Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-09

what they were before buying them
The third said, Il have married 8
wife and therefore I cannot come. p
DR.. Dixon thinks this man is the big
gest liar Of all, and that the lie is
found in the therefore" There
fore is a dangerous word, and PEG.
pie ought to be very careful how
they use it. It probably covers more
lies than any other word. It is a
good word if used properly.
The speaker said the Gospel is a
great feast to which everyone is in
vited Everything is on the table
and you are free to help yourself.
There is anough on the table to sat
isfy all, and God is the caterer. It
is not like sitting down to hotel
table and having samples" brought
in, it is like a real old-fashioned
country dinner, everything is on the
table and all you have to do is to
helf yourself and eat until you are
full.
The invitation is sent out to all,
and if you go to making excuses for
not going you are fighting a guerilla
warfare against God. Everything
is ready. The invitation is Gods
proclamation of peace through the
Lord Jesus Christ. 1t is hard to make
an excuse. and you are liable to tell
five lies before you get through, and
there is nearly always a lie in the
middle Of every excuse. Most of the
excuses made by the social methods
are lies.
Young men of to-day are rejecting
Christ and are following what they
call reason" But reason fell with
our other faculties. A pilot in Boston
harbor was steering a ship through
the other vessels out into the ocean.
He ran into boat and then backed
and made another start and soon ran
into the second vessel. 1t was dis
covered that the pilot was drunk and
was steering by the light on the
PROV of his own ship. 1t is the
same way with the young man who
says, 81 will follow my reason" and
not steer my life by the bright polar
star of Gods revelation. France
once undertook to follow Reason.
She cried ''Up with Reason!" and
down went the Bible, religion and
Sunday. You know the result. A
man who always follows reason is a
slave of slaves. Reason is a great,
but not the greatest, faculty of
souls. The devil can reason. If he
can get you to do away with graft
tude, love, kindness, and just hold
on to cold reason, you will be as
close to the devil as you can get.
Reason should be ruled by love and
kindness.
Of all the people l dread most to
approach it is polite sinners. They
are so polite they admire their own
courtesy. They treat you so nicely
you almost do not blame them for
being what they are. can stand a
man that swears at me, for expect
to baptize him soon, but the polite
sinner! He follows reason, does not
believe in God. 1t is an awful fact
that God may pass by a lying excuse
and you may have a nobility in your
character that will assert itself and
some day cause you to give up max
ing excuses and go to God in all your
rags, hunger and thirst. But reason
does not accept God.
God will save even the devils cast
Always. There are some men who
go down, down, in their sins and
meanness until even the devil him
self seems to cast them off, and
then, if they will only let God take
them in he will do it. Here DR..
Dixon told of a castaway of the devil
who was converted at one of his
meetings in Baltimore. The story
of his conversion and his wife and
child coming from New York to
Baltimore to see him baptized by
DR.. Dixon, and how devoted a fol-
lower of the Lord the castaway be-
came was most pathetic and doubtless
touched many a heart, A man who
follows Reason is either satisfied
with his own character, which is of a
very low standard, or very Pharisai-
cal about Christ.
In answer to the invitation, about
twenty persons stood up, who were
asked to do so if they believed that
believing in Christ will save.