The Washington herald., 1918-02-10
EVENING SERMON
"Seek Ye The Lord"

next time the train goes out, some
one else is in the cab.
Seeking for wealth-no life Is too
lonely, no journey too long, no yoy-
age too severe, no labor too hard, no
task TO repulsive! Go out in Colo
RADIO. The mountains are all tunneled
with holes where men have prospect
ed. looking for the glittering gold
Men will go to the deserts of Africa
and to cold Alaska looking for wealth.
Another thing people seek after is
pleasure. They will neglect business,
and their families, and go to prema-
ture graves, simply gratifying an
ambition for pleasure.
People will sell themselves into the
slavery OF sin. for the qualification
of pleasure. and they viii give up
hours they should have devoted to
self-impTovement for the qualification
of pleasure. They will break the laws
of health and stumble into premature
graves to crafty their ambition for
pleasure.
II you would seek God with the
perseverance that you seek pleasure
Go down town tonight, through
cabarets and hotels and the haunts
Of sin. Look at them tonight, What
for? Seeking for pleasure. Oh, IL
they'd seek God like they seek that,
there wouldn't be a one of them that
would put their head on a pillow and
go to sleep with the wrath of God
with them. Heaven would be smiling
on them instead of hell leaping up
and cheering
Another thing that people seek after
is the qualification of their ambition.
You let a man become ambitious for
the accomplishment of anything in
the world. and he is spoiled for every
thing else although the ambition may
be cOmmendable
Ambition for Heaven.
\ man becomes ambitious. He sue
ceSds in politics. in war. he succeeds
in science, in discovery. 1t is all COM
mendable. certainly, / applaud n man
who is ambitious, but Great God. Why
shouldn't a man be equally ambitious
to go TO heaven? Why should he be
ambitious to turn his back on God?
That's all am asking.
Seek We the Lord. In seeking
health. there is no sure way to find it.
You may go to the doctor until your
money is gone. and then you'll be dis
appointed. YOu may seek life under the
surgeons knife. and you will find
shroud and a coffin. You may lose
out.
Men have devoted their lives 20 seek
ing gold. only to find nothing in the
end. and die in squaIor ana poverty.
Pleasures! oh. they fit by like but
tcriliCs. Ambitions, Oh. they fail and
dissolve like ice in a summer sea. But
the man who seeks God ia always sure
to find a rich reSlrd. To find God is
to find everlasting good. To find
fortune may be to find sorrows. Those
who have no money are not ALWAYS
poor, and those who have il are often
tines far from being rich.
\ fellow was converted in one of my
meetings one time. He was a painter
and had his shOp over a saloon. |
said:
Jack. you will either change your
paint shop or you'll change your
partner. You will either say goodbye
20 God or mOve-as sure as you live
lie gave me the laugh, but l had
ii .ght. 1t wasn't long before we
saw Jack staggering down the street.
He wouldn't foTsake the old spot and
get a new place. He couldn't win out.
Call ye upon the Lord and let him
return" The best words. my friends
in the English language. or any other
language. are little words. God, home,
heaven. children. peace. rest. hope.
wife. mother. children, Jesus. Let
Him come back
Oh. don't your reason and your COM
mon sense say when you have done
wrong? Stop and do right, Oh. how
the men in the death house waiting
for 1000 volts of electricity, now they'd
like to get back and start over. They
never would take the path that led
them to prison.
That girl never would take the path
that led her to the redlight district,
That fellow never would take the path
that led him to a drunkard's grave,
my friends-no, no.
Let Him return Let Him re-
turn" Every step the prodigal took
away from home was worse for him
and worse for the father, too Oh. sin
smites like a two-edged sword 1t
not only cuts the sinner, but 1t cuts
other people, too. God knows it's bad
enough. folks, II only sinners suffered.
I'd work just as hard as l do, if you
were the only one that suffered, but
your wife has to suffer. your mother,
your children-oh. it hurt that girl to
go down into the life OF sin. 1t hurt
her mother. too. 1t hurt her brother.
1t hurt her father. 1t hurts them, and
they spend sleepless nights, rolling
upon pillows of insomnia-oh, yes!
1t hurts that young man when he
goes down the line with that God
forsaken gang. that gormandize on
virtue. and make lieentious comments
upon the symmetrical form and beau
tiful face OF every girl they meet and
see upon the street. until he staggers
into his mothers arms with the dew
OF youth still upon his brow-oh, it
hurts him. Great God, haven't you
got sense enough to see that it hurts
his mother, too,
Sin cuts with a two-edged sword. 1t
cuts the guilty, 1t cuts the innocent.
Let Him return. Let Him return"
Sin Cuts Like Sword.
1t hurt that husband to be false
to his marriage vows, and his wife
gritting her teeth, with the tears
rolling down her cheeks-she is
hurrying to a premature grave,
rather than to make public the dis
grace and bring it upon the family,
by applying for q divorce. So inch
by inch. she Is nearing the grave.
Hurt that husband?-oh. it hurt
that wife, who swore amid the per-
fume Of the orange blossoms, to be
true as long as she lived.
Sin cuts like a two-edged sword,
Nothing Is more true than that a
siner destroys not only himself
hfIf annfhaH naraor rxylo l.