The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-02-21
Faith Destroying Fear.

hypocrisy Is the double life, where
the inside and the outside are not in
accord. There are those who think
they escape this double life by living
un4chr!stiaR lives. Their hearts are
not Christian and they make their out
ward conduct accord with their
hearts. They escape the kind OF hypo-
crisy OF the ancient Pharisees. but |
am not sure that they escape the thing
itself. II the Pharisees had brought
their conduct, down to the level OF
their hearts they would certainly not
have helped things.
The question Is Gsometimes asked
which ought to be the standard, the
outside or the inside? Ought we to
see to II that the conduct accords with
the secret life or ought we to hold the
conduct right and make the inward
life accord with It? The answer is,
neither and both. The standard is
not either our outward or our inward
life. but Christs requirements. Now
usually a mans outward life is nearer
'hese requirements. than his Inward
'e. The outward life OF these Phar-
es was. Therefore usually man
ought to maintain this right outward
| life and see to 1t that his inwaT1 :ife
Is brought up. To bring the outward
life down and make It as irreligious as
is the heart does not destroy hypo-
crsy, as Is usually thought. Always
| in the heart even of the most irreli-
gious, there is the conviction OF what
Christ requires. This conviction Is
the standard and where ones nte,
,eithef outward or Inward. Willingly
falls below 1t. one is lapsing into ny
pocriBy. It is. "a great mistake 10
| Sc nnnHnpn Tn
church memt9rs!1 Gfhg!t4dth HsI the
greatest hypocrisy in the1ciWeFid IS
where men have Christian GoPXietions
wsle tnss os se sbam Xet $h{a and aad
women know that Christ IS ttte and
that they ought to give their lives to
his service and yet they hide their real
thoughts and deliberately go forth :"
life worldly and selfish. This IS
the hypocrisy that we ale In danger
OF today and this is the hypocrisy our
lesson deals with.
! Our passage gives number Of
consideration which Will help a
Christian to fight Off hypocrisy.
/. The fear of exposure, verses 2
and 8. These verses show that the
whole inner and secret life of a man
viii be made known to all y men,
What man is, 'the things coyered|
| lup;p what he really thinks the things;
! hid; "t. what he secretly wants., thcI
things "said in darkness;" and wait
he privately advocates. the things
spoken In che ear in the inner cham1
ber;n all these shall be exposed ana
knaieete stapd out as what they are{
IEhsS s&bN1d can hold no secret as io
character and moral and religiouS
iconxietini1. These things of each man
IbelppE to all men and God Will see tq
1t that they are given to all meni
Therefore q man had best not try fq
hide them in any way, for IL he does
he will certainly one day be revealed
as a hypocrite. If this inevitable
revelation was before the minds OF
men they would be more open and
bold in all things religious and moral.
Moral cowardice lives only in the hope
OF continued secrecy.
| 2. The fear OF God, verses 4-6. These
aHe great words. The reason men
hide their real convictions is because
they fear men. Evil has way of en-
! listing tyrants as It's administrators
| ndtyTants threatened 81 injuFa msa
who stand up against evil. There Is
hardly one man in a million who real
lsy believes ia. .fanN4 evil. !. hut O. lie. mol,
this proportion only that Support evil
The world on all hands has those wfb
talk for evil and those who applaud
and sanction this talk. The cause okj
this when II Is traced to its sourca, iki
found 10 be- {he. LFSar f man. Thisl
Is what geeps sos pany from ChrisAl
and frona yhtbt tfehlifhh and from hisl
causes OF Righteousness, reform amp
mercy. The remedy Is to cultivate the
fear of God The cowafdice that
wop dEmRe P4gtS rsal convictions be-
oRdse Rf kn$ is despicable thing IN
the sight or God and will incur the
fearful Consequences of his wrath. Men,
who punish thoEe that fight evil can.
at the very furtherest kill only. the
hOuys but God can destroy the soul it
sels In hell I'l> g.. = .:.. .s.s
he Will thus destroy the soul III the
man that has lived cowardly life in
the midst of all the moral battles OF
this world. The words of Christ.
l"Yea, i say unto you, fear him." are
wonderfully impressive.
This passage has some sideligkts
that should not be overlooked. From
1t we see what Christ thought on some
very deep probiems, Il, teaches that
the soul can have a separate life froia
the body. 10 does not die with the
body: butIafter the body is dean IL
Ican be held 10 an account of it's own.
IaLd. be- ctisc iintos he'll. The caat',i9
of the soul into hell ind.cates not tfat
| II IS anhihtl ted but that it, reuleins
I'm a state ~, ppnishment, II the pun..
ishnent of he'll was annihilation there
e0nid d be mo- sense in distinguishiug
what happens to the foul in its Geath
from that which happens to the body,
In It's death
s. + nth IN God, verses 6, DUR
faar OF God must not bA dread, but a
fear that springs from reverence Of
His holy nature, This wh know be-