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“Christ Calls to Salvation; Make Haste!”’ Urges Billy
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was a young man, rich and a
ruoler. Here was Jesus Christ the
Son of Man, and they were both
about the same age, and this
young man came to Jesus and
aaid\“‘v\'hzn Must I do to get what
you have got? If I havé all that
I have, but do not have what
you have, then it won't do me any
good.”
But Jesus Christ didn't ask the
young fellow what he must do to
have whatever he had. The rich
young ruler knew that what he
had would not save him. “I am
perfectly willing to give up all
that 1 have to get what you have.
Will you please tell me what I
can do to be saved?”
You go ahead and get all the
world can give but you are
worth nothing unless you have
what Jesus Christ can give. That
rich young ruler had everything
but he said, “WWhat must [ do to
get what you have got. Tell
me, for 1 want that too.”
8o they entered the city of
Jericho. There were two famous
men that lived in Jericho, one
was Bartimeus, the blind man
and I see him as my friend comes
down the road and he saye, “Dar
timeus, | can see.”
“Ig that so, how did It happen?”
“Why, a man named Jesus came
to our town and I heard of the
wonderful cures he had wrought
for others and 1 said, ‘Lord, let
me have my sight’ and he opened
my blind eyes.”
And |1 imagine the look of sad
ness sweep over the face of Bar
timeus and he sald, “Well, I have
heard of what Jesus has done for
others but Jericho seems to be a
little off the place where he is
and I guess 1 am doomed to go
through life blind, but if he ever
comes to thig town I will surely
ask Him to open my eyes.”
His friend said, “There i a
company of men and women'! 1
wonder what it means, 1 will be
back in a little while.”
He left his friend and in &
little while rushing back he savs
“Cheer up, | have good news. It
is Jesus Christ, the same one that
opened my eyes and he is com
ine down the street past where
you are sitting.”
And Bartimeus began to er,
“Thou Bon of God, have mércy
on me”
And the crowd said “Keep
still, don't bether him.”
And Jesus sald, “Who is call
ing me?
And they sald, “Nobody but a
blind beggar that accosts every
body that comes along, and he
thinks that you have come to
help him.”
And Jesus s2id “You go tell
him that I want him.,”
And thoke that had told Bar
timens to keen his month shut
were the m-seengers of Jesus.
Jeagus sald, “What «ill you that
1 should do unto yon?"
And Bartimens said. “Tord that
1 might recelve m- gight”
Jesus said, “Go thy way Thy
faith hath mad~ thee whola” and
he went his way pralsine God.
And there wag another famons
man that llved in that town
named Zacohacus, the subject of
my sermon. He was the chlef
of a gnng of publicans and he
was rich and he had made his
money hv trickery and by in
trigue and extortion because of
the system that was then In
vogue,
You must rememi e that the
Jews were under the control, at
that time, of Romans, and they
were severe In their commands,
The Jaws were hard-working,
thriftv. Industrions peonls and
the Romans were lazy, Inatful and
indolent, and so the Jews were
reauired to come inta the temnla
every sar and hring thelr monev
and tav it hefore theze monev.
cheneers. Tt was only a sinele
taxation svetem. the only one |
have ever heard of that wag in
workine force. |
The Jew used to go to the
temple and give all hix money t)
the money-changer:s and all the
money-changers would scoop It
all »n and give none of it back.
The Jews became shrewd, so
instend of taking it all, they nsed
to take a small portion of it and
hide the rest of it. and the Romnan
Government began to fenl the ef
fects of that system and they
sald, “We have to change this
system or we will go Into bank
ruptey.”
And so here is what they did
and it was the law that was in
foree when Jesus came on earth.
The Roman Government figured
out how much money they had
to have from Palestine and from
the Jews and they took no
chances. They said: “It takes a
Jew to catch a Jew” Ro they
figured up and they sold the priv
ilege of collecting the taxes to a
gang of fellows who paid the Ro
man Government the full amount
that they figured they had to
have from the Jews. For exam
ple. supposing that T shanld huy
from the Legislature of N~w York
the right to enllect the taxes and
I paid ten million dnlla»s far the
privilege then I wonld make fif
teen to twenty millinns on it.
The Roman Government gave a
certain figure and they didn't
give a rap how much bevond that
the Jews pald, just as lone as
they got their money. So 7Zan
chasus was the leader of that
gang of publicans who purchaced
the privilege of collecting the
taxes from the Roman CGovern
ment. 8o that was the way he
had made his fortune.
80 here I 8 & man rieh in money
wanting to see & man rich in
popularity, Jesus, Fere is a man
ho is wealthy considered in what
had stolen from the Jews.
is a 2 man, Jesus wealthv in
g and benediction which
bestowed unon man. Jesus
was the really, truly rich
though he didn’t have two
n his back. Jesus didn't
gh money to pay His
d Peter had to go down
and catch a flsh and
d gold in the fish's
he used to pay the
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taxesd and yet Jesus was the rich
er man.
And there was a great crowd
in the streets. Zacchaeus was a
man short of stature and he could
not see over the heads of the
crowd, but he saw the route which
Jesus was taking would take him
down to the famous sycamore
tree.
I should think when you read
the obituary notices in the news
papers or see a funeral proces
sion you would remember that
you have to pass by that way and
you would be ready for it and you
would be prepared, for the time
is coming sooner or later when
we will all pass that way.
80 he saw the route that Jesus
was taking would také Him down
to the famous sycamore tree and
50 he took a circuitous route
around the crowd and made for
the sycamore tree,
Aund Jesus came down the street
and seeing Zacchaeus he said,
Zacchaeus make haste, for today
I must abide at your house, for
the Son of Man has come to save
that which was lost.”
And I can imagine Zacchaeus
saying to himself, “I wonder who
has been telling Him about me.”
The reason for the command
was that He wanted to dine at
his home. .Jesus, honoring the
most unpopular man of His day,
the most unpopular man you
could have found in the kingdom!
Why, how-do-you-do, Jesus. If
I had had the slightest idea that
You were coming up here to see
me | would have had my limou-~
sine here, but 1 didn’'t know you
were coming. Too bad, for I just
bought a new VPierce-Arrow, It
fsn't very far over or 1 would
phone the chauffeur to bring it
over,gn you don't mind walking,
do Yo#h?" .
“Oh, no.”
And 1 can see them going down
the strect of J riche. Zacchaeus
and Jesus with His disciples go
ing up to the house., I have often
tried to imagine what Kind of a
woman Mrs.. Zacchaeus was.
There isn't a word :ald about her.
1 imagine the children were out
in the front of the house playing
and they saw their father com
ing and they sald: “Ma, here
comes pa with a lot of men.”
That was not unusual then,
they had no hotels. People in
vited themselves up to Zacchaeus'
house, that was the custom in
those days.
~ And 80 Jesus said: “This day
must [ abide at your house” so it
was up to Zacchaeus to come
across with the grub.
And so I can see the children
when they see their father go
back Into the house and say:*
“Ma. he is bringing them all into
the house.”
l And she would say: “Here,
| take your hobby horse and put
that chair out of the way,” and I
I can see her fixing herself up,
bustling around to get the house
looking presentable and in comes
l Zacchaeus and he says:
; “This is Jesus of Nazareth and
this 18 Mr. Peter, Mr. John Mr,
+ Nathaniel, Mr. Bartholomew."” and
no doubt they had the same cus
| tom of introducing his wife to all
. the dlsclgleu and he said: “I
brought them up to the house to
dinner.”
Jesus did not go up there to
eat what that rich Jew had to
eat. He went up there to win him
to the fact that He was the
Christ and When He bade them
good-bye He sald to Zacchaeus:
“This day has salvation come to
yvour house,” and He left behind
Him one believing that He was
the Christ, the Son of the Living
God, 'He sald to him: "“Make
haste.”
So, as T go up and down the
land I find men making haste to
. be rich. They make haste to
l write their names high on the
| scroll of honor. That is com-,
mendable. They make haste to
secure a brill'ant education; that
is commendable. When a man is
sick he will make haste to get
well and he will summon the best
surgeon or the best physician. He
will visit the world-famed sani
tariums and drink the waters that
will counteract the disease, but
why In the name of God don’t you
make haste to get right with God?
) It 1 should ask this audience
how many believe in Him, how
many of ybu will stand up for
Him? You would stand up for
the Stars and Stripes. Then I
~ haven’t any respect for the man
~ or woman who is not ready to
~ stand by Jesus Christ and to
stand for the Son of God, the
principals of the Christian re
ligion as God Almighty holds it
out. If it were not for the prin
ciples of Jesus Christ there would
not be any country worth llvlnul
in. 1 would not want to live in it
either, would you?
Make haste! Make haste!
Years ago a friend of mine was
preaching up in Sazinaw, Mich,,
} and a bright, keen looking fellow
entered and sat down. And when
. he gave the invitation he was the
first to walk down and take his
stand for Jesus Christ.. That man
was Colonel A. T. Bliss, the ex
governor of that State and the
Congressman.
And when I went to SBaginaw,
somebodyv sald: “Theve is a wom
an”at the door who wants to get
in,
And it was Mrs, Blss and T
had the honor of taking them
. up on the platform.
v Later on wheh we went to De
.~ troit we asked Colomel Bliss to
say a few words and then he
l said: “When the war broke out I
. was a young man, a trifle unm
| age, and my mother urged me
. give my heart to Christ before
| I went away, for she said: ‘You
may be killed."”
He went out a private and he
came back a coloned, but he still
said “No" to God.
And he s=aid: “If I could only
become very rich 1 could use my
surplus on Jesus Christ.”
And he became a multi-million
aire and he said “No" to God.
Then he said: “If 1 could only
represent this district at Wash
ington!” And yet he sald “No” to
God.
If you want to know from me,
I would say that now is the best
time to be a Christian. Now! The
best time was the time you let go
by, but the hest time i the time
you have left. Your best time
has become history. Your best is
now, and if you sit there and
listen to me you should know
that now is the best time.
When Zacchaeus came dbown
from that tree he drew himeelf
up with all the dignity of his
little dwarfed body and he stood
in the presence of Jesus and
said to Him:
“Why, Jesus, you don’t kKnow
who I am. T am the richest duck
in this town. Why, I am Zac
chaeus the tax gatherer. [ wish
You would honor me by coming
up to my housé to dinner.”
Did he do.that? No.
He¢ talked of restitution; he
sald: “The half of my goods I
will give to the poor.”
Jesus did not ask him what
kind of a life he had lived, but
when he shinned down that tree
and stood in the presence of
Jesus, he said: “The half of my
goods 1 will give to the poor.”
He was already giving the half
of his goods to the poor, trying
to make up and trying to have his
gifts act as a sort of disinfectant
for the way he got the money in
the first place.
He sald: “The half of my goods
I will give to the poor.”
He spoke of restitution. Oh!
s 0 many will have to yank out
their check books and write a
check on the hank and pay back
some money they skinned some
body out of in some transaction
before they will ever find Jesus
Christ,
Years ago in a town out West,
Akron, Ohjo, was a young man
who worked for the Adams Ex
press Company and one night
they missed a package containing
$20,000 in greenbacks. They
searched everywhere and could
not locate it and finally they ar
restrd a clerk on susvicion He
readily proved his innocence and
{et some penple still thought that
e took that money. .
They would have him around
no longer, so he left and went up
and down the land. Some months
later he went to Chicago and
went around the Farweil Hall and
heard Moody. He spnke some
thing ahout making the wrongs in
your life right, if you ecan.
I will toll you there are things
in the lives of everyhody that we
can not make right. And there
are some things that if you had
your life to live over arain you
would do and would not do. And
80 this young man went to hear
Moody. When he got through
he said: “I want to talk to you.”
Moody sald: “I am tired.”
The young man said: “I am
sure you will be glad to hear
what 1T have to =ay.”
Moody said: “If it is a confes
sfon T will gladly listen to it.”
“T am a thlef. 1 stole that
money.” And he told Mondy
where $19,400 of it was hidden
and said: “T onlv took S6OO of it.
What will T do?
Moody sald: “Go back and give
yourself up.” !
“But,” he said, “they will send
me to the penitentiary if 1 do.”
Moody saild: “You ought to be
there.”
And he went back and his
father and a few friends made up
the S6OO and they walked into the
Adams Express Company office
and laid the 220,000 on the de<k
and said: “Here is the money.”
What did they do? They sen
tenced him to the penttentia~y at
Columbus for two years. When
he walked behind the prison bars,
for the first time in his life he
was a free man. He only served
for a little less than & year and
he was pardoned and he went out
and brought his father mother and
sister to Christ and then died
within a short time.
I am glad to tell you on the
authority of God that it is not a
question of what you have been
or what you have done, if you are
ready and willing to forsake your
mins, God will forgive you. The
kind of sin never enters into it
with God. Tt is not a question of
what the sin is, the question is
are you willing to accept Jesus
Chrigt as your Saviour? That is
all that God a<ks of you.
Come down from your perch of
curiosity. What brought you
here tonight? Because you had
listened to the dirty, black-heart
ed les of some of these degen
erates of hell around the street
and you thought you would come
in to see what I looked like.
There are some men that can't
bear to see anybody decent. No,
no, because they know if people
are converted they will have to go
ou: of their dirty business and
théy can’t feed and fatten on the
misfortunes and sins of other
rnple. So they are afraid to
ave people come around to the
Tabernacle to hear because they
will be converted and be decent
and that dirty, stinking, black
geaned gang will have to go out
f business. That is what is the
matter with them.
Come down from your curios«
ity. Zacchaeus climbed that tree
with no other ambition than to
get a glimpse of Jesus Christ.
Everybody was talking about
Jesus and they were discussing
Jesus, and so he wanted to see
Jesus,
I was preaching out in lowa and
a fellow went into a caloon a’nt
a drink and the bar-keepei ‘was
calling me everything he could
lay his tongue to, and if all the
vénom in his heart against me
and Christianity had been inject
ed into his stomach he would
have died of black vomit in three
minutes,
The fellow threw down his dime
for a glass of whisky and he said
to kim: “Yave you been up to the
Tabernacle to hear Billy Sun
day ™
And he =aid: “No. And by the
eternal blarkety-blank-blank. I
don't propose to go and hear that
bla~k vulgar blankety-blank.
He wae just throwing blankets
over everything.
This fellow stood amd listened
to him and he said: “To be on the
square, | am ashamed to tell you
that 1 have not been up there my
self and if I got close enough
to Billy to shake hands with him
I wouldn't want him to smell the
whisky on my breath; so I guess
I'll change my mind. I don't
want the drink. I am going up
to hear BIill"
And he came up to hear me.
That fellow sat there and listened
to me and he had not drawn a
sober breath for fourteen years
and bad drunk enough whisky to
float a battleship, but there he
was. And one night he came
forward and gave his heart to
Jesus Christ. And he was elected
chairman of the Civic Federation
and he cleaned that God-forsaken,
whisky -soaked, infidel town up
for Jesus Chmist.
I preached in Omaha two
years ago and | met the leading
lawyer, Frank Turner, who is
mayor of the city and 1 said,
“Frank, how about Jack?”
He said, “He went to heaven
two years ago, but he kept the
old town clean for Jesus Christ
while he wag on the job.”
All right, I don't care what
ingpired or moved you to come
herc, if you will only realize that
you are here to get a glimpse of
Jesus Christ. ¥
Come down from your pride.
Why, multitudes of men and wo
men are not saved, because they
are too proud to come near this
Tabernacle and too proud to get
up and walk down the aisles and
by that act admit that there is
something they can do that will
make them better and bring
them nearer to Jesus Christ.
They are too proud to admit that
thev onght to live a different life
from what they are living, and
thev are willing to go on. imagi
ning thatAt wonld he humiliatine.
Jesue didn’t give a rap about
what the people of Jeruealem
wnuld say about Zacchaeus
climbing a tree to zee him. I be
liave multitudes gre more con
cerned about n'hqx other peonle
may sav or think than they are
about God Almiehty,
Ask them, if their names were
called in the judgment will they
pay the penalty. Agk them if
they wang you to steal tonight, if
You are arrested if they will pay
the penalty. No, sir, they will
gnover do that. 1 suppose there
are men and women here tonight
who would like to take their
gtand but are afraid of the laugk,
that some members of your lodge,
club, literary goclety, or your so
cial circles, would give you, or
what they would say if they knew
you had taken your stand for
AJesus Christ.
Any man or woman that tries
to prevent you from being a
Chrigti*n: any man or woman
that will sheer at vou to make you
regret that vou did it: any man
or woman who wonld laugh at
you and the fear of those eriti
ciems would keep von from Jeans
Christ, he is so damnable and
low down that T would not insvit
a nolecat by comvaring it with
him. AnA if he is a< low in
statnrs as he fe in orincinle he
conld kise a rat withont bending
his kn"es. Whv, he hasn't brainsg
ennugh to make a desert for a
map,
In Philadelphia there was a
fellow worked in one of the big ,
factories and he took his #‘"nd
for Jesus Christ and he stc ¥ at
the door of the factory the n xt
morning and he said, “Jack, I
took my stand for anu‘u Christ at
the Tobernacle last night. Will
you help me?”
And g'o told every man that
came in what he had done. They
boosted him They admired the
one that had given his heart to
Jesus Christ.
Zaccharue knew he wag an old
sinner when he climhed that tree,
but before he struck the ground
he wpg converted and his sins
wera all blotted away.
Sin—vou roll it like a swesat
mores]l pndar vorr torgne, it may
be reminerative to you but don't
foreat that the wav of the trans
ereegor ia hard hnt the end of
the road fs a good deal harder
than the road,
Sin—with that ons waord j&-T-N,
T ¢'n ensll all the mvvrd’:s all
the '-h\t‘a all the ontrace"all the
gednctihn the Ingt the driwken
nese hlaenhamy hroken hagrts,
all that hltehte IHlka g poetitonna
and canmes the mieary of this
world: all with that one word,
Q.I.N. Come down from vonr
sin and turm from it to the
nome of Jesus Christ and do his
will.
Come down from vour morality,
I am not corveving the idea that
you should be immoral, no, but
I want to convey with all my
power stop trusting in vour mo
rality for salvotinn. You have
got to have someathing more than
that if von are ever saved. Mo
rality is inclnded in Christianity,
but Christianity is not {ncluded in
morality.,
There are lots of e¢ood moral
méen and women who are not
Christians. but there are not
Christions who are not moral.
“The son of Man is coma”
Jeaus said to Zacchaens ‘“The
Son of Man ig come to save the
lost.” Th-re are many reéasons
why he did not sav “the Son of
Gnd"™ Whv? T will tell vou.
There is » fear in the heart of
evary ursgaved man or woman
when thev think of God. And
why ghonldn’t vou? God conld
sneak and the oceans wonld
hreak their avpolnted bounds,
God econl'd speak and the tide
won'd not gton at T or 8 fest, che
would eweep over the Roekv
Mountains, Couldnt God speak
and thie continent would sink in
to the cea?
Couldn't God speak, blow his
breath and twisgt vour sky-scrap
ers until they would lie in ruins
at vour feet? Couldn't God sveak
and every one of us drop dead?
Why shon'dn't a man fear when
he things ahout God?
Deesn't God hold ‘n his hands
the seas as thev wash to and fro?
Doesn’t he hold in his hands the
winds as thev blow? Coartainly
he Apes, bt tha Son of Mon;
temnted. tried as we are tried,
oh he atoobe by the waveide tn
heln everv tampegst-tosssd and
disenurae~d eoml oh eavth. ™ha
Bon of GoA in pawer the Ran
of Man in svmntathv he comes
to help us, if we will anly let
him,
Did yon aver read of the part
irg of Hectar #fnaw hig wife?
out to go to battls,
and the nurs ca.a. ith his little
baby boy. The child failed to
recognize the father with his hel
met on and he removad it and the
little one recognized th- father
and I~aped into his arms, He kiss
ed the child and was away to
battle.
When I look at Jesus Christ. it
is God with the helmet on and
when he lavs it off he is the Son
of God In power, and the Son of
Man in sympathy, come to help
me.
Oh, there is a bhig difference
Dbetween seeking and looking., If
1 should get off this platform to-,
night and walk down that aisle’
and across the end and then I
said to the ministers, * night,
I lost something,” thwm.woum
'H ghlights in
11.gnlig .
. NightS |
. NightSermon'
? Ao aste {
§YOU go ahead and get all the §
world can give ywvu, but you
are worth nothing uniess you have g
what Jesus Christ can give. ¢
. - .
MANYAwiII have to yank out
their check book and pay
back some money they skinnea
somebody out of in some transac
tion before they will ever find |
Jesus Christ, $
. - .
l AM glad to tell you on the au
thority of God that. it is not a
guestion of what you have been or
what you have done, if you are
¢ ready and willing to forsake your
iins, God will forgive you.
* - ”
THERE are some men that can’t §
. bear to see anybody decent.
* » . q
MULTITUDES of men and |
women are not saved be- 3
cause they are too proud to come
{ near this Tabernacle. $
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SIN-with that one word, 8-1-N
| can spell all the murders, all
the thefts, all the outrage-, all the
seduction. all the lust, the drunk- ¢
enness, blasphemy, broken hearts,
all that blights like a pestilence
and causes the misery of this
world.
| N ¥
SAY, if God would give me the
privilege to go to hell and
preach one sermon and Tivo the
invitation, | could depopulate hell
in fifteen minutes; just one ser
¢ mon. They that are in there would
filve the world to get out, and you,
big fool, are trying to get in.
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have a right to ask two thinge.
First, what 1 had lost and If it
had any value, and second if 1
were willing to spend any time
in the search. If so they would
gather all the shavings and 70
through them all in search of it.
That would be seeking.
“The Son of Man has come to
seek and to save that which is
lost.” 2
The trouble is Jesus Christ has
becn seeking you but you have
turned your back on him. Turn
around and you will find him
right here and ready to throw
his arms around you.
“The Son of Ma» has come to
seek and to save that which is
lost,” and he has been secking
gome of you for ten, twenty,
thirty, fifty years and you have
not found him. For he is come
to seek and save the lost.
I wish 1 were nble to put into
that one word ail that it will
mean to you if it ever becomes
a reality. which 1 prav from the
depths of my hrart it never will,
then T could startle you and the
Wne will come when vou wonld
ve ten thons'nd worlds like
this to have the chance to accept
Jesus,
Bay. if Gnd would eive me the
privilege to go to hell and preach
one sermon and give the invita
tion, T could depnpulate hell in
fifteen minutes; jst one sermon.
They that are in there would give
the world to get nut and you big
fool, you are trying to get in.
Don’t you do it. Don't you do it.
I could take two rihhong, One
of one color and one ~f annther:
on one ribbon [ could print one
world. on the other ribhon, an
other, and I could leave this plat
form and go down _around here
and through this audience, down
through the vestibules where you
stand, go down the =street. I
eould stop the automobhiles go
through the hannts of sin and
#vice and I can pin one or the
other on the bhreast of every man
or woman. Upon one would be
printed the word “Tost” and on
the other “Saved” and the cross
of Jesus Chrict divides the peo
ple, nothing else.
It isn’t intellectnal'tv, culture or
anything else but religion. You
are lost. You are lost.
I prearhed down at Ocean
Grove last summer, and up at
Seabright where there seems to
be a peculiar point projecting out
where the wind and the waves
hit it terrifically and some of them
pounded until they have washed
the great driveways and torn the
beautiful homes and ripned them
and throw them into the sea. and
it seems designed to win the bat
tle even yet.
| Years ago a friend of mine
stood down there at Seabright
and looking off he saw a Spanish
bark going to pieces upon :ge
sandbar out there and they
launched the lifeboat, but the
wind and the waves beat them
back. Six times they tried it,
but with no success and then they
SAW a man as the old ship would
toss in the roll of the sea until its
masts would touch the waves,
they saw the wreckage come in
and bodies come in, and they saw
this man put the speaking trum
pet to his lips, above the roar of
the waves, and shout ‘Lost.”
Later one of the masts came
washing in and his body clung
fast to it.
1 wish I could make men and
women realize their nosition l'ke
the stranded sallor off Seabright.
You are lost to a good many
things. First, you are lost to
happiness, and out of Jesus
Christ there is none.
I used to think there was, but
I want to say this to you, I have
been a professing Christlan for
thirty years, and five minutes
knowing that my sins were for
given gave me more gea,ce than
I ever found in all the years I
served the devil. You are lost.
They say that John Erics-on,
whs invented ths “Monites” and
O'e Bull were boys together. One
became the world famou« musictan
and the other the world-famous
inventor. Years rolled on and Ole
Bull came to America to give
some concerts.
I have several regrets in my
life, one of which is that I never
heard Ole Bull play a violin; sec
ond, I never hea*d Charles Spur
geon greach a sermon.
Well, Ole Bull sent wor?
around to his friend Ericsson an
he said: “John, here are some
tickets. I want you to come down
and hear me play tonight. When
I walk out on the stage tonight
1 will look and if you are not in
your seat I will be disappointed.”
Well, Ole Bull came out on the
stage and the aundience rose and
cheered and cheered, and he
looked at the seats and they were
vacant, it unnerved him for =«
minute then he seemed to play
with a new pathos and a new ten
derness and a ner touch. The
next day he went to his friend
and sald: “John, you were not
there last night. I could hardly
keep back the tears, but you must
come and hear me play. If you
don’t come and hear me play, I
will come down here and play for
you.”
John said: “Ole, don’t you bring
your old fiddle here. I don't care
for music.”
But Ole Bull was there and they
talked of tones and semi-tones
and fibers and he said: “John, I
will show you how it works.”
He tightened the string and he
started to play and he could make
it sing like a nightingale, make it
weep like a child, sob like a strong
man in distress, and he started to
play.
The men stopped the machin
ery, dropped their tools, they had
never heard such musie, it
sounded like an angel choir, and
they came and formed circles
arouhd the great musician, and
Ole Bull played on, and presently
Ericsson was seen to elbow his
way through the men until he
stood directly in front of Ole Bull,
and presently Ole Bull stopped.
The men heaved a sigh of relief
and turned back to their work, but
Eriesson sto% still and the tears
trickled like Fivers of water down
his cheeks and he said to his
friend:
“Ole, play on, play on, play on,
play on. I never knew what I
was missing in my life before; it
is music. Play on.”
You don’t know what is miss
ing out of your life, do you? You
have got wealth and culture and
position. I tell you what; I know
what brings you here night after
night. Why do you hurry in with
out your luncheon? Why do you
elbow and crowd your way? Some
of you stand. Oh, it is the lack
of Jesus Christ.
You will never know the A, B,
C of which to write the word
“Happiness’ until you find it down
at the cross of Jesus Christ, the
Son of God.
Eternity—it means eternity
with Jesus Christ, God and the
angels and all other good and
noble in this old world.
The cold, bleak winds blew
down the streets of Chicagzo in
1903, during the World's Fair.
At the Fit&-seventh street en
trance to Stoney Island avenue
stood a big policeman on guard;
and there stnod a group of chil
dren, a little boy and a little girl
that joined hands. Their legs
and feet were bare, their little
lips were purple and blue, and
they stood shivering in their rags
in the cold wind that blew off
Lake Michigan.
And the big policeman said:
“What is it, children?” 8
And the little boy said to his
sister: “You tell.”
* And she said: “No, you.”
He #aid, Mm. Mm, you.”
_ And she sa‘'d to him: “Is this
the White City?”
And he said, “Yes, why?” ‘
Then she turn~d to her little
brother and said to him, “You
ask him.”
Ha ghook his little head and
hid behind her ragg-d dress. Then
she said ‘Well, we want to go
in. We live over jon the West
side and wo hopped a ride on the
street car and on the ice wagon
and we walk'd and we are tired
and we wont to go n.”
“What do you want to go in
for?”
Then she stopped again and the
little boy peeked around behind
and said, “Why, our mamma died \
two weeks ago and she told us
she was goin’ to the White City
and if we would be good, Jesus
Christ would come and take us,
and we wae plavin’ with some
boys and girls over on Van Bu
ren street in the alley and thev
said the White Citv was down
here; and we are tired and hun
gry and we want to go In and |
find our mamma.” |
The Rig Policeman said, “Well,
your little feet couldn't walk to
that city.”
He wiped the tears from his
eves and he snoke to the gate
keeper and the policman dron
“ped a dollar into the hand of the
little boy and let them crawl
under the turnstile. He called a
vlainelott «eman ~nd =ald “Watch
thom a little while and then we
will take them home in the wag
on."”
They stood and watched them
as the scanned the face of evarv
woman: he watehed them unti]
th~v were ewallowed up in the
great erowd.
. T wigh T coul? nictnre he'l with
its horror and heaven with
s beautv until you wonid flee to
Jesma Christ and so many pennle
wonld have their names on the
Lemb’s book in h~aven that the
angelg wotlld have to call on a
lezion to write them down, You
are lnst to heaven without Je
sus Christ. You are lost, that
is all ‘
Now, it is wonderful that we |
can be gnved so easily. God does
" not require any zpecia] standard
of physique or intelligence, what- ‘
ever élse you may be able to say |
while T am hete you will have
this to say—-“ That it was just
as easy to be a Christian.”
But if you can trust God to ‘
save me, I can trust him to keep
you. S 0 I have got a wonder
tul Saviour. \
Hern is a man that hae been |
cursing all his life, 'a drunken |
mar‘i but if voun stumble and fall,
drfl vou lie there. Get up and
teli GoA vou.are going to' win,
ard ask him for forgiveness and |
you can win. J
What did he sav? He sald,
“Thie Aav hag salvation come to ‘
this honse.” |
Christmas Rvans tells about
the man that lived over In the
tombs that 7,-1s cast the devil
ont of An? he pictnre the
children nlaying and they rush
in ard sav: ; |
“Yonder comes a man that |
lonks like papa but he don't act |
like he used to act.”
And the mother takes one look
and she says. “It is your father,
he is a maniac. He will kill ys.”
Thev go in and shut the doors
and boit them and they stand
trembling and they hear him
coming up the steps and he
rap® —no sound.—frans again, 1
“Oh Mary, Mary, don't be
afraid to let me in. Open the
door. I will be a loving hushand J
to vou and a kind father to the
children. I have seen ‘Jesus |
Christ and he has set me fres, l
and T am no loneer under the
power of the devil.” |
She slips to the door, it swings
on Its hinges, they rush into each
~other's arms—a picture of manv
a home tonight if you would only
do the same thing with Jesus
Christ and take him home as a
companion. You are lost to
heaven without it.
Za-chacus gained everything,
and if you are lost it will be be
cause you stumbled over the love
of God into Hell
During the Civil War, Abraham
Lincoln issued an order that no
soldler should be privileged to
return home for a certain period,
for they needed every man on
the firing line.
While that qrder was still in
force a man campaigning in Vir
ginia against Robert E. Lee, re
ceived word that his wife was
sick and for him to hurry home.
They did grant him permission
to go to Washington to the
President and up to the Presi
dent’s room, and he asked to see
him.
The guard said, “No one can
see him now. My orders are not
to disturb him.”
| He cried and begged and the
sentinel said, “I feel sorry, sir,
but you can't get in?
The ' soldier walked down the
steps and toward the Treasury
Building and a child at play heard
him sob and she ran up to him
and said, “Mr. Soldier, what is
the matter?”
And he made no reply. And
then the child ran after him and
grabbed him by the hand and
said, ‘‘Please, sir, what is the
matter?”
And you know, as Jos~ph
Parker said, “There is a time in
every man's life when the touch
of a child’s hand seems to give
courage.”
Erskin when he was a young
barrister had no clients, and his
wife and children were hungry,
he got a trifitde case and he
pleaded it so eloanently that the
Jjudge came off the bench, walk
ed down and shook hands with
him and said to him, “How
conld you ever do it?”
He said, “Your honor, 1T saw
the hungry face of my wife and
children In front of me and
thev were pulline at my coat for
bread and it rerved me.”
So the little boy took the eol-
Ai~r by the Knd angns"!d. “Mr.
Soldier, what is the matter?”
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Captain of Rammed Munitions
Ship Makes Charge in Halifax l
.
Disaster Probe.
(By International News Service.)
HALIFAX, N. 8, Dee. 12.—The of
ficial investigation into the causs of
the disaster of last Thursday begant
‘today.
The surviving members of the crew
of the French munitions ship Mont
Blane, which was rammed, and the
Belgian reli‘f ship, the Imo, which
struck the Fronch vessel are the most
important witnesses to be examined.
Interest centers in the testimony to
be given bv the two crews, as no
doubt rermrains but what the collission
was due to misunderstood or wrong
signals.
Captain Lamedoo, of the Mont
Blanc, derlared the Imo was wholly at
fault. He said the ruleg governing the
course to be taken bv passing vescels
in rarrow channclg were disrrgarded
by the Belgirn ship. It is bol'eved the
investigation will continue for two,
davs or more. |
The American relief workers are
coming in for their filll share of praise
by the Canadian officials. The latter
declared todav that the quick action;
by the rolief workers undoubtedly pre
vented further loss of life, !
Reviged estimates today plac~d the
d;’*th list of the explosion §§saster at
1,800. !
The known dead are 800, and it is
beliaved that not more than 1.000,,
possgihly only 900, bodies lie under the
debris, Between 309 or 500 persons
are totally or partially blind, and 200
children are orphan-d.
It is estimat~d shat 500 house« are
wrecked beyond ren~ir. 500 were total
ly destroyed and 1 000 can be r‘estored.l
.
Billy and Rody to
Pillv Sunday and his vartner, Ho
mer Rodeheaver, will address the Ad
Men at the luncheon meeting Thurs
day noon at the Hotel Ansley. The
luncheon will start at 12:30 o'clock
in order to_give Mr. Sunday an op
portunity to get to the Tabernacle on
time. ¢
The Ad Men will listen also to an
address by Beaumont Davison on
“The War Savings’ Thrift Campaign.”
Captain Gay and Lieutenant De‘eri,
French officers stationed at Camp
Gordon, will be present as guests of
the Advertising Club.
WAYCROSS, Dre. 12.—Miss Helen
M~2.rfla has left for an American port
to Bail in a few days for France. Miss
Morris is a nurse, and she was ac
cepted some time ago for foreign
service with the Red Cross, but an
earlier ovportunity was presented for
service in France in an army hospital
unit, and she was transf-rred. She
has two brothers in the army. Harry
W. Morirs, of the 112th Engineers. at
Camp Wherler, and Edward J. Mor
ris, with an engineer regiment in
France.
Miss Morris is a graduate of Co
lumbia Hospital Training School, of
Washington, D. C., and is the first
nurse Wayeross has sent to the war.
BRIDE SCORES HUBBY.
CHICAGO, Dec. 12.—A warrant for
the arrest of Richard W. Solon on a
charge of nonsupport was obtained
by Mrs. Solon, a bride of a year
Mrs. Solon said that Mr. Solon had
nothing on his mind but his pompa
dour
And then the soldier told him ll§
and the child said. “Come oz, J§
don't you cry. 1 will take you
in to see "f President.”
He smiled? through his tears
and said, “Why, I am a man and @
a soldier and you are only a %
little boy. You can't get in.
“Oh, said Tod, “The President §
is my father and I will take )yfl,
in.”
He took him by the hand and
walked back. There passed th
sentinel back and forth. ‘Tod
was not discouraged and he
. stood and waited until the door
openrd and he caught. sight ofy
that face that every true Ameri
can loves and he said, ‘“Father,
tell the soldier to let me come.”
Abraham Lincoln forgot that
he was President, forgot the bur
den of the war was on his shoul
ders and he remembered that he
was the father of that little boy
and he said, “Soldier, let him in.”
The sentinel stood back and sa
luted Tod and his friend and
they walked in. Lincoln looked
and sald, “Well my dear fellow,
what brings you here 2nd w)r.
is the cause of your sorrow?” ;
And between sobs he told 3
President. Lincoln arose &
walked across to the window and
framed hig face in th~ glass. "I
looked across the Potomae Rive:? *
over into Arlington and the fears
trickled down his cheeke and he
gobbed. He turned and walked §
bock to his desk and picking up
his pen and divping it in the ink,
he signed the order that sent
that soldier back to Ohio. to the '
bedeide of his Aving wife.
Oh, that story is withont g
flaw Here we are, wand \'ng
becangs of onr gins. bnrdened and
overwhelmed with them, and we |
are trving to get in. Our sinsg
gtand there and the donr is bar- ,
red. “I can't gzet Grd’s ear. I
can’t gat his nardon.”
Hold on! He savs, “Pnt vonr
hand in mina. Tet me lsad vou
into the nresence of GnAd the
Father, One nicht 30 vears aco |
I reached out of my ¢inas and ant
of mv gnilt and T erasned the |
hand of Teeng Chriet, He has v-d
mna for thirtvy vears and he g
going to lead me thranegh the !
pates intn the aite and T ehall lan
into the sarans Ond tha Pathe ;
through faith in Jesus Christ.
’ ————— '
.
Suffrage Advocates Throng Capi
tol and Besiege Congressmen
. Y
in Behalf of the ‘Cause.
(By International News Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 —The Qazg’
itol was stormed by the suffrage
hosts today. lour hundred women
here to attend the forty-ninth annual i
convention of the National American !l
Women Suftrage Asdociation, moved 3
in e body through a heavy stowstorny :
agammst the great white building on *
the hi'l,
They took possession of the offices
of Scnators and Congressmen and
held impromptu suffrage meetings 1n
all parts of the building. Represen
tatives who have supported the sui
fragists in their fight were thanked
for =0 doing; those who have opposnd|
them were told ths error of their
ways dnd urged to put themselves
right at once.
Senator Calder’s office was made
the scene of a jubilee meeting by naif! |
a hundred women from New Yo!'lz
head~d by Mary Garrett Hay/ and
Mrs. Normander Whitehouse, who are
credited with having won the er
York suffrage victory., ]
Illinois suffragists, forty in number,
took possession of the larze confers
ence room in the House office builde« :
ing. and in vigorous speeches desf"
manderd that the Federal amendme!
be passed by the Sixty-fifth Con-f\
gress, E[
Fach State deleghtion was armed
with its own particular arguments,
but none lost opportunity to em
phasize that women now vote fi
one-fifth of the members of th
House, more than one-half the Sn
ators and two-fifths of the presiden
tial electors,
Over the theater where the sos
sions of the convention will be held
there n?:-ts a suffrage service flag
with twélve stars,
Each star reoresents an officer
the suffrage association now ddi
duty in some capacity in Fran
Set e "
War Hits ‘Smallest ;
' Like Oth
Man' Like Other
Being cne of the smallest men |
the worli ought to have its advan
tages in these war times of hi
prices fei shoes and clothes, but as
matter ¢f tact Little Lord Robert, w
is playving at Loew's Grand Theater
the last half of this week, does no
find it so. Ail his clothes have to
made to order, and they cost him jus
as much as 'he clothes of the ordi
nary-gizod man. ¢
tattle Lova Robert is deserving o
hig soudriqnet, “the smallest big s
on the stage.” He is so sn'all, in
that cne of his mcst amusing ro
that of a bal'y in the arms of a nt
He stards jus' 3 fe~t 4 inches
in his socks. He wears No. 3 c¥il
deen's s!-oef* His collar is No. 12
He 18 29 ye3ts olc
e b
Officers Elected b
v VJ
R. A. M. at Jesu
JESUP, Dec. 13.—At a regu
meeting of Jesup Chapter, No. 21
Roval Arch Masons, officers for th
ensuing yvear were elected. . Jame
Steel was chosen high priest: Ww.w
Surrency. king; Ira M. Ra: e
scribe; J. W. S. Heath, socr!ty B
E. Cohn, treasurer; George T
Eachern, C. of H.; Dr. A. & pr
P. S.: Dr. J. T. McLaughtim,
W. H. Driver, keeper of E
A. E. Knight, keper of sect
1. Nathan, keeper of first '
Rember Johns, tyler, i
The chapter has a large cla,
readiness for the Royal Arcd de.
gree. Companion E, A McHan,
grand treasurer, has been invited to
beAgt the conferring of the degrees
daily in January &