Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-18
Religion not for Time, Money,
Society, Politics, But for God

man.
Which would you rather be
rated high in the estimation Of thu
people you know, or would you
rather have no standing in the
estimation of the people that know
you? Would you rather stand
AAG on Gods books and have the
devil taboo you, or would you
rather have an honorary position
in the devils books and have God
blot your name out? You say. as
any decent man or woman would
Never mind what the devil
would say, will stand with God
Almighty if it takes every drop OF
blood in my body. I will live fo-
him"
like to see man true in bust
ness. l like to see a man true to
his lodge, true to his vow. Is he
married? Yes? True tn his wife?
Yes, sir. He'd stand up and let a
regiment fire at him. every man
armed with machine gun, he'd put
his head on the railroad track and
let the Twentieth Century Limited
pound it into jelly before he'd be
false to his marriage vows.
Oh! True to every emanation
OF truth and yet untrue to Jesus
Christ, the source of truth.
Tell me why a man will be true
to business, true to the lodge, true
to his wife and yet he will be false
to Jesus Christ?
Oh! There is about as much
connection hnt uaar, coroa man md
Jesus Christ as there is between
a man with a wooden leg and the
rest of the body of a fellow.
Make up your mind and go to
fight your way through this old
world and live as God tells you.
What about a woman? God AL
mighty marked out the same path
for men and women. Sin is sex
less. What is wrong for a woman
to do is wrong for man to do,
and the crying need of America to-
day is the single standard for men
and women. A fallen man is as
truly an adulterer as a fallen wom-
an is an adulteress. 1t makes no
difference to God whether the one
that sins wears a plug hat or hair
pins, coat or a petticoat. Sin is
sexless.
Your wife has just as good a
right to walk down and sit around
with a gang and fill her hide up
with booze as you have, and then
stagger home vomiting and spew-
ing as you have.
Just as good a right to sit around
and spit out oaths as you have; just
svL - raII L. a
street squirting tobacco Juice on
the side walk as you have. But
neither of you have. And do you
know some such dialogue as this
has been going on between the
sexes for ages until Jesus Christ
came into the world and changed il.
o, can imagine a man being IN
true to business. l can imagine
with a vast stretch of Imagination,
a man untrue in politics. And /
can imagine by vast, vast stretch
OF imagination, unthinkable as it is
and ought to be, can imagine a
ran being untrue to his marriage
vow. can, as unthinkable as it is.
l can imagine il because it is so.
But be true to God and he will be
true to you. Untrue TO God, he VIII
turn his back on you. True TO God,
he will stand by you through life
and death.
God says, You go down there
and proclaim to the North, the
South, the East and the West and
say Come back! Come back! Par
don full and free, perfect and eti r
nal awaits you az the foot OF the
cross"
Never mind how you have gone
in life. That don't enter into it at
all. God never asks what you have
done. God only wants TO know,
Are you sorry you ever did it."
1t begins in your heart. You've
got to fight the battle over in your
mind and decide whether you yield
or not. You've got to get the con
sent of your will over your con-
science. Your conscience will say,
Don't do it, Don't do it," if you
are tempted to go wrong. And when
you do right your conscience will
say. We'll donei Well done!"
A man or woman is a backslider
in their heart before they are IN
their open acts, sir. Or, folks,
have preached down in the slime
pits OF iniquity, the quagmires OF
filth, and l have helped to pull
thousands and tens of thousands
out and put their feet on the rock
in The name of Christ, and l expect
to shake hands with them around
the throne of Jesus Christ when !
burst through the gates in the city,
when my days work on this old
earth is over, because they will be
true. ! have picked up drunkards.
and I have prayed over them, Wept
with them to help them.
If the brain has the power of re-
production it is the only organ OF
the body that has. If you cut off
your arm a new one won't grow. II
you cut off a leg a new one won't
grow, and if the brain has the power
Of reconstruction it holds out hope
to a good many people that We
might think were permanently in
But whether that proves to be
true or not, 1 know this, that God
holds out hope to every man or
woman. Never mind what you have
been, God Almighty is able to take
you and make you what you ought
to be if you will only yield to him.
Now-what is easily lost may
be painfully recovered. You can
go out and in one act you can sow
the seed. that will battle the skill
Of all the physicians on the face OF
the earth. You can easily lose
your health.
What is hard to gain can be cas-
IIv lost. Your reputation-you can