Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-24
PERSONAL WORK Is BIG FORCE THAT
COUNTS IN BRINGING TRUTH TO WORLD

you feed your physical manhood
with meat, bread, potatoes, tea, cof-
fee, milk-the food that you have.
in heavens name don't starve your
spiritual and moral nature! Pray
God to lead you 10 the right per-
son; you may have more influence
with some person than another
but II you have been lying about
somebody, you ought to say some
thing, and If you're a deadbeat and
you owe merchant something, go
down and pay your debts, and then
you can talk religion to him.
If you've been talking about your
neighbor, stop and tell her that
you're an old gossip. Keep your old
mouth shut. Then they will have
some respect for you. ! want to
say to you that this old world
would be be a mighty good world
If everybody would mind their own
darned business. You bet your
life! l notice these people that are
always butting into somebody else's
affairs don't even attend to their
own. If they'd let other folks
alone, they'd get along a darned
sight better. Pray God to help you
10 save SOMEONE.
Prayer Is Power.
Then pray God to give power to
what you say, and to carry on the
work after you are through. There
are special endowments you need:
First, clean hands, pure heart.
David said, IF regard iniquity in
my heart, God won't hear me" And
second, a wise head. The church
of God needs a baptism Of horse
sense today-preachers and all the
rest of us. Good horse sensel
tell you that's what we need-a
wise head.
Forces to win-you need love,
love for the souls of men and
women, desire to see them saved.
That's what you have in your
home. IL a loved one is sick you
desire to see them well, and you
spend your money to get the best
physician in the country. / don't
blame you, you ought to have con-
Germ to see people well, but you
ought to be concerned to see people
saved. Wouldn't you rather have
everybody in old Rock Island pray
ing than cursing? Wouldn't you
rather have everybody going home
sober than drunk? Wouldn't you
rather have every man and woman
pure than impure? Wouldn't the
community and the nation be bet
ter? Certainly! / tell you, ma
ton of druukards can't whip a ma
ton of sober people nor a nation
of libertines nation OF pure
people. Never in the world! And
the more a man or woman lives in
sin, the less and less they become
part of the nation-any indiVid-
ual or anybody.
So We want company Of people
that are constantly alive. full Of
faith, dead in earnest, thoroughly
awake, always at it for Jesus
Christ That's what / love TO see.
Men have done wonderful things
for other things. why not for re-
ligiOn? / haven't any sympathy for
the man or woman that you have
to drive to make some sacrifice for
the cause of Jesus Christ. Men do
it for other things.
There are five classes, and they
will touch every man and woman
in this city, America OF the world.
First, those who cannot attend
church. Some have to work in no
tells, restaurants, in your home, on
the railroad. steamships, certain
institutions that have to be kept
going on the Sabbath the same as
any ~other day. We have to eat
just the same on the Sabbath.
People who cannot attend church
old, decrepit, in the hospital, sick,
so we owe it that We take the COS
pei to those that cannot attend
church. That's one kind.
Second, those who can but do
not. Oh, murder! It's a disgrace.
l feel like hanging my head in
shame to stand on a platform be-
meath the stars and stripes and tell
you people we've got 100000 in
the United States that are not in
any church. Seventy million!
We're a Christian nation at that
Those who can attend church but
do not. There are multitudes
that never darken a church door;
the only time they are ever in there
is when they die and they take
them in for funeral OF they have
to go around there as a paiIbearer.
Third, those who can attend
church and do and are not moved
by the preaching. Some people
come out of curiosity. / don't
know, perhaps you may be here
for that. purpose this afternoon.
Somebody has vOmited a lie into
your ears. All right if you believe
lie and come around and hear the
truth, that's all right l don't give
picayune why you are here. I've
got more respect for you because
you are here than l would have II
you didn't come. 1t doesn't make
any difference what brought you
here.
Fourth. those who can attend
church and do and they are con-
victed but they are not converted.
There isn't a man or woman that
won't go out of here with a new
idea Of God and a new hatred Of
sin. The spirit OF God will con
vict you but you need something
you haven't got.
Fifth, those that can attend
church and do attend chWch and
they are convicted and they are
converted and they need strength
ening and they need your help.
That will touch every man and
woman on earth-those FIVE classes
and everywhere.
Salvation Through Christ.
Important facts. First, outside
OF Jesus Christ there is no saliva
ton. All have sinned. God com
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