The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-06-29
THE LIBERTY Or CHRISTIANS |
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on Sunday Now let us take three
points to this subject. Cd Your
standing under grace. % Your
growth in grace. go Your fruits o
grace.
Now, in the first place the law
says Thou shalt, or Thou shalt not
DO this and die But what does
grace say? I entreat you. i implore
you, I beg of you I beseech you,
I constrain you These things
ought We to do
Il want you to decide whether
you have accepted Christ and are I'M
der grace or under law this morn
ing. If yol are a christian | have no
right to hold you over the fire of hell
for playing cards and dancing and
doing these things, but l must show
you what Jesus asks you to do. And
if you say / don't care what Jesus
in the fold of Christ and are as sure
for hell as if you were already
there. If you have no thought of
keeping the unsaved out of hell you
are bound for that place yourself.
Church membership ought to
stand for something and that ought
to mean I am living for Christ If
society is to give you your laws and
not the bible you ought to get out
of the church and join society and
not the church. Any man who is out
of the church is just as good as a
member of the church who is gaIfb-
ling, dancing, going to theatres and
such. If you are doing this, don't
burden the church but get out Why
are people worldly? Because they
are looking out for self and not for
others and they don't care how many
people are lost. They are seeking
happiness but | want to say that
they are the most uncontented people
in the world and we preachers who
are called in to see these people die
know just what their happiness
amounts 20. You talk about being
loyal to Christ, yet | can tell you of
instances among the Chinese where
those people during the Boxer trou-
| Bile showed more loyalty to Jesus
than many of us christians who say
1 can't give up my personal liberty
| Oh, friends, won't we say by the help
| if God | will not be stumbling
block.
| Let me ask you if you can grow
in grace at the card table? No card
| playing, dancing, theatre going
christian ever led anybody to Christ
in a meeting The unsaved know your
regulations and you can't lead them.
/ Can you grow in grace in the thea
! ter? If what goes on in a theatre is
half as bad as the picture, it is not
| fit for people to go to see. live in
hotel and l say to you if you could
see what kind of cattle they are that
put up the show | don't believe you
would want to see them act. | tell
you they live together worse than
the lower animals and still you pay
your money to watch them in half
their clothes show some piece of fool
ishness. Then there is the dances.
You say you don't see any harm in
the dance because 1t is just music set
to motion. 1t is mighty funny to me
that you don't move the furniture
out and dance with your own wife
or husband. No, you have to dance
with some one elses wife or hus-
band or someone else's brother or
| sister. Mothers, do you have wine
on your table? II you do, you can
| expect to have drunken boys and
immoral girls and drunken sons-in-
law. You will be the instrument In
| damning souls. How can you live in
adultery with the world and expect
| to be of any use to Jesus?
Now, do you invite people to
your home who are foul and un-
clean? II you do your home becomes
! just as unclean and foul and hellish
i as the worst guest in your house.
| Will you allow this thing to be so?
Will you embarrass your other
guests and besmirch their reputation
by asking them to partake of your
hospitality in company with these
children of hell? What is the influ-
ence of your home? Does the love
of Christ constrain your"
At the close of the sermon people
all over the house were in tears and
when the evangelist asked all who
would cut with the world and live
for Christ to stand, hundreds stood
at once.
The Young Peoples service in the
afternoon was the greatest meeting
OF its kind yet held and many boys
and girls and young men and young
ladies made profession
AT night the evangelist spoke to
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