The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-04-05

but il death does come the man uusaved
is ruined. beyond recovery. This pro-
cedure Of postponing salvation to an
oppOrtnne occasion is not a practical
problem;it is not workable. Men do
not proceed in business upon that prin-
ciple. do you think there is man
in this city who would freight bis
xhole fortune upon a single ship7
No, because il that ship were wrecked
that man may become penniless. Do
you think shere is man in this city
who would risk all his money in
single speculation no matter how likely
to succeed it may appear? No! Do
gregation, or in Minot, who would
risk his all on the chances of gamb-
ling table? No! 4 thousand times,
No! And yet I make this awful state.
ment that every unsaved man and
woman, every man and woman who
have not accepted Jesus Christ d
their Savior, is . gambler and the
most awful thing in the universe is
the state OF man who is risking his
Eternal al o. single chan.e upon the
amblin g table. ''' '''N'
Oh, man, prudent in all else, why
8r0 yVN ~ iOCAAcSo AZ INl5 NlaSL0x. Soue
tious and calculating when dollars are
ct stake, why are YOU SO mad whom
the Interests Of your soul are in the
balance4 '.What snail; it. profit . man
il he gain the Whole world and lose
his own soul, or what shall . man
give In exchanges for his soul?"
The world is moro than money.
1t means fame; it means popularity; it
means power; it means glory; it means
diadems; it means thrones: it means
everything that the heart loves today,
and yet Jesus Christ put single soul
in the balance, and says: that out
weighs the whole world. with all its
possessions" "What shall it profit y
man il he shall gain the world and
lose his own soul?" You that are up-
saved think Of it. ..
God help Us to beware of this Thief.
for the saddest words-Hear me, men!
the saddest words that echo and re-
vertebrate through the chasms of eter
nal darkness are these, lit might have
been!' ut might have BEEN" There is a
sentimentality abroad, and you have
every Tom, Dick and Harry who un-
derstands little Greekor Hebrew, and
others also who know nothing of these
languages, prating and saying, "there is
no hell, and, if there is hell. God is
too merciful to shut man up in if for
ever" / am not prepared to say
whether hell is literal torment or not,
and l have read deeply along this line.
I have taken my Greek Testament and
have gone through it, and I want to
say this: the same language that
speaks of the everlasting glory of the
redeemed, speaks also of the everlast-
ing punishment Of the lost: and it you
eliminate the words. eternal or ever
lasting" from the punishment of the
lost. you must also eliminate them
from the JOY of the blessed These
shall 60 away into everlasting punish
ment, but the righteous into life eter-
nal. Both words are used in the Greek.
And let me say, ] behave in hell. |
believe in it OIL the authority of Jesus
Christ, and that place which different
iates the good from the bad is the
worst possible place in the universe:
and if Gods presence constitutes
heaven, the absence of God consti-
tutes hell, and the very thought
of the possibility of man finding
himself in that place somewhere in the
universe of God. separated from all
that is good. pure, holy and God like:
separated forever IN darkness and
blackness: and crying, at might have
been different, 1 might have been
saved. but lost. lost, ought to be
sufficient to deter us from farther quib-
bling and trifling with the salvation of
our souls.
Men, be wise. be true to the old
Bible. Conquer your surroundings.
Begin tonight to live for God. |
stretch out my hand and give it to
you. Win you extend yours? Take
the hand of the preacher, man who
loves you, a man who believes in the
eternal verities uf the Word of God,
and clasp mine and say, Brother,
stranger or friend, will accept the
Lord Jesus, by the grace of God, and
l will slap the Thief in the face, and
/ will meet you somewhere. in the
eternities to come. in the city of God.
Do that in your heart Of hearts, and
angels will rejoice, and Heaven will be
vOurs forever ...-'