Arizona republican., 1917-01-31
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Taking for his subject Fools, Evangelist Hart preached to over thousand people last night. He hand led his subject very plainly and spoke many truths which the average mah thinks of many times but is afraid to say The meetings are growing with each night, more interest IS being shown, and many converts have taken d stand for the Christian life.
 Following is an extract from the evangelist $ remarks:
 An engineer discovers a defect in the engine and shuts off the steam, throwing hundreds of men out of work for half an hour while repairs are being made, but somebody comes along. declares the precaution a waste, turns on the steam, the boiler explodes and his life pays for his folly. Sin and a boiler is terrible plaything."
 "A soldier on the field begins pick ing at an uneXploded shell. He is warned to leave it alone. but heeds not and from a safe distance others see him blown to atoms. Sin and a bombshell is a terrible playthlng. Sin l is gigantic enemy to the nation, q shocking calamity to a city, and | damnation to the individual, but the devil has q way of making evil ap- pear good, and we cannot see the | evil of our own sin. Yet I need not telephone to hell, and hear the an guished cries of the lost there, to get the proof of sin and it's awful conse- quences. All l need to do is to look over the newspapers, and read of the murders. thefts, the suicides, to learn the record of it's terrible price. Sin is sin. You rnar burn the bible and the churches. and slay the preachers, but you can't escape sin. It's all enemy. It comes back.
 Fools-Mockers of Sin
 How fools mock sin when they misccnstrue nature; when they say sin is not so bad; that this or that | one is just q little short but it's ugly and damning wherever found, be it great or small We might as well start q little fire in the home. and cover it with rug and then pile on l a mattress to cover it up, but even l tually it breaks out and the whole | house is burned. A little white spot 1 appears on a man, and il is consid 1 cred insignificant, but later 1t is | found he has leprosy and he must SC l out of society crying 'Uncleari' and l be sent to a pest house. It may be l just an innocent card party in tn. 1 nome, that starts a man or a woman 1 into q habit that leads them into
 debasement. developing them into | cheating gamblers and criminals; il
 may be just the innocent dance ir
 the home, from which some sir drifted out onto the rocks in the sea of shame to end in death, damned and lost forever.
 Crime is the breaking of human | law; sin is the breaking of Gods l law. Sin is anarchy rebellion againsi God and while 1t may be buried deer
 in the heart it will break out as the
 fiery lava flows from the volcano's
 heart. despite every effort to cover il
 and suppress 1t. Better not to covel
 il, but to let the precious blood oi Christ cover it and wash it away
 The fool mocks sin when he thinks
 he can touch sin and escape punish
 ment. Reformers may say they have gone out into wickedness and have ! come back. but down in their heart i:
 tho testimony that they are weaker physically: that they have never re
 gained the character that would have
 been theirs had they never taken eX' | cursions in sin. Thank God that Hi
 grace can extend to the greates 1 depths of human degradation and If up and cleanse the guilty soul, bu | even the grace of God cannot proven
 the penalty of sin in the pnysica
 body, nor can the character ever b
 what it might have been had not sil
 held sway for the years of rebellion
 We laugh al the mouse caught in tn
 trap, seeing the bait that was it's un
 doing, knowing that the bait wa
 placed not 10 feed but to catch tn
 mouse. Satan's snares are subtl
 baited. and he never fishes with
 naked book until the sinner Ina
 crossed Gods line and then he wi
 swallow hook. bait. and all"