Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 22, 1915, Page 2

2 \ God Cares Not oh How }'oa VCorr;t‘e ’ To Him Just so You Do Come| Sunday spoke last evening Rev, “Billy" t the Tabernacle on the He sald: Mark v, 2-8: The scene of this ator i in Capernaum. Our Lord has but re cently returned from the country of th Gadarenes, on the other side of the 5 »f Galilee. On the way over He h stilled the tempest, and while there H had healed the wiid man who was fillc with & legion of demons, and the there had besought Him to leave country as quick as He coul, for saving a man 2,000 hoge had been lost, and they didn't- want any more work done for them at ‘that price I can see some of those old hog-ralsets wringing their hands and declaring that the whole country Is going to be ruinea, imless the Man who had sent thelr swine galloping headlong into the sea can be persuaded to depart from their coast, and not cast out any more devila in their pig-worshiping land. What d.d it mat. ter if homes were unhappy; it women and children were having to Live In want, fear and wretchedness® What did it matter If men were being robbed of their manhood by the demons that possessed them, and made like wid beasts, so savage that they would break their chains, and ragged and wounded and bloody would become a tefror to all who came near them in place of the dead? What did it matter if peopie were sometimes kilied, and homes were some- times burned down and much property destroyed by these wild men? What did it matter if taxes were made higher by the ravages caused by them? Hhogs had been raised in untold numbers. Thelr madness had never done the hog busi- ness any harm and the swine trade was a great thing among the Gadarenes. Didn't it give employment to a lot of men who looked after them and fed them, and took better care of them than they did of their own wives and children? ‘Destroy this blessed hog business and down goes everything,' they sald. So they wiped their weeping cyes on their hogskin coat sleeves, threw up thelr hands impioringly, like a brewer just befors election, and besought Jesus to turn His back on them as quick as pos- sible, for every minute He tarried more wnd more hogs were rushed into the sea. Timid Woman th i A Blessed Business. Isn't that just lke the whisky busi- ness at this time? business! Don't It give employment to a multitude of folks? Don't lawyers and sheriffs and jail keepers and contractors ‘who supply penitentiaries get a ri h living from the stream of dollars it turns their way? Don't it bring men to town to trade? Don't it promote soclability and good feeling among the peopie? Don't they shake hands more in the saloons than they do In the churches? Don't the license fees pave the streets and make & lot of public Improvements and support the scuools? Don't it do this, and doesn't it do that? You might have heard a good ! | thing is going to happen now | to it that it grows, for the parabie of | the sower | down to us. | wherever His faithful sefvant is, some- | thing that God is satistied with is beng { nitfes heaven will ring again and again | | Christ unmistakably as the timid woman, did their best in His name, even whe: none could be seen. It is necessary tha the disciples of Christ should learn t live by faith, for it will not do to judg: rom appearances as to what God ie do ng. A lifelong impression was made upo. he disciples that morning by the halt ng of the crowd there in the street t how them that a great work had beei one when they had not been expecting anything at all. Peter, James and Johi and the others were probably thinkin of what was going to hu when they reached the house of Jes it they haa not thought of anything being done befor: they got there. We look for great th.ngs when we have the revival meeting nexi winter, but we are not looking for any- thing before then. Something may hap- pen on Sunday, the preacher thinks, when the church is filled with peop.s, but nothing i expected In the little prayer meeting, where only a few old standbys are gathered, Result Uften Unknows. By Jesus stopping that crowd in the street we have the right to expect some- thing now, whether we ever learn what it is this side of heaven or not, Home- You can depend on us sure as God is God. Whatever good seed is sown He will aee is always true. And so 1 belleve the Lord haited the throng that morning to heip His dis- ciples to take a long step in faith, that they in turn mght pass the leason on | That wherever He is, and done, and that away down in the eter- with the music of our rejoicing over in- finite surprises. Away beyond the time when some of the brightest stars have grown dim, we shall meet souls in the eternal world who feit the touch of through éffort of ours when we didn't dream we had done a thing. 1 shot an arrow into the air, 1t fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swift It flew, the sight Could not follow it in its filght 1 breathed a song Into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who sight so keen and strong That he can follow the flight of song? Oh, itids & blessed | ever knew whether his bullet had ever to bring about certain results Long long afterward, In an oak 1 found the arrow, still unbroke, And the song from beginning to end I found again in the heart of a friend. And this Is but & repetition of what is alwayw going on. Not one soldier in 1,000 who fires his musket on the battlefield hit ‘anybody, and yet fearful execution had been done. The battle Is alwa; won by men who @o not know what they have accomplished. Bven our falures are sometimes the very thing God needs George ‘Washington, when a boy, had his heart set on being a midshipman in the British | their poor, hungry heart "THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, SKLPTEMBER 929 22, 1915. be ave ANd they tried it and it worked. Something was done and they were | aved, just as they belleved they would be. Another has sald: “I wiil join this hurch or that, and I believe that it I do I will be saved,” and they tried it and It worked, just as they belleved it would and they didn't have to go under the water at all. They made their own little plan and God looked into their hearts, and saw that they were walking in all the light they had, and He let it go at that. Another sald: “If | can only get| out of bed and get down on my knees | and pray 1 belleve I will be saved,” and he tried It and it worked. And another | sald: “If 1 can only take the communion | 1 shall be saved,” and he tried it and it | worked, and some of these who made tried them and found salvation by doing | it, were our fathers and our mothers, and | they are In heaven now, because Jesus knew what they meant as He looked into and He blessed | them because they did the best thdy| knew, and He will do it with you, my brother, and with you, my sister, If you will only take the step you belleve in your souls you ought to take, and will take it now. Yes, all the little plans of which I have been telling you? and a great many more, worked, and yet every theologian knows they were all wrong; and you say so yourself when you take them all lo pleces and look into them ltke a botanist looks at a flower; but thank God. He can and does save people, and He does it in a hurry, In spite of wrong theology. The-| ology may stand up and tell you until it 18 black In the face that all the water ih the world can't save a sinner by his being baptized in it; fof water has noth- Ing to do with It; it Is the blood of Christ that saves, and yet everybody who has | ®ot Into the kingdom In that way knows that theology la talking through its hat, | for they tried it and It worked. Theology will tell you that joining the church won't lift you toward heaven an Inch—and I/ say it, too, if there is no faith In Christ behind it—and yet people join the church because they know they must do some- thing or be lost, and so they blunder toward God the best they know how, and | in their doing it they get a touch from | Christ that saves them through and| through. It is & thousand times better to blun- der toward God In the worst kind of a way than it {s to do nothing at all. The- ology will also tell you that there s nothing in & mourners' bench, and that you may pray to your dying day; for prayers alone can't save; and that you may take the communion without getting any help, or whatever else you will, and yot never get rid of Jour sins, because these things are all mothing In them- selves, and it is true, every word of ft, Just theology says, but poor sinful souls have tried them, some one, and some another, and they worked with them, and they were saved because they just stepped out and blundered toward God the best they could, as the poor timid woman did. Thank God that Jesus wasn't a hair-splitter, that He wasn't| tricd, first in one way and then In an- other—going from doctor to doctor—until at last in their helplessness they put out a hand, very timidly and haltingly, for they had been disappointed so much; but this time they stretched out their hand toward Jesus, and He saw it coming, and He knew what it meant, and let virtue g0 out of Him and saved them Thank' God, He did that with me, and he will do it with you. This may be your last chance, Just as it was the last chance for that poor woman, so, make your plan, and make it very quickly. Do anything rather than not do any- thing at all. Only be in earnest in your seeking, #nd if you are only right in your heart it won't make any difference Jf ! you are ten miles out of the way in your | thelr own plans the best they could and | theoloy Jesus will understand you, even if the doctors of divinity don't, and you will have His blessing Profession Not Enow Some of you who profess ‘o be Chrie- tians are juet as bad off as was that poor woman. You have been more dead than alive In the church, just as she was. You have had no strength to do anything for anybody else. There has been no joy in your religion, and no sunshine. You have been so near dead all the time that you haven't been any account at any- thing. You have never counted one in the prayer meeting. You have done noth- Ing in the Sunday school. Your volce has never been heard in prayer. Everybody who knows you says: “Well, If that wo- man has religion I want something else.” Or, “If that man is on his way to heaven, I belleve I'll take to the woods.’. You havé been so dissatisfi with yourself that you have prayed and you have fasted, and you have read the Bible, and you have made the children stay in the house d keep still on Sunday, and you bave gone to church through wet and dry; but you never got any benefit from anything, and now you are so discour- aged you don't know what to do. You don’'t want to give up, and you don’t see how you can go on. What shall you do? You have nobody to ad- vise you; there is no one to help you make a pian. No one to show you the way. Don't you see there ie only one thing you can do? Do as the woman did Determine to get to Jesus somehow. Put out your hand and resolve to touch Him with it, if it withers and falls dead at your side. Earnestness is a great thing with God. Make the best plan you can for getting to Christ and then act on it without 1 Just as I am, without one ples, Bug that Thy blood waas shed for m i‘mbol , 1 come, Icome.loom? Xt T'eould but teuch His garment [ woul me whole. (Copyright, Willlam A. Sunday.) FROST DOES NOT HURT CORN CRO! Continued from Page Ome.) it is thought that a heavy dew proteoted the vegetation. There I quite a diversity of opinion whether the frost did any damage. It is conceded that early corn is safo and that nothing short of a freeze baptized by immersion I shall be them drop by drop; and they tried and which is in & very tender stage. If this frost is not fol.owed by another the corn | t t P {a a | of son showed up here was not severe enough to injure tomatoes will not be hurt. weretlt in Caster, BROKEN BOW, Neb, Sept. l.—(Spe- al Telegram.)--Thete was quite a heavy rost in this vichuty Monday night, and he thermometer dropped to 27 degrees. As near as can be ascertained lttle dam- age was dons the corn. The farmers de- lare a medium frost is of some benefit now. No Damage at Plerre. PIERRE, 8. D, Sept gram.)—With a government record of 38 egrees, the first light frost of the sea- this morning. It nd other vegetution, flected. and corn was not RUSSIAN ARMY ESCAPES_ NET OF VON HINDENBURG Continued from Page Onme.) from trench to trench with bombs and hand grenades. ‘““Along the canal from the Alsne to the Marne we secured footing on the right bank at a point near Sapigneul. “In the Champagne district the Ger- man artlllery yesterday directed violent firing into the suburbs of Mourmelon. “There was effective artillery firing against the German positions at Bols Hau on the heights of the Meuse and along the front persed groups of German ploneers and provision convoys. “From the Voesges there has been re- ported fighting with hand grenades at Hartmans-Weilerkopf, where we made perceptible progress. in Lorraine, where we di “French dirigible last night bombarded the railroad junction at Amagne-Lucquy, to the east of Rethel McReynolds-Poeschl. WEST POINT, Neb, Sept. 21.—(Spe- ial.)—The marriage is announced of Carl McReynolds and Miss ‘Emma Poeschl, which took place at Pender on Saturday. The young people are popular and well ki nown residents of this community. The marriage was somewhat of a surprise to the friends of the young people. The groom is the son of Jasper McReynolds, prominent farmer, and the bride the dayghter of Wenzel Poeschl, an old set- tler of this county. They will make their home in this vicinity. fain's Liniment and observe the directions For a Sprained Aaxle. If you will get a bottle of Chamber- given therewith faithfully, you will re- cover in much less time than is usually required. a Obtainable everywhere, ruggists. Advertisement. 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Clear skies /'at the lost moment and would not give Him to depart out of their coasts, It makes & lot of difference ‘{n this |hed his way, perhaps the revolutionary world as to whether we look at things T e ot s ehlidhood | that “Ciod s in Hia heaven, and all is o man who thinks more of his ' Well with the world." of his wife and bables ' Once preaching a written sermon when of what & nysband and.| should be, Yoir can_ bring hell heaven together when you can bring | does devil's idea Jesus nose will make him stone blind to every- thing that s such unmistakable terms that they pre- | ferred their hogs than decént men, Jesus took them at their word, as He always does, and returned with His disciples for whom | ck to his | her, that she may be healed, and she shall live.” And Jesus, followed by a great e {geilE % besought Him to depart out Of their coasts, but those who would rath- er keep hogs than Christ cannot expect to see thelr children ralsed from the dead The man who is engaged in the business f damning other people's children has body to blame but himself if his own “Not It Net 1I» As Jesus and the great crowd led by and like children at school rong s discovered, every- ot 1, Not 1" and Peter, in brusque and lmpulsive way, “Why, Master, with all this crowd %0 close around You, how You ask, ‘Who touched Me? " And the next mo- fment & timid woman comes forward and falls trembling ot His feet and declares Mith sobs of joy before them all how #he had reached out and touched the bem of his garment and was healed of a trouble that had been ecating away her Yire for years. Perbaps Jalrus may have chiafed some- What At the delay caused by tbe woman who thought (> get w blessing without “We shall be too late. and my daughter will dle. Why mouldn’t she have waited a litie longer? If siie had waited twelve years another hour wouldn't have made much differ- #nce.” Dut nobody ever loses anything by walting on Jesus. If he undertakes Sur easc He will always see it through . Don’t be anxious sbout His part of the work for you. He may seem to Minger As He did in the case of but He never gets there ton let for 8 In the story of the 1 belleve It may be taken ‘war might never have been fought. matter how things go, we should belleve her consent, Had that 16-year-old boy No right at the of the.most im- portant part of ax hes theught, some f his pages were blown out of the win-' and lost, and he had to stop right in great mortification. Years ‘IM t had been con- the result of that very meet- from the last thought given before the sermon took wings through the window, It ought to help our faith a great déal to find out that God can even use a written sermon. If he can do that I don't see why any kind of a preacher should ever have thé blues. Like the Timid Woman. In every congregation there is some- body like'the timid woman. Bomebody Wwho has been golng to other doctors for yéars, without geiting ‘any help, but rather growing worse, and now they have come to the conclusion that they will as A last resort try Jesus. ‘It was a desper- ate resolve the woman made, but hers was a desperate case, and so was mine and yours. It was the only thing she could do. Had she only had one more dollar to try one more dooctor that pro- cession toward the sorrowing home of Jairus wouldn't have haited in the strest of Capernaum that morning. She couldn't do &nything else, and she couldn't be any Worse off if she falled, and so ahe made the venture. Venturing on Christ is the beat day's work anybody can ever do. She ventured, though, with great timid- Ity. 1 can see Jesun beg'nning to walk a little slower as that poor weak woman comes limping toward him, for he always suilts his pace to the strength of those Wwho seek Him, She had ne one to help her make a plan, and so she had to do the kst she could, and make her own plan. It wasn't much of a plan, but it was the best she ocould make, and it worked, . That kind of a plan will always work. ‘The plan that puts Jesus right | oen- ter always works, no matter how poor a plan it may be in other respects. Jesus never turns away from any poor soul who secks Him just because they may not” know anything about theology. It is not theology. It'is not theology that saves, but Christ. 'The scribes and pharisees who crucified the Lord were the best thecloglans in the country. On that line they could not only aplit hairs with any- | body, but they aould quarter them, and then whittle each quarter to a point. No- body ever has been kept out of heaven because they didn’t know much about the atonement. The poor woman sald, “If I can tobeh but the fringe of His garment.” She €idn't know it. but she was away over in Alaska in her theology on that. She was | putting a plece of cloth in the place of Christ, and every theologian will tell you there is nothing in & piece of cloth. It is | Christ that saves. But she had made her | plan the best she could, theology or ne theology, and it worked. She had never been able to go to school & day in any academy where theology was taught, and It was & good thing she hadn't, or she might not have got within & mile of Christ. She didn't know anything-better than just to try to get as close to Jesus ax she could in the only way she could think of. The reason why she wanted to touch His garment was because He was in it, and brether, you touch the thing | that Christ 1s in and you will be certain to get & blessing from it. Join the church; attend the revival meeting; read your Bible, for Christ is in all these, He will know whether you really n to touch Him or not. Her plan was & very poor one, the acribes and pharisees and even some of the disciples would have sald, but it worked. Baptiszed by Immerstion. , Many & poor soul has said; "It T opn » a8 was the case with the men with broad philacterfes who nailed Him to the cross, Just because He wouldn't do thelr way. Want to Be Chrintians. If Ho sces us coming to Him heart foremost He don't care how much we slip and slide with our feot. He will reach right out and take hold of us with His Hfe-giving hand and make us strong and well. He always lets the virtue go Out of Him to heal the folks who are ‘willing to do the right thing, no matter how much they may tremble and lmp in trying to do it. There are any number of people who honestly and earnestly—yes, longingly— want to be Christians for years, just as this poor woman never wanted. to be sick at all, but she couldn't help it, on account of her going so much to the Wwrong doctors; but at last when every- body else falled her, she took her case to Jeaus the best she knew. So I say, there are people who want to be Chris- tians just as much as she wanted to be sound and’well. They have felt that they Wwere losing life; that it was going from existed on this county last night and no wind. No Damaxe in Clay. EDGAR, Neb. Sept. 21.—(Special)— Bdgar was visited by a frost last night, the first of the season. While it was fairly heavy little or no damage will be done unléss it is to the young alfalfa —— e 'pooinl t» Teachers ind Schools of Music High Grade Upright and Grand Planos for Rent, $3.50 a Month and up Free tuning, insurance, stool and scarf. Six months rent allowed if you decide to purchase. Co. Schmoller & Mueller Pi 1311.13 Farnam. Doug. 1683, FA LL Fabrics, gentlemen, are new here and you are invited to se- lect therefrom. Suits and Overcoats to ord‘er. $20.00 to $45.00. Perfect fit and style guaranteed. MacCarthy-Wiison Tailoring Co. 315 Sonth lb’h Street. A Stupendous Suit Special! 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