The Washington times., 1917-02-14

it's YOUR business with God TO wash
those stripes. Right the wrong ana
peace and JOY will come"
The real definition OF religion, the
true definition of it is going back
and rishting the wrong.
preachers have told sinners and
your personal workers have told sin
ners they must believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ and be saved You are
quoting that verse from the Ects
where Paul told the jailer he must
believe.
Remedies Must BE Adapted.
But let me tell you one thing. The
same remedy doesn't apply to every
case. Paul told the jsiIer he must be-
lieve, but IL 1 were to bring Paul to-
night to the rostTum and ask him to
point out to the way to salvation,
he wouldn't repeat that passage OF
Scripture. He'd tell you the remedy
for your particular case"
The story of the conversion of the
jsiler was read by the evangelist. who
then launched into his main thought.
Need Different Prescriptions.
Suppose" he said. II were TO visit
your hospital today and see a patient
over here who has a broken leg, pa
tient over here who has fever, and a
patient over here who has something
else the matter with him. Suppose
after / had visited all the patients in
the place l stood in the doorway OF
that ward and wrote one prescription
for every patient in the place. You
wouldn't have a doctor like that. And
unbelievers won't have doctor who
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must / do to be saved? Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt
be saved
"we've hurled that at SO many sin
ners to whom it didn't apply that 1t
has become as much a classic as that
passage John 3:1G. There are thou
sands and thousands Of sinners who
believe; yes, the devil believes and
trembles, the Bible says. But it isn't
enough to believe. We've blundercd
when we tell the unbeliever to believe.
We ought to tell him more.
Paul told the jailer to believe be-
cause he was an infidel: he didn't be-
lieve there was a Christ as he placed
the two apostles in Jail because they
taught Christ. don't know why
there was an earthquake that shook
that old Jail at Philip; I'll never
know in what way 1t happened that
the light of Christ shone into the
heart of that old jailer, but ! know
that Paul described for him the rem
edy for his case.
There is hardly q man who doesn't
acknowledge a belief in Christ. With
many IL is an intellectual assent, an
assent that will damn"
Cases Are Individual.
The preacher then undertook to IL
lustrate the different methods Paul
used in dealing with the unsaved per-
son, the case of the soothsaying wom-
an who followed him over thescity,
asking that he make her spiritually
whole He didn't tell that woman
to believe" said Mr.. Smith. He
spoke to the devil in her and told him
to come out He took the case Of
Lydia, the beautiful woman whom
Paul led to Christ by pointing out her
sins, and the way to have them for
given.
Timely Illustration.
The preacher then said that religion
was merely righting the wrong; was
going back and making amends for
things that had not been exactly
straight and right.
He told a story about a young WON
an coming to his altar and handing
him a fountain pen. He had been
preaching on the subject OF righting
the wrong. and he knew the young
woman had stolen it. He told her he
couldn't take it. but for her to restore
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