Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-24

1.-THE hour is come" said Mr..
Sunday in his address last evening
at the tabernacle, to realize first
that you have reached the crisis.
I believe that this city is facing
the greatest crisis, religiously, that
she has ever faced" He spoke on
the general theme, 1.-THE Hour Is
I Come" and pointed out the crisis
that faces nations, individuals,
churches, preachers, saying in
part:
| 1.-THE hour is come" The hour is
come to realize first that you have
reached the crisis. l believe that
this city is facing the greatest
crisis. religiously, that she has
ever faced.
There never was such a chance
in all your history for you to show
your loyalty to God and to Christ,
and by and through that loyalty,
inspire others who have never
walked the streets of your city,
because whatever is enthroned in
a city is going to give influence to
! the country around about. Let a
city be righteous and the whole
country will be influenced to
righteousness. They will be Civ
( ing up the sin and corruption and
! vileness and drunkenness and the
whole country will be damned be-
cause of the damnation in the city.
And generations yet unborn will
I be affected by this campaign be-
cause you yielded to Jesus Christ
and you-who are to become the
| fathers and mothers of the next
! generations-then your life will
surround them with religious in
fuence. So for the next century,
my friends. this city is going to
! feel the influence of this campaign
which you and l are in the midst
of, long after we have left this old
earth and the influence of this cam
paign will be felt in the lives of
others.
In every disease there is a
crisis. The sooner the crisis can
be reached, the better it will be
for that person.
In every battle there is a crisis.
| In every nation there is a crisis.
We are in the midst of one of the
greatest crises of our history. We
are in the midst of a crisis where
our homes are in danger and the
very principles of the government
of freedom is in danger all over
the land. Oh! Autocracy has
been overthrow in China, over
thrown in Russia and in Turkey,
and the people rule in France, and
/ the president of the United States
has more authority and power than
the king of England; the people
rule in Italy and for us it is to de-
termine whether or not we shall
| fastened around our necks, or
whether we shall be free.
Nations are in the midst of cri-
ses. There has never been time
in the history of the world when
there was more turmoil, and more
nations interlocked in mortal COM
| bat over the principles of free gov
eminent on one hand, and military
autocracy upon the other hand. So,
we are in the midst of it.
We have reached a crisis and
| you, as individuals will reach it..
Now the hour has come to realize,
that the church is not an end but
a means to an end Education, my
! friends, is the end, the universities
| or the colleges are the means to
the end. Any church that thinks
it is an end is a curse to any city.
The church, my friends, is the
means to the end; the end is saliva
- 7 m To van
| that the woman who scrubs your
floor and washes your dirty buds
is as good as you are if she lives
square with Jesus Christ.
It is not down from the parlor
/ to the kitchen, it is not down from
the piano to the wash tub, it is not
! down from a pink tea to a scrub
brush, my friends, it is not down
from silk to homespun, and the
man that drives your car is as
good as you are, you lobster, if
he trots square.
/ Most people are decent, most
men and most women are honest,
most men and most women are
virtuous, most men and most wom-
! en- are truthful, it is only now and
then you find, my friends, the lib
/ ertine, and the thief and the thug.
Most people are sober, most people
| believe in God, all the rif-raff,
bob-tail, rag-shag pugly-ugly soci-
! ETY. are in the minority.
| 1 like my physician because he
. tells me what is the matter with
me and what the remedy l need
! like him. You admire anybody
that shoots the truth at you al
though he may shoot your old car
cas- full of holes while he is on the
! job.
| OF course, there are some church