The Bismarck tribune., 1925-11-09
DOG THAT'S
:. HIT YELPS," ="
SAYS JAMES
Many Turned Away for Lack
of Space as James Talks
on Ten Commandments
TO USE AUDITORIUM

city auditorium has been engaged for
the meetings this week and services
VIII be held there each evening, be-
20 ginning tomorrow. Other arrange
ments will later be made to care for
the crowds expected for next week,
because Of the fact that the auditor
lam viii be used for the North pako-
Ia state Corn Show next week.
THAT fellow doesn't smash up
chairs, stand on his head and per
form other antics for which billy
Sunday is famous, but when Il comes
TO preaching the truth, Icnouncing
sin. exposing hypocrisy and holding
up the faults and folle> Of modern
society TO ridicuIc, 'Billy' Sunday has
nothing on him. said man VINO
heard Evangelist James last night.
An immense crowd packed the
Evangelical church last night unuI
every available legal space was orcu-
pied, leaving fully a hundred people
standing up along the walls and IN
the entrance Of the church, and over
a hundred were turned away unable
to find even standing room.
In connection with his announce
mentS the evangelist compllmentcd
the papers of the city for the spen-
IlN nuDHtIiN AHtN l'tt gwen NV '4''
incs and advised the audience TO call
up the editors and express their ap-
probation, and above all, not 70 for
get to pay their subscriptions. lie
smoke OF the fact that the hotels OF
Bismarck are crowded and some pc"-
pie had to go TO Mandan last Saturday
70 get hotel accom- odationS, adding;
This speaks we'll for your city, It -
alive and prosperous. | like your city,
its clean streets, fine homes, busy,
bustling business center. and kind
hearted people and am praying that
Christ have entrance into the hearts
and lives Of YOUR citizens.
The Hurt Dog ielps
After a most rousIEG song service.
the evangelist introduced his sermon
with the following remarks. AS he
turned to a bunch OF boys sitting on
the floor of the rostrum: Boys, if
there were 40 dogs out here in the
street and | should throw stone in
to the bunch. which dog will how? p
.'The dog that's hit.." shouted the
boys in chorus. =.
There is going to be some PLAIN
preaching here tonight, but II you are
clean / can't touch you. If you are
not right and you are hit, you'd bet
ter not go around and howl about il.
for folks will catch on
Thu speaker then proceeded to draw
a most graphic picture of BelshazZar's
feast, the gorgeous banqucting hall,
the royal danties on the table. the
giddv dance and degrading revelry
which. when it was at its height, was
suddenly interrupted by the appear
ance of an armless hand, writing on
the white wall these words: Meme,
Tatal I'r6urSin Thpn ri
weighed in the balances and art found
wanting" He pictured the craven
fear Of King BelShaZzar and shouted,
when God speaks, even big men
tremble."
I'VE are living in an age when men
say, 4 don't believe the Bible Let
me say to you if you will get ac-
quainted with the author of the BIZ
bic, you will believe His word Had
man produced the Bible, man could
understand it fully, but the greatest
minds of all ages have been unable
to fathom the depths OF this book.
If could understand everything in
the Bible. | would conclude that the
one who wrote the book did not have
any more sense than ! have. but the
ineXhaustable richness and unfath-
omable depth Of the Bible proves to
me that it is the word of God.
God Weighs Men
God is still weighing men. DO
you want to know what you weigh in
the sight of God Get on the balances
on one end and let the Ten Command
ments be put on the other and lets
see whether we too are found want
ing"
He then proceeded 10 quote the
First Commandment. Thou shalt
have no other Gods before me-
What is mans God? The thing
that men serve and love most. You
don't have to go to India to find
idols. The thing you bow down to.
and serve most is your God. If you
love society more than God, if you
love pleasure, then pleasure is your
God. The God Plutus is some peo-
Piles God-gold. If l had to preach
the funeral sermon of some men. who
cussed the church and had no time or
money for it, and then were carried
into the church for the funeral to
have the preacher lie about them and
say they had gone to heaven, would
put bag of gold on their casket and
say, This is what the whelp lived
for and this is all he had when he
died. That would tell the story.
"Some people worship the god of
society. mere are Il IOL y! idulcS
that would rather hang over card
table than go to prayer meeting. Some
of these society danes are so painted
up that if man would kiss them,
he would get the painters collie"
Swearing objectionable
Speaking of the Third Command
ment, he said: Swearing, to me. is
almost an objectionable sin. What
has God done to you that you have
gone out and profaned His name?
When man swears he exposes a
heart and character that is abso
lutely rotten to the core, and man
that will swear will steal. The only
thing is this, there is no penalty for
swearing on this earth. When a
man swears he exposes a limited vo
cabulary with different line of
words that people can appreciate"
On the Fourth Commandment he
said: "The Sabbath day has become
day of recreation and pleasure in
America. The nations that have gone
into oblivion are those that broke
,ae SABBATH day. All the worlds
troubles have come through the negli-
gence Of the Sabbath. Do you know
that the old country got into this aw-
full world war because she became
reckless of the Sabbath? They began
to let down until finally the cathe-
drals and churches were empty and
they got into trouble. The proper
kind Of government is based on the
10 Commandments. If you don't want
to- abide by the 10 Commandments
you ought to be in the penitentiary."
Rev. James did not get farther than
the fourth Commandment in his SER
mon and promised to continue the
sermon on Tuesday night. There will
be no service tonight, as this is the
evanoelist's day Of rest,