The Washington times., 1918-01-06

and punish the wicked. and although
We are made in the image of God.
although nobody has seen God at any
| time, there must be a medium of
| communication, there must be a dark
ened glass that will soften the rays
of the heavenly bedazzIements. AS
Moses had to veil himself when he
came from the Mount so the people
could look upon him, so there must
be. my friends, something that will
bind celestials to terrestrials in this
world. As the moon reflects the glory
OF the sun, so we are rejecting, my
friends, the power of God.
Holy Spirits Work.
I do not find God coming in ply
steal contact-no, that's the work of
the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is
the Fathers voice seeking to win and
WOO you from the paths of sin to
those OF righteousness and of truth.
He is the aurora that shines to IL
Illuminate the pathway that God wants
you to walk in, and he is the
Fathers voice that makes you open
your ears and makes you responsive
to the influences that would bring
you on your knees. He is the kiss,
and the incense that sweetens the at
mosphere and perfumes your life:
he is the love that woos with
smile: he is the aurora. l say, that
shines to help you.
l do not find God working with
his hands like you work with your
hands or l work with mine. When
God wanted to build the universe
what did he do? Oh, he spake and
the Holy Spirit separated the land
from the sea and he put the noun
tains out on the frontiers OF the uni
verse until they looked like senti-
nels on picket duty, tossing their old
snOw-cOvered heads $4,000 feet in the
air like hocks of Sheep feeding on
the hillsides OF the skies. He changed
the heaven into a marching. choral
society when the evening stars sang
together in the twilight Of the CEN
turtles. "He sendeth forth thy spirit
and they are renewed" and Thou
reneweth the face of the earth" I
read, and THE earth was without
form and void and darkness was up
on the face OF the deep" Perhaps
that is what Jesus meant when he
said, III yc had faith so much as a
grain OF mustard seed, We shall say
unto this mountain, Remove hence
to yondcr place; and it shall remove:
and nothing shall be impossible unto
you" Therefore, when God Wills,
the Holy Spirit does an act, accom-
plishes material phenomena.
Sun Awaited High Ball.
When Joshua fought the battle. he
saw that the sun would go down and
it would be dark before he could fin
ish the conflict. lie said, Lord, it's
taking me longer than I figured out.
and il you've got some way just to
prolOng this day and keep the sun
from behind the western hills. I'll
lick this bunch to a FRAGILE and I'll
send your name ringing down through
the ages" And God reached up and |
grabbed the sun and said, You stay !
there and don't move an inch until |
Joshua gives you the high ball"
He accomplished material phenom- |
ena in this old world. Samson, with |
the spirit of God on him. could take |
the jawbone OF an ass and fay a |
thousand Philistines. Samson alone, |
without the spirit Of God. was as
weak as a newborn babe, and the |
church of God today. with all her |
wealth. with her vested choir. her pipe |
organs and her numbers. without |
Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost, be-
comes four walls with a roof over
her and a pipe organ built up in the |
corner and a preacher doing stunts |
two times one day out OF seven.
Who is the spirit of God? There /
Is no force on earth or in hell that
ran stand the onward march of the
church Of Jesus Christ and his truth.
Best Way To Get Il.
The best way 10 grasp SCriDtural !
truth is to compare Scripture with
Scripture. The greatest danger. as I
see II today, is egotistical seIf-cCn-
tent. a lot OF people don't give n
yhoop whether anybody goes to hell.
1r where they go, so long as thcy
themselves are saved. Egctistical
self-contentment Is one of the curses
IF the world and of the church. y
nan will not walk to a precipice and
cap over with two good eyes and a
good head; no captain would put to
sea without the chart OF the pilot
and the compass. for Il is by the
rembling of that tiny needle that she
an leave the harbor at New Yorl, and
inter the habOr OF Liverpool and
never deviate two miles unless driven
by a storm.
VIII Wink Too Far.
oh, death turks in the poisoned cup
as well as il CLEANS upon the point
II the poinArd or glistcns upon the
barrel OF the gun. Satan plumes him
self into a dove Of light and he
sharpens his fangs and injects his
enom. The flowers fade and the sun