Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-05-23
THE WHEEL 0F
 REDEMPT|0N" :"  Was the Subject of Rever- end J, l.. Haddock's Ser. mon at Christian Church \ Wednesday Night.
SAYS JESUS CHRIST

SOuI-L00kcd Into Future ana!
 Planned Sal,ation-To Prescribe
 Even if it Is Not Necessary.
 The subject of Rev. J. l.. Had docks sermon Wednesday evening was "The Wheel. of Redemption" and not the "Unpardonable Sin," as announced, the latter having been given out by mistake. How | ever, before beginning his discourse he explained to the audience what 1 the unpardonable sin is, reading | from the 18th chapter of Matthew and also from the Sd chapter of Mark.
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 MT. Haddock said that Jesus was the great physician of the sin sick 1 soul; that he looked into the future ] and arranged plan of salvation by which all men might be saved, by complying with it. In this Book, the Bible, various ingredients were placed one by one until the Savior had placed enough to reach all con- ditions; then it was handed out to the world and he said, "now ac- cept it and you shall be saved with out exception" The speaker asked his audience to imagine physician calling on a patient and saying, "Now I am gong to write you pre- 1 scription for some medicine that I want you to take, I have exam ined you thoroughly and find that you need little quinine, little salts, some dover's powders, and a l little bit of laudanum, and I want l you to take it exactly according to 1 directions. Now that is all that you really need, but I, as your physician, have a perfect right to give you anything l want to and so I will add four teaspoonfuls of lye soap half a gallon of sawdust and
 Hold on there, doctor,' says the patient, what are you putting all stuff in for? I don't want to take anything like that
 "No,' the doctor replies, "I know you don't need it, but then have a right to give it to you if I want to-
 Mir. Haddock said that that doc tor wouldn't get more than half through that prescription before his patient would send him about his business. But he said some would say that no doctor would act in any such manner, yet they accuse our Great Physician of doing that very thing. They will say, "Yes, Lord. We know you told us to take this, that or the other, but we can get we'll without it. We have sense and we know what we are talking about. We know that you wrote out the prescriptions: that you prescribed faith and number of other things, and that you said for every man to take it according to directions. but Lord we know that we can leave sout all the ingredients but one, or we can leave half of it out, and get we'll just the same"
 The speaker said that he hadn't a bit better sense than to swallow just what the Lord told him to. whether he could understand it O.' not, and that his people proposed to swallow everything the Lord said and believe that in some way it was good for them. He has pre- seribed it and they propose to take it.
 MT. Haddock said that in evai. mans salvation the Great phvsi-
 yan did something himself that man could not do. We are saved I by the love of God. Notwithstand ing. considered abstractly. the loTE of God saves no man. If so, all ne would be saved, because God s loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. We are said tf ne saved by the mercy of God. H. had mercy upon us when we wer+ yes in our sins, therefore We can boast of the fact that God has had mercy upon us. The same Siblf teaches that every man is saved b' the Grace of God. But We must no put the word only there, because the Great Physician has not put il there The grace of God saves Lt man, abstractly considered.