Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-21

Christ, not one OF which you ever
lived. but simply because you have
gotten the benefit Of them and you
have seen the example set by other
people. Whoever gave you the idea?
1t came to you thru Jesus Christ.
and when you say Il did or 1 do it in
the name of humanity" there was no
humanity until Jesus Christ taught
you humanity, you miserable wretch.
That is one of the benefits of re-
ligion. To hear some old fellows
talk you would think they had Just
heard 1t themselves. You are wolf
in sleeps clothing when you take
from Jesus Christ that which He gave
and yet you are not man enough to
give Him back your life and say you
are indebted to Him.
Christianity Lives Forever.
Morality could never survive the
death of christianity, never in the
world. Whatever you do in the name
of Jesus Christ will live forever. All
others will fade with the deed or
memory, and I thank God tonight
that the world is forming in line
around the cross of Jesus Christ.
That Is the name that makes home
and builds character. That is the
name that is striking the shackles
from the hearts and lives of men,
| making drunkards sober. turning in
fidels to prayer, Transforming this old
| world today; and all you and I hope
| for, the glad Utopia of our works
and dreams, in the valleys between
the mountains, and on the summit,
in the dark continents of the earth
and in the dark fostering spots of
the city, all must come by and
thru the principles Of Jesus Christ.
He is the one that stands at the door
and knocks. How ungrateful to keep
Him out of your heart and your life!
lnsratitude.
| was preaching in town in Iowa
and told an incident, and a soldier
said: Il saw that very incident, or
one exactly like it. The enemies
We're fleeing before our charge and
we were hnrrving on. We saw man
by the roadside, wounded, crying for
help. Our colonel dismounted, took
| blankets from the dead nearby,
propped the man up, left him a can
teen Of water and some food, when the
man he had thus befrended seized
his gun and with his yfast-ebbing
|
the man that had befriended him"
say to you that was an act of
kindness, that was manly, noble, one
of the grandest acts I ever read or
heard of, compared to the man that
keeps Jesus Christ out of his life
How ungrateful to keep Jesus Christ
cut of your life. Behold, stand at the
door and knock; if any man hears my
voice and opens the door will come in
to him and will sup with him and he
with me-"
Behold, I stand at the door" That
is the Christ you are keeping out, the
Christ you pass up. You won't let Him
in or serve Him or do His will. No, not
lyou.
Wonderful Book.
Behold! This is wonderful book,
this book from which we take our
texts in our desires to preach to men,
this book that teaches, in its various
aspects, q man to love. Men will not
turn a deaf ear to love. That is the
chord that has been sung thru this
word for 1900 years, since the day man
showed his love to man in the gift of
Jesus Christ. It was the love of God
that held back the blow that would
have annihilated man. That is the love
that would have put you in your coffin
long ago. Man looked to Calvary
that sad tragedy. There he beheld the
last manifestation of Gods eternal
love to this old world; and, here me,
man repudiated that love in bitterness
and in blood. God said: IF man will
not receive my love, manifest in the
flesh. in the gift of my only Son, how
can save him from Hell?"
All men have been. are or will be
fathers. husbands, sons. And in the re-
lationship of father and son God knew
he would strike the chord that would
find response in more hearts than any
other relationship. God tried to block
the way to hell.
Divergent Lines.
see two lives. They start from
the same home, they start from the
same church, they start from the
same town, they ran on parallel
tracks until they reached the spot
where the roads deflect-one turns to
the grog shop. to unbelief on he
goes and during the period you keep
begging: Come on this track. you
are wrong" but he says: "T go to
the same church you go to, wife; I
walk by your side" Yes, you walk
by her side until the roads defect.
She turns to God. What about the
end? Heaven-Hell the end of the
way God sought thru songs Of
poets and prophets in other ages to
warn men to flee from hell. God
placed in prophecy, mountain,
Mount Calvary, and on that mountain
He put the cross. emblem of hope,
JOY, gladness mingled with sorrow,
as the smile shines thru the tears
like the rainbow thru the spray,
God put there the cross. the Stun
bling block, as Joseph Parker said,
over which all the eternal love of God
broke into silvery spray of speech
when Jesus said: Him that cometh
unto me I will in no wise cast out"
God said: "Why, man will not
climb that cross" God put right
there mountain, on that mountain
He put a cross and on that cross He
hung His son, and He said: II will
touch the hearts Of men by the
thought Of father and son. They will
not trample the blood Of my son be-
meath their feet" Hear me, men!
For 1900 years man has scaled Mount
Calvary over the quivering body of
Jesus Christ; he has trampled into
the soil of this sin cursed world the
tenderest message Of love God can
give thru sermon, song or tears,
and they have laughed to scorn the
messages Of love in their mad rush
to hell.
Gods Way the Best.
What do you think God could have
done differently that He did? VIVA.
would you have done had YOU been