If a city sags morally, the reason is not with God, but with her citizenship. They’d rather have a dirty, rotten town.
The biggest coward in America today, the biggest coward we have in the profession of Christian religion, who is afraid to come out and declare himself in a campaign like this is the business man. He is afraid of some saloon keeper, some brewer, some gambler and others of that kind—they’re afraid they will lose their trade by it, and by the eternal God they ought to be punished before the moon changes.
I believe you are getting ready to place this town on the map as a place where the name of God and decency are revered.
Over your head, the devil and the angels of God are locked in a struggle for your soul.
When you work for Jesus you must expect to be abused.
Heaven wants to save you, earth to cheat you and hell to damn you.
You are just as good as you want to be and not a whit better.
You haven’t got money enough in your bank vault to hire me to come here if I didn’t care for the welfare of your souls.
If man wrote the Bible we’d never been told that Noah got drunk. Man would have left such things out, but God didn’t. He put everything in whether pleasant or unpleasant.