The Washington herald., 1918-01-31

VI MS HeChp lnen L IL stop. III go
out and sweep the streets for a living
before I'll do that"
and a cold lunch on Thursday night
in prayer meeting.
They get up on Sunday morning
when the bell happens to ring and
you ask them to pray, they will come
back at you: AREN'T you satisfied?
Don't go to church Sunday morn
ing? Don't 1 put little money in the
collection platter"
Yes, but that's all under Heaven a
lot OF you do. That's the extent of
your religion. You don't go any fur
ther."
Then a lot of people outside say,
well, all I see in your religion is go
ing to church and keeping out of mis-
chief"
You have got = big gang here that
don't even do that. Then the man
outside will say, IF you don't get
any more out of 1t than that, I don't
want it. II what you have got is re-
ligion, don't want It"
There you are breeding infidels.
They say of King Croesus that he
had a deaf and dumb son. One day
an enemy slipped up behind the king.
The boy, happening to see the enemy
and seeing the imminence OF the dan
ger, was So overpowered that he
broke every barrier and impediment
in his speech and cried out, Don't
slay the king!"
Recover Speech.
Up in Vermont last summer a tour
ing car ran into an engine. Around
the curve came a fast train from
Boston and knocked 1t into splinters
and toothpicks. The only one that
wasn't killed was a little deaf and
dumb boy Il years of age. The train
threw him clear OF the right Of way
and when he jumped up and saw the
car crushed, and his father, mother,
sister, and brother killed, he cried.
Help! Help! Helpp' He burst every
barrier.
Oh, I should think when you see
men and women are on the road to
hell, you would be willing to do
something to bring the word OF Je-
sus Christ! If you couldn't show
any more enthusiasm than that for
your country, why, costa Rica could
lick US.
II to accept Him would make you
a leper, libertine, adultress, thief.
booze fighter. everything low down.
1 would admire you from the depths
OF my heart for refusing Him. But
when to be a Christian means to be
what God wants you to be, haven't
any respect il you do refuse. I do
not care to know you! Beat 1t! Get
out quick.
I preached in a town in Illinois and
there was a soldier there named
George Dewey. He told this Incl
dent. They had succeeded in turn
ing a detachment of the Confederates
and the Confederates were crying for
help. One of the Union colonels dis
mounted and helped to drag someone
into the shade of a tree. He gave
him something to eat from his KNAPP
sack and something to drink from
his canteen. He wished this Con-
federate soldier we'll and he sprang
into his saddle. The man whom he
had befriended lifted his musket and
through the man that thus befriended
him.
That was an act OF kindness; the
Od6hl " hdNC a iHCudlg lIldI W as
superb; that deserved applause; he
ought to have a medal compared to
the man that keep Jesus Christ out
of his life. He was a gentleman COM
pared with you, in my opinion,
oh. what an ungrateful wretch you
are to keep Jesus Christ out of your
heart and life. Behold, 1 stand at
the door and knock"
NrrAF H1NI
which we preachers take our texts in
our endeavors to preach to you men
and women, to lead you to Gods
ideals.
This book touches on the various
aspects Of man to love. Whatever
else he may be deaf to, he will not be
deaf to love. That is the cord that
has been thrummed through this
world for 1900 years. since the day
that God manifested his love in the
gift of his only begotten Son. Jesus
Christ.
1t is the love of God that enables
you to sit here tonight instead of be-
ing in your coffin. God isn't dealing
with you according to what we de-
serve or rewarding US according to
our iniquities.
Gods Eternal Love.
Where the Son of God hung
bleeding on the cross, that was the
last manifestation of eternal love OF
God to this world. 1t was the very
last, and man repudiated 1t in Bit
terness and blood when they spat
upon him and nailed him to the
cross and drove the spear into his
side.
God said, well. II men will not
reverence my love manifest in the
flesh and blood through my only be-
gotten Son. what can I do to save
them, If they haven't respect for
my love, as have shown it through
Jesus?' ~
You can show your love in a gift
of a coat, money, or food. God
showed his love by the gift of his
only begotten Son. He said, 'If
men refuse that, what can I do. to
keep them out of eternal damna-
tion?"
But they did. and they spurned
him. All have been, or are, or will
be husbands. sons or fathers, and
in the relationship of Father and
Son.. God knew he'd strike the cord
that would find more responses than
any other relationship and appeals
to US on the basis of that relation
ship. My friends, God tried to
block mans way to hell. God did
everything he could and he Is do