The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-03-30
PARALLELS WERE
BASED ON TRUTH
Symbols We're Employed to Rep.
resent Facts, Says Rev. Broome

The parallels of Jesus were not
pictures of the ina gination: their ba-
sis WAS truth, ana all His symbols
were employed to impress the facts
they represent" said Rev. George W.
Broome at the First Baptist church
sunday morning in "a sermon on
What We Remember After Death"
The text was Luke. IG:25-"Son
Remember
Continuing. Mr.. Br1ome said:
He who was the essence of truth
could not afford to mislead, or assume
to exist that which which had mo ex-
!stance.
I'm this passage of scripture Luke
lG:19--3l He lifts the curtain of the
spirit world for He was acquainted
with same, for He came from IL on
the wings of love TO speak the truth in
faithfulness. He uttered il to rebukc
the unbelieving Pharisees and the rich
man represents a son of this genera.
ton who make improper use of the
mammon of unrighteousness. We can
not serve God and mammon
After n brief description of the two
men on earth the scene passes to the
other side of the grave, and Jesus was
as familiar with one side as the other
We notice the dying does not sus-
pend consciousness. son Remember
that thou in thy life time receivest thy
good things Here are consciousness
personality and memory. These as.
scntial qualities of the mind death had
not touched. His surroundings had
been changed not his soul; his cir
cumstances, not himself. Jesus says
that the soul does not sleep He show
ed that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
were still alive, God Is not the God of
the dead. but the living Moses APP
peared 10 Jesus in His transhguration
APOSTLE says When this earthly tab
bclnacle is dissolved we have present
tense) building of God again. To
depart and be with Christ and Christ
had been gloriied and was with the
Father. John in the Revelation says
He saw the martyred saints i'm heav-
eli Nv hlioNS il'NIlIlE VI Nlbl
mant souls, death takes down the
scaifolng, but leaves the cdince just
as we have built it,
Death does not efface the remem-
brance Cf the living. I have five
brothers and he does not wish them
10 come To this place Of torment as 1t
would make the flame hotter for him
because his influence on earth had not
h"lhcd them 10 flee from the wrath To
come The martyrcd saints in heaven
cried FOX their blood to he avenged up
ON the earth Paul says. We are
compassed about by SO great cloud
of witnesses We may forget the spir-
u world, but they never will forget rs.
Dying does not charge character
He who made self his center on earth
does so now. Rich man prays, not 10
he forgiven or have his heart cleansed,
ne seeks relief, not repentance; pity.
not pardon. He says: Send IaZerus
Ia wait on me. Just have him dip his
finger in water to cool 10Y tongue.
He is dissatisfied ana wants Gods
plans changed. Send La2erous back
To warn my brothers. lie wants 10
start Il missionary society i'm hell. the
wrong place To begin. If YOU want thai
done. now is the time to do IT. Do not
wait until YOU are in he'll to think
abOut missions.
Dying brings conditions and char
acter into accord. The sin of the rich
man was not in being rich. but was
unbelief i'm God that condemned him.
Heaven IS full of rich men. Abraham
Isaac ard Jacob were rich and many
others that we have record OF ana
they went To heaven, I.aZerous got 10
heaven, not because he was poor. but
because he believed God. Each life
sows seed for the coming harvest, one
to be tormented and The other to be
hlest forever.
Dying renders the condition result
ing from character permanent 1t was