Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-22

tnlER back Wnlle am mere TOT rear
OF anybody; l don't fear anybody
on Gods dirt. ! have another trib-
unal when / am through with this
world, to which I must account
other than private or public opin-
ion But I want you people 10 ask,
when you get down on your knees
- ask God. why couldn't we ID
It? Why did we have to build a
tabernacle? Why did we have TO
send for a crude, illiterate preacher
from the corn rows OF Iowa and
the sand dunes OF Indiana"
I'll tell you why. Not because
the preacher knows more than your
preachers, for / am not In their
com Dany enough It's not that; re
because 81 many calling them.
selves Christians are frauds. four
fiushers, excess baggage and fall
alarms.
Why, I'm told that you ON
crowd and pack room with a '5a
show or a dance there is one .a
stitution that I will rip from hrI
TO breakfast and back again for
lunch, for there is nothing this
side Of hell that causes the T71fnay
ton and outraFe of the virtue o.
more girls than the damnable, rot
ten dance.
Just wait until I get on them. ]
am Just giving you time TO get your
mental adjustment. That is the
announcement.
And so l have come with nothing
new. as I have told you. Don't
think you are going TO have re-
vival unless you pray. Think OF
the drunkenness; think OF the lust;
think OF the gambling: think OF tho
pandering; think of the tears;
think of the mountains OF guilt;
think Of the troubled insomnia;
think OF the broken hearts; think
of the blighted lives; think of the
human derelicts! Oh, I tell you,
hell won't loosen its grip on that
crowd without the greatest fight
and will put up the finest scrap
for Jesus Christ and decency thai
know how, and don't you fOt
get it
First, we are in a cause that de-
mands human laborers. I say II re-
verently, but I understand my bible
this Way-that God could convert a
man on top OF the Alps mountains
with nobody within 400 miles, but
I do not believe that there is a soul
in earth or in heaven that was
ever saved that God didn't use
some human agent 10 bring the
message. If you are a Christian
tonight, somebody else told you
about God. II somebody else be-
comes a Christian, it will be be
cause you tell them about IL or n
they don't it will be because you
kept your mouth shat
There is a crying need today for
leaders who can lead, and for
preachers who can preach, and for
teachers who can teach, and in
struct, in the face OF the tremend-
Gus questions that confront our
people. IL is told TO me that the
Protestant church OF New YORK
City has 10000 less church mem
bers today than she had 10 years
ago,-thaI only one out OF an aver
age family Of four are coming into
the Baptist church-that metho-
dists are only saving about half Of
their children-the Presbyterians
about One-third-and the Eplsco-
palians about the same, while all
denominations are failing to reacn
the unchurched millions and oil
lions that surge up and down no
streets like the ebb and the Tow
OF the tide in the harbor.
Defines Knockers
A knocker is a two-legEed ami
NAL with a cork-screW soul and a
sewer soaked heart. He's got a
backbone made out OF jelly and
glue, and where others have a
heart he has a tumor OF rotten
principles. People ought 70 have
a mind TO work and not to knock
and whenever a knocker comes
down the street. honest men turn
their back; the angels take refuge
behind their golden harps. They
don't want 10 loOk-people who
have a mind to work And the
devil double locks his gate for fear
he will get in there. Don't you
know there are lots OF people sit
ting around in every town, grOwl-
ing like a broody chicken, knock
ing everything down? Don't you be
no use on earth!
1e DOObLgT IODELEIs EIoW anu
boost for all your worth,
II things just don't seem TO suit
you, and the world is kinda
wrong, =
What's the matter with a,
boostin' Just 20 help the thing
along?
Because, if things shor'l stop
acoin'. we'd be in a sorry
plight.
You just keep your horn
BLOWN; crow and boost with
all your might
II you know some follcr's fa!l-
ms, just fevg 'cn for You
know
That same foro- hss some god
points t1am's the ones yol
want II e Cw.
Cast your bread r~on tho VA
tiers they'll cule hao' q
saving trHe.
Mavbe theyll come back a'
IContinucd on p4sa Fi.cl