St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-27


In that day of ignorance that God winked at,
man went along aud violated the law and
died for it. There is something that has at
tached to it punishment worse than death,
and that is treading the love of God under
foot. 1t amounts to but very little to me
whether shall look back through the years
and see how the ten commandments were
written. Give me q man who lives close to
Jesus Christ. Give me man who wants to
follow the example OF Jesus Christ Show
me man who follows the example
OF. Christ and 1 will show you d
man who keeps the ten commandments.
Why are you free man? I ask you to tell
me. Isn't it because you are law-ab:ding
citizen of Minnesota? And yet, do you bother
yourself to go to the code of the state to study
the law and find out what 1t is? No. Yet you
are free to say that you keep the law and are
a free citizes of the state OF Minnesota. But
you don't keep the law of Minnesota as you
would keep the ten commandments. You
keep it naturally You don't know what the
law is but you know that there is a
law and you are expected TO obey 1t.
When L feel like following after the
way of Jesus Christ, know that the spirit of
God dwelleth in me, and all j have to do is to
keep my eyes on Jesus Christ and all will be
right. In keeping the commandments |
know that please God and that he will keep
me, and in following Jesus Christ will be
able to keep those commandments. There
fore, it man died for violating the
LETTER OF THE LAW,
how much more severely will punishment be
melted out to him for doing these more fatal
things. L know of no place in the great be-
You'd fixed for the punishment of man but
hell. Now you say there he comes
with the old question of he'll"
will spring that question myself. I
say that there is hell, for the Bible teaches
that there is q hell, and if believe anything
that read there must believe everything.
There is great deal in the Bible that can't
understand, and I thank God for it. Ii
could understand everything in the Bible
would not believe any of it, for, if 1 could
understand it all, should think that some
man wrote it, but l can't understand it and
know that the hand of the Deity must
have had something to do with it.
L believe there is hell. But people
differ. Some people say, there is no hell,
and you can't scare me by saying that there
is is a hell. God forbid, brother, don't want
to scare you. l am not preaching God OF
wrath, am preaching a God of love. I'll
tell you one thing, there is hell, and you'd
better be scared about it, too. About six
months ago ran spang up against hell, and
it scared me, and never expect to get over
being scared until the flesh of this body
decays from the bones. The idea of
of every sensible man in the universe.
We know that il there is heaven there
ought to be he'll. People are punished for the
tranSgression of the law. You punish people
for transgressing the laws Of the Uulted
States. God has an established reward for
the righteous and punishment for the wicked.
Some say that science proves that there is no
hell. Science! What has science to do with
it? There no scientific reports on file that
say there is no hell. Science never has made
an inroad upon the mysteries of eternity.
Talk about science. 1t has simply climbed up
four ofnr ln1l nn1 fD,
it by Christianity. I'll believe the
record that God has given me sooner than I'd
believe the testimony of as many scientists
as could stand on all the land in this world.
Some Of these fellows who claim there is no
hell, will run right
UP AGAINST IT
the first thing they know and then their curl
hell hanging on to the end of alinterrogation
point. I'd rather be a dog than d man strug-
Cling through the world with creed that
nobody will believe. Do you believe that
man suffers here sufficiently to pay for the
sins that he has committed in this world?
Have you ever heard of a pure and
SpotleSs woman who has had her
reputation and character warped and twisted
by the tongue OF the slanderer and who
has gone to s. suicidal grave to escape the
cloud of calumny that has been thrust upon
her. There is no punishment on earth severe
enough for that man. When l die, l don't
want to go through hell nor wear convict
clothes up to the gate of heaven. Once in
hell your soul is disembodied and mercy can
reach you there. 1t is a popular idea that
after we die, our life continues on in eter-
nifty, and if so 1 expect that you would like to
lead life about the same as the one
that you have led here. But you are mistaken
if you think you will get life even as happy
as your life here. You will be forever tor
tured, and there's hell 1 wouldn't live in for
a world.