The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-09

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 In bad shape. they would help him out. But the man was too proud to take their advice. too proud tp admit that his business was in a. bad way, 10 he refused to look Into t.. shut his teeth. set his face like flint and tried to plunge through But insteAd of
 piunsing through; he, plunged Into such
 .xnd when hs died,s said pr. Tor rey, "I had to pay his funeral ex- penses out of my own pocket simply because he was not willing to humble
 his pride. and face facts. It ts just
 so with many Of you gentlemen here
 tonight You are too proud 70 face
 spiritually bankrupt, SO you are going
 to shut your teeth. set your face like | Hint, and plunge through. You will 1 plunge into utter and eternal rufnt" Dr. Torrey explained that every man wants to knew. where hc stsudE' 1 physically. He wants to know what 1 Is the condition of his lungs. of his He may be worse off than he thinks he is. He may think his hexrt is sound when his. heart is defective. If that 1 be the case, he wants To know it, be- cause if he knows that his heart ts
 defective, he will not nb5ectfft to the strain that he ot1erwise would Then, after telling how every msrtpsr wishes
 to know just where his vessel is, it's ,exact latitude and exact Longitude.
 we are sailing tonight across . | perilous sea toward an eternal port. and every truly tnteHegent man and woman ff this audience will desire to know just where they are, their exact
 spiritual longitude and their exact
 spiritual latitude.
 CSnsiaer seriously.
 pr. Torrey. in taking up this aues- 1 ton. told Of Aye ways in which it should be considered. First of alL it should be consiaered seriously. It Is not question to trifle with. aithough men and woman who are Intelligent and sensible about everything else. who would not think Of trifig with the great financial and social questions .of the dey. will treat this Ercat question Of etsrnity as. joke
 In the second plnce. he said this ques- tion should be consldefeh honestly. as there are many people in our day who are trying to deroix9 them selves, try. ing to deceive others. and trying to deceiye God. Men who In their in- most heart know that they are wrong. but are trying to psrsuade themseivss
 that they are right, trying to persuade
 others that they are right, ana trying to persuade God that they, are trigbt.
 In the third place, he went on. the question should be considered thor oughiy. There are many people who
 are honest enough. ana serious fenOu gh, as far as they go. But they don't so far enough. After 7 few minutes' thought, these people say, T guess I'm all right. I'll take. my chsncef But
 this Is no question to guess about.
 In the s6urta place. these questions
 should be considered praysrfuiiy. A
 man shouldn't rest upon sthe fact that he is as church member. It Nis needfni to face this question in- prayer. No
 man win ever know where he stands
 until God shows him. In siilnstFatiug this point pr. Torrey told of c wo- man. who on her deathbed cried, T
 have been protesting Christian for forty years and just found out that have not been saved at ali!r and he
 explained the horror Of being pro-
 fessing Christian and never finding out until the end of life that one was nev- CT been a Christian at ali.s H = An sUMsavedp ChEisttan. 5.. q do not doubt but in this, audience there ia many a map and woman who has been q professiug Christian for
 years who was never sayed:s ] renem- Der when we left Liverpool. I read in a paper edited by ciergyman In that city. letter complaining about our meetings. This letter read. These men produced the impression that some of pur church members were not saved. We'll. that Is the impression. that we tried to produce for that Is the truth
 of God, and considefed 1t was one of the greatest compliments that was
 ever paid to me I hope T. will create l the same impression In Montgomery.
 'The fifth way that ]. the question
 should be discuased,.i pr. Forrey con- tinued, ':Is scriptoraliy, according to i the Bible. It was given by God. to you and me, the only safe. chart and com pass to guide us through life toward | eternity. If you steer your course ze- ccrding to this book you steerssafeIy: {:
 if you steer your course according to ! your own feelings, according to the | speculation of the petty ,philosopher~or l the theologian, according to anything | but the clear deelafatIon of the only book of God. you steer your course to l shipwreck." .aes a'. 't'
 pr. Torrey offered snsKestIons that would help in answering this great ! question. Where Art Thou"
 The first, one was, Are syou saved, or
 are you lost1 4 man has ito be one or the other. There are dust two classes, | those definitely saved and those defl-
 nitely iost--lost sinners and saved sin. l nera. S
 The second suggestion was, "Are you
 on the road to Heaven or the road to he'll" As there are only two roads,
 the broad one and the narrow one. | man has to be. either one ar the other. The third suggestion was. "Are you q child of God or a child of the deviI?'. Dr. Torrey said about th4s: SupeFAeinl Thinkers.
 We live in a day in which many superficial thinkers are telling us that all men are the children of God. That is not the teaching of Jesus Christ : 1t
 Is not the teaching of the Bible. Jesus Christ says distinctly in John, viii, A, talking to certain Jews, ''Ye are of your father, the devil. And we are
 told in I. John, iii, 10, Tn this the chil-
 dren of God are manifest and the chill 1 dren of the devil And we are told In John, 1, IF, As many. as received Him, to them gave He power to be- come sons of God Children of God or. children of the devil. Every one
 of us here tonight Is either one or the
 other. Which are you2
 While was speaking more than a
 year ago in the city of Ballarat in
 Australia, there sat long line of ed-
 ucated Chinamen listening to the Ser
 mon I was preaching on the same text
 as tonight. l came to the point I have
 come to now, and said to myself. I
 guess I will leave that. out: that may
 offend somebody without doing any
 good But somehow or other God
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