The Washington herald., 1918-01-27
Sunday Explains !" The Reas0nQbleness OF Christi

| in the same fix. you will be headed
on a sidetrack with a switch lock II
| you simply depend on your church
membership.
Exempted by Napoleon. o
Napoleon once sent out an order
| for a draft and . man was drafted
1 who didn't want to go, and, fof a sum
In his place. He went into the army
and was killed. A second draft was
4, ordered by Napoleon and this man
! said, You can't take me, I died on
1 the battlefield
The officer said, you are crazy"
He said, THE law has no claim on
me, am dead. sir. tell you, look
at the rolls"
They carried the case to Napo-
leon and Napoleon said. He Is right
When his substitute died It was the
same as he dying. That man went for
that, SO the law had no claim on
him."
When I accept Jesus Christ, I am
free from the law, when a man is
pardoned by the governor from the
penitentiary, the laws of New York
have no claim on that man, he is
free. When he serves his time, he
can walk out there and the law has
no claim on him, When 1 accept
Jesus Christ as my Saviour, am free
from the law by my faith In Jesus
Christ.
was a sinner, but I accepted
Christ as my substitute, so | am per-
fectly free.
Another man says, Il am no MUIR
derer or adulterer. I am not pro-
fame"
| Well. 1t hath been said by them
OF old times Thou shalt not COM
init adultery. but 1 say unto you. he
who is angry unto his brother with
out cause Is a murderer"
Sin begins on the inside like dis
ease. 1t hath been said by them of
old times, Thou shalt not commit
adultery, but l say unto you, as a
man thinketh in his heart so he is"
Base In His Heart.
| According to the highest author
ity in the world, a man might be
as faultless as Joseph in his con-
duct and yet a base Iibertine in his
heart for tho Bible says so. The
decaloues are not ten laws. The
ten commandments are not ten laws,
they are simply one law-that's all!
Whoever breaks one commandment,
breaks all. for they are all one law
all through. And so IL you break it
in spirit you break 1t in act.
'Whosoever shall keep the whole
law and offend 1t in one point. he Is
guilty of ALL"
In England the archers used to
shoot an arrow through a ring and
II an archer failed to shoot one
through, he'd be called a sinner, 1t
wasn't a question OF whether you
got nine through or one. it's wheth-
er you got all through or not. Who
soever offended against one point is
guilty of all.
Out in a penitentiAry in a West
ern State there is a man serving a
life sentence for killing his wife. /
know this man. talked with him.
Several years ago ne was released
on parole. or during good behavior.
A few weeks later he was found in
a room in a hotel with a lewd wo-
man. He had to go back for life.
After his return ] saw him and l
talked with him. The man offended
on one point and that automatically
returned him to the penitentiary
to serve his life. He just offended
on one point.
Oh, to try to get to heaven by
good performances, oh, that's the
grossest kind of foolishness! 1t is
impossible /, think, for any man or
woman to go from the cradle to the
grave without often falling in ,sin.
But sin Is in the heart, not in the
hand. A man with neither legs nor
arms, can hate, he can covet, he can
L.
the man who could strike another
dead must first hate the other one
in his heart.
Body An Instrument.
And IT Is not the body that sins.
The body is simply the instrument
and il your body pulls the trigger
and shoots a man IL isn't your body
that did it. it's your soul that did
it and your body was simply the in
strument to do what your soul told
1t to do. Your body doesn't sin. II is
your soul that does the SHINING. So
if your soul Is wrong then you are
all wrong. So I know what kind of
a soul you've got by what you make
this body do.
II you make this body go into a
booze joint and hit the booze know
,
of a man who has lost his health and
we sympathize with him. Our hearts
are drawn out with pity. Another
has lost his wealth and that is very
sad. Another has lost his reputa-
tion and that Is sadder still. An
other has lost a loved one and our
hearts all ache, but what are the
loss of the soul compared to all
these things? And IL we have no sin.
we make God a liar. One must feel
nightly uncomfortable in the pres
ence of God after he has told the
Lord He is liar.
Is the man who tells God He is
liar good enough to go to heaven
I'll let you answer that question. II
we say we have no sin we deceive
ourselves and the worst of all de-
ception is self-deception. 1t is bad
enough to be deceived by a stran-
ger it is worse to be deceived by a
friend. it is frightful to have a wife
deceive her husband or vice versa.
heart rending to have the children
deceive their parents, but a thou
sand times worse to deceive yourself
and you are deceiving yourself if
you think you are going to go to
| heaven by your good works.
| The Jews crucified Jesus because
they didn't believe what He consid
cred himself. namely the Son Of
God. This is the greatest and most
woeful mistake of all history. but it
is repeated by men and women right
here every day.
False Things Hated.
The man hates the person or thing
! that he regards or believes to be
| false and we are lifted heavenward
or we are hurled hellward accord
! ingly as we hate.
! Judas got cIose ANGUISH to JesrIS