The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-06
TALK ON FALL OF JUDAS
REV. NIB. QUAYLE ADDRESSES AFT
ERNOON Y. VI. c. A. MEETING.
Rev. Messrs. Tevis and Graham Boil
Refer to G.. IngersOu's
Recent Lecture.

1hS L oil Oh JUDAS lScdfloI was the topic
of a sermon delivered by Rev. w. A.
Quayle at the meeting for young men at
the T.. NJ. c. A. gymnasium yesterday after
noon. There was a large audience present.
He recited briefly the temptation and fall
OF the apostle who betrayed Christ for thirty
pieces of silver and afterwards went out
and hanged himself.
Judas he said. was loved and trusted.
If he had been a good and faithful man he
might have been the treasurer of a realm.
He was able to cloak his evil to the last.
Christ said: One who dips in the dish with
me shall betray me- Peter asked, Who?
who?' John exclaimed, Who? Who?' Not
a man suspected Judas. You and l might
suppose that his face would betray him,
that he had villain written in every Inca
ment. Not so. He had ability, honor and
truth in his character. Judas was not fore
ordained to be a villain. He was a man that
had great chances. He might have been an
orator, with eloquent words to mold men
to ideas Of truth as potters mold clay. When
he fell he fell from the gates of heaven to
the gates Of hell. He had Christ for a
master, had walked and talked with Him,
had associated with Him for a long time.
You and L may think: Who would not have
bCSI Ill dnEGl WIN SUCH dSSOCldllOuSs
"a man is judged by his associations. A
man generally gathers his impulses from
those about him. When a man stops on the
street corners of his own v%olition and listens
to vile stories, then look out. That man is
on the toboggan slide to hell. Judas was in
good company. 1t is never a small thing to
have a good father. Oh, young men! If you
hame come away from your fathers pray
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had better live day by day as you know
they would wish. Judas had a good start
in life and associated with good men with
high and lofty purposes. He had what makes
heaven-he had Christ. You and l go out
and drink in the first glimpse of the morn
ing sun with joy and are better. 1t was his,
each morning, to drink in glimpses of the
Son of God! His environment was for his
help. Do not suppose that environment can
help you-that you can be saved from with
out.
L want men this afternoon to know that
Judas was not foreordained to be a traitor.
The case of Judas was not u case of cleo
tion-it was the case of a man who doomed
himself. God has not doomed any mar to be
damned. What is the reason Judas be-
trayed? He did not realize his sin at the
outset. He was covetous. Beware of covet-
BUSINESS. You say you are liberal. So you
are-With other peoples money. When you
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fathers money you imagine you are very
liberal. l have seen young men at college
spend money as though they were CrOesus.
They were not spending their own money.
As soon as they began to earn money you
could not take a pair of tweezers and drag
it out of their fingers with a team of oxen.
Judas is not alone. He has ten thousand
brothers. l am a stranger in this place, but
| fear there are hundreds who are falling
like Judas. When he first began to coVet-
if he had only quit! Quit being evil just be-
fore you begin. Quit lying before you begin.
Quit stealing, quit being a libertine when
Judas had stopped at the beginning he
might have been saved. No one is damned
at once-no ones character goes to pieces
at once. People become evil by degrees, not
by leaps. You may jump from a spring
board into the water, but you can't leap
into hell at one jump. Some smart Aleck
may think he can-some smart Aleck may
try it. Deliver me from the smart Alecki
He wants to be smart in the world and has
not got capital enough to run his bank.
IF Judas had but listened to Christ's
voice! Christ said Beware of covetousness.
That was as if Christ had put His lip to
Judas's ear and said: Beware. Of sin
Judas's history is being written in Indian
oils in a hundred places. Watch your first
tendencies. Quit now. If you love liquor a
little, quit now. If you have a small ten
dency to gamble, a desire for evil of any
sort, no matter how slight the desire, quit
now. Judas looks enough like some of us
to be our brother. If Judas had said: Christ
help Christ could have helped and would
have helped. The sin he nurtured gripped
him and slew him. Your sin will grip you
like the octupus and strangle you"