Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 27, 1915, Page 5

4 /u«unlm o cried “Ma." MA SUNDAY OPENS TRALL FOR WOMEN | Four Thousand Gather at the Audi- 'I‘!:‘llyh‘.!ur:r:'”:udv""m‘y Ny torium, Where Services for Text Women Are Held. thine eyes; but know thou, that for all EIGHTY-TWO HIT THE TRAIL these things God will The attendance was smaller, the | judgment." -~ Ecolesiastes, i1, “trail-hitters” fewer and “Ma" Sun- day was not in such good special condition at the second as of Mrs, Sunday’s Auditorium meetings for ‘women only, as she was a week ago. Eighty-two women Sunday after- noon hit the trail ont of an audi- ence of nearly 4,000 . | Besideg suffering from a bad cold Mrs., Sunday acknowledged that her heart was full and was burdened more yesterday than it had been for a long time. The cause she ascribed | to the insufficlent results that had crowned the efforts of the Sunday wa. also reap.'—Galatians, vi:7, In other words, do just as you please, lle If you want to, steal if you want to; God won't stop you, but He will hold you responsible in the end. Do Jjust as you please until the end comes and then you are nll in, No one is living in ignorance of what will become of him if he does not go {right and trot square. He knows there [1a & heaven for the saved and a hell for {the damned, and that's all there is to it Many, men start out on a life of ple ures. Please remember two (hings: Fir pleasures soon have an end, and, second, there ia a day of judgment coming and you'll get what's coming to you. God gives every man a square deal. If & man stood up and told me he was going to preach on the things I am this afternoon, I'd want him to answer me several questions, and if he could do that T'd tell himi to go ahead. ““We are not personally discour-| aged nor ig it lack of faith, but we feel that the people in the churches are not doing all that they can,’” Mrs, | First—. ; a Sinasy aeerted. gm:*m Are you kindly disposed towar Mrs. Bunday said the Saturday morn- | Second—Are you doing this to help me? ing prayer circle of the Sunday party | Third—Do you know what you are talk- had been given over to trying to search ing about? out the trouble. “It has been a (eth-| Fourth—Do you practice what vou #semane for some of us and we haven't |preach? ’ slept mueh,” she said, | That's fair. Well, for the first. God Mrs. Sunday's talk was an appeal to urch people to openly profess Christ. *‘There are too many backbones that need mtiffening. We want to do marfvelous 1hings in the next three weeks. Hundreds ®©f Omahans will be called back to Christ. Mut you must help. It isn't enough that rou should know the way to the Lord You must show others the way." » Fail in Needy Things. ‘Doing religlous acts doesn’t constitute keligion. You may do a lot of fussy things ke getting up church dinners and sing- fng at prayer meeting, etc., but you may be falling in the needy things." “Religion consists of doing everything “ve do in a special way pleasing to God's,"” a Mrs. Bunday’s definition, *'The most effective preaching is not wlways done by ministers. Many a woman hés made & more powerful appeal than a knows 1 am kindly disposed toward you, Second, God knows I would do a in my power to help you to be a botter man. | want to make it easter for you to be square: and harder for you to go to hell. Third, I know what I'm talking about for I have the Bible to back me up in parts and the statements of emi {nent phyeicians in other parte. preach?’ I will dety and chal man or woman on carth, and I'll look any man in the eye and challenge him, in the twenty-seven years I have been u professing Christian, to show anything against me. nien, I'll leave the pulpit and never walk, 1 defy the dirty dogs who have insulted me and my wife and spread black-hearted, lies and villifications. 1 was botn and-bred on a farm and at| the age of 11 I held my place with men| in the harvest fleld. When I was only 9 | vears old I milked ten cows every morn-| ing. | [ | I know what hard knocks are. seen the seamy side of life. I ha crawled out of the sewers and squalor | When the trail-hitting begun Mrs. Asher | urged the ushers and church members 40 do personal work. “Speak to the per- ®on in front of you, back of you and on wach side of you,” she cried. Mrs. Asher also appealed to those in the galleries and to the cholr members. Miss Grace Saxe and Miss Frances | Jenny Lind and the eagle on the other Miller of the Sunday party acted as head | side became a nightingale and they'd sing ‘ushers. | a poor, homeless orphan boy to sleep. I'm mot here to explode hot ek and| theorles to you. BSome men here in town, if their wite asked them if they were coming down ve, would say, “Oh no, 1 don't want wlea for more personal work, Mrs. Sunday read several letters. One swas from a reformed drunkard in Pitts- burgh, who sald he had been converted through the “finished work on Calvary's vrogs." “I'm 80 glad he didn't give the credit to Mr. Sunday. My, Sunday couldn't save anybody without the help of the Lord,” dead soldier, up to this pulpit this after- noon. 1 know what it is to go to bed with an honest dollar in my overall's pocket, | During Trall Hitting. Mrs. Sunday's greeting was particularly | warm for the young girls of High school | age who came up to take her hand. She threw her arms around one weeping ®irl and spoke to each girl for a few | to go anywhere I can't take vou, dear.” Seconda, . The dirty old dogs, they've been many Then an old woman clad in black came | a place they wouldn't tuke their wife forward with trembling footsteps, 8he aid they wouldn't even let her kncw they | whispered a few words in Mrs. Sundey's | were there, ecar, whereupon the latter buried he: If sin weren't so deceitful it would not| Nead on the old woman's shoulder and | o 5o ativactive. The effects et stroneet | Poth had a good cry. The old woman's | vthing | e | could, because it would melt. If I don’t live what I preach, gentle- back here again. I live as I preach and/| bring thee into | | you haven't seen the vault and he opened up the vaults there, | while you get weaker and weak | son who had been a drunkard for yea: hé time and there is les w:;“:: .olrl Had hit the trail at the tabernacle Sun- ce of | Many think a Christian has to be a sort| Another woman asked that Mrs. Bun- | . . day pray for her husband, who was at- | shrag proposition, & wishy-washy, body make a doormat out of him. Let. wame hour for the first time. Lo _ A Methodist deaconess led a weeping, T° tell you the manliest man fs the man } AL the end of the meeting, two colored | Before I waa converted I could go five avomen approached Miss Saxe and asked | TOUR%, 80 fast that you couldn't see me aeetings. “Some colored people don't | With my dukes and I can atill deliver, «ome because they feel they are not wel- | the 800ds with all express charges pre- | “Indeed you are welcome! Decidedly | Before 1 was converted I could run 100 wo!" replied Miss Saxe. yards in ten seconds, and ocircle the ™D just as fast after I was converted. 80 you don't have to be a dishrag prop- | = THEY GO ALONG | "rvemember"Sien 1 was secrotary of © SAWDUST TRAIL i ovcist i wce s 4 to go around and give tickets inviting ——— men to come to the Young Men's Chris- | Potiie onto the platform in renunciation| And one day I was told to count the of the habit. “Billy" afterwar! damned Men Zoing into a certaln saloon. Not @8 he prayed at the clase of the meeting. | ;:'m :nm-lllr-tvo minutes 1 could count| Ten Thansand Men. 4% men going in there. not be o att but the crowd of 10,004 men, almost as , .. = O h";:“"'- Every added drink many as last Sunday afternoon, remained 1o the end. Before the tabern.cle Was| bujld your character. Don' ! " n't you let the| gleared of the afternoon crowd, the ad- devl fool you. You never rm:.m.- .: ..;.‘.':1 in and secured good seats, over thres Christianity is the capital hours in advanee. you do business. It's your character: ay that gaye promise of sensational = what people say about you, circumstances, When he delivers his ser- character is what Ged and your day afternoon. you to be. Many have reputations of “*The Devil's Boomerang, or Hot Cakes 5004 belng, but their characters would afterncon. One of hig statements wa: {‘" tarred paper. TT*“You fools! You think Um your enomy,’ Trustea Mim in Vanlts of Bank. at. long ago and I was in u bank " “If God just spares my life till next ™MITing the beauty of it when the vice hot all the deviis in hell can't see me.” | Cheercd as fle Talks. { and cheered, and in the lighter passage of his address he won much laughter and | breaking uway. i <ay morning. ehding the tabernacle meeting at the | */4%ified sort of a galoot that Tets ever i».viman up to take Mrs. Sunduy's hand. | 1O Will acknowledge Jesus Christ. her whether they were welcome at the | fOr the dust, and I'm still pretty handy| come,” said one. p \ Ot ‘bcu. in fourteen seconds, and I could MEN WEEP WHEN osition after all, in Chicago I liad the saloon route. I had (Continued from Page One.) tlan association services. the liquor, mentioning the brand by name, ' the Ones already in, but just those going The meoting leated longer than usual,| 1 "AY If #in wasn't so decelttul it would Christianity is the capital on which you| vance guard of the evening audience went until you become a Christan, Mr. Sunday atwcked the liquor traffic that gets you anything. Your reputation mon on “Booze” to men only next Sun- the angels know about you, and know Off the Griddle” was his sitbject Sunday ™ake a black mark on o piece of coal Put I'm really the best friend you ever 1 whs over In Terre Haute, Sunday afternoon, I'll preach so fast and President. Mr. McCormiek, a friend of Mr. Sunday was frequently applauded | Greated plenty of fun. let me In. There were three and I wan- dered from one to another. No one watched me. Many ist preachers, here for Kt wit . dhe state annual confernce, were pres- '.um'n: #old or silver, but no ong ent at the afdemoon meeting. Mr. Sun- day pledged them all to “help back Ne- bras“a onto the dry track at the next MR. AND MRS. A. HARRIMAN " GO THROUGH OMAHA TODAY Averlll Harriman, won of K. H. Harrl-} .pout the judgment? Eome are just’in man, will pass through Omaha this morn- i for the money they get out of it “ing'with his bride, en route to San rm-‘my will tell you porth is south if elsco. The marriage ceremony took M(hy think they cen get a dollar by it “Wuesday in Lenox, Mass. The bride was teen minutes. T haven't & word to say about a man mans will live at Arden bouse. Harriman, | .\ ,"s 0y carned his money honestly and % ¥ 18 using it to provide for his family and —— ' Apartments, fists, Houses and cottases (SPending the surplus for good. _can be rented quickly snd cheaply by a| You kuow there is & bunch of mutts Bes “For Rent.” that sit around on stools and -p)gu. -« and spit and cuss and damn anf I on which gy higod. Then the vietim begins to turn Ut YOUF mpe pooge wite and yo't ‘lan't it time you went Ted hot after the | %0me pitchers | | I could have filled my Drelares Unending War on | needy with his $200,000,0007 | “I need it. It keeps me warm in winter of business so that It takes eight to ten | to do what one ought to do. | |fellow who drives & beer wagon. [ sue. breath. flesh he talks about and the dent will be there a half an hour afterward. look like you don't believe It when you g0 to bed tonight. has a first mortgage on a booze-hoister. cles, and you will punch them and they bound out like a rubber band. berry stomach is a crushed strawberry nose, Nature lets the public on the out- side know what is going on inside. moderate drinker and turn it wrong side out for you, it would be all the temper- ance lecture you would need, white of an egg? It will cook it in & few minutes. things to tho nerves as to tho white of an egE. They stagger because their nerves are partly paralyzed. body and purifies it and takes out the poisons and passes them on on the gall, and from t like oll does on machinery. covered with hob-nal THE B ““The Devil’s Boomerang,”’ or ‘‘Hot Cakes Off the Griddle’—Sunday that every man who has an honest dol- lar ought to divide it with them. while “Rejoice, O young man, in thy |others get out and get busy and work youth; and lot thy heart cheer thee In [and sweat and toll and prepare to leave the days of thy youth, and walk in the something for their wives and familles of thine heart, and In the sight of | when they die, and spend the rest for good. Old Commodore Vanderbiit had a for- tune of over 800,000,000, and one day “Be not decelved; God 1s not mocked; | when he was ill he sent for Dr. Deems. for whatever a man soweth that shall he |He asked him to aing for him that old | song, “Come, ve sinners, peor and needy, | come ye wounded, sick and sore.’ The old commodore tossed from slde to side, looked around at the evidencd of his wealth and he sald, “That's what 1 am, poor and needy.” Who? Commodore Vanderbilt poor and The founda tion of that fabulous fortune was l'lnd by him and he poled a yawl from Now York to Staten Island and picked up pennies for dolng it. The foundation of the immense Astor fortune was laid by John Jacob Astor when he went out and bought fur anl hides from trappers and put the money in New York real estate. The next day In the sald to another: 3 “Have you heard the news dore Vanderbiit i dead.” ‘How much did he leave? He left it all Cannot Tak: Wealth to Next W aked you came int “ l\:I,(ed you will crawl out of it. You brought nothing in the world and you take nothin ;:‘tl the pack screws on the poor and piled up a ptle of gold as big as this tabernacle, you can't take it with you. Tt wouldn't do you any good If you ‘treet one man Comrao- Pon't lsten—go on. When you are racked with disease, when your flesh is rotting with filth, you will remember that “Bill" warned you to keep away from those whose house door swings into hell Some just live for booze. Some say: Another says: “It keeps me cool in sum- W.clL i it keeps you warm in winter and cqol in summer why fs it that out of those who freeze to death and are sunstruck the greater part of them are booze holsters? Every one takes it for the alcohol there is in it. Take that out and you would as soon drink dish water. 1 can buy & can of good beef extract and dip the point of any knife in the can and get more nourishment on the point of that knife than in 80 gallons of the best beer. If the brewers of this land today were| making their beer in Germany, % per cent of them would be in jall. The ex- tract on the point of the knife represents I have' one and three-quarters pounds of good o beefsteak. Just think, you have to' make @« swill barrel out of your bellies and a lons through. & out, and if you hava) SEMTEMBKR 27, 1910 wrians preach about this Instead of the Lall would light preferment, when a lot of them haven't|to the ball and ran anything to prefer, and the Raptists The fleld was orowded with people and quit yelling “Water, water, water,” and I yelled: “Stand back!" and that crowd | two-thirds of thelr buneh rolng where opened like the Red Sea opened for the | you oan't get a drop, we'll clean up this rod of Moses. saloon-filled, brewery-controlled nity for Christ. I'm going to skin ‘em. You say you dan't prohitdt men from it Jesus Cheist was hers in drinking. Why today some of you would aln just the same. keep on commu- It wasn't theological, either, I tell you that. T sald, “God, it you ever helped mortal man, help me to got that ball, and You haven't very much time to make up Your mind, efther.” I ran and jumped over the bench and But the law can be enforond against| siopped, whisky just the same as it ann be on forced againat anything else, It yon have' j¢ | honest offic Ot course I8 to enforce it It doesn’t prohinit that prohibite. We murder. Do they prohibit? againat burglary. Do they prohihit? We do. mot prahibit. all the lawe that do not prohibit? Any Jaw will prohibit to a certain extent i | honest officials enforce it will absolutely prohibit. We There, my left fsn't a law on the hooks of the state stuck have laws against We have laws carried me on and 1 fell under the feet have laws against arson, rape, but they, the ball In my hand Would you ntroduce a bill to repear '“Pd But no law ), 1oy I thought T was close enough to eatoh | My head and T jumped and shoved out hand and the ball hit {t and At the rate 1 was going the momentum s Of & team of horses I jumped up with U'n oame Tom Tom used to be mayor of Cleve- He's doad now. “Here i $10, ‘Bill’ Buy yourself the best hat in Chicago. That oatch won me SLMO. Tomorrow %o and buy yourself t auit of clothes you can find in Johnson can make| Cpicago A law against lguor nrohibit as much! An old Methodist minister sald to ma 58 | ",““v aw prohibits. [ fow years ago: “Why, Willlam, you | Or would you introduce a bill saying didn't take the 10, did you' 1 sald: “You | 1€ you pay §1000 & vear you can kill any-| bet your life 1 aid." "‘I\P you don't like; or by paying §600 o {Year you can attuck any girl you want to: | or by paying $10 & year you can steal | Anything that suits you— that's what you do with tho ditiest, rottenest Kang this | side of hell. You say for so much a year you can o this world, and have a license to make staggering, reel- ing, drunken sots, murderers and thieves and vagabonds. You say, “ Bill’ {the whisky | 1 don't agrea. Not on your life There was a fellow golng along the \Plke and a farmer's dog ran snapping at him. He tried (o drive it back with |vitehfork he carried, and failiug to do 50 ‘he pinned it to the ground with the wongs. Out came the farmer. “Hey, why don't you ume the other end of that fork o answerod, “Why didn't the dog come Iat ma with the other end?" | Telln Story of His Comversion, 8o, If these dirty dogw come at me, I'll come back. I didn't intend to go off at @ tangem and T'll leave with thege re- ‘ml.l‘kl. Twenty-eixht years ago I walked down # street in Chicago In company with some ball players who were famous In thia world (some of them are dead now) and we went into a saloon. It was Sunday afternoon and we got tanked up and then went out and sat down on a corner. I never go by that street without thanking God for saving me. It was a vacant lot at that time. We sat down on a curbing. Across the #treet a company of men and women were playing instruments—horns, flutes and slide trombones—and the others werd singing the gospel hymns that I used to hear my mother sing back in the log cabin in Tows, and back in the old ehurch you're too hamd on and want. | Pave struggled cver since sewer if you want to get that much whero I used to go to Bunday school. 1 was 6 years old, an orphan son of a nourishment out of beer and run 800 gal-| And Giod painted on the canvas of my recollaction and memory a vivid ploture Kelley Died Poor Despite Money. Listen. Mike Kelley was sold to Hos- ton for $10,000. Mike got half of the pur- | chase price. He came up to me and showed mo a check for $5.000, John . Sulllvan, the champlon fighter, went around with a subscription paper and the boys ralsed over $12.000 to buy Mike a house. Thoy gave Mike a deed to the house and they had $1,60 left and gave him a certificate of deposit for that. His salary for playing with Boston was $4700 @ year. At the end of that season Mike had spent the $5,000 purchase price and the $4,700 he recelved as snlary and the 31,600 they gave him and had & mort- KAge on the house. And when he died in Pennsylvania they went around with a subscription to get money enough to put him in the ground, and each club, twelve in all, in twé leagues, gave a month a year to his widow, Mike sat there on the corner with me twenty-elght yonrs ago, when 1 sald: “Good-by, boys, I'm going to Jesus Christ.” A. G. Spalding signed up a team to €0 around the world, I was the second he asked to sign a contract, and Captain Anson was the tirst. I was sliding to wecond base one day. 1 always slid head first, and hit a stone and cut a ligament loose in my knee. I got a doctor and had my leg fixed, Ho sald: “William, if you don't go on that trip I will give you a good leg. 1 obeyed him and have as good a leg today as 1 ever had. They offered to wait for me at Honolulu and Australia. Spalding sald: “Mect us In England and play with us through England, Scotland and Wales.”" 1 didn’t go. w amson Also Went to Bad. Bdwi Williamson, our old_shortstop, was a fellow welghing 23 pounds and, & O, go ahead, if you want to, but T'll of the scencs of other days and other | more active big man you never saw. He try to help you just the same. ¥very man has blood corpuscles, and of your system. Perspiration iz for the same thing. | Bvery time you work or 1 preach the impurities come out. KEvery time vou sweat there is a destroying power going on inside. The blood goes through the heart every seventeen seconds. O, wo ! have a marvelous system. In o spots there are 4,000 pores to the square inch and a grain of sand will cover 150 of them. | T can strip you and cover you with shellae and you'll be dead in forty-elght hours.| O, we are fearfully and wonderfully made, Booze ana Blood Corpuscles. Alcohol Knocks the hlood corpuscles out | Here's a Look how pussy he is. He's full of rotien tis- He he's healthy. Smell his There's a man who drinks. You punch your finger in that healthy | You Try it Poeumonia Take a fellow with good, healthy mus- The first thing about & erushed siraw- If T could just take the stomach of a does to the You know what alcohol Well, aleohol does the same That's why some men can't walk, The liver is the largest organ of the It takes all the blood In the body here they go to the intestines and act When a man drinks, the liver becomes and then refuses to do the work and the polsons stay in faces, Many have long since turned to dust. stepped out and sai “We are going down to the Pacific Garden Mission; won't you ocome down to the misston? T.am sure you will en- Joy it. You:can hear drunkards tell how they have been saved and girls tell how they have been saved from the red light district.’ I arose and said to the boys: o through. | am.golng to Jesus Christ. We've come to the parting of the ways,” and I turned my hback on them. Some of them laughed and mome of them mocked me; one of them gave me encouragement; others never sald a woed. Twenty-elght years ago 1 turned and left that lttle group on the corner of State and Madison streets and walked {to the Ittle mission and fell on my knees and staggered out of sin and into the arms of the Savior. I went over to the west side of Chi- cago, where [ was keeping company with a girl, now my wife, Nell. T mar- 4 Nell. She w a Presbyterian, so m a Presbyterian. If she had been & Catholic T would have been a Oatholic ~because I was hot on the trail of Nell, The next day I had to go out to the ball park and practice. Every morning at 10 o’clock we had to be out there and practice. 1 never slept that night. I was afrald of the horse-laugh that gang would give me because I had taken my stand for Jesus Christ. T walked down to the old ball grounds. T will siever forget it. I slipped my key into the wicket gate and the first man to meet me aftey 1 got inside was Mike Kelley, Up came Mike Kelley. He said: “By), I'm proud of you. Religion is not my long suit, but I'll help you all I can.” Up came Anson, the best ball player that ever played the game: Pfeffer, Clarkson, Flint, Jimmy MecCormick, Burns, Willlamson and Dalrymple. There wasn't a fellow in the gang who knocked; every fellow had a word of encouragement for me. Prayed for Godls Help in Ball Game. That afternoon we played the old De- troft club. We were neck and neck for the champlonship. That club had Thomp- | | yellow. He has the jaundice. The kid- neys tahe what is left and purify that that & man drinks turns them That's what booze is doing for you. ¥ mv? I'm trying to help you. I'm trylng to put a carpet on your floor, null the pil- lows out of the window, give you and Ind., not; your children and’ wife good clothes. there ad-| I'm trying to get you tb save your mopey instead of buying a machine for the saloonkeeper while you have to hot- foot it By the grace of God 1 have strength nf you ean't, so I owe it to you to you. loon. T stand for more sneers nd insulta, and had my life threatened I've taken help ont of tha of than L The open saloon 1s the hotbed of an archy. It is the incubator pits Place of degencracy. 1 don't know' whether you ever had anyone come to old Omaha to preach by the eterfal God I will. When we got the preachers to do thix and quit talking to these puss-gutted lobsters,” but about new Jerusalem, get the Presby scofls w of poverty and crime and vice It is the spawning #on, Richardson, Rowe, Dunlap, Hanlon {and Bennett and they could play ball 1 was playing right field. Mike Kelly | was catching and Jobn G. Clarkson was {pitching. He was as fine a pitcher as @ver crawled Into a uniform. There are | today—0O'Toole, Bender, Wood, Mathewson, but 1 do not belleve any one of them stood in the class with Clarkson, Cigarettes put him on the bum. When | he'd take a bath the water would be | stained with micotine, We had two men out and they had a nan on/second and one on third and | Bennett, their old catcher, was at bat, Charley had three balls and two strikes onshim. Charley couldn’t hit a high ball. tully contrived against burglars, ana' “"OUEN 0 Pass the open saloon, but some || gop't mean & Beotch highbail; but he could kill them when they went about his knee. { 1 hollered to Clarkson and said: “One more and we got ‘em.” |* You know every pitcher puts a hole Why did trust me? “one end of the land to the other in the ground where he puts his foot xow 1 -:?'mesl: "‘?:o\l:;‘llhoayf :ymm- Godl-Forsaken gang of thugs and When he 1s pitching. John stuck his foot Jesus Christ, and living up to it. That's | cutthroats because I have come out un-/in the hole and he went clean to the why they trusted me. There was a time compromisingly against them. in my lite when & man wouldn't trust| more dirty, wile insults from this low-| me with a yellow dog on a corner fif- | down bunch than from any one on earth, but there ix no one that will reach down What ere some people going to do|lower or reach up higher or wider drunkenness | ground Oh, he could make ‘em ddnce, He could throw overhanded, and the ball would go down and up like that, He is that. Thaf ball would go by tast that the batter could feel the thermom- eter drop two degrees us she whizzed by. John went clean down, and as he went to ghrow the ball his right foot slipped and the ball went low instead of high. I saw Charley swing hard and heard the bat hit the ball with a terrific boom, Bennett hgd swashed the ball on the nose, I saw the ball rise 1o the alr and head. | Johnson, Marquard, | the only man on earth I bave seen do knew that it was golng clear over my went with them, and while they were on the ship crossing the Knglish channel when the Goddess of Liberty became a' thelr object is to take the impurities out I sobbed and sobbed, and a young man [& storm arose and the captain thought the ship would go down. Willlamson tied t life preservers on imself and one on W wife and dropped on his knees and prayed and promised God to bLe true. God spoke and the waves were stilled, They came back to the ['nited States and Ed came back to Chicago and started a loon in Dearborn street. 1 would go through there giving tickets for the Young Men's Christian association meetings, and would talk with him and he would cry like a baby, I would get down and pray for him and would talk with him. When he dled they put him on the table and cut him open and took out his liver, and it was #0 big it would not go in a candy bucket, Kidneys had shriveled till they were like two stoncs. Bd Williamson sat there on the street corner with me, drunk, twenty-elght yoars ako when 1 said: “Good-bye, boys, I'm going to Jesus Christ.” Frank Flint, our old catcher, who caught for nineteen years, drew 33,200 a year on an average. He caught before they had chest protectors, masks and gloves. He caught bare-handed. Every bone in the ball of his hand wae broken. You never saw such a hand as Frank had. Fvery bone In his face was broken, and his nose and cheek bones, and the shoul- der and ribs had all been broken. Ie got to drinking, his home was broken up and he went to the dogs. T've seen old Frank KFlint sleeping on a table in a stale beer Joint, and I've turned my pockets inside out and sald: “You're welcome to it, old pal.”" He drank on and on and one day in winter he staggered out of a stale beer joint and stood on a corner, and was seized with a fit of coughing. The blood streamed out of his nose, mouth and eyes. Down the strest came & wealthy woman Bhe took one look and sald: My God, is it you, Frank?' and his wife came up and kissed him. She called two policemen and a cab and started with him to her boarding house. They broke all speed regulations. Bhe callod five of the best physiclans and they listened to the beating of his heart, | one, two, three, four, five, six, sewven, | elght, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, and the | doctors said: *He will be dead in about four hours.” She told them to tell him what they had told her. She sald: “Frank, the end s near,” and ho sald, nd for ‘BilL' " They telephoned me and I came. Ie sald: “There's nothing in the life of years ago I eare for mow, 1 can hear the | bleachers cheer when I make & hit that wins the game. A But there is nothing that |ean help me now; and If the umpire calls me out, now won't you say a few ords over me, “Bill?* " | He struggled as he had years ago on |the alamond, when he tried to reach home, but the (reat Umpire of the uni- verse yelled, ‘“You're out!” and waved him to the club house and the great gladiator of the diamond was no more. He sat on the street corner with me, drunk, twenty-elght years ago in Chi cago, when 1 sald: “Good-bye, boys, I'm through."” Men of Omaha, did they win the game of life, or did 17 (Copyright, Willlam A. Sunday.) —_— When Bamy ~un sne Lo0up. When & mother is awakered from sound sleep to find her child who has gone to bed apparently in the best of heaith struggling for breath, she is naturally alarmed, Yet If she can keep |her presence of mind and give Cham- berlain's Cough Remedy every ten min- {utes until vomiting is produced, quick relief will follow and the child will drop to sleep to awaken in the morning s |well as ever. This remedy has been in use for many years with uniform cess. Obtainable everywhere. All drug- I could judge within ten feet of where gists —~Advertisement 1 ran on, and as I ran I nade & prayer: | I looked back and saw it golng over | Following is the sermon preached last night at the Tabernacle by the Rev. | “Bllly"" Sunday. | First Epistie of Peter, Fourth chapter |and the Seventeenth verse: “What shall Ithe end of them that obey not the gospel of God?" No book ever came by luck or chance. Every book owes Its existence to some being or beings, and within the range and wcope of humay intelligence there are but three things—good, bad and God All that originates In intellect; all which the intellect can eomprehend, must come from one of the three. This book, the Bible, could not possibly be the product of ovil, wicked, Godless, corrupt, vile men, for it pronounces the heaviest pen Ities against sin. Like produces lke, and if bad men were writing the Bible they never would have pronounced con- demnation and punishment against wrong- doing. Bo that is pushed aside. The holy men of old, we are told, spake a5 they were moved by the Holy Ghost Men do not attribute these beautiful and matchless and well-arranged sentences to human intelligence alone, but we are told that men spake as they were In- wpired by the Holy Ghost. The only being left, to whom you, or I, or any sensible person could ascribe the origin of the Bible, is God, for here 18 & book, the excellence of which rises above other books, like mountains above mole-hills—a book whose brilllancy and life-giving power exceed the accumulated knowledge and combined efforts of men, like the sun excesds the lamp, which is but & base imitation of the sun's lory, Here is & book that tells me where 1 came from and where I am going, & book without which I would not know of origin and destiny, except as [ Klean it from the dim outiines of reason, or nature, either or both of which would be unsatisfactory to me. Here is a book that tells me what to do and what not to do. Most Belteve in God. Most men belleve in God. Now and |then you find & man who doem't, and ho's a fool, for “The fool hath sald in his heart, there is no God.” Most wen have sense. Occasionally you will find a fool, or an infidel,” who doesn’t bellove in God. Most men belleve in & God that will reward the right and punish the wrong; therefore it is clear what atti- tude you ought to assume toward my message tonight, for the message I bring to you is not from human reason or in- telligence, but from God's book. “What shall the end be of them that obey hot the gospel of God?™ Now listen, and I will try and help you. A man sald, I cannot be a Christian. I cannot obey God.” That is not true. That would make God eut & demon and a wrelch, God says If you are not a Christian you will be damned. It would make God out a demon if, when God commanded you to repent, he knew you cdlld not, but he would condemn you it you didn’t. If God asked mankind to do something, and he knew when he asked them that they ocould not do it, and he tolg them he would damn them if they dldn’t do it, it would make God out a demon and & wretch, and I will not allow you or any other man to stand up and insult my God. You can be a Christian if you want to, and it is your that you are unwilling to give up keeps you away from God. Bupposing I should go on top bullding and say to my little baby “Fly up to me.” If he could talk, he would say, “I can't.” And supposing would say, “But you can; if you don' 'l whip you to death.” When I asked him to do it, T knew he couldn't yet [ told him 1 -would whip him to death if he didn't and in saying that I would as an earthly father, be just as reason- able as God would be, it he rhould ask you to do something you couldn't do, and though He knew when He arked you that you couldn't do it, nevertheless damn you If you didn't do it Down’t Say Yeu Can't, Don't tell God you ean't. Just s you don’t want to be a Christian, that's the way to be & man. Just say, “I don't want to be decent; I don't want to quit cussing; [ don't want to quit boose- ting; 1 don't want to quit lying: | don't want to quit committing aduitry. I T should be a Christian, I would have to quit those things, and I don't want to." Tell God you are not man enough to be a Christian. Don't try to saddle it off on the Lord, You don't went to do it, that's all; that's the trouble with you. A man in & town in Ohlo came. and handed one of the ministers a Jetter, and he sald, “I want you to read that when you get home.” When the minister got home he opened it and it read like this: “I was at the meetifig last night, and somehow or other, the words “What shall the end be? got hold of me, and troubled me, I went to bed, but couldn’t sleep, I got up and went to my library. 1 took down my books on infidelity and searched them through and through. But none of them could answer the cry and longing of my heart, and I turn to you. Is there help? Where will I find it?” And that man found it where every man ever hae, or ever will find it, down at the Cross of Jesug Christ, and I have been praying God that might be the experience of many in this tabernacle. Prays that Twoe Words May Hel Bver since God saved my soul and sent me out to preach, I have prayed Him to enable me to pronounce two words, and put inth those words all they will mean to you; if they ever become a reality, God pity you. One word is “Lost’ and the other i “Bternity."” Ten thousand years from now we will all be somewhere. Ten thousand time: ten thousand times ten thousand years, | truth, What s your life? yes, & hair's breadth—yes, heartbeat, and you are gone, and yet you over you. ““What shall the end be?’ headings. First—They who, | disregard of God's claims on their lives, mercy, or any hope of salvation. noble and magnificent abilities, which periority to those who belleve the Bible, stition.” of salvation, free, perfeot and etemal, through Jests Christ, to hell, good news? No, sir; the etornity has just begun. Increase the | multiple and you will only inocrease the A hand's breadth— one single sit with the judgment of God hovering 1 never met any man or woman in my life who disbelieved in Christianity, but | obey mot the gospel of Ged? could not be classified under one of two because of an utter Second—Men and women with splendid, ' tion of they have allowed to become absorbed in , Omaha other matters, and they do not give to! the subject of religion so much as pass- | ing attention. They have the sudacity to | claim for themselves an Intellectual su- will which thiey sneeringly term “that super- ‘What is the gospel that the people ought to obey it? It is good news, glad tidings Oh, but somebody says, do you call the news of that Book that 1 am on the road that in Pt wy | /s Shall the End-Ba ol Those Who Do Not Obey Gospel? ftselt is not good news, but if it is the truth, the sooner you find out the better it will be for you. Good News. / When the Taraelites were bitten by the serpents in the wilderness, wasn't it good news for them to know that Moses had raised up & brazen serpent and bid them all to look and be healed? When the flood came, wasn't it good news for Noah to know that he would be saved in the ark? | When the city of Jericho was going to , fall, wasn't it good news to Rahab to know that she and all her household would be saved by hanging & scariet Iine out of the window? Naver has such news been published. ““Thou whalt ecall His name Jesus for He shall save his people from their sins.”” Never has such news reached the world, “What shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel?™ And the Gospe! of God fs, “Repent, or you will go to hell.”” What is the Gospel, and what i it to obey the Gospel? We bave seen that it Is good news, now what is it to obey? What was it for lsrael to obey’ Look at the brazen serpent on the pole. What was It for Noah to obey? Build the ark and get into it. What was it for Rahab to obey? Hang a scarlet line out of the window, and God would pass her by when he took the eity of Jericho, All that was belleving God's message and obeying. 3 What have you found by trusting in the finished work of Jesus Christ? It is sald of Napoleon that one day ho was riding In review hefore his troops, Wwhen the horse on which he sat became usmanageable, seized the bit in his teeth, dashed down the road and the life of the famous warrior was in danger. A private, At the risk of his life, leaped out and seized the runaway horse, while Napoleon. out of gratitude, ratsed in the stirrups, saluted and sald, “Thank you, captain.’ The man sald, “Cantain of what, sfrs" “Captain of my Lite Guards, sir,” sald he The man stepped over to where the Life Guards were in consultation and they ordered him back into the ranks. e re- Munauluudordmumeof— ficer by saying, “I am captain of the #uards.”" Thinking him {nsane, they ordered his arrest and wore dragging him away, when Napoleon rode up and the man satd, “I am eaptain of the Suards because tho emperor sald so," I am a Christian because God says so, and 1 do what he tells me to do, and ! stand on God's word and If that goes """n; Tll go with it. 1t Goa Boes down, T'll go with Him, and it there were an: other kind of God, except that God 1 would have been shipwrecked long [ Twenty-nine years ago in Ohicago I Staked all I had; my reputation, my Ccharact: chiléren, home; 1 | | | ey Vhot Shall the #hall the end bey not the gospel of oo M that 1 of God?" Hear me! u'lhln. are three incomprehensibilities to that something away You will think on, on und on. that Thou are And the fool, the said in his ment showed His handiwork.” Y, g "' Yot that it v oo kot e a1 or atudieq l?"m a telescope Why Are You Not And the thira: iy st That third s t of God to a lost and ..-emllmh" and man's indifference to God's love. How he has trampled God's love ‘beneath his feet, I don't understand, 1 don understand why you know right from haired, and are not s Christian, X don't undestand why you know right from wrong, and still are not a Christian. ® man starts on & journey, he has one object in view—the end. A Jour- :;rh”::ulttnhvlll. We are all - Y to eternity, What be the end? gt g But suppose there is no hell, death iy eternal sleep. T believe the I belleve its i 1 have '«mnm-nn. T whi nnm be happler, and have lost by ‘When Voitaire, the infidel, lay dying, !«- summoned the physiclan and said, ‘Doctor, I will give you wll I have to save my life slx months." ;’lhn doctor said, “You cam't lve six 3 ““Then,” Voltaire sald, “I'l go to hell, and you'll go with me, Hobbs, the English intidel, said: am taking a leap into the night.” Wealey sald, “I shall be satisfied when T awake in His likeness.” Florence A, Foster said, “Mother, the hilitops are covered with angels; they beckon me homeward; I bid you goodby.” Frances E. Willard cried, “How bean- tiful to die and be with God."” Moody cried, “Earth heaven opens, God s calling me. This is to be my coronation day.” I say to you you are going to ltve on and on until the stars of the heavens are snuffed out. You are going to live on and on until the rocks crumble into dust through age. You are going to live on and on and on until the mountsin peaks are incinereted and blown by the breath of God to the four corners of in- finitude. “What shall the'end be?* You can't stand before God In the Jjudgment and say, “Jesus, were you down straight " me?" Jesus Christ, the SBon of God, is here, and he waits to be gracious ‘What shall *»» end be of them that Copyright by William A. Bunday.) EDITOR HOUSTON OF have, by and through that disregerd, be-| WORK 1€ TO SPEAK IN A come rakes and roues, and have thrown themselves beyond the pale of God's — Herbert 8. Houston of New York, committee of E ! League to about before the the Tuncl