The Beaumont enterprise. [volume] (Beaumont, Tex.) 1904-current, 1904-09-12
MAN MUST FACE
THREE JUDGES
is CALLED TO STAND SENTENCE
FROM THE WORLD. HIM,
SELF AND GOD.
HOW NE MUST APPEAR TO EACH
Evening Services at Christian Church
Conducted by the Pastor, Mr..
J. 3. Holmes.-Talk on
Judgment Bars.

n Services nj the Christian church
!. were conducted last evening by the
. pastor, Mr., j. u, Holmes, who talked
on "The Three Judgment Bars" MIR.
Holmes described the three judgment
- bars before which man must appear
+, for sentence as the judgment bars Of
public opinion conscience and God.
He spoke in part as follows:
LET MS bring together three state
ments from the Apostle Paul Is the
basis of our remarks tonight; Let
your manner of life be worthy of the
Gospel Of Christ Herein do | also
exercise myself to have conscience
void of Offense toward God and men
Away And reckOnist thou this. ....
Thar thou shalt escape the judgment
lOf GOd?'
These three passages OF Scripture
indicate three augment bars-places
where vordicts are rendered. No one
can escape them and the decisions
will be rendered in every case in ac.
cord with the evidence given. The
first judgment bar to which | call
your attention is the judgment bar
VI pUDllC opinion.
Public Opinion.
This is considered first, not be-
cause it is really of greatest import
ance, but because it is made first in |
the consideration of the vast MAORI |
ty OF people today. Almost daily the |
newspaper tells us of men in places |
OF public trust who have hid their |
evil deeds, put down conscience, and |
ignored the judgment bar of God, but
when their crimes were discovered
have taken their lives rather than
face the verdict of, public opinion.
"A jury brib2r pleaded the mercy
of the court not long since on the
ground that he had already suffered
fortunes because he was a social out
cast. Said he, 4 hope none of you
here will ever know what that means.
1t is to wake up some morning and
find your name in all the papers with
the ugly charges, all the blacker
since you know they are true. 1t is
to find that the confidence gained by
an honest life of years has gone. that
the judges and lawyers who always
have had smile and pleasant word
l.,
misplaced that you have BETRAYED .
your friends, that the men who used '
to greet you on the street now look t
the other way, that you dread to v
go out of your own home, and when f
you do you walk down the side Ii
streets hoping you will not see any $
body you know, holding up your hand
kerchief half the time to hide your
face, yet knowing that the people you
pass nudge each other and say there's
Lynch the jury briber.' | say, hope
to God that none of you will ever
know what that means.
Verdict Feared. |
20, tell you, the verdict of pub
lie opinion is feared but it is courted |,
as well. A wealthy father and mother r
we're anxious to have their daughter I
appear in her class and they urged a
her to forsake her childish fancy of p
work in the church and go into So g
'icty. Her love for them caused her
inally to yield to their wishes and
hey dressed her in the most beauti- !
nj way and looked on with great
,ride when she made her first public :
appearance She crushed her natural u
nOdesty and danced with the gayest $
If the gay. That night she took cold J
rom which developed raging fever y
Md as she lay dying a few days later '
,hC asked them to bring in her costly
'obeS and they placed them on the
ouch before her and with her dying
breath she said, For these my soul
s. lost "
Yes many are selling their souls b
or favorable verdict from the ~
world, but after all IL is not rcputa- il
ion but character that will stand #
wen here. J. G.. Holland says that -
Character must stand behind and :,
Jack Of everything sermon. the -
'ocm. the picture. the play-none of :,
hcsc is worth straw without it, u
Horace Greedy said. Fame is a yapor. Il
an accident riches take 81
wings; those who cheer today may g
.ursa tomorrow; only one thing en- IL
lures character J.!
Bar Of Conscience. ID
The second Judgment bar to "
which ! invite your attention is the ID
Judgment bar Of conscience. Al
hough q man may possibly escape
be- condemnation - public opinion
bay rob the courts ~ Justice 81 7,
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'naIiy ~ the law yet he cannot cs- ''
ape The Judgment bar 81 conscience. ot
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