Arizona republican., 1909-02-24

all that there is in the church of Christ, whose names are written Tn heaven" I believe every denomination ! has its mission in the world. The Protestant world today is one in Jesus Christ and united when it Is upon It's
 knees. When man says, T like one church as well as another" l know ne doesn't like any much. We come to the arbitration of God. am not afraid of the day of judgment. I'd like to hear the trump of the archangel before leave this house I'd like to see Jesus come, for He would settle some | of these questions which are perpleX- | ing us. My case has been settled at | the throne of mercy. We come to the l spirits of just men made perfect They don't come to up and tip tables ] for an evenings entertainment. Don't
 you think there is something in Spir- | itual lsm?" l am asked. Yes, the devil is in it. Sow me Spiritualist who bows the knee to Jesus in worship and | will take 1t back. It is from be-
 heath. not from above. We come to Jesus the Mediator" I hope your ! | son who loves, helps, guides and saves us. The most real person to me for years has been Jesus Christ. If you
 trample the blood of Christ under your | feet, 1t will speak like that of Abel | for retribution, but if you put it upon the lintel and doorpost of your house | and trust 1t for your protection, 1t
 will speak the better thing of saliva l tion The crucifixion is Gods justifi- | cation for saving the sinner and also
 for condemning the persistent unbe- | liever.
 At the Elks' theater in the evening | pr. Dixon preached on The Ethics
 of the Doctrine of Heaven and Hell"
 He took for his text Matthew xxv., 46:
 These shall go away into everlasting l punishment, but the righteous into life
 eternal" Also Luke xvi, 25: Now he
 is condemned, but thou art tormented."
 Gone forever" says a New York 1 preacher, lis -Dante's Inferno and
 Michel Angclo's Last Judgment yet
 within q mile of the pulpit from which | these words were spoken infernos as ! fearful as Dante's were in full blast,
 and judgments upon sin and sinners l more terrible than Michel AngelO's
 were being executed. Sin spells hell l in this world and the next. It Is no 1 nightmare of medevial darkness. It is
 a fact which any one with open eyes | must see. The smoke of torment as-
 cends here from the brothel, the dive.
 the saloon. the drunkard's home, the divorce court, the prison. the electric
 chair. the gallows, the madhouse, the l
 and women who are burning in the
 furnace of their own lusts. It may not
 suit our aesthetic tastes, but our dis
 like of the situation does not affect the
 fact T hate the very thought of
 he'll" exclaimed a cultured lady. So
 do L And I hate the very thought
 of murders. thefts. jails and electric
 chairs, but my hatred does not destroy
 the facts. I hate snakes. but in spite
 of my hatred they continue to crawl
 and hiss and bite. And the wicked, if they act in the future as many of
 them do now, will choose hell rather
 than heaven. A heaven on earth is open to them every day. but they turn
 from it into a hell of sinful indulgence. I could take you to a home in a great city, an embryonic heaven, where
 are love, purity, beauty, music and all
 the happiness which these things can
 bring But a son born in that home cares not for it. Against the admon- itions of his mother and sisters he goes into the hell of sin, where he re- mains of his own accord, and burns l in a furnace of lust for weeks at a time The hell of sinful indulgence is } more attractive to him than a heaven of purity. light and love Heaven is a prepared place for prepared people, } and if unprepared for heaven, 1t would ) be to him a horrible hell. The name
 "Gehenna," translated hell in the ] New Testament, was the name given to the valley of Hinnom, near Jerusa- l lem, into which the garbage of the city was cast and burned. Jesus makes it a symbol of hell. Now. ought city to have valley of Hinnom into which the refuse shall be cast, or should the city leave its refuse to decay in its streets, filling the air with contagion and death? Every garbage barrel is an argument for hell. There are no two opinions on this subject among civilized people A cemetery is a ne- cessity The spiritually dead soul is like a dead body, in that it is in a
 state of moral putrefaction and carries
 with it the deadly contagion of sin.
 Sin ought to be punished. This is
 universally accepted. It needs to be
 restated that there is something in
 God for sinners to fear Sin left to
 itself makes he'll ''Wickedness," says
 Isaiah. "burneth as a fire" In the
 parable of the rich man and Lazarus