Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-21

/ which can show Jesus christ to fallen
\ sons Of Adam better than any angel
| that's what God wants. God wants you
| to bring II to Hin and say: Take it,
God It's yours II He had your body
dissipation, overeatlng and undersleeping
would stop, for the body Is holy ground
We dare not abuse II.
God wants your body az a living sac
rif1ce, not a dead one. There's too many
dead ones time was when God was
satisfied with n dead sacrifice. Under
old Jewish law a dead sheep would do.
He wants my body now when I'm alive
and not when am dead and the under
taker is waiting to carry II out to the
cemetery, but the day of that dispensa-
tlon is past, and now he wants you,
living sacrince real sacrifice. A trav-
cling man who wants TO make his wife
present, and sits up all night in the
train instead OF taking a berth for &c. and
uses the SO to buy a present for his wife,
makes a real sacrifice for her There
never was q victory without sacrifice.
Socrates advanced the doctrine OF inn
mortality and died with n cup of pol
soned hemlock. Jesus Christ paid with
a crown Of thorn. Abraham Lincoln
paid with a bullet in his heart If you
mean TO give yourself as a sacrifice to
God, get out and work for Him. Ask
men to come to Him.
GOD rs REASONABLE.
Your reasonable service God never
asks anything unreasonable He is never
exacting. He only asks rights when He
asks you TO forsake sin. A man must be
an idiot II he does not see that man is
unreasonable when unrighteous God
never made a law to govern you that you
wouldn't have made II you had known as
much as God knows. You don't know
that much and never can, 80 the only
sensible thing to do is to obey Gods
laws. Faith never asks explanation.
God asks some things that are hard,
but never any that are unreasonable. 1
beseech you brethren. 1t was hard for
Abraham to take his son up on the noun
tains and prepare to offer him up as
q sacrifice to God, but God had rea-
son. Abraham understands tonight and
Abraham is satisfied.
1T was a hard thing God asked of Paul
of Tarsus-to bear witness to Him at
Rome and Ephesus, to face those jeering
heathens, to suffer imprisonment and be
beaten with 40 stripes, and finally to put
his head on the block and have 1t severed
by the order of old Nero, but God had a
reason. Paul understands tonight, and
Paul is satisfied. 1t was a hard thing
God asked Of Jesus-to leave the songs
Of the angels and the presence of the
and glorifed and come down to |
earth to be born amid the malodors of a |
stable, and be forced to flee from post to |
post, and dispute with the learned doctors
in the temple at Y years OF age and con-
flute them, and to still the storm and TIE |
troubled waters, and to say to the blind,
BE whole and finally to be betrayed by
one of His own followers and to be
through n conspiracy of Jews
and Gentles; but now He sits on the
throne with the Father, awaiting for the
time to judge the world. Jesus under
stands, and Jesus Is satisfied.
ut was hard thing for me when God
told me to leave home and go out into
the world to preach the gospel and to
oe vllfed and llbeled and have ones life
threatened and be denounced, but when
my time comes, when / have preached
my last sermon, and 1 can go home to
God and the Lamb, He'll say, Bill, this
was the reason I'll know what It all
meant, and I'll say, I'm satisfied, God,
I'm satisfied