The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-08-14
DIR. CHAPMAN'S SERMON
A SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
PASToR-EvANcELIST.
Subject: BE Paid His Fare-The Bible Is
But History of Every Human Life
In 1t We Find a Perfect Revelation OF
Ourselves-Sins Are Bought Dear.

arly and readable sermon has been pre-
pared for the press by the popular pastor
evangelist, the Rev. DR.. j. Wilbur Chap
man. The subject of the discourse is He
Paid His Fare" and it was preached from
the text, $50 he paid his fare" Jonah
1: 3.
Whatever else men may say about the
Bible at least this is true that it contains
the history of every human life, and when
we see Jonah fleeing away from Joppa
seeking to get to Tarshish instead of Nine
web, we have vision of our own past ex-
perience, when God commanded and we
disobeyed, and we believe the Bible not be-
cause it is an old book, for there are other
old books, but we believe it because it
speaks to our deepest and truest hearts
experience. 1t is perfect revelation to us
of ourselves. The Mediterranean Sea is in
teresting
First, because of it's sunsets, and SEQ
ondly because it is tideless, but also for
the reason that it is visited by frequent
storms which are beyond description
Eight hundred and sixty two years before
Christ the passengers boat piled upon the
Mediterranean Sea from port to port One
of these was pushed out from Joppa when
an excited passenger hurried on board
looked into the faces of all he met as II he
feared detection, paid his fare and went
down into the bottom of the boat that he
might get away from the sight of men. A
terrific storm overtakes them as soon as
they leave the port, but we have not SO
| much to do with the storm as with the ex-
cited passenger. The boat had crossed and
recrossed the sea many times in safety,
but this is to be an exception, for the
wind bowls and the waves beat against
the bark, but as | say we are not to study
the storm but the frightened man in the
vessel. The word of the Lord came to
him to say, Jonah, go to Nineveh," and
instead of obeying he set sail for Tarshish.
1t was an expensive trip, and brought him
neither pleasure or escape; is like the jour
| neys that the most of us have made. The
text must appeal to every one; you never
| committed SIN, you never have INDUCED
IN appetite, you certainly never have OBJ
tanned a success and never have met with
defeat, but you have been obliged to pay
| / fare. There are but two lines to travel in
this world one is the line of duty per-
formed and the other the line of duty dis
regarded.
There may be different modes of travel,
but two great divisions; those who have
known their duty and followed it, and on
the other hand those who have shirked re-
sponsibility; the one company is bound to
the Nineveh of duty done, the other for
Iarshish of duty shirked, but in every case
we pay fare.
NAcH HIltSI pay price LOT dCCdlnmenCS IN
this world always. 1t is the price of exer-
ton, OF earnest, continual effort, of severe
discipline.
Two men in Philadelphia years ago were
workmen in the same shop. One of them
used his noon hour to teach little dog to
play tricks. and the other occupied his
time in perfecting an invention which has
astonished the world and made him mil
honalre many times over.
There are some things that impress our
minds as we study the text and read this
story.
First, it is vain to try to defraud God.
Men some times think they are succeeding,
and they laugh at the puritanical ideas of
the Christian, but you may sin month after
month and apparently prosper, and at last
| when you least expect it you will be dis
covered. A man cleaning out we'll on one
Of the farms in our State came across
skeleton the other day. He reported to
the authorities, and a murderer guilty of
| SIN twenty-five years ago was apprehended
! and sent to his punishment. Jonah found
| that that was true; that God could not be
| Knocked. The storm was against him, the
sailors against him, God Himself sought
him out. "Be not deceived, God is not
Knocked; whatsoever man soweth that
| shall he also reap"
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God everything is against US. God said,
| go to Nineveh," and Jonah started for
Iarshlsh, and the sea roars, and the winds
blow, and the ship rocks, and no man ever
| gets to Tarshish in comfort when God
| commands him to go to Nineveh. The mo-
| ment you turn away from Him there is
| conflict. and you cannot hide from God
either by day or by night. There is one
| text which ought to be written in letters
Of fire for all men to read, Chou God
! seest me-"
| If we could only make men understand
the eternal cost of sin many a man would
orsake sin. The word of God has stated
| plainly, "The wages of sin is DEATH" and
the cost is an infinite price. There is dan
| ger, however. of being deceived because sin
| latters and fascinates At the time of the
lnquisition there was punishment known
rs the Virgins Kiss. The one to suffer
was pushed forward and made to kiss the
| lips of the Virgin and instantly the arms
Of iron were about him and hidden dag
gers pressed their way to every part of his
body. How like this is to our experiences
in sin. and in this world sin does not pay
/ for conscience disUurDs us and the reinorse
brushes us, while in the world to come
| there is weeping and wailing and gnashing
Of teeth. 1t is an awful thing to be with
out God here, but who can describe being
without God there 1t is true that no sue
cess was ever achieved without paying a
price, but it is here where the devil comes
| in to say, "You can escape all this drudg-
cry and take cross cut to success" There
is an innate desire in the human heart to
get the most for the least effort, and he
takes advantage of this.
Let me give you an illustration of a
young man of thirty years of age who has
q work to do and a. great end to attain,
bat he must have Tong ministry of agony
and suffering and conflict The devil
meets him to say, "All these things will
give you if you will fall down and worship
me-" and he might in an instant have had
worldly power, but he had the courage to
ray, Get thee behind me, Satan" With
The temptations that come to all of us at
Zines, we want success; he promises it; we
seek happiness; he deceives us when he
says that he can give it us; we are after
peace and he would lead us to think that
he can bestow it upon us, but let it be re-
nembered that there is a law which always
holds, that no man has real success in this
world without paying the price for it. and
# we yield in the least to Satan in the mat
Ter of an impure thought, an unholy occu-
patton. sinful alliance, instead of paving
the price for success we are paying it for
failure. MAY it please the court" said
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