Evening journal., 1916-01-31

matter OF small concern whether
you accept Christ or reject him. I
tell you, my friends, the important
thing tonight is not your catching
cars, but whether or not you are los
ing your soul. A great many more
people are more concerned about a
few minutes sleep than they are
about their souls. Better 10 lose
sleep, / say. than to spend eternity
in hell.
will try to picture it TO you
what II will mean for a soul to be
saved. Eye hath not seen nor hath
ear ever heard what It will mean
to be with the good and godly in the
kingdom OF heaven and under the
leadership OF Jesus Christ. / can
not depict 70 you what IL will mean
for a soul TO be lost. cast into the
outer darkness where there Is wall
ing and weeping and gnashing OF
teeth, TO have the caverns OF the
doomed resound with the walls and
echoes OF your lost soul Lost lost
ciernally LOST
The Gulf Is Fixed.
The more salient truth is that this
great gulf is being fixed Even II we
had no Bible / believe could con-
vince every living person in this
building Of the truth of this gulf be-
ing fixed, OF eternal life and eternal
destruction. ! would do IL by the
consideration OF three great natural
laws. which everyone, whether you
are gody or ungodly, is forced by
his reason TO accept
The first of these is the law OF
cause and effect Whatsoever a man
( sOweth that shall he also reap.
Whether ! have doubt about Il isn't
going to change the fact What do
you have 10 do TO be lost? Nothing
just stay where you are. on the wrong
side OF the gulf BY that law of
5 cause and effect you shall not es-
, cape.
Also by the law OF affinity. that
like seeks like We have that old
e adage that birds OF feather hocl
| together. II does not take family
! long in a new community to find ther
D associates. IN I know the kind OF
company you keep. can tell the
a character OF your life Water always
e seeks its own level.
s Separate in the Home.
But" someone says. do you tel
! me that God is going to separate q
u huband and wife in eternity?" / re
p ply, "A good many OF them are sep
! arated here" do not mean separ
y ated by the divorce courts. but sepa
rated by a difference in desires. FO
example. here Is godly husband
desirous of doing Gods will. and I
society butterfly of a wife who spend
her time gambling over the bridg
; table or going to matinees ant
=. dances. Or, suppose here is a VIII
y that loves her church and the Chris
= tian life. loves prayer and -everythin
y that is good and true. and all her hus
, band cares for, just like a big. two
! footed animal. is for the indulgenc
t. Of his appetites. living for the thine
that arc low and vile and impur
Talk about that husband and wife b'
ing separated in eternity. They an
separated now. Here are two brotl
~ ers. living in the same house. one vi
&c and vicious. and the other god
81 character. In one sense they a
4, near to one another in one way. b
III in another they are 25,0OO mil
d, apart
- For further example Of this con,
q, tion was found in the story Of
II church member. who. desirous to jo
oa his crowd Of picnickers bound for
at point down the Ohio river. board
boat that had been chartered
take a lot OF buns and thugs TO
III prize fight. Around the sides We
e poker tables. on the upper deck the
~ we're wearing out their soles in
- dance on the lower deck they wei
n having a preliminary prize fight. +
~ endured the miserable surrounding
70 until he could no longer stand it. an
u then he rushed 10 the captain. cryin
IN For the love of God. let me of tn
lp boat II you don't, I'll 80 crazy"
oI One of the thugs. missing his boa
re got on the other boat without reali
II ing that 1t was loaded with churC
le people He listened to the songs an
ef the prayers and finally became
w unnerved by the appearance OF
~ =, woman who reminded him Of his ov