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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1915)
Till: OMAHA SLXDAV WW.: (MTOWOIt ,?, 1H15. 5- "Let Your Light So Shine Before Men," is Sunday's Afternoon Text PilJy" Sunday this aiternoon spolie as follow: but If TVxt. Matthew v:l-' Let jour light no shine bo fore men, that thfjr shall see your (tooil words, and glorify jour Fattier whl h In in heaven." They will (tlorlfy Ood berauw of what thry aee In your Uvea. They will slorlfy Him because of the power they nee In you. Uvlng o a to irlorify Ood waa the first thins: trauK taught Ills diaclples. and it Is the first thin He enjolna upon ua. Religion la the most Important matter In life, and It should be our flrnt busi ness. The text menna that you shouldn't shins on Sunday and be like a London foa; for the remainder of the week. Your light should so shine every day and all the time. It la not what you aay that counts, nor It la so muc h how treat the thing Is that yon do. A man can serve (tod while driv ing hogs aa well as while preachlnK the Kosprl. A man can be one of the wort dinners as he alts In prw or slnirs hymns nd he ran tie the lu st kind of a saint while he is thawing a wuler pipe. The Im portant thing is that you live for the lord, wherever you are and whatever It Is your buslueHs to do. "Let' your linht so Bhlne before men that they may see your Rood works and glorify your Futhir which is in heaven." This means that Uod experts all to shine. We cnn"t all be great preachers and we ouuht to bo thankful for that; we can't all be great a'ngera ami it's a irood thins; that we can't: but all can lo somethlnu, every man can stand for j an arc laP "hrlst. and let the worl.l know where he i 'nellest Usui Stands. V ran let the world, the flesh and the devil know on which side we stand. I'll bet the brewers don't smile much when they see your white ribbons. They know where you are. It's a good thing we are not all preach ers. It's a good thing that we are not all sinners. I know what would happen to you people out there if I tried to sing, and I know what would happen to you if "Rody" tried to preach. I'll bet there are a lot of church moni tors In town who can show so poor a light that you can't tell whether they are for these meetings or against them. That's the reason the devil is having such a good time and that's why he wasn't put In the hospital long ago. A man a church member waa going up to a lumber camp In the north, and a friend said to him. "If those lumberjacks find out you're a Christian they'll make sport of you." He went up there and when he came back hla friend said: "Well, how did ou get along with the lumherjacks?" The man answered: "All right. They didn't find it out." That'a the way with so many people who profess to be Christians. They're church members, but a stranger would have a mighty hard time finding it out. If you are a Mason, everybody knows it If you're an Odd Fellow, you wear the pin with the three links and everybody knows you are. If you are a democrat and any one who doesn't know it makes an attack on the democratic party in your presence, he'll find out mighty quick. Don't Flht for Christ. The first thing a man does when he Joins a lodKo is jo gi't a pin, and It any body, says anything, against the lodge lie'll stand ui and fight for It;' but tHere are avlot of ..'church -members who will seo the .church and' Jesus Christ Insulted and never open their mouths. If they were real men they would do what a man does when he Bees his wife or sister In sulted. They would fight If there was a tlanlty is the salt of the worl.l. It will kill that germ. So If jou sneer at re ligion you are a fool. The only power that keeps Omaha from rotting into hell is Christianity. That's why I want to bring It here. Jesus tells ' us, too. that we are a leaven, and He roeans us to I.hvoii the whole lump. When He mentioned leaven. every woman who was present knew that He waa talking Vout bread-making 1 p"ouK! religion In It to float then 1 am against all the world. By the eternal gods! 1 ant going to preach Jesus Christ In this city if I have to load my own trunk on a w heelbarrow and roll It awny myself when I get through. And you people who are runn.ng to me telling me how to preach my sermons are wasting your Ink and paper. If you know more about preaching than I, why don't you preach yourself? Say, If every one lived like lie expected others to live the millennium would le here. Fifteen years ago the devil fought in Hob Ingeisol.'s Inflde'lty. Now he tattles with some faked stuff he calls rel glon. and then he gets here tics for him. This stuff has got Just It. but It's and sat up and listened to find whether He had His dope right. lie had, too. You know how leaven worlds -put JusVa Httle of It Into a mass an I He Intended us to prevent it from rot tenness. pretty soon It will have the whole mass wotking. and will make It like itself. There are many kinds of leaven In the world. The leaven of the rii..r..... .. out 'eey, roncn Running nereies. i uon care tnree whoops in perdition who starts any of these heresies, I'll fight them to the finish. The devil has been going for 6.M0 years. His Joints never get stiff. The world is In darkness and It Is our busi ness to take the light of Christianity to the people. Are you keeping your light from shin- Billyisms tt'nrLini . 1 1 1 K Uft mtrc UU It I V Ml 1 1 as 1 1 H U KKJ V"U -v.n,,,s niii-u di'-ui wag on cartn, ana : j-uu " '" I'",VCn 10 ,h"! Vou ought to be prouj to belong to the stronger. If wc ere tin, right kind of Kindlon, of Jesus Christ. ''" "? win leaven the whole lump, and make the world ns Ood wants It ' to be. j If this old earth were a lump of dough, wu com, i just urop a llttlo leaven of new l as come into your lire. Christianity into It and change the whole ! There is s. inethlnc wrong The very first place In which you should let your light shine is your own home. The members of jour family ought to be the very first to know that something mass. our iigni may not he as lilg as some, you keep it burning as brightly religion if It d-'esn't happier and better. Ion't he afraid to ith your make your home use your llnht. as you can, Ood will be satisfied. When "n't turn It down as you turn down the you have done all that you can do. that Kn to "''I tbe meter from running so Is enough. I'd rather I a binning match ,ns- I hate to visit a home where there in the right place for Jesus Christ than " woman following me around : that hs gone out. Tho tu"'" "''" 'o gas. will drive bwhv a lot of You ""Sht to Uo so that every one If I come into this tubenmrle ' n,)0,lt 'ou- rv'M' "n W 'c'ts you. Bnppsat r o pis criticise ym. It's sons of thslr business. And what bnsinese bars yon to criticise my so-eaUed slaaj There Is something wrong with yonr religion If It doesn't maki yonr noms happier and setter. The Terr first placs In which yon shonld 1st yonr light iblns Is your home. Infldsls bars bsea vomiting and spew, las; and spitt'nr oat their heresies th". Christ is not Air ns. Who Is a liar bat hs vb) dsnles Jtsns Christ t fast because yon rt yonr name oa a church tscord and oonttnus to Uts His the dsrll, it doesn't msan you'rs i-rlns Ood. Xf this old earth wsre a lump of dough. ws eiuld jnst drop a llttls lsarsa of I Christianity Into it and elisors t'us whole mass, Ths only powsr that keeps Omaha from rotting1 into ball is Christianity. That's why X want to bring: it here. Ood expects ns to illuminate this world, bnt instead of dMnT it by our works too many of ns sit around and slngri "Oh, Think of the Boms 0sr Thsrs." Bin is a g-erm that wi'l rot you, yonr fjod name, yonr boy, your girl. Insurance Men Are Told to Copy After Rev. "Billy" Sunday "Hilly" Sunday Is a solicitor. He Is ! a natural Nun silesman. ' says a letter , which is being sent out to the Salesmen I of the 1'ralrle Life Insurance company ) over the signature of President M. M. Ilcptnnstall. The letter covers two dost ly written ages and deals entirely j with the evangelist and the oi ganlsatlan i of the Omaha campaign. Six points Mr. Ileptonslall picks out j of "111 ly's " iereniia It y and sets them i forth for his solicitors to copy. They j are these: "lie Is proud of his work. He Is tire- less in it. He Is fearless In it. He sys tematise It thorouiihly. lie Is a master of his subject. He knows how to hold the attention of his audience " "Of all the evil being said about 'ItU y' Sunday,'" says the letter, "one thing is certain, he Is Inducing men to be decent and if his critics were doing the same the world would soon be better than It Is." He also observes that "there Is less confusion In handling tho great Htind ly meeting crowds with their organisation than there would be in handling crowds of a few hundred people without organisation." darkness. at night, and not a light Is burning, and I take a match from my pocket an 5 strike it, the darkness will be broken away back to the corners. You may not be able to do ns great things as others. You may not be able to spei.k well, hut you can let your light shine by work ing for the Ixird so people w 111 know where you stand. What if you ran t sing or preach or pray as Well as others, you can live rUht. Hanks on t.od. Suppose people criticise you. It s none of their business. And what business knows that you are a Christian, l'o you? Does jour milkman know that you are a Christian.' locs the man who brings your laundry knew that Jou are a Chris tian? Ioea the man who hauls out jour asm s know that jmu are a Chr stlau .' loe t tic liewslmy who throws the paper on 'our doorstep know that you are a c'hrb-tian? l'oes tho butcher know that you are a Christian? Pome of you buy meat on Saturday night and !:io'c him keep It oer night and deliver It to you on Sur.day morning, Just because you aiu too stiln'y to have Ice, and then you wonder why he doesn't go to church. Sunday Party to Live in Mansion of Senator Hiscock The Sunday party will live In the old mansion of 1'nlted States Senator Ills cock during the campaign In Syracuse, N. Y Word to this effect has been received from Hev. J. W. Welsh, advance organ iser. He sent a photograph of the place. 1 Is a big house with twenty rooms and three baths. The yard has great chestnut tiees and an abundance of grape vines and fruit trees. A cook ami housekeeper wlll have He had to fight at Intervals until I charge rf things In the house. have you to criticise my so-called slang? j Say, if you had to go to heaven on your The Lord knew about it long before jou come on the scene, and He's standing for it. I bank on One. Just because, you get jour name on a church rerun! and ' continue to live like the devil, it doesn't lean you're serving Ood. So w hat r ,,t have you to criticise my way of serving God? Y'ou are bright before Uod on'y as His light shines through you. When 1 look at you I don t seo the real you there In the pews. What I see is only the house you live In. It -isn't you that i we'giits and measures dies and falls down and gets pale and shrink on judgment day, washwoman's testimony, do you think you would make it? If any of you business men cnllrd on jour stenographer's testimony to get you past the pearly gates, do your think you would land? ' Let Yonr I.'cht fthlne In Itnalness. Let your light shine In business. A man ought to bo as religious In business as he is In church. He ought to be as religious in buying and selling as he Is in praslng. Men ought to deal with that will not A member of the church for fourteen jtais anil a man had to chase htm for three days and talk with him for two hours to find it out! Kei p your light burning. Pou't let any one put It out. Ouard it as you gtlu'd jour life. A mail was a Ugh. House keepir up on Ike line. There was a maniac w ith a desire to put out every llgut ni.mg the lake, tine stormy evening tho maniac came to the lighthouse demanding to ha allowed to put out the light. The light house keeper knew that out on tho troubled waters there were great vessels bearing men and omeii and children and that if tin- light went out the vessels would bu in danger and might run ash re rnd be lost. So he fought that Insaiw ma n morning rnnie. and when at Inst the' iilrfht was over he was bruised and lacer- ated and bleeding, but he had saved tiie : ! Vessels. ! So should you stand by your light and 1 protect It. Don't let it be put out by the I devil. Keep it shining so that the drunk ard and the harlotand the thief may see It, and perhaps find their way safely Into the harbor of the kingdom of Ood. "bet your light so shine before men that they may see your good work and glorify your Father which la In heaven!" (Copyright, Willluiu A. Sunday.) Senator Htseork Is dead. lie was known as "the handsomest man In the I niti d Slates senate." , In spite of the beauty of tho mansion, I the people of the Sunday party declare II won't come up to their accommodations In OiiiHha. "Mere we have line rooms, elevator service and a bath to every room." said "Boh" Mathews. "And the cuisine Is fine. Kvery member of the party Is de lighted with It. The nearness of the hotel to the Tabernacle Is not the least of Its advantages." "Bars; Baits Ms"' fUl DZISS rVlL DRESS SAM. Ji f Vf 5" lliitrj , V A'! ' Troawrs TWs y r . J - Clovtt CM'rt M .y r . Si'ik Hrtts Jitry I j,: Sficl HmnJltrtkilfi , I i 'i 1 v l A Complete Display and Special Ak-Sar-Ben Sale of Foremost Autumn Fashions in Men's and Young Men's Suits and Overcoats at $10 and $15 Not Just an asTgraYaltn few but a m a. KB If Icon t collection of elegant farmcnts unsunms J In variety of patterns, fabrics and style distinction that emphasize the supremacy of this store for more value for Ions money. Saita and Overcoats that sold up to $15, this week Suits and Overcoats that sold up to $20, this week jOSE IFop Results Bee Want Ads. cold, it Isn t you that the undertaker pumps full of embalming fluid and Is placed in a coffin and burled. It's only the house Vou have been living In. You don't see me by what I maVe my body do. We only live In these bodies, and when God tells us to move out, we move that's all. We are only tenants at will, and it's not your will, either. You have seen how this light over my head Is an effect cause. You see a man who has blasphemed Uod and who now reBpeet His name. There you see tho effects. The cause Is the "power of God to ssve. Skeptics may try to tear down the Bible all they choose, but life is a living proof of the power of God. You can't get away from that. The true light of Christianity is as much proof of God as th.'s UsTit above me Is drop or red blood In their veins. You've j of a dynamo. Your Christian living is got to dig up the church records to find t just as necessary as my preaching or cut who are members. ... "Kody's" singing. God and every community have about We place too much reliance upon all they want of that kind of reunion. ' , preaching and upon singing, and too There are too many who won t tal:c I little on the living of those w ho sit In time to fight for God. They won t taku time for family prayer,' or for personal work, or for Bible reading, or for the prayer meeting, or work In the Sunday school. You eat? Yes. You wash your- the pews. We expect a great deal from tho leaders In the church, and mighty i little from ourselves. We think the : preacher's life ought to be without a flaw and that the Sunday school teacher self? Yes. You comb yonr hair? Yea 1 ought to be a wingless angel, and that Hut you haven't any time to work for ' th0 deacons and c'.deis ought to be God. I strictly upright, but too many people In God expects us to Illuminate this worli, ' the Pew "ve llk t,le ,lev"' od doesn't tut Instead cf doing It by our works too ! ca" the Pr?aohpr to a higher standard of living than He does you Listen to this: You must have light tnany of us sit around and sing: "Oh, Think of the Home Over There," when we ought to be out breaking clods, or killlnff ironhers. nr iikinnlntr ulfittika ...I,., i., ,, ,,,... .... Have you been born again? I don't ask -vv . A ' 1 1 ClUllV. II tue la light; vice Is darkness. The light of Christianity will dispel the forces of tlarkness and brighten up this old worid. l t your light shine in yonr neighbor hood. Kvery church should lie a refugo for the homeless, the drunkard and the harlot. They aren't, though. Half of yon would freer.o them up by tho way jou look at them. You should love your neighbor as your self. You ask me what that means, and I'll tell you. Well, you feed yourself when you are hungry, don't you? Yes. You give yourself a drink when you are thirsty, don't you? Yes. That's how you love yourself. Love your neighbor that way. feed him when he Is hungry. Olve him a drink when he Is thirsty. Treat him as vou do vourself. Christian O" people know you aro a Christian? i ney an ougiu lo Know. iot your light shine. You can't all preach, and you can't all do great things. You can't all be Peters and James and Johns, bur you can all be oarley loaves and fishes for Ood. You can all wipe away tho tears from the eyes of sorrow. You can all go to church when It rains or looks like ruin. That's when the preacher needs you. No man can be eloquent to wood and vnrnieh. The lord had a hard time when He was on earth: He has a hard time now. We can all have kind words and deeds. Don't look as If religion hurt you. Don't look as if you had a number three shoe when you ought to bo wearing a number five. Don't look as If you were wearing a twenty-two H. G. when you ought to be wearing a twenty-eight. I see some women here this afternoon who lock as If thry had the toothache. ! before you can let it shine; if you aren't j J "al won 1 wm anyone for Christ. Loo 'right with Uod you haven t any l.ght. I " reunion mauo you A Christian light will shine anywhere. The light over my head shines just aa brightly here as It does on any mi her place. It Is an effort and It comes from eniisfe There la M ilvnamn not Ihi.rA I somewhere, and It U making the light i Christianity la the light Morality shine. The power of God Is the dynamo you If you are a church member I church members and Christians are not always synonymous. . If you have not been born again, if the Holy Spirit Isn't In you, you must get tight. If you are not right, you know It. Polished Sinner IJn nacrous. Morality Isn't enough to give you a that enables us to shine. This ligut up sere doesn't say: "I don't like to shine in this crude tab ernacle. I could shine so brightly if I only were In a magnificent church v. I h stained glass windows and carved pe-vs and a big organ backed up In the cor- Is only the po'.lsh o nthe cand'.estlck It isn't the light itself. You may be moral, you may be true to the vows you made to your husband, you may practice phll- antnropy, out mat isn i enougn. i ou must be born again. It's the light you want, not the candlestick. It's the polished moral sinner who is th innnt dnnuernllM. The Hodctv wiiroaii ner." No. It will shine anywhere it is j whQ nag no Klon haB a ,K1.r drtt( fof put. so long as the power la there. ,he dv) (han ,he fflr, olllllr ht,r vlrtue Keep your lamp tr.mined and burning I , the rcd sht u lfst rlct. People will fol If you backslide, a hundred people mar '. lh example of the societv woman Co to hel! on your account. Take timo for church, take time to read your Biole. take time ror prayer meeting, and lake time for family pisyers in the homo. Lluht Positive I'orre. Darkness is a negative force, light ts a positive force, and the positive will over come the negative. j Bin Is a negative force, Christianity 1j a positive force, and It overcomes sin. i You can shine any w here if you are right ! with God it doesn't make any difference! where you are, whether you are In a' beautiful church orout In some dark alley pillowing on yoir breast the head cf some girl who has fallen. Christians . will shine anywhere. Mere church mem Inn won't. Jeeus says: "Ye are the salt of the earth." Light is for illumination, salt Is for preservation. Salt Is a preserva tive. Where you put salt, it kids the bacteria that causes decay. If a man were to take a piece of meut and smell and look disgusted, and If his little boy were to sk what was the matter with It, and he would say, "It hua begun to disintegrate by the formation of new compounds." the boy would not under stand. But let the man say, "It s rot ten," and the boy knows what he means and reaches for his nose. I use Anglo Saxon words. When the father pulled this on the boy, the boy was all In. That expres sion was the Bostonian way of saying "it's rotten." There Is no use In beating around Robin Hood's barn to say what you mean. If you would put sait on the meat tho salt would kill those germs. So salt is a preservative. When Jesus said, "Ye are t!.o tttit of the earth" He meant ttiat .n is a genju that will rot you, your name, your boy, your ajirL Ctirls- more than they will that of the poor fallen girl. It's because the devil can transform himself into an angel of light that he has lasted so long. He talks from the pulpit In tho garb of an orthodox i preacher. i Infidels have been vomiting and spew ing and spitting out their heresies that Christ Is not divine. Who is a liar but he who denies Jesus Christ? If all the world la against my Christ, happy when you had It. M - Ve lini ll-solilon. Don't try to shine yourselves. It your light shine which Is a very different thing. How can you let It shine? Well, it you are a banker, be a better banker than that miserable old sinner across the street. If you sre a horseshoer, be the best horseBhoer In town. Kesolve each morning that you will do nothing that will bring disgrace upon Jesus. Determine that you will make a success In Christianity, even If you tall In everything else. Hut, If you succeed as a Christian, you won't fall In other things. The man who has It In him to be a real Christian has the stuff in him to muke good In other things. Be a sue cess in all that you can, for then you will compel more reaped and can go out and win more respect for Christ. He a Bible Christian, a praying Christian. Oh, there are ao many church members who are not even known In their own neighborhood aa Christians. Out in Iowa where a meeting was being held a man made up his mind to convert a tough olj sinner, and after chasing him around for three days, he cornered hint and talked tc him for two hours. The old scoundrel stroked his whiskers and what do you nuppose he said? He said: ."Why, I ve been a member of the church down :h.;re for fourteen years." Just think of it I Traveled To Germany With A Bottle of Pcruna Everybody Who Is Trouble! With Catarrh Should Take Peruna X--' '"yr. 1 Mr. August Haaae, St. Anthony, I'U Boii Co., Iniliuru, wrltea: "I was trou bled much wlih catarrh for revt'il years. I was advised lu take Peruna an 1 used two bottles of It, which did mi much good. I decided to see my old homo In Germany again, after an ab sence of forty years, snd bought a bot tle of Peruna to take while on my way. Whenever I would have symptoms of catarrh I would take Peruna and so wai very well while going over. 1 wou d ad vise every one who cross s the ocean ti take Peruna along. I was In Germany nine months, and during that time ha 1 no attacks. I was then sixty-six yearn old. X.ast winter I tok cold and goo catarrh of ths bead. I took Peruna and was helped. Kverybody who Is troub led with catarrh should take Peruna." Another letter: "I followed your go ! a1vlce and took one bottle of Peruna It helped mo, then I bought another o n and used only a fart of It. Z an rid et the catarrh and thank yon very macs for your gcod adrlce. I will t'myi keep Peruna In the house and If I hear of any ore suffering troni cat irrh I . talnlr wTl recommend your meli lie." Taos who 5b)ot to liquid usdlcluM 4l bow ptoeurs Perua Tablets. 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