The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-21

cage, patlenc0.
godliness and charity. Now the symmetrical
blending of these seven Christian graces will give
to the heart pure spiritual white light And 1t Is
said by philosophers that if you were to extract
one of the colors from pure white light
that this world would grope In darkness So,
brethren, while it is the blending of the seven
colors that gives physical light, SO the perfect
blending of the seven Christian graces makes
the church of God-the light of the heart and
the soul of the earth We will change the fig-
ure and build Christian superstructure out OF
divinely furnished material and by the divine
plan taking heed to the foundation. NOW, we
propose, like they build the temple of old, without
the sound of hammer to lay down these great
rocks Of truth and hso hsn haa
cording to the divine pattern, and thank God we
are building for eternity, and when the building
complete then it is that God pushes one hand
under it and the other on top and transplants 1t
to the streets of the Golden City, and there is our
house not made with hands that we live IN eter
nally in the heavens.
Add unto that faith The great bedrock of all
right building is faith. Faith in God; without
faith it is impossible to please God. And this
gave the apostles their omnipotence. Do you
know brother, they talk about the certainty of
these things. To-day faith is the principle upon
which omnipotence slumbers, and he who has
faith can move the arm that can move the
world.
All things are possible to him that believeth.
blood and bones, that man is omniDotent. Thank
God for an unwavering faith in His blessed
word. / believe there is truth in God, and virtue
in the blood of Jesus Christ and power in the Holy
Ghost. And with this faith / go out to meet the
emissaries of sin; / 60 out to fight the devil,
his front breastworks, and run him back to the
second and on back until I drove him into his
citadel, and then lombard his citadel until he
runs up the white flag. sand we capture this
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his own precious blood, and the devil is here by
the right of compassionate is the only right the
devil has in the. world. This is Christ's
world; He bought it and paid for it
in His own precious blood, to deliver us
from SIN. here Is s-;. the word OF Goo roo,
and lead your hosts. Give me faith to conquer
the world to Christ. Oh, for army that has
faith in God! / believe! | believe! Oh Jesus
Christ. come down on this world, on America,
and take the infdelity out of our church, and the
infdelity out of our ministry. and give us a
church and ministry that believe with all their
heart and believe in the saints, that they go
forth, not only to dare to do right, and dare to
be right but to fight with weapons, and fight on
the fields that God shall give to them and ap-
point to them. Faith! believe! believe!
Brother, this is not merely intellectual as
sent to truth. Understand that 1t is not
merely saying, II believe in the church. and
believe in the word of God but it is saying 'Do
with your hands" and saying DO with your
feet and saying 'sDo with your life,' and say
ing ''Do with your BLOOD" if necessary. be-
lieve! believed
dare assert 1t in my place, if we could get
every man who says he believes in the Bible to
conform his life to the Bible and live by the
Bible, we could soon bring this world to Christ
have long been pursuaded that there are thou
sands of poor, famished men in this land who
want the water of life; there are thousands of
hungry men who want the bread of life; but
have the church not faith enough in God to take
this bread and water to the hungry and thirsty
world2
1 believe, I believe. I believe in the word of
God. believe in God, the Father, in His Son,
Jesus Christ, in the Holy Ghost, in the church
of God, in the communion of the saints, in the
resurrection of the body in everlasting life after
death. believe, now, with this bedrock upon
the great Rock of Ages the next rock that fits
right down on this without the sound of hammer
is this: Add to your faith courage, virtue-vir
tus, the old Latin word virtus means courage.
Now you see how that rock fits right down on
the other If / believe l am right, then the next
thing want is courage that dares to do right
and dares to be true
Courage We call ourselves soldiers of the
Cross
Sure must fight if 1 would win;
Increase my courage, Lord
I'll bear the toll, endure the PAIN
Supported by Thy word.
Thy saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer though they die.
Courage Couraee I tell you, brother, one
essential thing in Christian character is courage
Courage, the courage that will make me choose
the right, and, having chosen the the right, will
bide by the right; courage that laughs at this
worlds frowns and turns away from this worlds
praises; courage that walks up in the very face
of frowning world and says lit does not please
my Father and will not do it, a courage that
says '"That is not right and I will not do it."
There is great deal Of difference, brother be-
-
physical courage that will walk right up in the
blazing mouths of a thousand cannon without
shaking a muscle. That Is brute force. Many
a soldier during this last war would walk up in
the face of muskets and cannon as they blazed
In his face and never culver. and those same men
would come home after the war and would cover,
and vince, and whine in the presence of public
opinion.
Courage! Courage
1 tell you my brother, public opinion is run
ming this country that is what is the matter 1
walked into parlor some months ago and pas
tor walked in with me. We sat down-it was
on Sunday afternoon There was company of
Methodists in the parlor and the question of
dealing in cotton futures came up. | spoke
my mind out the subject. and I said
believed it was the most wicked way Of gam
bling / knew of among men. Well, the Meth
odist steward was dealer in cotton futures, and
the preacher and whole thing was against me.
but held my ground, and when l walked out of
wink and said to me: Zones. you are in the
minority, old fellow" and I stopped III the path,
and looked him in the face and said: Il am in
the minority You ought to be ashamed of
yourself. If you are in the majority here, you
will be in the majority in hell in the hereafter;
now mark what tell you.n l dare assert it in
my place tonight that the majority in Indianap-
oils is with the devil Whenever you see ten
bar-rooms to one church, that means
the devil reiens in that town. Zap
plause And / assert that il a man
were nominated and chosen as a candidate by
Christ Jesus to carry out His principles, and a
man were chosen by the devil to carry out his
principles, and you put the two up as candidates
for Mayor of this town, and let every man vote
just as he lives the candidate of the devil would
beat the other one three to one Do you reckon
If the devil himself were Mayor of this town he
would suffer these Sabbath breaking barkeepers
to get off with less than dollar headi Do you
reckon that If the devil himself were Mayor and
the angels of hell were aldermen they would
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