Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-05-06
PERDITION' PATHWAY
Leads Through the Broad and 0pea
Channels Of Dark Distrust and
Doubt.
The Evangelist mathematics Unbelief
as the oentiped Of He'll Creep.
ing Through the Heart,
And is Willing to Believe that Jonah
Swallowed the Whale if the
Bible Says SO.

bled at the tabernacle last night 10
hear the gospel message OF truth and
light as delivered by the evangelist,
Mr.. Pearson. 1t might have been
thought that the novelty Of the meet.
ings would have worn off by this
time and the interest OF the people in
the work subsidized, but such is by no
means the case. There Ia something
more than novelty and deeper than
casual curiosity that attracts each
night to the tabernacle ever.
increasing crowds. Mr.. Pearson
stated before commencing his
sermon that he wished TO speak mar.
ticularly Of the
SIN OF UNBELIEF.
He took his text from Matthew xiii.
SO, "And he did many mighty works
there because Of their unbelief.n He
said that he wished to state and
prove three propositions as to the sin
of unbelief: First, that the sin of un.
belief is primary, fostering and damn.
ing; second, that 1t is paralyzlng.
neutralizing and hindering: and
thirdly, that the punish-
ment OF the sin of unbelief is nm
avoidable, exempllfied and everlasting.
do not mean by the sin of unbelief
simply the sin OF skepticism, infidel-
ity or free-thinking, but the Gin of
rejecting the word OF God. Men often
say that am not as bad as that man
over there; do not get drunk, lie in
the gutter or commit other gross Gins
as he does / am not as other men
are" You may not be like him in ex-
ternals, but in your moral nature and
In your souls the same unbelief exists.
Unbelief Is the dark, stately upas tree
that overshadows the forest of sin I:
1t Is the centiped Of hell
that crawls over your hearts.
The nature OF the sin OF uubeIief Ia
primary, fostering and daLlnipg. 1t
Is the first sin that ever wes commit
ted on earth, when Adam and Eve
doubted God and believed the devil.
The sin Of unbelief pi oduces depravity
and moral death, and depravity and
moral death produce the sin of unbe.
l'ef, and they act and react upon each
other. The sin OF unbelief is the
THIN END OF THE DEVILS
| wedge. You may hear some man say,
there's that story in the Bible about
Jonah and the whale; / don't be-
lieve that, there is nothing in
that Now, / tell you about
that story; believe It,.
| / believe that the whale swallowed
Jonah, and II the Bible said 1t. |
would believe that Jonah swallowed
| the whale. If God can make a whale
at all, he can make big and a little
whale. The Bible says, "And He pre-
pared a great fish, SO that 1t was 8
put-up job, IL / may use the phrase
AS an illustration of the thin end
of the DEVILS wedge getting in and
| pricing away all belief, take the cas-,
of Henry Ward Beecher. He began
by doubling one little thing and ther
another, until now he believes Their,
] is no hell. L tell you he may repu
diate hell, but If he don't re
pent OF his sins and believe on Jesul
Christ, hell won't repudiate Mr.
Beecher. / have seen men NOV,
great blocks of stone by putting thir
wedges under them and then larger
one still they could get the chains un.
the devil gets the thin end of hi
wedge under man at first and final
~ hoists him entirely away from tn,
bedrock OF faith. Unbeliefi is foster
Ing sin. Out Of the heart procedeti
evil thoughts. The heart is tn,
womb OF evil thoughts, anC
It nurtures them until they sprin,
forth a brood OF vipers. AZ snak,
| fnfA Of I'M nh al
her young and then swallows then
and nurtures them on her own blood
Unbelief Is o damning sin because il
rejects the Savior and Gods plan o
salvation. III we believe not that
and che that belleveth not the wratl
OF God abideth on Him" Some ont
may say, how is the sin OF unbelief ,
Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin
tween the soul aud the cleansing
blood. Unbelief Is the objectionable
sin. The objectionable sin is bias
phemy against the Holy Ghost. Blai
phemy against the Holy Ghost is
UHBELIEF GONE MAD.
The sin OF unbelief is paralyzing
| ntullhAhibk anu hiHucllukt. ~ II
paraly zing to the sinner. 1t parRlyzs
his entire moral nature. There 4
gradual physical paralysis and there i
such thing as gradual NOR
al paralysis. Haven't yoI
got less interest about you
soul than you had FIVE, ten or twenty
years ago? Suppose q young lawye
were to come TO Fort Worth to prAc
tioe law, and after he had gotten hi
Office and fixed himself mp he were 4
become respondent because he find
there are great many lawyers anC
many good ones in the city. He nigh
as we'll pack up and leave as soon "a
he loses confidence in himself I'm
beliefis neutrallzing TO the gospel. !
does not affect the truth OF tn
gospel, but IL deadens the effect o
the gospel upon your heart. The gos
pei Is Just the same whether you be
iieve Il or net, but it will never brini
any peace TO your soul II you don't be
lieve Il. Unbelief hinders God. sa.
IL with love and reverence. God can
not save you in unbelief. Take tn
case Of a sick man who has Rool