Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-25

get them out of the way.
About the first thing he does is
cut the purse strings around your
pocket-books.
We have got too many salt mack
ereI Christians. If they have some
thing they don't want and nobdy
else wants they give it up for they
think it is good enough for God.
No, 1 don't believe the most
! glorious singing angels in Heven
have any such chances as we have.
! Nobody up in Heaven can make sac
| rifices-all is over. Angels may
| claim they love God but they
| haven't the chance to prove it by
| sacrifices that we can make.
In religion we keep on shooting
with the same old flint-lock,
smooth bore muZZle loader. We
keep lighting with the same old tai
/ low dips. We keep travelling over
! the same old course. We keep roll
! ing our eyes up to the ceiling like
a dying calf and say, Surely it is
not the Lords set time to work"
! God Almightys time is any time
and all the time.
| Always Gods Time.
| 1t was always Gods time to give
! US machinery. Always Gods time to
give US steam. 1t was Gods time
I to give US electricity long before
Benjamin Franklin flew his kite.
1t has always been Gods time to
give US Iabor-saving machinery.
Give God your brains and then
oil them up and he will dig out a
thousand things that you never
knew were there. That is what he
reason why he can not do the same
thing for you.
And lots of people have been
claiming that Gods yoke is easy
and his burden light, but it profits
them little when they look into the
mirror and see what they DO see.
Why, the devil would bank his fires
aud lock the doors of hell to go to
church and hear a fellow like that
give his testimony.
God doesn't want US to look as
though having religion was worse
than having a tooth-ache. Let your
light shine for Jesus Christ, my
friends. Brighten up and see what
the Lord will do and if God has
our faces he will have our mouths.
LangUage-that is one of the
greatest gifts to mankind The
latest dictionary gives 100000
words in the English language.
They say Shakespeare had the most
extensive vocabulary of any human
being. He could use 1900 words.
The average man or woman uses
about 1000. Rufus Choate could
use II 900 words, and Milton could
use 5000 words. Enrich your vo-
cabulary. Every world coined OF
copied increases your capacity to
express your thought.
Most of your enemies are within.
I may have enemies out there, that
may SANDER me and they may want
to kill me, but, o, the people who
talk about you never harm you,
When I hear anybody talking about
somebody else, you can bet your
sweet life that they are trying to
drag somebody down to the low,
sinking, God-forsaken cesspoOl
level where they live and they
cant stand to see anybody else
higher up.
II God had possession of our
mouths, we would see the greatest
revival the world has ever known.
No lie, no Misrepresentation no de-
ceit. no wrong, no back-biting, no
knocking, no sinners. Everybody
would tell the truth, everybody
would speak words of encourage
ment. Everybody would give you
the glad hand. Nobody critiCizing.
No white-Iies. No bIack-Iists.
Oh, if God Almighty only had our
mouths how much he could keep
out that the devil stufTs in. On,
what a time we would have.
Suffers Worlds TOrmCntS-
1 have gone for 81 years and held !
up the bleeding form of Jesus
Christ. l have gone into the ranks
of sin; been lied about; slandered.
b'ack-mailed, fran dip. and thu
whisky bunch hire black hearted
. ais to tag me fTcm one end OF the
land to the other to yomit, puke
and spew out their malicious dicta-
tons. They have threatened my
life from the Atlantic to the Pacific;
insulted my wife and children, and
when at last, l have preached my f.
last sermon, when they have built /
the last tabernacle; when the boys |
have reported the last sermon; |
when l have given the last invita-
ton, and 1 drift out with the tide,
and burst through the gates into
that city, and look into the face of
Jesus Christ; walk on the golden
streets hidden behind the pearly
gates; the Lord will call an angel
and say "ShOw Bill to his mansion"
and when I go in and sit down,
Jesus will say bill, that was the
And I will say. Lord, I am salts
fed"
Il beseech you to present your
bodies" for reasonable service. God
Toes not ask you to do anything
hat is not for your own good. No,
sir. Aren't you glad that he gives
you a chance to show him that you
want to give your mind, your
bought, your influence and all to |,
Jesus Christ to help him work out
lis plan through you? Are you
-eady to do it? II