The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-23
Get Back to Jesus the Best Way You Can Without Delay Urges Billy Snd

that IL do | will be saved and
they tried II. and IL worked. just
as they believed II would. and they
didn't have to go under the water
al all.
They made their own little plan
and God looked into their hearts,
and saw they were walking in all
the light they had. and He let II
60 at that.
Another said: II l can only get
up out OF bed. and get down on my
knees and pray | believe l will be
saved. and he tried IL and II
worked.
And another said: III can only
take the communion shall be
saved and he tried II and Il work.
ed. and some OF these who made
their own plans the best they could,
and tried them and found salvation
by doing II. were our fathers and
our mothers. and they are in heav-
en- now, because Jesus knew what
they meant AS He looked into their
poor hungry hearts and lie blessed
them because they did the best
they knew. and He will do IL with
you. my brother. and with you. my
sister, II you viii only take the step
you believe In your souls you ought
TO take. and will take II now.
Yes, all the little plans OF which
have been telling you. and a great
many more. worked, and yet every
theologian knows they were all
wrong; and you say so yourself
when you take them all 10 pieces
and look into them. like botan-
let looks NJ a flower: but thank
God. He can and does save people,
and He does n IN a hurry. in spite
OF wrong theology.
Find Salvation Despite Theology
Theology may stand up and tell
you until II Is black In the face that
all the water In the world can't
save a sinner. by his being baptized
in Il: for water has nothing to do
with Il: n Il the blood OF Christ
that saves. and yet everybody who
has got into the kingdom In that
way knows that theology is talk
ing through It's hat, for they tried
II and # worked
Theology viii tell you that Join
ing the church won't lift you to-
ward heaven ar inch and | say II
too. II there Is no faith in Christ
behind it--and yet people join the
church because they know they
must do something or be lost, and
so they blunder toward God the
best they know how. and In their
doing 1t they get a touch from
Christ that saves them through
and through.
1T is a thousand tines better 20
hlunder toward God in the worst
kind OF way than II is TO do moth
ing at all.
Theology will also tell you that
there Is nothing In mourners'
bench. and that YOU may pray TO
your dying day FOR prayer alone
cannot save. and that YOU may take
the communion without getting any
help. or whatever else you will.
and yet never get rid OF your sins
because these things are ali moth.
iEG In themselves. and IL IS true.
every word OF #. just as theoiog'T
says. but poor sinful souls have
tried them. some one, and some
another. and they worked with
them. and they were saved because
they just stepped ont and blum
dered toward God the best they
could as the poor fimid woman did
Thank God that Jesus wasn't a
hair-splitter. that He wasn't hide
bound. and dead set on having ev.
crythlng done IN an iron clad and
legal way. az was the case with The
men with broad phylacteries who
nailed Him 10 thr cross. Just be
cause He wouldn't do their way.
Il thank God tonight Detroit has
the sane kind OF a heart that a
mother has when she sees her little
child fall down Nat when II Is do
ing ia best 10 come 20 her when
she calls II. II He sees us coming
20 Hin heart foremost fIe don't
care how much we slip and slide
with our feet