Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-05
HE'LL AN ETERNAL INSANE
ASYLUM, IS PICTURED IN
SERMON BY REV, ", A,SUNDAY

open up plan whereby people NIGH.
be kept out of hell, and the fact that
God did 1t takes the responsibility of
Gods shoulders and puts 1t on you. If
he hadn't cared he wouldn't have pro.
| vided redemption.
do not want to believe and preach
| q lie. would rather believe and
preach truth, no matter how un
pleasant l. is. than to believe and
preach a lie. I would rather, and do.
believe there is a hell. If l didu't, [
wouldn't have the audacity 10 stand
ever comes time when I don't be-
lieve in hell will leave the platform
before will ever preach sermon
with that nnbelief in my heart. |
would rather believe and preach q
truth, no matter how unpleasant,
than to believe and preach a lie sim
ply for the friendship and favor Of
some people.
You cannot reconcile the doctrine
of eternal hope Or of universal saliva
ton with the teaching of Jesus Christ
and the Apostles. You have to give up
one or the other. and I am aware of
the fact that the man who stands
four-square on the Word of God, and
without fear or favor breaches the
Bible just as it is given here, know,
! sir, that he is called bigoted and mar
row and cruel and puritanical and all
| that. and they say of fellow who
: doesn't believe that Jesus is the Son
Of God, or who doesn't believe in eter-
nal damnatton, Or who breaches that
everybody is going to be saved, they
say: HE IS a liberal preacher" say
he is an old fool. that's what I call
| him. Do you call that broad? No
call that the biggest bigotry on God S
earth. The man who breaches the
truth is your friend. have no desire
to be any more broad or liberal than
Jesus, not s. whit, and nobody has
any right, either. and claim to be a
preacher. Is man cruel that tells
you the truth? If you summon a doc
tor and he tells you your child has
diptheria, is that cruel? II you have
pain and you call the doctor and he
says you have the appendicitis, is
that cruel? I rush up and tell you
your house is on fire and I give the
alarm. Am l cruel because I warn
you? No sir, I'm your best friend
/ Then am I cruel because tell you
there Is a hell? No sir. The man that
tells you there is not q hell is the
cruel man, and the man that tells you
there is hell is your friend. So It's
kindness to point out the danger.
Very we'll, I have been down the
track and the bridge is gone. There
is He'll at the end of it and
! stand here in the name of Christ
and wave Gods danger signal to tell
you to stop, and il you go to He'll
you will have to go over every sermon
l have preached to you, and l hold
that I am kind by SO doing.
Many preachers, in these days, are
/ damned if he doesn't repent of his
| iippant Of speech. They say: Lets
eat, drink and be merry. We are all
going to be saved" You ask many
a man about being a Christian and
he says: 81 believe in God of love
God is too good to damn anybody.
don't need to forsake sin. l know
I'm an old sinner and a reprobate
but God is good; there is no He'll
Do you think that good God would
permit a He'll? Do you think that
| God would take me and damn me?
am trusting in the goodness of God
| don't need to forsake my, SINS
Does that meet the highest demands
of your conscience? When your con
science points out that you are 8
sinner, does it meet the highest de
mands of your conscience to say: az
know I'm shining, but God is good
He gave His son to die" Does that
meet the highest demands of your
! conscience? Ii it does, you have the
meanest, low down, rotten, sinking
conscience | ever heard Of If ii
meets the highest demands OF you,
conscience to know that you are q
sinner, dragging Gods law beneath
your feet and making Gods law the
excuse for your cussedness. then yol
are too low down for me.
! | say to you, when you know that
God is kind and loving and yor
trample Him beneath your feet, say
such a man is too contemplate fol
me. / don't care who he is. have
known men to become sinful, world
ly and Goddess because they have
been inoculated with the pernicious
error of Universalism. With honey
combed words they have promulgated
the doctrine Of universal salvation
which is universal lie You turf
men into He'll by teaching doctrine.
that contradict the Word OF God, ant
some men will rise in Hell and damn
you for preaching false doctrines t.
them and leading them astray and al
lowing them to slip
! I am not going to give you m,
speculations or theories or opinions
They are worth no more than an,
other FOOLS speculations, theories O
opinions, and any man that preache.
his speculations, theories or opin
ions is a fool But I am going t.
preach the Word OF God God know
all about it and has told us all abou
it. One ounce Of Gods revelation Il
worth forty million tons Of man.
speculations and theories
A fellow once said to me: "Mr
Sunday, don't you know that most o
the scholarly ministers have givel
up their belief in HelI?" Well, that
a lie. Some fools have, I'll admi
that. That's always an argumen
with a fellow who has waak caus,