Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 15, 1915, Page 2

i i it HOME NEXT WEEK Ambassador Says He Asked Leave of Absence to Make Personal Re- port to Austria. HE WILL GO VIA COPENHAGEN LENOX, Mass,, Sept. 14.-—The Aus- ftro-Hungarian ambassador, Dr. Constantin T. Dumba, today an- nounced that he had requested his Koreign office to recall him on leave | of absence, in order that he might n.ake a personal report on the situa-| ftion in the United States which re- | sulted In a request by the United [states government for his recall. | Wil Sall Next Week, OCOPENHAGEN, Denmark, Sept. 14 (Via {London).—According to the Politiken, Dr {Dumba, the Austro-Hungarian ambas- lsador to the United States, will safl on [the steamer Frederick VIIT from New [York September 23 for Copenhagen Want Sunday's Help for Drysin the Fight Nowin Minneapolis The prohibition state committee of Min- esota telegraphed asking “Billy" Sunday {to come up and make speeches in Min- polis three days to help along the [“dry" campaign which s being waged | fthere prior to the election which takes place October 4. The committes stated its firm bellef that it “Billy"” would do this [Minneapolls would go “dry” and stated that It would be the largest city in the “dry” ocolumn, Mr. Sunday wired to W, {Stromme of the committes that it would | [be tmposstble for him to come to Minne- apolis, as all his time must be given to {the Omaha campaign. A delegation from Fort Worth, Tex., “Rilly” even considers the invitation it (will be Impossible for him to go before ithe latter part of 1917, T0 HIT THE TRAIL THURSDAY NIGHT (Continued from Page One.) center aisle will bs cleared, the ocou- pants being moved to standing room #pace along the alsle leading to Four- teonth street. During the balance of the evening, these seats will. be kept cloar 'for trall hitters, Speaking of the progreas and success iof the meetings up to this time, Ma un- \day sadd: | the | THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, sra 1 EMBER 19, 1915. “Billy” Sunday Preaches Tuesday Night on the Subject of | Christian Work. RELIGION IS COMMON SENSE “Christian Work" was the subject Mr. Sunday's sermon at inst night. He said In the book of Nehemiah, fourth chap- tor, sixth verse, “The people had a mina to work." Nehomiah was e cupbearer to K ng | Attaxerxes and he heard th t the cit was in a deplorable and dilapitated con- dition, his beloved Jerusalem. This news wns brought to him by a friend, who had been to Jerusalem and seen for him- self. When he walked Into the presence of the king the old monarch noticed that his countenance was sad and troubled, and he asked him what was the reason, and ho told him it was becauss he had {learned about Jerusalom and he asked |the permission of the king to return to {Jerusalem for the purposs of rebullding walls, The king not only readily con- sented, acceded to hle request, but gave him an order upon his forest for timber and upon his quarries for stone. of the tabernacle salem and In a seemingly inuredile time of fifty-two days the walls of thé city had been rebuilt and the gates hung upon hinges, and this was accomplished be- cause of the words found In my text: ““The people had a mind to work.” They | were not loafers on the job. “The pesp'e ' had & mind to work.” There were others {In eaptivity who knew as much about |Jerusalem as did Nehemiah, but they were not concarned about it. Enthusiasm for God Is like the measies or smallpox— it you've got it somebody else will get it if they go near you. Only a Drome, If you are lasy, Indolent, knocking grumbling, howling, you are only a drone in God's hive, and other people will catch that spirit just as they would catch the #apirit of your enthusiasm. They will have feelings analogous to those which pos- sess and dominate you. In other words, what you are, others will be. If you are moral and decent, they will be; if you are & contemptible scoundrel, they will be, It s one thing to know what to do, and another thing to do it. The trouble | 1s that the people know what to do, but they do not do it because they are too unless you use it. It is useless to know how to trim a hat or make a dress or a pair of shoes or bulld a house; that knowledge is perfectly useloss It you will not or do not use it. It 1s useless to those depending upon you for bread and butter | unless you use your knowledge. You may know about God, yet your knowledge of God and God's cause Is no good unless you take the knowledge and put it into practice. Religion is the most comm.n- wense thing in the universe. Mynticlsm. I am getting sick and tired of this of religious enthusiasm |MYsticiem, and 1 want to rip and tear the cloak aside. I wi dling clothes of to rip the swad- from top to bottom that so many theologians have wrapped around the plain A, B, C of g i than flfty personal workers have Among them: are many and their duty will be to mingle {1 in attendance at the meeting, personal ‘invitations to go for- They will be at liberty to go any- the bullding and out into the the Tabernacle. All Invited In. night, as soon as the invita- 10 hit the trail is extended, the doors the bullding will be thrown open and corridors and upon the neighborhood of the taber. vited in. There will be hose ing T5 i i i i A ] £ 3. % . American Held for Ransom by Mexican Bandits Released BL PASO, Tox., Sept, W.—Bdward "ed- +widge, an officlal of the Mexican North- twestern rallway, whe has been held for rensom by bandits operating near "h Cuanbre tunnel in Chihuahum was re- Jeased early today, sccording to informa- tlon reaching here. A poase Is pursuing ‘the bandits. Advices received here did not state Ledwidge eacaped from the ban- livered on payment of the wias rescued in a fight. Led- held by the Cheve brothers, Chihuahua. 5 information indicated that Tedwidge had been shown alive to for- residents of Chicte, Chibuahua, last heaven by some old theologlans. Who are you and what you do is of vastly more importance; nmot what you know, If you simply use the term knowledge in the abstract. Some people pretend to belleve, lmn they never work at it. Christianity consists in niether be lev- ing alone nor doing alone, but in both It you belleve, wake up and do something. Show you believe by what you do. James | sald: “Falith without works is dea. In {other words, it is not worth hibe | 1t you belleve work out y ur salva- Ium with fear and trembling. 1 have ®ot salvation through Jesus Christ, now that T have got it, let me work it out. Don't sit around and rap. The most suc- {cessful preachers against Christianity are not the saloon keepers, but Inconsis- tent professors of Christianity. Chent in Trade. The bad sermons you prea’h with your life are more powerful than the over-mastering sermon that any man can preach with his lipe. You pray with your lips, and cheat in & horse trade. You kneol at a communion table and then you oppress the poor and make them 1ive below the hunger line, You sing for the glorification of God and then you put the wrong figures in the day book. Unless you can serve with enthusiasm you will not work at any thme. There must be an inducement. What is the in- ducement that makes a student stick to his books? Graduation day. What is the inducement that makes the farmer plow, and plant, and labor, and toll and work | . all through the long, hot summer da. Beptember and October, when he gathers the harvest into the barn. Why do men delve Into the bowels of the earth and work and sweat In dark caverns? What for? What is the inducement? To find the coal and bring it up and sell it to the consumer that he may. draw his pay. Why do men practice law or medicine To be paid for the wkill they have ae- quired at law or medicine by years of study and practice. Absolutely Discusting. It is absolutely disgusting and nau- seating to see how many people move around and label they're serving Ged Listen to this. Here are some tremen- dous facts. There are 100,000 churches in the United States; about 000000 com- municants in the churenes equally di- vided between the Catholic and the Pro. testant; there is & seating capacity for 0000 fn our churches. In America, alrcady one-third of the people are pro- fessing Christians; mot quite, but nearly that, and all they would need to do would be for each one to win one soul to God in a year and we could win the nearly 7,000,000 people, In this country who are not members of any church. I tian country. I am not talking about Japan, Malavsia, China or Korea. for m thing and not be willing to anybody in this place. * wemtveWive Hundred Churches. He got 1,500 men and returned to Jeru- | lazy to o it. Knowledge is of no value | United States for Ohrist. Yot we have | am talking about this country, a Chris- | It I8 downright byvocrisy (o DPray place or the other. Last year 1,600 churches made reports: | boost for all you're worth. DR, DUMBA STARTS | You Have to Work for Religion, Just as a Farmer for His Crops, [& ches In Boston spent $200,000 for expenses; they had 42 join the church in the course of the whole | year. In Chicago the Congregational churches, numbering seventy-three, spent for current expenses $20,000, and they | had %6 join thelr churches for a year | All the Congregational churches in Hos. |ton and Chicago had in one year 1.30} | come into the church In one year there were only 1,06 came into the churches, and I saw over 2,000 | people take their stand for Jesus Christ ) in one day In Columbus, O. Oh, of course, {1 am erude and illiterat and there is a safe and sane evangellam that we hear 60 much about nowada It cost 360 for every soul tha joined the church in Indianapolls; New York, $545; Boston, $456; Denver, M35, Chicago, $420; New Orleans, $%0; Atlanta, Ga., §75; Lou'sville, Ky., #5. Fifty-two per cent of the men who live south of the Mason and Dixon line are professing Christians North of the Mason and Dixon line 24 per cent; along the Pacific coust only & per cent, and you can put a queation mark after the names of most of them. | Whisky Gung in Charge. South of the Mason and Dixon line they have got the north beat to a fraz- | zle In religion and in morala. If there is ia state in the union that s whisky | noaked, and whisky dominated and run by the whisky gang, it is Indiana. They do anything they can to get thelr dirty, stinking hands on. There are three kinds of people In the church; the 1 wills, who try to accomplish everything; the won'ts, who oppose every- thing; the can'ts, who do noth'ng. Hear |me, The world wants men and women | with nerve and grit, who will work and | wait whether they are applauded or hissed. Chiseled on the monument of Miss Lyons, who founded the school for girls at Mt. Holyoke, Masa, there is this inscription: “There is nothing in the universe that I fear except that I may not do my duty, or kn.wing my duty, T may not do it Reveals Critles’ Charncter. There is nothing in the univiree that 1 am afraid of except that I may not know my duty, or knowing it I may not do it. The people know what to do, but they do not do it. “Tte peo le had a mind to work.” Every time a lazy man looks up into Heaven I think that God closes the windows. “The people had a mind to work: not to criticise, and they did work “ongregational ch there Is opposition; that's always the way, Start to do something for God and see how the devil begins to howl. That is the best evidence In the world that you are hurting his business. Listen to me. A man's criticlsm i1s a revelation of his own character, and not the measurs of the degrudation of the one whom he criticises. Listen to me. Criticlsm is a publie revelation—I will put ft this way- |48 & publiq revelation of the moral lati- | tude and longitude of the critic, and it will give you an Insight Into his charac- ter. Criticism, my friends, is a public revelation of the character of the one that does the knocking. The people had & mind to work and not criticlse. No sooner does the woik be in than critictsm and opposition arise. Bmergen- cles not only make men but make expe- fences as well. We dfdn't make Roose- velt; didn't make Schley; didn't make Admiral Dewey; wé simply gave them a chance to unvell themselves to the world, Hasn't Started Yet. | “You have the best chance to publicly |demonstrate and show your character and loyalty to Jesus Chifst that ever rolied down this valley. I am jus. gl+ing you folks a chance to get your menta! adjustments made. 1 will commence to preach next week, I am glving you a chance to show where you stand—whether | you are willing to stand for God and Truth or not, or whether you are going |to sit down on It “They tell a story of Michael Angelo; he went into a bullding where Raphael {had painted some cartoons, and Ang.lo |looked at them and his practiced eye |told him that they were too large for the wall space; they were out of pro- portion, ard he took his brush and dipped (It in the paint and painted a cartoon of the sise which he thought it ought to be. |And some one sald: ‘Why did you do that? Why didn’t you call Raphael's at- tention to it? And he answered and said, ‘I, Angelo, criticise by creation, not by finding fault.’ So, If any of you here to- ]lll‘ht think you can preach & better ser- !mon than I, butt in and show me. If some old elder or deacon thinks you can do the job better than the preacher, then ask him to resign and you climb up in the pulpit and do it. In Conmectieut, | “1 was In Connecticut one time, New London, and I met & prominent man who told of & man they had had in their church; he was always grumbling and ‘complaining and finding fault and kicked jabout everything: he didn't like the ser- !mons and he never did anyth'ng. So at ;& church sess'on some oe nsiid: ‘What will we do with Brother Brown? Syme one else said: ‘Have him prayed for. | Brother will you pray for him? ‘Net on {your life.' Brother, will you pray for {Mm?* ‘No' Finally they found cns fel- {low to say he would. They agreed that ‘he would do it on Wedensday evening and when Wedneaday evening prayer meeting came he got up and cleared his throat and sald: ‘Lord, there is Brother | Brown, who does nothing himse'f, but s always grumbling and complaining, al- | ways growling and finding fault, and, oh, Lord, we have given the ma‘ter earnest consideration, and we b come to the | prayerful conclusion that the best thing | You ean do for him and for all the com- |munity is to take him to heaven.' But Brother Brown jumped up and sald, ‘T {won't o, 1 won't go, I won't go.’ “After & while another fellow got up {and sald, ‘Lord, we think the best thing you can do s to take him to hell' Some- body got up and eald, ‘What do you want to make a prayer like that for?" He sald, Tl tell you. If the devil got him in hell, ho'd e'ther run hell or break it up, one or the other.' Kvery preacher has & few members that he wishes were in one TH tell you that. Tk, “*The people bhad a mind to work.' for it. Your prayers are worth no more ! Don't you know there are a lot of reo- than you are willing to redeem them at ple who sit around grumbling and growl- in works, and 1 am not going to keep ing enything back In this eity for fear of every good thing down; dom't be that like brooding chickens, knocking kind of cattle; no, they're no use on earth—be a booster rooster, crow and Your town When- | ever you begin any work of this kind doubts. You go up to & man and ssk him, ‘Are you a Christian? ‘Yes, thank | God, T am.’ Go up to another. ‘Are you A Christian™ ‘Well, 1 hope so, Brother Sunday; in my weak way I am tr,ing t serve the Lord, Pray for me 1If some one asked, ‘Mr. Sunday, are you mar- |ried? ‘Yes, I hope so, 1 am t-ying to be. And yet 1 am jost as sure that T am |a Christian and that 1 am married. Here |18 & song & Chrstan ought never to sing: ' 'Tis a point 1 long to know; how much it gives me a xious th ught; 4 1 love the Lord, my God; ah 1 His or not” A Christan ou ttn ert s g a song like that. I know Him In whom | belleve. 1 like that kind of relg n 1 will give you a ecipe: Make out a prayer list before you go to sleep tonight, |wriee dow., we ame of ¢ T, ien | woman, every boy or girl, make a list of | twenty-five, of thirty, or fifty, and pray {tor them; write them a letter; call t em over the te'ephone; let them kn w y>1 have their names on your list and before you know .t t at cold and you are up in the face of God with twenty or thirty souls, praying for them |day and night. | “A woman came up to me one day and sald: ‘Mr. 8un. ay, have yo read this novel” I eall ‘No' She sald, You ought to read it I mid, cant, I haven't got time.' She asked if I hal read ‘When Knighthood Was in Flo er? ‘No. ‘Have you read ‘The Cr.is’' by | Winston Churchill? ‘No' Have you read hips that Pass in th Night? ¥ Beatrice Harrad n? ‘No. ‘May I ask why? ‘Yes; I haven't got time to awim through fifty fect of sewa e to pi-k up |one mcintilla of truth.’ | Prayer and Falth. “When you pray you must bave faith. The farmer has got to have falh w.icn [ he plows his field, plants his se.d; he's ®ot to work If he .ver gets a ¢ op. God sald, ‘I will make a thraci.e coal and hide it in the mou:tains of Pennsyl- vanla, and if you want it you will have to dig for it.' God didn’t send the angels down to aig it up for you. I yo. a e too lazy to mine it, then freeze to death. God sald: ‘I will ma e t e snow, the ground, I will make the rain, and the dew, but I will not send ange s to ,low the ground for you.' He sad, ‘T will give you my beloved son to die for you — |and If you will not belleve in Him you twill all sweep to perdition together. You have got to work just as much in religlon as you do to get your crop. You .a.e your coal; you bore In the ground, you mine it and bring it up and kindle your fires with {t, but you cannct ma.e the coal. You can't make the pian of re- demption, and all you can do is 10 en- | courage others, and you can do your part. “1 would rather have standing room in heaven than own the earth.” | Copyright, Willlam A. Sunday. 4 Billyisms “X think the multitudes in the churoh will have to e comverted them. elves before they cam lead anyone else to Ohrist.” | | “Bvery man who is lving oontrary | %0 the laws is & oriminal whether he foels like it or mot.” “¥You bet your life the devil had noth- ing to do with my coming here.” “We need horse sense in preaching.” “The church of Grod has not smelled gunpowdoer in 150 years, That is what is the matter with it others have the street,” “I dou't have ome tone of volce hers | and another when I go to the grocery.” Dr. Rellln ™Moo Tarton v Got a 2¢ bottle todav, keen it fo- yo r ocough or cod. G od for children, a ult and aged. All druggists.—Advertisement. | 7% 5 A < *- 7 eelrg has go e, | “T have no more pulpit mauners shan NO MORE WORK ON MONDAY FOR “BILLY" SUNDAY (Continued from Page One.) Bo & Christian. 'Why, 1 thought you sald you wanted to go to hell’ I sald to him. ‘I've changed my mind, I've been |taere for three days’ he said.” Why All Converts Don't Stick. Mr. Sunday sarcastically imitated the “y\lnlnl of hia critics who say, “Your con fverts don't all hold out, do they™' N¢ lyou big idiot,” he cried, “Christ had {twelve discijles and one of them was a devil. Maybe you're the devil in your erowd."” There was Httle slang m the afternoon {sermon. The evangelist, dressed in a !black business suit, was a little more repreased than usual, but in epite of his hoarseness, he didn’t spare his volce. | Rev. W. 8. Hampton made the opening prayer. Miss Saxe's Bible class met on the platform following the sermon. A permanent reservation will be made in the tabernacle for business girls and women, and one for busineas men, work- ers of all kinds, starting with Wednes day night. This is considered the surest way to get Into the bullding those after whom the evangelist is reaching out. It is not desired that church members take up all the space all the time. The_delegation from Lingoln will reach Omaha at 6 p. m. Thursday. W. J. Bryan has been active In arranging for this delegation and will probably be with the Lincolnites. Blauser Will Case | Is Up for Hearing { FAIRBURY, Neb, Sept. 14.—(Speclal Telegram.)—The Blauser will and testa- ment case, involving aproximately $80,000 of Jefferson county real estate, is being tried In probate court before Judge L. J. Nutzman today. Contestants are endeavoring to break the will of Mrs. Maria Blauser of Diller, who died last January, by asserting she was of unsound mind. In this instru- ment Mrs. Blauser bequeather a healf section of land to Cleo Blauser, who represented this county in the legislature last winter; a quarter section to eight other children and $100 to another child. The decased and her husband were wealthy farmers, living In the eastern part of the county, near Diller. Former Adjutant John Hartigan, coun- sel for Cleo Blauser, tried to establish that Mra Blauser was of sound mind, asserting she ralsed chickens and egs made butter and marketed these com- modities, and had good reasoning and Intelligence to end. He even cited her trip to Columbus, O., In August, 1907, and showed she handled her finances and loaned money to hor children. i dict this testimony, by showing that her transactions were always subject to the |advice of her son, Cleo Blauser. This |18 the largest will ever probated and con- tested in Jefterson county. \Consumption of Cotton Increases WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—Cotton used during August was 44,15 bales, exclusive of linters, compared with 353,630 bales in August last year, the census bureau an- nounced today. Cotton on hand August 31 In consuming establishments was 1,1661%0 bales, against 675,878 a year ago, and In public storege and at compresses 1,670,231 bales agalnst 546,924 a year ago. Bxports were 163721 bales, against 21,210 a year ago. Traports were 15,0 bales, against 27,057 a year ago. | Attorney W. H. Barnes tried to contra- | Thompson- elden & Co. Children's Fall Coats and Headwear Tt isn’t too early to inspect the new things in fart many mothers are hnying now, for cool days are apt to be here most any time. Children’s very 2 1o 14 years. Coats satisfactory this year in materials and styles; plain colors and fancy mixtures are be- ing shown for children Intants’ Coats, long aud chort styles in ecash mere, batiste and silk, hoth plain and hand emhroidered. Prices to please every mother, are Children's Section——Third Floor. Women's Extra Size Gowns | High neck, long sleeves, trimme.l, | well made of good ma- terials; sizes 44, 46, 4S; priced 85ec. $1.25, $1.50. Third Floor. embroidery New All Wool Challis As fast as these challis come in they go out. And no wonder. They are quite the prettiest challls made, ev- ery thread is all wool, so beautifully woven that chal- lis prove they can be as soft and drapeable as silk | Dress Goods—Main Floor. Tomorrow Lace Curtains at Less Than Half Price Basement | Popular P:anos Nearly One-third of a Million Kimball Pianos IN USE day architecture; sonable. USED PIANOS back, Shirmer, 8175. $3. Hawaiian Pineapple Canned Is a delicious dessert for all occasions. The firm, luscious slices contain all the natural flavor and rich, syrupy juice found only in the fully ripened fruit. Buy a can of Hawaiian Pineapple from your grocer today and see how much better it tastes than the so-called ‘‘fresh’’ variety. Hawaiian Canned Pineapple is ready to serve the instant you open the can—no paring, cutting or sweetening, Styles to suit present fancy woods; mahogany, walnut and oaks, in every finish to match the furniture, Prices $265, up, terms rea- Cable-Nelson, Hospe, Baum- Hospe and many others, 8135, $150, §160, | M0 per month pays for one. | A. HOSPE CO. 1513-1515 Doug! as Street. ——— v ——— - 10c to 25¢ a can according to size of can and grade of quality—cheaper than it's ever been before. Just ask for a can of Hawallan Pineapple. not one accession on confession of faith. Any of your churches among that num-| ber? neods the best booster; don't hold back nd see If some other fellow is wiln', Not one acoession on confeasion of | jest sall in, this country’'s free. If that s not an insult to the| “Know some fellow's fallin'—jest for- get it, ‘do—that feller's got some good point, them's the ones you ought to show—cast your loaves upon the watere— that's true—maybe It ‘will come back buttered—for some feller that will Your Grocer Sells It ASSOCIATION OF HAWAIIAN PINEAPPLE PACKERS, Gerland Building, Chicage (0