Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-15
come Of1 You Forces OF The Devil I Dew You %


and prosperous than those who live
beneath the stars and stripes in
America.
The Holy Spirit is needed. Il is
the microscope that magnifies one
drop of the Saviour's blood into an
ocean of redemption. The Holy
Spirit! He is the joint representa-
tive of the Trinity in the world to-
day. l think God has not left Him
self without witnesses; the eyes
of the Lord run to and fro through
out the whole earth to show Him
Iself strong in behalf of those
whose hearts aspire toward Him
How the eyes of God run to and
fro throughout the earth!
Helplessness itself are you and
I. but by the power OF the Spirit
of God there is not enough force
in hell to pull one nair out of y ur
head unless God gives. the power.
God is looking for men and women
who are willing to go down in the
marshes of sin and from their
Shiny suction rescue the perishing,
care for the dying.
Then. in the last place, the Holy
Spirit is needed to bring God in
spiritual touch with man that man
may realize he is the representa-
tive OF God in the world. Did you
ever realize, my friends, that you
! and | represent God?
And 1 say TO the forces of evil
| in this city that have fed and fat
tened and gormandiZed, outraged,
| ruined men and women and chill
dren, impoverished, sent them
shrieking and screaming Gown into
! hell; and all the gOod-for-nothing
Gudforsaken, iaiqUitGus, rapacious,
medacious, buffoons, mountebanks,
poltroons. sexual and moral per-
verts that have brought them into
degeneration, that have cursed and
damned this whole earth, Come
on; come on!"
NV life has been threatened from
one end of this land to the other
by that good-for-nothing, Godfor
worst gang OF thugs this side of
hell.
They have insulted my wife and
my children. They have hired men
10 trail me up and down the coun-
try and go aside to the owners OF
the newspapers. They can't find a
decent paper in America that will
publish their dirty, rotten sewer
age until one of them went 10 one
of the leading editors and offered
him a sum that would stagger me.
if he would fight me and fight the
meeting. He said to him, You 6
to hell"
He is a church member at that.
They have lied about me. In a
convention in q central western
state, two friends OF mine we're in
where they were having their con-
ference. They said, We have been
trailing Sunday for 90 years; we
can't get anything on him. The
only thing we can do is to start
systematic campaign of villifca-
ton. We will say he is sacrilig
ious and crude and vulgar and we
will try to get the ministers not to
call him, and if they do, we will
try to get them to oppose him.
and they set aside money to do this
very thing up and down the lan1
today. That's their game all over
the country. l have put them out
of nearly two hundred million dol
lars worth Of business in the last
few years l ask no quarter from
the dirty bunch and l give them
none. None whatever!
Now, then, let me tell you some
thing. l don't want your money;
1 want you. They say, "Oh, LIE
works for money" l haven't got
a dollar today that the people
of this country didn't give me. I
don't ask people one cent for my
services. 1t is nobody's business
but the man who gives It whether
he gives anything or no.. So l
have never asked for it.
was offered a cold million dol
lars if I would appear before the
movies and let them take my pic
ture and put them on the film. II
said, You can't do it for a hun
bred million" Not that I have.any-
thing against the movies: II
haven't; but you couldn't put my
million dollars.
dollars to talk "a minutes into a |
talking machine for them TO make |
records. Not that 1 have anything |
against it. but 1 said. M sir, |
VII not commercialize Gods words
or Gods cause"
Can it be that We fail 70 realize
His help and the need of it in this !
world? Hold on Don't you ask
Him to help you when yon preach.
to help you to live, to help you be
right in this old world; don't you
yearn for His indwelling motor?
Oh, are there any so blind as to
not see the benefits of the Holy
Ghost? Are you ready to surren-
der7 .