TIIK BEE: OMAHA, KATUHDAY, SEPTEMI5EH 18, 1915. f Armies of God Arc Not Made Up of Men and Women Taken by Draft "Billy" Sunday, in Preaching on the "Mercies of God," Says that God Never Owned a Slave. HE WANTS WILLING WOBKERS Text: "I bee aeerh you. trmrefore, lirethren, by the rnercles of Oort. that ye present your b1lee a llvlnc sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto Ood. which 1 your rrasonaHe service." Hnmarne, xll-. 1. We have here a call for volunteer, not en order for ft draft. The armies of Ood re never made up of drafted men and women, ordered Into service whether will ing or not Ood never owned a slave. God doean't want you to do anything don't know Jeua. I went out thanking God that I could walk. If your hearta are not made of stone or adamant they will melt with eratltud" when you thin of the many mere lea, the tender mercies, of Ood. "Brethren '-that's what Ood calls Ilia triia follower. No speaklnc from the loft. If there'a any lesn we need to learn It la that of bring "brethren." A friend of mine went to Finland to preach and one day spoke at a noonday meeting of worklnamen, prealded over by the daughter of an cnrl. She aald to those men: "You oue'it to he convinced that we of the artel rm y are Interested tn you people of the working class and In your problema, now that we bring this gentleman from America to apeak to 1 tlmt you can't do without proteat. Thla ,y.... Ar)l1 tnry appUunj, thoee work I 1 not a call to hard duty, hut an In vltation to the enjoyment of a privilege. It la not ft call to hired labor to take the hoe and go Into the field, hut the appeal of a loving father to his chil dren to partake of all He ha to give. If there la nothing In you that will respond to God' appeal when you think of J lie mercies, I don't think much of you. The Impelling motive of my text la gratitude, not fear. It look a to Oal vary. not to Sinai. We are being en tree led. not threatened. Thafa the amaxlng thing to me. To think that God would entreat u would atand to entreat ua! He la giving me ft chance to how I love Him. If you are not ready to offer H In gratitude. Ood doean't want your service. He doesn't want you to aerve Illm through fear, but because you realiaa HI love for you, and appreciate and raepond to It. Just think If Ood haa been good to ua. how many time and how much haa lie heen good to ua! i eer Too Ileay for Ood'a Work. A feaatneaa man who lore hla wife will never ba too buay to do eomethlng for her, newer too buay to atop aotnetlmea to think of bow good aha haa been and what ehe haa done for him. If men would only think of the thlnga Ood haa done for them there would be leaa of card playing, leaa thought of dinner and coneerte and other dlvaralona of the world. Ood want ua to alt down and think over Hla good nesa to Us. The man who doean't Isn't worth ft nickel ft bunch. Ha Ood dona anything for ua aa ft nation, hag He done anything for ua aa Individual, that commands our, gratitude? A man waa out walking at night with hla little daughter, and the atara were out and very bright The little . girl looked up into the ahlnlng vault of heaven, ao thlekly studded with the ahln lng orba, and aald: "Let's count them, papa." And, beginning at one, a! counted five, and twenty, and thirty, and forty, and fifty, and up to 100, and IX, and IK And then ahe aald: "Oh, I'm tired, papa. There are IX. I didn't know there were o many." Aatronomera have counted 3X0,010,0(10 atara. and they have not yet commenced. Why, you might a well try to count God's merclea. You might aa well try to count the dropa of water In the era, or the gralna of Band upon the shore, or the offlce-aeekera after ft presidential election. If, we only think, wa ahftll aay with David: "Ac cording to thy tender merclea." Too Maay of God'a Merelaa to foaat. An old lady aald one morning that aha w ould try ' to count all Ood'a merclea for that on da)", but at noon aha waa becoming confused, and at S o'clock ahe thmw up her handa and aald: "They come three times too fast for me to count." . ' " Juat think of the thlnga we have to be thankful tor. A visitor to an In aite asylum waa walking through the ground and he passed one of the buildings he heard voice from ft barred window high up in the wall, and It aald: "Stranger, did you' aver thank Ood for your reason?" He had never thought of that before, but ho aaya that ha haa thought of It every day since. Did you ever think that thousand of people who were Just aa good aa you are, are heat ing their heads against the. walla of padded- cells? Did you ever think what ft blessed thing It 1 that you are aane and you go about among men and fol low your dally dutlea and go home to bo greeted by your wife and have your children climb about you? Did you, or you (pointing to Individuals', ever thank God that you have a mind and can think? ' Did you ever thank Ood for your eyes? Did you ever thank Him that you can " see the aunrts and the sunset and can '"sea the flow era and the trees and look .uQon the storm? Did . you ever thank God that you have two good eyes while eo jnaay others leaa fortunate than you ' must grope their way In blindness to the ; icoffln? , " ' Did'. you ever thank Ood for hearing? That you can hear muato and the voice ; of friends and dear onea? .That you can . leave your homo and business and come i her and hear the aonga and the preach rln of the word of Ood? Did you ever thrak what H would mean to be deaf? ' oVe Bleoelac Be Tftaakfal For. i Did you ever thank Ood for the bless . ing of taste? Soma people can't tell , whether they are eating , aawduat . and I eiiavlng or strawberries and ice cream. Think f ' the good thlnga w enjoy I f Others have taste ao vloloua that they tlnd It almost Impossible to eat. Ood might have made our- food taste like ' tiulnlne. Cod might have made every thing taste Ilka giu-bene but He didn't. bid you aver thank Ood that we don't have to hold our noses when wa tit down ,' tha table? , . , I ld you ever thank Ood that you ran ' breathe without pain? Ona person In ' every tea dlea of consumption and you i breathe. Think how many women j die of cancer, on out of eight and you ( are f re from tt. 1 ' Did you ever thank Ood that you raa ' sleep?' If not you ought to be kept awake for month. Thing of the thou ' sands who auffer pala or Insomnia ao that they can aleep only under opiates. Did you ever wak up In the morning and thank Ood that you have had a . good bight's rest? If you haven't. Ood ought to keep you awak for a week, then you'd know you've had reason to be thankful. Did you ever thank Ood for tha doc tor and nurses and hospitals? For the surgeon who cornea with acalpel and tro-t-har to save your life or relieve your sufferings? If It hadn't been for them , you'd be under the grass. For th nurse who watchea over you that you may be restored to health? Did you ever thank Ou4 for the bread you eat. while so many others are hun gry. Did you ever thank Him for the oemy who haa been baffled, for tha lie agaiitat you that haa fallud? lavalld a Year Tkaakfal. exit In lin. 111., I waa taken driving jT a fTlend. and he aald that he wanted in to go with him to ae a man. tie took mo to a a man vhj waa lying In tw-d, with anna moat pitifully wasted by vi'tOring. Toe poor fallow said he had '. tn hi tn-d for Utrty-4wo year, but he m I murrvtng about that He aald he ms ju eurry for the well people who Insmen did! They cried, "Hear! Hear!' That will gn In ar'atocratln Kngland, where they bow and aerape to royalty, but It won't go In democratic America. Sinner are not called "brethren" In the rtlble. God commanda sinners. They ar In rebellion. He entrnata Christians. When Lincoln called for volunteers he adlreeeed men as "cltlsena of the United States," not aa foreigner. Saerlflre May Be Your Owa. ' The man who la appreoltlv of Ood's merclea will not have much mercy on himself. Don't stand up and aay: "I'll do what Jesus bids me to do, and go whnre He hide me to go," then go to bed. Present your bodies not mine not those of your wives; you must present your own. Present your bodies, not your neighbor's, nor your children ; It Is their duty to do that Do you trust God enough to let Him do what He wants to do? Henry Vafley said to Moody, when that great American waa In Kngland, that Ood la waiting to show this world what on man could do for Him. Moody said: "Varley, by tha grae of Ood I'll be that man," and Ood took hold of Moody and shook the world with him. Ood would shake the .world with ua today if only we would present our bodies aa living sacrifice to Him. as Moody did. Are) you willing to present yourself? I am tired of a church of Mo or TOO membara without power enough to bring ona soul to Christ. I believe that the angels are leaning out of the battlement of glory tonight waiting to hear ' how you will anawer thla appeal to Ood. At the opening of the civil war many a man .waa willing that the country ahould be aaved by . able bodied male relatlvea of hla wife, who made them el res bullet-men, but he didn't go him aolf. Ood isn't asking for other men' bodlea. He'a aaklng for youra. If all would glv to Ood what rightfully be ionga to Him I tell you He would create a commotion on earth and In holt. He ha a hand In thla campaign. If Ood had the feet of aome of you He would point your toes In different ways than you' have ' been going for many years.' If He had your foet He would never head you Into a booxe Joint, tf He had your feet He would never Rend you Into a ballroom. If He had the feet of some of you He would make you wear out shoe leather tugging baok'what you've taken that doean't belong to you. If Ood had your feet He wuuld take you to prayer meeting. I'm afraid tha preacher would have nervous prostra tion, for he hasn't seen some of 'you there In year. 'f Ood had your feet you'd find, It harder to follow the devil, (tome of jrou preachers have your chil dren going to dancing school, and I hear some ' of you go to dances. He would make ' your dally walk conform to the golden rule and the sermon on the mount Go4 I'm Make year Hands Do Mark. Borne people work only with their mouths. Ood -want that part thnt'a on the ground. Rome soldiers only sit around and smell coffee and watch the baoon frying. Rome preachers need the cushions of their chairs upholstered much oftener than they need their shoes half eoled. If God had your handa He would make you let go of a lot of thlnga you hold ao tightly they will drag you down to hell. He would have you let go of aome of the thlnga you pay taxea on, but don't own, and Ha would make you let go of money to pay taxea on torn that you do own. Horn people are ao busy muck-racking tkat they will lose a crown of glory hereafter. If Ood had your hand how many rountleaa teara you would wash away. A friend of mine bought a type writer and when he tried to use It his ftngera seemed to be all sticks, hut now h can write IX words a minute. Let Ood have your handa and He will make them do thing that would make the angrla wonder and applaud. A young man went down to Thomaa vllle, Ala., and while there waa Invited to a dress hall or rather an undress ball, If what I have read about auoh affairs properly describee tha uniforms. A young lady young lady with eyes like the dove and with beautiful treasea, came up to him and aald to the young man, "Won't you pledge' g glass of oh am pa an with me?" The-young man thanked her, but aald. "No, I don't drink." "Not with me?" ah aaked, and smiled,' and again he anawered, "No." Them ah said. "If I had thought yu would refuse roe I would not hav asked you and expoaed myself to th mbarraaament of a re fusal. I '.did- not suppose you would think me hold for speaking to you In this way, and I thought you might be lonely. A little later alia cam back to him and repeated her Invitation. Again h aald: "No," Other came up and laughed. He took It and hesitated. Hhe smiled at him nd h gave In and drank the oh am pagna, tbea drank another glaaa and an other, until ha waa flushed with It, then be danced. -At S o'clock the next morn ing a man with a linen duster over hi other clothe walked back upon ft rail road station platform, waiting for a train for tha north; and aa he walked he would exclaim, "Oh. Ood!" and would pull a pint flask from his pocket snd diink. "My Ood." he would aay, "what will mother aay?" Four montha later in hla horn In Vermont with hla weeping parents by him and with four strong men to hold him down, he died of de lirium tremens. Wanted Ills ran Baptised. The Epworthi league's motto la: "Look up, lift up, but you'll never lift much up unless Ood haa hold of your handa. I'nleea he haa, you will never put your handa deep In your pooket up to th elbow and bring them up full of money for bla cause. A man who waa about to be baptised took out hla watch and laid It aside, then he took out bla knife and bank book and laid them aside. "Bet ter give me your povketbook to put aside for you," aald the minister. "No," aald the man, "1 want It to be baptised, too." There'a no such thing as a bargain counter religion. Pure and undefUed re ligion will do more when Ood haa some thing besides pennli-a to work with. Ood doean't run any excursion te heaven. You must pay the full fare. Your re ligion la worth Juat what It oU yoo. if you get religion and then Ua deem and go to aleep your Joints wlU get aa stiff aa Hip Van Winkle's did. and you'll never win the rellalous marathon. A man aald to his wife that he had heard the pteacher say that rellxlon I worth Juat what It coats, and that hi had determined to give more for religion. nd to deny more for rellirlon, and to deny hlmaelf aa well. "What will yo give up'" she aaked. He aald that he would give up coffee, for he dearly loved coffee imcd to drink several cup at every meal, the very best Hhe said that ahe would give up something, too that the would give up tea. Then their daugh ter aald ahe would give up some of her little flea urea, and the father turned to hla son. Tom, who had been shoveling mashed potatoes, covered with chicken eravy, Into hla mouth, and he said: "I'll give up salt mackerel. I never did like the darned stuff anyway." G4 Wants Best We Have. There are too many salt mackerel peo ple like that in th pews of our churches today. They will take something that they don't like, and that nobody else will have, and give It to th Lord. That lan't enough for Ood. II wanta th best wo hav. God turns down th msn who merely live a moral life and does not accept tha religion of Jeaua Christ Tou must com with Jeaua' blood. If a man glvea his wife a 10-rent pin cushion at Christ mas to how how much he lovea her, ha'e a geexer the devil's stuck on. How thankful you are depends on how much you are willing to earrlflce. What would you think of a soldier If when he wss ordered "Present arms!" ha would anawer, 'Tomorrow." If he would aay: "When the next man b me doea." If ha should aay: "When I get a new uniform." Present thst means now. It la In tha present tense. Ood wants ua to make a present of our bodies to Him because we love Him. A little girl showed ft man aome pres ents she had received, and he asked her: "How long may you keep them?" "How long?" she answered, 'Why, they were given to me. They are mine." Many a man jyives his hoy a colt or a calf, then when it ha grown to a horse or ft cow he sells it and pockets th money. Borne of you fellows need to do ft little thinking along that line. When we give Ood our body It Is to be His for keeps. Many Men Will Rob Ood. ' If when you make a present you do not mean to give It outright you are not honest. Will a man rob OodT. You bet he will a. heap quicker than he will rob anyone else. Illahop Taylor promised Ood that he would do aa much hard thinking and planning for Him as he would do for another man for money. He did it So did Wesley and Whitfield and Savonarola, and look what they did for God! If there Is any better way of doing Ood'a biiaineas than there was HiO years ago. for God's sake do It! He'a entitled to the best there la. This thing of Just ringing the church bell to get people to comn la about played out ,o4'a Time Rlaht Vow. ) 1 tell you any time Is Ood's time. Now Is Ood's time. It waa God's set time to teach us about electricity long before Franklin discovered It, but nobody had sunae enough to learn. It waa God'a time to give ua the electric light long before KillHon Invented I It, but nobody ; had sense enough to' understand It. It. waa Ood's set time to glv us the iteam ' engine long before Watts watched the kettle boll and aaw It puff the lid off, but nobody ftad sepae enough to grasp! the Idea. ' j Give yourself to God, an you'll find i yourself doing lots of things for Him. Dwlght I Moody waa a shoe saluaman i and never discovered the power that waa ! In him until Ood got hold of him and J aet him to work. Jerry MeCauley waa an old wharf, rat until he gave hlmarlf aa a living aacrlf Ue to God. Andrew the Humble waa an obacure and lowly man until God took him In hand. would blossom like Fflen. If that were laken aa our eatchword, what a atam ,Mi of phort yardM I'ka. ahrnnrten meas ures, light weights, adulterated fooda, etc., there would be! What a stopping of the hitting up of booxe! There would ho no more living In aln and keeping somebody on the aide, no more of you i.ld demons coming down the alxles strok ing your whlakers and renting your bulldlnns for houses of ill fame! "Your renaonahln service." God never aaka anything unreasonable. He ia never exacting. He only anka lights when He aaka you to foraake aln. A man must be an Idiot if he does not see that man is unreasonable when unrighteous. God never made a law to govern you that you wouldn't have made If you had known as much as God knoas. You don't know thst much and never can, eo the only sensible thing to do Is to oliey God's lams. Faith never saks explana tions. Una Sever letted Anything Hard. Ood asks some things that are hard, but never any that are unreasonable. I beseech you, brethren. It was hard for Abraham to take hla son up on the moun tains and prepare to offer him up aa a sacrifice to God, but God had a reason. Abraham underatands tonight and Abra ham la satisfied. It was hard for Joseph to be torn from his ojin speorHn and to be sold Into Egypt and to be lied about by that miserable woman, torn from his mother and father, but Ood had a rea son. Joseph knows tonight, and Joaeph la satisfied. It waa hard for Moaes to lesii the Jews from Kgypt following the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night and make that crossing of the Red flea, only to have Ood call him up to Mount Plagah and show him the prom ised land and say: "Moaes, you can't go In." It waa hard, but Ood had a reason. Moses understands tonight and Moses la satisfied. It waa hard for Job to lose his children and all that he pos sessed and to be afflicted with bolls, and to be so miserable that only Panacea, his wife, remained with him. But God had reason. Job understands tonight and Job la satisfied. It was a. hard thing God asked of Paul of Tarsua to bear witness to Him at Itome and Ephrtua, to face those Jeering heathens, to suffer imprisonment and be beaten with forty stripes, and finally to put his head on the block and have It severed by the order of old Nero, but God had a reason. Paul Aiderstands to night, and Paul la satisfied. It was a hard thing God asked of Jesus to lesve the song of the angels and the presence of the redeemed and glorified and come down to earth to be horn amid the malodors of ft stable, and be forced to flee from post to post and dispute with the learned doctors In the temple at II years of age, and confute them, and to still the storm and the troubled waters, and to aay to the blind, "Be whole." and finally to be betrayed by one of His own followers and to be murdered through a conspiracy cf Jews and Gentiles: but now He alt on the throne with the Father, awaiting for the time to Judge the world. Jesus under stands, and' Jeaua is satisfied. It was a hard thing for me when Ood told me to leave home and go out Into the world to preach the Gospel, and to be vilified and libeled and have one's 11. a threatened and be denounced, but when my time comes, when 1 have preached my last sermon, and I can go home to God and the lamh, He'll say. "mil, this was the reason." I'll know what It all meant, and I'll say. "I'm sat isfied, Ood. I'm astlafled." (Copyright, William A. Sunday.) HOURS FOR DES MOINES SPECIAL TRAIN ARE SET The Dea Molnea people who are com ing to Omaha to attend the "Billy" Sun day meetings Sunday will leave the Iowa city at 11:06 o'clock Saturday night over the Rock Ialand. They will remain here for the morning, afternoon and evening meetings and depart for horn at i.0 o'clock Monday morning. Indications from thla end of the Una Indicate that there will be about mo in tha party. 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Thousands of ambitious families in Omaha are made happier and enabled to enjoy lifa , more abundantly because of our dignified, helpful I'l 1? 1 s t j .1 -w. a. creun service, u nits tun burden, it provides tho means by which any sjilaried person can acquire a cheerful home an artistic and comfortable home and that's ono of ihe greatest blessing a man can have oni this earth. toes at Want l.oe. Fare. What a face your face will be when Ood puts Ills shine on It. If you are one of' the long-faced brand of Christians, get rid of it. Ood never put such a face on you. That's the kind of a face the Pharisees wore, and Jesus said, "they lengthened their faces to make believe they had religion." When a man tries to make himself without asking Ood to help him, he will make a face as long as a smokestack. I tell you. the devil will bank hla fires and go to church to hear a man like that give testimony. Uod doesn't want you to look and act aa If religion affected you like ft toothache or corn. If It doea. It lan't Ood'a kind. If Ood Almighty only had possession of your mouths. He'd stop your lying. If Ha had your mouths. He'd atop your knocking. How Little Are Yon UelagT If Ood had our eyea we'd bring the millennium. Ilia eyea run to and fro through the world seeking for men to aerve Him. and if He had our eyea, how our eyea would run to and fro looking for ways to help bring men to Christ. Hew hard It would be for sinners to get away. We would be looking for drunkards and the prostitutes and down-and-outs, to lift and save them. How many sorrowful hearta we would find and soothe, how many griefs we would alleviate! Great Ood I how IHtle you' are doing! Don't you feel ashamed f , Aren't you looking for a knothole to crawl through? If Ood had our eyea, how many would atop looking at a lot of thlnga that make us proud and unclean and self ish and critical and un-Chrtatlan. Ood wants you to give your body. Are you afraid to glv It to Him? 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