Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-20


panions7 One, reason why people hav
such low moral standards Is this dam
nable novel reading. one OF the CURSE
OF the country today is novels All o
the authors have different ideas Of re
llgion and not one OF them has the rlgh
idea. No matter what tho book "a woman
will gulp It down and the Bible will las
on the centertablo, unopened Is thes,
something In your life, selhshness pride
criticising God knocking the preacher
7 will treat with respect any jew oi
Gentle, negro or white man, anyone, but
/ will not associate with a non-Christian
In other words, | will have nothing to dc
with n man who sneers at my God AND
sneers at my Christ The Bible tells me
to do this
'I'll tell YOU why you don't let Him In
IT'S because of some of your associations
lodge, family. or financial reasons, some
one you're afraid you will dlspease
There's many a man married Into fam
ily and when you run up against one
sinner in that bunch and hit him the
whole gang will Jingle like bunch OF
sleighbes Is II envy2 Envy ls one OF
the biggest robbers In the world today
IT'S hard to see some one with n big
flashing stud, or an auto and not want
them Envy When you see Persian rugs
on your neighbor's floor and yours COW
cred with rag carpets. Envy When hers
IL sealslkln coat and yours Is near-seai.
Envy. Envy. SO I say envy Is one OF
the biggest robbers In the world today.
WORLD AND CHURCH
"The trouble is you conform to the
world Come out from among them.
That doesn't means come out from the
church and leave the church. Some
church members think 1t does. so they
come out and say that the church Is
not good enough for them. They've got
to show me. I'm from Missouri. 1t
means come out from the world and not
from the church. The Universallsts base
all their faith in these two verses, And
you shall call His Name Jesus. for He
shall save the people from their sins
Notice that says from their sins. not
in their sins and AS in Adam, all men
shall die, so in Christ all men shall be
made alive That doesn't say they shall
all be saved. They shall all be made
alive. And they wrest the scripture to
their own destruction.
~ wish every one could be saved, but
every one will not. If you repent you
will be saved. If you don't repent you'll
go to hell. Sin in the church cancels the
blessing. Sin pursued makes promises
null and void. The same was true of the
Jews of old and the same is true of us
today The blessings will become curses.
1t may not be that you do what God tells
you not to do, but you may not do what
God tells you to do. Your sin may not
be the sin Of commission, but the sin of
omission. Thou shalt not steal, thou
shalt not kill, thou shalt not CONT adul-
terry These are easy to understand.
These are the ones you shall not do. But
the law of God tells you to do this also;
Love the Lord thy God with all thy
soul with all thy mind, and thy neigh
Dor as thyself' All. that's the trouble.
You're not doing what God tells you to
do. There is no difference in doing what
God tells you not to do and in not doing
what God tells you to do. That knocks
the underpinning out from under bunch
of you.
OMISSION AND COMMISSION.
"I'u lay this before you. You say
don't steal, don't lie, I never murdered
All right. Do you love the Lord thy God
above all things? And your neighbor as
yourself? Do you hate anybody? Now
you re up against it. You refuse to apol-
ogize. You've had fuss and you won't
make it up.
MY friend, Campbell Morgan told me
that he was in a town preaching, and
woman came to him and said, L lost the
Joy of God from my heart four years
ago. and he replied, Bless God She
said, why do you say that? He said,
/ didn't say "Bless God" because you
mad lost the Joy, but because you knew
when you had lost II. II you know when
YOU lost 1t, you know why you lost it.
Yes she said. 4 quarreled with my best
friend four years ago, and we've never
lpolxen since He said, IF you had died
n the interim you'd have gone to hell.
What shall do? she said. GO make it
Ip But / can't. She lives 400 miles
lway' Then write a letter. One year
ater he came back to this town, and the
irst person he met was this woman. Her
ace was lighted up with joy. He said,
You've written that letter. She said,
Yes, l wrote it last night, but there were
i've years of her life that didn't amount
o a snap of your finger.
Maybe you don't pay your debts.
Maybe you neglect your Bible Maybe you
ire stingy to the church of God Maybe
'ou're coward when II comes TO giving |
and n preacher doesn't hear
our voice in prayer meeting from year
o year.
SEVEN DEFINITIONS OF SIN.
"There are just seven biblical definitions |
Il sin. II you can find any more, trot 'em |.
ut. There's lots OF descriptions OF sin,
mt only seven definitions. What is sin? |
FIRST, Sin is a transgresslon OF the law /
hats the common definition whenever
ou ask the question; second 'Whatso-
yer is not OF faith is sim third, To him
hat knoweth to do good and doeth 1t not,
o him II is sim; fourth, If you have re-
pect OF person, ye commit sin
THAT gets a bunch of you. that gets |
ou preachers. you men and women. In |
Their words, II means TO show favorit-
SIN; nth, Thought of foolishness is sin; |
ixth. "A high look, a proud heart SINS |
eyenth, All unrighteousness Is SIM. /
rot out someone who doesn't stand con-
lcted before one OF these. Now what |