The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-05-06
SUNDAY SERMONS.
Or. Wharton Discusses the Character
OF Judas Iscariot.
DR.. DinwlddIe breaches Too Strong
Sermons at the First Methodist
Church.
REV. TUNNEL ON
GOODS ATHLETE"

I The first Presbyterian Church wa
9 filled Sunday morning with congre
! cation which heard most interesin
9 ermon by DIR. T. A. Wharton, in tn
D discussion of the character of Juda
j Iscariot. During the musical program
| Mrs. W. r, Hutton, of Shelbyville
sang in most delightfully."- beautiful
manner Carried by the Angels. y
DR.. Wharton's discourse was a con
tinuation of the subject of the previous
Sunday morning The text was Mat
thew 26 "a ''Woe unto him by whom
the Son of Man IS betrayed. 1t had
been good for him had that man not
been born. The act of the betrayal
of Christ stands alone in the history OF
the human race for the depth of its
iniquity and the Nervousness of the
offense. 1t was unique. 1t has never
been repeated and could not be, said
the speaker. There was but one Christ
to betray and only one man to betray
him. Therefore, the act stands alone
in history. Judas represented type
of men. Gods system of ethics differs
widely from the world s system. Was
Judas sin one of spirit OF of form or
one of both?
Christ never taught universal saliva
tion. All his utterances were the OPP
posite, and the words of the text were
proof. Woe unto the man by whom
the Christ is betrayed; it were better
for him had he not been born. If there
was any hope of salvation for Judas,
then it could not be said that it were
better for him had he not been born.
The act of betrayal was not sudden
act of Judas. 1t was the elimination
and logical sequence of an ill-spent life,
the log ical result of all the ideals he
had cherished. There was never a
moment that Judas was not betraying
the Saviour. The spiritual side of
Judas was shut against Him. He set |
at naught all Christ S teachings and |
all his warnings.
Peters sin was just as bad as Judas
but there was difference. Peter was
a true child of Christ but fell into sin
He was hypnotized by
fear. Judas act was logical. He was
a devil from the very. beginning. 1t
was disease with him which had
come from life of selisnness and
passion for greed. 1t was leprous
avarice.
There was never time in history
when Judas act was so applicable as
now. The speaker said he be-
ieved in the future of America be-
cause America believed in the
Son of God and His promises.
lust now the spiritual life of the Ameri-
IAN people is swinging to the backward.
The unrest of the present was referred
%, and another great crash in the
business life of the country was immi-
1ent. The influence of money is cor ,
oding and debauching the public life
If the nation. When the crash comes.
he characters of our public men will |
lgain become distrusted 1t isn't the {
money, or the making of money, that c
S sinful. No young man was worth {
lis salt if he was not striving to make {
money. But il s what people do with G
heir money, boarding it up and buy t
ng Injuries and extravagances of this Y
modern life instead of using it to e
dvance the cause of God and human b
ty--that has sprung this great ques Il
ion that is rocking the foundation OF G
he Republic. 1t was this all-consun
ng thirst for pennies, for gain, that
hat of a grasping, selfish. wicked 7
a
ifferent elements of Judas crime we e a
and hypocrisy. Judas knew
hat Christ was the Messiah. He had n
cen with him day after day and week /"
fter week, all that time protesting to F
e disciple and follower. That 6,
betrayal. Judas was on the inside.
c3 ~ So 81 ~ ha
npardonable sin. and most admir-
BILE one. Shining against the light g
nd proof and goodness of God. will 3
lily and persistently, until he became r
q ertmy of God and religion. 81
There is no calculating the power of =
I'll Influences in our nature. DR.. Whar
a celebrated painter of Italy. He u
scided to paint picture of the most 70
sautiful. purest face he could find. "
lrly haired hoy in the stree is ssof ID
rtaIr city, after having searched a
e whole country over. The picture %
as painte. and today it is everywhere o
!mired as one of the great master
orks of ait in the world Years after,
g same painter decided to paint. as a
uildSi, tIlt IDtdiltst ltC6 III tHC w
orld. He was told that in certain
ison he would find such face. He
sIted the prison and there found the
ost beastial, the most hideous, hard
ed and repulsiye human countenance Oh
had ever seer. The picture was re
inted. but the great artist died with ~
/ knowing that the face of the Grim ~
al was the seine face he had painted 10
airs before. The only safe thing to an
is to take Christ as personal Re. oV
emer and not shut him out and put ~
m off. For in time one will go so ~
r, maybe, that they can never get ne
ok. an
At the First Meth odist Church. az
DR.. A. q. Dinwiddie occupied the we
lpit at the First Methodist Church his
both the morning and evening service. Ar
IL discourse Sunday morning was a as
y strong and helpful one from the In,
Z ~ en- Crncified with Christ. :