The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-04-29
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ed in Wretched fat when officers
came and told her that her father had
4 Willed her an equal Share in ills vast
estate with his own children She re-
~ fused to accept the gift and directed
Il that 1T be turned over to the Bank Of
England. There is as much good sense
and reason in that woman's attitude
than the one who refuses Christ pc
cause he does not like some in the
church: There are hypocrites in the
church no one will deny. Some are
there because it is ia fashionable. some
4 because of financial gain, some be-
cause the church cloaks their sins and
cuHsedness
Some Of the rottenest characters
outside OF hell have their names on
the church records. For my part I
would rather spend little time wits
them in the church and go to heaven
where they are not than to go to hell
hiding behind their BADNESS.
There are four observations l have
made on this line. First, whenever
people talk about hypocrtes in the
church. they always p9il, oil the
meanest OF the church The good peo-
pie are ashamed of them. The never
compare the meanest church in em-
i bers with the low, foul, drunken. i'll
thy liars and liberttnes outsids Of the
church. No, but they hold Up the
meanest church members to be com
pared with the best type Of moral.
people outside of the church. They
never compare our best Will their
best Our best with tn cir worst, which
DIS unfair. Second, the person who
talks about the hypocrites in the
church and cannot see Jesus Christ,
H-F SIN 1nr~
can hide behind an object YOU must
be smaller than the obj ect So il you
are looking at some reprobate in the
church, and are hiding behind him it
1sSlbecause YOU are smaller than he
Third, I know there are good Peep: Ell
outside of the church-lots of them
who never made a profession of Js-
slls Christ. But where you find one
jhypocrite in the church you will ilid
al dozen scoundrels and hypocr;te5 out
side Of the church. Fourth, when i
know the man who talks the Ioudest
about the hypocrftes OF the church
as rule | find him to be the biggest
hypocrite OF any man in the town or
community where he lives. When
know the woman who talks most
about the hypocrites in the church.
the best people are there Gods
noblest men are there! the purest wo-
men are there. For the church Jesus
Christ died that He might present her
glorious church without spot or
wrinkle or any such thing.
Sixth. Many will not come to Je-I
sus Christ to be saved because they
are ashamed OF Him. They admit He
Is faultless. They admit there is mol
reason why they should be ashamed
Of Him. but the fact remains they areE
ashamed to let others know they have
any respect for Jesus Christ. IN rail-t
road station a few years ago in one of
our large cities. there satin one cor-I
ner or the waiting room an old lady
bowed down with age and a dark yeiIl
over her face. She attracted the at-l
stention OF the passengers Everybody!
seemed TO be anxious to learn who |
that old lady was, but no one seemed
to know her Not far from her WAS a 1
well dressed. fashionable young lady
walking nervously In front OF her.l
Presently the young lady was APP
preached by some of her college
friends. While talking to them the
old lady raised her veil and showed
Sa SCARED and dishgnred face. They
asked the young woman II she knew
~ don't know her. never saw herr
before. But when the train moved
away bearing those. two persons. 1t |
was found that the old lady was the
young lady's mother, and the scars
on her face were placed there when
she rescued that daughter from a f
burning house But now she had be-
come m object OF shame and denial
know how you feel toward such a /
base denial. but what about yourselt?li