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I regard that as one of the most re markable declarations of the Bible. No < nody can take exception to it- Cer tainly nothing less can be expected of a Christian. Bvery worldling is ready and willing to say. "When a man claims to be a Christian he ought to be what Jesus Christ is." He ought to do the things that Jesus would do and he ought to think the thoughts that Jesus would think. Some people claim to be following Jesus Christ as their Savior and yet they have their backs turned on Him. judging by their lives. “By their fruits ye shall know them,” not by their lips. When the disciP l *” became followers of Jeeus, Peter, James and John, when they set out to follow Jesus, they didn't expect to say good-by to Him when He reached the next town. They under stood they had to walk, talk and live with him. The first business of life is to be in harmony with His will. “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness” They didn't expect to go in the opposite direction. Suppose when Jesus set His face to go to Jerusalem some of His disciples had picked up their Belongings and headed for Damascus, where some of them had some trifling business of their own. and suppose you’d have met this caravan headed for Damascus and ask ed. “Who are you and where are you go | ingT’ “We are disciples of Jesus, we are followers of the Nazarene.” '•Well, where is Jesus?"' “Going up to Jerusalem." "Yes. but you are going away from , Jerusalem.” “Yes. we are going to Damascus.” "Do you expect to meet Jesus in Da niascus?” "No. He is going up to Jerusalem to be crucified." "How can you say you are following i Him when you are not with Him?” "Oh. we just say so. that is all. AU He wants is just to be able to count on us. and that’s all He gets.” “Are you letting Jesus Christ go to ’ terusalem alone?” "Oh, yes. He don’t mind it. He is used ito it. He always goes alone.” Now, don’t you see how that caravan would be bewildered? Don’t you see how they’d be dared? And just such scenes are being witnessed all over this i land today. I say, "What are you doing 1 down at that haunt of pleasure?" "Following Jesus?” ‘‘What are you doing down there, Sunday school teacher?" "Following Jesus?” "What are you doing serving liquor I on your table?” "Following Jesus?". "What are you doing standing up ' and championing the cause of evil" and lifting your voice against that which i is trying to propagate the principles | of the Lord Jesus?” Jeeus Wishes to Count Oa Too, Declares Billy "All He wants is to count on us and that is all He ever gets. All I go to church for on Sunday is to throw a little money ,in the contribution box; and repeat the Lord’s prayer and then go home and that is the extent of our religion ’’ Something more is expected of a professing Christian than is expected of other people. For a man or woman to be a member of a church and have nothing in your life CTiat resembles Jesus Christ is as inconsistent as a W. C. T. U. sign would be over a brewery or a Y. W. C. A. sign over a house of ill-fame. What do you do more than others? Not what you do that all others do. You go to church. So does the saloon keeper. What do you do that he doesn't do, that is the basis upon which you are going to be judged I had a friend who lived in Peoria, Illinois, William Reynolds. One day a man stopped him on the street and said. "William, how long have we known each other?” "Fifteen years, I think” He said. "Do you believe there is a hell?” "I have no doubt of it.” "Do you believe I am going there?" ”1 must confess, the way you are liv ing. if you should die as you are, you certainly would." He said. "If you knew I was in great danger and you lived as my neighbor fifteen years, will you tell me why you never said anything to me about being a Christian?” Reynolds said, "if I were asked for a man who was farthest from God. I'd have selected you. What was tt that made you ask me that question?" He said, “I was in Chicago last week and when the train pulled out a man came in and all the seats In the car in which I was riding had two passen gers in but mine. This man came in and *-aid, "Is anyone going to occupy this of the seat?" •'And I said, ’Not that I know of.’ “ May IF " ’You may.' "He sat there, any by and by we start ed talking. 'lsn't God good.” he said, 'Wouldn’t this be a wonderful world if everybody loved God?’ “I had to confess he was right. Fin ally he said to be. ‘Are you a Christian?' "I said, ’No.’ “’Don't you believe it Is right?’ "I said. 'I had a Godly mother.' •• *Well,' he said, 'why don't you give your heart to God?' He said, ‘This is a public place, we are in a car, but that doesn't make any difference!’ "Don't you know, before I really knew what I was doing. I had my head bowed and my eyes shut and I wish you could have heard that man pray. “Pretty soon the train stopped at a station. He said, ’This is the town lam going to, I will bid you goodbye.’ “1 followed him to the front of the car and I said to him, ” What is your name, you have been kind to me? “He said, ’Never mind that, my name is D. L. Moody. Good-bye. I■ am glad to have met you.’ ’’ He Goes to Chicago To See Dwight Moody The next day this man met William Reynolds with his grip In his hand and he said to him , "William, where are you going?" "I am going up to Chicago to see THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1917. . Moody. If 1 ean live tifteen years by the side of a neighbor ami believe he >s . on the road to h<‘U and never ask him to be a Christian, there is something wrong wtih my life. 1 am going to Chi cago to see Moody.’. And all the good that afterwards came out of the life of William Rey nolds would have been lost if Moody had been riding in the smoking car : playing cards with some fellow. . There is something for a lot of you I old half-baked elders and stewards and vestrymen and prudential committee i men to think of. Don't you see how I it would change the world if everybody was intent, in season and out of sea son, always looking for a chance to win 1 somebody for Christ? What would Jesus do if He taught a | Sunday school class. Would lie put as I little heart into it as some of you do? Would He go to prayer meeting as lit- I tie as some of you go and would He testify as little as some of you testify? ♦ Would lie do as little personal work as some of you do? Would He spend as much on Himself and give as little to the cause of Jesus Christ as some of you do? Would He pray as little as some of you do? Would He do no more to answer prayers than some of you do? Your prayers are not worth a picayune in the sight of God, more than the effort you’re willing to put forth to how much are you willing to givb? How much God thinks anout your y.*ayer. Am I a follower or a faker? Am I a tinger-board pointing to the cross or to the world? All that is being done to bring this old sin-cursed world to the feet of Jesus Christ is being done by the spirit of God working through men and women like ourselves. You are robbing God and you are robbing the world if you are not giving the Lord a chance to work and speak through your personality. You are a robber, you are a robber and a slacker. All that Jesus Christ expects you to do, He stands pledged to help you to do, so don’t think you get to do it by your own effort. “Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My name, that will I do.” That is a blank check that you can fill out up to the limit of your needs. “If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.’’ He signed it, fill in what ever you want and He will bless you. The first step to follow Jesus Christ is that there must be a deliberate, def inite decision about it, just the same as there is in an important matter in business. And so you’ve got to decide to go into business, you’ve got to de cide to get married or you never will. There has got to be a definite decision about anything. You’ve got to decide you will go to heaven or to hell, that’s all. You've got to decide the whole business. A young man decides he won’t give up his bad company and that’s the reason he dies an old man in prison. You've got to do it. Didn't Ooms to Drive People Into Heaven Jesus didn’t come to drive people into the kingdom of heaven. He came to force the question upon every man and woman, and you’ve got to decide the matter for yourself. I can’t decide it for you no more than I could eat or sleep for you. The doctor could cut me to pieces and that wouldn't keep you oat of the coffin if you had ap pendicitis. So, what shall I do with Jesus, which is called the Christ? And you can’t escape the question that comes to every body. “If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.” Every one must decide first whether he will be a Christian. Second, you must decide what kind of a Christian you will be. There would have been no revolution ary war if there had be£n no Declara tion of Independence. We wouldn’t' have been in war with Germany l if we hadn’t declared war with Germany. You’ve got to make a declaration to begin with. One reason why we’ve got so man/ milk and water, cider-chalk and-vinegar good Lord—good devil, pliable, plastic, weak people sitting around, is because they don’t come out clean cut for Jesus Christ and His truth. The rich young ruler came running after Jesus and fell on his knees, and ■ that looked like a clear case of conver- I sion, but it wasn’t. How far you go : with Jesus depends on what you take with you when you start. One reason why a lot of you have not made more progress, you have been trying to lug too much of the devil’s goods with you when you started out. You are not making much headway. In a few min utes I find him turning his back on Jq sus Christ forever. The scribe said, “Master, I will fol low You wherever You go.” Now that sounds fine, but he didn’t mean it no more than a lot of card playing beer guzlers, novel readers, gin fizzlers mean it in the church today. When he said it there was no cross in sight. He thought it would be fine to be associated with a man that was so popular. I suppose some people think that joining the church will help them to sell boots and shoes; some think they might sell more grocerie.dWl don’t know, but Jesus read their heart and He killed the selfish motives within them. He turned to this fellow and said, “You say you will follow me wherever I go.” He said. "The birds of the air, j sir. have their nests, and the foxes have ■ nnlfts. but the son of man hath nowhere to lay his head.” “Why." he said to Jesus, "I thought you had a limousine. You’ve got to walk? Good night!” Kills Selfish Motive In Heart of Man Jesus killed the selfisn motive that j was in his heart. When Jesus leads • He don’t take you around the valley of ; the shadow. He will take you right through. If you are not ready to walk ; through it. don’t ever start to follow ; Jesus Christ. Another said, "I will follow you, but ’ I’ve got something else to do first.” j That would be a good deal like a fel- j low getting shaved, after they told him | his house was afire. That would be like | a fellow stopping and getting his boots I blacked after they told him his baby ! was dying. "I’ll follow you, but I’ve got some- I thing else to do first.” Just as if fol- ■ lowing Jesus Christ wasn't supreme i above everything else. That’s the first | business in life. He knew' how shallow hearted they were. He said, “You let the dead bury their dead.” He said, "The people that don’t be- i lieve I am the Son of God, they are | dead spiritually, and when their loved I ones die you let the spiritually dead ■ bury the literal dead. You can follow I me. Other people can bury your dead; you come on.” He said, “You let the dead bury the dead. If you want to live you come and follow me.” That’s the first thing of life to do. Probably his, father was old and he wanted to wait until the old man cashed in so he could see whether he left him a yellow dog or 168 acres of land. When Lincoln called for volunteers, no attention was paid to the man that wanted to cut his wheat first or husk his corn. He was left out. That is the way with the government today. When the government calls for a loan and for men they pay no attention to the gang that haven't anvthing to do. I don’t believe they ought to let people live in this country if they are nbt willing to help her bear her burdens in her hour of need. Pd drive the whole bunch out of here. I haven't any respect for you if you share the blessings of America and are not willing to bear the burden. So get down into your old sock and gei on’ .oine money and help Uncle Sam along. • Another said, ’'Why, 1 will follow you. but I got to go back home and t.’id the folks good-by first ’’ Jesus said, "When a mui puts his hand to the plow and looks back he isn't fit for the kingcom of heaven.” Did you ever plow? Did you ever see a man plow? What would you think if you saw a man trying to plow a field like this, who puts his hand to the plow ,and looks back ward? He isn’t fit for the kingdom of heaven. No, sir! Now, you see how much some of you are going to weigh on the scales they keep outside of the door of heaven, don’t you? If a man stops to look back, it's only a question of time until he will go back wlfere he looks. That's why we’ve got so many people in the church up to their eyes in the world, the flesh and the devil. They are look ing back at the things instead of turn ing their back on them. “He that saith he abideth in Him, ought himself so to walk even as he walked.” If you say. “I will go to one more haunt, one more dance, I will get on one more society drunk,” you are giving the devil a dare to come and drag you to perdition. We sing “Nearer My God to Thee.” "Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross," "Rock of Ages,” "Brighten the Corner Where You Are,” “When Jesus Came Into My Heart,” and the probabilities are there are a lot of people that don’t mean it. They are making just as many sacrifices as they want to make. They like religion if it don't require them to make any sacrifice for God. To Keep Close to Jesus, Do as He Wishes If you really keep close to Jesus Christ you will do whatever He wants you to do in the world. Will I live as God wants me to live or as I want to live or as somebody thinks I ought to live? I will do what I think the Lord wants me to do. if you’ve settled that question first, that you will follow Him, then you’ve settled a thousand other questions which will come up later for you will decide them by the fact that you've decided to follow Jesus and if those questions are going to keep you away from Jesus, then you can see you will have nothing to do with them. You can see how you will regulate every thing else. Are you willing to follow Him all the way and follow Him in His way? Are you willing once for all and for all time to follow Jesus Christ? If you are, nothing will be of more interest to you than a revival meeting or a prayer meeting and you will seek to do the will of God and then you will do it with all your might and power. And when you reach the point where your surrender is com plete, then you will say with Paul, “Lord, what will you have me to dp?” and you will never follow Jesus Christ in a doubtful course about anything on earth. What does it mean to follow Jesus ac cording to Christ? Well now, I will tell you. What would He say if He were here this afternoon and you’d ask Him? Did He ever tell anybody if we were as sociated with Him as closely as Peter, James and John? Did He explain it to them? Did He tell them what He de sired them to do? Yes, here it is. "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow me.” That’s what it means to follow Jesus Christ. We must say ‘No’ to the pleas ures, and ‘Yes’ to the spirit. And every man and woman of God knows two things. First, you know that you’ve got two natures. You have got the old nature that you got from Adam and you've got the new nature that you got from Jesus Christ. The flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. Paul says, "When I would do good, evil is present with me.” The regenerated spirit dwelling is the unregenerated body for my spirit has been regenerated when I accepted Jesus Christ as my - Saviour. My body will be at the resurrection, my body hasn’t been redeemed, it’s going to be, because my soul has been. When I accept Jesus as my Saviqur, mj’ soul has been re deemed, my body will be redeemed at the resurrection, but my redeemed spirit dwells in my unredeemed body, hence the flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. H»v«r So Good That Temptation Can’t Come So Paul says, "When I would do good, evil is present with me." It is no longer that 1 sin, so I’ve got a scrap on hand all the time. Will you ever get so good you won’t be tempted? If you do, you will be better'than Jesus was. He was tempted in all points, yet without sin. But the devil will still bother you and tempt you. In your spiritual nature you love God, you love Christ, you love the Bible, love the church, you love to pray and be decent and love. In your lower nature you love none of these things. No, you love the flesh and your lusts of the flesh and all that.- And your life finds its highest delights and choicest expressions In the gratification of the desires which appeal to the flesh. Find your delight in doing things opposite. ' That’s why a lot of people are in the world up to their eyes. They are follow ing the flesh instead of the spirit. ‘‘As many are led by the spirit, they are the spirit of God.” Not as many as have beetfi baptized. Not as many that know the 39 articels of confession. Not as many as know the catechism and have been sanctified Help! Help! I will show you some thing about what sanctification means. A lot of people today, they feed the goats and they starve the sheep. No wonder they are following the flesh. And the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is just repeated over and over in their lives. If Peter had spent as much time with the, gang that Judas did. perhaps Peter would have been the one that denied Jesus instead of Judas. It wasn’t proph esied that Judas would deny, Him, it was phophesied that one of His disciples would deny Him, but Jesus fulfilled the prohpesy. When Jesus said, ‘Let him deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow me,” He meant there should be no compromise betwen the two na tures. 1 don’t believe that God Almighty ex pects me tv be a hermit. I dont believe that God Almighty expects me to wear a hair shirt and crucify my natural af fections. I don’t believe that God ex pects me to crawl on my hands and knees and sleep on spikes and smear my self with filth like the Hlndus.-e-no sir! A true disciple of Jesus Christ means love of everyday life. Jesus Christ didn’t wear a hair shirt, hide himself in a cave—no! He lived among the people He rubbed elbows with the people. He spent His life going around doing good. Drying tears on the cheeks of the offlicted, driving out or alleviat ing misery or suffering, casting out de vils, cleansing lepers. That is what Jesus did. that’s w'hat He expects His followers to do, not ■wear a hair shirt and whine, ‘Oh, but isn’t it not?” Wow! They’d drive a man to drink. Jesus Gavs Example Os What Men Should Be I believe in His own life—He gave CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears *~—~—** Signature of me an example of what He wants me to be and do. Get out and lift this old, sin-cursed world into His a*ms. “He that saith he abideth in Him, ought himself so to walk even as He walk ed.” And let him deny himself. Say "No” when saying “Yes” means sin. Say “Yes” when saying “No” means heaven. Say "No" when saying "Yes” means that the angels cry and the devils cheer. No! No! No! Say “No” so loud that God will stop making world and look down to see what you are doing. That’s what it means if you are going to follow the Lord. Sometimes you get annoyed, aggra vated. Certainly, great Styx! Some times you want to knock people down. I do about every two days. See some guy I want to punch. But Itell you, if you do, then you will kick over in two minutes all the good you cam do in years. Deny yourself! Put the kick ing straps on angels and starve the devil. “Deny yourself, take up your cross daily.” That shows when you get religion it will stay with you all the time. Don’t be a saint on Sunday and a devil on Monday. Don’t shine for Jesus Christ like a California sun on Sunday and then be like a London fog for the rest of the week. No! No! No! And live so that a fellow won’t have to tag you to church and watch you take com munion to find out if you are a, profes sing Christian. No! No! And you’ll take religion wherever you go, you will take it with you on the train—yep! You will take it with you on the street, in the street car—yep! And the cars, when you go away from home you will take religion with you and your wife won’t have to hire a detective to watch you to see if you are o nthe square. “Let him deny himself, take up hits cross daily.” That will hold him steady in a horse trail. That will keep him from making eyes at some other woman—yep! That means that his religion will be as much a part of him as his smile or his hair—yep! If some of yx»u women up there would take all the hair off that isn’t growing on you, you’d look like a humming bird in a rain storm. Take up your cross daily. That is a uniform continuonus performance for Jesus Christ. Oh. the world, I think, would have been saved long ago if it hadn’t been for this miserable, up to the mountain top today, and down in the valley tomorrow. Tells Story of Rooster Who Crow Disjointed So you be the pollen of inspiration which fertilizes the spiritual activities in everybody that rubs elbows with you. Don’t be like the rooster I told about one night, Every time he’d crow he’d throw his legs out of joint and they’d have to go and set him up before he could crow again. That’s the way with a lof of people and what they do today. They knock over what they did yesterday, and many a poor preacher has got to put his whole time In chasing around, setting them up on their feet, patting them on the back, getting them good natured so they will come to church on Sunday morning. The Lord help you get where you won’t keep falling off the fence all the time! Dear me! If you are going to follow Christ, nail- your flag of resolution to the mast, with nails that clinch and that all hell can’t pull out, then you will win for God’s truth. Be like David. He said, “I will bless the Lord at all times.” The greatest thing said about Job is. “Thus did Job continually.” He kept going for God as steady as an eight-jlay clock. No wonder he kept the devil to and fro going up and down the land. The man or the woman whose religion is of the evergreen variety and not the groundhog brand is going to win in this old world. “Take up your cross daily, determine your life will count every hour, every day, week, month and year. Christiani ty is a continuous performance for God and his truth. Keep close to God- Al mighty in the battle and the warfare of Christian life and you will have plenty of chance. Christianity is not drifting down the rose-lined shores of time to the sound of sackbut and flute and cornet and brass band. Put on the whole armour of God. Being a Christian will furnish you with ample scope for all the cour age and all the backbone and all the grit and all the vim, ginger, tabasco sauce and pepperino you’ve got pumping through your old veins. The cross wasn’t covered with velvet No sir! Oh, I want to tell you, my friends, the knots and the splinters were not hidden by jack roses and forget-me nots when Jesus hung on the cross. He took up the cross. When He did there was no crown in sight for Him. To bear the cross means to keep with Jesus Christ, t to be on God’s side in every question. That’s what it means to follow Jesus Christ. If you are not willing to be a Christian In Christ’s way, in God’s name stop pro fessipg that you are one at all, for you are not yourself, a four-flusher, you are a fake. In the picture that Jesus gave us, He just divided the world into two classes. The saved and the lost. No shading from black to brown and brown to gray. Just pure white, jet black. Saved —lost. Just two classes in all this world. Those that are on the right side. He said to them, “Inasmuch as ye did it,” and to those on the left He said, “Inas much as ye did it not.” Well, there are just two kinds of Americans—those that will stand by it and those that won’t. The others, noth ing doing. There are just two kinds of people in the world —saved—lost That’s the way God divided the world. You and I subdivided; rich, poor, black, white: and today our only chance is to get out of the wrong crowd and get into the right one, if we are not there, and to decide we will stop fol lowing the devil and follow Jesus Christ and do His will. He Is Willing to Get Christianity From Christ Am I willing to get my Christianity from Christ or from the worldly-mind ed people in the church? Am 1 willing to believe what the preacher says who preaches the Bible as the Word of God, or some high-browed critic who sneers at the atoning blood of Jesus Christ and teaches to you that salva tion is by works? You go tell him that I said he is a liar. Who is a liar, but he that denieth that iesus is the Christ? He is the liar. So, will I let God’s word be a lamp ; unto my feet? If I do, then I will have God’s power for I will be on God’s side of the question. When I am on the side of Uncle Sam I’ve got Uncle Sam’s power and when you are not, you have all his power against you. When I am on God’s side all of His power is with me. When I am on the other side, all of God’s power is against me. If you decide to follow Jesus Christ, I want to say to you, in closing, yours will be a life of trust: if you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. you will believe that He has all the power that the Son of God has. And two can’t live together unless they fully agree and trust each other. If there is the slightest doubt, then communion j is broken. When God says a thing, that settles it. There is no appeal from God —ab- solutely none! And the next question is unquestionable obedience of Jesus Christ. His will will Jae my law. “If you love Me, keep My commandments and I will pray the Father.” “Not every one that saith unto me. Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven. Why call ye me. Lord, Lord, and do not the things I say?” Every question of doubt will be set tled by His relationship in what God says. What would Jesus do? Are you doing the work He wants you to do? Am I doing It in the way He wants jt done and if I am doing it in the way He wants it done, but you don’t want it done that way, that shows you are wrong. If what I preach is tfuth, ac cording to the words of God, I am right. If you don’t believe it, you are wrong. So I am not wrong—not at all! I will challenge you to come to show me what I preach is not the Word of God. Are you kind of a man that God wants you to be? Do you realize that your care of those children is a trust from God to raise them to do His will and follow Him? If Jesus Christ is your partner with Vou in business, you are perfectly willing to have Him walk through the store, to go from the cel lar to the garret in your house and you will let Him see the weights and measures, that they won’t shrink in the day of judgment; and you will let Him see you are not lying in your adver tisement when you put it out to deceive people. If He were the proprietor with you, is there anything that you’d change and alter in your store or life? Do I preach the .way He wants me to preach? Is there anything in my ser mons I’d leave out if Jesus Christ sat in the seat and looked into my face? Is there anything I’d put in that I’d left out? I have yet to look into the face of any man or woman on God’s dirt that I feared. I can face this world, my friends, with my life, and if the Lord will show me if there Is anything 1 should have said since 1 have been here that I haven’t said, if the Lord will let me know it, I will say it. So. whatever I may have said or done, whether it meets» with your ap proval or not, I have said or done it with one object in view, that of glori fying God. So I guess we will have to let the thing go until we get to heaven. So, if we don’t like it,' I guess we will have to let it go as it is and when we get up to heaven we will find out who was right, you or me. Just forget it. sister. Would Jesus vote the way you vote? Would He go with the company that you go with? Would He read the books that you read? Would He spend as much on Himself and as little on re ligion? When Gustave Dore, the famous French artist, was about to complete his famous picture of Jesus, and he was just in the act of putting the fin ishing touches upon that masterpiece, a lady entered his studio and stood ad miring the products of his genius and Dore was not aware that there was any one in the studio but himself. Suddenly, turning around and seeing the woman, he became aware of her presence and he said, “Pardon me, madam, I did not know that you were here.” Stepping to where the light would fall more plainly upon the picture she said to him. “Monsieur Dore, you must love Him, to paint Him so.” He bowed before her and he said, “Madam. I do love Him. but if I loved Him more, I could paint Him better.” American Cavalry Trooper Killed By Mexican Soldiers • EL PASO, Tex., Dec. 18.—Mexican federal soldiers fired on an American cavalry patrol which accidentally cross ed the border on the "island” near Fabens, Tex., late yesterday, killing one cavalry horse and wounding another. The American soldiers returned the fire and one Mexican soldier was seen to fall from his horse. No American was hit. •Preacher Enlists; Wife Takes Place in Pulpit URBANA, *lll., Dec. 18.—Mrs. Frank D. Adams, wife of the -pastor of the Universal Ist church here, has assumed her husband’s duties at the request of the church board, and occupied the pul pit yte(terday morning. Reverend Adams won a second lieutenant’s com mission at the Fort Sheridan training camp and has been called to Camp Grant, Rockford, 111. Austrian Residents Fail to Lynch Negro •« PUEBLO. Col., Dec. 19.—A mob of Austrian residents was foiled last night in an attempt to take a negro soldier, Lewis Smith, from the city jj.il, and lynch him. The men were told that the prisoner had been taken to another town. As soon as the mob disappeared, the officers hurried their prisoner out of the city in an automobile. The negro is charged with having at tacked a little Austrian girl. N. Y. Now Has Women Street Car Conductors NEW YORK. Dec. 19. —Women acted as conductors on the surface car lines of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit com pany toda#. taking the places of men who have joined the colors. Women have been employed as guards on subway trains for some time and the company is said to be satisfied with their work. Treasury Authorized To Buy Farm Bonds WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—The admin istration bill jiuthorizing the secretary of the treasury to purchase $100,000,- 000 of farm loan bonds during the fiscal year was adopted by the senate with out a record vote after it had been amended so as to eliminate a similar purchase next year. Alabamian Kills Wife and Commits Suicide MONTGOMERY, Ala. Dec. 18.— A \ special to the Journal from Opp, Ala., says that Andrew Wallace this morn- | ing shot and killed his wife and then , committed suicide. Mrs. Wallace was a sister of Richard Tillis, Montgom- . ery traction magnate. Under Death Sentence, Men Hang Themselves GALLUP. N. M-, Dec. 19.—Maria Cuevas and Silvario Silva, sentenced to i be hanged December 21 for murder, com mitted suicide in the county jail here today by hanging themselves. HUS WON OUT AFTER A 3-YEAR STRUGGLE Allen Tells How His Wife Overcame Troubles Gains Twenty-Three Pounds and Is Like New Person ' ' '’-V.A “My wife has taken three bottles of Tanlac and has gained twenty-three (23) pounds.” said B. L. Allen, of Shef field, Alabama, some time ago. "She had a mighty hard struggle for the last three years with stomach troy* ble, and disorderel liver and kidneys.” he continued, “and she fell off in weight until she only weighed one hundred and five pounds. She would get so weak and sick at times that she would have to take to her bed and stay there for weeks at a time. She was terribly ner vous and suffered dreadfully with sick headaches and shortness of breath. She tried all sorts of medicines but nothing helped her any. “She began to improve as soon as she started taking Tanlac and right now she is like a new person. She gets up in the morning feeling refreshed and cheerful and does her own housework, never has a headache or a nervous spell and besides being twenty-three pounds heavier, she’s getting stronger and bet ter every day. She’s the happiest wom an in Sheffield since Tanlac overcame her troubles.” Tanlac is sold by one regularly estab lished agency in every town.—(advt.) Neuralgia Headaches After shopping or after • hard day are quickly relieved with Sloan's Liniment. So easy to apply, bo rub bing. and to promptly effactrvo. Cleaner and more convenient than mussy plasters and ointments. It does not stain the skin, or clog the pores. Every home should have a bottle handy for sprains, strains, lame back, rheumatic paine and stiff, sore muscles and joints. Generous sized hot ties at all drug gists, 25c., 50c., SI.OO. Why I Believe in Nuxated Iron * • f A Strength-Builder for the Nation By E. Sauer, M. D. Probably do remedy has ever met with raek phenomenal sneceM as has Nuxated Iron. It is conservatively estimated that over three wail lion people annually are taking it is this coun try alone. It has been highly endorsed and used by Former United States Senators and Members of Congress; Physicians who have bees connected with well-known bospiltals have pre scribed and recommended it; Monseigeru Nan- , nini, a prominent Catholic Clergyman, recom mends it to all members of tbe Catholic Chureh. former Health Commissioner Win. B. Kerr, of Chicago, says it ought to be used in every hos pital and prescribed by every physician. Sarah Bernnardt—"the Divine Sarah.” the world's most noted actress, has ordered a large quantity sent to the French soldiers to help give them strength, power and endurance. Dr. A. 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