The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-02
'SHAMS EXPOSED
BYDR.. HAMLTO On

were right but We had 10 pay the
penalty :or being careless about hav-
ling sufficient facts 10 decide for the
4 right way. We failed in getting the
4 facts which we might have had They
we're ours 10 have bur we neglected 10
get them. / believe that is the secret
iof our mistakes in life. We fail 10
make the right decisions because We
fail 10 see the facts and information
that viii put US on the side of right
If we take the right way. we shall
reap the blessings of the right way
4 If we choose the way that seems right
I but is wrong we snail have TO reap the
Consequences of the wrong way. There
lis not a person here who IS on the
/ wrong way who viii not be led into
the right If he will give himself up to
serious. honest thinking and seek for
the truth.
! Wealth Mirage
! There are those TO whom the
thought OF laying up wealth seems TO
!. be more i'm portant than the salvation
of their souls. l have heard men
! say, owe it TO myself and 10 my
family 10 lay up for The future. 1t is
| right to get money. II is right 10 save
money. But it Is wrong TO give oneself
up TO money getting and shut Chris:
out of his life. There are many who
i work, strive and hoard and shut
I Jesus Christ out of their plans. One
I of these days God viii say. Thou
;; fool. this night thy soul shall be re-
Squired of thee. know lot of peo-
!. pie VINO live in splendor and luxury.
), They have pleasures in plenty They
have the envy of some and the admi-
ration OF others but they are playing
4 the fool IN the sight of God. Men
4 may have q good rating in Dun and
Bradstreet and be regarded as A No.
I in all their dealings but If they re-
gard the getting of wealth to be more
important than the saving OF their
soul. they are playing the fool in the
sight of God. I was in a home of a
man of wealth in the West He had
i given himself up to the making Of
money His efforts were rewarded. He
i could count his properties on every
4 hand. He had no use for Jesus Christ.
One day he took some of his close
friends out in his machine TO show
them his farms and properties When
he arrived at his home. very conf
dentialiy he said TO his friends. II
have given myself up 10 making a
fortune. have my heart set on mil
4 lion. expect TO be worth that within
Z the next ten years" While he was
talking about his plans and ambitions
. " Dt EICu hS SiOdhSd SAdSS<3&d
10 his feet and said. Il am very i'll.
i Telegraph for my wife TO come
7 home" Before she arrived he was
gone He left her lot of money but
i the fact that he had died without
I Christ shattered her mind. There are
men who are not rich and they never
viii be rich but they are cursed with
the spirit of covetousness and avarice.
I Greed has dried up all the beautiful
elements of their nature What shall
/ it profit man? Nothing. Il is a way
\ that seemeth right unto man but the
ends thereof are death.
/ Calling Evil Good
J II may seem right TO call evil good
4 So It was so in the days of the
prophets and when men made evil
l good and good evil. II is true today.
There are those who defend evil and
are serious about il. 1t is because they
are blind 10 truth and facts. Ignoranc
OF spiritual truth has blinded and be-
4 wildered them. There are people so
/ blind to the gospel of Christ. TO the
church. that they turn away with
hatred and prejudice and choose wick
edness and folly and death. They
spurn innocence and take poison.
!! They fee from that which would bless
and save them. and gather 70 them
selves that which viii damn them for
4 ever. The Bible says. Fools make a
mock of sin and the wicked shall not
go UNPUBLISHED" You must remember
! this. While others are loving and serv-
ing Christ and endeavoring TO please
Him and you are doing as you please.
living in sin and trampliug the love
/ of God under your feet, that you have
not had your final day of settlement.
=; ,1-;IT C,rl
tie with you Whether you are living
in sin with your eye open to your sin
full course. or whether you are blinded
and nving under delusion of the
devil that has made you believe that
evil is good and good is evil, you viii
have your settlement and take the
consequences OF the way that leads 70
ieternal death.
Hiding Behind Others Inconsistencies
! II may seem right for some of you
ito refuse Christ as your Savior be-
cause of the Inconsistency of others.
People have said TO me referring 10
certain things done by processing
Christians. Well. If that is Christi
anity. / do not want it" They know
that Christianity is not that. They
know Christ does not approve of it.
They know that his principles and
teachings are not that. Men have said
to me. IF you call that person
Christian, want TO be out of the
whole business" He knows that per-
sons conduct is wrong. iuexcusable
and indefensible. He knows that men
of all types would condemn his action
He knows that no Christian would de-
fend him He knows tina: Christ Is not
to blame Christ does not stand for
IT, Christ is grieved when his follow
ters do wrong / am not here 10 defend
lhypocrites or excuse the wrong in
anybody. But you may be calling some
people hypocrites who are not that
They are nnr Irrinc n annaar one