El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-11

eeTF THE meeting between you and
1 your GOD was to take place to-
night, how many Of you could say.
II is well with ny soul. an pre-
pared'2 Are you resdy2- John E.
Brown Numbered at his audience
Wednesday night, having for his text
that well known verse, Now prepare
to meet thy God"
Prepare to meet thy God the
evangelist said. he regarded not so
much as a text but as a divine
exhortation "a man writing from
London told how sad 1t was 70 see.
while soldiers died a few miles away
1t the front, men and women IN the
dance hall. drunk, swinging through
the dance as gay and Indifferent, al
most, as ever they we're. Those who
have predicted purified, chastened
world emerging from this world war
have been more or less disappointed.
God has called to US in prosperity, in
adversely; he has called when we were
well and when we were sick; he
called when We were at peace, but
SIN calls MID wars Pain.
Nov God is calling, while the
world is stricken with the plague Of
war. while rivers of blood and pain
are flowing on every SIDE. Is the
world repenting2 God says For you
I've taxed heaven and exhausted every
means of grace. I've gone as FAR in
your behalf as ] can 90, and now
send out the exhortation, Prepare to
meet thy Cod" God has been calling
to US ever since we reached the age
Of accountability he called TO US at
our mothers knee, in the Sunday
school in church. at the bedside OF
the sick and the couch Of the dying
through the little slipper treasured in
the memory Of baby feet that used
10 run through the house he's called
and called and called. and row he has
70 say, Prepare 70 meet thy GodF
Only Earth and sky Left.
People writing from Belgium say
that there is nothing left there but
che earth and the sky. Loved ones,
homes are All gone swept away IN Lle
general destruction 1t Is little
enough for Us &c give orr means
while we can sit by our comfortable
flresides- I'd rather be q free pauper
beneath the stars and Stripes than be
3 rich slave under any nag that llies
over earth It's little enough to give
even all you have 70 nut the supplies
5enind our soldier boys when you
consider what they give. II the boys I
are willing 10 carry the bullets over 4
and plant en-, you ought 70 be willing I
70 buy the bullets. Kaiser BIZ, with /
on the head and buried face down. so 4
that the harder the thing scratched, I
the closer It would get to hell On I
yes, it's easy enough to clap your Z
hands. but a. is harder &c clap them /
on your poCkethoolzs and draw them
cut Don't Wait- You'd better give Il I
10 your government now, than have 4
Germany take It away from you a
little later"
Young People To Attend
TIE tabernacle was filled at the
usual time, and as F. s. Slower was
officiating at q street meeting down
town, Joseph II. Evans, with Miss Eva
Crosby al the piano, opened the song
service and led the congregation
through several songs in spirited
fashion II was announced that the
young people OF Central Baptist
church would attend the Brown serv-
ice this evening in a body. They viii
leave the church at 1850 and march
70 the tabernacle, Ehere section viii
be reserved FOR them. When Mr.. Slower
took charge Of the singing, he first
made the crowd give the ChautauQua