The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-02
as 10 be pitied Tor your shaliowness
and weakness

Morality VIII not Save
II may seem 10 some OF you that
your morality is all that you need for
your salvation believe in morality
II is the best thing a man can nave
outside of Christ but IL has no prom
ise for the future For one 10 cling 10
his goodness would De like a man
holding 10 chain of a thousand links
but one is of clay They all might as
well be made OF that. Morality IS good
bur IL does not go far enough People
have said 70 me do rot worry about
me. am doing the best l can That
is not true. Not one OF You without
Christ would dare 10 say that You
would not dare 10 make that claim in
your loyalty 70 the church. or the BIZ
BILE. or PRAYER, or unselnsnnesS nor
towards your sins nor 10 Jesus
Christ. You are not doing the best
you can. even as a moral person and
there stares you in the face-you nave
robbed Jesus Christ of your love and
your service. For you TO say am DO
ing the best I can and reject Jesus
Christ. your talk is cant and balder-
dash. II you were asked TO love
hateful, vile and sinful character or
you would be lost then you would
have some excuse for not becoming
Christian but you are asked 10 love
and obey Jesus. the chiefest amons
ten thousand and the one altogether
lovely.
1t may seem 10 some of you that
one time is as good as another in de-
Gliding for Christ. Men have said 10
me. y see no need OF being in hurry
about settling this question One
time is as good as another" But the
person who says that is a trifier and a
su perricial thinker. II I should bano-
age my eye and keep IL so for a few
months 1 would lose the sight of 1t.
If / would bandage my arm and hand
it in sling in few months my arm
would wither and become helpless II
/ should stop my ears in few months
I would lose my hearing. These would
become helpless and wither from dis
use. You say you can decide for
Christ any time and one time is as
good as another. Just as your band
aged eye Will lose its sight. your arm
Will wither. your hearing is lost
through disuse. SO your capability to
know God ana TO decide for Christ
will shriyel and lop off IL you resist it.
II you resist your conscience in urg-
ing you TO decision for Christ you are
guilty of Strengthening the power tha;
enables you 10 do the right
do nor need TO warn some of you
against infdelity. impurlty. gambling
and debauchery, but against the fool
hardness OF delay. You say Il never
expect to die without Christ No.
Neither did the people in hell tonight.
There are man in hell who were regu-
lar attendants upon the services of
the church. They were more faithful
to the church than you. They heard
stirring sermons. They passed
through many a revival that made
them tremble. They said TO ministers
and good people. Il expect to be saved
some time but they are in hell
where they can think but where they
cannot repent Others will go TO hell
before you go who are fattering
themselves as you are doing. 1 shall
decide soon. but they will not. Hell
will swallow them up with all their
good intentions This Word makes no
compromise with you. It IS now Now
is the accepted time. It is the day Of
salvation.