Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 17, 1915, Page 2

B ITI———————— Sunday Tells the Story of the B etrayal of the Savior by Judas “The hard to tell whether they are in the The sermon| church or in the world. I detest any man who will trim s Text: Matthew 22-"Lord, is] salls to catch a passing preesze of popu- T larity and fight under a doubtful flag. 1 God created man and placed him in|love to see & porson come clear out for the Garden of Bden, and gave him an|God without compromise. explicit command, and man disobeyed,| The nearer the relationship the stronger fwith the full knowledge of the penalty| are the ties of obligation. vinging in his ears, for God sald: “In| I owe to Mre. Bunday and our children the day thou eatest of the fruit thou| that which I do not ows to any other shalt surely dle.” woman or ohildren In the world, because The Lord did not mean a period of | of my relationship, twenty-four hours, but did mean that| You ows to your wife and children that man would pass a crisis In his career.| which you do not owe to any other Adam ate of the forbiden frult, and| beings. this world beeame a graveyard. 1f man| I owe to Jesus that which I do not owe had not sinned we never would have died. | to the world. I testify to the world that All the misery, all the disease, all the| its deeds are evil. I do not eare whether they hiss me or damn me, whether they dine me or damn me. Jesus sald: “The | world will hate you as It hateth Me." “Woe unto thee when all men speak well of thee.” Conduct of Chureh. One of the most uncomplimentary In the fulness of time Jesus came Into| things that can be said at your funeral the world in fulflilment of that promise. | is that you had no enemies. If you live e opened the eyes of the blind, stilled | an uncompromising life for Christ you ( tempest, fed the muititude with five will have enemies, loaves and two fishes, cest out devils| The nearer the relationship the greater the dead. the provocation. I could In one act rated by word and deed thet | break my wife's heart and bring dis- 8on God. The Jews grace upon my children, but that act repudiated His claim and | would not put a tear in your eys, Why? thelr finally culminated in His | Because all the interest you have toward crucifixion. But before that heartrend- | me is that I may entertain or instruct ing tragedy was enacted several incidents | you, and perhaps your concern ends oocurred, from ome of which I take my | there. text, Many of our churches are mot more “Banch” Then Like Now. than mere soclal organisations. They Jesus sald to His discipiea “Go your|spend more time developing along social over against you,| lines than along spiritual lines, & colt tied, whereon| Business men and iInfluential church ; loose him and bring him | members do not do their duty; they are “Why | completely wrapped up in their own af- this™ say "“The Lord hath need | fairs. They are busy with the pursuits send | and frivolitios of the world, and they lose “Bifly” Sunday preached on Three Groups™ last night. follows: xxvil But when man sinned God guve the promise, “The seed of the woman shall Uruise the serpent’s head.” t of & house | The old-time fire and the old-time spirit are lacking. What can we expect from A soclal olub other than a leading away y way like the |from God? Our churches need more of day, they were whittling, |God; less of dress, strife after wealth discussing finan- |and social life. other public ques- | A woman in & western oity went to her pastor and asked: “What can I do to win disciples began untying ths colt, |my husband to Christ?" low, who spit tobacco fulos ! He answered: ‘You can not win any & rabbit, calls out: one to Christ the way you live.” What are you doing? | She hung her head In shame and went are you going to do with that | home colt? Might in the first group. Thres in the “The disciples call back: “The Lord [second group. Jesus alone forms the hath need of him.” third. Away they go with the coit to where | The largest number in the first group. §§§ii ‘Wha § _ Jesus was and He on its back enters the | Farthest from Jesus. Nearest to the every church that I knew anything about, Ask the minister for a list of his mem- wn and check off the g i b It THE [ I H z it 3 i ol M i : i H LY i i §3s Lt fiH i f : i § { i if N H H H : i H *E i : k § H ! i s ] ¢ f i 5 g i f 4 I H | i i i : i! iz H E i ;i ' iE5f i H bt | § 13 ¢ f 2 i g8 a | i i sieke g iEF ] f g i : i i 3 : H E H ’: i iy A g j ! i i you look worried. i *One of you shall betray |and you ‘would go. You in the words of my text, [ you would ask John also asked, “Lord, i it g ¥t i { [ | i " it P i 24 o £% sf H 1 £ g i si¥ : i f P ? : H i ik i 4 13 f | ] l | H s § I i g i ] 2 - i | L] : 3;; £ §.3 - i i i i 5 £ i ol : b £z i | i f ; i 5 i i i I i i i i o xfg £ $2 ? f g H i 5 ;.’i? f -ii' eB § HEE H R : H E »ou think that?* tonight at the feast Jesus sald, + Cf you shall betray Me, and it 1s he the #0p," and after dipping © handed it to Judas.* i s THE BEK: OMAH FRIDAY, EPTEMBER 17, 1915, girle. If you want to drive the 1 out of the world hit him with & oradle. not a crutch, ‘When Jesus returned from the mount the sorrowing father ran to him with his boy, crying, "If thou canst do anything have compassion on us and help us. 1 brought my son to thy discipdes, and they could not cast the devil out!” | hers Worst, a doubt, Fallure on the part of those discipies to keep in touch with Jesus, so they could have power to cast out devils led the poor old father to doubt the power of Jesus. The divine philosophy, as demonstrated by thousands of church members, breeds more infidels than all the Paines, Park- ers and Ingersolls combined. As a principle increases In its meaning it decreases in the number that should | adhere to that principle, 1 sald to a minister one time: many members have youf" He sald: “Elght hundred and seventy- two; but there are 278 I do not count.” 1 asked: “Out of the number you do | mot count how many are helping in the meetings, singing in the choir, ushering or doing personal work?* Others Do the Work, Tears flowed down his cheeks aa he sald, “The largest number I have been able to muster any one night was twen- ty-elght, and iIf my life depended on my making the number fifty, I would dle!" There we'were wearing out oWr lives | trying to bring that God-forsaken, whis- | key-soaked, gambling-cursed, harlot- | blighted town to its knees, and the church calmly looking on. I sometimes doubt whether the church | needs the new members one-half as much |as it needs the old bunch made over. Judging by the way multitudes in the church live, you would think they imag- | ined they have a throush ticket to | heaven in & Pullman palace car, and had left orders for the porter to wake them up when they head in the yards of the New Jerusalem. If that's the case you {will be doomed to disappointment, for you will be sidetracked with a hot-box. If I bad a hundred tongues and every tongue speaking a different language in & different key at the same time I could not do justice to the splendid chaos that | the world-loving, dancing, card-playing, whisky-guszling, gin-fizsling, novel-read- ing crowd in the church brings to the cause of Christ. There is but one volce from faithful preacher and worker about the church, and that is ,“She is sick;” but we say it in such vainless, delicate terms that she seoms to enjoy her invalidity. About four out of five who have their names on our church records are doing nothing to bring the world to Christ and the church is not one whit better for their presence. One of the great dangers, as I see it, s asstmilation to the world; the neglect of the poor; substitution of forms for | “How fstry, all summed up means a fashion- able church, with religion left out. Shout “Amen.” Formerly Methodists class meeting has become a thing of the past. Shouts of praise used to be heard. Now such demonstrations are considered undignified L) Occasionally some godly old sister, who I don't expect one of thess ossified, potrified, mildewed, dyed-in-the wool, stamped-on-~the-cork, blown-in-the-bottle, horisontal, perpendiculnr Presbyterian or Episcopalians to shout “Amen!" but it ‘would do you good to loosen up. Many of your are hide-bound. Poor Crowd to Work With. Jesus will never unfold His revelations base ball game on the Babbath or living in aln, Jesus did not ask the members of the first group, mear the eldge of the gar- den to pray. Perhaps they would have nry. minister knows there are cer- his church that he the facts of godiiness; a hireling min. | attended class | meetings and gave testimony; now the A little hotel to walt, and about 1 o'clock some one came and sald: “Get ready for the train; it's coming.’ 1 looked Into mother's face. Her eyes were red; her halr was disheveled. I | asked: “What's the matter, mother? All |the time Ed and 1 slept mother had been | praving. | We went to the train. Mother put one |arm about me and the other about Bd |and sobbed as it her heart would break | People walked by and looked at us, but |they dian't say & word. Whr? They dian’t know, and if they had they | wouldn't have cared. Mother knew; she (knew that for years she wouldn't see her | boys. | Mother Patd for Them. | We got into the train and cried: “Good- | by, mother.” as the train pulled out. We reached Counecfl Bluffs It was cold and {we turned our little thin coat collars | over our necks and shivered. We saw a |hotel and went up and asked a woman for something to eat. Ehe said: “What's your name?” “My name is Willle Sunday and this is my brother Ed."” I sald. ““Where are you golng?’ “Going to the Soldiers’ Orphans' Home at Glenwood.” She wiped her tears and sald: “My hus- band was & soldier and he never came back. He wouldn't turn anyone away and 1 certainly won't turn you boys away." She threw her s about us and said: “Come on in" Bhe gave us our break- fast and our dimner, too There wasn't any train going out en the Burlington until afternoon. We played around the yards. We saw a freight ‘train standing there, s0 we climbed into the caboose. The conductor ocame along and sald: “Where's your money ™ in't got any.” “Where's your tickets?™ In't got any. ““You can't ride without money or tick- ots. I'll have to put you off.” We commenced to cry. My brother | handed him a letter of introduction to the superintendent of the orphans’ home The conductor read it; handed it back as | the tears rolled down his cheeks; then [®ald: “Just sit still, boys. It won't cost you & cent to ride on my train.” It's only twenty miles from Counefl Bluffs to Glenwood, and as we rounded the curve the oconductor sald; “There ia the home on the hill.” Mother knew. Xd didn't . 1 dldn't know. I went to sleep. Bo |a; but mother knew. She prayed Jewus knew. He prayed Jumes and John went to sleep. You ean't raake me belleve that if you knew you would act as you do. If you will tell me how the Bible, how much you pray, how you do to help people to Jesus Christ, will tell you to what figures you point on the spiritual thermometen The trouble is, you will be in the church on Sunday morning, and will keep a little 8pot about seventeen inches square warm for half an hour; listen to the sermon; pick up a book and eing, “Jesus Paid It AlL" when you have debts that are out- lawed. much you read undertaker thought it would be a down- right shame to put the man away withoot something being sald, and so concluded to make a few remarks himself. So whea the time came he cleared his throat, and in a plous whine sald: “Dear friends, this corpss has been & member of this church for forty years!™ “Crucify Him!" cried the relentiess rab- ble. The vociferations of that infuriated mob shook the temple from foundation to of the multitudes. Truly all the of el seam 1o have assembled ia Jors: salem, and out through the fumeral guts poured the mob. Here comes Judas, leading the devil's crowd. Tumning to the Pharisees, he sald, “‘Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is bom | fTe; hold Him fast.” See the swile on his hypocritical, sanc- timonious countenance, as he rushes for- ward shouting, “Hall, Master!” and kisses Him. Jesus answers, “‘Judas, be- trayest thou the Scn of Man with a kiss?" They seize Him, and take Him to the high priest's house, where Hes is oon- demned on false testimony, to a felon's death on the cross, Must Jesus bear the cross alone, world free? cross % everyone, As one has beautifully pletured the #cene, by saying he imagined that had we been there, and God had given us power of vision we might have seen the hilitops covered with angels, and the air filled with heavenly hosts, all gasing breath- lessly upon that scens. The archangel opens the door of heaven and eries: “0, Jesus; if you want me to come to your help, ralse your head and look this way; and 1 will come with a leglon of angels to your halp!™ But Jesus suffered on. He imagined the archangel once more leaning over the bat- tiements of heaven, and crying again, with a voice that shook the earth: ““0y Jesus, Thou Son of God! If you want me to come and hurl that howling blood-thirsty mobd into hell, tear Your right hand looss from the cross and wave e Bue Jesus clenched His fingers over the nalls in His hands and suffered on. Why? To open up & plan of saivation, which, if we will acospt, will keep us out of hell. Suddenly He cried: “It is finished!" and the Holy spirit plucked the olive branch of peace from the cross, and wining His flight back burst throvgh the gates of glory, shouting: “Peace! Peace! Peace! croaa”™ Forsake at Oross, How many will g0 with Jesus to the ditch? Thousands will; but there many, who like the disciples, follow i to the garden, but forsake Him at cross. me., tense. “All the peace, all the puower, all the blessings of a Christian life and eternal Joy left out—"Thine be done.” It costs some too much to say, “Thine be done.” One says, “If I say that the saloon. keepers won't come to my store to trade. “If 1 say that I would have to close my store on the Sabbath.” “If I sald that I could not acoept Mrs. So-and-8o's Invitation to a eard party.” “If I sald that I would have to pay my debta”™ “If I sald that I would have to go home and burn up the prizes I have won at progressive euchre.” “If I gald that I could not go to the brothel and crayl into the arms of in- famy.*” “If 1 should say ‘Thy will be done,’ I should have to throw the wine out of my cellar and break up my beer bot- tles. I am going to have a few bottles for dinner tonight.” “I cowld not go to the ball game on Bunday 1f I said that.” “I would have to stop lying about my neighbors If I said that.” O yes, it costs too much to say “Thine be done.” That is the reason you lose out. That's the reason you have moral ourvature of the spine. That's the rea- son your spiritual batting average is not up to God's league standard, “Not my will, but"—there's where you cash in. There's where you go into the ditch. There's where you turn off the recelver, There's where you ring off. There’s where you strike out. It costs too much to say, “Thine be dome.” “Hurry, Father, Hurry ! “Say paps, may I go with you? asked & little boy of his father, “Yes, son, come on,” said the father, 5 he threw the axe over hie shoulder, and | The man who pays s consistent price for good clothes finds that it costs him less in the long run than buying cheap outfits. 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