Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 105, 3 May 1922 — Page 6

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND.,

WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1922.

DUTY OF CHRISTIANS TO HELP SAVE SOULS OF PERSONS OUTSIDE OF PALE OF CHURCH SAYS SUNDAY IN PLEA FOR MORE CONVERTS

The Text "No Man Cared For My; Soul," 142nd Psalm, 4th verse. Speaking on "No Man Cared" in the tabernacle Tuesday evening. Rev. W. A. Sunday said: Life and nature seemed to ' be made up largely of contrasts beat and coal, light and darkness, mountains and hills, valleys and plains, rain and drought, famine and plenty, sickness and health, vice and virtue, success and failure, joy and sorrows, trouble, tears and happiness. All lives are made up more or less of contrasts, but no life in history.

you were ill. I cooked your food, Ii washed your clothes, scrubbed your floor. We talked about the war, we talked about business, we . talked about society, we talked about the evangelist, we talked about the tabernacle; but you never asked me to be a Christian. You laugh at some eccentricity, you sneered at some idiosyncracv. but you didn't ask me to get on

the shriek and the scream and the! my knees and give my heart to Jesus cry of a child be heard: you will for- Christ,"

get business, you will forget discus-1 I wonder if it would be possible in sion, you will forget everything, and, the day of judgment, if any of you

should shuffle off this mortal coil and drift out with the tide right now how

God would stand before you. I tell you, the trouble is that we fail to

realize that without Jesus Christ, we

you will rush to render aid to those

who may be crying In their helplessness. And there may he such tieople in

who was pastor of one of the iargJ are lost There is no other way under est denominational churches in this -heaven tfjen among men whereby country, told me that in that church j 4the can "Y6 Y f,ail to rea1'

was a man and woman, neither or ".-'.

whom was a member of it, and they "ol - contributed as liberally for the cur-1 I will never forget in a town in rent expenses as any member that he ! Iowa, there was one man they kept

sacred or profane, presents a larger ; had. He became burdened for their talking to me about. He was the maynumber in my opinion, than that of! salvation and he tried to argue by or of the town, and I asked if any of

David, the author of my psalm and saying that it would be zeal before ! them had ever been up to see him. Not

I am first introduced to him knowledge if 1

when they would carry the sentence boy's name was Richard Baxter, and

text.

as a little shepherd boy, and he was

herding his father's flocks when Samuel was sent of God to anoint David king of Israel, for Saul had defied God and made a blunder and a failure, and God said: "I have got a shepherd boy out here that is going to wear the crown instead of you." And the next vision I catch of David is that he has become king. He has thrown the shepherd crook on the ground, put the crown on his head, and he is sitting yonder on the throne of Israel; and God kept him to keep the flag flying when the

clouds were lowering and threatening in the Jewish nation. And then David was a poet of no mean ability; and when I read the 72 psalms of which he was the author, I made up my mind that there is a man who passed through all the varied experiences to which flesh i3 heir, and he seems nearer. He was

a musician, too, and he played for

old King Saul in his melancholy moods and charmed the grouch away from the old king when he was sullen. David Was Successful Leader.

And he was a warrior, too, and the

he would go and speak I a soul, so 1 said, "I will," and I went

to them and they might quit coming down and walked into his office and I to church. said:

If anybody Is so finicky and touchy aA TrnlT,r Mr .seW" T said

and contemptible that you would get How do vou do' Mr. Seeber? I have

mad if somebody asked you to be a

Christian, get up and go out and go to the devil if you want to. I have no patience with them, absolutely none. I have no patience with a man that becomes snippish and mad because somebody wants him to go to heaven Instead of hell. It is no compliment to you, I want to tell you! And this man tried to argue with

the Lord, and the Lord said, "Who

come down to ask you to .be a Christian. Lots of people have been talking about you." You know every city has a few men that are leaning posts financial leaning posts, political leaning posts, and whatever they do, thousands of people in the same community, where there is a sort of community interest and people are held in leash to do

knows more about this, you or me?"irigt, because everybody knows what , j Ms ii i , j it t-i r ii in ..i.'fhav m

aou iinauy ne saiu. wen. i win usk. , -"w c.v..

him the next time I see him."

It proved to be Sunday morning,

I said: "I have come down to ask you to

Touched by Warm Appeal He told me that the tears trickled down their cheeks and he said, "We have been coming to hear you preach regularly for three years. We are not members of your church, but we have attended the social functions of your members and we have contributed to every cause, as the books of the treas-

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Jews never knew defeat when David i U,C1 uu" "7 "f " J"" led them on the battlefield - never. n has ever asked is to be

And here he stoops to sin to drag the name of God down. It seems

5d e 7entJd0Tn ndv took him y be a Christian, the hand and said, "I have come to .

ask you to be Christians. You have ir. , . , . T been coming here to hear me preach I Thank you. I am glad to see you. I regularly, but I have never asked you nave lived in town 14 'ears and yu .. I n ya Ti a f ;,-ct mQTl tiat evpp nclcpn Trip

personally. i j-

mai question. He said: "Do the people down there believe that I am saved?" I said: "Well, I don't know." I said to him:

, Christians.1

I Certainly they could say of that I nVii.nl HTn C nni.l.

strange to me that anybody could jmly cntributions to fte current ex:

the words of my text you know his j

sons had rebelled against him and j sought his life and David had been

penses.

Perhaps there may be In your own

compelled to flee and old King Saul, oW'n husband whom you have never Jealous of David's popularity, chased . children, or

him like a partridge over the mountain

and David took refuge in the cave of the Engaddl. "Then," he said, "it was that I looked upon my right hand and upon my left hand and refuge failed me. No man would know me. No man cared for my soul." It seems strange to me that any

your friends, and they could use the

words of my text and say of that, "You don't care for their soul3." I will never forget, years ago, out in a town of Illinois, I was leaving the tent one night at the close of the service, and among the number that left last was a young man of about

17, to whom I was attracted by his

man at any period of the world s ; bright, snappy, cleancut-looking feahistory could use words like these jtures and his mannerisms, and I and they would be an absolutely hon-j walked down the street with him and est expression of the utter and abso-i engaged him in conversation and preslute indifference on the part of people ; entiy 1 DUt to him the inevitable aues-

to his or her weUare who ougnt to De considered interested in them and zealous to see them doing right instead of wrong, living for God instead of for the devil, praying instead of cursing, being pure instead of impure, Bober instead of drunk, filling the churches instead of the haunts of sin. It seem3 strange to me that any man in any period of the world

could use words like that, and they

tion. I said

"Are you a Christian?" He said, "No." I said, "You ought to be." He said, "Yes, I know it; it is right and it is the thing to do." I said to him, "Are your father and mother alive?" He said, "Both of them." "Either of them a Christian." "Yes; both members of the Methodist church."

he an honest expression of the utter

and absolute indifference of the world; Asks Him as to whether he went to heaven or Pointed Questions went to hell. But more than passing! My friend, Dr. Taylor, was then strange to me is that in your day and ' pastor. I said. "You have family

mine with all we understand, ana prayer ai nurae :

with all the opportunity to do good

and serve God. and with every incentive to do it, that any man or woman with a scintilla of decency or reason would stoop to assassinate your manhood and electrocute any high and noble ambition, to stop to do anything that the devil wants you to do, and then want people to respect you. We Overlook Heloing Soul. , "No man cared for my soul. Did you ever note- the concern we manifest in people in times of physical distress? When the wires brought us the

news that San Francisco lay supine

He said, "No."

"Do they ask a blessing at table?" "No." "Have you a brother or sister?" "I have a sister." I said, "Is she a Christian??" He said, "I don't know. She teaches the primary department at Sunday school in the same church."

I said, "Has your father or mother or your sister ever askd you to be a

Christian?

We stood under the electric light in front of the courthouse. It has been 19 years ago; and the tears rolled down his cheeks and he said to me, "Mr. Sunday, as long as I can re

member, my father nor my mother : v -v i tyv cictdi ViiT-n TiArA c n 1 A aa

. I r hTt ,hSrt hrnkin Mr my sister have never said one and helpless and that fire "had broken , word tQ m& h a christian

out ano ouriieu uu "I NDo you believe they think I am lost?" ! appease your hunger. You might as

"Well, what are you going to do about it?" I quoted him this verse: "He that believeth not is condemned already. He said: "Do you know what I would do if I believed that?" Continues Asking Questions.

"tt Hnocn't rut snv ice whether voil !

believe it or not, it is true." The fellow says: "I don't beUeve in heaven." I said: "Well, there Is one whether you believe in it or not." He said: "I don't believe in Jesus Christ." I said: "He is the Son of God, whether you believe it or not; and please remember, whether you believe it or not, a fact remains a fact whether you have got the sense enough to believe it or

not." j He said: j "I don't believe the Bible is the Word of God." I said to him: "Have you ever read it?" He said: "Well, no." I said: "Well, you simp, what right have you to say you don't believe it? What do you know about it, when you have never read it?" Somebody comes up to me and asks

if I like Irvin Cobb's last book. I

like everything Irvin ever wrote; he Is

a' cracker jack. I &ay: "No." He says: "Did you ever read it?" I say: "No." He says:

"Well, what business have you got saying that you don't like it if you never read it?" This man said: "Do you know what I'd do if I believed it?" I said: "No. I don't." "Why," he said, "I'd get down on my knees and ask you to pray for me."

Prayers Won't Save Soul. I said: "That wouldn't do you any good. If prayers would have saved you you'd have been saved long ago. You might as well ask me to eat for you when you are hungry. All the food I can

eat for you when you are hungry won t

into execution.

And whenever the sinner goes, he

or she, is condemned already. They

are wainting until they die., and eternal damnation, the sentence that has already been passed, will be carried into effect. Jesus Christ didn't come Into the world to condemn the world. The world was condemned before He was born in the manger. He came to open

up a plan of salvation, to save the world. He didn't come to condemn it. He came to save it, and that is His mission on earth. "No man cared for my soul" they failed to realize that without Jesus Christ they are lost. You think that people don't care to talk about it. I know there are a few people that don't. But, where you find one fool enough that wouldn't, you find a 100 that would. Then let the one go to the devil and get the 99 for Jesus Christ. They are in a sad minority and I don't

consider that it is worthy of attention, my friends, they do not care to talk. I preached in a town out in Iowa and there was a man, an Infidel, a very rich man who owned thousands of acres of very rich land which came

up to the corporate limits of the town. He had a good, godly woman for a wife and yet his sneering unbelief had almost broken her heart. She hung her head down, she withdrew from society, because her husband was a member of an infidel club; and whatever religion that ever went beneath that roof, she took it in. It is a disgrace, if your children ever walked the streets of heaven, it will be because some stranger was better to them than you were, and so what religion was ever taken across the threshhold.

the wife many times take it, and alii

tne cusseaness that ever dragged over the threshhold, and all the iniquity, is dragged over by the husband. So he got to thinking about it, and he got up one morning early, finished the chores, put the saddle on the horse and without telling anybody went to town. He went around to the Methodist church, intending that if anybody ask him, he would take his stand and join the church. He went in and they looked as though thev

j thought the roof would fall. They

he wrote "Saint's Rest.

And Philip Godridge read "Saint's Rest," and that led to his conversion and he wrote "The Rise and Progress of Religion."

And Canon Wilberforce read God-

body out of money, go give it back,, to pray. She forgot who she was or for God won't save your guilty old soul where, and I could see scores of peo-' when you've got money in the bank i pie wiping their eyes. j . that belongs to somebody else. Not' That night when we got home we , on your life! You bet your boots he had a little lunch and I never menwon't. Jtioned it, never said'boo to her. And

Restitution! Obedience and blessing Jtne net night I saw her get up and

auu vduuu iluuuuito irou I i . . ... , . , . ..T,. t .wallr huriH in hstiH and If vnn wantlfeO tO tne rear Of the church, sneak

rmges itise anu progress 01 ne- ---- ---- : - j f to kirt . . ,,-: . '

Kiuu 10 uiess you, men ooey anu ijrou . r nu5u-ucgu uuug i-

ligion" and that led to his conversion,

and he wrote "The Practical Views of Christianity." Book Converts Dr. Chalmers. And Dr. Chalmers read "The Practical Views of Christianity," and that led to his conversion. He wrote "The Expulsive Power of a New Affection," and he got the idea riding on a stage coach across the Rocky mountains by the side of the driver. . He noticed when they came to a certain point on the road that the driver whipped the

off lead mule furiously, although he was pulling. He said: "Why did you do that That mule wasn't balking, he was working hard." The driver said: "That mule always gets freightened at a certain projection, and I'm afraid he'll plunge

and pull this coach down two thousand feet in the canyon, and if I hit him good and hard just before we get there, he forgets about it and goes by."

Dr. Chalmers caught the idea of

the expulsive power of a new affection. Get some good in and drive the other out. That's what God Is trying to do for the world that's just the opposite of what the devil Is

trying to do. You ought to put some-

low that Stood leanins- nn nsrainst the

radiator, and I knew it wasn't one of her bunch; I never said boo to. her. But I noticed it. and the next night I saw her get up and rubber and eo

A mil n d anA ftA . T r t

guide. There's no salvation in hell fov? hrn7 .11 I ta th hQo ra low' ant bring him to the front That

will bless you in proportion to your

obedience every time. The Bible is your only guide, not the opinions and theories and deductions of men. The Bible is your only

and the man who preaches future pro

bation is preaching an infernal lie.

was the first soul Rhe had

i saw ner start out, and she'd go

There are lots of infernal lies being downtown, jro intn hiiiiavH n,

preached from orthodox pulpits today j law offices, in the banks, the stores, al over this country blind leaders of -and I have seen eight young men the blind. Jesus Christ says they will i come home with her at nnnn from

school, talking religion. I have seen

both go into the pit. There is no salvation in hell. If man is going to have a chance to repent after he's through preaching, by jinks, I'll quit and go home. He's not going to worry me any longer. What's the use of killing myself, if that's the case? What's the use of building tabernacles and churches if a man's going to have a chance? 'On what grounds . do you argue that a man has a chance after he dies that he would not do in the

next world what the old

would not do in

seven or eight standing out in front ot the house in the snow waiting for her to come out, to talk religion, and she won every member of that highschool to Christ but three. If she had had her way, she would not have done a thing! Tells Another Personal Experience One more: I was in a t. na

time in Iowa, being entertained in the

! scoundrel home of a i'TnVrr.T.t.S

this world? I'm er for that nt 7 ""JT" M

going to preach on that sometime no had a brilliant wife cw

thing good into drive the bad out, and; adamant

second chance,

Some Seed Will Be Wasted Listen! Some seed will fall on stony ground. The hearts of some men and women are just like that street out there, and you might as

well sow seed on Broadway and expect it to grow their hearts are like

were having class meeting and the leader of the class had a wooden leg, and he was walking about but they never said "Boo!" to him. He got up and out of there and swore he'd never darken the church, my friends, again. Finally Gives Heart

'To God.

He would wait until Sunday morning whenever he. was Dlouehine his

field, and he would plough the strip on Sunday morning down near the

road where all the people were going

to cnurcn, just to show his enmity. Whenever he planted the fields, he

wouia piant all the rest and then lit would plant the strip down by the road on Sunday morning. Whenever he went to cut the oats or the wheat or husk the corn, he'd always wait for Sunday morning and then cut that strip down next to the road. He came down to a meeting one night. He gave his heart to God. He said to me, "Bill, I have lived 11 years in sin that I wouldn't have lived if they had asked me, for I went there knowing that I was wrong, intending to do it."

God is putting something good in you

to drive the bad out. The devil wants

to put disease in and God wants to drive it out; the devil wants to set your house on fire, the Lord will put the fire out. That's the whole thinq. God wants to do people good. I can't understand why you've got to wear your life out to get people to be decent! It's no compliment to humaninty! I don't know why I have to work

so hard to get people to see it's for

Some will fall

t siuiy. mis woman I'm talking about was a Congregationalist and she was a brilliant woman. She started a little literary society that developed in the country. I said to her one day Vell, Mrs. L.. the Lord's going to do great things throug you." "Oh," she said. "I'm nnt min

I do Dersonnl n-nrt

among thorns; there! ,., .

will be fair success, it will spring up

Why not?" I asked.

and grow, but it will be-choked. Somei Sne said, "You know, we Concre-

people will run well for a wHile. but ! gationalists don't bplievo in that

people will say, "Will they hold out?'

ino! Tney never did! They never did! They never did! Well, don't forget that the new converts will be just as good as you old ones you old mossbacks. Then some seed will produce thirty, some sixty, some a hundred-fold. Oh, my! When I look around about me

your own good; I'm not working for j and I see young men and young wo-

my own good. I'm saved. If I were selfish I'd fold my arms and say "You can go to the devil; I'm all right." But I'm not going to do that. I want you to have what I've got I'm working for your good, and trying to give you the best there is. We all want the best, so we are looking for it and

men with their characters forming.

when I look at the influences of hell to drag them away from God Almighty and realize that they are going to become the fathers and the mothers of the next generation I am no pessimist, but God have mercy on the gen

eration that's going to-come when our

we can have it through Jesus Christ.. boys and girls are going to the devil,

GREENVILLE

(Continued from preceding page)

violence at the audience. "The old

glass arm can still throw some," he annnnnppH "anH .v.n, r .1,1 j -

those Jews that threw cto ui'they take them

make a lot of them use the hearse

and ambulance

Now there are five classes, and

they will touch every man and woman in this city, America, or the world. Five Classes

Are Described. First, those who cannot attend church. Some have to work in hotels, restaurants, in your home, on the railroads, steamships, certain institutions that have to keep going on the Sabbath the rame as any other

1 day. We have to eat just the same

on the Sabbath. People who cannot attend church old. decrepit. In the hospital, sick so we owe it that we take the gospeltake the gospel to those that cannot attend, church That's one kind. Second, those who can but do not. Oh, murder! It's a disgrace! I feel like hanging my head in shame to stand on a platform beneath the Stars and Stripes and tell you people we've aot seventy million In the

United States that are not in any church. Seventy million! We're n Christian nation at that! Those who can atend church but do not. There are multitudes that never darken a church door; the only time they are

ever in there is when tney die ana

n tor Tuncrai, or

i have to go around there as a pail-

i beprer.

I said, "The Lord does." ,r"lVei?'" she sald "That's for the Methodists and Salvation Army?" I said, "Show me where God Almighty lets you Congregatibnalists all sit around like a knot on a log andi expect somebody else to do your':'

worK. "Wei, it."

your

she said. "I have never done

and yet their minds are pliable and 'of her soul. He

I said. "Well, that may be true. Then you've never. done God's work until you do it." She'd been in the Congregationalist church for 27 years; she'd walked in and repeated the Lord's prayer; she'd sing "Jesus Lover of Mv Soul."

and it was a lie Jesus was no lover

susceptible to gospel influence if we

will do something for Jesus Christ! Then, if you will allow me to make a suggestion, I am through: Be courteous, be natural. People are natural everywhere else, seemingly, but in the church. I don't like to see a preaevher that has a mannerism for the pulpit and another for the street. When a preacher goes down to buy

groceries, he doesn t go in and say

was a formal ac

quaintance she bowed to when she went into her pew. That's all. Persists Nagging to Get Results I finally kept nagging at her till she promised me she'd go out and speak to people about Christ, and I watched her as I preached and I could see her turn pale and fan herself

She was thinking about the promise

Ynn mav rv ma o hunMi : sne a made. I knew it was smim tr

uttiu, auu 1 saw ner get up when I asked, "Go out and speak to your friends and neighbors and strangers," and I saw her go back and speak to a fellow who sat on the end of the seat He shook his head and it

iher. She wrjked back and sat flown.

She thought she was going to die of palpitation of the heart and nrettv

soon she got up the courage to try

ery, a pound 6f coffee, and send it up.

if you please." (In a very pompous tone with many airs.) Now, I'm perfectly natural. Everybody Can Find Work to Do There is work that everybody can do. Invite the unsaved to come to the tabernacle. Pray with them in private. Pray for them in private.

Speak about the meetings; don't knock

-any devil can do that Write let- ItTZS 8T'. tl

ux.it UL UC1 iidllU UI1 his arm and spoke to him, and he recognized her. He felt honored to think that a rich, brilliant society woman would take an interest in his soul, a kind of a routrhnpf-ir 1 c.w

'And I throw stones at these

Third, those who can attend

church and do pnd are not moved by

ters. Call them up on the phone. Let

them know you are 'interested in them and that you want them to receive a blesing. There are forces at work that defeat you: First, timidity. "I never tried to speak to anybody." Well you can never begin any younger. I was preaching in Iowa and there was a woman there whose husband was an elder in the church the Presbyterian church and she was one of

Z tJL . Q , tne Chnst' the preaching . Some people come out; those weak, timid, retiring little bodies and throw stones of criticism at h m." i .e pr. B' . V"' x .v, at

Ik. chnnto lot curiosity.. 1 aon t Know, ptrnay?, i uicxnuci .l hkioij

I can see his sad face and I can

hear the tones of his voice ring

citv. we ran our hands into our pock

ets ud to our elbows and a stream of

gold iiowroio through my ears. Certainly he had a

neany ?iu,uuu.uw naa right to pick up the words of my text Biinnlv the DeoDle with food and' , u:. , '

clothing and the necessities of life, who had thus been so rudely driven

out and their homes wrecked and covered with incinerated ashes.

And when the earthquake shook

and look his own parent square in

the face and say to them, "You don't care about my soul, whether I am saved or lost." Perhaps the text needs a little ex

planation before I go any further.

Suiting his actions to his words.

Sunday commenced firing again at

the audience.

teeth,

You're a liar.'

hissing between hi?

I you may be here for that purpose

! this afternoon. Somebody ha vomited

a lie into your ears. All right, if you!

society. I said to her, "Mrs. R., why don't you go out and try to get those women for God?" I said, "There's

of women I've

l lf . - ' .1 n r, r ri I TIM NI),','11!MVT 1111 T) I ' 1 1

1 - , , . ,. TT . , , ! Pr a lie tlllU CUUIC ni uuuu nini ' oure a liar, Here s another. - I .,tn tWV . r,M T ,wt ever seen."

11 V Cl 1 U1C nui ii, ...- ' 1 . . , ,

-rTr . , , - , . i o-iva a ni fa vi i n h Tvnv von ara llf 1 t

wun tne sudden closing of his ser-ir. , ' Mcn.,.'fnp , iv,! i but oh. Kee! You have seen the neo

"I don't mean they were immoral

it oh. gee! You hav

pie that had a little money and a

x.. -uuuj uug lino a prayer, in! hprp than t woud have if

wim.u ne prayta inat tne railroad , ' J5J, T, ai T,ri little social nosition in a little rube

VUU U1U1I L LUNir. 1 l uucau t, i " difference what brought you here. jtown? If you have, you know what I Fourth, those who can attend i mean, church and do and they are con- I said: "There's the speediest victrd but they are not converted, bunch of women that I have ever Thprp' isn't a man or woman that seen. You are the only professing

men might come and give him their

hand in token of their pledge to follow Christ. Delegation Follows. On the call for trail hitters. Mrs. A. H. Backus lead her entire Sunday school class forward, and in a short time almost the entire Greenville delegation began to march in single file forward to shake Billys hand. Over 900 persons took seats as

won't go out of here with a new idea of God and a new hatred of sin. The spirit of God will convict you, but you need something you haven't erot.

that can attend cnurcn

Italy, the United btates was tne nrst;You may tnink you are unworthy, and to load vessels to the waters edgejit may be true and that ig the first and send them with provisions andjtnoUint toward getting worthy with clothing and tents and lumber toGod Almighty, to realize that vou are build temporary homes in order to, unworthy. You know people estimate house those whose homes had been j reiigion by what they see in the lives destroyed by the forces of nature, j of those who profess to be Christians. It made you feel proud and chesty j your life may be far from what it that you lived beneath the Stars and should be, but your life, my friend, Is Stripes and that we were always the j what you want it to be, for I believe first to respond when people are in God Almighty gives you every incen-

tlanger and need. . tive in order to change it, to have it

A friend of mine told me that years

ago he sat in the old Russel house in Detroit, Mich., where the Pontchartrain hotel now stand3, and while he sat eating his dinner the fire alarm sounded and soon 4-1 sounded, which summoned all the apparatus except the reserves. He said' that h?

the way God wants it to be.

You know a sermon given to an audience will do its work. God says: "Mv words shall not return unto Me void." Mo Sermon Ever is Wasted

Nobody ever preached a truth to an

God said: "It will not return to Me

void," but if this world is ever to be won to Jesus Christ it will not be done by an unpaid clergy or minis-

hurriedlv completed his meal and ! audience, my friend, that was wasted.

then followed the people and the machines down the street, and they stopped in front of a building nine stories hiEh. which was reputed to be

fireproof, and the fire broke out in j try, and if any preacher or evangelist

he ninth story. tninKs mat nis preacning is going to The people stood on the inside un- win the world, God Almighty will call til the flames drove them out, and j on another Martin Luther to start anthey raised the windows and stood; other reformation and bring the old on the outsiue until the flames shot! world on her knees in repentance, out and then they stood with their And perhaps there are those of you hands where their feet had been, on who will use in the present tense the window below, until the flames what David used in the past and say, shot out and burned this hold loose: ..No man cares for my soul." and then they toppled and fell and! Let's not betray Jesus Christ with struck tbe ground and 17 of them, a fui,ty 6'lence another minute, were crushed. How do you influence the men and

wuineii iimay luai yuu iuu cjuuivs mm I in the home ,the office, the store,

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well ask me to drink water for you when you are thirsty." If my prayers listen to me if my prayers could save this city, there wouldn't be a sinner see the sun rise

tomorrow, for they would all be saved

if my prayers could save them.

And he said to me: "Wouldn't you pray for me?" I said: "Yes, but f you didn't pray for yourself, my prayers wouldn't save you." I said:

"Have you got a mother alive? 1

He said: "Yes." I said: "Is she a Christian?" "Yes." I said: 'Tf prayers would have saved you old man, j'ou would have been saved long ago, and you are 39 years old. Your mother's prayers haven't saved yon. Why? Because you haven't been man enough to pray for yourself." He said: "I would pray for myself." "I said, "All right. I have prayed for you, and your mother's prayers, if thev could have saved you long ago." He said, "Another thing, I own 160 acres of land out here and it is all underlaid with coal."

I was in the bituminous coal field

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that the secretaries

Christian that they will associate with

and it's up to you to win them for Christ." She commenced to boo-hoo and I said: "Drops o grief can ne'er repay the debt of love you owe. Let's get

! down and pray about it," and we did

Fifth- those

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were

of them. Counting the number who! c rnr ninc -i -1 T- Guns?! A '

.ne crowd that the secretaries , "' ; . strenEtheni nK and they need; brouSht eleven out of the fifteen to able to get cards only from 315 ?,r hrfn strenglnenmg aDQ . y ne Q Christ Those women are leaders tom. Counting the numher vuhn Jour ueiy. , . . uti .. r.j ,j ui.

slipped out to the side without taking

seats as "trail hitters" more than 1,000 came forward.

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will tnurh every man and uay in mat nine town ior uoq ana rut

woman on eartn tnose live classes

and everywhere. Finds Classes Everywhere. Ask me where you can find them and I will tell you there is just one place where you can't find tnem and that's out in the cemetery. You needn't go to the graveyard, they've

had their chance. Forget it! That's

done for the Lord in missionary work it would stagger you that little community out in Iowa that's so rich thej don't know which way to look. If she had had her way she'd have done nothing. Tells Personal Experience I went to town once to preach and I was entertained at the home of &

both

nifrht lust in srpt a thnucrnt nr t-rUiL l,r rr-o vnn fan rn where von Very rich man With tWO Children

and frame it into a sentence, and don't need to bother about anybody. 1 8"wn; and the girl was the bnghtes.

him reach up and wipe his eyes with his sleeve (he didn't have any handkerchief) and wipe his nose with his hand.' He commenced to cry and he followed her down the aisle. That J was the first soul she had ever won for Jesus Christ the first one. On the way home we saw a man leaning up against a lamp-post, rocking back and forth. This woman was a cousin of Marshall Field in Chi

cago, bne had a carte blanche whenever she went to the store. She dressed fine in silks and diamonds and we saw this fellow leaning under the lamp-post. She said, "There's a fellow drunk." She took a look at him and said, "That's the husband of the woman that's done my washing for eight years." I said, "Have you ever talked " to him about Christ?" "Never did." "Wei, here's a good chance." "On the street?" "Sure." She said, "He's come to my home every Monday morning with a little wagon and took away my soiled linen and brought it back on Friday, and I've paid him and he has taken the

money and drank it up." Prays for v Unfortunate Man He had staggered up to her door for eight' years. She had had her name on the Congregationalist church records all this time and had never said a word to this man. "Let's talk to him." She put one arm o I his shoulder and told him who she was and he burst into tears, and she got down on her knees with her silk skirts and prayed for that fellow. He gave his heart to Christ I have been back to

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Reynolds would sit with a pencil in! where vou can't find anybody you i ner age i nave ever seen, s e was Iunm Hf .." . '5!ar- He

his hand for thirty-six hours and re-! need to worry about. They've had

fuse food and sleep just in order to ! their day. their history is written, write an ode. you read in two or three: the books are closed for them; they've

minutes. And Carey translated the Bible so that three hundred million people can read it that couldn't read

had their chance. You will find them in your home.

the man you'll go home and get sup-

it before. And Wesley used to travel; per ready for, the man who is the

five and seven thousand miles a year

on horseback and do most of his studying and a great deal of his resting in that way. Peter Cartwright, the itinerant Methodist preacher of Illinois his circuit was from Cairo

i down at the south to Galena on the

north, and he used to swim his horse five and ten times a day. He'd come

to a stream, undress

Show Interest for

Unfortunate Ones

- sutieiy, or me lunge ui ftiincvci ;uu Why, business was supended. D. g0 for pieasure or ln the pursuit of r rum- the seed man. eave $5.000. 1 vour callinir to earn vnnr bread bv the

M. Ferry, the seed man, gave ?s,uuu, i your calling to earn your oread Dy tne

and in a litle while sent a check forweat of your brow? Would it be poso 000 more ?nd before you sould.sible for them to stand before God in hardly turn around some $50,000 had; the day of judgment and say, "Oh, I pou'-e'd in to supply the people with j worked for you in your store. I the 'necessaries and comforts of life, i clerked with you in your factory. I who had thus hurt their loved ones ; went with you in your delegation to torn from them. i,ne tabernacle. You paid me my Great concern was manifest for peo- wages, I worked for you in your home, pi in times of physical distress. Let I drove your car, I waited on you wheu

and he said, "They have prospected J on his back, swim his horse across,

and found a vein in there 16 feet deep and another one three feet. I could sell the coal privileges on the land at f 150 an acre and that would be enough to take care of me and my wife and two daughters, and I'd ko up and down the street corners, and on dry goods

boxes and in halls that I'd rent, and

I'd plead and I'd beg and beseech of people to be reconciled to Jesus Christ if I only believed they were lost." I was asked one time to go into the Cook county jail in Chicago and speak to the prisoners. I noticed a fellow walking nervously up and down. Several men were walking by the side of him; and I said. "Who is that fellow?" They said, "That is Pierce, the wife murderer. They are giving him a little exercise out in the lobby. He is going to be hanged Friday morning at 10:30." I looked at him condemned already. He was waiting for Friday morning,

father of your child or your children

the man whose muscle earns the money that buys your clothes and pays the bouse reflt Look into his face; perhaps if he'd die he'd be in hell before midnight. Where will you find them?- Ask if your boy, your girl who comes home from school, your neighbors how

tie his clothes many people that live in the block

that you live in are Christians and brins: them to Jesus Christ. And down

dress and ride on, preaching tbe gos

pel to the people on the prairies of Illinois, and if overtaken by night

he d "Sleep out with the coyotes howling around

build a fire, for it is known that wild i waits on you down at the store?

animals fear fire. That's what men How many of yon have asked the tele-

at your place of business how many of , Methodist Sunday school." I said, "I

are con-

some-

0, - 1 - u ," " Methodist Sunday school." I sau i by night i you ever ask the people around you should hope you are, but if you wolves and,, f they are Christian? How many of Juat a church member you'll get him He'd you ever say anything to the girl who verted first and then yoini do s,

did to preach the gospel of Jesus

Christ. Now you won t walk across the street to help somebody to God. With all our means of conveyance automobiles and trolley cars and subways and elevateds, we are so lazy letting the world go to hell that we are doing nothing, seemingly, to save it Lyman Beecher heard John Newton. That led him to his conversion: and ,then Scott heard Newton preach, and that led to his conversion. One day a peddler came up to a man's home and sold him a book; it was a religious book. He had a boy, and he read that book and that book led to that boys' conversion. That

rhone girl when you call her up if she has been to the tabernacle? Do you ever say anything to the delivery boy? The newsboy that drops the paper on your doorstep? Where are they? Everywhere except the church people that need somebody to help them to Jesus Christ. Important facts. First, outside of Jesus Christ there is no salvation." All have sinned. Today ,if you will hear His voice, none are cast out who come and none are saved unless they are born again by the spirit of God. Faith saves you, not feeling. And repentance and retribution are necessary. If you have swindle and beaten some-

22 years old and had graduated from J owns his home, paid thirty-five hun- a Northwestern university and a.ie was ' dred dollars for it; he's got It paid principle of the high school. She was I for; he told me he had sixteen hun

dred dollars .in the bank. She won him to Jesus. Oh, I've seen her gather up her skirts, step over the back of seats like that to get in the middle to talk to somebody about Jesus Christ. She went home to heaven not long ago. She spent her winters out in California, in Pasadena. I was out there and the phone rang I was at Los Angeles, at the Hotel Alexander I was at the Alexander hotel when the phone rang and she said, "I'm going to send the car over for you. I want you to come over to lunch in Pasadena." So we went over and when we got through she said, "I've invited some friends to come into the parlor and

I want you to talk to them about Jesus. I stepped in, and I did, and there sat the governors from three states; there sat college presidents and professors; there sat brilliant men and women and wealthy she used her influence and got them into the the

parlor and asked me to talk religion

snappy as a steel trap, and I said to her

one day: "Harriet, God's going to do great things through you." She said to me: "I'm not going to do personal work." I said: "Don't you tell God what

! you'll do or what you won't do. You

will do what God wants you to do. All you can do is to make a proposition and tell Him what you'll do." She said, "I won't do that." 1 said, "If you are a Christian, you will. She said, "I should hope I am a Christian."

I said, "I should hope you are, too.

thin

She Was Game i-r Crisis I could see her chest bulge and her neck swell, and she said: "I'm not

going to speak to anybody." So I let it run along for a few days. One night I was preaching and I said: "Harriet, will you please lead in prayer?" - Oh, she sat there stiff as a poker and cold as a dog's nose. I saw her muscles and neck bulge over and turn white, and she gasped. And I said: "Harriet, will you please lead in prayer?" She was game. I asked her seven times. I didn't know whether shed call me or aot, but finally she got up, dropped on her knees and began

of Jesus Christ to them.

Comebody said to her, "Won't you come and join our bridge party?" She said, "No, I'm too aristocratic to play cards."

She was one of God's aristocrats. Lincoln said, "Stay with any man as long as he is right; part company with him when he is wrong." Therefore, you speak the right word ' ' and you do the right deed at the right time, and you'll make it easier for the one next to you in this littlo world in which we live.