The Nevada County picayune., 1922-04-06

worried about thls lnlHS' l We went over to Indianapolis. We | went ont to the camp ground We heard one of their great preachers As sat through that two-hour's dis course. I immediately again made up my mind I would rather go to hell, as they pictured the way that God was going to draw the line and the kind | of judge that he was. 1 had to think of the many many people who were striving to find the straight and narrow
 way. but had utterly failed. l said,
 Well guess I am hopeless. don't want to go that way. I don't seem to have an inclinat ton to-
 came back, more bitter than l had ever been. perhaps somewhat restrain
 ed by my children and my life, but
 when met Il minister and got him out by himself, didn't restrain myself at all I told him what l thought about this thing. I said, 'Is that demonstration of Christianity over there? (Th;s was in 1914D All those nations that are murdering each other and grappling at each others throats call themselves Christians. All the
 heath are doing is looking on, and
 watching them, and I think l would
 ra ther be heathen." That was my l faalipo at that tirOp
 Now. brethren, haven't changed my
 mind very much about that part of it.
 If that thing was really demonstra-
 ton of Christianity. that is as far as
 want to go with Christianity. but
 there was no Christianity about it, and | if those nations that called themselves l Christian had been living up to the one
 little principle expressed in the twelfth
 verse of the seventh chapter of Mat
 thew, hat red hell would have been an
 impossibility. It couldn't have hap
 pened (Applause.)
 Now. l can't stop to go over the ter
 rible experiences and the wounding of 1 my son. MOSt LII lIdt lS toiu III 'hN
 little pamphlet we referred to. In fact. we are not touching on much that l is in the booklet.
 But by the time the war and the
 narrowing experiences l went thro@Sl
 with were over one boy had gone with the Canadians and was wounded at yimy Ridge. The first telegram told us that he had been wounded in action and for forty-iye days the only word we got was he was missing then be- | fore we even found out what had be- | come of him, the younger boy had caught the spirit of it in our own coun- try and had joined the Marines and
 was ready to go over. With all the 1 tenacity in me, I was blaming Christ ianity for this thing, and l was doing
 everything I could to, as I thought
 knock the last props from under this
 false philosophy that was leading this
 world down to a worse hell than was
 eyer pictured by any Methodist minis
 ter-l used to go to the Methodist | Church. too: l know all about all of | these theologies. am coming back to
 that in little bit, brethren, be-
 cause this work of the Master hasn't
 very much in cmomon with the middle walls or partitions that we have set np het,yccn our denominations. We cant get very far toward establishing the way of God on earth. the Kingdom ot God in the hearts of men, until We get tions. (Applause)
 Tn preparing for an address that l was going to give on what was wrong with Christianity, q was making great efforts for the effort of my lifetime) l finally said, Now. ingetting this up, I want to get it so logical that no one can miss it. The first thing l will do is tell the people what Christianity is, and then will tell hem what is wrong with it. wonder how many of you can stand right up here and tell me what Christianity is, even you ministers. II were to ask you to get up and in word tell what Christianity is, l won der how many would be somewhat per plexed.
 Well, as I began to think about that subject. the first thing l knew l found myself all at sea. l found that every