Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-09

were going the other way"
Like a woman who was moving
into a new house, and as tire mir
ror was going in she heard the
glass rattle and she said, Hold on
boys, be careful. Don't break that
glass. II you do, you will spoil my
luck for seven years"
The drayman looked at her pity
ingly, and he said. Boys. smash II
! quick. Anything to change ner
luck"
That is the way feel about this
city: If good preaching would have
saved your town you would. have
been in heaven long ago. You need
! something else. Here are people
who journey all through the word
Of God from Genesis to Revelations
and they can see nothing but a
great big hayst4ck going the other
way.
Multitudes OF fellows are down
! in the muddy water of profanity
you lie and steal or you are q
prostitute: you are A failure ana
! you play trickery in business, then
wonder why you see no beauty in
religion. nothing in Jesus Christ,
nothing in the church OF GOD AL
mighty. Say. las a man you don t
hit me there, Bill"
Oh, the trouble is you are not
high enough up. That is the trou-
BILE with you.
Did you ever go home and did
you ever call your wife and chill
dren in and did you ever sit down
and read the word Of God, and did
you ever say, Now, get down on
your knees and say 1 am seeking
the way of life, light and saliva
ton, God?'"
Did you ever do that and then
get up and live the way you hae
prayed?
challenge you old inidels; no
man ever did it and doubted Jesus
Christ or found the bible false. NJ
man ever did 1t and said, There Is
nothing i'll religion"
Man in Gods Image.
God said, NO. Let US make man
in our image"
Where did He get the plural? I
believe when He created man, He
gave him a body like unto the glo-
rious body of our Savior. He gave
him a mind to dominate brute crea-
ton. He breathed into man. the
breath of life, and man became a
living soul.
If a man had been making this
bible he would have had God chas-
ing around with an elephant or a
hippopotamus.
Only in man did God breathe the.
breath of life. Man became a liv-
ing soul. he was created in the
image Of God Almighty, in this old
universe.
Human must grow like human.
If man evolved from monkey he
would have enough of the monkey
element for a bone to grow on him.
So l don't believe in your theory Of
evolution.
A fellow said: IF Judgment and
will power are the faculties of the
mind and have them in their high
est development, why is it that l
have a soul and the dog has not?'
Here, listen to mel Will power,
judgment, memory. imagination,
are the faculties Of the mind. See
ing, hearing, smelling, tasting, |
are the prime faculties OF :
the body. But my soul, your soul |
has three prime faculties that are
neither mind nor body faculties. ,
Faith, moral and conscience tacul-
ties.
Then says the inhdel, MY dog |
has faith Yes, he has faith In !
somebody that he has seen but has
no faith in somebody he has never !
seen and you cannot lodge one !
thought in the brain OF that dog |
about somebody or some place thai |
he has never seen.
An elephant has the highest in /
telligence but you can't teach him /
about somebody he has never seen,
but you let him see them and he
will never forget. That becomes a
faculty OF the mind but not OF the
soul.
The muscular system OF your .
body develops by exercise, and the
muscular system of your soul de-
Telops by prayer, and doing the
Kings that God tells you to do TO
ievelop your spiritual nature; the
Iame as you must do the thingE
Sod tells us for our physical ma
ure. II you sit and wait you will
Either and die. 1t is the process
II nature.
/ can strap this hand to my side
md by the time these meetings
lose ! will not be able TO lift my
land to comb my hair. Why? Be
,ause l have lost the use OF 1t
through disuse. There was a time
could use it and wouldn't use 1t. h
Tow when I can use it I cant use
t because 1 wouldn't use it when I
ould use 1t.
Take my eye, for instance. l can
hut that eye and bandage il and {
.eep it shut for three weeks; that
We would. grow Weaker through /
isuse and the other would grow
tronger through use and when {
emove that bandage I can't see ,
our face when / leave you. That Z
5 the principle Of religion. !
So. man is the only being on I
arth to whom we can teach some /
hing about God. Having not seen, [
re love. Man can tell. can
each YOU something about a place
GU haze never seen or about a
eing you have never seen. God and
eaven. Man is the only being who
as a soul and therefore he is the.