The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-07-24


REPENTANCE! There is no other way.
Repentance leans Something
REPENTANCE!
When man repents everybody will know it; the wife
the children will know it, and his associates will know it.
and repentance something than merely 'sign-
ing card"
My friends there is absolutely escape from repen-
lance no escape! All look at it. remember certain
woman = Oh she didn't like very much preacher
and she had heard only two three tmes but day
delivered thunder-bolt and said, among other things
Goods Word declares that if any shall put away his
wife for any other than the violation of the marriage
e he aduerer and she is aduteress and he who
marries her. who put away is also adulterer And
that liked me afterwards.
There hundreds and thousands of such cases; and
if true repentance begun it would that many
would have to say to the with whom they
living, "You not my wife, will back to the woman
who is my wife and whom put away for just cause.
But when talks like that to the people, then they do
not like him. and they say "There plenty of other
churches to which belong, and they bother
like ZION does about these things No. certainly they do
rot like to be told of their SINS but the who will tell
them the truth their best FRIEND yes their best friend
You going to hell you who have broken the marragee
and you who have gotten divorce silly charge
when the fact the matter is that you have been full
of the devil and have just simply put away companion
and unless you repent you will hell For adulterer
enter KINGDOM GoD. You have to confess
the lies that you have told though to cost
your life you have to pay back that which have stolen
the utmost extent of your to do and have to
clean up your whole life.
Here is good illustration: If company to pur-
chase piece of ground which stood threestory frame
building sixty years DID, and infested with rats and bugs
cocroaches and other verm and upon that land they
purposed erecting syscraper if they to go to work
and start to put up their skyscraper top of that old
building and rubbish the people would say that they
era be that
they would first tear down the old building and take away
and then they would work and excavae to solid ground
rock before starting to lay the new foundation.
Now the principal is true when you want to erect
Christian character have to tear away the rubbish
and up the life all the way back and then start in and
build on and solid foundation
My friends, there is escape from this - none what
And there thousands of people who calling
themselves Christians who have just about enough religion
land them hell they have not enough to take them to
Heaven and that is why they have power for where
there is peace and righteousness there is power
All! think of how the rank and file of the people live
Think of the rank and file of homes Look at the women
who act like swapping from morning till night! Look
at those who call themselves mothers how they slap their
little children and knock them about = yes than
brutes Listen the talk from morning till night snapp
ng swapping all the time. All! if there any of that
kind here this afternoon then may God make them
thoroughly ashamed of themselves and help them to repent
And yet such call themselves Chrstians
All the mere empty profession to what does 1t amount
"a mere profession?
My friends, take vulgarty and throttle it and trampe
beneath your fee tell you this afternoon that vugary
and profanity have almost engufed the entire human family
and where is the voice to cry out for return to purity
Look at the horrible papers and books that people
read and the horrible pictures at which they look and then
you wonder why they so full of the devil - but it is
not any wonder.
There greater breeder Of vice in Chicago than is
the theater Look at the subjects When was in Indian
apos few weeks the sreetcars placarded with
notices of play that then going in the theater
entitled, ''Why SIM" Now it must be very elevat
ing ( for and go there and sit and listen
to such stuff that and yet will you attempt deny that
the heaters and the dancehas equened by thousands
of church-members in this City will you deny that? No
because you know it is true.