The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-11-20

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Borrowed Spiritual OIL.
And yet many people expect ultimate
" to reach heaven on account OF the Dor
4 rowed spiritual oil of a eonsecrated
| ancestry oh said a ministers daugh.
/ fer IT know I am not living as l ought.
but I am all right, l have no fear Of the
| future. have made my husband promise
| 10 hurv me at the foot of my fathers
grave. When the archangePs trumpet
| sounds and we all come up l an going
to cling to my fathers hand. l know
| Christ will let me in IL l am by his side
know It because my father was such a
good man. | know Christ would not re-
| fuse my father anything She said this
half in Jest and half in earnest. No. my
friends when the Bridegroom cometh ON
that great day of resurrection your faith
er and mother will have no spiritual oil
10 snare. Then we cannot follow the Di-
vine BRIDEGROOM with our parents spir-
itual light We must have our own
lighted oil 10 become a part of the we'd
ding procession Of the redeemed or for
ever STAY out of Christs banquet hall.
enveloped by the impenetrable and crush
ing darkness of the eternal night
These five foolish virgins represent an
cther-class. They represent the nominal
church members. They represent the
membership as a kind of fetch, We
read that during the dark ages the Cath
ole devotees used to buy ''plenary in
dulrences, which would absolve them
from their future sins. which they were
about to commit Intentionally So some
reonle who are nominal church members
seem to think that they can lie and steal
and cheat and commit all the forbidden
, sins of the Decalogue Il they are only
church members in good standing They
seem to think that the crucial essential
of Christianity is a perfection Of creed
for the head and absolute conservation
of the heart They seem to think they
can walk hand in hand with sin and con-
tinue to so walk II they can only repeat
this sentence as they go: Il believe in
Jesus, believe in Jesus Yes l believe
in Jesus" Now, Christ, by the parable
of my text, says that a mere mental
faith in him, unaccompanied by a sur
render of the heart and life, IS not faith
at all. The faith that saves, is faith
that transforms the life, faith that
takes complete control of a man. The
nominal church members must have con-
secration of heart and pure life as well
as a perfect gospel creed. | believe that
Christ's fuller teachings affirm that he is
more willing to forgive the sins Of an out
and out enemy who once blasrhemed him
but repents of his sin, than he Is will
ing to forgive a Judas, who never denied
him publicly. but who in private life
betrays him with kiss.
christ's Forgiveness of Peter.
How about Peter? Did not Christ
gladly forgive him his three denials
when Peter repented after the COCK
crowed? The most powerful pulpit
description of any Bible scene ever
read or heard was that delivered by
Joseph Parker of Peters Three De-
malls" In the first place, the great
preacher described the scene of Judas,
hypocritical Judas stealthiy approach
ing Christ and planting a betraying
kiss upon the Savior's cheek. Then
came the tramp of Roman soldiers.
Then the lines were formed as the
prisoner was being marched back to the
capital. In olden times, as now when
a man is arrested the crowds Of curios-
ity seekers were augmented step by STEP
Peter, when he saw the multitude, be-
came very much frightened. Instead oil
walking side by side with Christ, as he
ought to have done he followed afar
off. When they approached the home OF
caiaphas, the high priest, Peter came
into the house and sat down by fire and
began to warm himself as though he hao
never been with Christ or seen Christ In
his life. While he sat there by the fire
a Young Jewish maiden came up and
eyed him sharply. Then she tapped mn
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