Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-12-18

ready to be executed and suppose my
friend and your friend, the governor,
should say, L want to see the evidence.
The circumstances in that case were
somewhat extenuating, enough in my
opinion to justify executive clemency to
the extent 1 am going to pardon that
fellow
And he sends word down to the
warden. The warden goes into the
lighthouse, and he goes in and says,
Cheer up, L have good news for you
Here's a pardon from the government,
and your wife and children are in an
auto waiting out in front and you can
walk out from behind these walls in the
sight of the commonwealth and no man
can lay hands on you. You are free
1T would seem that man would be
happy now, wouldn't it? And he'd say
to his wife about midnight, Wife, I've
got to leave you. Just now heard the
voice of the man whose life 1 took,
just now 1 saw his face pleading and
must go
but, husband, the governor has par.
doned you
Eyes. the governor has pardoned, but
the governor hasn't justified
where will he go to get away from
the fact that he committed that? Where
will he journey? To the uttermost cor
ners of the earth?
You go to man and say, Did you
ever swear?
Yes
"Lie? or drink
Ives, but 1 never was happier in my
life than l am now
God hasn't only pardoned that man
but has justified him and made him as
though he never did it. That is the
gospel of Jesus Christ. When God par
dons, God justifies and makes it as
though you never did it so, therefore
you are free through faith in Jesus
Christ the Son of God. BY faith in Him
are saved.
Death Will Make Mo
Change in Your Character
Il say death will make no change in
your character. Let me illustrate. In
the 10th chapter of Luke we are told of
a certain beggar who fed from the
crumbs which fell from the rich mans
table. And it came to pass that they
both died and the rich man, we are
told, went to hell.
land in hell he lifted up his eyes.
being in torment and looking, he could
see lazarus in the bosom of Abraham
"He cried out and said, Send some
one with water to moisten my parched
lips
They cried back and said, There is
a great gulf between me and thee fixed
so that 1 can not get to thee neither
canst thou get to me-
And he said: Send someone back
from the dead. I have a brother on
earth
"They shouted back: They have Mo
ses and the prophets. let them hear
them
Now, I am here. and when left the
earth my brothers were living the same
kind of a life l lived and l know if
they do not repent they will come where
1 am and if you will send somebody
back from the dead, I think they will
believe and they will listen to them
I'm hell that mans mind was active.
All we know about the future the Bible
has revealed. In hell that man remem-
bers the kind of a life he'd lived on
earth, he remembered that kind of a
life brought him there and in hell he
remem bered he left five brothers back
on eorth and they were all living the
same kind of life he lived and they
were coming to where he was.
There isn't man or woman in hell
that wouldn't warn you to keep out if
they could only come up here to talk
to you. If God Almighty would let me
go down to hell and pReach one sermon
and give the invitationSI could depopu-
late hell in fifteen minutes. While they
that are in there want to get out, you
poor fools are breaking your necks to
get in That's what I can't understand.
"'How shall we escape if we neglect
so great salvation"
Death will make no change in your
character and you will remember all
through an unending eternity"