South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-12
HOLDS UNBELIEF
BEGINNING OF SIN
Nothing But Faith and Blood
of Christ Will Open the
Gates of Heaven.

"Revivals. foreign missions. the
whole world can go to hell for all I
care" Numbered Rev. a. Christy
Brown of the Westminster Presby-
eerian church, last night, as ne gave
vent 10 what he declared are the
sentiments Of the unbeliever of to-
day. Taking the sixth verse of the
sixth chapter Of the Gospel OF Mark:
And He usarveled because of their
unbelief," as his text, Rev Brown
denounced unbelief in vigorous
terms
Look at the nature OF unbelief.
II is the beginning Of every sin. If
you have unbelief in your heart you
are on the road 10 perdition. Ewes
sin began in unbelief. Doubling men
slew Christ Why do men not come
and bow before the foot of the
cross? Because of their unbelief
This is what makes il impossible
for man to do anything pleasing
TO God. Without faith il is impossi-
BILE TO do good in Gods sight Good
deeds can only come from the faith
full heart. Unbelief is the fly in the
ointment. the poison in the cup.
Nothing but faith and the blood Of
Christ will open the gates of heav-
en-.
Is Essence Of Sin.
"Unbelief is the essence of sin
itself for has Jesus not said, He that
believeth not is condemned al
ready Take all the vilest sins you
can imagine. blasphemies. profani-
ties, gambling. drunkenness, lust
the essence of them all is unbelief
Peter sank in the sea because of IT,.
The Hebrews, Gods chosen people,
led from bondage, freed from their
enemies. fed, given drink and cloth
ed by God. gave way to unbellef at
the door of the Promised Land.
God does not violate the human
will. He shows man the way 10 sal
walton but leaves il TO him TO choose.
But men please not TO follow God.
They say / don't believe i'm revival
meetings. BY that they show they
don't believe in Pentecost. in the his
tory Of the church of Christ. They
believe in revivals, in everything ex-
cept religion. Another class OF I'M
believers say i do not believe in
foreign missions These do not be-
lieve in Christ when He said. Go,
teach all nations Do they not
known that but for foreign missions
we would not have the light of faith
This spirit of let the world 90 to
hell for all of me- is the Internal
unbelief from which Christ came
down 10 save men.
say There is No God.
Still another class of unbelievers
say There is no God How can a
being with an intellect believe that ?
Would you ride on a train without
an engineer? Do you never ask
where is the thinker of which ev-
erything | see, is the thought? These
atheists brOw-beat the evidence of
nature IL is strange that men will
follow such i'm the track OF a rep
| tile through the mud 10 perditiOn,
rather than follow in the footprints
/ OF Christ on the road 20 glory. 9th
ers admit that there is "A God but
deny the scriptures. The scriptures
tell a wonderful story of comfort
TO the human heart. II there was
proof the scriptures were false. even
then We would like TO believe in
/ them. or would you like TO think
your mother died like a dog--that
/ YOU are only a higher form of an
/ imal?"
a very large congregation at
tended. An excellent choir render
! ed several selections. Leslie Whit
comb of the Mccormick Theological
/ seminary sang "A solo. The sermon
\ for this evening will be on The
Best Flag In the World" and a pat
/ riotic service viii be held. \ prayer
service will take place at $3.50 this
! afternoon.