Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 23, 1915, Page 2

FRENCH DEVELOP NEW OFFENSIVE Plan Involves Continuous Use of Artillery on Vast Scale Along the Entire Line. MANY TRENCHES UNTENABLE PARIS, Sept. 22.—General Joffre, the French commander-in-chief, and the allled commanders on this front ~~Field Marshal Sir John French and King Albert of Belgium-—are developing a new plan of campaign that involves the almost continuous use of artillery on a vast scale along the whole line. THE BEE: ON IAH allies are now methodically maintaining their shell fire for days at a time with- out Infantry attacks, dropping projectiles upon the charred front Into every fifty yard square and repeating the process— a deadly, automatic, unceasing pounding. ‘The heavy caliber guns sent their attack on the first company of reserves behind the lines and upon bridges and provision trains. Official reports obtained by the French | army officers from their own observers, from prisoners and from photograps made by aviators show that parts of the op- posing lines which have been subjected 1o this unceasing bombagdment have been rendered entirely untenable, and that the best the Germans o do Is to reoccupy their abandoned works after the bombard- ments have let up and then leave quickly when the showers of projectiles begin to fall again. Mre. Turner Given Verdiet. FREMONT, Neb., Sept. 2.—(Mrs. Etta 8. Turner was given a verdict of $1,990 in Masses of artillery have been employed by both sidea since the beginning of op- erations in preparing for infantry attacks, pounding thelr adversaries’ works for an hour or two, then suddenly suspending fire and assaulting with infantry. The her sult against the Canadian Pacific Rallway company for the loss of jewels while traveling on the company's lines a year ago. Mrs. Turner sued for $2,400. Peo Waht Ads Produce Results, God Commands Eve;y Man to Repent His “Billy"” Sunday's sermon last night 'll' meeting he probably sald, “Lord, help y en ‘‘Repentance.”” He said Text: “God commands to repent.—Acts xvil, . The first thing John the Baptim preached was repentance and the first thing Jesus and His disoiples preached was repentance, but we very seldom hear a sermon on repentance today. Plenty of preachers in & long ministry never preached one single sermon on repent. ance. They have preached on everything else, Lut have given repentance & wide be:tl, probably for the same reasen that the ‘olored rreached never liked to preacn againat stealing chickens, ‘‘because it always appearca to throw such a cold. nese over the meeting and made s0 many i tis membeis freese up towards hum ke " No matter who preaches on repentance, be & bound to stir up the serpents of overywhere upposition. It don't take a preacher lony | With his brother's wife, for by so doing go on in the same & to find out that it s mueh easler to get along pleasantly in his ministry and have the salary raised mow and then by | The awful thing about sin of any kind ymen her making people feel satistied with them- selves. Of all things that we hate more than |with courage and with power, and he |you some of ti anything else is to sce ourselves as wo really are. We hate that which shows up our its and blemishes. That is one reason why so many people don't like my piain preaching. No photographer could make a lving nking pictures If he made a correct like- iees of cverybody who come along. If he dicn't retouch the negative and take out the ugly *pots, the woman with a squint | who is lost i the dark and wants to get | *! and the man with a wart on his nose would go scmewhere else for pictures. 1t !5 sald that an elephant will not uripk out of clear water, for when ha _/sees hix ugly face veflected in_it he is stirved 15 fury and lashes tHe water into foam. Ther¢ must be & good deal of human uature about an Chriet nor any of His disciples with the exception of Judas, That in why John was thrown into prison and had his head taken off. fe : ,&Ei N H g Il e § 23 iz e g '!'18 3 i Sins, Says Sunday me hit that old sinner between the eyvs and hit him hard,” and then to make SIRSOURE LMK LTl Tand g0 to will have to give it up or you will loss sure that there should be no misunder- standing he pointed to the sinful woman who was lolling on the purple cushion beside Herod and In & voice that drew blood ltke a Damascus blade, he said, “It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife. Put her away." And next we see Herod is galloping away In high dudgeon and soon a band of soldiers come to lead God's lon- (hearted prophet away to prison. The old king no doubt feit better when he knew that God's man was behind the bars, but he little knew that he could no more get away from the truth that had been hurled at him than he could lock up God's wind and waves It was a more wicked thing for Herod to put John in prison than it was to live he was hurling his open deflance against Almighty God. is that it will grow so fast. b John the Baptist preached repentance proached it so that the people could un- derstand it and they were convinced of it as they always are when it Is preached falthtully. All kinds of sinners went to him and said, “What shall we do?' And he told them and many of them walked in the light and became disciples like Andrew. God will give plenty of light to the man wi Tt may help us to of just what repentance s to first glance at something that repentance is not. What Repentance I First, repentance ls not fear, and yet A great many people hava such an al- out of it In God a; @ better knowledge that way first who Eizg any more than you can drive the pols- onous secretion from a rattlesnake by putting a clothespin on ite tall I don't say there may not be genuine casey of death-bed repentance, but they are fow. There is only one mentioned in the Bible, only one to my knowledge— the thief on the cross. That is the first opportunity the thief ever had of giving himself to Jesus, If you sinners had grabbed the first opportunity you had, there would not be one single sinner in this tabernacle to- night. Not one, sir. Nine times out of ten the man who is afraid to die until after the preacher has come and prayed with him will go right back Into the old life If he gets well Fools Love Things God ¥ . Jesus didn’t say a word to the Samari- tan woman about being damned. FHe didn’t say anything about fire and brim- stone to Zaccheus and Matthew, and yet notbdy will dare to say that they did not get religion right: He didn’t say anything to the woman caught in the very act of adultery other than, “Go and sin no more.” If fear was necessary I would never have been saved. I had no fear of God; 1 had no fear of what might come. My own consclence told me I was wrong and 1 wanted/ to be right because I wanted to know God and hecause T saw very clearly that it was the right thing to do. You are the biggest fools this side of hell when you want to do the things which God does not.want you to do, and ou love the things that tod hates. When the prodigal in the midst of the squealing, hungry swine came to him- he didn't start for home my father, i would he was afrajd his fi :”I‘ned.uh.:m and horsewnip him It he didn't. He saw very clearly that it waa the thing for him to do, Repentance is something that goes down into a man a good deal deeper | than being afrald of the consequences his sins, Repentance s not fear, nor ia it very likely to be brought -‘:m:} by fear , you can depend upon tha .llormyo‘x do what your conscience tells you there won't be a single man or woman to go out of this Tabernacle to- night without giving their hearts to God. Repentance s not convietion, though o great many think it is, and I have heard preaching that said it was. Men are often deeply convicted of sin, but they inful wlhy [ M(orle'. ve been preaching here mear ulu::.:oelu and 1 know there are some e who are so oconvicted and troubled on account of thelr sins that they can hardly eat and sleep. 1t 1 told hem were In business, you would be astounded. They are cn:;lcud. keep on in the same way. b‘::l::"vu :a deeply convicted by what Paul sald to him and yet he kept right on living an sdulterous life as before. 1 know peopie who come and these meetings that are convicted and s well as they know their own names. They know thelr ns just as well as they know what direction to take to go home tonight from this Tabernacle. All repentance is not feeling sorry be- cause you have done wrong. Thers never was a wrong-doer who did not feel sorry for his wrong-doing when it was fouad out or got him into trouble. ‘When I was a little boy I was always sorry the moment I saw my a switch. ..'l"::.m who does mean things always has to feel mean about it when he gots alone with Kimself and God has ordained that no one shall do wrong and find happiness in it. Y Many & man who is earnestly sorry thet he has done wrong goes right on doing it. 1 don't belleve a man wants to drunk. 1 belleve most of them don't want to got drunk. The same with the man who quarrels with his wite; he knows he did wrong, but he will quarrel with her again. I don't think I ever spoke m & prison without seeing strong evidence before me that the men were very sorry for thelr wrong-doing. Stories of Jail. I was imvited up to a jail once and I told them I would go, but they sald, “You had better come before Friday, The court is In session and we will very likely change our residence soon.” 8o I went yp and took Rody along and I talked to them for a little| ! while, They all looked like they were sorry for what they had done and when I was going some one sald, ‘“‘Let's sing| & bymn,” and the whole bunch lined up and sang, “God Be With You Till We Meet Again” It struck me as being rather incon- gruous, but it got tangled up in my bride, a beautiful girl of about twenty- one, came down the aisle smiling. She wus marrying a banker who was very rich. As they reached the front a woman | heavily vielled lifted her vell and the bridegroom erled out: ‘My God, is that you?" The woman sald: “Yes, hers is your chlld. 1 have kept him for four years Now you take him for a while.” The bridegroom was gasping for breath and the bride-to-be fainted and was car- | ried out. The audience fled in terror and soon there was nobody left in the | |church but the groom and his i-year-old boy crying for his mother. l That was not repentance because the banker was sorry for what he had done. Repentance fsn't promising or resolv- ing to do better. Why, the devil will let | you do that every day in the week, if you | are willing to let it go at that. | I don't believe there has ever been a wicked man in Omaha who was not con- tinually promising himself that he was going to turn over a new leaf. Why, bless you, I knew when I had done wrong as weil as any Christian in this house. No man can take advantage of another in a trade and feel like a saint about it afterwards even if he never saw a Bible or heard a sermon preached No man can ruln a trusting woman | without despising himself for it. The woman who has decelved her husband knows that she has sinned whether she ever goea to church or not. There is something that keeps you from the arms of Jesus. 1 don't know what it 1s, it {s none of my business, but you | your wsoul, For the prodigal son’s repentance it meant leaving the hog pen and going | back to his father's house and saying: | “Father, I have sinned.” Kor Simon Peter it meant leaving the sea to follow Jeusu, and for you it will mean to do whatever Is needed to make you right with God. When John the Baptist said to King | Herod, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” he meant get right | with God at once, for now Is your chance, | No Favoritism with God. Some of you here may never hear an- {other sermon. Herod was a king and had !a high position above his people. And |in this it may be that you are like him. You saay be high up in life, high up in soclety, high up iIn the rating of Dun and | Bradstreot's; it is hard for you to get !down on your knees and say, “God, be meretful to me, a sinner.” But that |don’t make any difference with God. You may live on Farnam or in the red light district. You may live in a| | palace of twenty-five rooms or a hovel | of one room. You will die and go to| { hell if you dom't repent. The Lord | makes ho comparison. There is no| | taveritiam with God. { { ‘There are no favorites with God. God| | commands the millionaire to repent and| if he don't he will go to hell the same| as the bootblack who is shining his | shoes In the barber shop. The soclety woman will lose her soul just as qulick as the mald who waits on her, if she don't repent. The things that God is against are the things you have to | sive up. ! Repentance means doing what God commands you. There can be no com- promise with God. Soon after Gypsy Smith was converted & well-meaning old brother said to him: *I suppose you have a time every night | When you fix up with God for whatever you have done wrong during the day.” was horror-struck and replied: “No, I would never do that. God shows me that I have done wrong the very minute that I do it and I fix it up with Him then." The trouble with most of you folks is that you try to do business on the pass- book plan with God and you don't fix up with Him any oftener than you do with the man who sells your groceries, and that's why you don't weigh any more for Him than you do. I tell you I belleve we should bring our repentance down to a spot cash basis if we want to have power in prayer and testimony. You must make it a rule to et right with God the very minute He tells you that you are wrong. Lot the wicked forsake his way, no matter how profitable it may be. If you @re in a business that God is not in, then' for God's sake get out of the busl- ness, When John Vassar was in the brewery business he knew he could not brew beer and go to heaven, and was up against the question of whether he would keep the up and go to heaven. Up and became one of the Greatest soul-winners of the ninmeteenth The Best Mill Cannot grind good flour from poor wheat, nor can the human body get good health from food and drink which is not fitted to the individual, Right food — the kind the system re- quires, goes a long way toward putting one on The Road to Wellville. 'This road leads to comfort, happiness and long life. Grape-Nuts is a delicious food seiontifiodly prepare 1 from wheat and barloy. In the making, the starch of the grains is partially pre-digested for quick and easy assimilation—and furnishes the nourishment ature requires for the duily rebuilding of body and brain. It pays to keep oneself in the highest condition of physical and “There’s a Reason” WON'T MIX Bad Food and Good Mealth Won't Mix The human stomach stands much abuse but it won 't return good health it you give it wrong food. If you feed right you will feel right, for proper food and a good mind is the sure road to health. food grew “There “A year ago I became much alarmed about my health for I began to suffer after each meal no matter how little I ate says a Denver woman. “I lost appetite and the very thought et distasteful, with the result that I was nol nourished and got weak and thin, was no one to shoulder my household burdens, and come what might 1 must bear them, and this thought nearly drove me some one benefited trial. health was breaking “I read an article in the paper about trantic when I realized that my down. with trouble just like mine benig by Grape-Nuts food and acting on this suggestion 1 gave Grape-Nuts a ‘The first dish of this deliclous food proved that I had struck the right thing. “My uncomfortable feelings in stomach and brain began to disappear and in a short time I was again myself. Since then A summer mental vigor T have gained 12 pounds in weight through of hard work and realize I am . different woman, all due to the -ml food, Grape-Nuts.” for Grape-Nuts Sold by Groeers everywhere. ding at a very fashionable church. The | | preacher to ery out to you, Repent! know what it i in your life that is kbep- Ing you away from Goa. You know to- night why you are not Christians, why you are mot rejolcing in the light It didn’t require the preaching of John | the Baptist to tell Herod it was wrong to live with his brother's wife. He knew it was wrong as well as the grocer knows it Is wrong to put sand in the sugar, or the merchant knows it Is wrong to sell goods by a thirty-five-inch yardstick. It is not for me to tell you what it iIs in your life that is wrong. God has al- ready done that, but it is my place as a Re- pent—to back you up against the wall and hold you there until you repent. God commands that men everywhere shail repent. 1 don’t know what it is that keeps you away from God. It may be flicit love it may be anything. But give it up. It must be done to saye your soul Hidden Sin. Some of you may have a hidden sin that your very best friend may not even suspect—a sin that drives you to do the things you abhor and hate. There was a young business man in Chicago, who came home and found his wife insane. He did everything to induce her mind to return, and after taking her down to the mountains in Tennesses | where she romped as a little girl, in the hope that her mind might return, without success, we returned home. He carrieq her to her room and she slept for fifteen minutes, she slept for three hours, for four hours, she slept all night and until noon next day, and when she opened her eyes sald: “George, where am 17" “You are home, wife,” was the reply. 8he s ““Where have you been?" “I have been right here every hour, wife; I have never been away from your side. God 1s waiting for some young man or woman to look up and open thelr eyes and say: “Lord, where have you been?" He would say: “I have been watching and waiting beside you for fifty years, for seventy years, walting for you." ‘God is waiting for you to repent and ask for forgiveness. You can have it (Copyright, Willlam A. Sunday.) but Ll onoleoolooauoeo IEo e Thompson-Belden & Co. SRS In an Autumn Sale of . the Greatest Importance We have been very fortunate in securing a big shipment of new Sorosis 8hoes in every desirable up-to-date style, including all leathers and combinations in both lace and button pat- terns. 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