The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1914-02-02

II you believe that part of the text.
why not believe all.
The very idea of being judged
makes one tremble. 1t makes me
tremble to bring this message to you.
| pray it may be well with you on
that great day. II any theme would
make a preacher earnest, it is this
theme. l want to tell you it is abso-
lutely impossible for you to escape
the judgment day
There is sense in which God
judges perpetually. The secrets of
your heart are always known. God
is continually holding court. Every
evil deed of yours is being inscribed
IN the records of doom.
lngersoiI Damns World.
But this rather necessitates the
holding of final judgment. True,
as each man passes out in death.
there is a judgment but this is only
a foreshadowing of the great judg-
ment because justice demands final
Judgment. The full extent of your in
fluence for good or evil cannot pos
sibly be known until the end of the
world Think of it. Moody's influ-
ence is still in our midst blessing us;
lngersoll will blight and damn until
the end of time!
my first point is that the final
Judgment is certain You may be
deaf to me but you can't laugh it
away. Men sneered at Noah but the
flood came just the same. All Gods
predictions in the past have come
true to the very letter All Gods pre-
dictions in days that are to come will
come true in spite of all the false
hopes you may hold out. Before the
great judgment bar you will be called
to stand.
rs there man here who dares to
think there will be no judgment day,
who goes out of this tabernacle re-
jecting Jesus Christ? Say. | beg of
you to throw that hope away. We
must all appear before the judgment
seat of Christ
And it will be final trial. From
its decisions there will be no appeal.
Everything you have ever done; ev-
cry thought WORD and deed will meet
you. You may think it is buried. Yet
sin will be found out at last. You
men who boast of honesty. How
would you like to have your thoughts
of the last five weeks photographed
and thrown up here on scheen be-
fore this audience. o yes. Sit back
there boasting in your morality or
all your vaunted culture and veneer
ing of respectability You know how
you would dread to have your inner
heart exposed At the judgment day
such a revelation will be made. Every
revolving shameless sin will be made
known Some of you now living in
private sin, your shame will come to
meet you at that dreadful Bar BE
We not deceived for God will bring
every man to account in Judgment
1T will be universal judgment.
God has appointed a day in which he
will judge the world Everybody, all
the teen1ing millions of the world and
all the multitudes that have lived in
past time and who will live in the
future will be called before Him.
There is no escape. Every old blatant
infidel will be there. Every hypocriti-
cal church man. You who have re-
jected Jesus Christ will be there. Oh,
what a day it will be.
VIII Demand Answer.
You and | may never meet again
until we meet Judgment Day. You
will be there to answer for the oppor-
tunities of these five weeks and for
your rejection of Gods holy spirit.
will be there. And | will have to ans
Wer whether or no | have been here
for your money or honestly working
to win you for Jesus.
my fourth and last point is that
the decisions of that high court will
never be repealed. 1t will be eternal
Joy or eternal death for you. The
nngodly will receive punishment due
them.
Il would to God I might be able to
naint vivid nirtllrn and hr1np If
a living reality before you. 1t is be-
yond the power of human tongue
what will be it's reality.
when it begins there will be
long loud blast of the last trumpet.
Angels everywhere will fill the sky.
From every cemetery the dead will
rise from their graves rush through
the air and stand before the Great