Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-09-30

need new members half so much as
you need the crowd that is in the
church done over again. Lord help
us. We have got to get down to brass
tacks about this thing. The ungodly
crowd is just laughing at US poxing
fun at us, and they have a reason to |
do so too.
The New Birth
will tell you some things that
are not the new birth. Going to
church is not being a Christian, yet
when people have the new birth that
is the first thing they want to do.
When people have the new birth they
will he found In the church of God
on Sunday. ! go to some people and
say, Are you a Christian?" And
they say, Il want you to know L
am church member" Why bless
your heart, lots OF church members
have gone to hell
The place for you IS III the house
of God. But don't you think because
you put your name on the church
roll and belong to the record of some
brick and mortar you are saved. j
Lots of people take the cup of com
munion here but they have never tax
en- the cup of salvation. 1t is an awful
thing to be lost from the church
door step.
A lovely character isn't the new
birth. Some people think because they
are lovely and kind in disposition and
have beautiful characters they have
the new birth. You have nothing to
boast of if You hate everything that
is wrong and evil. You inherited that.
Perhaps if some girls here were born
under the same condition and had
the same environment the girls in
Chicago have you wouldn't be one
bit better than they. | ought to- be
good My mother put such a hatred
in me for tobacco and liquor and
things that are evil that | ought to
be good. don't know the taste of
tobacco never passed my lips. got
into other sins and nearly broke my
mothers heart, but | can't bear the
smell of tobacco. ! can't bear to get
on the street car where there are
lot of old geezers smoking 1t makes
me sick and want soda or bromo
settler to settle my stomach. Then
here is another fellow with a de-
PRAYED appetite born right in him.
God help me il ] don't help him.
had mother that watched me;
mother that warned me- mother
that helped me. ! ought to be good.
And so had you. People say, | liver
murdered anybody" Sure you didn't
You would be in the penitentiary if
you had And they say Il live clean
life" Common decency requires that
you be clean, but God requires some
thing else. He says, ''Ye must be
born again" ie demands your life,
your service.
If we had photographer who would
take the picture Of peoples hearts he
would starve When people have their
pictures taken the photographer has
to take off all the pimples, and all
the wrinkles, and all the warts and
moles and crow-footingps and turkey
footing, and blemishes and you hard
ly know them when you see the pic
ture and then see the original People
din't want picture that doesn't fiat
ter them. The trouble is we nave
been iattering ourselves on our love
Illness. 43G
There are people who are cultured
and refined and who talk about
Shakespeare but if you could see
their life as God Almighty sees It'll
you would be absolutely amazed. o,
don't you tell me you don't need toll
b born again
Is Your Heart Right?
The heart Is deceitful above all
things If you don't believe it you
ask God to show you your own heart.
Your heart-my heart, until we are
regenerated by the power of God the
Bible SAYS is "deceitful above all
things and desperately wicked" How
many times some one you know viii
do some wicked thing and you will
say, Il never dreamed they would
do that?' Yet they are thinking that
in their heart before they committed
the deed Som people think ii they
don't murder some one they are all
light. yet they have have hatred in
their heart, My Bible says. Whose
aver hateth his brother is murder
err" Listen God doesn't look at the
outward appearance. Where does God
look at Tell me- At the heart. "Out
of the heart are the issues of life.
Man looketh on the outward APP
Pearance but the Lord looketh on
the heart "Ye justify yourselves
before men, but God knoweth the
heart"
SO many people want their heads
right and are so particular about heir
grammar and never take thought
about their hearts whether their
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