CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1905-04-20
Acknowledged Christ
AS Their Savior
Styve People Made Confession
Wednesday Night-Tota o

bushel and whose fame and power was
unrivaled in its day. When the shad-
ows of death began to gather around
her Queen Elizabeth cried out. .'AI
my possessions for one moment of
time"
think of Alexander the Great, who
won his first battle when he was only
eighteen years of age, and who had
conquered the known world when only
thirty-two. His greatness and fame
were futile to prolong his life, and he
died in q drunken debauch. 1 think
Of Napoleon Bonaparte, whose insatia-
BILE ambition covered Europe with the
corpses of his victims. He was the
hero Of the battles of Austerlitz, Lodi
and the Pyramids and Victor Hugo has
called him "the archangel of war"
He lies tonight in his splendid tomb in
the Invalides at Paris. an evidence of
the mutability and transformers of
human life.
3. How can 1 get hope? All you
get in this world you get in one of
three ways,-honestly, dishonesty or
by inheritance. II you are sincere in
your belief .hst honesty will help you
to attain enternal life / beg to be al
lowed to point out to you your mis-
take. Many people possess the virtues
Of charity, honesty and benevolence,
but that alone will not save them.
They must confess their sins before
the Lord Jesus Christ and acknowledge
him as king of kings. Morality is the
best thing you have got if yo1 are nota a
Christian, but it will not save you from
eternal damnation.
The reason it is possible for you to
live . moral life is due to the restrain
ing influence of the religion of Jesus
Christ. Morality could not survive the
downfall of Christianity. 1 appeal to
you to stop doing the things that you
think will save you and begin doing
the things God says will save you, You
must acquiesce in his will or be forever
lost God requires men and women to
repent and accept his plan of salvation
if they would be saved.
Many people are so perverse as to
refuse salvation because they do not
like Gods plan of redemption. They
are carping and critical about every
thing in the gospel. You cannot
change the Divine plan one iota by
criticism and you should remember
that fact is fact whether you be-
lieve it or not. Some people are so
conventional that they refuse to do
good unless it can be done in the pre-
scribed way. Many of them would go
to hell IL they should happen to die out
Of the Lenten season. believe in Lent,
but think it sould be observed S65 days
in the year.
There is a great difference between
being whitewashed and washed white.
Morality is a good thing until death
comes, but it will not avail you any
thing when the undertaken is summon
ed to measure you for a coffin. God
don't pass a man into heaven on &C.
count OF his standing with Brsdstreet
or Dun. He might be rich in this
worlds goods, but poor in the securi-
ties which give an interest in the one
TO come. ''In my fathers house are
many mansions. if it were not SO 1
would have told you" Don't let God
be compelled to hang for rent sign
in the window of the mansion prepared
for you.
szF F.N-
your sslvsti IN here tonight, but If Je-
sus were to stand here and plead l do
not believe you would resist Him.
Heaven is a place and you all want to
go there, and why refuse to make the
start now? There is no other way un-
you must be saved. God has waited
for some of you for years and unless
you accept Him soon it will be ever
lsstingly too late. The moral men and
women that refuse to accept Christ are
like those who ridiculed Noah for build
ing the ark.
They said Noah was a fool for build
ing the ark so far from any water and
that the old hulk wouldn't float if the
opportunity came. Noah WAS not per
turbed by their gibes and for one hun
dred and twenty years kept on with
his carpentry work. AT last the Hoods
came and covered the face of the earth
rising higher and higher until the
mountain tops were submerged and
Nosh and his family WAS saved, but
his critics were lost. So it is with the
rnnraEsts the time will come when