The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-09-17
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ed and hguratively cast out Of the
kingdom By the common verdict Of
those who think they hold It's judg-
ments upon their lips, and It's keys In
their keeping
The hypocrites and pharisees are
always at the front. They were so In
the days of Jesus, and that is why one
day He seized the fair chance Of their
nearness TO denounce them in terms
that viii burn as long as the fires Of
Gehenna are unQuenched. It was to
them that He said; eye shut up the
kingdom of heaven against men; for
ye neither go in yourself. neither suf
fer We them that are entering to go
int" How close and clean was this
picture OF the crowd that is forever
assuming to assign men to places in
side or outside the pale of Gods love
and mercyl How truly Il photographs
The business Of those yet among us
whose chief employment is to pro.
nounee salvation or denounce dam
nation upon their neighbors-w weigh
ing. Judging and sentencing according
to the warped measures Of their own
weak and unsanctihed understand.
lngsl Only the Savior himself can
appreciate how many hearts have
been broken how many spirits made
faint and how many faiths have been
wrecked by the impudent and impert-
inent officiousness Of such usurpers of
the office OF God
It was to such as these that Jesus
said "Ye compass sea and land to
make one proselyte, and when he is
made, ye make him two fold more the
child of hell than yourselvesl" What
insight. what incislon Of the searching
knife for the gall gland what bitter
ness OF reproach are in those words
of the Great MASTER He knew to
whom He was talking and understood
the full measure of their crimes in
securing converts only to pervert their
hearts and divert them from lives OF
love to lives OF hate He was talking
to types-to men who would project
themselves through a polluted poster
ity throughout the ages to come. Ger
tainly they have been able to reach
to us The greater part OF so-called
Christian labor today is expended up.
on making converts to creeds and
partisans to ostentatious formularies
and ostracising practices.
To ocntinne these quotations and ap-
plications OF the words of Jesus is
not necessary. Millions of souls,
wounded. despised and disheartened
by these devil-hshes of the Christian
system often turn to the twenty-third
chapter Of Matthew'S gospel and read
The words OF their Lord with comfort
and the renewal of their faith and
hope How glorious It is for them
that these gospels cannot be any
longer shut up from men, monopolized
/ by pharisaical trusts and sold by syn
dicates Of self righteous hypocrlyes
Yet, It must be confessed that many
of these people do not see how God
can do things otherwise than as they
claim They do not understand how
some Of their neighbors can be saved,
AID refuse to believe that they are In
the peace OF God They judge by their
own standards and by the outward
appearance, and forget that God pom
dereth the heart They look upon all
men as like unto themselves and be
lieRing they understand their own
case, and are safe as to It, they behold
Shortcomings. sins and objectionable
states In their neighbor that they feel