Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-06
SUNDAYS SERMON TODAY

The Bible wasn't intended for history
or cook book. II was Intended to keer
me from going to hell.
The greatest good can he had from
anything by using It for the purpose Tor
| which IL was intended A loaf OF bread
and brick may look alike. but try and
exchange them and see You bui,d a
house with brick. but YOU can't eat IT,
| The purpose Of a time table is to give
the time OF trains the functions, the dif-
| ferent railroads. A man that has been
over the road knows more about II than
man who has never been over It. A
man who has made the journey OF life
guided by the Bible knows more about
| 1t than any hEh-browed lobster who has
never lived a word OF IT, Then whom are
you going to believe, the man who has
! tried 1t or the man who knows nothing
| about it2
"Tho Bible was not intended for a
science any more than a crowbar Is in
| tended for a toothpick. The Bible was
written to tell men that they might live,
and it's true today.
Life is the realest thing i'm the world
or any other place. II you're alive YOU
know IT, a man is alive to God II he Is
doing what God wants him to do. A
man Is as dead TO Gods word as an
Egyptian mummy is to the ringing Of the
dinner bell II he isn't reading the Bible
and isn't turned from sin.
SPIRITUAL DEATH
When tho dead in battle are gath
cred together some are manged almost
beyond recognition. and some are almost
unmarked but those that are unmarked
are as dead as those that arc manglcd.
All Of them are dead. They no longer
live Many a man, alive physically. but
dead spiritually. is dead to God and the
power OF the Spirit. \ lot of you out there
today are dead to God.
Some men are dead TO God more thar |
others. Some are drunken. dirty sots,
while others have led moral life, but |
both are dead TO God. II is as necessarr !
for man to believe in Jesus TO have /
spiritual life rs IL Is to have eyes to see |
and cars to hear.
There is only one book in tho world
that tells me about my soul aud II says ir
you believe, you're saved; ir YOU don't.
you're damned. God said it and it's all
true.
"Every man who believes in the Bible
shalt live forever. The Bible says heaven
or hell, so why do you resist?
Whatsoever things are true, think ON
these things.
FIRST NEED OF WORLD.
Religion was the first need Of the world
aud will he your last hope in your dying
hour When YOU lie down TO die YOU
won't care about your money or the
hings YOU have. You'll want the assur-
,nce that YOU are saved. Don't be hood
Nlnkcd. Believe and you Will never say
'ou are an alien to God.
Second II Is true that man is a sinner
~ nature Leave the Bible ont Of the
question. Every man who thinks knows
his to he true. 80 every ono has tried
10 make a religion Of Its own 10 save it
,cr from It's sins. They know 1t In
'hind. Africa. India. just as they do in ! .
he most Intellectual Commuuity. Man !
ns as naturally as the sparks ny up !
ward and man everywhere knows II. It's l
rue. Man is a sinner by nature: and !
hat heing true. man must have a super
lRtural Saviour If ho Is ever going to he
avcd. A man can no more save him
elf than no can llft himself up by his
uspendCrs or his bootstraps. He can no
more save himself than man can save {
msClf when he H. falling from Sky
craper. There Is nothing Inherent in
on that you can develop to save your
elf
81 don't believe that amy man or !
oman ever fell into sin without :
truEGlc. No man or woman Is I'm sin S
,nGht without having made hght
gainst 1t. No man ever fails without a
ruEglc. No woman ever sells her
irtue without q struggle. No man ever
cnt to he'll without struggle,
SALVATION ONLY NEED
THE first need man had In this world +
as salvation, and the last thing youW