Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-10-21
THE SEVEN WONDERS
OF The WORLD


Sermon Delivered by Evangelist
Newlin, Wednesday Evening,
October Goth, 1915.
''Behold, the Lord Maketh the earth
empty, and maketh II waste, and
turneth 1t upside down, and
scattersth abroad the inhabi-
tans thereof" lisa. 24:1.
In the days of Alexander the Great
IS the Greeks originated the first group
~ of Seven Wonders of the World. The
\ group was composed of the following
monuments or magnitude: the Pyr-
amids of Egypt, the Wall and Hang
n ing Gardens of Babylon, the Temple
of Diana at Ephesus, the ivory and
\ gold Statue of Jupiter at Athens, the
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. the
Colossus at Rhodes, and the Pharos
of Alexandria. Numerous classical
tions have since been made and / Of
fer the following as the Seven Won
ders of the modern world: the Aero
plane, Wireless Telegraphy, Radium.
Motion Pictures, Antiseptics ana
{ Antitoxins, Spectrum Analysis, ana
the X-ray. But these have little TO
do with my message other than to
suggest the subject
1.
The first wonder of the world to
me. is it's very existence. Must there
not have been an age when all the
beings having the likeness of God
were with Him about the throne In
, heaven? Why then should there
ever have been such world as ours?
Had it not been that Satan rose up
and attempted to make himself equaI
with God, thus creating the rebellion
I in heaven described in the twelfth
chapter of Revelation, can not con-
ceive that there would have been any
necessity for the creation of the
world. Some believe that the Scrip
ture which says, And the third part
of the stars were darkened," refers to
the proportionate number who were
cast out of heaven with Satan. We
do know the numbers were suffi-
GENTLY large to make most fierce
warfare between the forces of light
and darkness.
This rebellion consisted in the
1 originator exalting himself above his
i Creator and questioning the govern.
ment of God This arch-rebel must
\ have claimed to know more about
Z government than God and charged
[ that the laws of God were severe and
/ unjust. making God to be a tyrant
n devoid of justice, mercy and love.
+, Satan demanded an opportunity to
demonstrate that his government
would be an Improvement over the
[ government of God and had this been
| denied him, he would have used it as
an argument to prove God unjust and
tyranical. God gave Satan an OPP
| portunity to demonstrate his system
of government in a new Eden, this
world, and you can see the failure
of his effort You may ask why
I does not God dethrone Satan and rule
the world wholly by His government?
My answer is, there are those who
have not been convinced that Gods
z ways are better than the devils. that
= love and life are better than sin and
Y dsath, you being one of the number.
4 II you are convinced that Gods way
4 is better. tell Him SO now and get
N out of the devils army.
\ What a contested battle that was.
n We have had political contests in
which every man has been personally
K solicited to cast his vote and infiu-
ence with certain party. We have
4 had religious awakenings in which
n all have been exhorted to become
Il Christians, but never have We known
4 such persistent fight as the one
which took place in heaven. Every
being had to choose sides, they were
either for God or against Him. Every
I. being that was left in heaven was
I there as a matter of choice. And
y after that war God brought into ex-
istence this world, so forming it as
to make it conductiveto life. Then He
put a being here called man, bear
ing His own image and His plan is
Il this. "The vacancies occasioned by
those who rebelled must be filed by
beings who have been proven faith
full. Every being now in heaven is
there as a matter of choice and the
world just formed is to be training
Y ground Every man must there
choose whether he will be faithful to
Me his Maker and God, or whether
he will join the ranks of the enemy"
I tell you, there is not being hell
tonight but that has chance to go
to heaven, and there is not one in
heaven but that choose to be there
and none will ever get to heaven
until they choose God and turn
4 against the devil. This world was
created for a battle ground and if
3you are not enlisted in the ranks of
| the Lord, you are certainly marching
under the orders of the enemy.
III.
The second wonder of the world is
that 1t has become what IL now is.
l When the world was fresh from the
1 hand of God, in the morning of time
man had his abode in the Eden of
3unmarred happiness He was the
Iprince of that realm, fragrant with
the odor of PERENNIAL bloom. He had
the rose without thorn. He had
wealth without the care of riches. He
had health without sickness. He had
life without death. He had harmony
THAT knew no discord. He had peace
without rumors of war. He had JOY
kthat knew no sorrow. Does 1t not
! seem a wonder that this rose-garden
bearing the imprint of God in every
work of nature as its designer, should
become so overtrampled by the prince
lbf the power of the air as to meke ii
veritable bramble patch?
q Satan, who met defeat in heaven.
n renewed his attack with new courage
n this world fresh from the hand or
God. While the world was yet young
man turned aside from the garden
bath in which he had walked with his
kGod and met the serpent that had
something to whisper in his ear, and
when he listened to that enticing
\ messenger, the leaven of sin entered
his heart, and little leaven soon
ffacfad his antira hainP Man was