The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-10-12


Therefore every excuse you offer fol-
no, being Christian is just a plain
lie
One single sin Is enough to damn a
soul. God does not look upon the
number br the enormity OF your sins.
He regards the principle OF sin. One
drop of water is water just as much
as the ocean is water.
Unbelief is a bigger sin than muir
der or horse stealing, for unbelief is
the sin that sends a dagger into the
very heart of the remedy that God has
provided for all the rest of your sins.
1t is the one sin that God cannot for
give.
One man tells ME that he would like
to be Christian, but he can't Let me
spell your can't WONT. You can be
a Christian if you want to or God is
a false God for he has demanded the
Christian life of every man on the pen
atty of eternal death and he ceases to
be deity if he demands of his crea-
lures impossible things. He has COM
manded all men everywhere to come
to him and he has not made any man
who cannot obey that command. If
you can't be a Christian God is fool
or you are liar. There are not dev-
lis enough in hell to keep you from
being a Christian if you want to.
Another man says: OR Bulgin, l
want to be a Christian, but Pm afraid
| can't hold out Let me tell you
that Christ will hold you out If you
will commit your way to him and if
he can keep you one hour he can
keep you forever. What kind of stuff
are you made of anyway? Are you
moral coward? Are you suffering
from spiritual and moral paralysis?
Don't expect God to reveal the top
rung of the Christian ladder until you
get on the bottom rung There never
was a baby born eighty-five years
old.
DR.. Bulgin, you haven't struck my |
case yet. | have real excuse. am
Just as good as some of your church |
members. Well, God pity you if you
ire not a good deal better than some.
know you'll go to hell If you're not.
You are just as good as some? Yes,
lnderscore that some, will you? Are
rou as good as the best saints in the
'hurch? No-you mean you are as
,ood as the people in the church who
re not doing their duty, those who are
living unfaithful to Christ. What are
hey? Hypocrites. A hypocrite is
he meanest man in the world, mean
or being mean and doubly mean for
loaking his sin under the garment
f church membership.
What is your argument? Let me
lone, Bulgin, Pm as good as the
leanest man in the world. That's pret-
y. Crawl in a knothole and pull
ne hole in after you, but You seem
} know what a real Christian ought
, be. He that knoweth his Masters
ill and does it not shall be beaten
18th many stripes. When you meet
cd on the judgment day he won:
lestion you about the hypocrites in ,
lie church unless you happen to be
le of them. If every church mem
er in Ardmore died and went to hell
might, it wouldn't save you, nor eX
lse you for your neglect of duty. Fix
our eyes on Jesus or you are lost.
eep your eyes off of the poor, er-
ng children of God. Jesus organic '
! a church of twelve members and
lie of them was a hypocrite by the
ame of Judas, but that didn't make
eter James and John leave the Mas ,
r.
Another says, he would be a Chris
an but there are things he will not
We up. Christianity does not ask YOU {
give up anything that tends to make S
III better man. God asks you to for q
Ike sin and, no matter, how you hug 7
to your breast now, you will give q
up some day and you will give your /
'ul in exchange for your little play =
ing. If there were no heaven to gain 4
Id no hell to shun, Christianity would
oduce the highest type of manhood,
Id for that reason alone every per-
n should be Christian.
Dr. Bulgin, don't feel like being a
tristan. Nowhere in the Bible are
N told to feel on the Lord Jesus
lrist Sensation is not salvation.
,u are neither saved or lost because
N do or don't feel like it. You can't
Ell like a Christian until you are
e. Feeling is the result of the fact
salvation. You remind me of a