Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01
CHRISTIAN LIVES ARE WITNESSES
TO THE TRUTH OF JESUS TEACHING

/ hate you, he hates the disease that
threatens to put you in the CONN
| with your veins full of embalming
fluid He's your friend; he's doing
his best to help you beat the devil.
He's your friend, and il you will
cry out, the forgiveness of God will
be yours.
] Oh, an idolatrous king in other
days committed adultery and he
| cried unto the Lord, and the Lord
said, he'd forgive his transgres-
sions, though his sins were as scar
let they'd be white as snowi Oh,
an idolatrous woman cried, God
be merciful to me, a sinner" and
Jesus sent back the answer,
Neither do condemn you; go and
sin no more"
And 80 wherever you cry unto
the Lord. he will hear you. God
hates ain, bat he's got a pardon
waiting for it, and it's up to you
as to whether you get it or not So
you do your part and the blessing
will be yours. There is power in
the man or woman who abhors sin
hates it. The ashes, my friends,
of the martyrs is the seed of the
church. Those who resist sin have
a great might and a blessing.
F, A brave man Is one who will die
before he will do anything to make
his wife ashamed that she married
him, or those children that call
him father; that's the brave person
in the world.
On, the world can tell whether
you're a hog or a sheepi The
world can tell whether you're led
by the flesh or by the spirit! Not
as many as have been baptized o.
immersed. Not as many as know
the catechism, long and short. Not
as many as know the 80 articles of
confession. Not as many as have
been confirmed (you can be con-
| flrmed every Is minutes;) but as
many as are led by the spirit of
God They are the sons of God.
Not every one that's got their
name on the church record-some
of the biggest devils this side of
| hell are in the church. l have met
them in all my 20 years of work,
up and down the land, am glad to
| tell you they are in the sad minor
ity, but there are a few Of them
you can't judge religion by that
/ bunch, not at all!
| The world can tell your attitude!
Jesus Christ had his struggles the
| same as you had yours, or l mine.
and by relaxing his resistance to
| sin-oh, he could have avoided a
great deal of pain and hardship. By
relaxing his resistance and by
preaching doctrines that were pal
atable to the Pharisees. they would
| have applauded him and voted him
t, a member of their clique, but Jesus
| Christ couldn't please God and that
| bunch of highbrows at the same
time, so he told them where to head
in. That was the crowd that nailed
| him to the cross.
He could have preached-oh, !
could preach a gospel that would
please everybody in this city ex-
cept the decent people; l could
stand up and say:
We'll now, yes il you want to
drink, that's a matter of conscience
but don't get too drunk wouldn't
go too far. be careful; don't get
caught at it."
i could go on and with great ap-
parent earnestness I could preach
like that and there wouldn't be
single old painted-faced. gum
chewing, pencil-eyebroWed, lynn
phatic, dogmatic, phlegmatic, rheU-
matte old society dame that looks
at you through a single-barrelled
eyeglass-there wouldn't be a sim
gle brewer or an old distiller or a
whisky-soak or a blasphemer, or a
gambler or a madam of the red
light or any of the God-for saken.
Ubiquitous, buffoons, rapaciouS,
mendacious poltroons, and sexual
and moral perverts. triple mounte-
banks. in infamy and rotten degen-
crates that feed and fatten and
gormandiZe upon the virtue of
others-they would say, Hes a
real nice little preacher. I'd been
given to understand he was vulgar
and crude"
used to go into town to preach
and would be there a week or two
weeks before anybody knew 1 was
in town. but if I'd go now and
couldn't stir that gang up. I'd think
1 had backslidden myself.
So the Lord, my friends, is look
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be empty of self that they might
be filled with his will. We don't
need more Of God; God needs more
of your money and of your power
to save this old world.
There is testimony to be borne
by the man or the woman whose
life is free from Questionable
things. am not talking about
things that we can all agree are
openly vile and iniquitous.
You ought to be posted in order
to warn others Of tho error and
the danger which awaits those
that go blindIy on and pass all of
Gods semaphores and danger sig
nails with their eyes holden by their
pleasures and the luSts and like
stampeded cattle rush on pei. NELL
to hell.
Effect Of Drink.
When you tell me that a man
can drink and it won't hurt him.
you're a liar. When you tell me
that you can go sit in a restaurant
and drink wine or champagne and |
cocktails and it won't hurt you,
say you're a liar You're a liari
You can't go and hit the booze,
don't give a pecayune who you are. !
whether you hit it in a restaurant
or a hotel-you're not as good a |
woman, morally, as the one that |
don't do il.