His face
| udihiicoS lalis upon us az ohCS.
"Read history, read German his
tory. Years ago, they turned from
the God of Jehovah, they turned from
the God of righteousness and set up
the God of war, and turned away from
Christ. They have invited upon them
selves complete ruin because they
have not wanted God to rule in their
hearts and lives. That is the history
of Germany; that is the history of
Isarael. You know it. 1t is the his
tory of the world and of Leaven-
worth.
This country was founded by a
Christian people, started and main
tanned by a Christian people. Our
forefathers crossing the sea, came
here for an opportunity to worship
God. Our country has been ruled by
Christian men, as Lincoln and Wash
ington. Our armies are ofticered by
Christian men such as Pershng and
Howard And so we find that the
very heads of our nation believe in
God and my proposition is this: You
are not full-fledged American who
do not have faith in God. You arc
rot hundred per cent Anne .'ican
citizen who do not put faith in God.
If you are not, do not tinker with that
silver dollar for it is written there,
''In God We Trust" If you have not
faith in God, you carnot hold up your
head among men and claim to be a
full-fledged American and you are
rot a true, loyal American if you do
not support the church of God By
moral support. You are undermining
the foundation Of the government.
Sunday is American Day, founda-
ton stone. Take away the founda-
ton and the government will fall, fall
in spite of the boys in France if the
home people turn their backs upon
God, and go away from Him. And
so as speech of patriotism, if you
take this keystone out of the arch of
patriotism, the whole structure will
collapse, for God lives today.
Men tell me they are too busy. But
they can't put everything over on me.
l smile and let them talk | have
seen busy men, men who could cut
circles around the busy men of Lea
venworth, and yet they were in the
House of God every Sunday. They
tell me at is late when l get home
on Saturday night and 1T is late
when l am through with my bath on
Sunday morning And | say that
the man who will work late Saturday
night and, coming home late and
dirty, get into that clean bed without
taking bath, is not clean man.
You are dirty fellow! Take Your
bath on Saturday night.
81 am good at figures, better at
figures than at anything else, per-
haps. When you go home Saturday
night, you take lunch, just light
lunch, you get into bed after taking
your bath at one o'clock I am not
a prophet but / say this: You can
sleep and sleep until nine o'clock in
the morning hours sleep and
eight hours is enough for any healthy
man. You wake up at nine and your
good wife has breakfast ready and
the children up and dressed. You
can eat breakfast and you, your wife
and children be here in Sunday school
at 10 o'clock. So far as church ac-
commodations are concerned, this
town is pretty well supplied. If you
want restful place, and a place
where everything is quiet, you can
~' "1ioy a good restful time
here in the Methodist church. So
men, you are without an excuse. Come
here and take your place on the Lords
side. And if you can't come out in
the morning, you can in the evening.
And so my point is this: If you are
going to take your place as a man
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