The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-04-01
THOU ART NOT FAR FROM
THE KINGDOM OF GOD"

require you to walk up to Heaven
with a certificate OF graduation from
some college In your hand.
wealth is desirable, but wealth is
necessary. God doesn't require
a man 10 be a millionaire. OF to have
a rating IN Dun and Bradstreet before
he can enter into glory. It's sad to
see things that would be perfect but
for the lack OF one thing.
In the Home.
Now there are direct agencies at
work to help you. First, a Christian
home. There are men and women
who turn towards religion because
they were born in a Christian home
and were taught Christian principles,
and they turn naturally TO a thing
like this. With other people Il is
because OF companions. There are
men in Heaven because of the indu.
ence or companions. and there are
men in hell because they chose to go
with the wrong crowd. The influence
Of companions.
Now that man wasn't far from the
Kingdom OF God. He was thinking
about religion. There are some men
who have an innate tendency toward
skepticism. They doubt everything.
Do not forget that there are two gates
that lead TO the inner nature OF peo-
pie. One Is the hair and the other
the head. Some people land they are
honesty, said 10 me:
1T you want TO get to my heart,
convince my reason
MY sympathies are profound for
the men and women who have said
that TO me.
Il don't want to say anything bitter
to o people out there who Asked
me 20 do that. Your mental agony Is
too deep without me ~ridiculing you.
But for the man with the smallest
kind OF intellect and a big stock OF
s~elf-conceit who knows no more about
Jesus Christ than a tom cat does
about music or a hog about cleanli-
ness. ] have no patience, but with the
nan who honestly wants 20 know the
truth I want % help him in his crop
ing in the darkness.
Remember, you can't get into
heaven because you we're moral. You
won't accept Jesus and won't EVEN
come 20 these meetings.
Jesus will say 20 me:
"1Bill. did you put 70 up 20 nat
bunch square down In Wheeling. West
Virginia.
Yes. Jesus. 7 did
"Bm. did you tell that old uni
tartan where 10 go7'
Sunday Told Them.
You bet 7 did. Jesua I told him
where 20 head IN, and there wasn't a
mar IN Wheeling that could trrthfully
say 7 tried % get their money. I told
them I wouldn't take n OF their
stun
did you tell Old Mother Eddy and
her doctor what 10 doG'
Yes. DID. Jesus. told them she
was the biggest fraud That ever came
down the pike"
7 don't believe anybody n farther
from The Kingdom Of God than those
hat don't think. and II is marvellous
how little some people think about
their souls salvation and eternal life.
! would rather a nan could start ell
kinds o. arguments than 10 remain IN
IN indifferent state. such AZ We End
20 many people IN regarding matters
~ religion co 20 some fellow and
tell him there IL something vrong
with hts hand. He viii 90 90 q doctor
and the doctor viii say:
tn have 20 cut that finger or
That man would staggcr and al
most faint. and ho would plead.
""Oh, doctor. can't you save my
finger Can't you ave my handf'
And n the doctor would say.
Not only your finger and your
hand. but must amputate your arm.
that man would CRY like q child and