The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-08-14
SUBJECT
1.-THE HOLY CITY"
Concluded from last week.

very
and we coming right up to it.
"When the Son of cometh, shall He find faith
the earth?"
And the abominabe and murderers and whore
mOngers and sorcerers and idoaters and all liars they
will all be shut out.
After reading this eighth verse; is it possible that there
is a sitting here this afternoon who belongs
to of these classes? If then it is settled fact is
foregone conclusion, that far the Holy City is
cerned you will live in it. Don't you know it ZION?
wish I could burn this into your hearts!
We spirit and flesh; and either living
in the spirit in the flesh If you follow the flesh you will
reap corruption If you follow the Spirit you will reap
Life Everlasting!
There bigger lie of the devil than the lie
that "Oh WE'LL you have to have recreation and
enjoyment and pleasure You cannot sing all the time
and you cannot pray all the time and cannot sit down
and read your Bible all the time"
Ah my brothers sisters you might just we'll say
when you have given your children foodtwenty articles
of splendid food-Oh WE'LL they must have little tobacco
and whisky, and little brandy, and deck of cards OF
course you you know you cannot tie them down here
to eating and and chicken and beef and potatoes
they have to have little beer and whisky and tobacco
There is just much sense in as the other.
do not whether it is boy of eighteen twenty
ive or girl of sixteen tweny-get them converted
Then they will be asking for things that not of God
They will find their joy in spiritual things
will tell you show boy girl who wants to get
out of the the minute they have eaten their supper
trotng around and will show you boy and girl who
will go to the devil absolutely.
A united Home a Foretaste of Heaven
What is nearer Heaven than home?
How much do you appreciate your home?
Some of you fathers and mothers here know what
it is now One time you had all your loved at home
with you, and you know what joy it to have them all
gather around the table with you Some of them have
to heaven now married and gone away for them
Selves and others have taken up this profession and that
profession and you left alone in declining
What Joy it is to get your family home year!
You Just wait until father and mother pass away!
You know, some people never have serious thought
about anything Death is joke! Heaven is joke! He'll
is joke Everything is joke! They have serious
thought about anything! have people in audience
when painted picture of Christ the Cross sit and
whisper and laugh while was doing it. have people
laugh when they were singing a hymn that would melt
heart of stone Some people absolutely Indifferent to
such things.
Yes! But I want to tell you, there is time coming
when everybody will a0ake up! You mark what say
"God is not Mocked a
Reap"
will never forget story which heard told by Ralph
Wells Wall Street broker, worth forty million dol
lars who after he retired became of the greatest sum
workers in Paris and London. He wonderful man.
heard him tell this story the incidents of which under
his own observation. An old man his way to
meeting and he drove along in of the streets of New
York. a couple of young fellows out of saoon
cognzed him. and of them said to him, hooking him
because had been in of his meetings where he had
plead with him to give his heart to God) "We, old man.
how far is it to he" Before o'clock next morning that
young man was corpse having been killed that night He
found out how far to hell and far he
cerned, it was only few hours only few rods.
Oh, how debased some people are!
Why don't you know, there are some people that it
seems you make impression them at all talked
to girl in my office the other day. who said to Il want
go hell and the get there the better will
like it." said young are the most depraved
the most degraded uneeng human being that it has ever
been my privilege to talk to-"
You will find people of that kind!
Now my brothers and sisters desire to say this here
You will DIE AS YOU LIVE Don't you know that? Oh
how often have it! You die exactly you live. All
the sins of ones life will roll in bunch in the last hour
that is spent upon this earth If you have ben profane
man. you will CURSE if you have been blackguard you
will indulge in vulgarity you have been brute in
home you will go out in storm You die you live!
Ny brothers and sisters, want to do all that you
may have entrance into this Holy City.
Zion City Patterned after Holy Coming
wonder sometimes whether some of you fit to live
in ZION CITY? There are lot of people here who not
fit to live in ZION CITY They never had any business in
here they never belonged here and they only tools of