Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02
10000 10000 00e0 0000e

The. sin of repeatedly, continually
and finally rejecting Jesus Christ-this
q 4pardonable sin-was the theme of
Ijsy. Mr. Sundays first night. sermon
OF the closing week Of the revival. The
rain OF the early evening cut down the
attendance to 1.4oo, a large majority Of
whom were protesting christians or
church members. This accounts in a
measure for the few conversions, there
being but twenty four who came for
ward and took the evangelist by the
hand and confessed their sins.
BY the time the evangelist had fin
ished there was no doubt left in the
mind of his hearers as to what the un-
pardonable sin was. and the sin that,
above all others, spells doom and an
guilty Of 1t.
The Greatest Of Sins.
The sin the evangelist places above
all others condemned by the decalog
IS the surest route to perdition. It is
the one objectionable sin in the sight
of oGd and the one which, if persisted
in, will not be forgiven. All Others he
declared, would be forgiven if man
confessed Jesus Christ and accepted
him.
His sermon was in part as follows:
Various people have various ideas as
to what the unpardonable sin is Some
think that 1t was only committed by
those who lived in the time of Jesus.
Others think that it has been, commits
ted only at rare intervals since then.
What II ls.
II want to ask and answer two
questions, what is it?' and who has
committed it?' will tell you it is
not swearing, If you had been damned
for cursing you would have been
doomed long ago. 1t is not drunken
ness. There are multtudes whom Je-
sus Christ would not have saved IL 1t
had been that. 1t. is not theft. It is
not murder. What is it then? I think
1t is plain. It is the continual, con-
slant and final rejection of Jesus
Christ. think there comes a last
time, and q last opportunity that men
have to hear the call Of Jesus Christ.
You say no. you push God away for So
ciety or tor pleasure, or for this and
that thing. The time will come when
the last appeal will be made to you. It
Is no special sin. It is the constant
and repeated and the final rejection of
every opportunity to be christian.
Then Comes Last Call.
sFinally God will call you for the
last time, and IL you then refuse, he
will then let you alone, and never
again will the summons come. With
each tick Of the clock tonight this last
time is drawing nearer and nearer. !
believe there are men and women who
have refused for the last time, and
who areas surely doomed as tho they
were In eternity now. We all know
that each resistance lessons the power
Of the appeal and strengthens the re-
sisting power. am trying to show
you that It is the constant resistance
Of the same thing that is the unpar-
donable sin.:
There are men and women today
who, no matter what the plea is or
what they hear, they pay no attention
to 1t. end finally God attempts to stay
them no longer, but let's them 60 to
hell.
Whom Did Jesus Warn7
who can commit this sin? Whom
did Jesus warn? He warned the Phar-
tsees. who were the best morally OF Je-
y s,ls, time. You may be the best NOR
lilly. You may be the most chaste wom-
IN Of Marsha iltown. but you say no to
(Continued On Page Flve.l