The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-06-27
DEBT.PAYING RELIGION.
The New Gospel That Reads Your
Title Clear to Mansions in the Sky.

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notes or accounts with God or mai
cash up. We want to pounc
right on fellow and put him out O
the church if he goes TO ball, o.
theater, or goes on a drunk, bu
never say word to the pious scam
who never pays his debts. Preach
ers and people who do not LAY theil
debts are doing the church more
harm than dancers and drunkards-
there are more of them in the
church. Reader, am | getting close
to you? Then lay down the paper
and go and pay up and you can read
on at ease. And don't you stop
paying because the Statute of limi-
tation" excuses the open account
you made for your bread and meat
-God's law knows no statute. You
pay it III cash or God will make you
pay it in fire and birthstone. God
knows no such excuse from paying
as Homestead exemption" You
raise that excuse to keep from pay
ing your debts and you can stop
singing "When | can read my titles
clear TO mansions in the skies. -
You've got none up there. You
may say | would pay it l could.
How hard have you tried? If dying
at this moment could you say, I've
done all in my power? Have you
trie1 to save little each week or
month for your debts? Are you
spending no money for things to eat
and wear that you can do without!
How mucn do you spend year for
cigars and tobacco? Mike the cal
culation. Put that to your debts.
Do you eat dainties and luxuriesi
Palmer diet would keep you from
making doctors bills that you
wouldn't pay, and leave your money
to bring up back accounts with. Dc
you strut about with an umbrella
while your creditors work in the
broiling sun? Don't you cut shines
in hired tournouts (maybe they are
not paid tori when you might walk
and use the money to make your
creditors smile? A palmer suit oil
clothes would be mdfe becoming
until you can pay for those worn
last summer. When expenses not
necessary for the feeding and cloth.
ing OF the body are cut off and APP.
piled to the payment of debts then
you grow in favor of God, and not
until then does God excuse you.
Repentance on this point must be
of a Cody sort that needeth not tc
be repented of, Reader, were you
sorry that you had not paid your
debts when you made a profession
of religion If you were not, tina
is Just why you have not got deb
paying religion. True repentanc,
has a retroactive as we'll as pro
spective effect on the life of tn,
believer-he will as far as possible
make good his past wrong. Man.
new converts sing, "Jesus paid it all
all to him / owe" No such thing
Jesus did not pay it all, neither d
you owe it all to Him. If the weel
before you were converted yo1
owed your neighbor $40, and wa
able to pay it, you owe that neigh
Dor $40 yet. If you don't pay tina
| debt it will meet you at the judy
ment as sure as you are a sinner
1t is mean in you to expect Jesus t,
pay debts for you that you can pa,
yourself. If you have a Christian
heart in you, think how much Jesu
paid for you that you never coulC
have met at Gods bar of infexibl
justice. Some people think tn
ckansing stream of Jesus's bloc,
washed Sinai away and deluged tn
law-no such thing. Jesus cam
not to destroy, but to fulfill. Jesu
everywhere enforces the command
ments as the rule of lite.
Then let the whole church pra
for a revival of debt-paying religion
In every revival let prayer be mad
that the new converts may hav
grace to pay up "old debts" and no
contract new ones without a goo,