Evening journal., 1916-02-11
His Golfers are full. He has riches
untold.


I'm the child of a King.
The child of a King.
With Jesus my Saviour,
I'm the child Of a King.
What place is there for gloom and
sorrow in the life Of the Christian.
when he is strengthened and sustain
ed by this sublime truth? To think OF
being an heir Of God here, and joint
heir with Christ hereafter. to sit in
heavenly places throughout tho ages
ought to thrill the soul Of every child
Of God and lift him above the petty,
sordid trials Of the passing moment.
Let us now proceed TO cOnsidera-
ton Of the next fact that every one
is not a child Of God. There are two
distinct classes brought out in the
Scripture. Il is evident between the
two sons Of Adam, Cain and Abel;
between the sons Of Abraham, Isaac
and Ishmael, the one was the child
of promise. the other the child OF
bondage. This same division was
marked between the sons Of Isaac
Jacob and Esau. One class are called
the children OF promise, the children
Of the Kingdom. the children OF light,
the children Of obedience, the chill
dren of God. The other class are call
ed the children Of this world. the
children Of wrath, the children OF
darkness. the children Of disobc-
dience. the children Of the devil. No
one can belong TO both classes. BY
your own choice. you become mem
Der of the one division or the other.
If everyone was by nature a child
OF God, then there would be no need oil
regeneration The Apostle, in his
epistle to the Ephesans, said. We
are by nature children of wrath BY
the physical birth man becomes a
child of the earthly parent; by the
spiritual birth man becomes q child
Of the Heavenly Parent. But says
some one, Did not God create all
mankind?' Yes. God created the hos
and the horse, but no one would rca'
son for a moment that the fact that
since God is their Creator implies also
that God is Their Father. To Nico
demus. the highest type Of the earthly
man, Jesus declared, You must be
born again. Except a man be borr
again. he cannot even see the KING
dom Of Heaven"
Moreover If every one was by ma
ture a child OF God, then some woul'
he children Of God against their viii
Salvation by compulsion is inconceiv
earthly father without your consent
but YOU become a child Of the Heaven
" Father only with your consent
Furthermore. il everyone was by ma
ture a child OF God. everyone
would be saved. for the Scripture dis
tinctly says. "If children. then heirs.
There is no heresy which has been
more disastrous to religion than tina
of universal salvation. The ole
Quaker spoke truly when he said, Il
the Universalist. III your religion u
true, we do not need it, if it is false
I'VE are better of without IT," When
ever anyone is inOculated with tina
false doctrine that everyone will b
, saved. it absolutely paralyzes IN
2 power and effectiveness for Christia
4 service.
{ Senator George r. Hoar, OF Mass5
p chusetts. was invited some years ag
to speak before a convention Of sc
b called Liberals, down at ST. Louis. |
s his address he made this significar
A statement. "The trouble with you pee
, pie is that you do not believe any
81 thing" To accomplish great result
you must have a great creed. e.
e. little group Of churches" said he, Il
my native city, who believed tn
! Bible. that the man that accepts Jesu
Christ is saved, and the man that re
iects Jesus Christ is lost, have give