The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1917-01-20


out for Cod and will not be satisfied with anything
this side of God.
MONEY Does Not PRODUCE SATISFACTION
Do not the world today seeking for satisfaction
in following the almighty dollar? The most miserable
Gods earth rich Money does not bring
satisfaction Money brings dissatisfaction Money is not
the forerunner conenment the immediate precursor
of discontentment
FAME Does NOT SATISFY
Men may seek office at the hands of their feow-man
They may sacrifice health money time, friends and rela
tves and DEAR all for notorety, but how long will it
last?
One day may be the hero of the nation; the
next day you do not hear of him. One day it is Hosanna
the day it "Crucify Him. One day they throw their
hats into the air. and shout Hurrah the next day it is
"Down with him." Humanity is very tickle
GOD ALONE SATISFIES
After mankind has run after everything else seeking
satisfaction and finding it not they at last must approach
their God Who created hem and Who alone satisfy the
intense longings of mans spiritual nature
NATURE THE SECOND SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
The second source of knowledge of God is nature What
interesting study nature-the sky above U.S. the earth
under feet the mountains and the hills and the rivers
and the plains, the flowers trees and the BIRDS What
wonderful world this is!
Who study nature without seeing natures God? It
the Psamst who, beautiful moonlight night stood
upon Of Judas hills and viewed the moon the stars
and the sky DER his head and said to his God:
"When consider Thy heavens the work of Thy fingers
the moon and the stars, which Thou has ordained;
'What is man, that Thou art mindful of hm?'-
Psalms 1874
On another occasion the Psalmist said
'The heavens declare the glory of God: and the frma
ment showeth His handywork.
"Day unto day uttereth Speech and night unto night
showeth knowledge Psalms 1871, 2.
In study Of nature learn great deal about God
agree with Sam Jones who said 81 love flowers but hate
botany have very little for the long, awbreakng
Names and think that the who does not know them
admire the flowers just much the man who does
know them.
can study the heavens, and admire the stars,
planets the and all the creation God has presented to
vew without technical knowledge of astronomy We
learn good deal about God from nature God has made
beautiful world It is good enough for sin only
removed If sin only taken away, and disease and
DEATH and the curse what beautiful world this would be-
THE BIBLE THE THIRD SOURCE OF knowledge GOD
But these two sources are not sufficient God recog
nzed this therefore He has given the Bible which
means "the books" The word Bible comes from word
which is plural and 'the books" There sixty
six books in the Bible.
This (the Bibe) is the revealed word of God do not
propose to spend any time defending the Bible My bust
is to proclaim it, and look to God to His Word
and to it's proclamation with success.
Unlike books written by men, the Bible is without in
PRODUCTION preface 1t starts with the Words Gin the
beginning God the first Great Cause of all things There
the explanation which scientists have been looking for for
many centuries, and have not found.
have sympathy, of course, with the doctrine of
evolution except that evolution literally and etymoogcaly
unfoding but the doctrine that evolved from
monkeys, do believe for minute and there is only
proof, to my mind, that did from monkeys
and that is the way of them act, Laughter) with
apologies to the monkey have yet seen monkey
smoke cigar put pipe in its mouth. do not think
it would be such fool have never monkey take
bottle of whiskey spew all ITSELF and tumble into the
have do it. In