Morris tribune., 1919-11-07

! ton and will prove a great benedic-
tion to our community.
The evangelist's first sermon
struck the keynote of the whole
campaign. 1t was based on Genesis
IL and the Gospel according to John
IL. "Tn the beginning God" His
sentences were striking, pithy and
epigrammatic. A few samples will
surface:
IT believe the Bible is the word of
God; that it is all true. More than
that, it is inspired, all inspired, God
breathed." believe that there is a
heaven and a hell; that men, without
Christ as a personal Savior, are lost
and going to hell; that the only way
to heaven is Jesus.
My theme is Jesus. My purpose is
to endeavor to lead you along a path
in which we shall meet Him face to
face. When I have introduced you
to Him to the best of my ability my
responsibility ceases.
God never owned a slave. If you
become a Christian in this campaign
it will be because you become vol
unteer.
People often ask me what church
believe to be the best church" My
answer is: Methodist fire, Baptist
water and Presbyterian or Con-
gregationalist safety valve make
mighty good combination"
God is the beginning of all life
life of all kinds. The materiastic
evolutionist says: Crawling around
in the dust of the earth there was
little flea. This flea after a few
thousand years developed into
grasshopper, The grasshopper hoped
and hoped until he developed into
jack-rabbit. The jack-rabbit
hoped and hoped until he devel-
oped into a monkey and the monkey
hung in the trees by his tail until he
turned into a man." Absolutely
nothing to it.
God is the beginning of all wis
dom. God is the beginning of all
morality. We must begin every
thing with God; He is the fountain
head. The trouble with the world
today is that it has left God out.
That is the trouble with Morris.
''The most dangerous thing that can
happen in the world is to have dem
ocracy with God left out" Some
people have left God out of their
homes. Family affairs have tum-
bled down." God is left out of our
schools. Indeed, in some cases He
is left out of our churches. Some of
these institutions should never be
called churches. They are nothing
more than social clubs. Many of
these so-called churches tell their
preachers what to preach. II would
like to see any goddess, prayerless,
backslidden, bee-drinking crowd that
could tell me what to preach"
That old infidel laughs cha! hal"
and says, "See what two thousand
years of Christianity has done for
the world! Look at this awful war;"
I am here to tell you that the late
war was caused by the lack Of Chris
tianity. You never heard the kaiser
mention Jesus Christ. He has no
Christ. Why blame Christianity for
what the kaiser and the devil did?
Where did destructive higher
criticism come from? From hell by
way of Germany" 1t was given to
the world by Schleiermacher, who
founded Berlin University in 1910,
and Strauss, who studied under him,
and who in 1885 wrote a book in
which he denied the inspiration of
the Scriptures and the Deity of
Christ. In 1910 Strauss book was
translated into English and since
then we have had destructive criti-
cism in America and other English
speaking countries. We've had this
awful war because Jesus was left
out"
"Our soldier-boys fought for world
democracy and fought successfully,
thank God! Let us be willing as
followers of Christ to fight as brave
ly and successfully as they for the
Banner Of the Cross!"