Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-25
THE R1ERCEs OF GOD ARE POURED
OUT LAVISHLY UPON ALL HIS PEOPLE


. twelfth chapter Of Romans, the
|, first verse: I beseech ye. there
fore brethren, by the mercies OF
} God, that We present your bodies a
living sacrifice, holy, acceptable
unto God, Rev. Mr.. Sunday last
night drew from it the great les
erssons that are taught through the
mercies OF God. In part he said:
Let's see if we have anything to
be thankful for, if God has done
anything for you worth consider
. ing. 1 don't care, you can sit there,
vile sinner, and yet God Almighty
has done something for you that is
worth considering, although you
have never taken His name on your
lips except in blasphemy and de-
risiOn.
All, by the mercies Of God :"
Let's do a little counting. Mark
Guy Pierce was out one evening
with his little girl. 1t was a beau
tiful night, without cloud in the
sky, and the stars were twinkling
and she threw her head back and
said, "Oh, Papa, look at the stars
My aren't there a lot of themI 1, .,
/ 3, 4, 5, 6, IA, Is, 125, 1875" She
said, I'm tired. l didn't know
there were so many"
They have counted IS million and
haven't started yet. The mercies
Of GOd-you might as well try to
count the drops Of water in the
ocean. You might as well attempt
to count the grains of sand by the
/ seashOre. You might as well try
to count office-seekers after a
presidential election.
Did you ever thank God for your
eyesight? Whenever you look into
the sightless eyes of a man or WON
an you ought to thank God that He
has given you eyes to see this old
world, filled with beauty; to see
the rose and the sky, the waterfall,
the snOw-covered mountainS. the
sunrise, the sunset, the rainbow
and the storm cease. Oh, never
J again look into the face of your
mother or your children without
/ thanking God that you can see,
while others just as good as you
are cropping and feeling their way
| to a hearse.
by the mercies of God!" Did
you ever thank God that you can
hear-hear the voice of your
| friends, your dear ones, your wife
! or your children, and the sound of
little children at play; that you
can drink in the melody with
which God has filed this whole
world; hear the word preached and
hear them sing it?
Showers of Blessing?
Did you ever thank God for the
blessings o taste? You know there
are people that can not tell by taste
whether they are eating strawber-
RES and cream or baled sLayings.
There are other people that have
such vicious tastes it is almost i'm
possible to eat; and you ought to
thank God for making so many good
things taste good. God might have
made cur food taste like qu.nine or
garbage, but He didn't.
Talk about the disagceeable
thiGgs-jUst stop where vow are.
Think about the good Things in the
world, and then thank God that
you don't have to hold your nose
and make face every time you sit
Z wn at the table. There are peo-
PIE that don't know what it means,
no, sir.
Did you ever thank God that you
can breathe, breathe without pain,
that you have good lungs? OF all !
the people who die in this country, /
one out of II die from consump-
ton; and of all the women who die, !
one out of eight die from cancer.
can sleep? If not. if l was the !
Lord, I'd keep you awake every +
night for about a month until you I
appreciated it. There are a lot of !
people that don't know what it is /
to sleep unless they take an opiate, !
and then they work over in their .
mind what has been their calling
-h~u- e. The day.
ne y1u ere TANK God fn- the
ho 2itals? Dill you ever thank
Goi for the doctors? Ever thank
God for the nurses?
D i you ever thank God for all
the wonderful blessings in the
world, by the mercies of God? For
the bread you ate for your supper,
while other people just as good as
you will go to bed hungry?
Did you ever thank God for the
drought that never came; for the
fact that America has never scraped
the bottom of her meal barrel,
never; for the cattle on a thou
sand hills; for the lie that some
body uttered about you, derogatory
to your character, and that be-
came a boomerang in the face of
the reprobate that dared spew it
out to assassinate your character;
for the health that enables you to
sit here and listen while others Just
as good are writhing in pain and
suffering in some hospital or
home?
Present Body as Sacrifice.
Present your body, your individ-
ual flesh and blood and bone; that
body that can act; that body that
can bleed; that body that can be
racked with pain; that can be ex-
hausted with insomnia Do you a.,
love God enough to trust Him to do
what He pleases with you by the
mercies of God2
If God could only get possession |
1f the flesh and blood that belongs
10 Him, what a commotion He'd
create on earth and in hell. And if :
God had some of your feet, He'd