Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-18
Some Mems Honor Like Meat, so Much q PO1Ir1
Personal Effort Counts in =
Winning World to Right LiUe

! sing in the choir and be members
/ of a home or foreign missionary
society-the devil will let you at
/ tend bible conference but the min
ute you begin TO do personal work.
/ to try to get somebody TO take a
stand for Christ, all the devils IN
! hell will be on your back for they
! know that's a challenge to the devil
and his forces. And I hope that the
work of the leading of people 10
Christ bv personal effort always
will be hard
| have no sympathy for folks
that are looking for something
easy!
So it is the personal effort that
God will honor and that God will
bless. And listen! Let me tell you
something! There are fifteen mill
! lion young men in this country be-
tween the ages Of 16 and IS. Four
teen million OF them are not mem
bers of any church, Catholic or
Protestant. Seven million of them
attend church occasionally. Nine
million of them never darkeu a
church door from one years end
to another.
After the Iroquois Ere IN chicago,
the Iroquois theatre burned
six hundred people burned to
death--a girl about II years OF age
fought her way through the fire
and the smoke and over the dead
and the dying, and through the
great torrents Of blood and crush
ed and charred and baked flesh,
her hair singed, her eyebrows burn
ed off, her face and hands blister
ed her clothing hanging in char
red rags. She got on the street car
to go home and she was moaning
and signing, she'd wiring her hands
and say, 20 Cod o God!" A lady
sat next to her said:
We'll, You ought to be thankful
that you got out alive"
She said, Il am, but I didn't help
anybody else out. 1t was all I could
do to get out" and what she was
moaning about was the fact that
others had to die because she didn't
help them, Yet she was sitting by
people who had not thought ~
helping others-letting them go to
hell.
oh, he that winneth souls is
wise Is wise! You'd feel different,
perhaps, If it were some Of your
own, but remember, If it's not your
flesh and blood it's somebody else's.
Evils Of Selfshness.
That's the trouble with the
world today We don't care a rap
what becomes Of others so long as
we get through the world. Now you
may soon go, you may die and they
may die and you may live and they
may die. / die or you may die; both
may live and both may die but no
matter whether you go first or last
you've got to meet at the judgment
That's settled. You've got to do
that
And so there must be a confes-
sion OF sin. The sin of neglect
confess that; and the sin OF un-
forgiveness, the sin OF Indifference.
David said, If I regard iniquity
in my heart, the Lord will nor
hear me-" Oh. you get the light of
Jesus in your heart! Jesus Christ
sable, my friends, TO reveal Him
self to the agnostic materialist like
He did TO Balaam, until He knew
Jesus Christ. Oh, He can flash the
deity of Jesus Christ into the brain
of the son of the othodox Unitarian
of New England as He did the son
of Edward Everett Hale. He is able
to knock the scales from the
credulous worshippers OF Maf%
Baker Glover Eddy until you Will
find that matter is existent and not
an illusion of the mortal mind.