Semi-weekly herald., 1909-09-30

lot yet stepped over the dead line
or when the Spirit takes his final
cave OF soul there will be no more
ceiling of desire in the mind. II is
aid OF Thomas Marshal, the eminent
'tatesn1an of Kentucky of &. .,crarion
'r more ago, that he was in early life
sTeatly moved by the power OF God
o become Christian He debated
lie matter. 1t seemed to him that
II he should become Christian lie
must become n minister OF the gospel
md this he was determined he would
/ II do as he was determined upon the
law and political success. One night
he was In prayer meeting An
earnest prayer was being made. and
he felt that II he remained until It's
conclusion he must yield Determined
that he would not YIELD he seized his
hat and rushed out of the room.
Never afterwards did lie have an i'm
pulse to become a Christian. but went
on In life in which he had some world
ly success. but in which he destroyed
himself in course of dissipation. Al
most the same thing is said of Aaron
Burr, one of the brightest and worst
men that ever lived upon the Amer
lean soil. He tells us that when he
was about nineteen years of age he
saw decision must be made between
the world and God lie went into the
IL
matter. He then made a resolution
never again to trouble himself about
his souls salvation. From that time
he threw himself into sin, sinking low
er and lower in depravity and unright-
eousness. When along in years an old
minister spoke TO him about his soul
and with a satanic sneer he said. Il
settled that question when | was 10
concern about 1t SINCE
Results in lnfidelity
lnfidelity is natural outcome of
having resisted the Holy Spirit. Show
me one hundred infidels and | Will
show you ninety-nine people who at
some time have resisted the Holy
Spirit. Rom. 1:21 and 2S, Because
that when they knew God. they glo-
| rifed Him, not as God, and neither
We're thankful but became vain in the
imaginations, and their foolish heart
was darkened And even as
they did not like to retain God In their
knowledge, God gave them over to a
| reprobate mind" II a man continues
TO resist the Holy Spirit. darkness and
unbelief Will settle down upon his
| mind
Suddenly Cut Off.
One who has successfully resisted
the Holy Spirit may expect to be cut
of suddenly PROV. 29:1. He that be.
ing often reproved and hardeneth his
neck shall be suddenly destroyed and
that without remedy" How often l
have heen this fulfilled in my shors
ministry as a gospel minister Men
who have resisted the Holy Spirit anG
Then afterward they were cut down
suddenly. Only recently in a town
where we We're holding meetings there
was man who was very bitter
against the meetings. going up and
down the streets talking against the
work, cursing and damning the evan
gelists. But the meetings had been
| closed only short time before he
dropped dead on the street. Some OF
you think 1t is small matter to re-
sist the Spirit and go away rejecting
Jesus Christ, but men, In the sight of
| God, it is the most awful thing you
could 90. He that being often re-
proved and hardeneth his neck shall
be suddenly destroyed
A recurring wave of infidelity seem,
ed TO mark the close OF the eighteenth
century Looking back from the stand
| point of the present, it seems scarcely
possible that such things be as the
| following authenticated incident. A
club was former at the time of thirty.
SIX men in New York. who called them
| selves "The Society of the Druids."
fhey had regular meetings for the
openly avowed purpose of disappearing
God, deriding the church, and the de-
vising OF methods to harm Christian
ity. Some of their rites were too
awful for description AT one of these
gatherings, after burnir 4 copy of tne
Bible they went through mock OBJ
servance of the Lords Supper. admin.
istering the emblems to a dog. That
very night two of these thirty-six men
died. Within three days three moro
met death by drowning To sum up
me matter. within FIVE years every
member of that blasphemous club was.
III eternity, and not one died quietly
IN his bed One was frozen, two were
starved, three met with fatal accidents,
I've committed suicide. seven were
irowned. seven were hung and eight
we're shot. The remaining three met
With some fate not given but by some
orm OF violence. Gods Judgments
IRE swift and terrible when the heart
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