The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1914-10-23
I" Love of God :"

pcgotten ron, that whOsoeVer belleveth
IN Him should have everlasting life. -
Again Tie says. "FOr God -ent not His
Son into the world Ia condemn the world ::
but that the world through Him might
be saved ~. John Bird chapter. lt,-I7
verses Now We come IN the point of
view: is the love OF GOd in the land
today | say nay from a scriptural
view point, and what see i'm the land
today the love Of God il absent; il has
taken It's flight from the nations. for
scripture proof Romans 18th chapter and
IL verse reads like his love worketh no
ali 10 his neighbor, therefore love is the
fulfilling Of the law Now the scripture
says love wOrketh no in To his neigh
Dor Stop, now dear people, look at the
condition of our land and country; $50
how they are fighting in the old country,
and see what tine churches are in the
land, the many noted devines, bishops.
preiatss and a good many men OF all
modern sciences, yet after all that none
have been able To take his fellowman by
the hand and lead him to spccess- But
10y force they have ruled over bic neigh
Dor; with force and cruelty have invented
great guns TO kill his neighbor with.
Without the love Of God the nations To-
day are worse than the wild beasts of the
forests They have become wild: they
have wrought havoc 10 his nelghbor and
his neighbor's child, yet We say tLat God
Is among us. There is no truth " it,
II II all a farce To think OF the con-
dition of the land today, it is strange TO
say As many peop'e claiming christianity
IN the world 10 day, then To see the
nations at war with each other, il proves
To me that We are yet on the heather
list, because the nations Of old whom
knew nothing of the Lord, all they did
Was 10 tight among themselves.
As | said, if the people of today in
sist on warning all the time, they are no
better than the heather, which God de-
stroyed years past and gone. lie de-
nounced their ways OF living and dealing
with one another. lie did not approve
OF their dOings. and the people that He
brought out of Egypt did not know much
about wars Scripture proof read Exodus
18th chapter, 18th verse. There il no
cause for wars today among us; where
these things exist il proves that the love
oil God Is not with us. Regardless to
our christianity that we claim To have.
and our membership in the churches.
there rs no man that can have the love Oh
God In him then kill his fellowman. or
press his fellowman, or print i'm a book
rule that will force him u submission
or cause him grief or pain. John, 4th
chapter, 3Oth ven~e reads like this: eli
a man says i love God and hateth hi,
brother, he is liar, for he that loyeti
not his brother whom he hath seen, how
can he love God whom he hath no
seenr Go TO see all the old yieid Lsw,
such a. segregation, mob rule, lynchins
and studying To prepare for wars are no
the better half, and they claim som.
kind OF religion You see If they dom
But the kind of religion we have toda,
means destruction TO the people. Rea.
III Chronicles, 18th chapter from 3, 4, 3,
verses and you will see where the Low,
OF God was. A man without God in
him, be is destructive to his neighbor
L am ashamed OF the so-called preacher
OF today of their ignorance Of Gods way
and plans which he layed down for th,
sons Of men. Now We come TO wha
Christ told one of the scribes when n.
was asked which Wa the first command
ment Of all. This is what he said q
them; Hear, o Israel, the Lord, oul
Cod, Is one Lord, and thou shalt love
the Lord, thy God, with all thy heart
and with all thy soul, and with all tn,
mind, and with all thy strength" Thi,
II the first commandment, and the $50.
ond - like, namely, this: Thou shalt
love thy neighbor a. thyseIi." Their
are no other commandments greater
than tbese- It Mark 18th chapter, ~.
~. 30, 81 verses. Go to look at our
condition in this land; the statistics give
that there are thirty-six 1000 thous-
and churches among the colored people.
To look at Il would mean about a. many
with the whites, IL not more. But We
will io-e no time along that line. Christ
said, "lcve thy neighbor a. thyseIf, -
Now this country representing ~, 900
churches among the colored, A. ! sail
sbont the same among the whites, now
think Of the membership thee churches
would have, and the claiming Of christi
snity would make in our land. BY q
rough cslulation would give this country
the majority Of christians who say they
love God. Now let n 80 IL the love 81
God y in the land today; let NJ taxe the
saying Of the Lord, "for q tree j. known
BY ~ fruit" -. Matthew 18th chapter.
sd ver-e. What j. the condition toslay7
What kind Of fruit do we get from the
CHURCHES Of today. How much love r
used Take the white man Baptist.
take the colored man Baptist: take the
white man Methodist. the colored man
Methodist; both repre-entating the same