Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-12-03
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WHO YE WILL SERVE

Editor News:
Pelase give me little space in your
valuable paper for a few words in re-
gard to some of your WRITER'S. Why
Is it that people call themselves chris
tians, and at the same time call each
other "liars''1 While every man or
woman has a right to their opinion
of the Scriptures, and may be just as
honest in his opinions as the other,
and while this is fact, they call one
another liars. Now. we find in John
6:17, "If any man will do His will
be shall know Of the doctrine, wheth-
or it be of God, or whether l speak of
myself - At the time Jesus uttered
these words, he was surrounded by the
sharp, cunning Pharisees, by the
shrewd calculating Sadducees and the
lawyers of the day. They wers prob
ing and dissecting and looking and
wondering and questioning, and Jesus
looked at them and threw the gauntlet
down on the ground at their feet,
light in their faces.
\ It is wonderful but strangely true
that all the scholars in this worlds
history have met with opposers. They
have met with scoffers and perhaps a
large majority of them with contempt
and scorn, You know that when Ga
lileo discovered that this world rotat.
ed on its axis, the stupid monks ar
raigned him immediately and they
tried him as heretic, and humbug,
and they convicted him and made him
retract but the wise old man, as
be walked out, whispered to himself,
"And still the world moves.
When Harvey discovered that the
blood circulated from the heart to the
extremities and back again, the medf=
cal world arraigned him as propound-
ing false theory and argued against
it.
When Watt discovered that steam,
cloud vapor. had power almost omnip-
otent, the scientists of his day arraign-
ed him and demanded the proofs.
When Morse dicovered that you
might chain electricity to wire and
that one man could sit a thousand
miles from another and hold converse
tion with him, the world arraigned
him and doubted his discovery.
No wonder, then, that when Jesus
Christ discovered balm in Gilead, a
remedy for sin, this world arraigned
him as an impostor and tried and con-
victed him l don't see how the dis
covery that the world rotates on its
axis breaks into fellows program
much. don't see how the fact that
steam Is omnipotent could interfere
with mans system of living. The
fact that the circulation of the blood
Is a great discovery does not make a
fellow quit lying or stealing or any
thing of that sort. And while it is q
demonstrated fact that man can sit
down today anywhere IN America and
hold friendly conversation with a
man in Washington, D, c., this does
not make him pray OF quit his mean
ness 1t is no wonder that men oppose
the science Of Christ crucified. All
other sciences have had their opposers.
No men today, except few, doubt
the fact that the world turns on its
axis A preacher few months ago
told tue writer that the sun moves
around this world.
No one today doubts that steam is |
an almost omnipotent power We have
only to look at those iron horses as
they move over the country with their |
giant power In order to tell the world |
that steam is power
My dear readers, all of these grand |
discoveries met with opposition, and |
yet the world does honor the first four
today, but still the majority of the
world today despises the last one, the
blessed Christ the greatest discovery
of the ages Do YOU know why that is
The greatest discovery ever declared
to man is the fact that God can be the
justifier Of the ungonly. The greatest
fact in the universe made known to
men is that poor man may have his
sins forgiven and make his peace with
God and die in faith and go home to
heaven, and yet while the opposi tion
which these other great discoveries
met has died out, still today, after
the blood washed throngs of earth
have been marching home to God for
eighteen hundred years after our prec-
have matched into heaven under their
gracious banner, and after all that His
blessed scheme of redemption has done
for our race, thele are thousands and
millions of men who despise Jesus
Christ and reject him as grand dis
coverer with all the power of their ma.
ture.
There can be but one objection to
the Lord Jesus Christ among men, and
that is when they bring their life up
aud place it beside his life there Is an
overwhelming sense of guilt and
shame.
Dear brothers. it is good deal ow-
ing to circumstances or to what you
are. When hear you sit in Judge
ment on the spotless character of
Christ, don't want to listen to you.
You tell me what your life is and
then | will know y hat your comment
On the character of Jesus Christ will
be. If your life is conformed to Jesus
Christ, then is the Christ the Son of
the living God to you, but if your life
IS disreputable snd dishonest you see
n him nothing but the son Of har.
ot and an impostor. Isn't that
stranger ''If any man will do His
will be shall know of the doctrine
whether it be of God or whether it be
If myself
And what does God want us all to
10? Cease to do evil and learn to do
we'll. Let the wicked forsake his way
md the unrighteous man bis thoughts,
md let him return unto the Lord 1t
8 the will of God that we repent 1t
s the will of God THAT we accent sal.