The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-03-08
REPENTANCE.
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At different times In the history OF
~ world those appear whom we call
ssformers. They lift up their voices
srainst some great social or political
~rong and agitate until the evil
ming is overthrow or fettered and
kand-cufed. It is intemperance or op-
.ression of the laboring people or an
Injustice and cruelty done to the help
tess that commands the sympathy and
snspires the efforts Of these men and
Women.
But those whom Jesus sent out In
he world with His Gospel did not go
Ii combat one evil, but all. They were
not reformers. but revolutionists.
They did not call upon men to over
throw all government. to dissolve the
bonds that held society together, to
abolish the right to own property. But
they did proclaim certain truths which
Il accepted by man brings regenera-
lion to his soul and revolution to his
1ife. The early preachers did not
breach reformation, but regeneration
There is an everlasting defferance
between virtue and vice, between JUS
tice and injustice, purity and impurity.
..The gulf is too wide to be bridged,
and too deep to be filled up. To re-
nent means to turn from evil to good
FROM a sinful life to God. When a
man turns from injustice he turns TO
God for God is Infinite Justice Wnen
one turns from cruelty to mercy and
kindness. he turns to God, for God IS
love When we turn from any evil,
we turn to the opposite-we turn 70
God.
But it must be whole.hearted turn
ing. A man has not repented unless
he has repented of every known SIN
man may determine that he VIII
200, M more. But Il he holds on to
the sin of impurity, he is unjust I'M
nurity Is the rankest injustice. BOAT
NAV be tied to the shore by ten ropes
and nine of them may be severed Ou'
the one rope will hold the boat TO the
shore When the last rope is cut ana
then only. the boat floats out into the
middle of the stream. Nine sins may
he surrendered but one retained VIII
hold the man to the dead body OF
sinful life.
Men should repent, for they were
created to live good and pure nVes
not ignoble and impure ones Inc
man who is living wrong, is living al
artificial, hollow life.
Men should repent for he VINO ooe'
not defles the world, and ne Is
curse and hindrance to the race Jus
70 the extent that he is evil.
Men should repent. for by It the!
come into fellowship with God =
man genuinely and Thoroughly repenu
10 trnsts In God and he cannot neil
it.
Eoith in God Is the inevitable rs
eult Of whole-hearted repentance
Mon should repent because wrong
doing is destructive to the lie ana -
con, One should strive not TO los
the battle Of life and to save MS SOU
alive.
Mon should repent, for there is i
avery soul of man the God-huhee'
MI whether the individual knows wna'
e mr. not. The heart is too Dig 70 .
satisfied with anything but Goa.
Only through repentance 90 we =
ceive the Bread of Life
Mo, snould repent, for their Fathe
God. yearns for their love ana ne WI
mote them like Him in character
they want to be.
Repentance means that we oeSn'
to be free from the sin ITSELF
man who repents Of stealing is nc
inst seeking to be saved from the PEI
,tentiary here or hereafter, nor is
seeking to be only delivered from r
morse Of conscience. All these q
sires may be present in his MIND d
II his repentance be genuine II near
tha, he yearns to have that IN Ill
X. which makes him thief, taken o.
NJ him. It means that he wants 1u
tice enthroned in his soul
Men need Gods help to repent an
they may have it. God will help
man to do anything that is right. =
that asketh receiveth, he that seeke'
f,ndeth, and to him that knocketn
shall be opened"
Repentance means DENVER"
choice of the man, an act OF the WI
by which he submits to the sovere'e
WI viii OF God. Jesus said of Jerusalem
aHow often would have gathered tn