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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1915)
THE IJHK: OMAHA. TIIUK'SUAY, SKriKMP.FK .?(. 1!1.. "Take Your Bearings" Is the Advice Sunday Gives Audience The sermon of ' Hilly" Sunday t the tabernacle yesterday afternoon was on the subject: "Taking Our Bearings." Ill" text was: "Ye have not passed this way hereto fore," Joshua, ill:. The (treat army ot Israel, under Joshua, vii encamped on the liUIMcs above the Jordan, where they had been brought to a standstill by the raving river, which was tloodtido and out o: It banks. At last the forty years oC wandering '.n the wilderness hail come to an enu. The time had arrived for the tribe to take possession of their Inheritance In the I romlsed land. Three days were'to bo devoted to rest and preparation for the greatest achlfive n.ent ever undertaken by the Jewish na tion. From headquartcra of.'lcers were sent throughout the on nip to Inform, in struct and prepare the people, l'erhaps a trumpeter went with the herald to sound the bu;le to call the people together. St;teches were made giving full in 'orniatlon concerning the movement of the army. Euch officer would explain what waa expected of every an and full information given aa to the manner and time when certain thin happened that were the signal for something else to happen. As a commander Josh lft was Row and untried. Nobody knew anything about his ability. He had never operated an Independent command JP until thla time. He had no past succeajes as a piestlge to trive the people coniiltnee- The people had known nj rcat com mander up to this time but Mos. and It waa natural that Joshua would suuer from comparison-his appearance-language ordera new way of dolug things. When a new preacher assumes chargo of a church he Is up against the same dif ficulty. He is contrastod with his prede cessor. And that's the trouble. I guess, when ever a wife married a second time; she's up against the same sort of a proposition. You hear: He doesn't preach like Brother Barker used tot" "Land's sakes!- Iid you ever hear any body preach like that?" "What a tueer way he led the prayer meeting!" Man Seat by God Sever Kails. I Imagine tie people quarreling and finding fault with Joshua. "What In the world Is Joshua trying to do now? Uoing out against a walled city! Who .ever heard of such a thing! Moses would never have taken us on such a wild-goose chase! I don't believe In going to war this way I like to see things done decently and in order! Just because he has got up there ho wants to show off! abundance of rain." Ni depositor will ever know ery much about the stability of a bank If he only .k...lr m tin... If A mil potent that He can only throw down ear exP(.c(ed ,, fwm i;,(, hPrw houses when all the signs are right! They fewpf ,.,,,,.,: Tho .-,, decline to magnify His power for U.t wh wMrh ,e w,, tll ., , they will overdo It! ,hnt h m.ri,.h believe! "Arrnrdlnir In the dome above tig! We will never i nlnsr the same eld sins going to continue "hear the sound of a gong In the tops tu be the slave of the same habits- gu n of the mulberry trees" nor "a sound of to keep on stumbling oxer the same MInee of opoi tunlly slid never pl k up u nugget? Are you going to keep on hearing li e gomcl and still allow yourself to no to hell? Are you going to keep on luiuuira around the same old haunts, and con- And If they accidentally make a strong assertion as to His power, they Immedi ately neutralise It by "as it were" or "In a measure, perhaps." ;ot and Kaltk. At the time of an earthquake, when the trees were being uprooted and the hills melting away and houses falling, an old woman Jumped up and down, clapped her hands and cried, "That's the kti.1 of a God I believe In shakes things. It He wants to." That was the kind of a Ood Joshua proclaimed a God who would overwhelm them with astonishment as to the mighty display of Hl power. Ro the people be gan to stiffen up their spines and throw back their shoulders and expect some thing. "Faith" ts the biggest word In the lexi con of a Christian. It Is the countersign that admits you to the Inner circle of power. Doubt and timidity are strangers to a man of faith. The man of faith is magnetics galvanic energetic. The man of faith does not droop nor sang In the middle. His enlhus stasm Is as Infectious as the smallpox or the laughter of little children. Faith puts a song on his lips fire In his blood cement in his backbone. He puts the ball over the fence when there are three men on bases the last half of the ninth inning, two out and you need four runs, and you are upl Don't think that Ood has ever been all in. He never has been and never will. He Is not like a lot of people who can spar well, but who haven't the punch. He Is not like the people who cannot produce the "sleeper." Ood never has to go Into repairs, "Ye have not passed this way hereto fore" meaning, I take it, that everything is now to be new different from any thing they had previously known. The people believed it, and soon there was great commotion In the camp. There was the busy hum of preparation. People worked with a will. They talked with glowing faces of the mighty Ood of Jacob and what He was going to do. They were looking for great things far greater than ever. Yet they had seen great things. Most of them were children when they came out of Egypt. They had seen the destroying angel come through the land and slay the first-born in every home where the blood was not on the doorpost. They had seen manna rained from heaven every morning for forty years. Man with Little Faith Deserves Little Ood. They had seen the mighty hand of Ood roll back the waters of the Red Bea. to your faith" is the key with which tho anst-la open the windows of heaven! Map t holes f Modern ( h arches. "Ye have not paeed thla way hereto fore!" shouted Joshua's preachers. It wss the priests who blew tixin the rams' horns not the lepers ani! enmp followers! Heart power and sinKlng can not be printed In notes. A painted firs will nover boll an egg! Too many choir singers d not know any more about the gospel thry sing than the town pump does about the taste, of water! One of the greatest needs Is more prayer and Its nonsense In our church choirs more praise and lean backbiting more love, and less faultfinding more reverence and less frivolity more of a desire to honor Ood than to give a concert! "Ye have not passed this way hereto fore." This proclamation was made that tho weary sons of Jacob might take a long look back and a long step forward. To stsnd on new ground, he makes ail con-uliler. You have never stood where you stand today. Never have you had so much be hind yeu. Never have you stoxl so near tho grave. You never have had so much to be thankful for. Y'ou never have had so much to regret. Tou nover have hail so much to enlighten or disgrace you. 1 here are times in the lives of all of us when we need to have that thought take hold upon us. Stop and think, then take a new grip on life! Will you make better use of tho future than you have of the past? What have you learned from your mistakes and blunders? Are you going to keep on aln- Mai-k clou. Is have been swept away! I That oiiKht to slve us confidence, and we will have plenty of good weather In the future. Take tin's to count vo ir blessing-. Y'ou will be astonished to si'e how they will ! grow In' your hands! We would all bo bitter able to meet the troubles If wn i would tvtneiuhor what Ood has done! if mittlng the same sins? shorten your would take time to look t. k. it course to Christ. The railroads spend would bo sure to end In our looking millions of dotlara to shorten thrlr track-', UP; sse. Why don't you spend some lime i At the beginning of the year merchants look na a. l ni-y take an inenury. nicy want to know what they hae leen I doing. They want to see w hat they have I .,. I ... t..l. lni.li.na. Willi I h. V ear. Ity reviewing the past thry pro pare for tho future. Before you take a new step, be sure Y'ou are standing on higher ground than 5" "-ve "1 iu. n in tne ever. You niml.t to be able to see far- I old ones! What a merchant does In a ther! Iiok back and consider how I co,'- l"'tlcal Dra..imtuii n.t i,. ...u nh ... ir to do religiously Billyisms and enemy to strlghten out your tour-' to glory? Bub your ryes and take a good look! Oo back over the w Imling, aimless Jour- j ney that has brought you hero; notion how many chances you have had to ' shorten your course. you have never done any serious thliikli before, do some now. Just as tho fiildron of Israel did when they pitched their tents on the banks of the Jordan! (.oil's Promise Shown hy Hlesalnas. As they called up from th' pnst all they had experienced In the forty years ! what we are doing business way, we ounht I think we would get on better with Ood make moie progress If we would take our Ix'arings oftener. "Ye have not I aneed this way hereto fore.'' Is Ood with us where we stand? Has H bvousht us to the place where we stand? Can we count on His help In of wandering, how much better ilod had dealt with them than they deserved! Ills faithfulness. In spite of thrlr unfaithful ness, was evidence that Ho woulii stand by them all the way. Isn't it true that Ood will bo letter to you If you are four-square? Try It and see what the Ixi-d will do for you. We would get along better with Ood If we'd take our bearings more often. That Is true In their case, and It Is In ours. All these things happened for our instruction. The way to find out who! Ood will do Is to look back and see what Ood has done! No man can con sider what Ood has done without foVlIng safe to trust Him for what Ho Is going to do. Tou say It looks dark. "Well, the fact that we have had sunshine Is proof that we will have It! Think of how all the Think of this when you are about to go home when about to enter a place where no child of Ood should be found dead when about to do something that will not stand t:.e tea! of the Oohleu Hule when you are about to crowd some unfortunate to the wall when you are about to say something about another that you know Is a lie. Can you pray for Ood to help you to do what you are doing, with the assur ance that He will help you do It? If that Is true, then nothing on earth can Mock our way any more than the rust ling, unbriilged river Jordan could keep tho sons of Jacob out oJ the Ood-glven promised land! (Copyright, William A. Sunday.) Seat thlak that Ood has ssr heea all la. sever ass heea, and bstst will. The nsa whs has o purpose la life goes abont tired beoanse he does his climbing la a trsadmlU. Taks time to count your blessings. ton will be astonished to as how they will grow la your hands. la msgaetlo gal- The vanii man of faith nsrgetle. Too many eholr slngsrs do hot know any more about the gospsl they slag thaa the town pump doss abont the taste of water) "BILLY" SUNDAY TQ SPEAK BEFORE COJMMERCIAL CLUB "Billy" Sunday baa accepted an Invi tation to speak at the Commercial Club at boon Friday. While It will not be strlrlly a men's meeting women will not le Invited as It Is enpected that the latfc-e dining room will be completely filled by members of the club. The. meeting Is called for 12 instead of 12:, so Mr. Sunday may ke p his afternoon meetinn at the Tab. For No The nil who aadsrtaksa te do a thon. sand things will aster amonnt to a hill of beans. A "For Sale" ad will turn second-hanl furniture Into cash. 'Billy' Sunday Talks to Council Bluffs Students at High Kvery memler of the Sunday parly was busy brtKht and early yesterday morning. "Hilly," himself, aaa busy brightest and earliest, for he was over at the Council Bluffs High school, addressing the stu dents st 8 a. m. The other members of the party wers leading In the district prayer meetings, which were held throughout the greater city at 10 a. m. "Hilly" gave a splendid Inspirational ad drora to the students, warning them against the pitfalls and holding up ta them the examples of many great men and women who tolled up the ladder of success. He was enthusiastically greeted with college ells and "What's the matter with "Billy" Sunday? He's all right." All of which pleased the vigorous evangelist Immensely. Morers km) Bsmsle P a e k sgtsf Iks r Fyrassla fU Treat sseat New OsTere4 Freete lrea W hat It Will V (or Ta. 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All have witnessed Just such scenes when an effort la made toward a revival of religion. Some say, "Oh, he preaches too much helU" Some may say he doesn't preach enough hell. Well, believe me, I'll give you enough hell before I'm through., . All pie hell's in tlie Bible. Others say, "He doesn't preach Miouxh." Home say, "He U sensational." Others say, "O, he is vulgar!" Some say, "I don't like the music!' . Others say, "We have too much mulo! But the man that Ood sends never tails. Had the walls of Jericho been a mile thick and ten miles high Joshua would have gone against them with the same boldness. He was not depending on his soldiers, nor the priests, nor the weather, nor the ranis' horns, nor himself, nor his feeling, but the word of the living Ood. The wUdemess-worn veterans are now about to take the step that would make them a great nation a people with a God-chosen destiny a people under the Almighty's especial care. Before they set foot In that raging river they had to do more hard thinking than they had ever done. In years agon they had done lots of foolish things Im pulsively. That is why they had been tramping forty years and nover reaching the promised land! If they had all been as level-headed as Moses, Caleb and Joshua their Journey would have ended In thirtr days, and here they had been a generation In reach 'ng the place where they now stood! And it waa all because thoy had not tried to get anywhere! The man Ood sent never fails. Tne man who has no purpose In life goes about tired because he does hts climbing In a treadmill. He Is always a zigzagger. And for every Inch of head way, he goes a mile! Without a definite aim, he will never travel In an airline. The Lee goes stwilght only when flying to Its hive. The man who turns the world upside down does It because that is his sole business in life. Man with One Idea gaeceda. The man who undertakes to do a thou sand things will never amount to a hill of leans. The man who devetes his time and skill and energy to doing one thing wilt "stsnd before kings." Ood waa hot to blame then for man's faults any mors than- he Is now, any more than Ood Is to blame for the condition of the church today. Paul said. "This one thing I do." Keep your eye on that mam He will move every mountain and pull up every tree that is In his pathway. Nothing csn chill his ardor nor cool his courage. He keeps on going and growing, no matter what interferes. The Christian life needs to.be entered uon as thoroughly and definitely as the sun-browned pilgrims went Into Cants a. Ixl a man get his start In that way and he will not throw away bis Bible when be strikes a hard place, The men who had wandered aimlessly are at last brourht to the dace where tusy expected great things from the Ood who had brought them out ot Egypt. The officers who had gone throughoJt the camp plain-spoken and direct In what they said were made to understand that the Ood who had spoken amidst the thunders of Blnal had not exhausted Him self, and that He would astonish them . with a great display of His wonderful power. It was a great thing to discover that Ood never wears out that 11 never comes to a place where Us cannot transact all the business that la required of Him! The man who needs a great salvation must be convinced that there Is a Ood mighty to save! A helpless man must hsvs a mighty Saviour or none! One reason why some preachers are not able to bring many sinners to repentance Is becaus they preach ot a Ood so tin- bear almonds In a night. They had seen the cloud of quails come up and feed them until they loathed the meat. They had seen the dying spring Into life with one look at the brazen ser pent. They had seen the ground open and swallow up the stiff-necked rebel lious. They had seen the pillar of fire lead them by night and the cloud by day. But now there were greater things! There would be more and greater re vivals It the people and this preacher expected something! The man with a little faith deserves a little Ood. The man with mountain-moving: faith gets earthquake results! , If our faith Is puny, so we are never able to make more than a gimlet hole FAMOUS MEDICINE TO BESOLD HERE OMAHA SUCCESSFUL IX OBTAIN ING EXCLUSIVE AGENCY. Distribution Awarded Sherman & McConnell Drag Company, Where Tanlac Will He Explained to the Local Public Begin ning Saturday. Tanlao, the new medicine that Is ac complishing such remarkable results In such Instances as stomach, llvsr, kld nevs and catarrhal affections In the larger cities will be distributed In Omaha exclusively by the Sherman ac McConnell Drug Cbmpany. This Important announcement waa made Wednesday by John A. Bornhau ser, the business associate and co-worker with L. T. Cooper, the "Tanlac . Man," who comes to Omaha expressly for the purpose of Investigating local conditions with the view of Introducing the premier preparation here and thereby proving Mr. Cooper's advanced thoughts. Mr. Bornhauser was seen to very ex cellent advantage last evening In the foyer of the loyal Hotel, where he Is stopping. After speaking of the wonder ful suocess they have had with Tanlac In many sections of the country, and of the results obtained through Its Use In thousands of cases, he talked freely and frankly of the results of the two's ex tensive studies. Among other things ha said: "Probably the most prevalent and dis tressing condition Is chronlo catarrh of the mucous membranes. Catarrh of the stomach and kidneys Is the most fre quent cause of ' dyspepsia and Blight's disease and catarrhal conditions In the nose and throat lead to Inevitable deaf ness. Many people whose hearing is at feet ad are suffering from catarrh. "Frequently the lungs become diseased by the extension of a catarrhal Inflamma tion by way of the bronchial tubes to the lung, substance. Consumption, or tuber culosis, may then not be far off. and the mental and physical stats of chronlo ca tarrh sufferers Is, Indeed, very unfortu nate. In fact. It Is really surprising to ! know what an Immense number of peo- pie, among those who reside In cities like Omaha, are suffering from this al- ! moat universal malady when they think something else Is wrong with them." Mr. Bornhauser, continuing, enumer ated the symptoms of catarrh such as an offensive, breath, constant sniffling, dls- j charges from the nose, dropping In the I throat, frequent sneeslng, watery eyes, headaches, hawking, spitting, full bead. pains In the pit of stomach, side and kid- i ney region, depression of spirits, ner- 1 Touaness, sleeplessness and susceptibility to coughs and colds. He said that, beginning Saturday, he or his assistant would be at the Sher man McConnell Drug Company, Six teenth and Dodge streets, where he would endessor to prove to the local pubtlo that Tanlac will combat this con dition the same as It has among the thousands In the larger dues, Advertisement. -a R eceiverps Sale of "" nn Fred paoy Entire Stock of Jewelry Com- Brodegaard for the Benefit of Creditors Following order was issued by the District Court of Douglas Co., Wm. A. Redick, Judge: The Receiver is ordered and directed to proceed at his earliest con venience to sell the goods, wares and merchandise now in his hands, at public auction, and to continue said sale until such time as the de mands of the creditors of said defendant corporation are satisfied or until he may determine it is to the best interest of the creditors to dis continue selling at public auction. W. A. REDICK, Judge of the District Court. Pursuant to the above order the Brodegaard Store,' corner of 16th & Douglas Sts., was closed all day Wednesday, September 29th, for the purpose ot taking inventory. Today (Thursday), September 30th, at Two O'clock the greatest Auction Sale of Fine Jewelry that Omaha' has ever witnessed will commence. Nothing reserved. Diamonds, High Grade Watches, Solid Gold Jewelry, Clocks, Sterling Silver, Cut Glass, Silk Umbrellas, Etc., Etc., Etc. All to Go for Whatever Bear in mind that this is a genuine Receiver's Auction Sale and you are invited to select any article from this large fine stock and it will be offered at auction immediately. James L. Hand, the well and favorably known Jewelry Auctioneer, will conduct the auction, and the quality of each article sold will be carefully represented. Chairs will be provided for ladies.' Don't miss the commencement of this great Auction Today, Thursday, September 30th, at Two O'clock. Is Bid It will continue daily afternoons at Two O'clock and demands of the creditors are satisfied. nights at Seven-Thirty until tho L. D. SPALDING, Receiver. At the Sign Crown of the Arm sign or THE CROWN VP TTte GOLMJi SU1R3 urn Up the Golden Stairs