The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-07-03


ence and in Church that God has not called, is
thing but human organization nothing but manmade
affair." and is destined be overthrown and absolutely
destroyed
Obedience is sprit-"the spirit of obedience" The
mother says of her naughty boy Johnny has got naughty
spirit in him.. She is right about that. She may not
know it, but she is teaching what the Word of God
when she says that and is true. Johnny has naughty
spirit in him. and it of the devil Johnny is not the only
little boy that has naughty spirit in him. there lots
of big boys that have naughty spirits in them The spirit of
disobedence is rampant in the land We have all to learn
obey it very hard for people learn obey
There is nothing in the Word of God to the effect that
you should destroy your will but you should submit
will to Gods will that is the teaching of the Word of God
Another thing: Men and that truly
vered regenerated justified and that being ceansed
and purified and sancted do not need any exhoraton to
do their duty You do not have to take club and beat
thoroughly sound apple tree to make it bear apples You
do not have stand up and throw rocks at and grow
to get it to bear apples No. will bear apples without all
that
Well, now the thing is true of men and women
who have been truly converted and born from above they
will bear the fruits of the Spirit and you cannot keep them
from doing it. who has to be eXhOrted to go to
Church been converted If he had converted
you could not keep him away from Churchhe would not
absent himself from the House of God the Lords Day
You do not need to after who has been soundy
converted keep him from the beer gardee has not
desires in that direction God has taken out the old stony
given him heart of 1esh you see There is the
position
Holy Living!
What do care about men and women protesting to be
Christians when they lying and cheating and stealing
all the -and that is just what great many of them
doing and it is getting and all the time.
PICTURE OF SOCIAL CONDITIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
I notice statement here by Edmund SALISBURY of
Washington D. Co. that in year than hundred
thousand men and women have committed suicide. notice
also the statement that million and in the
United States have been divorced that there the pres
ent time million mothers and fathers of the coming
GRAFTON who have been cursed by mistakes coursp and
selection.
These of the facts and there are hundreds of
other facts that show the godessnes and the utter rotten
of present civilization There is lovely veneer there
is not any question about that
Now he says: In regard to people telling that the
world is growing BETTER they said of Sodom and GOor
rah they said in Greece when she toterng
ruin; the Romans cried while the Monaghan poserity
swoopng down them Louis XIV shouted the
set oppressed France and the wise () of
today, like their prototypes of Noahs day. seek to tell us
that the world is growing better"
Here what he says about the population of the United
States
"Ninetyseven per cent of all the people of the United
States dishonest per cent of them
essly SELFISH ninetynine cent towards; ninety
per cent filthy ninety per cent criminals
ninety per cent mean by nature"
That is his arragnment, and that is right in keeping
with what Christ said 'When the Son of cometh
shall He find the faith upon the earth?" evil shall
wax worse and worse
Now, hope and pray to God that will so live that
we will not be included in the ninety-nne per cent We
ought to be part of the one per cent.
In celebrating on this statement he says
About forty cent act the principle that Honesty
is the best policy and they it policy and not
virtue. They will not break law cheat for instance
where there is the slightest possibility of deection for
that would mean ruin and disgrace; but they will give
false I was not at home have money with
me- have prior engagement; You sang beautifully
Your hat is lovely These goods the have ever
been able to offer for the money"
You think you have faith in the cergymen. Select
the that most mpresses you and get into his private
life and you will be surprised at the moral contradictions
you will find there He speaks of minister who said
know what God wants to do, but if should do it
would be driven from the pulpit and family would
therefore must do less of Gods will and LIVE Herein is
the confession of dishonesty
young minister that entering the ministry he
advised to tact in raising money! and FORTH and
he says: Tha what they described tact found to be
trickery"
Then he has paragraph on "Seishness;" and in this
chapter known 'The Black Chapter (which is the title
of it. he some of the great frauds in connection