Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-17

! woman of Capernaum who touched
| Jesus garment and was cured anC
relating the incident Of the evil
| spirits that were driven out of {
man and into the hogs. Mr.. Sunday
last evening in speaking on his
subject, The Timid Woman" con-
/ tinued:
} 1t makes a lot of difference
whether you look at things from
| the hog standpoint or from the
standpoint of manhood and WON
anhood and childhood. The man
who thinks more of his hogs than
he does of his wife and children
he is the devils idea of what a
husband ought to be
And it is as easy to bring heav-
en- and hell together as it is to
bring Jesus and whisky together.
Now isn't that just like the whis-
ky business? Oh, it is a blessed
business Doesn't it give employ
ment to multitudes? Don't law
yers and sheriffs, and jailkeepers,
and penitentiary keepers, and con-
tractors who supply the jails and
the penitentiaries and the insane
asyIums, and the homes for feeble
minded. and all the institutions of
that-dirty business. kept packed
full of the wrecks of humanity
don't they get a rich living from
the stream of dollars that the devil
pours into their pockets? Oh,
doesn't it make times good?
Doesn't it promote sociability?
Doesn't il. my friends, and don't
we have good feeling? Don't they
shake hands more in the saloons
than they do in the church, and
don't we need the license to do
that?
Nobody ever wins by a compro-
mise. You admire your opponent
who fights open and fair. In their
hearts, the saloon keepers are my
friends They don't hate me. They
know I don't compromise one inch
with their dirty. rotten, sinking
business. and they know it is a
dirty, rotten, sinking business, as
we'll as I do, my friends. They are
only in it for the money that's at
tached to it. Do anybody good?
No, they never did anybody good
with a glass of beer in their life.
They couldn't do it.
If you prefer society with its
sins to Jesus Christ, He will take
you at your word. If you prefer
profanity to Jesus Christ, He will
take you at your word and leave
you alone. If you prefer vice to
Jesus Christ, if you think more of
a whisky bottle than Jesus Christ;
il you'd rather lie than pray; IL
you'd rather steal than be hon
est; if you'd rather be deceptive
and a double-dyed, treacherous vii
famous devil than to be honest and
pure, Jesus says. Take it and go
with it and the reward will come"
Jesus VIII Help.
Oh. nobody loses anything by
waiting on Jesus. He can drive
back death. He can say to disease,
Co" and it will stink away like
a wolf in a den. He can say to the
storm, like He did to the Lake Of
GaliIee, Peace. be still" and the
waves will quiet like a babe tug
ging at its mothers breast.
You don't lose by waiting on
Jesus Christ. If he undertakes
your case he will see you through
to the last ditch, depend upon it.
Now that the scene Of the woman
who touched the hem of Jesus gar
ment is before us, look at lesson
or two from this incident, will you?
l believe that Jesus halted that
throng that day to give encourage
ment to His disciples, to show them
that you can always count on re-
suits in the name of Christ when
you are doing your best, even when
none can be seen. 1t was peces-
sary for the disciples to begin to
learn by faith. You can't always
Judge by appearances just what
God Almighty is doing. A life
long impression was made upon
the disciples that day by halting
the crowd in the street to show
that a great work had been done
when they hadn't been expecting it.
They had been used to violent ban
ifestations of Jesus power. They
were just back from Gadara, where
he had stilled the tempest. They
had seen Him cast the devils out of
the man and they had seen Him
cast the devils out OF the boy. !
Probably the disciples were think I
ing about what would happen when !
He got to the house, but they didn't |
imagine anything would happen |
before He was there in person to |
10 it.
Oh. we look for great things |
when we have a revival. Some |
hing may happen, the preacher /
ed on Sunday. but nothing will |
happen in the little prayer meeting. |
Aud yet the greatest man the 18th |
century produced. George Miller, /
was converted in a prayer meeting, /
and collected over eight million F..
dollars, and fed and clothed and !
educated 1000 orphan children, all
n response to prayer-conyerted /
II a neighborhood prayer meeting.
Something VIII Happen.
Something is going TO happen
low Why? Oh, God Almighty is
eading. Wherever good seed is
own. you can bank on 1t. some of
t will grow. This meeting was
for in the providence of
Iod. and Jesus Christ is leading
his campaign Just as truly as He
ed the throng down the street OF
'apernaum nineteen hundred years
-go. I know the devil goes TO
hurch regularly. but the devil
idn't make arrangements for this
Meeting The devil didn't send me