Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-22

Indifferent about eternity, when you
know you can never leave 1t when
once you step your foot into 1t. What
folly; what blind folly; yea, what sin
is your indifference!
The Fourth Way
1.-THE fourth way to hell is the pur-
suit of worldly pleasure. Here you
have wide, wide way right down to
hell. Here come the adulterers and
the drunkards and the devotees of So
ciety. Here comes the great throng
of fashion seekers, rushing on to the
precipice of doom.
"Those on this pleasure path to hell
are the throngs that crowd the dance
hall and the theaters. These are the
worldlings. Their portion is in this
life,' as David rays. They will sell
their souls for good time. They will
dress and dance and laugh and eat
and drink and sleep, only to eat and
drink and dance and laugh and sleep
again. This is a broad road to hell.
She that giveth herself to pleasure is
dead while she liveth,' says Paul.
The Fifth Way
1.-THE fifth way to hell is love of
money, covetousness. God calls 1t the
essence of idolatry. The love of money
is a root of all kinds of evil, Paul
says, and do we not see it? Even in
this life, when a man gets his heart
set, on gain he seems to wither up
before our very eyes.
There is nothing that will fit a man
for selfish hell faster than the love
of gold; and yet today the masses have
their hearts set upon it. Perhaps there
was never time since the world
began when the scramble D get rich
has been so desperate. This awful sin
that God warns man against people
are eagerly embracing. Take heed,
says Christ, and keep yourselves from
all covetousness, for mans life doth
not consist in the abundance of the
things which .e possesseth.'
yet people fling Christ's words to
| the wind and go after gold with all
their heart, and the horrible, yellow
moth eateth out their life. Covetous-
ness is idolatry, and the idolaters shall
have their part in the lake that burn
eth with fire and birthstone (Rev.
21:S). This is broad, bright, glitter
ing path to burning perdition.
The Sixth Way
"The sixth way to hell is selfish am
bition. Here come the selfish politi-
clans with their constant plotting for
self-advancement. Here come the Ma
poleons and the Caesars and the Alex
anders trampling under foot their fell
lowmen to advance themselves. There
are people in this audience, probably,
who have their heart so set upon OBJ
tanning some selfish end that they will
never turn from it, and it will damn
their souls. Anything that consumes
the soul as IN ambition cf life can
SO shut out God as to damn the soul
forever. Napoleon Bonaparte stood
upon a cliff at st. Helena in his final
Punishment and said:
al have suffered more torment to-
| day than a whole nation of ordinary
people. AS he once was marching his
army across the Alps little drummer
boy slipped over slide of snow into
a raVine below. The little fellow
climbed upon a rock and beat his
drum, piteously calling for he.l. Ma
poleon set his face like a flint, not
permitting anyone to rescue him, leav-
| ing him to die. Everything must be
sacrificed to his selfish ambition. There
are men all over America today who
are willing to crush out of their lives
others political hopes, others chances
in business, others places in society,
simply to crafty their own selfish am
hell. Thank God, the saints are diff
ferent. Paul says concerning them:
The love of Christ constraineth us;
because we thus judge, that one died
for ALL 30 that they that live should
no longer live unto themselves, but
unto him who for their eakes died
and rose again True faith in Christ
cuts the tap root of human gelfshness.
The Seventh Way
THE seventh way to hell Is trusting
false doctrine. Some people say it is
no matter what you believe If you are
sincere. This is absurd l might buy
house. believing there was no mort
gage on 1t, and be perfectly sincere,
but my sincerity would not change the
fact that there was a $4,000 mortgage
on the property. Paul says, We are
saved by believing the truth God
promises to reveal the truth to anyone
who really wants IL. Our Lord said,
III any man is willing to do the will
OF God, that man shall know all doc
trine' God will bring the truth to
anyone who takes the proper attitude
toward him, that of a yielded will to
the Creator. But, alas, how blindly
men rush after every new teaching.
Some one says There is no fool so
great but there are greater fools to
follow him. There are 200, 000, 900 Mo-
hammedans who blindly believe a poor,
deluded epileptic, for Mohammed wrote
his Koran during trance Ats. lee the
thousands rushing after the wretched
rubbish written by a woman In Massa-
chusetts, concerning which someone
has said. The two-fold trouble with
Christian Science is: II is neither
Christian nor scientific.'
Mrs. Eddy says, 'rhe blood of Jesus
had no more power to save from sin
after 1t was shed than when IL was
still flowing IN his veins But the
Scripture says (Heb. 9:22), without
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