Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 24, 1915, Page 2

-(};zd ;'eila ‘both Sides oa;Story in the Holy Bible, Says Sunday Rev. “Billy” Sunday preached last night at the Tabernacle on the general sub- Ject of forgiveness of sin, taking for his text the story of Nuthan and David. He said: Text: “And David sald unto Nathan, T have staned against the Lord.’ And Na~ than sald unto David, ‘The Lord also Bath put away thy sin; thou shalt mot dge,"~11 Samuel, 12-13, This, I think, Is & part of one of the saddest storfes in the Old Testament. I always read it with conflicting emotions; this alone is sufficlent proof of the au- thenticity of the Bible, for If it were written by men uninkpired by God, we would have no account of man's sin and shame, especially if that man had been prominent. God puts it all in. Not only the bright side. Man would put in only the bright side, but God puts it all In Not because ITe approves of it. Oh, no. But because He wants to show us what men and women of other ages did and how they were punished, and what will kappen to vs if we disobey His commanda. What God does for one He will do for all. The plan of redemption doesn't ap- ply to only one individual, but applies to all. So when God Inspired the Bible He put it all in, if & man had written the Bible he wouldn't have put anything fn about Noah getting drunk after he came out of the ark, or about David committing adult- ery, or about Solomon having 700 wives and a few hundred concubines on the #ide, and having old Brigham Young backed off the boards, or ahout Ananias being a champlon liar, or about Judas, the miserable old scoundrel, betraying Him. You read the life of Robert Burns ad he touched the whisky ho would be shot, he would have to o to the whisky. No, it man had written the Bible you would not have scen the sin. He put them in 10 show that even though man had sinned, ! ive confessed it, the Lord wouTd Torglvo and forget it. The other i a feeling of ] i £ s [tH T PG 28 TR Fige ¥ £ H &gi“ ;i l i g! 5 2 H :!?l’; i ! skeg - by =a»¥ EEE i i H : l!§ [ 31 trary to the law. When you think agsinst the laws of God you are a sinner. You oan think against the llaw and not be a oriminal, but you canmot think against the laws of God and not be a sinner. Thought and Aetions, Moses sald: “Thou shall not commit adultery.” Jesus Christ said: '“Whosoever looketh upon & woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already In his heart.” Chastity requires purity of jheart as well as outward act. A lot of you don’t act, but you think and you are Just as low-down as if you acted. How did God treat David? Dig He un- cork the vials of His wrath upon him? No! There lan't & man in hell that God didn’t give a chance. He sent Nathan to him and Nathan told him the story of the ewe. There was a rich man and he had large flocks and one day a fellow, whom we would call & hobo, came along and asked him for something to eat, and there was a nelghbor who was poor and Thad just one little ewe which was & pet of the children, and the rich man ordered his servants to go take the ewe by force and he killed it and made savory meat of the flesh and gave it to the wayfarer. Ang David was angry, and I can Imagine him stamping his foot and crying, “I vow the man that did that shall surely dle.” And Nathan pointed his finger at him |and said: “Thou art the man.” I'd ke to have lived in the days of the old propheta, Those old ‘ellows never trimmned their smile for anybody. That's why God honored them in the old days. They told the kings or anybody if they wore old sinners. Then David calied in the words of my text: “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan salq unto David, *“The Lord hath put away thy sins.’ Note first he sinned against his light. Ho knew he had sinned when he sinned and 80 does every one of you today. Ignorance of the law s no excuse. Neither. s ignorance of the law of God any excuse. You have & chance to learn and it is your buminess to learn, Bvery one knows when he sins Second: He will forgive you If you will Third, can you forsake your vilest sins i i e i 1] g T i ’!:! L ] i 4:!: i!!i; g% i £ R : i HH Hiygs it HH i J 1 L | i { iggg JEek =§i 411 i iz i g ¥ 53 ] ity T : i i H 4 | I I g8 {l $ 51 !‘-'E-S'! [y Hily (il i s T I E B2 i 2 i ® 3 L] 4 B 5 : § E 1] 5 = | i ; £ i [ k3 i THE ‘Some of you are like & sow, which, washed, goes back to wallow, like & dog which goes back and licks up its vemit™ Third, whosoever is loveth the brethren. Hverybody that is a Christian, whether he's of your de- nomination or not. Now what are you soing to do? That means the Christian. Not the saloonkeeper or the brewer. ‘They're mo brethren until they are born again. They are children of the devil now. It's God's nature to love and you thould love each other. Do you Presby- terians love the Baptists and do the Bap- tists the Christians, and the Christians the Methodists, and the Methodists the BEE: O Ses? It puts st square up to you If you don't I'll tell God when I get to heaven about some of the mean things you sald about me down here, ‘Whosoever 18 born of God does not commit sin. Whosoever Is born of God loveth the brethren. Whosoever & born of God doeth righteousness. . A friend of mine was In a Baptist tending the right hand of fellowship and they voted In one woman, and all but one woman arose to give her right hand slon section, And she had the audacity to oall herselt a Christian and yet re- merged tenth. Whosoever Is born again belleveth that Jeaus is the Christ. That puts a lot of Preachers out of business. Who's a llar? Anybody that denieth God is a liar. The Unitarians are not even in the kingdom. {God overcometh the world.” There are two classes In the church today. Those | who are overcoming the world are Chris- tians, Those who are letting the world overcome them are not. Would you rather You are not of God. This thing of just |hanging on to a church membership is going too tar. soul, butag Ohristian has more than a sinner, you'll never be saved until You have it. I had phymcal birth, but I have a spiritual birth. A sinner has no epiritual existence. God looks on him |as dead. Life Like m Desert. It's & great forgiveness. 1 want you to read the thirty-second Psalm when ¥You go home. It starts out, “‘Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin Is covered.” A great forgiveness. | People try to cover their sine. Don't do |it. Comq to Christ as you are and He'll forgive you, 1 had a friend who was a brilllant young fellow. He covered the Japanese and Chinese wars for a New York paper. He was on his way home when he was shipwrecked and the captain and he were tho only ones saved. They stayed laland, lving on roots for a week, 'and then they signaled steamer and gt | etarted home. He got word from his paper, and ti told him to go to 'Frisco, #0 he went, and they told him to come aoross the arid country and write up the prospects of irrigation. And as he alked across those plains, he thought Lite Like & Desert. Then he thought of how his life was lke that desert with nothing in it but He finished his work and went Chicago, where he got a job and lost 1 m‘f‘ of drunkenness and couldn’t et on_ account of havibg no recommendation. 8o he walked out one ‘winter night and took his reporter’s book, @ddreased it to his father, and wrote something like this: “I've made a miser- ble failure of this life. I've dlsgraced premature r me you'll Tiven" the rail of the policeman, who had been 95 i i H : 3 £ £ g3 l : g i : i z : E | H S s é 225k ;:il; £:5- if H i : i i g : H i 1 g I §§’ 5 < 5 shigdd sE852 ¥ i e i it ' § ¢ : | ] { ¢ it bt 111 : £ 2 } born of God | church in Brooklyn, where they were ex- ! of fellowship. She said she wouldn't be. J0J'® curse. cause the woman came from a little mis- | °0l: WOUld rather be saved than loat. First John, 6:4, “Whoswever s born of [®0 to a theater party, card party or| Duteh lunch than & prayer meeting? Then | Bvery one on earth has a body and| MAHA, FRIDAY, Following is the sermon preached at the Tabernacle Thursday afternoon. Text: Jeremiah 5:3. Your inlquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you. | God sald I want you to do this, but | you wanted to sin and not do right. In this verse Jeremiah is giving an explana- tion of the things of his day. He came | a8 & prophet of God to the people of God God had promised them many things, but they did not obey them and did not get i the benefits of the promise. When God |enters into a covenant He promises sus- tenance, peace, joy, prosperity, victory, honor. Such are a few of the number- less promises given to the Jews. But they | were rejected by the people and they | did not gain the benefits. The same is true today. God's Promises Numberless. God's promises to the man who accepts are numberless. Any man, unless ho is a fool, would rather have God's love than Any man, unless he s a { Any man, unless he ia a fool, would rather go to heaven than go to hell. But they were not possessed of these things, oear® xtend the hand of fellowship . theretors the blessings were a fail- | ure; peace turned to war, joy turned to gloom, prosperity to need, victory to loss and honor to dishonor. All were fall- ures. Why? Did God makes promises, knowing He could not fulfill them? No! Jeremiah lald the blame where it be- longed, on the people. Your iniquities #ins have withholden good things from | you. | God sald: “My promises were condi- tional, If you do My commandments you | will be possessed of the fulfillments of these promises, but they aldn’t do it, and i & curse came. It was not unfaithfulness on God's part. This is true of the people here today. We are under a dispensation of salvation, free, full, perfect and eter- nal to all who belleve. It is offered to you, who you may or where you may be. In other words, there is nothing for you | outside of Jesus Christ. All comes through | Jesus, Buch are a few of the number- | 1ess promises which whil fill the life of | the bellever full of hope. To us as be- llevers they should be desired and should be things greatly longed for, But are they possessed? There are thousands of church members that are utter strangers to the highest religlous experiences. They don't know the A B C's of seligion. They have no assurance of salvation, no assurance of peace, no experionce of God's power to keep them safe through temptation. Why are they without peace and rest? I'll tell you, it's on account of the con- ditions of the people in the church, If church members will quit playing cards | we'll have no more gamblers. When the church members quit patronizing thea- ters they'll either clean up or go out of business. When the church ' members quit voting for the saloon the saloon will #0 to hell. I don't believe there is an evil in the world today the church of God can't drive out. If you can't belleve yourself, I'll shoot the truth iInto your old carcass; I'll never compromise, day ever comes when I have to com- promise I'll leave the pulpit and never return. Never will I lower God's stand- ard. \ Novels a Curse, All that! was the matter in Jeremiah's day. is true today. Why don't you ac- u“? ‘What is it In your life that hin- dera you fsom being blessed? Is it some- thing in your life, an impure thought, bad books, lying, cheating, stealing, bad companions? One reason why people have such low moral standards is this damnable novel reading. One of the curpes, of the country today is novels. All of the authors have différent ideas He {of religlon and net one of them has the right idea. No matter what the book, a woman will gulp it down and the Bible - [liberal pensions for retired, aged and £ Y gi[fgéii j . & g 5t not to do, but you may not do what God tells you to do. Your sins may not These are easy to understand. the ones you shall not do. But ; have turned away these things and your | you preachers, you men and women. In other words, it means to show favorit- fsm; fifth, “Thought of foolishness is sin”; seventh, “All unrighteousness ls Trot out someone who doesn't stand convicted before one of these. No what are you going to do? First, conte: your sin. Lay hold on this that the spirit reveals to you wrong in your life, be more pliable to the hands of the spirit. The trouble witn the church of God today is & Jot of you stand convicted of your sins, but you won't throw them out. Name it. Say, "God, I've been worldl ve been proud. I've negelected your gifts. I've sat In judgment on your servants.”” Admit that you've got a mise erable, grouchy disposition. We don't have to answer to God for other's sins. I don't say I'm perfect, but when I'm through and we're it heaven, God won't ask you whether you like me or not, or whether 1 like you or not. Every man shall give answer for himself. Confess. Be humble and receive a blessing. Sec- ond, renounce your sin, get rid of it, throw it out. Confession without renun- clation doesn’t amount to that (snaps his fingers). Confess God Openly. Solomon sald, “Whosoever is convicted of his sin shall not prosper, but who con- fesses and forsakes his sin shall find mercy.” You shall say: “God, 1 won't read that literary trash.” You may ecall me narrow, but I've made up my mind never to read any book that sneers at Jesus Christ. Say, “God, I won't go with that crowd.” The man or woman In earnest will begin by taking the spirit into his life or her life. You'll tell God your troubles, Not the public. It's none of the public’s business. You don’t have to tell the pubijc your sins, for it's none |of the public's business. You say you can receive Him in pri- vate, live better lives, but God says you {must confess Him openly. Third, do what God tells you to do. Not only not do what He tells you not to do, but do what He tells you to do. These are the two pillars that support the gospel. Say: “Lord, T will write that letter of apology; I will ask pardon; I will give to the church; 1 will have family prayer; I will do what you say.” Fourth and last, give yourself up wholly, freely, mind, soul, per- sonally, influence, Lay yourself on the altar and take your hands off. You have been bought with a price. You belong to Him. This is my coat. I can take a palr of scissors and cut it up if I want to. It belongs to me. I ecan take this watch and throw it away and smash it up, if I want to. It belongs to me. I belong to God, and He has & right to do what He pleases with me, and also with you. Lay | all of your sing at the foot of the cross and say, “Nothing In my hand I bring, simply to Thy cross I cling.”” And hea Him say, “Thy sin are all forgiven thee; #in no more," My God! how can any sane man or woman refuse to recelve such a blessing as this? How can he push it away? And you will recelve this blessing If you be- lleve, and if you don't God says it were better for you if you had never been born or that you take a millstone and tle It around your neck and cast yourself into the Missourl. Now you know what was meant when Jeremiah sald they kept on in the things they knew they should not, and Jeremiah sald, “Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sina have withholden good things from you.” (Copyright, Willlara A. Sunday.) which are many, €0 in peace and GERMANY YELDS POINT IN FRYE GASE Continued from Page One.)’ M Furman of Tecumseh, and all the su perintendents of the nine districts of the Nebraska conference. Additional candidates for lay delegate include Dr. B, L. Paine and Charles Strader, both of Lincoln, Judge W. F. Spurlock of York, 8. C. Huston of Grand Island and B. ¥. McDonald of Pender. Plea for Pensions. + Rev, B. C, Clemans of Chicago, field representative of the board of conference claimants, made a strong plea for more disabled preachers. He said the latter deserved good pensions and comfortable support from a standpoint of justice as published and sold by the concern, the | profits being devoted to rellef of retired ministers. He tendered a draft for §6,718 as the Nebraska oconference's share of it. preachers’ pensions among the Nebraska Methodists. Hospital Plan Changed. Articles of incorporation of the Ne- braska Methodist hospital, In Omaha, were slightly changed by vote of the con- ference, to adjust them to the enlarged conference needs. After attending the “Billy” Sunday meeting al the tabernacle in the after- noon, the visiting 40 ministers were the guests of the Commercial club. The club held open house, conducted the visitors through the Woodmen building, and up onto the roof for a view of the city. =g HE fabrics are ex- clusive and the suit § will be made for you. Who wants a made-for- anybody suit except the es? Fall fabrics are ready, Suits and Overcoats to order, $20.00 to $45.00. Perfoct fit and style guaranteed. MacCarthy-Wlison Tailoring Co. aoona00000u00 Thompson-Belden & Co. A Showing of New Fashion Silks Better Than Ever Before The Silk Section is a good place to visit just now, it is so well prepared with new silks of every description. Handsome new plaids and stripes in novelty and two-toned striped effects. Chiffon taffetas are Jovely, particularly in the latest shades of blue. The new Pompadour Silks are attracting a lot of attention from those planning dancing frocks. For the Fall street gown Silk Poplins and Corded Silks are favored. The Silk Section Is Ready With All That's New. It’s a Pleasure to Show Them at Your Convenience. [= $5.00 and $6.00 SRS Friday. $3.95 This Autumn Sale Is the Best of All We were fortunate in secuning a large shipment of NEW SOROSIS SHOES, in every good up-to-date style. All leathers are inclnded, also combinations, in both lace and button paiterns. These are 85 and $6 Sorosis Shoes. $3.95 [ naaoo = (]} = R P ROSENBLATT is taking orders for COAL at low prices for ashort time only. The advance is bound to come, for the treight rates increase soon. AMUSEMENTS, “The Nigger” is conceded to be one of the film sensations of the season. s It's one of those stories that holds It's Simply Wonderful. You Must See It at tie MOTION PICTURE TODA From 1 &hll"” L) m., and 7 » R " CHINATOWN AMUSEMENTS, BRANDEIS| Torieht 925 wxnaren, ) 0 Sdl. Mat., Ewg. “TRE PERFECT STOCK Edward Lynch $i3 Amcaste “The Rojuvenation of Auat Mary” | Next Woek. the Society Melodrema,