Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-15

world Churches now empty will
be filled. Churches that have now
become doFmitories will be turned
into beehiyes of activity and zeal
for Christ. Strikes and lOckouts
will be unknown; capital and la
NOR will shake hands when the
principles OF Jesus Christ are &C
cepted and lived by capital and
labor.
Every bee is careful not 20 hurt
another bee OF the same swarm
its sting is never thrust out against
bee in the same hive; they live
and work in harmony as a sort or
mutual benefit association. And SO
in the household of faith, II ought
20 be a sort OF mutual benefit assO-
citation; each should generously
guard the honor and integrity or
the other and we should try and
shield and protect them in the hour
of their temptation or in their
weakness. The loyalty with which
one soldier In battle stands By an
other, determines the personnel
and the strength OF the army.
Righteousness Prevails.
You put a hundred thousand meu
out here with guns and let them
face a hundred thousand men and
they will fight until every man
drops in his tracks: but you let
, one hundred men shoot at them
! from the rear or flank and a hun
dred can disorganize or send con
sternation into the ranks OF hun
dred thousand, sir, and when the
! forces of righteousness sand up
against the forces of evil, and fight,
my friends, you will find some peo
Pile, / don't give a rap whether
/ they button their collars in front
or behind, that become the mouth
piece of the devil and they are
nothing but mere pawns on the
chessboard OF the forces OF evil and
corruption and vice that damn the,
/ world in which we live now.
| God will judge your availability
/ to become one of His chosen fol
lowers by the way you are ready
| to do the little things OF life, by
| the way you smile Good morning"
by the way you help that poor wo-
man on the car with the basket
going home from the market, by
your willingness to lead in prayer
in the house OF affliction, by your
willingness to cit by the bedside OF
the sick and suffering. by your
willingness to alleviate misery AMI
dry the tears upon the checks OF
those who sob in grief.
If you ever come into the light
OF the gospel, if you ever know
what it is to have the peace OF God
that passeth all understanding, in
you ever walk the streets OF heav-
en-, if you ever sic down at the
marriage feast OF the Lamb, II you
ever wave the palms OF victory in
that triumphant throng, it will be
because OF the prayers and the
tears and the groans OF the church,
and I absolutely haven't one symp-
tom of respect for any man or wo-
man who links themselves with tho
opposition and sneers and derides
and mocks at the church. II you
don't like the church OF Jesus
Christ you are living on the wrong
side and we will give you your
passport any time you want it and
you can beat it. We believe in JessS
Christ
I'd have as much respect for you
il you pointed a finger of scorn az
your mother as / would the man
who sneers and splits his venom
against the church OF Jesus Christ.
There are lots of people who are
unbelievers: they live decent, re-
spectacle lives. but they do it be
cause of the constraining influence
of the gospel OF the Son OF God.
That's why many OF them are en-
abled to live as decently as they
do. / want to tell you II you take
Christianity out of the world you
will sound the death-knell OF NOR
ality.
Poor Member Better Than None.
Another thing, Prepare We Je-
rusalem from on high" l believe
a poor church member is better
than none at all, and a soldier who
breaks every regulation OF the mil
itary power and who will go on the
firing line is a better man; he is
more loyal than the Collaboration
mutt who will sneer and will not
enlist and keeps others from en-
listing
oh" they say, financially it,
costs too much" Is that so? ]
had a call TO a town one time in
western state. They went there
years ago and they said, we Will
build 4 city, we will not have a
church in it. Well show the world
we don't need this miserable SUI
perstition they cali Christianity"
So they built a town. They de-
creed that there should not be
church nor a preacher nor a priest.
and the city was burned And they
rebuilt it. They hung Jesus Christ
in effigy in the streets. and the
Sioux Indians swept through thar
God orsaken. blatant, inhdel town
and they murdered and pillaged,
and left behind them a
trail of blood and OF FIRE and OF
smoke.
They rebuilt II. cnd then they
sent to the home missionary so
ciety and said. Cant you send us
us someone to organize a church p
Today it is a respectable Commuui-
~. Today, my friends, IL is a me
tropolis in that section OF the state
with happy homes, Sunday schools,
virtue and morals.
Oh, they realize II can't be done
without Jesus Christ and His TRUTH,
and in these days all VIII either be
patriots or trai ors-oao OF the two
patriots or traitors, to your coun-
try and to the cause of Jesus Christ,
too. sir.