The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-05-11

should I go to the lost world and If
/ should stand before the bars Of their
eternal imprisonment in he'll and look
at their faces ais they leer at me, and
read upon their foreheads:
"tNo hope!'
IF / should ask them the question of
my text I would turn and leave with
out an answer.
Should God commission an angel
to come from glory, and if it should
honor you and me with its presence
and would stand here long enough for
me to ask the question of my text, it
would turn and wing its fight back to
the throne of God, fold its wings like
a tired dove. and ! would stand gaz-
ing off into illimitable space without
an answer.
How shall We escape If we neglect
so great a salvation?'-Heb. 2:S.
'Our first thought about salvation is
that we are saved from hell. Yes,
that's true, but you only begin to live.
No man begins to live until he is a
christian. Religion was intended to
produce and promote the highest pos
sibIe degree of human happiness in the
world. No man is fit for heaven until
he Is a christian. Multitudes of peo-
PIE looking at my face and at my back
just exist. They don't live because
they are not christians.
"You can't determine anything about
he'll on scientific investigation.
"a man that steals doesn't believe in
prison. whether or not there is q hell
is a question which the church, by
virtue of it's existence, a settle in
but one way.
He that believeth shall not be
damned
Never mind how he win be damned.
God Almighty didn't owe this old world
a thing.
TN preaching about hell I am al
ways confronted with this difficulty,
but I always meet a class of people
in every community that think hell is
fixed UP like a lot Of clubs in town. II
that is hell they are not afraid of it.
One Way to Heaven.
"The only way you can ever enter
heaven is to repent and accept Jesus
Christ as your savior.
mo, you can't eliminate from the
Bible that which is not pleasant for
you to receive.
you have to take it Just as God
with the fact that in every community
there is a class Of people that seek to
eliminate from the Bible that which is
not pleasant for them to receive and
they seem to think that because they
don't believe a thing, that releases
them from any necessity of believing
and makes them immune from the
punishment consequent upon the kind
Of a life they will live in a life Of un-
belief.
IF hell is not eternal, then heaven
is not everlasting.
'God said eternal damnation, said
eternal heaven.
whether or not there is a hell is q
question which the church. by virtue
of her existence, a answer in but
one way.
HE that believeth shall be saved
and he that believeth not is condemn
ed already
Never mind how you are going to
be damned. That doesn't enter into It
at all.
'Tt doesn't make any difference
whether hell fire is literal or whether
1t is a figure of speech used by God
to show how awful we will be punish
ed. You don't want to go to hell "a
find out whether it is literal or not, dc
your
II meet three men going down the
road and I say to one fellow;
That is a dangerous path and II
snds yonder yer a precipice. ! warn
you as a friend, turn.
s'He doesn't even thank me, but
passes on heedlessly.
Il meet a second man and I say:
That's a dangerous path; 1t ends
yonder over a precipice.'
"He rays:
" Have you seen a precipice?"
at have not but some of my friends
have and have told me about 1t, 81
warn you
He passes on.
.T meet a third man and ! say:
That is dangerous path: it ends
yonder over a precipice. / beg vol
as a friend, turn
"He says:
eyes, I'VE heard it's dangerous, but
i I'm not going to keep on until ! ge
to the end. I'll turn before ! reach it.
"And ! meet men, representatives o.
three classes, ~journeying from tht
I cradle to the grave and I CRY out:
On a Dangerous Way.
"sThat is a dangerous way you ar
living and they won't as much Al
thank me for my warning, but will
damn me because / told them the,
were going to hell.
II meet a second. mad ! say:
..That is dangerous, sir, / beg of you
turn. 1t ends in hell, the way you arr
living
He says:
"sWhat do you know about hell
Have you ever been to help
"sNo; and I'm not going to hell, ant
Il don't want you to go to hell. Where
ever hell is and whatever it Is I hav'
no disposition to test its reality. but !
must be an awful place III God loveI
me well enough to give Jesus Chris
to. die upon the cross and open up
plan of redemption, which, IL I wouil
accept, would keep me out Of hell, ant
I'm not going to be fool enough to ties
the realities of hell
"sOh,' says the fool, you know u
more about 1t than I do
Il meet a third and I say:
THAT is a dangerous road; il yol
live it you will end in hell
/" I know it's dangerous he says.
believe there Is a hell and If I die tn
way I am living i win go to hell, bu
Ing. / expect to change my way D
living before / die and Il ia the latte
class j want to speak tonight. ! neve
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