The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-05-19

nave llattered the woman DruSilla
could have told Felix Yes | defended
Jesus Christ, but your religion is lust
as good as lis" but instead he had
the grit to tell this wicked couple of
their sins and what would come to
them II they would not repent. Felix
and Drusilla had sent for Paul because
Felix hoped to make some money out
OF Paul, and besides time hung heavy
on these sinners hands. And SO. to-
day the world is sin and pleasure mad.
And pleasures that suit the modern
generation won't suit the next. The
tendency is downward as the progress
of the dance methods has shown.
Instead of denying his Saviour, Paul
said Il don't know anything among
men save Christ and him crucified. 3"
Christ was enough to satisfy Paurs
heart, even If he was a blue blood"
because Christ always satisfies the
saved mans heart. Thus Paul spoke
to Felix, SO that he trembled, but he
said that time to hear such things was
not now convenient" Paul was Bit
ter in his denunciation, extremely
bitter, when it is remembered that he
was only talking specifically to those
two. and they, rulers. For, says Bob
Jones' it takes nerve and backbone to
talk straight to two or three sinful
high lights" But Paul did this. He
didn't do any love preaching" but
told the simple truth, for Paul was a
hero for Christ, and the heroes of
this country are the men who are
willing to represent Jesus Christ any
where under any circumstances" I'D
quit my ministry and go to ploughing
one-eyed mustang before I'd give UP
my manhood'-Paul didn't give up
his.
Felix and Drusilla had the chance
then, offered by a fearless man. to
turn from their wickedness and get
right with God, but they threw away
this chance. Still Felix can't be
blamed as much as many man of
today, for Felix was settled man
before he ever heard Christs name.
while you have been raised with the
influences Of a good mother, with a
| Bible in the home, with churches all
around and other Christian influences,
and yet, said Mr.. Jones, "you come
to this tabernacle and have the chance
offered this afternoon and throw it
away" - ~ 8
Going back to the Bible reading
from which he drew his sermon, Mr..
Jones called attention to the fact that
no reference was made to the wo-
mans having trembled This charae.
| teristic on the part of so many women
holds good today, Mr.. Tones said, for
some OF the most bitteI criticisms, and
some Of the most unfair criticisms of
the meeting he has heard nave come
! from lhs lips of women--"There are
Christ today if their wives would"
But Felix and his wife told Paul:
Its not convenient" Probably, as
some say today, Felix might have
added Il don't believe in excitement
or revivals, 1 want to think it over,
don't want to do anything on the i'm
pulse of the moment" Well" said
Mr.. Jones, "those are all lies, and you
can tell any man you hear give any
excuse but one for not accepting
Christ that Bob Jones says he is liar
and that one eXcusn is SIM" And
generally, it's one particular sin that
has mastered them that keeps men
away from God.
You stand today" said the evange-
list, lat the crossing Of the road; one
leads to He'll, the other to Heaven To-
day is bound to be the final chance for
some Of you just as it was for Felix
and Drusilla last chance" You
may never have another time like this
| III yo''i iiIc. ouSl mere MI Jones
made a personal plea, without call
ing names, to 1.-TWO men in the right
hand tier of seats" saying that he
firmly believed that the service was a
service Of destiny for them, and
urged them to come. So far as il
known. they did not respond when
| the invitation WAS given
The Night Service.
Using the parable of the marriage
| feast as set forth in the 22nd Chapter
of Matthew, as a basis for his sermoI
last night, Bob Jones drew striking
parallel between the man of that time
who refused to put on the wedding