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Newspaper Page Text8 EVANGELIST TELLS HOW OTHERS UWE WON WEE OVER “Go Ye Into All the World and Preach the Gospel to Every Creatures,” His Text Billy Sunday preached the first of a series of sermons on •'Personal Work." at the Jaciwon street tabernacle Wednes day afternoon * During a quite lengthy talk he urged his hearers to get and work for Jesus Christ, and told of how other men and women had gone out and won souls for Jesus. The sermon, copyrighted by William Ashley Sunday, follows: In Proverbs 11:30 —"He that winneth souls is wise " “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." "He that goeth forth and reapeth shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing precious seed with him.” “We sow and then we har vest." ’ “When I sav unto the wicked man. O wicked man. thou shalt surely die in thine iniquity if thou dost not speak to warn that wicked man he shall die in his sin. for his blood will I require of your hand.” . God Almighty not only holds you re sponsible for what the harvest is. but for what it might have been. “When I say unto the wicked man, O wicked man thou shalt surely die in thine iniquity if thou dost not speak to warn that wicked inan to turn from his way but if he do not turn from it he shall die in his sins, you have de livered your soul. You are free when you warn people, but you are condemn ed if you don’t.” “Det him that heareth keep his mouth shut?” No. "Let him that heareth say. "Come" If it’s a good thing for you. it’s as good for the other fellow. "Fear not. I am with thee, be not dismayed lam thy God. I will help thee, I will strengthen thee. I will up hold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." I wonder why God said vright hand?” Because the Lord isn’t a southpaw. You are stronger in your right hand than in your left. He said: "I will uphold you with the RIGHT HAND of my righteousness.” Most people are right-handed, anywaj. so you know what is meant. Os course it s the right hand. I believe there are hundreds of people today that want to win some body for Jesus Christ but they are waiting to be told how I think there are hundreds of people that want *to work and there are hundreds that ' wouldn’t lift their hand *or open their lips to help anybody for Jesus. I be lieve there are hundreds if not thou *sands of people that are anxious, not five talented men. not ten talented, but men and women of ordinary ability that are sick and tired of a mere empty profession. They are getting tired of just beai jng a path from their home to the church and back again on Sunday morning. Mul titudes of them never go in the after noon and never go at night and their entire Christian life consists in- going to’ church on Sunday morning and put ting a little money in the collection plate. They never pray in thei» home, never have family prayer, never visit thq sick, never try to alleviate human misery or suffering, never try to win anybody for Jesus Christ. That s the entire extent of the religion of the ma jority of the people in the church, and I expect you are a fairly good specimen of the majority of them in your church, all rieht. So listen! If anybody did no more than you do. the world would be in hell —if that’s all you do—and there are Tw*«JH EPILEPSY FALLING SICKNESS T''*ll «nffer»-» <m-n FVu t .!!•>«». mil.r . *HtM .r '•—♦•» T-..blw wfl! he wit «R->O- I tmi T FBIt a larr. haul* •< W. H. Peeke s Treat- I Beet Fee tinny rearv. eefferera have usa4 * H. I Nrt»’> TraaMact wrts ea-e eet reealta. <»’•* Eaprvaaaad P.O |A44reaa- W. H. PEEKF- j-A.<Vd«r Street. N.Y. Free Book About Cancer The Indianapoli. Cancer HoopitaL Indianapo lis. 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Don't delay a mtnota. f* £l% Writ* tor this Big Offer «t One# Drop us a lino or send us yoor came Win on a postal card and see will send ViH VIM yoo absolutely Freo. our wonderful U| BW style book, containing dosers of ram- gg WW piee and fashion plates to choose f torn. J M 1C Write Wew. feserything sent Free gsi Jj and postage prepaio. TWC PKOGRES* TAALOWfMO CO. Ji, Dept. 102* j I thousands of people Who have got to awaken and come to the rescue if this old sin-cured world is to be won to Jesus Christ. The first recorded words of Jssus are. "Wist yet not that I must be about Father’s business?” When fie was twelve years of age he was conscious that he was the Son of God. for he uttered those words in the temple after they'd gone on their jour ney. when they’d been up to Jerusalem to the Passover feast, and they missed him and his mother went back to look for him, and they found him in the tem ple discussing religion with the doctors of the law and he said to them. "Wist yet not that I must be about my Fath er's business?” "This is what I came into the world for.” .And he has been calling men and women ever since. Oh. God wants mothers that will turn pale over their children going down to the devil. He wants parents that will weep, he wants friends that will grasp, and he wants workers that will groan; he wants church members and ministers that will be concerned and forget to eat or sleep over people going to per dition and nothing being done to win them—only service one day in seven. Now there are certain gifts, if you are going to do it. First of %Jl. salvation— because I want to repeat, multitudes iti the church. I believe, have never been saved They don’t know what a relig ious experience Is. I don’t need to con sume my strength and your time tell ing you how good bread and butter are, how good apples are, how good water is —you’ve eaten, you’ve drunk. That’s an experience. So you know they are good, because you have eaten. That’s an experience. Therefore, If you have ever had the experience you know there is a God. He answers your prayer. Multitudes of people never have any ex perience: they don’t know what it is. They don’t live so that God can answer their prayer. Therefore, all they know about God is second-hand—they get it from somebody else. You can so live that God can mani fest his power through you. Then you know from experience that there is a God. and you are not going to follow all these isms and schisms that may come thundering along to head you away from Jesus Christ. Jesus said to Peter, “When thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." So you are in no position to help anybody else If you haven't been helped your self. When I played baseball, the first baseball team that ever took a trip into the south to practice down south and get ready for the spring work was the old Chicago White Sox. Now they all do it. —but the first club that ever did that was the old Chicago White Sox. We went to Hot Springs, Ark. We went down there and then we'd take the baths and train down the southern sun and we'd come back up the first of April in the pink of physical condition to stand the long hard strain of the sea son's grind out on the diamond. And one day we were strolling around through the Oxark mountains and we were going to a famous spring we’d been told about. We’d wandered and roamed about, a half dozen of us. and we were tired and covered with per spiration and wc couldn’t find the spring. We met a colored boy. He had an old flintlock ‘gun and a couple of squirrels he’d shot and an old yellow dog trailing at his heels. ’ I said. "Boy. are we on the right road to the spring?" • • He said, “No. sir.” I said. “Here’s a quarter; will you take us?” He said, "Sure. boss, the road you're on now goes to Little Rock.” I said. “We don’t want to go to Lit tle Rock; we are looking for the spring.” He took us across a little mountain stream and up a ravine and bye and bye he said, ‘There’s the spring, sir.” We saw a great stream, as large or larger than my body, bubbling and shooting from the mountain side, and I said to him. "How did you know how to bring us here?” He said. “Boss. I lives right up around there, and we gets our water out of the spring, and I hunt the squir rels up there.” He’d been there himself sS he was able to take seven great big warm. thirsty fellot s there. So if you’ve found Jesus Christ as your Saviour, i you are abl6 to tell somebody else about j it—don’t you see? If you’ve been sick and some doctor has given you medi-' cine that cured you. you know from ex- | perience that he’s all right, so you rec- I ommend him to your friends when they I are sick. You say he’s a good man. all | right. So, if Jesus Christ is any good, just recommend him to the other fellow. I He’d like something good as well you do. s Then you need another thing. We’ve got to turn from every known sin if we are going to be any power for God. You can’t have your own way about everything. A lot of people repeat the Lord’s prayer—“ Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name”—and never tell It to their dying day. Now that shows you that you I ought to ’do something out of the ordl- i nary. I always noticed that everybody considers himself licensed to impede the progress of an ice wagon, but a fire engine always has’ a clear street. 1 I.earn something! Get a move on jou and all the devils of hell will begin to howl. That’s why you never stir • up the devil—because you’re not doing j anything, so he’s been asleep all the time you've been on the job. So you need God’s word. Pack your heart and pack your head full of the Word of God. That’s the sword of the spirit. The sword of the spirit! You can quote Shakespeare. Carlyle. Emer son and Herodotus to a dinner and he won’t bat an eye. because that Isn’t what the spirit can use, but when you go with the Word of God. that will put all the devils on earth to flight. Don’t vou see? So pack your heart full of it. You want to use it tocon | vict a man that he’s a sinner. How I does a man know he’s a criminal? He s I broken the laws of the state —that • makes him a criminal. How does a I man know he Is a sinner? When he lives contrary to the Bible he Is a sin i ner, no matter whether he thinks he is a sinner or not —he is a sinner. A Iman may not think he is a criminal but if he breaks the laws he is a crim | fnal. So use the Bible to convict a man If he is a siner and to reveal Je ll sus Christ. , You ought to know the Bible because I listen’ God Almighty has been re vealed through Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ is revealed through the Bible. i 1 must know the Bible to know Jesus. 1 must know Jesus to know God. and there Is no way you will ever know- II God or Christ except you know them | through the Bible. Therefore. If-you . turn your back on Jesus you will never I know the Bible. So Jesus came into the world not ' only to reveal God to man. but to re ' veal man to man. and in Jesus w- I the highest revelation of God possible for the human mind to conceive, and • in Jesus I have a revelation of myself, for Jesus reveals what God wants me to be. He has giten his Word and his i direction. „. Then again you must know the Bi ’ ide to show a man that he needs -i | Saviour. How do you know that you need a doctor when you are sick? How io you know-jny friends, that you need i fireman when your house is afire, j Therefore, to uhow him that he needs a i Saviour, to show him that Jesus is th. ' -aviour that he needs, not philanthropy, | not culture—Jesus is the only Saviour. THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1917. all others are false. There is only one way to be saved—that’s through Jesus Christ. That’s all. Then, show him what to do to make jesus his Saviour —that he must repent, forsake his sins, acknowledge that Jesus Christ was his substitute. Jesus became his security; Jesus took his place on the cross, and .God let you escape the curse of the law by your acceptance of Jesus as your substitute. He took your place and if you turn your back on Jesus Christ you will be eternally damned, it doesn't make any difference who you are. God can't save you if you turn your back on Jesus. So you need the Holy Spirit; without him you can do nothing. But please remember that the spirit of God works through clean people and the work of the spirit of God is to make you feel that you need this salvation that Jesus has provided.* The Holy Ghost doesn’t save you; It’s your faith In Jesus that saves you. But the Holy Ghost says to yrfu, "You’re a sinner,” and then leads you to Jesus to be saved. The Holy Spirit makes you feel that you need the salvation that Jesus Christ provided when he died on the cross. It's the work of the Holy Spirit to make you realize that you need a Saviour. But It doesn’t save you; faith in Jesus Christ saves you. That's why it’s “The Father, Son and Holy Ghost.” And prayer! Two-thirds of the church members. I believe, do not have family prayer. 1 think it was the master stroke of the devil when he got the church to give up prayer. All of you have had your breakfast, your dinner, you have all dressed (if you didn-’t and came out on the street they’d pinch you) but I won der how many of you have read your Bi ble and prayed today. I just wonder. I’m not going to ask you for a show of hands—l won't do that, I never do. But here, I wouldn't need to ask you how many have had a meal; you’ve all had a meal. That's the way you care for your physical body; all right, I wouldn’t have you do less. You feed this old body three meals a day, you wash It, comb Its hair, you give It something to eat, something to drink, and if you took no better caye of your physical manhood and womannooa than you do your spiritual you’d be as dried up and useless and good-for-noth ing physically as you are spiritually. Why don’t you feed your soul? You’ve got a spiritual nature the same as you’ve got a physical nature yet you don’t’ feed it. You feed your spiritual nature by prayer, by reading the Bible by doing the things of God; you feed your physical manhood with meat, bread, potatoes, tea, coffee, milk—the food that you have. All right, go ahead and feed it but in Heaven’s name don’t starve your spiritual and moral nature! Pray God to lead you to the right per son; you may have more influence with some person than another but if you have been lying about somebody, you ought to say something, and if you’re a headbeat and you owe a merchant something, go down and pay your debts and then you can talk religion to him. If you’ve been talking about your neighbor, stop and tell her that you’re an old gossip. Keep your old mouth shut. Then they will have some re spect for you. I want to say to you that this old world would be a mighty good world if everybody would mind their own business. You bet your life! I notice these people that are always butting Into somebody else's affairs don’t even attend to their own. If they'd let other folks alone, they’d get along a darned sight better. Pray God to help you to save someone. I was preaching ia a town In lowa some years ago and I stepped out into the audience and spoke to a bright, snappy young fellow about seventeen. His father had just died and the will was probated and left this fellow about a hundred and fifty thousand. He thought every girl in town was breaking her fool neck to marry him. He was so chesty you couldn’t get within forty feet of him. I didn’t know this at the time I spoke to him. I walked down and said, “How do you do? Are you a Chris tian?” and he gave me the cold shoul der and he said, “No.” I said, "You, ought to be.” He said, "Forget it!” And I said to him. "Oh. a bright-look ing young fellow like you. with a good suit—you didn’t buy in Sears-Roebuck or Montgomery & Ward’s: that looks like a tailor-made—why. a young fel low like you. you don't mean that.” He said. "I don't care about your re ligion, sir.” I said. “Do T understand you to mean I you don’t care whether you go to heaven or bell?” He said, "No.” I said. “Well, all right, go to hell, i then.” I saiu. "There are only two places to go. and It's dead sure you’re | not going to heaven.” And I said to hUn. "Now, look here, young fellow If I live in this town fifty years. I’ll never ask you to be a Christian again; I’m through.” The next day I was out taking a tittle walk with Mrs. Sunday and I met this young fAlow. He'd been down' to a sale and bought several head of high-blood cattle, and he was I driving them home. He paid five thou ! sand dollars for one. And he was driv ■ ing them home and T walked down the ' flmd with him a mile, and he tried to open up the subject of religion but I side-stepped, and I talked about every thing under heavan but religion. I ±llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!llllllll£ | Price as Always | I 50 ctt.—sl.oo 1 (TWO SIZES) = Dr. Caldwell’s | SYRUP PEPSIN | The Perfect Laxative = = We believe the public = = will appreciate our sac- = = rifice of profit in con- = = tinuing the old price in = = spite of the tremendous = = increase in the cost of = = manufacture. You can = = buy Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup = = Pepsin from your drug- = = gist for fifty cents or = = one dollar a hottie. = -IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG How Long Must I Suffer From the Pangs of Rheumatism? Is there no real relief in sight? Doubtless like other sufferers, you have often asked yourself* this question, which continues to remain unanswered. Science has proven that your rheu matism is caused by a germ in your blood, and the only way to reach it Is by a remedy which eliminates and re-, moves these little pain demons from your blood. This explains why liniments and lotions can do no permanent good, wouldn't mention it to him. The second night afterward I gave the invitation and the first one to come forward was this young fellow, who took me by the hand and gave his heart to Jesus Christ. I said, "I thought you told me you didn’t care whether you went to heaven or hell.” He Raid, “I’ve changed my mind. I’ve been in hell for three days, and I don’t want any more” I said to him. "What was it that, brought you here?” He said, "When J told you that I I didn’t care whether I went to heaven or hell, and you said there are only two places to go so I’d have to go to hell because I surely wasn’t going to heaven,” he said, "I haven’t been able to sleep since, hardly. I just realized that* all nty money and everything else wouldn’t save my’ soul.’ He said. "That’s what brought me down here. : because you gave me one right square between the eyes.” Then pray God to give power to what , you say. and to carry on the work I after you are through. There are spe cial endowments you need:Flrst, clean hands, pure heart. David said. "If I regard iniquity in my heart, Goa won’t hear me.” And second, a wise head. The church of God needs a bap tism of horse sense today preachers and all the rest of us. Good horse sense! I tell you that’s what we need —a wise head! Forces to win—you need love, love for the souls of mon and women, a desire to see them saved. That’s what you have in your home. If a loved one is sick you desire to see them well, and you spend your money to .sret the best ph3-- sician in the Country. I don’t blame ; vou. you ought to have concern to see I people well, but you ought to be con cerned to see people saved. yvouldnt you rather have everybody in old At lanta praying than cursing? Wouldn t you rather have everybody going home sober than drunk? Wouldn’t you rati.er have every man and woman pure than impure? Wouldn’t the community and the nation be better? Certainly! I tell you, a nation of drunkards can’t whip a nation of sober people nor a nation of libertines a nation of pure people. Never in the world! And the more a j man or woman lives in sin. the less and less they become a part of the nation i any individual or anybody. So we want a company of people that I are constantly alive, full <?f faith, dead | in earnest, thoroughly awake, always at it for Jesus Christ. That's what I love to see. Men have done wonderful things for other things, why not for religion? I haven’t any sympathy for the man or woman that you have to drive to make some sacrifice for the cause of Jesus Christ. Men do it for other things. Why Newton used to study all night just to get a thought or two and frame | it* into a sentence, and Reynolds wo'uld sit with a pencil in his hand for thirty six hours and refuse food and sleep just In order to write an ode you can read in two or three minutes. And Carey translated the Bible so that three hun dred million people can read it that couldn't read it before. And Wesley used to travel five and seven thousand miles a year on horseback and do most ot his studving and a great deal of his resting in that way. Peter Cartwright, the Itin erant Methodist preacher of Illinois —ills circuit was from Cairo 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, tie his clothes on his back. swim, his horse across, dress and ride on. preach ing the gospel to the people on the prai ries of Illinois, and if overtaken by night he'd sleep out with the wolves and the coyotes howling around him. He’d build a fire, for it is known that wild animals fegr fire. That’s what men did <o preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. Now you won’t walk across street to help somebody to God. With all our’ means of conveyances —automobiles and trolley cars and sub ways and elevateds we are so lazy let ting the world go to hell that we are doing nothing, seemingly, to save it. Lyman Beecher heard Jo Up 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 re ligious book. He had a boy and he read that book and thdt book led to # that boy’s conversion. That boy’s name was Richard Baxter, and he wrote "Saint’s Rest.” i And Philip Godridge read “Saints’ Rest” and that led to his conversion and he wrote, "The Rise and Progress of Religion.” And Canon Wilberforce read God ridges "Rise and Progress of Religion” and that led to his conversion and he wrote, “The Practical Views of Chris tianity.” And Dr. Chalmers read “The Practical Views of Christianity,” and that led to his conversion. He wrote the ‘‘Expul sive Power of a New Affection,” and he got the idea riding on a stage coach across the Rock 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 frightened 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 for gets about it and goes by.” So Dr. Chalmers caught the idea bf 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 something good in to drive the bad out and God is putting some thing good in you to drive the bad out. The de’vil wants to put disease ip 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 thing. 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 jio compliment to humanity! , I don't know why I have to work so hard to get people to see it’s for your i own good; I’m not working for my own | good. I’m saved. If I were selfish I’d l fold my arms and say, "You can go Ito the devil; I'm all right.” But I’m \ not going to do that, T want you to have j 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 we can have it through Jesus Christ. Now there are five classes, and they will touch every man and woman in this city, America or the world. First, those who cannot attend church. Some have work in hotels, restau rants. in your home, on the railroad, steamships, certain institutions that 1 ' for they cannot possibly* reach these j germs which infest your blood by the i millions. S. S. 8. has been successfully used for rheumatism for more than fifty • years. . Try it today and you will find yourself at last on the right track to get rid of your rheumatism. You can i get valuable advice about the treatment of your individual case by writing to i the Chief Medical Adviser, Swift Spc i cific Co., »>ept. N-4.0. Atlanta, Ga. (Advt.) have to keep going on the Sabbath the same as any other day. We have to eat just the same on the Sabbath. Peo ple who cannot attend church —old. de crepit, in the hospital, sick, so we owe it that we take the gospel to those that can not attend church. That’s one kind. Second, those who can but do not. Oh. murder! It’s a disgrace! I feel like jhanging my head in shame to stand on a platform beneath the Stars and Stripes and tell you people we've got seventy million in the United States that are not in any church. Seventy million! We’re a Christian nation at | that! Those who can attend church | but do not. There are multitudes that | never darken a church door; the only time they are ever in there is when they die and they take them In for fu neral or they have to go around there as a pallbearer. , Third, those wno can attend church and do and are not moved by the preaching. Some people come out of curiosity. I don’t know, perhaps you ; may be here for that purpose this aft ernoon. Somebody has vomited a lie into your ears. All right, if you be lieve a lie and come around and hear the truth, that’s all right. I don’t give a picayune why you are here, I’ve got more respect for you because you are | here than I would have if didn’t I come. It doesn’t make any difference ■ what brought you here. | Fourth, those who can attend church ( and do and they are convicted but they are not converted. There isn’t a man or woman that won’t go out of here ; with a new idea of God and a new hat- i red of sin. The spirit of God will con vict you but you need something you haven’t got. I Fifth, those that can attend church and do attend church and they are . convicted and they are converted and they need strengthening and they .nee your help. That w;N» touch every man and wom on on earth—those five classes—and everywhere. . Somebody said, “Where ca nwe find them?” ■ ■ _ . A>k me where you can t find them and I will tell you there is just one place 1 where you won't find them, and that s I out in the cemetery. You needn’t go to the graveyard, they’ve had their chance Forget it! That’s the only Place you i can go where you don’t need to bother ! about anybody, where you can’t find any bodv you need to worry about. They ve had their day, their history is written, the hooks are closed for them, thej ve had their chance. You will find them in your home, the man you’ll go home and get supper ready for. the man who is the father of your child or your children, the man whose muscles earns the money that buys i your clothes and pays the house rent. 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 cbmes home from school, your neighbors—how many people that live in the block that jou live in are Christians —and bring them to Jesus Christ. And down at your place of business how many of you ever ask the people around you if they are Chris tians? How many of you ever say any thing to the girl who waits on you down at the store? How many of you have asked the telephone girl when you call her up if she’s been to the taber nacle? 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. Years ago a woman went into a store in London to trade and there was a bright, snappy young fellow in there to whom she was attracted by his bright mannerism and fine features and one day she spoke to him about religion, and he wasn’t a Christian, so he ever after wards fought shy when he saw her com ing. He’d try and get away if he could. But she used lots of good horse sense and in a kind of motherly way disarmed his prejdice and finally said to him: “T teach a Sunday school class down at such a place. I wish you'd come down," and after much persuasion she in duced him to come, and she led that boy to Jesus Christ. . Now .listen! He went back to that store and began to investigate and he | found that there were two other young I men that were Christians, in that store : of a hundred and fifty young men, and j they asked the merchant if they could 1 have a little room to go in to eat their i luncheon, for those three pledged them j selves they would work and pray to bring others to Jesus Christ. And the | merchant gave them this little room and they won others to Christ and that i room got too small and they asked for ; a larger room and it was given. To day that's the Young Men's Christian | Association that touches every p|ace on I the globe, and that boy’s name was George Williams. He organized the Y. M. C. A. and when that woman got to heaven God had as bright a crown wait i ing for her as for George Williams be cause God had to start the Y. M. C. A. She didn’t have sense enough. but George did. .But somebody had to win Williams first. He died Sir George Wil liams, the first man in the history of England that was ever knighted for the cause of Christianity. Where did she find him? Found him in the store waiting on her as a clerk. Where will you find them? Everywhere except in the graveyard. "He that winneth souls is wise.” Wise! Important facts. First, outside of Jesus Christ there is nb salvation. All have sinned. God commands all men to repent. Today, if you will hear his voice, none are cast out who come and j none are saved unless they are born i again by the spirit of God. Faith saves j you, not feeling. And repentance and retribution are necessary. If you have j swindled and beaten somebody out of I money, go give it back for God won’t ■ save your guilty old soul when you’ve I got money In the bank that belongs to I somebody else. Not on your life! You I bet your boots he won’t! Restitution! Obedience and blessing t walk hand in hand, and if you want ■ God to bless you. then obey and God will bless you in proportion tt> obedience every time. The Bible is your only guide, not the opinions and theories and deductions of men. The Bible is your only guide. There Is no salvation in hell, and the man who preaches future probation s preaching an infernal lie. There are lots of infernal lies being preached from orthodox pulpits today all over this country—blind leaders of the blind. Jesus Christ says they will both go into the pit. There is no salvation. in helj. If man is going to I have a chance to repent after he’s through preaching, by Jinks, 111 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 if a man has a chance after he dies that he would do in the next .world what the old scoundrel wouldn’t do in this world? How do you figure that out? I’m going to preach on thafi sometime —no second chance. Listen! Some seed will fall on stonv 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 adamant. Some will fall among thorns, there wdll be fair success, it will spring up and grow but it will be choked. Some people will run well for a while but people will say. "Will thej’ hold out?" No! They 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 moss backs. Then some seed will produce thirty, some sixty, some an hundred fold. Oh, my! When I look around about me and j I see young men and young women 1 with their characters forming, when I look at the influence 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—l am no pessimist, but ' God have mercy on the generation that's going to come when our boys and girls are going to the devil and yet their minds are pliable and susceptible to gospel influence if w-e will do some thing for Jesus Christ! When I look at the sick and the dy ing. when I see the disease and the distress and the destitution, when I see the drunkards’ graves—six hundred ' thousand of them. where men have staggered and shrieked into them every year—beneath the Stars and Stripes, that dirty, stinking, bull-necked gang of liars and thugs that put six hun dred thousand of the brawn and man hood of America in drunkards’ graves every Year —I put my fist under their dirty, stinking nose. You bet your life! I am working for the sobriety and the decency of my country. To hell with the bunch that wants to drive them down and curse them! When I look around about me and see all that! My! Stonewall Jackson was I heard in his tent one time praying and the sentinel stood and listened and here is what he heard him say: “Oh. God, let this- war stop so we may Igo back to the only work in the world I worth while, that ,Is. the salvation of im- I mortal souls.” i That’s the only work that’s worth l while—saving people for Jesus. Then, if you will allow me to make a ! suggestion I atn through; be courteous, be natural. People are natural every where else, seemingly, but in the church I don’t like to see a preacher 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: “You may give me a bunch of celery, a pound of coffee, and send it up. if you please.” (In a very pompous tone, with many airs.) Now. I’m perfectly natural. There is work that everybody can do Invite the unsaved to come to the taber ! nacle. Pray with them in private. Pray I for them in private. Speak about the meetings, don’t knock, any devil can do that. Write letters. Call them up on the phone. Let them know you are in terested in them and that you want them to receive a blessing. 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 lowa and there was a woman there whose husband was an an elder in the church —the Presbyterian church —and she was one of these weak, I timid, retiring little bodies, and she was la member of the literary 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 the speediest bunch of i women I’ve ever seen.” * I don’t mean they were immoral, but. oh, gee! You have seen people that had la little money and a little social posi- Ition in a little rube town? If you have, I you know what I mean. I said: “There’s the speediest bunch of women that I have ever seen. You are the only professing 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 of grief can ne’er repay the debt of love you owe. Let’s get down and pray about It,” and we did. She starte dout and in nine days she brought eleven out of the fifteen to Christ. Those women are leaders today in that little town, for God a nd f°r hls truth, and if I’d tell you what they’ve done for the Lord in missionary work, it would stagger you—that little commu nit yout in lowa that’s so rich they don’t know which way to look. If she had her way she’d have done nothing. I went to a town once to preach and I w-as entertained at the home of a very rich man, with two children, both grown; and the girl was the brightest girl of her age 1 have ever seen. She was twenty-two years old and had grad-« , uated from Northwestern university I and she was principal of the high school. She was snappy as a steel trap. I and I said to her one day. "Harriet, j God's going to do great things through I 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’ll Ido what God wants you to do. All you lean do is to make a confession to God: i you can't make a proposition and tell I him what you’ll do.” She said. ‘‘l won’t do that.” I said, “If you’re a Christian you I will.” She said, "I should hope I am a Christian.” I said. ”1 should hope you are, too.” You’re assistant superintendent of the Methodist Sunday school,” I said, “I should hope you are. but if you are just a church member, you'll get converted first and then you’ll do something.” 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 bald, "Harriet, will you please lead in pray er?” She sat there and never said any thing, 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 ♦nd deck bulge o/er and turn white and she gasped, and’l said, “Harriet, will you please lead in prayer?” She was game. I asked her seven times. 1 didn’t know whether she’d call me A- not, but finally she got up, dropped on her knees and began to I pray. She forgot who she was or I where, and I could see scores of people | wiping their eyes. That night when we got home we had a little lunch and I never mention ed it, never said boo to her. And the next night I saw her get up and go io the rear of the church, speak to a kind of roughnecked young fellow that stood leaning up against the radiator, and I knew she was talking relfgion to him because I knew it wasn't one of her I bunch; I never said boo to her but I noticed it, and the next night I saw her get up and rubber and go around and ! find that same young fellow, and bring him to the front. That Was the first i soul she ever won. 1 saw her start out, and she’d go downtown/ go into billiard halls and law offices, in the banks, the stores, and I have seen eight young men come home with her at noon from school, talking religion. I’ve seen seven or eight stand ing out in front of the house in the snow waiting for her to come out. to talk religion, and she won every mejnber I of that high school to Christ but three; she won the assistant principal. Miss D. Ito God; she won the superintendent of j stdiools to Christ. 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I said to her one day: “Well, Mrs. L., tho Lord’s going to do great things through you.” “Oh,” she said, "I'm not going to do personal work.” “Why not?” L said. She said: "You know we Congrega tionalists don’t believe in that.” I said: “The Lord does.” 'Well," she said, "that’s for the Meth odists and the Salvation Anny.” I said: "Show me where God Al mighty lets you Congregatlonalists all sit around like a knot on a log and ex pect somebody else to do your work.” “Well,” she said. "I have never done it.” 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 twenty-seven years; she'd walked in and repeated the Lord’s pray er; she’d sing “Jesus, Lover of My Soul,” and it was a He, Jesus was no lover of her soul —he was a formal ac quaintance she bowed to when she went Into her pew. That’s all. “Thy kingdom come—” no, she didn’t want God’s kingdom to come for she wastn’t lifting her little finger to bring it. She didn’t want it. No, sir! 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 J preached and I eould see her turn pale and then red and then she'd gasp and herself. She was thinking about the promise she’d made. I knew it was going to be hard, and I saw her get up when I asked, "Go but and speak to your friends and neighbors and strangers,” and I saw her go back and speak to a fellow that sat on the end of the seat and he shook his head and it scared her. She walked back and sat down. She thought she was going to die of palpitation of the heart, and pretty soon she got up the courage to try again—she was game, bless her heart. She went back and put her hand on his arm and spoke to him, and he recognized her. He felt honored to think that a rich, brilliant society wom an would take an Interest in his soul, a kind of a roughneck. I saw him reach up and wipe his eyes with his sleeve (he didn’t have any handkerchief) and wipe his nose with his hand. was , the best he had. He commenced to cry and he followed her down the aisle. That was the first soul she had ever won for Jesus Christ —the first one. On the way home we saw a man lean ing up against a lamp post, rocking back and forth. This woman was a cousin of Marshall Field in Chicago, she had cjirte 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 ybu ever talked to him about Christ?” "Never did." "Well, 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’s taken the money and drank it up.” He had staggered up to her door for eight years. She had had her name on the Congregational church records all this time and had never said a word to this man. "Let's talk to him.” She put one arm on 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 that town within the last year. He owns his own home, paid thirty-five hundred dollars for it; he’s got it paid for; he told me he had sixteen hundred dollars in tho ■ 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 i Jesus Christ. She went home to heaven- not long ago. She spent her winters out in Cali fornia, in Pasadena. I was out there and the phone rang—l was at Los An geles, at the Hotel Alexander —I was over at the Alexander hotel when the phone rang and she said, "I’m going to send’ the car over for you to come over to lunch in Pasadena.” So we went over and when w*e 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 four members of the supreme court of the states back in the east; there sat college pres'dents and professors; there sat brilliant men and women—and wealthy—she used her influence and got them into the parlor and asked me to talk religion of Jesus Christ to them. Somebody 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 njake it easier for the one next to you in this little world in which we live. And when you and I, you in your small corner and I In mine, are on the watch to do this, this world will be better that we lived In It and made our corner so full that it spilled over—to the rest of them, •