Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-02

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Therefore, if you love you will
noS desire for yourself something
that will make somebody else poor
for you to have it. He was per-
fectly willing for his brother to go
back to the hog pen if he could
only have the farm. That's all he
was after.
Nobody is fit for heaven who
wants ANYBODY kept out, but there
will be a lot of people that will
stay out. That won't be your fault.
1t will be their fool fault. The
man who doesn't pray for the
world, doesn't pray for himself
no,
Envy carries a dagger TO assas-
sinate content. Wherever there is
envy, there must be enmity always.
Peace spreads her wings and flies
away whenever envy shows its
head. Go! To make hate welcome
is to turn love out. Love your
enemies"
Love COnquers All.
Oratory won't make them raise
the wages OF the girl in the Office
no. The devil likes to blow a sill
yer trumpet but won't come on the
firing line and become bullet meat
to keep the flag out Of the dust. No!
The devil has a thousand ways to
meet eloquence but he can't resist
love. Both hands are tied. both
eyes are out he has peritonitis
and appendicitis when he meets
love.
Faith without love, that's power
without a heart. It's a stick of
dynamite under your own house.
It's knife in the hand of a bad
man. Yes, it's an avalanche which
rushes down the mountain and
brushes everything in its path. It's
the power of Job with the blindness
of bat.
Love your enemies" not their
ways. God doesn't ask you to do
that. Love your enemies, not their
Deeds but their soul. l don't love
the deeds of any saloon keeper, l
don't love the deeds of any prosti-
tute, don't love the deeds of any
thief, I don't love the deeds of any
infidel, l love their souls. / don't
love their ways and deeds and God
doesn't ask anyone to do that. He
asks you to love their souls but you
don't have to love their ways. No,
the bible don't ask you to do it.
Now, all of US meet people every
day, my friends, that We. cannot
like. God done ask you to, but
God asks you to love and pity them
and hope that they might be saved
and be willing to do anything yoU
can to save them. That's what
God asks you TO do. That's what
love means. That doesn't mean,
love your enemies, the way they
are living and what they do. It
means love their souls and want
them to be free. You love to see
people well, but you don't like the
disease.
You wouldn't want the disease
they've but you want to see the
disease get away from them so that
they won't be sick. Use a little
horse sense, and you will see what
the Lord means. Lots of people
that I'd like to see saved, I don't
admire at all.
Don't fiatter yourself that your
chances for heaven are good be-
cause you are not stingy. No sir!
Don't imagine that you will ever
walk the streets of heaven simply
because you gave away an old "7at
or an old dress. Benevolence tn
out love is as mercenary as selling
rum. Surei Sure! 1t gives that
it may be seen and that men may
applaud and talk about it, 1t gives
because it loves the sound of the
trumpet that proclaims the giver-
yesi You can never tell by where
a man sits in church whether his
name is writ on the Lambs
book of life or not-no! You can
never tell whether a man who is
a deacon or an elder or a steward
is going to have a seat at the mar
rage feast of the Lamb. No! No
BLESS them that curse you"
Now, our love for our enemies
must be positive. Bless them that
curse you" Let him know by be
having in a kind manner toward
him. Imitation Christianity can
never do that And wherever brass
is put into the fire it always be
trays itself but gold comes out as
pure as it went in.
Love Your Enemins.
do good to them that hate you"
If you find your enemy is out OF
bread, don't laugh at his lean, lank
looks-no. Tell him you've got
some meal left in your barrel yet.
If his hydrant freezes up. tell him
to come over to your house and
get water. Do him a favor and ii
will cut like a razor. There is
nothing that will take the fight out
of a man or woman more than -
show them that you've no fight in
you.
You pound ice with your fist and
it will hit you as hard as you hit
it. but you put a fire over it, and
watch it melt.
Love your enemy" Prayl That's
hard thing to do. Pray. l took
the text because it's hard for me
to live up to it. Nobody is lied
about more than l am. Pray. A
hard thing to do. Pray. Get down
on your knees and pray for that
weasel-eyed, hatchet-faced, lantern
jawed, old, neighborhood gossiper
that's telling some lies about you.
Nothing Stays an enemy quicker
than prayer in your heart for them
No one can hate the one whose
shortcomings you talk to God
about. See? Not at all. No mat
ter who you are. What We really
want. we are willing to practice