The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-07-04


of life, while dead in trespasses and
sins, arouse before the door is shut
That gilded profession-the world may
not be able TO see through it, but in the
day of divine reckoning it will be found
that you have no cloak for your sin.
Furthermore: Outward morality will
be no covering for the hidden iniquity
of the spirit The Gospel of Christ
makes no assault upon good works
They are as beautiful in Gods eye as in
ours Punctuality, truthfulness, aims
giving, affection and many other excel
lences of life that might be mentioned
will always be admired of God and man,
but we take the position that good
works can not be the ground of our sal
walton What we do right can not pay
for what we do wrong. Admit that you
have all those traits Of character which
give merely worldly respectability and
influence, you must at the same time
acknowledge that during the course OF
your life you have done many things
you ought not to have done How are
these difficult matters to be settled?
Alb, my friends, we must have an atone
ment No Christ no salvation The
great Redeemer comes in and says: 81
VIII pay JOuI ~ eHoS
which was dark enough before, is bright
enough now. The stripes that we de-
serve are fallen upon Christ On His
scourged and bleeding shoulders He
carries US up over the mountain of our
sins and over the hills OF our iniquities-
Christ's good works accepted are suffi-
cient for us, but they who reject them,
depending upon their own, must perish.
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influential on earth will not neces-
sarily open to US the gate of Heaven
The plank that will be strong enough
for house floor would not do for a
ships hulk. Mere morality might be
enough here but can not take you
through deaths storm into Heavens
harbor. Christ has announced for all
ages, II am the way, the truth and the
life, him that cometh unto Me will in
no wise cast out" But pitiable in the
day of accounts will be the condition of
that man, though he may have given all
his estate to benevolent purposes and
passed his life in the visiting of the
distressed and done much to excite the
admiration of the good and the great,
II he have no intimate relation to Jesus
Christ There is a pride and depravity
in his soul that he has never discovered
brilliant outside will be no apology
for depraved inside. 1t is no theory
OF mine but an announcement of God,
who can not lie: by the deeds of the
law shall no flesh living be justified"
Open the door of Heaven and look in
Howard is there, but he did not secure
his entrance by the dungeons he illumed
and the lazzarettos into which he carried
the medicines Paul is there, but he
did not earn his way in by the ship
wrecks and impr.sonments and scourg-
ings- On throne overlapping perhaps
all others, except Christ's, the old mis-
sionary exclaims: by the grace of
God l am what / am"
Again: Exalted social position will be
no cloak for sin. Men look through
the wicket door of prisons, and seeing
the incarcerated wretches exclaim: 80,
how much vice there is in the worldr'
And they pass through the degraded
streets of city, and looking into the
doors of novels and the dens of cor
ruption they call them Gods forsaken
abodes. But you might walk along the
avenues through which the opulent roll
in their flourishing pomp and into man
sions elegantly adorned, and find that
even in the admired walls of life Satan
works mischief and death. The first
temptation Satan wrought in a garden,
and he understands yet most thoroughly
how to insinuate himself into any door
of ease and splendor. Men frequently
Judge of sin by the places in which it is
committed, but iniquity in satin is to
God as loathsome as in!quity in rags, and
in the day of Judgment the sins of Madi-
son avenue and Elm street will all be
driven in one herd Men can not
escape at last for being respectfully
sinful. You know Dives was clothed
in purple and fine linen and Jared
sumptuously every day, but his fine
clothes and good dinners did not save
him He might on earth have drunk
something as rich as champagne and
cognac, but at last he asked for one
drop of water. You can not trade of
your attractive abodes here for a house
of many mansions on high and your ele-
CANT shade groves here will not warrant
you a seat under the tree of life. When
God drove Adam and Eve out of Eden,
He showed that merely living in gar
den of delights and comforts will neve
save a man or woman. BY giving you
so much earthly luxury and refinement
He intimated that He would have you
enjoy yourselves, but He would not
have you wrap yourself up in them as a
cloak to hide your sins. God now walks
in your garden as He did in Eden, even
in the cool of the day, and He stands by
your we'll as He did by we'll in Samaria,
and He would make your comfort on
earth type of your rapture in Heaven.
Furthermore: Mere soundness OF
religious belief will not hide our in
iquities- There are men whose heads
are as sound as Jonathan Edwards or
John WesleY's whose hearts are as rot
ten as Tom Paine's or Charles Giteau's
1t is important that we be theoretical
Christians. 1t Is utter folly in this day
for man to have no preference for any
one form OF faith when it is so easy to
become conversant with the faith of the
different sects- An intoxicated man
staggered into my house one night
begging for lodging. He made great
pretensions OF religion / asked where
he went to church. He said: Nowhere;
l belong to liberal Christianity" But
there are those who never become Chris
tians because their obstinacy prevents
them from ever taking a fair view OF
what religion is They are like brute
beast in the fact that their greatest
strength lies in their horns They are
combatants, and all they are ever will,
ing to do for their souls is tc
enter an ecclesiastical fight
have met men who would talk all day
upon the ninth chapter of Romans who
were thoroughly helpless before the
fourteenth chapter OF John But there
are those who, having escaped from
this condition, are now depending en-.
tirely upon their soundness of religious