The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-11-27
IMPORTANCE OF
SEEKING CHRIST.
This was the Subject OF Another
Strong Sermon by Or. 6uerrant
tuesday Night.


strong sermon to a large c9ngi eg ition
a. the First Presbyterian church Tues,
dav night, from the text, "1e shall
seek me and find me when ye seek me
with your whole heart.
The sermon was on the lines OF the
importance of seeking Christ. NO naH-
hearted service would ever get an!
christian to heaven, DIR. GuerranG stat
ed in the beginning. One must not
only seek God with his whole heart,
but he most serve him in the same
way. 1t was easier to md God
than to find man. Inc preacher
related how Rockefeller was guarded
by detectives and body guards, ana
how difficult it was to see MN.
But God says you can mud him, ana
there WIS never soul on TINS earth
thai sought Il lin and did not
find him. You are certain to hnd him
when YOU seek Him with all your heart.
No respectable woman would accept
man who sought her with nail neart'
She wouId spurn him She would say:
II must have all your heart or none.
And that's " hat God says And when
YOU find Him, you have found every
| thing in this world.
If people understood Christ, said the
preacher, they would never reject him
| If they knew that he came to save
their souls and that they were IN
danger of being lost, they would rush
to accept Him. The trouble is, they
won't understand him. The Jews
didn't. and that's the reason they
mt him to death. Even his own dis
cinles didn't understand him, for on his
very last Gay on this earth, they asked
him. "Wilt Thou not at this time res
tore the kingdom of Israeli" they
didn't understand him, and he said tc
them. "My Kingdom is not OF this
world; 1t is with my Father, which arr
in heaven" He came to seek and
t., save that which was lost. The awful
ness of a lost soul was then aweii
upon. and the speaker said that al
the money in this world was mol
worth a human soul. No man can
nut a value on that. 1t is infinite
It is immortal; it must live forever II
either JOY or punishment. lie SAID NJ
had never preached sermon on mel
in his life: he was sorry there was any
hell It's a terrible word, and III
wopld to God it could be tori
from the Bible; but it was there
The horror of a lost soul! IF th'
/, devil could come and stand in the pulpl
| am occupying tonight" he SAID
she could not tell what it mean
to be lost I thank God that l neVe
knew what it meant But there arr
men in this city. and there are son
Of mothers in this city, who are golni
down to death and destruction, t.
curse forever the day they wer
born into this world. because they ar
neolecting their souls salvation. God
he said. never intended for men to go I
hell. but some will GO anyway. II
could not see how people can live an
see their loved ones going down
. hell If some NAL wel-acquainte
with this city could go over the ci!
I, and hang crepe on every door
! which there is a lost s5ul, now ma, !,
r homes would be in mourning! Woui
, there be any crepe on your door!
asked. Every soul that is MOI c l
ian. every unbeliever, is lost. Go
grant he said, 'that every soul
this congregation can write Use
saved" :. !,
e The reason that men won't
# saved. is that they do not know Tn, tht
q are lost. And they will not belleN
it. But those people way back y.onde
: he said, didn't believe it was going
It ram like Noah said it was. but the RAJ
e came. and every one of them WEI
drowned They didn b' ileve God WI
going to de troy Sodom and Gomorrol
but they were destroyed. nevertheless
IS And let me tell you, my brother. I
% said you may believe what you want
:, but that wont change the facts. II
T. NAV not believe that you are los
but that will not alter the fate OF yo'
life. -.
The sermon was closed with
70 fervent appeal to the unsaved sou
n before 1t was too late.
Il have preached to you the pla
eospel, said DIR. Guerrant. 'Cnrl
), came to seek anu to save that VIM
~ was lost. He saved your fathers al
mothers for generations before y'
were born. He is saving thousall
today. Will you be one OF the save
The SHADOWS CT life are closing aoo
u.s. and the fearful darkness VIII SO
a overtake us. Life is short, ana so'
YOU will be called to cross the river
death. God help you TO cross
succeSSfully.