The Washington herald., 1918-02-01


or whether speak of myself"
The revised version simplifies that
verse and says: "If any man willeth
he shall know whether / speak OF
myself or for the Lord"
/ have now, and hope and pray
that 1 always will have, sympathy
with any man or woman that has diff
ficulties, intellectual, spiritual or
moral and if by any word-er advice
Of mine. 1 can sweep the cob webs
from your vision and cause you to
see, 1 account the work done Just
as valuable as though 1 have been
privileged to aid some man or wom-
an already a believer into a clear
conception of his or her responsible
ity and obngation to God and the
word.
The skeptics said: 1--WE know you,
we know your mother. your brother,
your sisters, and we know where you
were born. How do we know that
YOU are the Son of God? How do we
know that you are true instead Of
false?''
Jesus said: Ct say I am the Son
Of God. You say am a liar. a fraud,
a devil and a prince of devils.
Would you like to know whether you
will you will know that what you say
is a lie and that what I say is true"
Will to do Gods will and you will
knoY of the teaching. whether 1t be
from God or just /, myself, talking.
Always BE CounterfeIts.
In other words. start out and do
what any honest man will do and
you will not be in the dark. Yet
We have a lot of people trying to
prove the inspirations of Christian
ity by Chewing the rag.
/ suppose as long as the United
States mints stamp coins and make
them worth one hundred cents on
the dollar, there will be found men
who will counterfeit them. But
that does not destroy the value of
the genuine. You think all the
more of il.
You find as long as Gods cause is
going along, you will find men that
will counterfeit it.
New Jesus Christ foretold all this
in His prophecy about the kingdom
of Heaven being like a grain of
mustard seed, and the birds shall
build their nests in the branches.
That prophecy has been fulfilled
50 today in most Of the churches
and you can find anything from a
hungry bird to a turkey buzzard.
If there is any bunch on God AL
mighty's dirt that, have a right to
expect cooperation OF. 1t is the men
who wear the Masonic badge. Yank
il OF or profess your faith.
And there is not a church. either
Catholic or Protestant that has not
L., Ft. L.
any argument against Christianity or
Jesus Christ? II any man uses it
as argument, he is a fool, and te
is jackass of a fool IL he does.
And so 1 tell you that / have a
controversy with the church today,
Catholic and Protestant, and that con-
troversy is the laxity on the part Of
the officials to apply the principles
to men who live in opposition to their
promises and will not stick up for
Gods truth.
You know that many a time our
officials are in such a God-forsaken.
back-sliding condition themselves
they could not consciously apply the
discipline to anybody in the pews
that did not believe in their vows.
That is the trouble with a lot of
you. J We are reaching down into
iquiS where you have pushed them
and because they are weak. then you
turn your nose up and sneer. We
are trying to help them. We would
rather see them in heaven than in
hell.
Whenever you hear 4 man begin to
harp about the inconsistencies in the
Bible. keep your head. II you ever
have to take his note. have some
body 90 the security for him.
Whenever I bring up the memory of
an evil deed before some man he
instantly begins to find fault with
the Bible. begins to harp about the
hypocrites, begins to grOwl about my
vocabulary and mannerisms, says that
I am crude and that I astonish and
alarm and shock Oh. God-it would
take more than that TO shock a lot
of these guys.
Rnps HypOerltes.
You go to a man and talk busi-
ness. he will talk sense. Talk poll
tics with him and he will talk
sense. Go to a woman and talk
business, she will talk sense. Talk
society with her and she will talk
sense. But talk religion and they
will talk nonsense.
'Tf any man will do His will he
shall know" And therefore our
character is in our will. What we
will. we are. You will to be a
drunkard or you will to be a Chris
tiap. You will to be a prostitute.
Every man that walks the streets
of Heaven. he willed he would and
that is why. he is there.
Every man that is in he'll. he will
ed. and that is why hetis there.
A fellow came up to me one time
and asked me-and I seldom preach
a meeting that some mutt does not
ask me this same question: want
to ask you question"
1 said, Sail in"
. He said. Where did Cain gee his
wife,
said. He got her from his IA
ther-in-lav."
Well" he said, "the Bible says
he got her in the land of Nod" and
when an infidel starts in to quote
Scripture. he Is all in.
The Bible says nothing Of the
kind. The Bible says that Cain
knew his wife in the land of Nod
and she conceived and bore a child.
1t always looks sort Of suspicious
to me to see a man so much inter-
ested in some other fellows wife.
I don't think it is Gains wife that
bothers some OF you old Holsters
half as much as it is the wife of
your neighbor.
Adam and Eve had other children
beside Cain and Abel. no matter
whether the first pair came by gem
Grafton. creation or evolution or by
accident They were produced by a
protoplasm