East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-05

tense Earnestness Prevailed In tn
Audience.
A number of persons were hearC
to remark at the close of the servic,
at the Methodist church that IN,
sermon was one of the strongest the!
had ever heard. The text was from
Matt. 1891. "Whosoever shal
speak a word against the Son of man
it shall be forgiven him; but whose,
ever shall speak against the Holy
Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him
neither in this world nor in thai
which is to come"
Mr.. Haudenschield said in part:
That this was like a final warning
from God against procrastination in
the matter of decision for God. 1t
is as if God foresaw that while men
trusted His love and forebearance.
they would be tempted to put off
from time to time the answer to His
call, expecting at the last to make
| it all right.
But the note OF warning in sound
ed. There is line across where a
man cannot go and return to Gods
forgiveness. II men could be con-
vinced that this is the last call they
will ever hear, the last chance they
will have to accept Jesus Christ,
there would be many who would hur-
ry to Him.
Numerous examples were cited
from circumstances that are common
matters Of observation and experience
to show that the time actually comes
most Unexpectedly when they have
received their last call. Disaster
suddenly overtakes them and they are
hurried into the presence Of eternity.
Men misuse the Scripture to find an
excuse for their delay.
The thief on the cross, whose SAL
walton is taken to encourage the hope
that a man may put off the call of
God to the end of life, probably had
never even heard of Jesus Christ till
the day they hung side by side on
Calvary. Men today cannot claim
his privilege, for they hear and reject
again and again.
The parable of the servants who
were employed to labor at the |
hour and received as much |
as those who had begun with the |
day, does not encourage those who |
want TO defer entering Gods service |
till the end of life, for to the inquiry
why stand ye here idle?". they re-
ply mo man hath hired US" They
had not had an opportunity to go to
work before this. But men today ex-
pect to refuse day after day and year
after year to go to work for God and
then at the end Of life signify their
and get the reward Of
fered those who answered the first
,all.
Men are setting up their own judg-
nent as to what is the greatest sin,
instead of taking the testimony of
iod. Some say murder is the great
ommon that we suspect today.
There is more than one way to COM
nit murder. The man who proves
ntrue to the woman he has sworn
o defend and protect and live, and by
is unfaithfulness is breaking her
cart is committing murder as truly
s If he killed her by an act of vio-
ence.
a man converted confessed to the
rinie of murder. He was taken to
ne state where the crime had been
ommitted, was tried and sentenced
, the penitentiary for life. His tes-
mony from the prison was THE
here Is far better than \
ell for eternity" The penitentiary
/ Oregon Is better than hell for
.ernity,"
Jn.:eere is a darker crime than mur< :
er according to the word Of God.
A man that hath set at nought
loses law dieth without compassion
n the word of two or three Witness
): OF how much sorer punishment,
link ye, shall he be judged worthy,
no hath trodden under foot the
On of God and hath counted on the
Iooal VI the covenant wherewith he
as sanctified an unholy thing, and
ath done despite unto the Spirit of
race"
The first and greatest command
tent, according to the definition of
esus, was "To love the Lord with
Il thy heart SOUL mind, strength"
he breaking of this command, there
IRE, by the rejection of Him who
ime to manifest the love and the
i'll of God, is a greater sin than the
reaking OF the lesser commands.
There is such thing as soul mur-
er as truly as murder Of the body.
he man who persistently stands in
lie way of soul that is seeking
ssus Christ, or who by an inconsist-
It Christian life causes another to :