The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-03
Sunday School
Lesson
Sunday School Lesson for Sept.

scripture. AclS 1913 10 Of.
Subject is in the Golden Text: The
angel of the Lord encampeth round
about them that love Him and deliv-
ereth them.
When the church of Decatur, ILL.,,
was arranging for VIM. Sunday to
come there say. but didn't the saloon
people fuss about him? Why? Be
cause he'd been to so many towns
where every saloon had been shipped
out of town. Some one speaking of
Paul healing that girl in Acts 1918.
said, one would think it would have
touched all hearts and made him the
idol of the city Well, you see, he was
the idol Of that girl and the true peo-
PIE of God. and Sunday is of the
best Christian people, but the gang.
and now here is where the sticker IS.
That Goddess gang can so often get
SO many of the people Of God in the
dirty work with them. Read Acts 49,
so. Jews stirred up devOut
and honorable men against Paul.
How often have ! known blessed min
listers and Christian men and women
to even lose their lives in the same
way. If you attend to your own bus
mess as the whiskey men put it, you
are all right with them. Not only the
liquor men but the robbers who are
trying to steal your home and what is
worse, your family. They have a lot
to say about your liberty that reform
er is trying to take from you. 1t is
not your liberty they are after, no
more than the liberty of that girl.
pafn | |
across the street from saloon, then
there was another one almost block
down the street on my side. One day
l went down to that saloon after beer
because of the street being so muddy.
Later l went across the street and
the keeper said, whats the matter
with my beer?'' Nothing, why? 4
saw you going down to Days Well,
the street was so muddy. The next
day he made a good cinder walk for
me to his saloon and after | was con-
verted he was mad because he had
lost the best customer he had. SO he
said, many men brag of being sensi
tive but the most sensitive part of the.
whole man is his pocket book. Don't
know if | told you of throwing away
three new ten dollar bills by acct
dent Well, l did. and how the devil
did work me up about that, until |
said to him, now you can go on away.
When | was serving you | threw away
more than that every week. Then he
went on and left me for good as to
that.
We had 16 saloons in Two Harbors.
The best people didn't like them, so
they put up man for mayor on a
platform which said, elect our man
and we'll put the saloons out OF bus
mess The other said elect our man
and we'll make the saloon men obey
/ the law. Well, you see, the devil
says, between these two take the sa-
| loon and law. So he voted for the
saloon. They thought their man
wouldn't make them obey, but he did.
Then they didn't like him. He was a
laundry man. They cut him out
drummed up a poor old whiskey soak
! to take the laundry to Duluth. What
aid we do? Well, we sent men to Du-
luth and every town within hun
bred miles; waited on the best PEG,
pie, stated our case, and our mayor
had to make his laundry larger. All
this talk of the whiskey men about
your liberty is rot. 1t is their gain.
Well, they got Paul and silas in Jail
and in stocks-think of it-besides the
| flogging, and in this condition hear
them singing at the dead hour of
night.
l was converted in November and
the next March | stepped inside of a
church door in Chicago, when the air
outside was as full of snow as wind
could make it. Shaking the snow
from my clothes l said, my what a
bad day Tut, tut said the janitor,
an cd white headed man, IF you
were sure you were going to die today
would you see this snow? If you had
the desire for the salvation of the lost
our Lord wants you to have, would
you see this snow? Where is your
power for good when they hear you
kicking like that?' And so the old fell
low gave it to me, so kindly, for about
five minutes. Then he said, Would
you like remedy for that?' l
said, Well l should say, and he gave
me Pisa. 1924. 1t reads, This is the
day which the Lord hath made. we
will rejoice and be glad in it. But
like to make it personal, so l read it.
This is a day the Lord hath made and
will rejoice in it, That was 81
years last March. I've been out on
the road fifty seven hours in all kinds
of weather since that day but never a
kick. I've never started a day since
that morning without that verse of
sculpture and the same will be true Of
my reader if it takes hold of him a.
il did of me.
You see, if you start the day with
fuss, it is hard to get a prayer of
praise in there. But if you start the
day with prayer of praise, you'll
have hard time to start a fuss.
A lady said to a Cody minister, but
you don't know the circumstances in
my house. Oh yes, he said, 1 under
stand the devil has put your circum-
stances between you and your Savior.
Now let Jesus come between you and
your circumstances and he'll drive
the devil out and sanctify you and
save your family. She did, and God