Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-04-08
THE WAY Of The
TRANSGRESSOR
IS HARD
EVANGELIST POINTS OUT
THE RESULTS OF LIV-
ING A LIFE OF SIN;
LARGE CROWDS
From Tuesdays Daily

night in the Odd Fellows build
ing. There were three services
Sunday, including an enthusiastic
mems meeting in the afternoon.
With only three opportunities thus
far extended to the congregation
to express a decision, there have
already more than 50 decided fer
the Christian life. among whom are
some OF the strongest young men
of the town.
Sunday evening Evangelist De
Laye spoke from the text:
Good understanding giveth favor
but the way of the transgnessOr is
hard"
We will have a good understand
ing OF ourselves and all things
else if we have good understand
ing of God.
All your difficulties and sorrows
have come as a result of lack OF
good understanding.
If l should ask you which way
to take to go to a certainn place,
and you should tell me that there
are two ways, one of them safe
and beautiful, with lovely scenery
and the other dangerous. infemsted
| by robbers, no beautiful scenery
and no song birds along the way.
do you think would take this
latter way? Do you think so? Ii
you think SO. you have another
think coming.
But someone says it is his hber-
~ to take either way. Let me
tell you the difference: one is lib
erty the other is license. There is
no such thing as absolute liberty
in a civilized community. II you
were the only man in the town you
might run your automobile hun
/ drcd miles an hour.
Is it liberty to put a hog pen III
your front yard? Your liberty ends
where the other fellows liberty
begins.
This talk about personal liberty
began back in Eden when the devil
told Eve that God didn't mean
what He said about not eating OF
certain kind Of fruit; that God
wanted to curtail her liberty; that
God was too good to let her be
lost.
And you see again what personal
| liberty leads to when Cain slew
his brother in his attempt to prove
his personal liberty, and then had
the audacity to ask God: Am I my
brothers keeper" The way of the
! transgressor is hard. Young Rob
Chris was the son of 4 mother who
was an evangelist, and he was s.
wicked that he denied his mother.
Finally he beanie so desperate as
to commit a robbery to secure
money TO pay his debts. As he
went behind the bars he said: MY
God, mother; the way Of the trans
gressor is hard"
An old Roman law would not
allow a butcher to sit on the jury
in u murder case because he vas
accustomed 20 the shedding of
blood. SO it is with the man who
continues in sin. He becomes so
accustomed to sin that he cannot
part with it.
If | should take vote OF TINS
audience tonight you would be star
tied to sec that few quit sin aud
come to God after the age of >.
VIII you not see this:
\ young man testified in a meet
ing that he had been reared At the
knee of a praying mother who had
reared him to know about God. lie
went out into the world of sin
rather than heed his mothers pray
crs and come to his mothers cod
He wandered to the far west and
was spending his days in wicked
living. One day he received
message to come: mother IS dying.
He first thought to 60 but the
thought came to him NO; ! might
get there while mother is still a5lc
10 speak and | know what she
would say That is why lett home
lie waited. In day ano,dcr mes
sage came: Come quickly il YOU
want to sec mother. IL went and
Is ne came near home he went near
the cemetery where his father was
buried and ne went in to look at
the grave OF father. There 10 his
horror he found a new grave be-
side fathers.
Oh, men Why will YOU tramplc
longer over the prayers Of mother
and the heart of wiic2 There are
men here tonight. who are crush
ny the heart oi trusting wife,
md all because your life is hard
,ncd BY sin. You viii wake mp