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punishment against wrong doing. So
that is pushed aside.
Ever since God saved my soul and
sent me out to preach, I have prayed
him to enable me to pronounce two
words, and put into these words all
they will mean to you; if they ever
become a reality, God pity you. One
word is Lost and the other is
eternity
Ten thousand years from now we
will all be somewhere. Ten thousand
times 10000 times 10000 years, and
eternity has just begun. Increase the
multiple and you only increase the
truth. If Gode should commission a
bird to carry this world, particle by
particle, to yonder planet, making a
round trip once in a thousand years,
and If after the bird had performed
that task, God should prolong it's life,
and it would carry the world back,
particle by particle, making a round
trip once in 1000 years, and put
everything back as it was originally,
after it had accomplished that task,
you would not have been five minutes
in eternity, and yet you sit there with
lust a heart beat between you and the
judgment of God.
IL have been praying that God
would enable me to pronounce those
two words and put in them all they
will mean to you, that I might startle
you from your lethargy. 1 prayed
God too, that he might give me some
new figure of speech tonight, that he
might impress my mind, that ], in
turn, might impress your mind in such
4 manner that / could startle you from
your indifference and sin, until you
would rush to Jesus.
HeIPs Fire LiteraI2
what difference does it make
whether the fire in hell is literal, or
the flttest emblem God could employ
to describe to us the terrible punish
ment? Do you believe the streets of
heaven are paved with literal gold?
Do you believe that? When we talk
about gold we all have high nj ex-
allied ideas. How do you know but
that God said streets Of gold in order
to convey to us the highest ideal our
minds could conceive of beauty? 1t
doesn't make any difference whether,
the gold on the streets of heaven is
literal or not. What difference does
it make whether the fire in hell is
literal or not? When we talk about
fire everybody shrinks from it. Sup
pose God used that term as fgura-
tive to convey to you the terror OF
hell. You are a fool to test the re-
atty of it. It must be an awful place
If God loved us we'll enough to give
Jesus to keep US out Of there.
Get Ready For Maybe.
snow listen! 1 said to a fellow n
time, Don't you think that possibly
there is a help He said, Well, yes,
possibly there may be a hell. / said,
It's pretty good sense then, to get
ready for the maybe Well, just sup
pose there is d hell. It's good n
to get ready then, even for the maybe.
II don't look like a man that would
die very quickly, do I? I have just
as good a physique as you ever gazed
at. I wouldn't trade with any man |
know. A lot of you fellows are strong
er than /, but I have as good a ply
siuue as you ever looked at. ! have
been preaching at this pace for four
teen years. and I've stood it, although
I begin to feel myself failing a little
bit. But I don't look like a man who
would die quickly, do /? But / may
die, and on that may on that possi-
bility, / carry thousands and thou
sands of dollars of life Insurance.
"You can't stand before God in the
Judgment and say, Jesus, were o
down there in the tabernacle? In my
home? In my lodge? Did you want
to save me?' Beholdl Beholdi Jesus
Christ, the Son of God is here, and
He waits to be gracious.
what shall be the end Of them that
obey not the gospel Of God?"
Loss Of Power.
"Why isn't there such a manifesto
ton of powers as in the days of h
P~entecost? I'll tell you. The church
has lost its power, through lack OF
prayer. I ana never afraid that ! won't
be dignifed enough in the pulpit. But
l am always afraid that I'll be too
dignihed. The church has lost its in
terrogation; the church has lost its
possessive case, for it can't say that
1t possesses Christ; the church has
lot it's personal Savior. The church
needs to get down on its knees and
get q religious experience. When you
do that you may again have a vision.
Look down at these children today.
We will say there are ten rows OF
them, but you don't say: Look down
there are my children. If one OF your
children were there you would say,
Look down and see my boy or girl
What We need once more is a personal
Christ.
Lost imperative Mood.
ssThe church has lost it's imperative
mood. There was a time when the
church could lift his hand and say to
vice: Get down. but you can't do that
today. / tell you that If ever the
church members would stand together,
Catholic and Protestant we could do
anything for righteous. / am told that
one of the church leaders over in.
Moorhead is also the leader of the
saloon element oyer there. Just think
Of it, a church member swinging his
hat and calling for all to come to.
hell. I'll have more TO say OF this.
again. OF course il you sleep with dogs
youth get feas. / don't believe in conn
promising with any devil. No, indeed,
I don't. You'll get no segregation out
Of me or any other tommyrot that
will have for its object the covering
up OF vice. I despise a man who sets
his sail to catch every breeze no mat
ter whether good OF bad that comes
up.
The subject Of the morning sermon
was Where There Is no Vision the
People Perish. taken from Proverbs
xxix:1s. In the course OF his remarks
Mr.. Sunday said: