The Washington herald., 1918-01-27

ana based upon the tmnufable. frrevo-
cable word of God. then you can 20 Il
bed and go to sleep IL your opinion
Is based upon the word of God. A
great many people fiattsr themselves
that they are going 10 be saved be.
cause they know a great deal abou
religion or about Jesus Christ You
knowledge win not have you IL thal
Ia all. -.
Noah's carpenters knew Just al
much about that ark as old Noah did
they knew IL was made to meet tht
deluge, they helped to buiid 1t, but
when the flood came they were JUS
as helpless as the fellow that lived
thousand miles away. Their knowl
edge didn't save them because they
weren't in the ark. Your knowledgs
won't save you unless you are led u
faith I'm Jesus.
Another man says, ''Well. I'll de,
eide sou1etinne. not now. There 1.
plenty of time? God Almighty doesn't
promise to give you thirty seconds by
the watch. If you will prove to ma
where God promises you one minute
I'll quit right now. Behold! Now ID
the accepted time. Now is the day
OF salvation"
No man can say today what h,
will do or where he will be tomor.
row. My spirit shall not always
strive with man"
To put of doing an important thins
for an hour means that you may pu
it off forever. 1t means that God may
never give you another chance to DE-
it.
When Peter the Great lay dyinl
he called for pen with which q
sign his will, but his fingers were too
weak and he died with the will un
signed. Golden opportunities nevei
knock twice on the same door and u
God Almighty is not knocking at thu
door OF the heart of this town. He
never has.
Caesar Augustus, a few momenti
before he died. asked the friends tha
stood around his bed IL they thought
he had acted well bis part. Receiv
ing an answer in the affirmative HI
said. with a smile, let me go OF
the stage then with your applause
The stage was in vogue in those days
wish. my friends, that you mel
and women would stop and consider
what impression your lives are max
ing on people with whom you live
What effect that you are going tc
leave behind?
Fer Funeral 0rations.
Now. let the buffoon and the sa'
tireE and the moralists and the mer
or the women that live for the graf
itiCations of their desires, let then
consider well within themselves. wheI
their bodies are in the grave anC
their souls have passed on. whether
il will rebound TO your praise TO have
II said you wore the finest clothes
or you lived in the finest house. yor
was a good mixer, you was higf
roller, you had the best of everything
oh. these are very common topics fol
funeral orations, / admit all that. JUS
stop and ask yourself, was it wortf
while for you to come into the worlc
and do what you have done? Wouldn'
the world have been a darn sight bet
ter II some OF you had never com'
into It? Just ask yourself. on th'
level. Ask yourself, ] am not accus
ing you.
Now what has this city today tha
she wouldn't have had il you hadn
come? What has this city today tina
she would be better of if she didn'
have that you have given her? Wha'
has have you done for this city that
has made IL better shat they have
counted you as one Of :he population
Just consider well within yourself
when you leave the world IL il wa:
worth while for YOU to come into Il
and do no more for the world thar
some of you HOLSTERS have GCne. That;
all you are doing.
Another said, why. Bill. I've
nothing TO do with it. When Goo
wants to save me, He will"
oh. is that so? Well. you've go
another guess coming. Budd.
Now. you say. Il am waiting fo'
Gods time" when all the time y"r
are sure of it now. II you arr
waiting for Gods time, get mp anc
come down. This is Gods time
now. II you are honest. You arr
not honest, you are a liar. oh,
mean just what 1 say! Now is God''
time and If you are waiting fol
Gods time then do 1t now. The
other is the DEVILS.
Time TO Repent.
Gods time for you to repent is thu
instant that you know you ar,
wrong. Gods time for you to de.
eide is NOW. Gods word is ir
the present tense all the way
through. Not to take the right
step now may mean that you will
never have another chance to do 1t
In Denver while ! was preaching
a man put himself in the hands OF
a surgeon, friend of mine. DR.
Perkins, who was one OF the mer
summoned out to Butte, Mont,
when United States Senator Clark
wife lay dying. a very brilliant sur
geon of the West. During the meet
ing that man put himself under the
hands of a surgeon for slight
operation. He never gained con-
seriousness. He was at the meeting
the night before and a friend q
mine urged him to take Jesus
Christ.
Had he known he was going to
die the next day don't you think he
would have decided the question
then and there? Do you know you
won't die tomorrow?
One night in Pittsburgh. my
friend, Mr.. Peck. the vice president
OF the Pennsylvania Railroad, came
down TO the Tabernacle with brass
bands and brought five thousand OF
the employees down to the Taber-
nscle and among those who came
forward was a man who was q
brakeman and that night 1t was
stormy and they took a freight car
in on the side track. He didn't see
the car coming and it ran over him
They took him to the Allegheny
Hospital and he was unconscious
seven hours. He looked up at the
nurse and smiling, he said, Tell
Bill hit the trail last night" and
he died.
He said, Tell Bill hit the trail
last night"
p All he ever said. but he will have
an. eternity to rejoice to think he
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