Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-22

of these days appalls ne. The -Jniver-
salist cries, Everyone will be saved:
no one will be damned, though God
| says, The wicked shall be thrown into
hell yet men believe the Universalist.
The Unitarian cries, Jesus was a good
man, but he was not divine though
Christ declares, He that hath seen
me hath seen the -'ather and no man
cometh unto the Father 3ut by me-
Yet men believe the Unitarian and re-
1ect Christ as the Son of God and the
| Mediator. The higher critics cry, we
do not believe in the writings Moses
as we do in the sayings of Christ
| though Christ says, If ye believe not
| Moses writings, how can We believe
my words" Yet people flock to hear,
the higher critics and accept their doc
! trine as gospel. God plainly declares
| in Thess. that certain men will be
given UP to the strong delusion to be-
| l1eve lie, that all might be damned
! that believe not the truth, but have
pleasure in unrighteousness. Believing
the devils lie damns the soul.
The Eighth Way
"The eighth way to hell is relying
| upon good works to secure Gods favor
| and salvation. God says by works
| of the law that is, by keeping even
| the ten commandments mo flesh shall
be Justified For, in the first place.
man has sinned and Gods law con-
demns them all, and in the second
| place, they have not theFpower to do
good works, even If good works could
! make up for bad works, which God
says is impossible
1.-The ninth way 10 hell is relying
upon Christian birth or family while
refusing to repent at once. These are
resting in the delusion that they will
be saved because their parents were,
while they refuse to come to Christ.
| This Is a broad path to hell There
are preachers sons and Christian peo-
! pies children by the thousand who
have lost their souls and are in hell
today because they rested in that with
| out accepting Christ.
1.-The tenth way to hell is by trusting
church forms and ordinances. This is
the way the Jews, the Pharisees of
the Lords day, lost their youls. They
mad the ordinances of the Jewish ritual
and they relied upon them and re-
jected the Redeemed One. Fcople come
into the church, are baptized or con-
firmed; they take the Lords supper:
they attend meetings and they finally
lose their souls. Why? Because they
never had a personal transaction with
the risen Savior and gave their souls
into his keeping. They never trusted
Jesus as lost sinners. They never were
born again, without which Christ de-
clared it was impossible 20 see the
kingdom of God.
THE eleventh way to hell Is by trust
ing priest instead of trusting Christ
directly There is one Mediator between
God and man; the man Christ Jesus.
Millions of human beings today have
entrusted their souls blindly to other
poor sinful human beings called priests.
Christ, the Great High Priest, is not
personally trusted, but without such
a personal trust salvation is impossible
according to the BIZ e.
The twelfth way to hell is hypocrisy
This is an absolutely sure route to
the lost perdition. By hypocrite the
Bible means a man protesting to be
what he is not. Woe unto you, hypo-
critics. says Christ, how can you es-
cape the damnation of help God
requires the truth in the inward parts,
and hypocrites have it not There are
thousands of deluded people, but the
self-deluded hypocrite is worse than
the rest Men enter on a Christian
profession for gain or or some other
motive, or after entering upon Chris
tian profession they find they are
wrong and know they are not saved
and often cherish deep sin, but still
pride and selfishness and impenitence.
This is a common and awful way to
hell. If a man knows he is not what
he processes to be let him repent at
once. Let him cast himself upon the
mercy of God in Christ. Let him be
honest before God and man, or 1t Will
soon be eternally too late, for hypocrisy
hardens the heart at fearful rate:
"The thirteenth way to heii Is by
I'M drIlo a
his soul. He would not give up his
brothers wife. Thus Judas lost his
soul. He kept a fatal sin in his bosom,
giving up everything else to Keep one.
Thus thousands have gone down TO
doom. They put away, perhaps, every
sin but one. for one sin, unrepented
of and INDUCED. will sink the soul to
perdition.
"The fourteenth way to hell is pro-
erastination; that is, putting on per-
sonal salvation. Nobody intends TO go
to hell, but they put OFF accepting
Christ from day to day. rms plea ana
that they make for delay. rms thlng
and that comes in. Slowly their hearts
get accustomed to rejecting or neg
iecting Christ. Gods awful warning
I'm Hebrews 2 is, How shall we escape
IL we neglect so great salVationT.
But this Is what most OF those who
have heard the gospel are doing right
row. 1t is the morphine route TO hell.
A man keeps giving his soul the prom
ise that some time he Will repent:
some time he will trust Christ yet nuu
now. not now. God cries, Now Is the
accented time now is the day of SAL
vation. To-day, II you will hear his
voice harden not your hearts But
man says not yet, not ye'. Finally