The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-18
JONES PRE EACHES ON PURITY OF HEART Evangelist Drew Full House at First Methodist CROWD CENTRALIZED Says Men Today, in Trying to Get All Metals From Earth in Gen.
 eration, Are Living
 Too Fast
CROWD CENTRALIZED

A congregation which filled the First Methodist church to overflowing last night heard Rev. Bob Jones, who | is conducting revival there, preach soul-stirring and heart searching ser mon from the text, "Blessed are the pure in heart. for they shall see God The large audience was also stirred |, by the feeling way in which Professor T. G. Maxim, who is leading the music at the meeting, sang the gospel hymns I,vhlch form such an important phase of the revival.
 You like pure water said MT, Jones; you like pure air, and pure womanhood. But how about a pure heart? How dc you like for your see. ing God to depend on your purity of heart? God is only fair I say it rev erently, God is only fair with humanity in this condition. He knows that every man who wants to can be pure in heart.
 Thought make an impression on the mind just as folding does on a piece of paper. The first time the paper is folded, the impression is hardly seen, and is easy to wipe out; but if the act is repeated, the mark becomes fixed. Repeat ai thought and the im- pression on the mind is deepened. Look about you at the people of your city and you will see this fact demon- strated.
 There is no man here, there is no woman here, who is all he or she could have been. All our lives are full of scars. and I do not know but what we carry them to eternity. We SOW thought and reap an act; SOW an act and reap habit SOW a habit and reap a destiny Thought, desire. realization and destiny is fixed for two worlds.
 Some men say they cannot help what they think; I say that the man who cannot control his thoughts can not his actions. But unless the right influences are brought to bear in the Christian home, all of the power of the spirit of God cannot save some of the children. You needn't think you can fill your mind with vile thoughts, and can then grow into a Godly, Chris tion man. One can be saved in a twinkling, but it takes a lifetime to prove that you are saved.
 "The trouble with men of this day is that they are not thinking; they know how to receive their friends. how to run an automobile, how to make the most money; they are trying to get all of the metals and minerals out of the earth, to accomplish the wonder of tile ages in one short generation. They are living too fast. Some of them may get to heaven, they may accidentally walk the golden streets; but if they do they will be dwarfs in heaven, for they are not taking time to build character.
 There is no other process by which you and I can have pure hearts than by the incoming of Jesus Christ into our lives. You and I continuing with Him will see Christi likeness in our faces. That is what Birmingham needs :, it is what the world needs What VIC need is to have Him come into our lives with His purifying influence, and to have Him with us wherever we go.
 Before we see God we must have pure hearts It is the law of sin that you see before you what you have in you. The thief thinks all men are dish onest. The man who says "all men have their price, is only waiting for the opportunity to sell his own influ ence. good woman cannot conceive of all other women being anything but good, and an honest man believes every man is honest. We see what we pos- sess. The pure in heart see God be- cause they possess Him, and that is the only way anyone ever sees Him. "The pure heart is the only way 70 happiness. God brings relief and hap piness and content. There is not a happy sinner in the whole world. The | human heart refuses to be satisfied without God. It is too big to be filled with anything else The only reason | l expect to be happier in heaven than | on earth is that I can see God, the | one attraction of heaven to me is Jesus Christ. 1 shall know Him there 1 because I have known Him here. If you have become acquainted with Him on earth, you will need no introduction in heaven.