Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-04-30

Mr. Aldrlch spoke Sunday evening,
April 20, in part as follows:
Hebrews.2 g. How shall we escape if
we negleet SO great salvation" THE UN-
ANSWERED QUESTION. I go to one
Of your lawyers and ask him many ques-
lions regarding the different points Of
>t~nlight be able to codify the laws of
& ne state and interpret them for the
supreme court; then should 1 ask him
me me question 1ueS n, Of my text, I would turn
ana leave him without an answer If
were permitted to go to the lost world
ana there put the question Of our text,
t tneie Wouid come back no reply. If
GOD should commission an angel from
heaven and the angel should honor us
~ us presence and stand upon this plat
doIm tonlght, and I should ask the heav-
envy pelng the words Of our text he
you'd leave us without an answer and
ny away to heaven and fold his wings
be- with urea dove; and we would still
answer 1t is an unanswered question.
God Knows Best What We Need.
re knew that we needed fresh air
Tor these lungs and He gave it. God
t hsi that we needed food for these
we needed salvation for our souls and
re has given it. Men are not lost TODAY
I man lack OF knowledge. There isn't a
what know they ought to be saved
and I don't believe there is a man or
woman here that does not know how to
r.
mons or more light; the thing that some
of you need tonight is decision, TO act
upon the light you all ready have. There
that i is Hne s tnlng az lett for you to do and
an ready know is right. 1 don't believe it
IS more truth or more we'll framed argu-
ai fn rea adat You nesd Many Of you
is right l say it is not for a lack of
kfno"ledge that you are lost. 1t is
Tor lack Of Of decision The men in the
GodWard have been men of decision.
Men like Abraham Lincoln. He did not
1mola TINS nation because he was we'll
educated but because he was a man of
cody decision. When he knew a thing
was right he did it. 1 see young LIN.
coin at the, age of nineteen years. The
with them down the Mississippi River
s>n a raft of logs. Lincoln at nineteen
q q. pig tall awkward, green, country boy;
in Abraham Lincoln, in that long lean
lank body and put him away out in the
W we as IN the wilderness, away from the
country boy with only three garments,
red flannel shirt and two home spun
sarments-coat and trousers and bare
footed; | imagine the trousers were
mat they were home spun and he was
a big tall fellow, l am inclined to think
me me woman stopped before she got all
the way down. and then I suppose the
coat was one of those up-to-date kind;
little short on one end. Lincoln ar
rived IN the city of New Orleans and for
the nrst time in his life stands in the
heart of a city and see the slave buyers
and the auctioneer selling the colored
people: l hold in this hand tonight
piece Of the slave block upon which the
auctioneer stood that day and a piece
OF the slave pen in which these colored
people were locked while waiting the
years of age placed on the slave block
She is described by the auctioneer like
you men would describe a horse you
wanted to sell. The slave buyers even
went so tar as to put their hands under
the womans skirts and examine the
calves of her legs like you would exam
In her arms there is a child that has
just been weaned. The slave buyer who
is buying the mother does not want the
c cnaa II Inc eo naby Is taken out of her
T. I'D. Then l see big strong man plac-
ed on the slave block and sold That
day Abraham Lincoln stood by and saw
mother separated from her child, child
separated from parents; husband sep
arated from wife and each one sold to
different buyers, and separated perhaps
Lincoln could not contain himself any
longer and he turned to the men stand
ing ing by cb anc sai I, G5en1tsmen If ever
that Will put 1t out Of existance" They
gaye him the horse lau gh and said,
Fon IS to th1 hit fsis boy tb
Lincoln was man of decision and he
went back up the Mississippi River
again to study how he could free the
slaves. Night after night after a hard
days work, he spread out the white
ashes on the bare ground the only floor
in the cabin in which he lived, and with
hickory pencil, worked out the prob
lens Of life and one day when this ma
ton was divided into two halves and
Uncle Sam wanted man and God want.
ed man and they wanted man of de.
cision. not so much man Of education
not so much man with a fine person.
atty. You know Lincoln did not sue
coed because he was good looking. THAI
has always been a great comfort to me
Lincoln was almost as homely as I an
and that is useless. One day He me
a man on the street. who pulled out
gun and stuck it into Lincoln's face ane
said, Lincoln, I always swore that l.
I ever met a man that was as homel,
as I was, I would shoot him." Lincoll
looked at him and said, IF I am a.
s.homely as you are, shoot away" Go,
=. did not care anything about his look
and he did not care about the trainin'
that man had in him. God wanted
man with decision and so he put Uncl
Sam on new trail and Uncle Sam wen
out through the weeds into the wilder
ness and wrapped on that old cabi
door and Abraham Lincoln rose so tall
the roof fell off and out stepped one o
the greatest men the world ever knew.
Neglect Not Contempt.
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