The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-07-20

his hearers that many sobbed aloud
under his preaching. 4; j.
We need preachers like that to-
day. Men who will dare to declare
the truth regardless of the conse-
quences.> The ordinary preaching
will not arouse the sleeping con-
science. When vice and immortality
stalks into, the church and shameless
ly and bod-bloodedly covers up it's
rottenness with the cloak of re-
ligion, someone is needed to. rip it
off, as Paul did and Savonarola did,
and Latimer did in their day.
Paul knew what Felix and Drusilla
needed, and he preached righteous
ness. He didn't waste his time talk
ing science and philosophy, but fold
them they had to get right and live
right. That was his business and it
5mattered not to him that Felix was
the governor. r.@' Va sE*}N:: i -
Paul recognized there were no
privileged characters in the realm of
spiritual law, and SO he refused. to
wink at sin because the sinner was
a governor. A mans position in, the
world don't make any difference to
God Almighty. He is no respecter of
persons. He'll soak millionaire as
quickly as He will a hobo, or a college
professor as we'll as bum. Clothes
don't make any difference man
can be just as mean and devilish in
a tuxedo as in a blue jumper, and
five times out of six he is worse.
Education don't make any difference
the man whose noggin is full of
mathematics and Greek roots needs
God as much as the man who cannot
tell the difference between a preposi-
ton and proposition. There is
just one thing that can shut you out
of heaven and that is sin. When you
pass through the pearly gates they
won't look to see whether your trous-
ers are creased or ask what university
you graduated from. =, ~2EE.
Listen! God has but one standard
of right, and everything outside of
that is wrong. Right is right and
wrong is wrong everywhere, in all
parts of the universe, at home and
abroad. Right is right and wrong is
wrong always--every month III the
year, in all seasons and in all kinds Of
! weather. when the morning stars sang
together, at the present time and all
down through the sweep Of the inf
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Who are you that you think yoV
can do wrong and still have the smile
of God? Do you think that God ever
winks at wrong? Never! The eyes
Of Gods spiritual law are open night
and day toward every sin in. the uni.
verse. God saw the sins of Adam
and Noah, of David and Solomon
He thought a great deal Of Moses
but refused to wink even at the one
quick sin Of the greatest human
genius that ever honored the world
with his presence, and so even Moses
had to suffer the penalty for violat.
ed law. 90 (. t'.f'' ~ .,tsSff3
Some men who hear me preach
wouldn't live with their wives if they
were to :cuss and drink as they: do
yet the woman has to live with you
/. heard Of o. man who used SO much
profanity around the house that his
wife decided to cure him. She came
down stairs, one morning and delayed
the breakfast purposely. When hi
came down and began to fuss because
the meal was late, she started in or
him and said; "You old blankety
blank, blank fool! Don't you dare te
talk that way to mew he was aston
(ished and looked at her with his
mouth open, and she started in or
Ihim again, You baldheaded blankety
blank mutt you, I want you To- know
Eyou can't use any more of your dirty
Language around this housed He sur:
rendered right there and promised