Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-02

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ing? So does Jesus. Do you be-
pay honest wages to every en-
ploye? So does Jesus
] Do you believe that every work
| ing man ought to give honest,
/ square work for the wages he is
paid? So does Jesus. Do you be-
lieve that capital ought 10 give
labor a square deal? So does Jesus.
Do you believe that labor ought to
give capital a square deal? So
does Jesus.
Do you believe there ought to be
SO inches in every yard? So does
| Jesus. Do you believe there ought
to be four pecks in every bushel.
/ So does Jesus. Do you believe
/ there ought to be II inches in every
foot? So does Jesus. Do you be-
lieve there ought to be 1000 pounds
in every ton? So does Jesus. A
hundred cents in every dollar? So
does Jesus.
| Jesus is against all crookedness.
Are you? Jesus is against all vice.
! Are you? Jesus is against all dis
/ honesty. Are you? Jesus is against
| everything where men feed and fat
| ten and gormandiZe upon the mis-
/ fortunes and sins of others. Jesus
| Christ never dealt in generalities
| Jesus Christ never went around
Robin Hoods barn to get at a point;
invariably he cut across lots and
when he got there, nobody had any
doubt who he meant or what he
meant.
Gods Courage.
Another thing-can you find any
fault with his courage? There is
something about his courage that
wins our applause. 1t compels our
admiration, and our commentator,
emulation. and several other
"ations" that 1 can't think of just
now.
Did Jesus ever show the white
feather? MOI No. When the mob
charged upon him with clubs and
stones and the disciples forsook
him and fed, he stood his ground
as immoVable as Gibraltar. They
spat upon him. They stoned him,
and damned him and scourged him.
He bore himself like a king when
he stood before old PLATE Not
once did he turn pale. Not once did
The show concern or fear. Not once,
my friends, can you find any fault
with him.
Farm your faith Start with
what you've got and God will give
you more all the way through.
Without faith there wouldn't be a
factory, there wouldn't be a rail-
road. We can't do business with
out it.
There is not one that didn't first
believe before they ever invented.
Fulton had visions of his steam
boat before she ever puffed up the
Hudson. Watts had visions
of a locomotive before it ever came
out of his brain. Howe had visions
of sewing machine before it took
tangible form. Whitney had visions
of his cotton-gin before he ever
invented it.
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 a spirit. 1 can't touch
God with my hand. I can touch
God with my faith.
Faith is a sort of a wireless tele-
graphy which communicates with
the sky. Faith is to the soul what
the law of gravitation is to the
world.
Everything that is done for the
benefit of humanity. all charity, it
all comes through the principles Of
Jesus Christ. You go to the library
and select every book which con-
tains a verse of poetry or prose
reference to Jesus Christ and take
them and turn them into ashes.
Then go to the galleries of art
and slash and cut and daub the
achievements of man, Dore, Millet,
Murillo. Michael Angelo, Raphael,
de Vinci, Rubens, Munkacsy's
Christ Before PLATE"
Then go to the hospitals and
throw the sick into the street. Tear
down the buildings, close up the
asylums for the poor, the manned,
the blind, the halt, the old men, and
old women, boys and girls. Go to
the Conservatives of music, tear
out all the songs, Jesus, keep me
near the cross" Jesus, lover of
my SOUL" Pass me not, o gentle
Savior" until the world stands
voiceless, and songless, and dumb.
Then go to the cemeteries. Go
from tombstone to tombstone, and
chisel out every verse that tells OF
the world to be. Sir Walter Scott
had Old Mortality chasing around
with chisel and mallet to make
more distinct the partly obliterated
epitaphs on the tombstone. Cut off
every verse that your mother pill
lowed her head on when she swept
out into glory to meet Jesus Christ
Take out fthis world all that
Jesus Christ has ever done for it
and what have you got left?
Il find no fault in him" A holy T!
Christ for my Savior, a holy bible |
for my staff, a holy church for my !
fellowship and the world for my |
field. II find no fault in him"
Can you find any law that he ever
broke? He said, Il will send the |
Holy Spirit to carry on the work"
Hasn't he made good, my |
friends? He said, "All who will be-
lieve, will be saved"
You show me somebody that is |
saved that didn't believe in Jesus |
Christ or ever will be saved when |
he didn't believe in him.
We are always helped or hin
dered bv our belief. Wrong belief |