The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-07-10
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at all then they were hopeless, utterly
hopeless.
Mcconnell insisted that the utter
ances of the Pharisees alone did not
necessarily mean their eternal loss
because words might or might not
have been important, but it was their
attitude in their hearts toward Jesus
Christ that caused their ruin He IL
lustrated mere speech by relating lie
story of former neighbor in Georgia,
who having been robbed of her baby
by death went insane, rushed from
her home in her night dress and ac-
cused him in the fouest language OF
stealing her child. She simply had
an hallucination she had heard evil
words, and in her state of mind they
were so impressed that she repeated
them violently yet she was a pure
Christian woman, he said,
God pity our good women who are
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garians and rotten cussers on our
streets," Mcconnell exclaimed.
1t was the feeling of stubborn rebel
lion that was sin against God in .he
Pharisees' case, he said, and although
men of Chiekasha may not have called
the Holy Ghost a devil, thus bias
pheming, yet they have sinned against
Him by unbelief
Others VI that day wanted sign to
reveal Christ's divinity, although many
had already witnessed his various mir
acles. They just wanted to crafty a
craving curiosity, and needed no sign
to proveHis divinity other than that
which he himself said was necessary,
His death and resurrection.
"Unbelief is the greatest miracle
you ever contemplated in all your
life!" Mcconnell cried, insisting that
men believed in Washington, Socrates,
in the men af ancient history aad
other things, yet there was absolutely
nothing in history more plainly sub
stantiated than Jesus Christs life and
divinity, not one character in all time
more thoroughly anchored and founded
than Jesus, the Man of Gallilee Not
only was there historical evidence Of
His power, he said, but sufficient evil
dence close at home.
did you ever stop to think how in
sulting unbelief is?" the preacher de-
manded, and he went on to show the
offense committed on the wound made
when friends doubted the honesty Of
word or action of their neighbpr. The
person doubted could not fail to be
aggrieyed to the very depths of his
soul, Mcconnell said, But my FRIEND" ="
lie continued, you never had unbelief
offered you that so grieyously offend
ed as the everyday unbelief which af-
fronts and sinsults God Almighty
He said people do believe until they
act and show their trust in peoples
word that the young man who bro
tested he could not trust his employer
for his wages would not have a job
very long; that dnbelief of the wife
in her husband ruined the home; that
unbelief was the destroyer of human
happiness yet man could not under
stand why it was the one uuforgivabls
SIM
Mcconnell said Christ never uttered
the future of the unbelieved as threat
but as warning, and the preacher
showed by illustration how men try to
save others from physitai suffering
and from death by telling the dangers
confronting them He said if he had
ever held up, unintentionally, Christ's
statement as a threat then he had
nisrepresented Jesus. Salvation had
been offered by God and miracles had
been wrought and men begged to be-
lieve, and if they did not believe then
they were doomed to death
Mcconnell said one of the most
tragic statements of the Bible was that
in which Jesus expressed his yearning
to take Jerusalem unto Him but
Jerusalem would not permit it. But
Christ's love could not save, he said;
love. information, ability, wonderful
" perfect plan none could save. The
young man who left Chickasha carry
ing the love of his parents and others
might become the wandering hobo and
so to ruin Notwithstanding that love
given him from home
'Unbelief is the wrecker of human
soulsl" Mcconnell cried. "unbelief is
the rock upon which every human ship
that ever went down struck And all
that is needed is sufficient to keep
Jesus Christ out"
He made up an illustration of inn
pressive power, which he delivered
with dramatic intensity 1t was that
of youth, bitten by a rattlesnake
and dying, approached by man who
bore a certain cure The youth tenn
porized and talked and expressed his
gratitude again and again, but he dill