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CHRISTIAN RELIGION HOLDS OUT ETERNAL HOPE FOR MEN AND WOMEN WHO BELIEVE IT

Preaching on "Hope" for his first afternoon sermon. Rev. William A. Sunday spoke as follows on Sunday afternoon: Every suicide who takes his oim life, is doing it not because he "wants to die, but in hopes that he might escape something here on earth. He has been : battered by the storms of lif; he has had troubles that are too much for him, and he has lost the hope that In this life he will be able to gain the things that ho desires. I have a real sympathy for .the euicide, he has gone to his death In hope that there 'will be something better for him in the world that is to come. But suicide, or not, there is groping . for something that cannot be found. Ingersoll, the great atheist, called to Washington to preach his brother's sermon, paused la the midst of it, with the- tears, streaming down his cheeks and, cried, out,. "Life is a short , way between two dark and bleak extremities, we cry out in our distress, hoping to hear the sound of a voice and the swish of a wing." Sees Hope !n Hereafter. Iron Quill, writing of the washerwoman, and her faith says that she has something In her heart that he has not, that something that will carry her over her troublesome path. He realizes, unbeliever that he is, that there is a power that can take man, and rescue him. - Every wretch condemned to die still tries to hold on to something which to connect his life, it is a trait of human life that cannot be erased, the hope that there is an eternity. Scott, on hi3 deathbed, asked his son-in-law, Lockheart, to bring the book. "What book?"1 "The Bible," he said. There 13 only the one hope that cheers us when life's hours are darkened, the hope that the Bible holds for for us. , ,,, , Heart Wants Rest .. -Beyond Grave. . , .,. There is a craving of rest on the part of , tho human heart It wants rest, peace, life. And it has a hope that it will find those things, though it searches through the high places and the low. The hearse backs up in front of each home, rich or poor. It is as im- . parial to the home of the wealthy man, as it i3 to the tramp that comes to your back, door panhandling for a handout. . - Senator Clark'3 daughter lay 111, after the birth of her first child, and Hontor Clark felt so honored that he f.ent a check for a million dollars to the youngster. . . But blocd poisoning set In on the mother, and the doctors reported that rfic could not live. Taking from his pocket the. check her husband gave it to the doctors. Save her and it is youM." But. they shook their heads. "Save her and a copper' mine shall he deeded over to'you," but she was beyond mortal help, and in the other room the lamp of life flickered and tvent out. Had Only One 1 I u li t 1 1

All of the money or the Clarks could ; meat, not save her, all of the medical skill! That poor woman waa Lady HamllIhat could be brought to her bedside, ton, dying alone and' forsaken In a was of no avail, and she died. .She pauper's room in France. She only

had but the one hope left, the hope that every man ha3, the hope of an eternal life. j You cannot tell of the love of God. Picture if you can your love for your wife. Try to put it into words that will express your feelings towards her. There are not words enough In tho human language to express "uch a feeling, and tell what you mean, and yets it is there, - In a prayer meeting once, an old saint who had lived for 60 years on this earth, was ealled upon to say what God had dona tor him. Rising to his feet, the old man said, "It is not for me to tell in my whole life, what God does and can do for me in a single day.", . .. Wo Cannot Recount All Blessings. The things about you, the crops, the corn, the fields, the growing things, are examples of God's good ness to us. Out on the street ' on Christmas night some people saw a boy, leading a blind girl by the hand, past the shop windows. ""' "What axe you doing out here," they asked. - "Mother could not buy us any presents," they said. And the brother had taken his sister out on the night to teirher what -was in the windows. That was to be their Christmas. Taking the children into the stores they loaded up their arms with all of the good things that they could find, and took them back to the hovel where they lied, to enjoy them. In their small minds, they groped for the words with which to express their thanks, for the things that they could not understand, and could say nothing. " We Refuse to Thank God. And yet we refuse to render thanks to God for the things that he has done for us. For all of the beauties of nature, for the clothes we wear, for the food we eat, and for the blessings that come to U3, in a country that has never known a day of starvation, that has always had crops, and great riches. - You are a dead one if you can't find anything in your life to be thankful to God for. The world is going crazy looking for rest for the soul. If we keep on at the present rate, every person in the country will be insane. We are acting like lunatics, anway, like we ' were looking for fruit beneath the snows of the Klondike. - What does satisfy the soul? Wealth does not satisfy. Give a, man a milion, and he wants two millions, give Sim two millions, and he wants 10 Millions, give him 10 millions and he aats the earth and then he is not latistied, still craving and hunting for nore. , 'eople Are Being Deceived. , , " .. , People are ducking at the spring of pleasure, only , to find that its satisJaction are a - mirage. Byron, who ;ouia flash sparks of intellectual fire '.hat would dazzle any of them, went .o Greece,- there with the Shellys and uher poets,, and he wrote that poem, 'Till again the golden goblet, I have Irunk it to the drags," while a newspaper reporter of New York, after the 'ulfilling of , every desire, writes, "I lave had my will,' and casts aside dfe as an empty thing, when he had Tied every pleasure there courd b9 irid had found them lacking in peace .o his soul. ,, Fame does not satisfy. You elect a ....tovu and hp, wants to be a jheriff. Elect him a sheriff, and he

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wants to be a congressman, elect him a congressman and he wants to be governor. A governor ana ne wants to be a member of the cabinet, and then he wants to be president. Presi dent once and he wants to be again, and he can be for all that t care. Career of Lord Clive. Lord Cllve did not find that fame satisfied. "Come home at once, England is at your feet," wroe his father to Clive when he had finished the conquest of India, and home he came to England. They elevated him to the peerage, and parliament gave bim an annuity,, and gave him an old castle that had come down from feudal days. Whenever he appeared on the street, business was suspended, and the crowds stood about and cheered, and clapped. No social gathering was complete without his presence, and he went everywhere. One day, going to the garret of hi3 house, he sent a bullet crashing through his brain, to die a suicide, In the midst of fame and glory. He needed more than those things, he needed a hope in Jesus Christ, a hope that can save. Man cannot be satisfied with appearances. Now don't get me that a man should go around dressed like a , hedgehog, not at alL I like to see a some people dresB just for the compli ments of some empty-headed buck that is called a man merely because he wears pants. Describes Most Useless Woman. The most useless woman on the face of the earth Is the mere society woman that lives for nothing but society and cards and dancing. Lady Hamilton was once the height of fashion. To be said to resemble Lady Hamilton was the greatest of compliments. She almost wrecked three dynasties with her beauty. Men craved the pleasure of merely touching the hem of her garment. Her smile meant success, her frown failure and defeat. But soon the iron hoofs of satan's train cut tell-tale marks in her face. Her brain and heart became catacombs where the serpents of vice and the bats of dissipation lived. Men forsook her, and scorned her and she lost her Influence that had come to her as a tribute to her beauty. One day in Calais, a woman in a butcher shop was buying a piece of meat that she was1 going to take home and cook for her dog. And the owner of the shop said, "You look like a kind-hearted woman that would buy a piece of meat for a woman that is dying of hunger. There Is a woman upstairs that needs it." Gives Meat to Dying Woman. And the woman gave the piece of meat that she had bought for her dog. (that the other woman lying on a few i sticks and trash In the corner of a ' tnnm onA HiMn cr similrl! Iigva cm& had) her beauty, but that did not satisfy her, nor save her. She did not have hope in Jesus' Christ. They have found a new piart. Scientists have long told us that there was another planet, but they did. not have a telescope that was strong enough to find it They have invented one, and! they have found It, big enough to put all of the rest of the world'9 inside of it, and still have room to spare. But with my Bible I can see heyond i all, and see the future. I can see the promises that God has given me, and the salvation that will be mine through Jesus Christ, my Savior. Schiller, when a boy, once stood In the door of his home and cried, "Mother, mother, 6ee that mountain, it is right up against the sky. And when I am a big boy I shall climb up It and when God opens the door to take in the stars, I shall peek and see the angels and come back and tell you all about it." When Schiller grew up, he climbed the mountain, and! when he reached the top, his clothing torn, and his knees bloody from their contact with the rocks, the sky waa still just as far beyond him, as it was when he was at the door step of his littleicottage. You Need Heaven's Hope. Wealth, fame, glory, honor, yon may have all these and' you are still lacking heaven, without the faith and the hope of Jesus. When you want any thing you go to a man who knows about those thines. When I want to know some thing about the law I go to a lawyer. I see the leweler about my watch, and I see the doctor when I am sick. Why then relect what a priest says about religion and believe what some whis ky soaked blaspheming saiooniteeping infidel says about religion. Geology will not teach you of the pearl of the great price, biology will not tell you of salvation, and astronomy will not tell you of the star of Bethlehem. You go to the authorities on those subjects to find out what vou want to know. And that is the Bible. Now I know that the devil didn't

have anything to do with my cominglyou are a creature of God God ere

here, although he has tried to stop me. But I know one-thing he hasn't had anything to do with the, sermons that I preached here. There is a little spider that winds a web about itself, and then lets itself down in the pools where it feed3 on the bottom of the pond. When it has had sufficient, it will, come to the surface, crawl out . from under the cover, and if you examine it carefully, you will find under a microscope that not a drop of water has touched its body, and that it is as dry as when It went down into the pool. Shows Power Of God. That shows the power of God. He can not only save you from, sin, but he can keep you from sin, the sin that surrounds you all of the time. If it were not for God and his saving grace, you would never be able to resist sin, and your life would be blotted out. But God can save, if you will let him, and your faith can save you. A life of faith is a life of useful-

ness. I would rather be here and4before you will ever have the exper-

preach Jesus Christ, than sit on a throne wearing the blood stained badges of military glory. Religion is not a matter of fee)ing. I am Mrs. Sunday's husband no mat ter how I feel. It, doesn't make any j difference how I feel. If I am on the

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wrong train, I am not going to reach! my destination. You may feel near to heaven, when as a matter of fact you are almost to Hell. But believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. Wants To Ask Many Questions. There are a lot of questions that I 'am going iu . mo uuru wueu i gei I to heaven, and one of them is why you did not come down in front here In Richmond. We Bhall understand all things then, but now we do not understand, because -we are in the flesh, and there are some things that God does not want us to know. And then some people come stom ach-aching around about it. The7 called it another name when I was a youngster. And I don't know but that I like the other name best. The Bible was not written to teach science, or history, or any thing like that. You study other books for those things, but the Bible was written to teach you that Christ was the,

Son of God. If I came up here with I friends, we have advanced in everyfeet through my arm holes in inviting undr heaven except in morals.

coat, and my arm3 down my pants jwe have advanced intellectually and legs, you would have said that I was! physically; we have been born again

a nut. Then use the Bible for the things that it was written for. Once when I was out in Iowa my Insurance agent wrote that my insurance dues of $212 were due. I wired back that I did not have the money, for him to pay them, and that I would pay him when I reach Chicago. Ho wired back, "All set." When I got to Chicazo I asked at the ofrice for my receipt, saying that my friend had paid it for me. They said I had lots of faith in my friend, letting him do that, when not paying would mean the loss of all that had gone in before hand, but I had faith in my friend. Has Faith in God's Word. Now if I would have faith in an insurance agent, I think that you should have faith in God. I haven't anv sym pathy for the man that will believe anything that a horse jockey will tell him and then will not believe the Bible. God has done three thlnes for me. He has done hundreds of things for me, out there are three that stand out. First he has made me,. a happier man, second he has made me a better man, and third he has made me a more useful man. , I have preached to more than 50,000,000 people, I have taken nearly 1,000,000 men and women by the hand, since I started out on my evangelistic tours. TWENTY-THIRD (Continued from Preceding Page) for one hour a day and gaze upon those scenes which reminded him of the fact that he at one time had been a shepherd. He didn't want to lose touch and1 sympathy with the people; he didn't want to become exalted over the fact that he now had a crown The old ruler wanted to be reminded of the days when he used to wander and roam, bareheaded, my friends. It is a good thing! Sit down, if .you have got a spark of decency in you, and run back. See what a low-down, disreputable Godforsaken degenerate you would be if it wasn't for the gospel of Jesus Christ. And yet you sit there and sneer and say you have no use for the gospel. I say to you, the reason you aro as decent as you are, is due to the restraining influence of the gospel of Jesus Christ, although you may not be decent enough to admit it. Yet you are so low-down that you take all uoa win give you and live as cnnri i as you can, While you refuse to acknowledge allegiance to the one that makes you as decent as you are, and you act as though it were something inherent in you, and if you were left to yourseir, you'd go to the devil ko fast, they couldn't see you for dust. its a good thing. The bigeest as set to this city is not her great banks wnn ner millions, it is not your great stores, it is not, my friends, this wonderful marvel of the twentieth century the greatest asset to New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Boston, or any other city, is the gospel of Jesus Christ, for if you drive all the Christian people out of the city, your real estate wouldn't be worth twenty-five cents on the dollar by Christmas. There wouldn't be a decent man or woman living in a community where there was no Christianity, That's how much you are indebted to the very thing you damn and sneer at. You are so low-down, I wouldn't spit on you! Religion Does Great Things I tell you that It's a good thing! Sit down and see what you'd be if it Wasn't for religion; see how much you owe to Go. Now the position of it is significant it follows the twenty-second. It ha3 been called the Psalm of the Cross. You have got to first reach the place where you see Jesus dying on the cross for your sins, accept Him as your Savior, before you can ever say, or ever know, or have the experience that, "The Lord is my Shepherd." God is not the Shepherd of any that turn their back on Jesus Christ. I do not believe In the doctrine of the universal Fatherhood of God, and the universal brotherhood of man, which Is an infernal lie.. Spiritually, ated you. We all descended from Adam and Eve; but you are not a child of God unless you are born again by faith in Jesus Christ. "Ye are of your father, the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do, for he was a liar from the beginning," Oh, child of the devil, and full of all suffering! We are all children of God, through faith in Jesus Christ. If you have no faith in Jesus Christ, you are a cniid or the aevii. lou are a creature of God so is the cow that eats grass. No man is my spiritual brother, who denies Jesus Christ. He Is in the flesh; he is a human being so am I. But he is not my brother, and I will not call him that. When he repents and turns from his sin, then he is my spiritual brother, and if he doesn't repent, he isn't, no matter who he Is. Must See Christ Suffering. First, you have got to see Jesus hanging on the cross as your Saviour, lence of the 23rd psalm and it is fol lowed by the 24th: "Life up your heads O ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in." And if you want to walk through the gatesjp into the city, you have got

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to first come through faith in Jesus Christ. There, I accept Him as my Saviour. Here, I have the blessed experiences. There at last I will wear the crown when I am through with the world Th Tyrd Is mv Shenherd; T shall ! not want." The word 'Lord' is printed! in italics. That means Jehovah, God.! So greatly did the Jews respect and reverence God that the name "Jeho vah" was pronounced only once a year and that on the great day of Atone ment, and then only by the high priest after he had gone into the holy of t hoTies, screened and shielded by the blood of the sacrifice. Then ixhon alone in the holy of holies, the high priest would pronounce the name "Jehovah," and so wonderfully did the Jews of old reverence God, they would not step on a piece of parchment, lest the name "Jahovah" be written on the under side. Oh, with all our boasted civilization. all our searchlight, electric light, all our wonderful advancement, my and made over, except in morals. We need to be born again. Work Is Interesting. The work of th'e shepherd Is very interesting. From some high eminence he overlooks his flock, lest they wander and roam away. When I was a boy in Iowa, there was an old Scotchman' named Father Duff. He used to nave hundreds of sheep and he would sit on the hillside, and he used to light his old pipe by hitting two pieces of flint together, and from the spark he would light his pipe. He would sit there and smoke and doze and blink in the sun. His eyes were a little dim and he had a spy glass, and. he's pick it up and sweep the valley to see where the sheep were, and he's speak to his collie dog and say, "Sis, they're a little too far away; you'd better bring them back." And she'd bound to her feet and turn them all into the foothills. She'd come back panting, and he'd pat her head and say. Sis, you're a good girl." j And then he'd sit there and smoke and doze in the sun and he'd pick up his spy glass and say, "Sis, you'd better bring 'em back again, my girl." Away she would go and turn the mall into the foothills. From that eminence he overwatched them. Oh, I think God Almighty saw that this city was going away from Him, and I think the Lord saw that you were becoming dazed with your greatness and grandeur. And I believe God Almighty dropped this old tabernacle down here and sent this campaign as a sort of shepherd dog to turn the minds and thoughts and footsteps of the people back to the church, back to the cross, back to the Bible. Our Children Grow Up Wild. Our children grow up like wild asses' colts no family prayer in your home, no reading of the Bible; sit down and gulp down a meal like a hog drinking slop from a trough ; never mutter a word of gratitude; dazed by your wealth and blinded by your prosperity. God Almighty said, "I will have to do something, and I don't want to start a famine I will send Bill down there to preach and I don't want to turn off the water, but I will have to do something." I have been on the job here, helping the preachers in the churches, and my newspaper friends atid you folks, trying to help you. My! What a good crowd you are. Many a night I have watched old Father Duff come home and he would have in each arm a lamb. I never saw him coming home with an old ram or an old ewe. They could shuffle for themselves. But many and many a night I have seen him with two and sometimes three lambs in his arms carrying the mhonte. He was partic ularly solicitous for the weak and those that need help. Well, that's the way with the Lord. When you think you can get along without God, He lets you go, to show you what a fool you are. But He par ticularly helps the fellow that says, "I'd like to be a Christian, but I feel so weak." I had a friend one time who was preaching, and one day an old man came up to him and said, "Say, will you come up to my house to dinner?" My friend said, "Yes, I would . be glad to come." Invites First Stranger. He said, "I'd like to have you come. You are the first stranger that I have invited in seventeen years." He said, "I am not proud, I am not haughty nor arrogant, that's not it, but we have an imbecile son and we never thought it would be pleasant to have strangers, so mother and I have foregone the pleasure and delight it would have given us and given ourselves to the care of our boy. Something you said in your sermon led me to -conclude you wouldn't mind. Will you come?" My friend said, "I will." . The next day he was there. Dinner was announced and they led the boy in. He was 25 years old. They led him in and put a napkin around his neck and cut his food. He was almost helpless as a child. When the meal was finished, they stepped into the parlor and my friend said to the father: "Was your child born that way? Is it hereditary or" was it the result of affliction?" . "No, not a taint of insanity in any of the ancestors. He was as bright as any boy I have ever seen until he was a little over a year old, and he was afflicted with a malady of the brain, which left him in this comatose state and many a night we would go to bed, i thinking that when we got up in the morning he would be gone. He was so rick that mother and I despaired of his living." My friend said, "It does seem to me it would have been a blessing for God to have taken him away when he was young." Tears Roll Down Cheeks. The old man looked at my friend just a minute and the tears rolled down his cheeks, and blinded by them and shaking with grief, he walked over and said: "I know you didn't mean it, but you couldn't have said anything that hurt me worse than that I know he's an imbecile, and mother and I have said, if his mind would only come backhand stay long enough for him to put his arms around my neck and kiss me and say, 'Well, father, I am sorry for any trouble I have caused you, for the sleepless nights or expense, but I couldn't help it, I love you,' I would be perfectly willing for his mind to gu oacit, ana i a ieei repaid. Ana mother said, if he could just put his

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arms around her neck, we would feel repaid a thousand-fold, sir." Oh! If soma of you people were only decent enough to say to Jesus Christ, "I am sorry, Lord, that I have lived In sin and served the devil I am sorrv I ever did it." Jesus Christ would feel repaid a thousand-fold for a" the spittle that ever hit His face ,from that God-forsaken mob, or for all the rocks. Listen to me you needn't to talk you are throwing rocks at Jesus Christ every day you live without Jesus Christ, the same as the other crowd, And yu are taking your stand with the same crowd. He'd feel repaid a thousand-fold If you'd walk down this aisle and by that act say you are ready to do His wilL Ha maketh me to lie down In green pastures; He leadeth me beside the .still waters. Hungry sheep will not lie down. A hungry animal of any kind will not He down, and the fact that It does, is evidence of Its satisfaction and contentment. Tell Incident of Helen Hunt. I preached out in Colorado Springs, one of the prettiest towns on earth Colorado Springs. I preached out there. I think there are more things to see within the radius of the Pike's Peak region than any like section of the country, and I went nearly every place there. WelL there waa one place I did not go to that was out to the grave of Helen Hunt Jackson and I have always regretted it. I wanted to go up to where they had buried her, for this incident had always been a help to me. One day she was walking down the streets of Colorado Springs. It was a cold day in the fall and there were flurries of snow and gusts of rain coming from old Pike's Peak. She felt chilled, and she had on heavy wool garments, then her heavy outer dress and over that a gossamer, and she carried an umbrella, and even with all that clothing she felt herself chilled. She was going down the street and she turned the corner, and there in front of a window where there was a millinery display of ribbons of all colors, she saw a little girl about seven or eight years of age. On her arm hung a basket and In that basket were broken pieces of pie, cake, doughnuts and bread and meat, evi dences that she had been the recipient of the hand of charity at some res taurant or hotel, where they had given away the scraps after the meal. She had a fascinator on her head and she had on a calico dress, and she was barefooted and her lips were blue. Entirely heedless of the passersby, she was looking into the window and talking to herself, and she said: "I choose that color, and I choose that color, I choose that color, I choose that color." She turned and saw Miss Jackson, and she kind of shied bashfully away and Miss Jackson said to her: "Honey, don't you be afraid. Stay and look at the pretty things they are as much yours as mine." And she ropped a dollar Into her hand and turned and went away. She couldn't get the pictuore of that little girl out of her mind. She couldn't have gone over three blocks until she said to herself: "I'm going back and see if that little girl is still there." She peeked around the corner and there, standing in the water up to her ankles, stood the little girl, with the water dripping down from her fascinator and from her dress, heedless of the passersby, and every time she said it, she hit the window with her finger: "I choose that color, and 1 choose that color, and I choose that color." Goirrj To Heaven. "The Lord choose that Is my Shepherd" I I am going to heaven. You can go to hell, if you want to, but I hope you don't. I choose the Lord. I choose the pigments that, mixed up, make a life of peace and joy to serve the Lord. "He restoreth my soul; He leadeth me In the paths of righteousns3 for His name's sake." How often we need restitution. We get all run down and we need a tonic. We need toning up morally, the same as we do physically. We have schools to do that intellectually; we have gymnasiums to do it physically. The people that live In the country go to the city; the people that live in the mountain region go to the seashore, and vice versa; people that live down South come up north, and vice versa. We are as migratory as the birds. We are looking for some condition and locality which will be conducive to a higher and stronger physical condition, which we will enjoy. "He restoreth my soul." , We visit world famous sanitariums. You let a spring be discovered, no matter how remote, and the people will Journey from the farthest cor. ners of the earth, If It will only restore them to health, "He restoreth my soul." And how often we.need it, too. Adelaide Procter tells us that years and years and generations ago, outside the walls of Paris a battle was waged and soldiers fell. One of the soldiers there, when they nursed him to health and strength, became infatuatd with one of the Sisters of Charity and they eloped. For a time he supported her and then he went away from her. Girl Returns To Convent. The Sister Superior, In addition to her-own duties, carried on the duties of this one. She knew, but she never revealed the fact that this girl had wandered away in sin. After a while, sick and disgusted, and loathing iniquity, the girl crept back upon the steps of the convent They opened the door and found the bundle of rags there. They nursed her back to health and strength and she was given back her old position and authority, and none ever knew that she had wandered and roamed and at one time had been in the quagmires of sin. "He restoreth my sould." ThrouQh Jesus Christ I get back the position that I lost because I was a sinner, and Jesus puts me back there in friendship and favor with God Almighty. "He restoreth my soul." I get It back all through my faith in Jesu3, the Son of God. ! T'here are lots of things that cause spiritual declension. ' If you knew what was causing you to be weak physically, you would get the best doctors on earth to counteract it. Why don't you do likewise spiritually? The neglect of the Bible is one. Disobeying God's Commandments i3 another. Unconfessed sins Is another. . Pardon an illustration from home: When Helen was a little girl, going to school in Chicago, her mamma said, Helen, you can Invite In some of the girls and boys and have a little 1 party. They were having a good time and

Helen did something that I thought1 she should not do, and I said to her: "Helen, don't do that" After a while she did It again and I said: "Helen, If you do that again. I will punish you." After a while her grandmother came and said that Helen had done what I told her riot to do. I called her In and I said: "Helen, didn't I tell you not. to do that?" ' She said: "WelL papa, I didn't do It" I said, "Your grandmother said yon did." Describes His Experience. I had never known Helen to He to

me in her life. I thought I had sufficient proof she did it and I punished her. She is naturally tender hearted but she clenched her fists and never shed a tear.' She went Into the other room and I heard her playing hide-and-seek and having a good time. Soon her grandmother said: " "I was mistaken about the thing you told Helen not to do. It was something else."' And so the good spirit seemed to say to me, "Aha! you are wrong. Call Helen in and tell her." I said. "She has forgotten it, dont you hear her laugh?" The good spirit seemed to say to me, " supposing sne nasn t lorgoueu It? Supposing she finds out that you learned that she didn't do what you asked her not to do and yet you pun ished her. What will you do then?' I said. "O. Helen, come here." She came in and I said: "Sis, I did wrong when I punished you. I Just found out that you wero right and grandma was mistaken, and I was wrong when 1 punished you, and I feel awfully sorry. Will you forgive me, Helen?" i Her little arms went around my neck and her tears rolled like rivers of water down her cheeks; she sobbed until I thought her heart would break, and from that day to this I've never lost my influence over Sis. Some of those young bucks used to shy around her and she'd say to me, "Pop, there is a young fellow going to come home with me tonight, and I want you to give him the onceover." And leave it to me! When he'd go, she would say, "What do you think of him?" I would say, "His eyes are too close to his nose; he has got too much coyote blood in him." Unconfessed sin! That is one reason why we drift down and away from the Lord. "Yea, though I walk through tho valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for Thou art with me; Thv rod and Thy staff they comfort me." He Walks Confidently. My message says he walks not as though he waa afraid; he does not run. "Yea though I walk" He walks Just another Illustration from home. For twenty-odd years we lived in Chicago in a two and a half story basement house. The dining-room and kitchen were downstairs, and on the middle floor was the front and back parlor and then a little den, and the bed-rooms were on the upper floor. One time, when George was a little bov. we'd come upstairs and it was dusk and I wanted something down in the dining-room, and I said. j orge. will you go down and get 1 it?" He said, "Pa, did you leave the gas burn?" "Well," he eald, "I don't like to "No, I turned it out" go down there." I said. "Its dark." "Oh shucks,' I said. "There's nothing that will hurt you down there in the dark. Go on. and don't be a ninny." He said to me, "Pa, was you ever afraid in the dark when you was a little boy?" I said, "I should say I was. (Gosh I could pass a graveyard so fast I would make the Twentieth Century Limited look like a freight train.) He said. "That's Just the way I feel, as If there was something that would just jump out there and grab me." I said, "There's nothing down there, George." "Well," he said, "I am afraid." "Come on with me," I said, I'll go with you." So I took him by the hand, lit a match, and got what I wanted to get and I came back and said, 'Were you afraid?" - "No, pa." "Why not?" I said. "Because you were with me." I said, "That's what the Bible says: I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me.' " You and I go with our loved ones as far as we can. We will go with them to the coffin, to the graveyard. That 13 as far as we can. go, and when we have gone as far as we can go, Jesus will go as far as that with them, too, and He will go with them the rest of the way, where we can't go. Hovering Over Loved Ones. So the spirit of God Is hovering over your loved ones. He watches over His own. You have gone as far as you can go. You have hired a doctor and nurse and. cared for them. "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me." And I say: "The light of this world shines brighter and brighter, My trial3 and my burdens seem lighter and lighter And fairer and fairer seems the heavenly prize. The wealth of this world seems poorer and poorer, As farther and farther It fades from my sight The prize of my calling seems surer and surer As stralghter and stralghter I walk In the light" "My waiting, O, Jesus, seems dearer and dearer, As longer and longer I lean on HU breast. Without Him I am nothing, seems clearer and clearer. As more and more sweetly In Jesus I rest. My Joy in my Saviour Is growing and growing; As stronger and stronger I trust In His word. My peace like a river is flowing and flowing. As harder and harder I lean on the Lord."

"Thou preparest a table before me lieved in Jesus Christ. Yet he bein the presence of mine enemies Thou came the great apostle to the Gentses,

annointeth my head with oil; my cup' runneth over." As soon as you reach this apprecia- j tion, where you are dead to the sense; . of sin and iniquity, then the scene is' changed to one of feasting and blessing. If you want the blessings of God to come to you, after you have done your part and given yourself up to the Lord; then the peace of God will be yours. The Roman emperors used to have a brutal , custom. They would return from a military expedition and bring with them their captives, and they'd have a huge amphitheatre and they'd have bull rings in the floor and pillars, and they used to chain these captives to the pillars and starve them

tor days, giving them neither food nor drink, and on an appointed day they would put on the tables all the delicate viands that they could produce, and they would ransack the known markets of the world. These men, starving and dying from hunger and thirst, would drink In the aroma of the food and see the sparkling water, and they would tug at their chains and beg and plead and implore and beseech and weep, that, they might have one morsel of food. Just one drop of water to moisten their lips. Then at a signal the emperor would enter, and with his lords and ladies they would sit down In the presence of the enemies of Rome and feast and quaff their wine and gormandize and satisfy their epicurian appetites, whilethe captives were pleading and moaning. As soon as the repast was finished, the emperor would give the signal, and through the doors would ru6h the eagles of Rome with their spears and battle axes, and cutlass, and they would cut and sabre and slash and hack to mince-meat the bodies of the captives, end they'd1 turn the banquet hall into a slaughter house, and blood would flow like water. They did it to strike terror into the heart of any that dare lift their voices against the imperial authority of Rome. They prepared a table in the presence of their enemies. O, In all thy ways acknowledge Him. He will direct your paths. He will bless you. He will do great and won. derful things If you will do His will. "Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over." Heaven It a Place. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell In the House of the Lord forever, and that is 'my reward. Some people say heaven is a state and not a place. I don't believe it. Heaven is1 a place. This tabernacle is a place; so is your home; so is your store. Heaven is a place! "In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." Heaven Is not a state or condition heaven is a place, and there must be a place for the resurrected body. Jesus Christ went with His apostles out to Bethany, and the clouds received Him. Bodily. He went into the skies; bodily He will come apain. I am going to preach on "The Secong Coming of Jesus Christ." That 13 the next great event in God's plan for the world. When that takes place I don't know. I have no cranky ideas to air on the subject at all. I am not a fanatic. But that is the next great event in God's program. And so He arose bodily. He will return bodily. He will return'. When Lafayette returned to this country as the guest of our nation, in 1824, the ships went out into the harbor to receive him, and as he sailed in, the guns thundered his welcome. He never shed a tear. She came up to . her dock. H walked the gangplank and the earth trembled with the shouts and the applause of the grateful people whom b had helped to deliver. He never shed a tear! Artillery Shakes Earth He got into a carriage and was driven down the streets of New York, and the streets had been paved with palms and flowers, mementos of affection. He never shed a tear. The earth trembled with the roar of musketry and artillery. The road was lined with the populace that stood about with bared heads, shrieking and screaming. He never shed a tear. He passed beneath the triumphal arches which had been erected for his honor, but he never shed a tear. They took him to Castle Garden, then the largest auditorium in New York, where the great men of our nation had1 assembled to do him honor, and as he entered they cheered until the building trembled, and they arose. He sat down in the seat of honor, assigned to hom, and as he did, they raised a curtain. There, on the stage, they had1 reproduced in miniature his old home back in France the house, the trees, the brook, the hill, his father and mother and brother sitting upon the veranda, all reproduced in miniature. And when Lafayette saw It and it painted upon the canvas of his memory his home in sunny France, the tears rolled like rivers of water down his cheeks, and the great Frenchman shook as if he had the ague. Oh, if I could Just pull back the curtain and let you take one glimpse Into Yi AovrAn 4 n t b Aa oil t Vi o fr flrH Vi a a nm pared for you, if you'd only forsake' your sin, and, I believe I could break the heart of every unsaved man or woman in this tabernacle and there wouldn't be a man or woman going out of here tonight without Jesus, unless he were a fool or an imbecile and God lets you out on the ground that you are an imbecile. Heaven Is Splendid Abode. Heaven is a place of splendor, too. Everything that ever came from there tells us so streets of gold and gates Of pearl, walls of Jewels. Some day you may go sweeping through the gate, but the entering it rests with you. sir. If yo-i accept Jesus Christ It is settled. If you don't then it isn't for you. They say, the deeper the water, the larger and the more costly the pearl. I do not know whether that is bo or not. But I know this much: from the greatest depths of iniquity God seems to have taken some of His brightest jewels. Some of those who have blazed! the brightest and lighted up this dark, rotten, festering, 6in-cursed world, have been men who have crept and crawled in the sewers of Iniquity and of transgression and of squalor, so it is no cause for discouragement if you have been or still are a sinner. Why John Bunyan, the author of "Pilgrim's Progress," could blaspheme so fiendishly that old sinners would stop their ears, and it seemed1 as would stop their ears and cry out: cuuugu; ijuuuga: cnougn: T7 .... l. 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