The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-28
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: smiling She was marrying a bank
or who was very rich
AS they reached the front a wo
man heavily yelled lifted her veil
and the bridegroom cried out:
my God. is that you?''
The woman said Yes. here Is
your child. have kept him for
four wears Now you take him for
"A while
THE bridegroom was gasping for
! breath and tho bride-tO-be tainted
and was carried out The audience
| flew In terror and soon there was
nobody left in the church but the
| groom and his 4-year-old boy crying
/ for his mother.
THAT was not repentance because
| the banker was sorry for what ne
/ had done.
Repentance isn't promising or re
solving 20 do better Why, the devil
will let you do that every day in
the week, n you are willing 10 let
II &c at that
81 don't believe there has ever
been wicked man In Detroit who
was not continually promising him
| tolf that he WAS going 10 turn over
/ new leaf Why, bless you, ! knew
when | had done wrong az well as
/ Amy Christian in this house.
NO man can take advantage or
another IN a trade and feel Hike st
saint about IT afterwards even II he
never saw a Bible or heard a ser
mon preached.
NO man can ruin a trusting NO.
man without despising himself for
! II The woman who has deceived
her husband knows that she has
sinned whether she ever goes TO
church or not.
you don't have 20 go 10 church
| 10 know that Won are doing some
| thing wrong You don't have to
listen 10 my preaching to know that
| you are going TO hell--you know
| that Repentance Is more than
feeling sorry and promising TO do
! better II is going 10 God acknoW
Lodging your sins and accepting Je.
sus Christ a. your Saviour.
There is something that keeps
YOU from the arms of Jesus don't
know what it is, It is none OF my
business. but you will have to give
it up or you will lose your soul
For the prodikal son, repentance
meant leaving the hog pen and
going back to his father house and
saying Father, | have sinned For
simon Peter IL meant leaving the
sea to follow Jesus. and for you IL
will mean 10 do whatever is needed
10 make you right with God
when John the Baptist said 20
King Herod, Repent he meant
get right with God at once, for
now is your chance.
Some OF you here may never
hear another sermon Herod was a
King and had a high position above
his people And in this il may be
that you are like him. You may be
high up in life high up In society
high up In the rating OF Dun and
Bradstrects Il Is hard tor YOU to
got down on your knees and saw
God, be merciful to me a sinner
But that doesn't make any differ
enCe with God.
you may live on Cass-ave.
or in The rCd-llght district You NAV
/ live I'm palace Of twenty-five rooms
OF hovel OF one room You %il
uio and 90 10 hell II You don't re
pent The Lord makes no compari-
son There is no favorItism with
God
.peter Cartwright Was once
preaching 10 great audience at
Nashville. and was dcnouncing sin
in the fearless way for which he
was noted when General Jackson
was shown in.
-----rrr1r- rraN said 10 The preacher.
Don't talk so loud General
Jackson has just come in
Well let me tell General Jack
son that il he don't repent ne viii
be as certain 10 60 to hell as a
guinea niger cried Peter Cart
wright
And General Jackson afterwards
shook hands warmly with the cour
aCooas preacher and told him he
was right
thFTF are no favorites with IT Il
God commands the millionaire to
repent and II he don't ne will go 10
hell the same as the bootblack who
is shining his shoes In the barber
shop The society woman will los"
her soul just as quick as the maid
who waits on her, If she don't re
pent. The things that God is against
are The things YOU have 10 give NJ.
Repentance means doing wHat
God commands YOU. There can be
no compromise with God
soon after Gypsy Smith was con
vorted well-meaning old brother
said 10 him
~ suppose you have time
every night when YOU fix up with
Cod for whatever you have done
wrong during tho day
Gypsy was horror-struck and re-
piled No. I would never do that.
God shows roe that 4 have done
wrong the very minute did 10 and
nx II up with Him then
The trouble with most OF YOU
folks Is that you try 10 DO business
on The passbook plan with God and
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