Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 18, 1915, Page 4

i Armies of God Are Not Made Up of Men and Women Taken by Draft § { dren to partake of all He has to give. | | [ — RN erTs “Billy"” Sunday, in Preaching on the “Mercies of God,” Says that God Never Owned a Slave. HE WANTS WILLING WORKERS Text 1 beeseech you, therefore, rethren, by the mercies of God, that © present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” Romans, xif., 1 We have here a call for volunteers, not an order for a draft. The armies of God are never made up of drafted men and women, ordered into service whether will- ing or not. God never owned a slave God doesn't want vou to do anything that you can't do without protest. This is nét a call to hard duty, but an in- vitation to the enjoyment of a privilege. it is mot a call to hired labor to take the hoe and go Into the fleld, but the appeal of a loving father to his chil- It there is nothing in you that will respond to God's appeal when you think of His mercles, I don't think much of you. The impelling motive of my text is gratitude, not fear. It looks to Cal- vary, not to Sinal. We are being en- treated, not threatened. That's the amazing thing to me. To think that would entreat us—would stand to entreat us! He is giving me a chance to show I love Him, If you are not ready to offer it in sratitude, God doesn’t want your service, He doesn't want you to serve Him through fear, but because you realize His love for you, and appreciate and respond to It. Just think If God has been good to us, how many times and how much has He been good to us! Never Too Musy for God's Work. A business man who loves his wife will never be too busy to do something for her, never too busy to stop sometimes to think of how good she has been and what she has done for him. If men would only think of the things God has done for| them there would be less of card playing, | less thought of dinners and concerts and other diversions of the world. God wants us to sit down and think over iy good- ness to us. The man who doesn't lsn't worth a nickel a bunch. Has God done anything for us as a nation, has He done anything for us as individuals, that commands our, gratitude? A man was out walking at night with his little daughter, and the stars were out and very bright. The little girl looked up into the shining vault of heaven, so thickly studded with the shin- ing orbs, and said: “Let's count them, papa.” And, beginning at one, ahe counted five, and twenty, and thirty, and forty, and fifty, and up to 100, and 1%, and 12, And them she said: “Oh, I'm tired, papa. There are 125, I didn't know there were so many.” Astronomers have counted 380,000,000 stars, and they have not yet commenced. Why, you might as well try to count God's mercles. You THE BEE: OMAH TUKDAY SEPTEMBER 18 1915. don't know Jesus, 1 went out thanking God that 1 could walk. If your hearts are not made of stone or adamant they will melt with gratitude when you think of the many mercies, the tender mercies, | of God “Brethren”~that's what God calls s | true followers. No speaking from the loft If there's any n we need to learn it 18 that of being “‘brethren A friend of mine went to Bngland to preach and one day spoke at a noonday meeting of workingmen, presided over | Iby the daughter of an carl. She sald to | those men: ““You ous'it to be convinced | that we of the aristocracy are Interested | tn you people of the working class and | in your problems, now that we bring this | {wentleman from America to speak to {Vow' And they applauded, those work |ingmen did! They cried, “‘Hear! Hea That will go in arlstocratic England, whore they bow and scrape to royalty, but it won't go in democratic America Sinners are not called “brethren” in the Bible. God commands sinners. They | {are in rebellion. He entroats (hristians. |When Lincoln called for volunteers he addreased men as ‘citizens of the United States,” not as foreigners. Smcrifice May Be Your Own. The man who is apprecitive of God's mercles will not have much mercy on | himself. Don't stand up and say: “I'll do what Jesus bids me to do, and go where He bids me to go,” then go to bed. Present your bodies—not mine—not |those of your wives; vou must present |vour'own. Present your bodies, not your I nelghbor's, nor your children's; it is their duty to do that. Do you trust God enough {to let Him do what He wants to do? Henry Vafley said to Moody, when that great American was In England, that God is walting to show this world what ohe man could do for Him, Moody said: **Varley, by the grace of God I'll be that man,” and God took hold of Moody and shook the world with him. God would shake the world with us today iIf only we would present our bodies as living eacrifice to Him, as Moody did. Are you willing to present yourself? 1 am tired of a church of 50 or 70 members without power enough to bring one soul to Christ. T belleve that the angels are leaning out of the battlements of glory tonight waiting to hear how you will answer this appeal to God. At the opening of the civil war many a man was willing that the country should be saved by. able bodled male relatives of his wife, who made them- ! en, but he didn't go him- God isn't asking for other men's bodies. He's asking for yours. If all would give to God what rightfully be- longs to Him T tell you He would create & commotion on earth and in hell. He has a hand in this campaign. It God had the feet of some of you He would point your toes in different ways than you' have been going for | many years. It He had your feet He would never head you Into a booze joint. | If He had your fest He would never send might as well try to count the drops of | water in the sea or the grains of sand Y°! 'nto & ballreom. 1if He had the as Rip Van Winkle's aid, and you'll never win the religious marathon A man sald to his wife that he had heard the preacher say that religion | worth Just what It costs, and that he had determined to give more for religion and to deny more for religlon, and t deny himself as well What will you give up?' she asked, He sald that he would give up coffes, for he dearly loved |coffee—used to drink meveral ocups at every meal, the very best. She sald that she would give up something, too—that she would give up tea. Then their daugh- ter sald she would give up some of her little pleasures, and the father turned to his son, Tom, who had been shoveling mashed potatoes, covered with chicken eravy, Into his mouth, and he said: “T'll give up salt mackerel. I never did like the darned stuff anyway.” God Wants Best We Have, There are too many salt mackerel peo- ple like that in the pews of our churches today. They will take something that they don’t like, and that nobody else will have, and give it to the Lord That mough for God. He wants the best God turns down the man who merely lives & moral life and does not accept the religion of Jesus Christ come with Jesus' blood. If a man gives his wife a 10-cent pin cushion at Christ- mas to show how much he loves her, h goezer the devil's stuck on. How thankful you are depends on how much you are willing to wacrifice What would you think of a soldier it | when he was ordered he would answer, “Tomorrow.” 1t he would say: ““When the next man to me does.”” 1If he should say: “When T get a new uniform.” Present—that means now, It 18 in the present tense. God wants ue to make a present of our bodies to Him ~because we love Him. A little girl showed a man some pres- ents she had recelved, and he asked her “How long may you keep them?' “How 100g?" she answered, ‘'Why, they were given to me. They are mine.” | Many a man gives his boy a colt or a! calf, then when it has grown to a horse or & cow ho sells it and pockets the money. Some of you fellows need to do | a little thinking along that line. When | we give God our body it is to be His for keeps. Many Men Will Rob G 1t when you make a present you do not mean to give it outright you are not honest. Will a man rob God? You bet| he will-a heap quicker than he will rob anyone else. Bishop Taylor promised God that he would do as much hard thinking and planning for Him as he would do for another man for money. He did it. So aid Wesley and Whitfield and Savonarola, and look what they did for If there Is any better way of doing God's business than there was 100 years ago, for God's sake do it! He's entitled to the best there |s This thing of just God! | You must | “'Present arms!"” | vould blossom like Fden aken as our watchword, what a stam- vardsticks, sh meas res, light weights, adulterated foods, , there would be! What a stopping the hitting up of booze! There would no more living In sin and keeping sdebody on the side, no more of you 14 deacons coming down the aisles strok- ing your whiskers and renting your bulldings for houses of (Il fame! Your reasonable service.” God never asks anything unreasonable, e is never exacting, He only asks rights when He asks you to forsake sin. A man must be an idiot If he does not see that man is unreasonable when unrighteous. God never made a law to govern you that you wouldn't have made if you had known as much as God knows. You don’t know that much and never can, #o the only sensible thing to do is to obey God's laws. tions. Faith never asks explana- God Never Asked Anything Ha God asks some things but never any that are unreasonable. 1 beseech you, brothren. 1t was hard for Abraham to take his son up on the moun- tains and prepare to offer him up as a sacrifice to God, but God had a reason a. that hard, are Abraham understands tonight and Abra- ham is satisfied It was hard for Joseph to be torn from his awe weople and to be sold into Egypt, and to be lied about by that miserable woman, torn from his mother and father, but God had a rea- #on. Joseph knows tonight, and Joseph in satistied. It was hard for Moses to leau the Jews from Egypt, following the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night, and make that crossing of the Red Bea, only to have God call him up to Mount Pisgah and show him the prom- ised land and say: ‘‘Moses, you can't| 80 In" It was hard, but God had a reason. Moses understands tonight, and Moses is satisfied. It was hard for Job to lose his children and all that he pos- sessed and to be afflicted with boils, and to be so miserable that only Panacea, his wife, remained with him. But God | had a reason. Job understands tonight, and Job is satisfied It was a hard thing God asked of Paul of Tarsus—to bear witness to Him at ringing the church bell to get people to come s about played out. God's Time Right Now, 1 tell you any time Is God's time. Now Is God's time. It was God's set time to teach us about electricity long before Franklin discovered it, but nobody had sense enough to learn. It was God upon the shore, or the office-seekers after a presidential election. If, we only think, we shall say with David: “Ac- cording to thy tender mercies. Too Many of God's Mercien to Count. An old Iady sald one morning that she would try to count all God's mercies for tHat ome day; but at noon she was becoming confused, and at 3 o‘clock she threw up her hands and said: “They come three times too fast for me to count.” g Just think of ‘the thinks we have to be thankful for. = A visitor to an In- sane asylom was walking through the grounds and as he passed one of the buildings he heard & volce from a barred . window high up in the wall, and It sald: “‘Stranger, dld you' ever thank God for your reason?’ He had never thought of that before, but he says that he has thought of it every day since. Did you ever think that thousands of people who Just as good as you are, are beat- Did you ever think what a feet of some of you He would make you wear out shoe leather lugging back ‘what you've taken that doesn’'t belong to you. If God had your f He would take You to prayer meetings. I'm afrald the preacher would have nervous prostra- Uon, for he hasn't seen some of ‘you there in years, It God had your feet you'd find It harder to follow the devil, Some of You preachers have your ohil- dren going to dancing school, and T hear wome of you go to dances He would make your daily walk conform to the golden rule and the sermon on the mount, | Goa Can Make your Hands Do Much. theis Some people work enly with mouths. God wants that part that's on the ground. Some soldiers only sit around and smell coffeo and watch the bacon frying. Some preachers need the cushions of their chairs upholstered much oftaner than they need their shoes half- If God had your hands He would make you let go of a lot of things you hold so tightly they will drag you down to hell. tUme to give us the electric lght long before Kdison Invented |it, but nobody had sense enough to understand it. It was God's set time to give us the gteam engino long before Watts watched the kettle boil and saw it puff the lia off, but nobody Had sepse enoush to grasp the idea. 4 Give yourselt to God, and yourselt doing lots of things for Dwight L, and never disgovered the power that was in him until God got hold of him set him to work. Jerry McCauley | you'll find | Him, | Moody was a shoe salesman | an old wharf sat until he xave himselfs as a living sacrifice to God. Andrew the Humble was an obscure and lowly man until God took him in hand. Does Not Want Long ¥ What a face your face will be when God puts His shine on it. If you are one of> the long-faced brand of Christians, get rid of it. on you. Pharisees wore, and Jesus sald, “‘they blesged thing it s ‘that you are sape | e Would have you let go of some of the | lengthened their faces to make believe and you go about among men and fol- be greeted by your wife and have your children climb about you? things you pay taxes on, but don't own, to pay taxes on some that you do own they had religion.” you (pointing to individuals), ever thank |t¥at they will lose a crown of glory | bank his fires and go to church to hear God that you have a mind and can think? hereafter If God had your hands how & man like that give testimony. # DI you ever thank God for your eyes? [MANY countiess tears you would wash | doesn't want you to look and act as If Did you ever thank Him that you can see the sunrise and the “'wes the flowers and the trees and look Jipon the storm? Did you ever ehank God that you b0 Jndny others you { ®an breathe. Think how many women | ne danced. ‘At 2 o'clock the next morn- | e i | blindness to the the volces you ever to be deaf? p.(’l Blessing to Be Thankful For. » Did you ever thank God for the bless- of people can't tell eating sawdust and shavings or strawherries and lce cream. of the good things we enjoy! have tastes so viclous that they find it slmost impossible to eat. Goa might made our food taste like Muinine, God might have made every- ‘taste like garbege-but He dldn't. d you ever thank God that we don't H Dave 10 hold our noses when we sit down | 16 the table? "Did you ever thank God that you can breathe without pain? Oné person in Bvery tem dies of consumption—and you die of cancer, one out of etght—and you £ Did you ever thank God that you can Mleep? If mot you ought to be kKept Awake for a month. Thing of the thou- sands who suffer pain or insomnia so | that they can sleep only under opiates. Did you ever wake up in the morning and thank Ood that you have had a m‘mm! if you haven't, God o keep you awake for a week, know you've fiad reason to be God for the doc- away. A friend of mine bought a type- fingers seemed to he all sticks, but now he can write 135 words a minute. Let them do things that would make the angels wonder and applaud. A young man went down to Thomas. God for h‘lfll\[?' ville, Ala., and while there was invited to & dress ball—or rather an undress ball, if what 1 have read about such affatrs properly describes the uniforms. A young lady—a young lady with eyes like the dove and with beautiful tresses, came up to him and said to the young man, “Won't you pledge’ & glass of champagne with me?™ The young man thanked her, but \DM, “No, 1 don't drink “Not with {me?’ she asked, and smiled, and asain he answered, “No. Then she said “If 1 had thought you would refuse me I would not have asked vou and exposed myself to the embarrassmont of & re- fusal. I.did not suppose you would think me bold for speaking to you in this way, and I thought you might be lonely," A little later she came back to him and repeated her invitation, Again he sald: “No,” Others came up and laughed. He took it and hesitated. She smiled at him and he gave In and drank the cham- pagne, then drank another glass and an- other, umtil he was flushed with it, then {ng & man with & linen duster over his other clothés walked back upon a raii- jroad station platform, waiting for a train | for the north; and as he walked he would ! exclaim, “Oh, God!" and would pull & pint flask from his pocket and drink. “My God" he would say, “what will mother say?' Four months later in his home in Vermont, with his weeping {parents by him and with four strong {men to hold him down, he died of de- | lirfum tremens. ! Wanted His Purse Ba; | The Epworth league's motto 1s: “Look religion affected you like a toothache or sunset and can | Writer and when he tried to use it his | o oorn. If it dees, it isn't God's kind. If God Almighty only had possession of your mouths, He'd stop your lying. you have twe good eyes while | 304 have your hands and He will make | 1¢ 11¢ had your mouths, He'd stop your knocking. How Little Are You Deolung?t If God had our eyes we'd bring the millennium. His eyes run to and fro through the world seeking for men to serve Him, and if He had our eyes, how our eyes would run to and fro looking for ways to help bring men to Christ. Hew hard it would be for sinners to gt away. We would be looking for drunkards and the prostitutes and downe and-outs, to lift and save them. How many sorrowful hearts we would find and soothe, how many griefs we would alleviate! Great God! how Iittle you' are doing! Don't you feel ashamed? Aren't you looking for a knothole to crawl through? If God had our eyes, how many would stop looking at a lot of things that make us proud and unclean and seif- ish and critical and un-Christian. you afrald to give It to Him? Are you afrald of the doctor when you are sick? in the seat. that thing that sits up here in the cheir and sings, that thing that sit there and writes editorials, that body which can show Jesus Christ to fallen sons of Adam better than any angel-- that's what God wants. God wants you to bring it to Him and say: “Take it, God, it's Yours.” If He had your body dissipation, over-eating and undersleep- ing would stop, for the body is holy ground. We dare not abuse it Wa You & Living Sacrifice. God wants your body as a living sac- rifice, not a dead one. There's too many dead ones. A time was when God was satisfied with a dead sacrifice. Under | | | | God never put such a face | That's the kind of a face the | When a man tries | 4§ low your dally dutfes and go home to [*nd He would make you let go of money | to make himself without asking God to help him, he will make a face as long as | DId you, or |Some people are so busy muck-rackink | u smokestack. I tell you, the devil will| God | God wants you to give your body. Are | Your body—that thing that sits out there | =, 1t that were | MakingPleasant Homes for Salaried People Rome and Ephesus, to face thoss jeering heathens, to suffer imprisonment and be beaten with forty stripes, and finally to put his head on the block and have it but severed by the order of old Nero, God had a reason. Paul #derstands night, and Paul is satisfied | It was a hard thing God asked of Jesus—to leave the mongs of the angels and the presence of the redeemed and glorified and come down to earth to be | born amid the malodors of & stable, and | be forced to flee from post to post, and dispute with the learned doctors in the temple at 12 years of age, and confute them, and to still the storm and the| troubled waters, and to say ta the blind, | “Be whole,’ and finally to be betrayed by one of His own followers and to be murdered through a conspiracy of Jews and Gentiles; but now He sits on the throne with the Father, awaiting for the | time to judge the world, Jesus under-| stands, and*Jesus is satistfed. | It was a hard thing for me when God | told me to leave home and go out into | the world to preach the Gospel, and to| be vilitied and libeled and have one's li.e threatencd and be denownced, but when my tima comes, when I have preached my last sermon, and 1 can go home to (lod and the Tamb, He'll say “Bill, this was the reason." 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