The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-03-23
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THE KINGDOMOF
G0O"D|SCUSSED
SUNDAY MORNING SERMON At
The FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
FOLLOWED ALONG LINES OF
LOCAL APPLICATION.

AZ the First Baptist church Sun
day morning. the pastor. Rev. Eugene
R Pendleton. selected as his text the
words. ~Thy Kingdom Come his text
being found in Matthew $40, and on
the subject of THE Arithmetic OF the
Bible" he drew some Interesting con-
illusions. He spoke AZ follows:
The Pastors Sermon.
The 'Kingdom Of God" Is mem
toned directly sxty-eight times in the
New Testament In addition to the
phrases. Kingdom OF Christ" and
sKingdom OF Heaven" which mean
the same thing.
we pray in ali Of our churches,
'Thy Kingdom Comet" with varying
infections, and with varying degrees
OF JUNCTION, and II will be well to dwell
upon It this morning long enough to
consider what that prayer involves.
We may be able to see the real
meaning IL we analyEe Christ's fire.
quent use OF the term, Kingdom or
God" in terms of arithmetic, UNDER
stood by every child.
First. the kingdom OF God is to
come by substra ction. Listen: THE
Son Of man will send his angels forth,
and they will gather out OF his king
dom all things that cause stumbling,
and those who do iniquity. and will
cast them into the furnace of fire;
and there will be the weeping and the
gnashing OF teeth Then will the
righteous shine forth as the sun in
the kingdom OF their Father" (Matt.
13: 5lf)
This elimination OF wickedness, the
things which make us stumble, the
hate. the murder, the backbiting. the
oppression Of the poor-al ''slings and
arrows" Of outrageous wrongs-fs all
that is needed TO make this earth a
paradise now. This promise Of sub
traction is the bright hope Of a mill
lennium. Of a golden age, when man
to man the world DER shall brothers
be for a. that"
when man to man united,
And every wrong thing righted,
The whole world shall be lighted,
AS Eden was OF old!"
What History Shows.
While it Is true this seems a far
off divine event, and will not be fully
consummated till the end of this age.
still. 1t is in process now. Christ came
to bring not peace but a sword. to
bring division in families. to kindle q
fire on the earth. and what if it be
already kindled as he said? Jesus
was manifest to destroy the works
OF the devil And what else has
the gospel been doing? History shows
the relentless conflict between good
and evil. and who will be so blind as
to doubt which is in the ascendent to-
day? But war raises dust and clouds
the vision, and we are still In the
war! In imagination I can see that
picture Of world beautiful with hoit-
ness, cleansed Of the pitfalls the
great nonstrous grave diegers OF the
race! I can imagine cities beautiful,
with barrooms unknown, and segre-
gated districts only a painful MEM
ory. while white sIavery and child
slavery are held as horrible as man
stealing. Millionaire maIefactors
pulled down from their mighty OPP
pressiors along with the thief and
the traducer; 'Big business regulated
to suit big race, and the people no
longer crucified on the rich mans
cross of gold! In that bright day. |
not only will "hoIiness be written
upon the bells OF the horses which |
is but a figure. but legalized iniquity, |
graft, uncleanliness will all be de- |
voted to the sword With these big
wrongs will go the lesser and our !
cities will present an appearance so |
new. free from billboard. and all that |
would mar empty lots utilized for the |
general good that II would indeed ap-
pear to be "a new heaven End a new
earth" TO people OF past generations. |
AS to what shall have become of /
these evils we will have to take a |
look at Gods scrap-pile. 1.-The fur |
mace OF fire where there will be the |
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place Of the fearful and unbeiievirg.
and defiled with denominations, and |
murderers, and fornicators. and sor-
cerers. and idolaters. and all the liars"
Not all the homicides are brought to !
court! Not all the dehled are branded !
with their infanyi When all the muir
derers OF men and of women and OF |
children and Of regulations and OF |
the peace OF the race are brought TO |
trial many now respectable will have
to take their places along with the
degraded and debauched to answer
why sentence Of death should not be
passed upon them. There viii be, I |
fancy. not only the vender Of LIQUORS
one who approves and uphoIds the
traffic. and the social order which
makes it possible. All who do not
"sigh and cry for the fniouity anoop1
my people" said God. "are marked
as doors Of iniouity." Along with
the scarlet woman in her misery will
not only stand her betrayer but the
owner OF the house in which she is
made secure to damn her soul And so
the elegant and respectable owners Of
property. and leaders Of society will
be mingled with the degraded and the
branded. and called to give account
to whether their lives have been for
good or for bad. "And the first SHAH
be last and the last shall be first
saith One.
The Men Higher Up.
The victims win be there with the
men higher up" One need only onenI
his eyes little to see that the wicked |