Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-27

hundred that would. Then let the
one go to the devil and try to get
the SO for Jesus Christ They are
in a sad minority, and so l don't
consider that it is worthy of atten-
J ton, my friend. They do care to
talk.
They do care, and perhaps the
fellow you think cares the least is
the one whose heart is most
touched and he is anxious to yield
himself to Jesus Christ and to the
truth.
Time of troubled When death
comes and they back the hearse up
| in front of your house-maybe the
Lord will call around with a white
one; maybe he will send. my
friend, the black one before he will
ever get into your heart. God will
come kind and gentle, trying to win
people from sin, but if He can't
do it one way, the Lord will try
another to keep us out of perdi-
ton.
Need of Christ.
Oh, will tell you. When the
! lurid lights of the farther shore
flash into your face, and the death
dew is on your brow, and the death
rattle is in your throat, then you
! yearn for the comfort of the old
time religion and you want some
body near who knows God Almighty
and that God will hear when he
| prays. In that hour. you don't care
to have the dancing master around.
In that hour, you don't care to have
somebody around that may have
led you away from God and turned
your thoughts. You want some
body that knows God.
| And in time of great awaken
ing, oh, thousands upon thousands
will press into the Kingdom OF
God. Perhaps your own wife and
children are in there now. Your
mother may be in glory now; and
the old Ship of Zion will go ca
reening it's way down the streets
and they will beckon you to come
on deck. They will call at your
home, your Office, your store, and
the Spirit of God will speak to you
in the quiet of your room and ask
when God calls.
but world doesn't care for your
soul. If you want to go out and
sell your virtue, go. If you want to
stick a gun under mans nose, go.
If you want to crack a safe, go.
The world will give you money,
but please remember you have got
to pay, my friend, the penalty that
goes with your getting it in a
crooked or dishonest way.
Oh, the world will give you fame,
political fame, as a captain of in
dustry, fame as an artist, fame as a
lawyer, fame as a physician, fame
in the innumerable walks of life.
The world will give you money, the
world will give you fame. The
world will give you a chance to
climb the ladder until you can dis
lance all competitors in the race
for fame and money and in the bat
tie for bread; but what about when
you are through?
Many a man, when he goes out
on the railroad, when he goes down
to his store, to the bank; many a
girl goes to the Office, to the fac
tory; and their minds and per-
picked. They know that a few
brief years will wind up their
earthly career and we will all go to
z place where our business, our
social and our political ability, will
be a super1uity.
They wonder if the bible is true.
They wonder it is literal, they won
der if it is figurative, they wonder
if it is a metaphor, they wonder if it
l. ~
of people that wonder about those I
questions. 1 have no doubt but !
that there are men in this city, !
perhaps in this audience tonight, |
that would pull out their check
books and write a check on the |
bank for thousands of dollars if /
you could only have proven to your
satisfaction that there is a heaven |
for the saved and hell for the lost |
and that heaven can only be reach
ed by faith in Jesus Christ.
1t won't cost you a cent It is |
true, whether you believe it or not, I
but your unbelief doesn't alter the |
fact that if you don't repent, you
will go to hell whether you are a !
hobo or a millionaire. Salvation is
by faith in Christ. and God is no re-
spector of persons in the world.
The world don't care. the mer-
chant don't care for your soul, t
only your trade. Oh, the politician
don't care for your soul. only your
vote. Vote for him today and you
can go to hell tomorrow for all he
cares. He is not concerned. The
libertine don't care for your soul,
only your virtue.
Oh, how melancholy have been
the latter days of many that the
world crowned as great! Caesar,
stabbed while on his way to the Ro-
man senate, and as he fell at the
base of Pompeii's statute, muffling
his face in his mantle, he looked up
into the face of Brutls-Brutus was
his protege.
Diocletian retires in disgust from
the rulership of an empire. God
frey languishes in prison after he
had captured Jerusalem and res
cued the sepulchre of our Savior
from the hands of the inidels.
Charles V shut himself up in a
convent, pinned away his life with
a hair shirt on. And Calico, after
his mind had roamed the heavens,
became a prisoner of the Spanish
and Napoleon, after he
had made the thrones of Europe
all Europe couldn't afford
a pillow big enough for him to rest
his weary head upon when his heart
beat and his temples throbbed. The
Did moSs-c covered dynastieS pushed