The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-02-01
MAKING RECORDS
FOR ETERNITY
POWERFUL SERMON PREACHED
LAST NIGHT BY REV. J. M. WAL
TERs-WHAT MEN ARE WRIT.
ING BY THEIR LIVES, THEY ARE
WRITING FOREVER.

With an eloquence and spirit that
seemed unconquerable Rev. ]. M. WAL
tiers preached last evening to a crowd
ed house at the First Presbyterian
church. His text was What / Have
Written l Have Written, the exclama-
ton Of Plate when the Jews came to
him to protest against the inscription
he had caused to be placed above the
cross upon which Jesus was cruel
fied-'This is the king of the Jews.
What he had caused to be done could
not be undone, therefore what was
written must remain.
Driving home with unanswerable
| logic the. personal responsibility OF
every living individual; appealing to
the best impulses of his hearers; lay
ing down logical and lofty rules Of
living; preaching gospel of truth and
righteousness; the speaker made the
greatest impression of all the good
sermons he has preached in these serv-
ices.
Applying the fact Of personal re-
sponsibility to the theme of the eve
ming, Mr.. Walters spoke of the un-
changeable effects of every act and
word an individual may do or speak;
how the secret thoughts and acts of all
are recorded; how none can undo the
things that they have done. He divid-
ed the record of human life into
three different forms. First came the
record of memory upon which are
written in unchanging form the events,
good and bad of an entire life. Memory
the thing that taunts and fortunes II
the things done or the words spoken,
be such as cause remorse and regret;
no one can escape it-none can gift
the good things to remember from the
bad things that one might wish to
forget. Memory, the haunting, insat-
liable demon that drives the conscience
of men and women to distraction and
pain Who can eradicate the vain re-
grets of memory.
Second came the record made by one
life upon another. No man or woman
can live to self alone; some angle of
a life must touch another life, and
some individual is affected for good
or bad by the acts of another indi-
vidual Mans ingenuity has never
been able to contrive method where
by the individual could escape his re-
/ sponsibility to other men and women.
+ The record we make is within our
| power up to the point of its accom-
| plishment. When IL is written, 1t is
| written; nothing human can change it.
/ Third is the record of every human
/ life that is written on the book of the
7 recording angel before the throne of
God. How small and puny the efforts
of man seem wien compared to the
omnipotence of Jehovah, who knows
and records the merest thought, the
impulses, the acts. secret and open,
the words and deeds of whole world
i Nothing human can change the record
lit must confront every soul who is
called before his Maker.
The bright side Of the picture, the
i speaker said, lay in the fact that there
was salvation in Jesus Christ, the
1 Savior whose blood could wash away
the sins of the world and blot out every
transgression. The act that was neces-
sary was submission, confession, re-
\ pentance; it's effect would be regen-
Grafton.
The same speaker will make the adj
dress this evening, and as Mr.. Peter