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THE BKK: OMAHA, Till1 KM) AY. SKITKMHEIl ;$0, 1D13,
'7s it Well with Thee?" Asks
Sunday of His Many Hearers
TSntr fcuaday preached last lht on
tha toptol "la It Well WRh Tbr 11
aid:
Text: Klnxi II. It Ji "Ij It well with
thee? la It well with thy husband f la It
well with thy child r
Kiftjr-threa mllea aoi-th of Jerusalem,
eight mile from Tabor and four mllea
from Jfirwl, thera one stood the famoua
and unfortunata city of Shunam, situated
in on of tha moat beautiful apota oa the
irtobe aurrounded by oJlva orrharda and
fields ef waving train, with babbling
arrtnn aod ahaded a-rovea, an Meal
plaoa for an Weal noma, and In that city
thera waa auch a' noma, presided over by
one of the famoua women of antiquity.
Ettaha, tha prophet, tmed to m this
borne on bla way to Mount Carmet and
hack attain to tha aehoola of tha prophets
at Jerlcbo, of which be waa the head,
and there waa aomethliui In Ms action
that led thla woman to conclude that he
waa a man of God, for aba aakt one dy
to her hm bend:
"I perceive that a man of Ood la passlng
by us continually."
Women, are of keener pemeptlnn when
It onmea to thing spiritually and mor
ally than are men. ,
I rxTcelve that probably her husband
waa too busy running the bank, or the
farm, or "balled up" In politic. I per
celva he had no time to think of brln
Inr any Influence beneath hie roof that
might ta a moral or rptrllunl uplift to
himself or bla wife or hie children.
lld Dead Hoy 1 pun Klliks's Heal.
There was tn thnt family an only
cihlld, and I ran Mm uiit In the field
where his father -m with the rtapsrs,
and tha hot n;n of tin- Oriental country
beat down on nix hind and the boy
'hrew hla hand t hln heed and cried:
"My head: My lind My head!"
And the father aall t the serrant:
"Carry the led to hi mother."
And they bore him ti the hcune.
And then. to my mind, occurs one of
the saddeat statements found upon tha
pages of tha Old Testament. lis aat
upon --hla ntother'a knee until noon, and
then he died.
Broken-hearted aha rarrlrd him up.
stairs and laid him upon the bed of tha
man of Ood; then turning to the young
men,- her servant.. he said to thorn: .
"Saddle ma 4 beast and drive on."
t)own yonder at Mount: Carmet waa the
nan of Ood who, aha believed, had power
o brtnr to life tha deed child.
Put there on the highway was the
mother with her heart breaking; down
there In tha home at fihunam waa the
boy lying on tha bed of tho mnn of Ood.
dead and you have tho picture.
And they went on and Rllaha looked
down tha road and saw them coming,
and ho aald to Oehaal. who was sort of
a private secretary:
"Yonder cornea tha Rhuitamlta. I wish
you would see what aha wanta and what
brings her hither,"
And Qohaxl ran down tha rond and
met her and saluted her In the words
of my text: ' '
la It well with thee? la It well with
thy husband T la It well with thy chlldT"
Kho answered after tha manner of the
KaMern salutation:
"it Is well'
She drew near to the man of God, dis
mounted from tha beast, fell upon her
knees, threw her arms about him and
went.
ciuoaat, possibly thinking her Insane,
tunic, seised her by tha ahouldera and by
hear force) waa about to drag her away.
when tha prophet of Ood put out hla !
hand and stopped him, and aald.
' "Do not so rudely use her. Tha poor
woman's eoul la rexed and troubled
within her and Ood has not revealed to
roe jlha causa of her sorrow,"
"kyPllot When Hearts Break.
Then ha turned to tha woman and
akd her why aha had oome and why
she wept She told him her boy had
died and believed by what aha bad seen
and learned of him aa ha had been a guest
In her home, that ha walked cloas with
Ood, and If there waa anybody In all the
nation that aha believed had power with
Ood., It was that aama man, and aha
made that trip to have blra help her.
Yes. air. when your heart la breaking1!
the first man you want to get under
your roof la tha preacher, tha man that J
marks close to Ood. j
You don't want the dancing master
then, nor the saloon keeper, nor tha card
prtxe winner. '
When your hearts are breaking you
want somebody that keeps In touch with
Ood. Then you will aend for tha aky
ilot.
b'he said:
"My boy la dead and t want you to go
back and help me and bring him to Ufa
agnfci."
And Ellsha aald to Gchasl:
"Gehast, hero, you take my staff and
go lay that on tha dead child that ha
may live."
t. don't know, but I have always
thought that God told him to do that.
What e want Is a personal touch:
there Is too much of this other business.
I think one -of tha curses of the church
today seems to be a perpetual sign hang
ing from tha paw:
''WantedA recipe whereby our work
raa be accomplished by proxy."
And they think If they drop a check In
tha plate they are realesed from any
responsibility and absolved from any
nooosslty for doing anything for God.
She said:
"I want you to go with me."
And Kllaha said to Gehasl:
"Go lay tho staff oa tha dead child
that be may live."
But aha clung to hint weeping and
Mid:
"Aa tha Lord God llveth and' as my
ojI llveth I will not let thee go."
And she compelled tha man of Ood
to aocompany her home. fie put
everybody out of tha room, out of tha
house. Ha walked Into tha chamber
where tha dead boy waa lying on tha
bed, and wa are told ha spread him
self upon tha dead child, put hla face
to tha boy's face, his hands on tha boy's
hands, hla heart to tha boy's heart, and
be prayed and God heard hla prayer,
and tha heart to that child started like
a hum pump and drove tha blood through
tha valna and tha arteries; bis eyes
moved, bla lips trembled, ha sat up and
asked for Ms mother,
Iaaaertaaltr ta Prayer.
ElUha called to Oehast and aald:
"Carry the lad to hla mother."
And the house of sorrow waa turned
tnta a home of mirth.: that of grW Into
happiness; thst of misery Into Joy, be
oauee tha woman's confidence waa not
niiitplacad and Gud bad heard tha prayer
ef the man and re etc-red the boy to life.
Kow why do you auppoaa God givaa
oa tbat beautiful and matchless story T
1 11 tell you.
That's simply an Old Testament Inci
dent; that Is simply a fmstoral incident
uf centuries and canturWa ago, but there
a a lereou In It that I think and feel la
. uiiarly applicable to this meeting to
uiiit, and for that reason I bring you
the messago. and that ta. Gud wants to
teach us Importunity tn ' prayer, deter
mination to accomplish tha thing upon
which our heart la art no matter what
dlfrteuitlaa may te In tha way.
Yaara ago :n Cincinnati a minister had
premthed aa best human wisdom coul.l
derlct the life of God to a ain-cureed
world, and aa be was drawing to the
close of bis sermon tha Ixrd aeemed to
eayt
"Make the application of yoar message
personal. Ask If there Is not one here
that would like to ha a Christian T"
And he did what he hadn't done tn
that rich nnd fashlnnsble church for
years. He said to the people:
"Let ns bow our heads In prayer. If
there Is some one here that Is sirk ami
tired of sin and wants us to pray for
you. lift your hsnd."
And as all were still. Just then the
door opened and a young man walked In,
dropped In the rear seat, leaped to his
feet, raised his hsnd snd then cried out:
"Pray for me, sir; I am sick and tired
of sin."
And the minister prayed. Then .ha hur
ried down tha aisle and took tha young
man by the hand. He learned from him
a sad story of prodigality and wandering.
He learned that for eight yeara ha had
been a wanderer on earth; had heard
nothing from home; knew not whether
his parents were living or dead.
Dying Father Wouldn't Let lod fin.
The minister advised him to write home
and tell his parents what he had done.
Ho didn't expect a reply from Brooklyn
fur four day a Tha fourth day no answer
came; tha fifth day no answer, and he
waa worried.
The sixth dy no answer and he as
troubled. The seventh day and no answer
and ha waa In distress. The eighth dsy
and no answer and ha waa In agony.
Tha ninth day and the letter came, but
the envelope was bordered with black.
"With tear-dlmmed eyas and trembling
hand ha broke tha aeal and read some
thing Ilka thla: '
"My Dear Hon: The Joy which your
letter brought to our home and hearts
waa only exceeded by the sadness which
waa there at the same time, for nearly
as we can conclude, tha same day and
the aamo hour that you found Jesus
Christ as your Bavlnur, your poor old
father waa going Into the skies.
"All day long he rolled and tossed upon
his bed; his mind wandered up and down
tha earth, he knew not where, and ever
and anon he would cry out In misery;
" 'Oh, Ood, aava my poor waadorlng
drunken boy today.'
"We would turn hla mind from you
and divert hla attention from your prodi
gality and your sin, but aver and anon
Ma mind would roam from plane to place
and ha would cry out In sorrow:
" "Oh. Ood, aava my poor wayward,
wandering, drunken boy today.'
"And Just aa he pasaed Into the sklea
he cried:
" -Oh, Ood. save'
"And he finished tha prayer In tha
presence of Jesus."
Io you. know the result Down at the
bottom of the letter the mother added
thla footnote. She said:
"You are a ChrlMlau tonight because
your old father would not let Ood go,"
Oh, for men and women that could pray
Ilka that, or mothers that would forget,
or husbands that would forget
Oh, for business man that would forget
their mad. wild rush after money and go
bark and pay tnelr clerks. Oh, for school
teachers that would atop tholr miserable,
good-for-nothing whining, snapping and
fault-finding with my vocabulary and get
an your knee and prey. If you could
do better than I, coma up and do It
X am getting tired of some of you rattle
brained school teachers growling about
my preaching. Tou quit card playing,
dancing, wine and beer drinking and you
won't have time to find fault with me.
I would Ilka to make tha application of
my tneaaage tonight so personal that not
a man, woman or child can go out of
hero and say:
"Ha didn't mean me, It didn't touch
ma. It didn't apply to ma."
Now
"la It wall with theer
Women Heller Than Men.
I will gnawer that much of It for every
unsaved man. woman and child In this
building tonight
I know, man, there are trials. I know
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there are temptations. I have been privi
leged of Ood to lead more men than wo
men to Christ, not that I preach cm-e-clally
for them well i do, too. I believe
that If tlie womanhood of Amerlea was
no letter then the mannood God would
have dumped the whole thing Into hell
long ago and rhut up simp.
There Is many a young man going to
hell tonight, because ho was Influenced
by the gang he trains with, and he goes
with the wrong mob, and they will put
any fellow Into the penitentiary and hell
If he stays by them long enough.
There la many a man Influenced by the
gang hn goes with to do tlilnKs which,
after he has done them nnd when he Is
alone, he hates and espices iilmarlf for.
He condemns himself to think he didn't
have manhood and decency enough to
say:
"No."
And he could not look his mother, nor
his sister, or his wife. In the face without
blushing to the roots of his hair, and
hen alone In the unlet of hla room and
he enn review what hn did, he despiwa
himself to think he didn't have grit and
manhood enough to refuse the min.
There are men In heaven ton.ght be
cause they had manhood enough to
choose the right company, and there are
men in hell because they were drsgged
there by the gang tbey went with.
Is It well with the man that will sit at
tha gaming table and run the risk of
being a black-legged gambler?
Is It well with the man who will take
even an occasional drink and run tha
risk of becoming a sputtering, vomiting,
reeling. Jabbering drunkard, staggering
to the pit of hell?
Is It well with the man that Is taking
God's name In vain on his lips and pour
ing out his polluted oaths and blasphemy T
Is It well with the man that will hang
on the walls of his memory vile, lewd
pictures and approach In his thoughts
tha secrets of others?
Is It well with the man or woman that
is careless of his or her associates, of
the Sabbath day and tha lawa of God?
No! Not Ten thousand times no.
Ood pity you If you go out Into eternity
with tha aln on your Ufa that la there
tonight as you alt and listen to met
Mawie Devil Hero.
The same devil that damns In old sln
cursed, whinky-aoaked, gambling, bloated,
harlot-ridden, Sabbath-breaking Chicago
la the same devil and tha aama sin that
will damn you In Omaha, that will damn
you In your home, and you cannot win
without Jeeua Christ.
You aay:
"Mr. Sunday, I had a bad atart In life.
I have coma from bad atock I have bad
blood In my veins. 1 was born with tho
devil In ma and with evil Inclinations."
You can ba born again wtth tha devil
out of you If you want to be. It you will
give yourself to Jesus Christ and turn
from your sins.
Certainly! Don't blame your parents.
They brought you Into tha world, that'a
true, but you yielded to Its aln whan you
cama In. Don't blama them.
If you lived In a palaoe with a bad
heart In you you would turn tha palace
Into a slum.
You can't get smallpox or acarlet fever
or diphtheria by crawling In between
clean sheets.
If you turn a polecat loose In a parlor
you know which will change trrst, tha
polecat or tha parlor.
Sin doesn't atart In a atale beer Joint
or a brothel. Sin aurted In the Garden
of Edn. ao I aay don't blama society:
you arc a part of It
Society la what It la and you havo
helped to make It what It la, and If you
wanted to be different why didn't yon
follow Christ and set tha example? 8o
don't blama tha church. That'a tha place
for you to go to learn to do what you
ought to do.
Don't aay, "Wa are only human."
Don't blama tha devil; all ba can do la
to tempt you. and there are not devtla
enough In hell to make you a drunkard
If you don't want to be one. and thora
are not angela enough In heaven to make
you walk home sober If you don't want to.
u
Tho word ia backed by cheerful, wel
coming appenranccs if your home is
lighted with modern gas light.
This is the week to put in the health
ful and artistio fixtures and lights be
cause it in '
Gas Lighting Week
With Big Reductions
"Yo aro conducting special displays
and demonstrations at our store to show
the true superiority of modern gas
lighting.
All Semi-Indirects, Table Lamps, Domes
and Fixture. Reduced 20 .
Four 15-Cent Mantles 50 Cents.
Another bUy feature will be the open
ing of a special sale of "C. E-Z" Lights,
Manday, October 11th prices, 80 cents
and up, according to equipment.
The sjiecial 20 reductions close Sat
urday, so don't foil to see the display or
havo a representative call.
Omaha Gas Company
1509 Howard St. Donglas 605.
Po bo fair and square. Iook yourself
siate In the lace and say:
I'm the duck."
Put It up square to yourself. Pon't
put It up to so'icty, or your arenti. or
the church, or to Adam and Kve.
Put It to yourself snd say:
"I'm the lobster; this is the fellow."
He decent. "Is it well with thee?"
"Is It well with thy husband?"
. Ciet Rellgloa from Strana-rrs.
There are boys and girls, young people.
If they ever walk the streets of heaven
instead of groaning In hell It will be be
cause of the Influence of some stranaer.
It will be becauxe of what somebody, not
related to them by ties of flieh and
blood, has done for your children.
God pity a boy or girl who has to
call a man like that father, and a woman
like that mother.
Ood pity a boy or girl, when all the
Christianity they hear Is from the lips
of strangers, not from their own parents.
"Is It well with the child?"
What should you do.
I would speak to them. 1 tell you you
I spend too much time In society, too much
time In club life, too much time In your
lodge, too much time In your auxiliaries.
You have too little time with jour chil
dren. You spend too llttlo time on your knees
' prsylng to God to keep the home right
for Jesus Cl rlst.
, 8peak to them. Live right before them.
Ret them an example that will Inspire
them.
Ia It well with thy husband?
A friend of mine waa preaching In an
eastern city. Ha had gone out to work ;
I among the audience to Induce them to I
give their hearts to Christ, nnd a woman
In the front row In the gallery cried out:
"Pray for my husband. He Is sitting
by my side, i believe he Is listening to
hla last sermon. God is giving him his
last chance."
And she aat down weeping.
God Glvea Yon Chance Now.
Soma women aald to my friend:
"Go up on the platform and rebuke her
for what wa consider was a foolish thing
to do."
Ha aald:
"If you want to take the platform and
take tha responsibility, do It How do I
know but that God told her to do It?"
The next afternoon. Just before tho be
ginning of tha evening service, these tamt
women cama to my friend weeping and
aald:
"Forgive ua for cur lack of Interest
and sympathy, and won't you pray God
to forgive us, aa we have prayed? We
beard that at 5 o'clock this afternoon
that man sent a bullet crashing through
hla brain."
t believe God told that wife to' say that
that husband waa listening to his funeral
sermon. That waa heaven or hell for
him.
And I believe thla serlea of meetlnga la
tha bell of Gnd tolling out tho destiny
of human souls.
I believe aa I breathe, that If men and
women are not saved In these days eter
nal damnation will ba their portion.
I believe God has let a lot of you men
and women in this town live just to give
you thla laat grand chance to ace If you
measure up to your pool room, mounte
bank, pliable, plastlo, sort of celluloid,
pantesota, Jau-a-lao reputation, or
whether you had manhood or womanhood
enough to step out for Jesus Christ and
do Ilia commandments,
"la It well with thy husband?"
"It U well with thy chUdr'
I have often tr.ed to Imagine Noah and
hla wife seated in tha ark, contented,
and tha storm of God's brewing to burst
on tha world, and one would turn to tha
other and aay:
"Wnera are tha boys?"
"Oh, they are out; they will ba In lata
tonight Iaava the night lock ao they
can get In.; they didn't take their key
with them."
I can't Imagine a father and mother
tucking themnetvea tn bed and letting
their children gad tha streets,
"la It well with tha child?"
Hear roe a minute. You are Interested
In their education." " You" hire "teschers,
you tax the oommunlty, you build public
schools and get the best money can buy.
You arc concerned with their health.
You will send for the doctor when they
are ill. You work to give them three
meals a day. You will buy them warm
clothes for winter and ouvl clothes for
summer. Yoj are concerned for their
health; but, great Ood, what about their
souls?
1 tell you,' there are men In this town,
there are fathers who arc leading their
hoys as straight to hell aa that two and
two make four. '
"Is It well with the child?"
If lwss n 't a Christian do you know
what I would do? I would walk down the
bIhIo tonight, give my heart to Ood, and
if I had a child I would go home, and It
It was asleep I would get It out of bed,
wash its face to waken It, and 1 would
say to It:
"You never heard your father pray. I
want you to hear him pray."
1 would get him on his kneea and t
would let that child that bears my name
hear my volet In prayer.
They have heard you cuss, damn, blas
pheme, mock and rail at the preacher and
rdleule what I have been trying to do to j
Keep vou out or hell; l would lot them
hear me pray.
And I tell you. a mother's arms and a
mother's heart are a aafe anchorage, and
there are not devils enough in hell to
drag the children out of Uiat harbor If
they will only get In there.
"Is It well with the child?"
Listen! In your home thora are boys
nnd girls destined to rule In church and
state.
Publla school teacher, don't simply
think of the title paltry salary you draw
from the school board at the end of tha
month.
Tou have the grandest most noble, far
reaching work ever given to human be
ings, the shaping and molding of char
acter. In your classes next week will ba
some boy or girl destined to rule la
church or In state.
t'pon which slda of their Ufa the In
fluences are thrown vil determine what
they w.ll be.
Yoa Wait Too leoagr. It la Too Lata.
Hear me! Some Oliver Cromwell that
will dissolve parliament; some- Davla
Bralnerd that will change tha Indian
war-whoop Into a Sabbath school; aume
Bethoven who will touch tha world a
heart atringa and make them alng; some
M as Dtx who will soothe tha brain of
tha erased; soma Clara Barton that will
bind up the battle wounda; soma Francea
E. Wlllard who will arouse the people
to the ravages of the liquor trafflo.
Yea, aome one, I aay, destined to rule
in church and In aUta.
Soma John Knox, who will make queena
turn pale on tholr throne; aome Martin
Luther who w.ll atart a reformation.
Yea, hut you wait too long. You wait
until ha curaea you to your face before
you, teach htm:
"Thou ahalt not take tha nam of tha
Lord thy God In vain."
You wait until ha staggers Into your
presence before you teach htm:
"Look not on tho wlna when It la red.'
You wait until ha steals and la off to
the penitentiary before you toach him:
"Thou ahalt not steal."
You wait until ha haa robbed aome girl
of her virtue before you teach b'.m:
"Tbou ahalt not commit adultery."
You wait too long.
Lived. Memory of Boyhood.
I want to aay to you that ona of tha
brightest pictures that hanga upon tha
walls of my memory la tha recollection
of tha daya when aa a little boy out in
tha log cabin on tha frontier of Iowa X,
knelt by mother'a aide. j
I went back to the bid farm aome years 1
ago to bury my brother. Tha first bury-,
Ing ground In that section of tha state
was on tha old farm. I
Tha acanea had changed about tha '
place. Facea I had known and loved had
long since turned to dust j
Fingers that used to turn tha pagoa of '
tha Bible were obliterated and tha old
trees beneath which wa boys used to play
and awing had been felled by tha woods-,
man's axe. I
I stood and thought Tha man became
mppier
. because rt
BRIGHTER.
w w m
a enftff grain and tha fang.- weary- nlghtafcf th -rlwhtee ptnturaa-that hangs, ou.
of sin and of hardship became as though
they never had been.
Once more with my gun on my shoulder
and my favorite dog trailing at my heels,
I walked through the pathless wood and
sat on the old faml.lar loga and atump.
and aa I sat and listened to the wild,
weird harmonies of nature, a vision of
the past opened.
The squirrel from the limb of the tree
barked defiantly and I threw myself Into
an Interrogation point and when the gun
cracked the squirrel fell at my feet.
I grabbed him and ran home to throw
him down and receive compliments for
my skill as a marksman.
And I saw the tapestry of the evening
fall. I heard the lowing herds and saw
them wind slowly o'er the lea and I lis
tened to the tinkling bells that lulled the
distant fold.
Once more I heard the shouts of child
ish glee. Once more I climbed the hay
stack for the hen's eggs. Once more we
crossed the threshold and sat at our
frugal meal. Once more mother drew
the trundle bed from under tha large
one, and we boys, kneeling down, shut
ou eyes and clasping our little hands we
sold:
"Now I lay m down to sleep, I pray
thee, Lord, my sou! to keep; if I should
die before I wake, I pray thee. Lord, my
soul to take. And thla I ask for Jesus'
sake. Amen."
I ray I will never forget That Is ona
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