The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-12-30
is teaching that in Christian exper-

is teaching that in Christian exper
fence we are not to be mixed. | air
talking about the thing that the Rev.
elator referred to when he said that
the pure, white linen was the right.
eousness Of the saints. We are for.
hidden to wear both wool and liner
Holiness. | am preaching that we are
to get rid Of the wool that mixes
things up in the soul. 0, that some
thing in there that frets and worries
and mortifies you, that made you
say something that you would take
back if you could. But, sir, Gods pro
hibition, one thousand years before
Jesus opened his mouth to teach, was
on wearing wool and linen in the same
garment. We stand for an unmixed
service. o glory, / feel so good! Oh
Pm blessed more than half to death
] never loved the cross so; | never
loved the Bible so; l never saw SO
clearly that God prohibits everything
of the kingdom of this old world. God
has clearly taught me that there is
no salvation for this world. They
have to come one at time; they have
to go through in the old fashioned
way. Some people may be big enough
to tackle other things but am not
We are a common people; we are pill
grims; we are sojourners; we are a
gypsy band; we are an outfit that will
never amount to anything in this old
world. The fact is that while the
spirit of this world never changes, it
changes it's forms. In the day of Noah
the practice of the spirit of the world
was the vilest and most cruel in its
exhibition. This was the practice of
the one spirit that never changes. The
practice of the same spirit in the days
of Jesus was principally spirit of
power concentrating at Rome, ruler of
the world, and all the nations of the
world came to Jerusalem-that was
the spirit Of the age and was the man
Hesitation of the same spirit of the
days of Noah. In the days of Bloody
Mary and Nero the practice of the
same spirit was blood. The unspirt-
ual fail to see that the rejection of
Jesus Christ at Oxford is as cruel in
Gods sight as anything that Nero
ever witnessed. The spirit that this
old world has is one thing at Athens,
another thing at Ephesus and another
CIINlS dC 1NOIuc WHO uOeSll see lila
the rejection Of the Holy Ghost in
American Professionalism is as fragrant
as the rejection of Jesus in the Jewish
synagogue.
O, you better get over into Gods
little patch. Why, sir, did you know
that our danger, that the danger OF
the Nazarene church, is compromise
with this old world and some of its
forms. The only danger that I dread
in this institution, that l would give
my life for, is the worldliness that a
few people are trying to precipitate
upon US. Pm going to stick to the
line and hug the two rails if I don't
hug anything else in the world. ]
warn you. l warn myself. This old
world is going to burn up. I read the
headlines of the papers; know lit
tie about what is going on in this old
world. can see that this old world is
sort of a play on the stage. The great
King of Terror is coming on the stage
and he is go ing to sweep the stage
with destruction. O, Brother, l warn
my people against the world; against
the world of customs or of fashions.
In the last few years thirteen fixed
stars have disappeared. One over
here in the north so big that it could