The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-12

to Christ, and besiege the throne OF heaven fo1
the mighty outpouring of the spirit OF God upon
the people,
Mr.. Jones spoke as follows:
I will ask your prayerful attention to night to
the twenty eighth and twenty ninth verses Of
the tenth chapter of Hebrews. These verses
selves, and beg you to give them your earnest
and close attention:
He that despised Moses law died without ,na~nv
under two or three witnesses.
OF how much sorer punishment suppose We shall
he be thought worthy, who hath trodien under foot
the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the
covenant wherewith he sanctiiei an unholy
thing. and hath done despite unto the spirit Of
grace.
You can perceive at once from the reading Of
those two verses the whole scope of the argu
ment that is conveyed in them TO teach mankind
that there is future punishment, that there are
penalties that humanity must incur for the re-
lection of Christ, for despising the blood of Hi
covenant and for contempt of the Holy Spirit
that came by Him into the world. The man whe
despised the law of Moses died without mercy
under two or three witnesses. When the law Of
Moses was given to man and constituted the full
moral and civil code, when they were required to
take 1t as the expression of Gods will among
men and live according to it and keep it holy, il
they did despite that law, or if they violated
its provisions, if they became lawless under It.
if they despised God who gave it and broke the
law, they died without mercy, and they died
under two or three witnesses, in order that men
might know that the exact justice Of God had
been executed upon them for it. Now that the
law of Moses had bcon swallowed up in the life
of Christ, now that the mere law as embraced
in the Ten Commandments, had been fulfilled 10
the perfect life of Jesus Christ, sin was not so
much constituted in the transgression of the
law sin did not so much consist in the transgres-
sion of the letter of the law of Moses, as it be-
gan to be the transgression Of the living law 81
God and the living commandments, as they APP
peared in the life of Jesus Christ; and I am not
required now to go back rigidly to the DecaoGus
and take the commandments. one after another
and make them the absolute code of guidance
for my life, for that law has been fulfilled in
Jesus Christ and am required now TO live ac-
cording to that embodied law as He manifested
1t and as He lived 1t in this world; and sin to me
does not appear to me as the transgresson
of the law OF Moses "a it Is contained IN the Ten
Commandments, but as it is in that grarder, In
that greater and that more fatal transgression OF
the law and will of God as l see it in Christ
Jesus.
And the argument proceeds If man, for
violating the commandments, died without mer.
cy under two or three witness, of how much
sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be deemed
worthy who dsspises the Son of God, who counts
the blood of the covenant whereby He was sane
tilted to be an unholy thing, and who does de-
spite to the spirit of grace that s in the world to-
day to keep and preserve mon from everlasting
OeaLns Anu tnat Is the question tnaL we are
called upon to face in this life. How much sorer
punishment shall be meeted out to you and me
if we reject Jesus Christ, if We refuse the blood
that He shed for Us for the remission
of our sins and if we have contempt
for the Holy Ghost up to the day and
hour of our deatha Take it into your own mind.
take it into the court of your own judgment and
do you pass judgment upon it and say, How
much more ought man to be punished that
does these things than the man who suffered
liz and n a afin hQ In
of Moses" A man who does these things will
suffer the eternal tormentS of the everlasting
hell. All. but you will tell me, you come
along now, I have been looking for you; have
here; it's a wonder to mo you didn't start il be-
fore; have been waiting TO hear that all week.
WE'LL now you are going to hear
it. You walk up and tell me. "Ah, well, you
need not come preaching hell to me, you cannot
scare me about the future" / don't want to
scare you. 1t is the last thing in the world do
want to do. don't want to scare you at all l
am not preaching that kind Of doctrine. ann
not preaching scare-crow God. l am not
preaching God that any man ought to be afraid
of. l am preaching a God of love- God Of
mercy, God OF compassion, God of pity; but
l cannot preach a whole God, / cannot preach q
God that is satisfactory to the minds and hearts.
and consciences of men without preaching q
just God. too. l do not want to scare you with
any pictures of hell l do not want to scare you
with anything that is scarey in its nature-that
is terrible. and awful, and horrid any phantas-
magora that the imagination could bring into
your fair sight and with these illusions, arouse
all of the horror of your nature. i do not
care to preach any of these things to YOU. do
not want to scare you into religion and would
not let you come into any church where could
bar you out if you came into 1t scared want
you to come In, If you will come; want you to
come trustfully; want you to come manfuly;
l want you to come soberly I want you to come
with your reason and your faculties, all OF them
convinced; and want you to como in man
in all your parts, fully up and alive to your stu
alton as the creature of God and to the respons
sibility upon you. | want you to come as trust
fully one goes to the home of his father, ex.
pecting to receive kindness, and merces and
life, and love. and embraces, and benefits. What
going to hell You say you don't like
these hel-scared Christians much. Well.
l do | of them. There is enough
about hell to scare NE, when got close enough
to see what it was And want to keep scared
of it until am safe within the pearly gates Of
heaven. [Cries of Amen l want to be so
afraid of it that / will never look towards it.
lCries of Amen. want to BIO SO afraid Of it /
will never take another conscious step tnwardsi it,
| want to be scared of it that can never hear
of 1t without trembling and 1uaking, and press
on, thanking Him that am on the right road
away from it.
Cannot scare you about the future! tell you
you had better be scared about 1t, because, it
there is any future beyond this world, and it is
what logic and reason, and revelation tells us il
is. there is enough beyond-over thereto make
you afraid There is enough over there to scare
you. and you will get scared when it is too late,
my friend. There are lots of you people who
think it is brave to stand up and say. Il am not
afraid of the future" There is lot of those
little gourd headed fellows you know, who
think they know more about the future than
God or the revelations of the Bible; and they
will stand around on the streea corners and talk
about preaching-about getting up and preach
ing about this birthstone, and this fire,
and hell; that they den. Hce!:s7a
in it, and you cannot scare them
with any such hell as that. / do not think you
could scare them with anythng-unless it was
something decent aud sober. and righteous.
That might scare them And have profound
pity-tbey are beneath contempt-I have pro.
found pity for these people, who have got just