The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-03-17
THE POWERFUL OLIVER SERMON DELIVERED AT THU

many communities. The world is better in
spots, but it is worse in other spots. Gods
true people, who can follow the leadings
of the Holy Spirit, are purging their con-
sciences from dead works to serve the liv-
ing God Those who are drunken with
pleasure and sensuality are asleep in the
daylight, morally and spiritually speaking.
The saints are better. and the sinners are
worse Paul prophesies in = Timothy the
fourth chapter, third and fourth verses, that
the time will come when they will not en-
dure sound doctrine out after their own
lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers
having itching ears and they shall turn
away their ears from the truth, and shall
be turned unto fables
Breath From He'll
False religions are prospecting as never
before in the history of the world Eddy
anity, or so-called Christian Science which
is the advance agent of the Antichrist and
comes as a breath from hell. has left its
stain and blight not only all over this ma
ton, but has duped gullble humanity in
other parts of the world It's propaganda
declaring that there is no sin, is a warrant
for every conceivable line Of immortality
that the Devil can suggest to men and
women Theosophy with its occultism and
mysticism is equally devilish in character
and soul-blighting in its effects My friend,
Dr. Hayes, Of China, told me that the Simon
pure teaching of Theosophy in the Orient
demands that the women shall not only
wash the feet Of their husbands as an indi-
cation OF their humility and subordinate
,trf, DO hot
shall drink the water The Devil has swung
the pendulum to both extremes, from frigid
formality to frightful fanaticism wherever it
has been possible, Holy Rollers and Holy
Jumpers have devoted their time to the
widest kind of emotional debauchery; while
Others muttering incoherent sounds. have
claimed the Gift of Tongues and some of the
poor dupes who have gone to other coun-
tries thinking they could preach the Gospel
found that they had no message which the
hearers could understand, and they have
been thrown into despair and doubt. Spir-
itsm is being revived again with the help of
a number of English scientists. Sir Oliver
Lodge has recently declared the veil be-
tween this world and the next to be wear
ing thin in places. Modernism has turned
from the doctrine of atheism to pantheism
and has also attempted to palm off the Del
fication of man as a something worthy the
confidence of modern worshipers. So with
are accountable only to the god within and
with the judgment day outlawed in the
minds OF these poor dupes of perdition the
prospect is not encouraging.
Increase of Crime
Crime is on the increase. Murder and sui
eide are both running rampant throughout
the nation In 1882 there were 1900 muir
ders in these United States in 1892 there
we're $500 murders in this country; in 1896
n in fry
in 1910 there were $500 murders and sui
cides and in 1913 there were nearly 10000
murders and suicides. Lawlessness is Off
cially entrenched throughout the nations of
the earth. When a man who denies
the deity of Jesus Christ, can be
elected to the presidency of our country, il
shows that something is radically wrong
with the voters of the nation. Any number
of church members crucified Jesus Christ at
the polls when they voted for the Unitarian
president The mayor of Minneapolis not
very many years ago. offered immunity to
the criminals If they would divide the spoils,
and they sent him to the State prison. The
history of San Francisco, with its den of
political grafters and henchmen makes bad
reading. New York's murder trust does not
clarity the atmosphere; Chicago's officials
do not help the case; the Ohio State legis-
lature investigated by a prominent detec-
tive, furnished material in the line of evil
State prison, and that does not look like
the world getting better very fast. The
complete failure of man in his governmental
system is a reality. The Gentle world sys-
TEN is doomedl
Human government is a colossal farce.
The peace conferences are d huge joke Hy-
prodhobia sweeps the nations, for those
boasting the greatest knowledge and high
est civilization have been bitten by the mad
dogs Of war The bloody battlefeds of Eu-
rope give the lie to the boosted claim that
the world has outlived the days of savagery
and war Science has helped the nations
of the earth to populate hell at a rapid rate,
and atheistic evolution has done little for
the earth when it pretends to have evolved
man from the protoplasmic monad onward
and upward through the monkey kingdom,
via the missing link into his present supre-
macy, when his supremacy involves the
murder of millions upon the battlefields of
apostate Europe, as we'll as the frightful
crimes he commits in the haunts of the
fallen Of both sexes.
Take the race as we find it, and tell you
doubt and godlessness have done nothing
but drag humanity hellward. Every uplift-
ing influence has been borrowed OF stolen
from the light of the Bible. The din and
clatter of the raucous voices of the multi
tudinOus false guides reminds one of the
confusion of Babel. The defense of the ad-
yocates of the present beauty of the age in
which we live Is based on the fact that
Luther Wesley and other men found condi-
tons as bad or worse than they are now
Conditions have been horrible ever since the
fall Of man. and have been steadily grow
ing worse Considering our light, our pres
ent-day educational advantages when the
majority Of the DeOnla can read and write