The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-08-30
INTERESTING AND
HELPFUL S. VICE

Methodist church Sunday morning
there being no service at the
Episcopal. Presbyterian OF bap-
list churches. And they were
ALI well paid for their going;
the sermon being strong, force
full and helpful. and the music good;
especially the song. Blessed LORD
Take Care OF Me" beautifully rem
dered BY Miss CLYDE Cant.
Rev. ]. w Cherry used the follow
ing passage from the Sermon on the
Mount as his text: Not every one
that sayeth unto me Lord, Lord shall
enter into the Kingdom OF Heaven
hut he that doeth the will OF my
Father, who is in Heaven
Jesus laugh that he had not come
IN destroy the law or the prophets'
bnt tn fulfil them To fulill means TO
fill full. Whatever truth there was IN
the law and the prophets Was eternal
Christ came to complete the Visions
NJ truth received by the prophets
through the ages. He came with the
final religion.
The scribes and pharisees corrupted
the teachings OF the prophets. me
nrophets taught that God required that
men should live right; that we should
offer the sacrifice of righteousness
and mt our trust in the Lord. The
scribes and pharisees had divorced
morality from religion. They mao
made religion to consist in outward
rights and ceremonies. Wherever
this occurs in church or nation, thal
church or nation becomes corrupt.
Jesus told them that they had become
as whited sepulchers: beautiful with
out, but within full of all manner OF
uncleanness and dead mems bones
Jesus taught the people that unless
their righteousness exceeded the right
eousness of the scribes and pharisees'
they could not enter the Kingdom OF
Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven
is composed of God and his loyal chill
dren. A man enters the Kingdom Oh
Heaven when he becomes Christian.
The prodigal son entered the Kingdom
of Heaven when he returned to MS
fathers home and confessed his sins.
The Kingdom of Heaven is entered
by the individual, not by saying Lord
Lord" but by doing the will OF COO.
It is the will of God that We should
love Him. We enter the King
dom of Heaven when we give 10
him the love OF our hearts. II DIS
obedient girl wants to become a dutl-
ful daughter she does not need an
hundred rules to teach her now 10
deal with her mother What she needs
To do is to ask God to help her love
ber mother and then follow the leading
of a loving and loyal heart. Just So
when we love God, we will do MS VIII.
IF we ask God to help us to love MIN
he will answer our prayer. me Lofo
Christ declared that many would say
INTO Him in that day Have We not
Drophesied in Thy name, and In my
name cast out devils and in Thy name
done many mighty works.? Then VIII
say unto them Depart from me- we
workers of iniquity, | never knew
you
He meant that they were never the
friends of God Men who work IN
shop building wagons are workers OF
wagons. There are in this city men
who are workers of iniquity. They
manufacture lies. They manufacture
dishonesty and impuritg, malice ana
hatred and send these things out TO
curse the world.
Christian people are not to be work
ers of iniquity A mans religion is to
take hold of his life. Our daily duties
crystalize into character.
"Our acts, our angels, are, for good OF
Our fatal shadows that walk by us
still"
Not those who make the loud
nrofession. but those who live the
righteous lives, will pass at the judg
ment.
Here is a man who is prominent IN
his church. holds official position Is
looked to as a pillar, But this man 10
unkind to his clerks, Expresses them
in every possible way, makes their
lives bitter like the lives OF the israe-
lites in Egypt. In his home he IS IKE
the devil with horns and hoofs and "
forked tail He breaks the heart Oh
his wife and makes criminals OF MS
children with his unkindness anu
cruelty. When he stands at the JUG
ment the Lord Christ will say to him'
depart from me, we worker of lniqui-
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