The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-18
BREACHES . ID PRESbyTER|ANS SUNDAY MORNING
Occupied South Highlands Church Pulpit, Preaching on Love" to Capacity
 Audience

Dr. George R. Stuart, pastor Of tne First Methodist church. filled the pulpit tat the South Highlands church yester- day morning. delivering one of his not ably brilliant sermons on the subject Love" The large auditorium was | filled to capacity.
 ! He prefaced his sermon with the re- mark that it was the same subject ne had used at the First Methodist church the Sunday before, the stress Of con ference. war work and other matters interfering with the preparation of new one. If any of you slipped OH Hast Sunday and heard me, VIII punish iyou by repeating the sermon then jnreached.l If any of those who heard me then have slipped over here today, h will punish you by repeating H. ne said.
 pr. Stuart said the word Hove" was Ifreouently misuseds that persons were ,heard to say they loved turnip greens lthat they loved horse; that they ioVeo imusic; that they loved flowers; that lthey loved their wives; that they loved ltheir children; that they loved their husbands. They don't stop to analySe the meaning Of the word; just use It lindiscrininately, applying the term 10 whatever meets their approval or lpleases their fancy.
 ,God love a sinner when He condemns ia sinner" he said. You say how can iGod love a sinner when He condemns lhimi tf eternal punishment? But God lloves man on earth he loves him Tn lheaven, he loves him In he'll
 1 He illustrated the point by telling the Istory of the lost sheep, the prodigai
 son and other parables related in the
 Bible, and added that though God loves the sinner he does not love sin
 WORDS CONFUSED
 "The trouble is,' he said, "that peo- Iple are disposed to confuse the words
 love and esteem"
 Judas the traitor, Thomas the in- lfidel, Peter the liar, Matthew the money ! lmonger, and what more detestable char lacters are to be found anywhere than ,, jthe traitor, the infidel, the liar and the money mongere Yet God loved Judas He loved Thomas, He loved Peter and
 He loved Matthew" he declared. when Judas, who had betrayed Jesus for 8 few pieces of silver, put his foul lips , lagainst Christs cheeks He did not turn : !away from him. He did not hate
 Thomas for his infidelity; He did not lhate Peter for his .lying He did no' l hate Matthew, money monger thougf : inc was He loved them." ss
 Love throws a mantle of charity lover ones sins" he said, and by way O. illustrating the point he said that Il This nose offended his friend piece O
 gauge would hide it and to that frient 7 he had no nose; or if his friend did no ', like his mouth, a handk man . tle would conceal it and to that frient [ he had no mouth; So with the sin
 one may. have, those tharafove him wii
 mantle that sin with charity and no b |cease to love him.
 | SHEPHERD AND THE LAMB y When the shepherd missed the on t Isheep did he gather up the ninety-and l lnine and say, You poor old lamb, vol
 lain't no good, anyhow!' and go hom
 Iwith his ninety-and- nine? No. he wen in search of the one and when he foun T it he picked 1t up in his arms, becaus . lit was weak, and carried it home. Q "A man had five sons. One of then a took his portion of his fathers estat
 and went away He spent his substanc
 in riotous living among bad people an . when it was gone, and naked and hun = ery he returned home, did his fathe i. say, You no~account, good for nothing f go away, don't want to see you? NC V he. rushed out to meet that son an : threw his arms about him.
 @ The shepherd did not hate that lam [. because it strayed away. That lathe
 did not hate his son because Of hi y bad conduct. The shepherd loved tha 5. lost sheep, and the father loved hi e prodigal son. And so God loves al d men; the good and the bad.
 Love does not save anyone If = laid mothers love would save her drunk ard son. mothers love would save tn
 life of her soldier boy. Love canne
 save the life of anyone; love canne
 save ones soul
 Christ was the redeemer. He wa
 sent by God as the interceder. the med
 iary, the advocate of man, and he die
 that man might be saved.
 VI INSULTS TO CHRIST
 "There. is no greater insult than t
 lspit in mans face. When Christ wa
 mailed to the cross the people spat i
 His face, saying, Nov, you old hypt l. crite, save yourself He was crucifie <, between two thieves. One of them re ., viled Christ. The other asked Chri y to intercede for him. Christ did m "A hate the people, did not hate those tw thieves. To the one who asked that I y intercede he said, Today thou shalt s- with me in paradise
 l, Gods attitude and His attribut
 are unchangeable. I touch my hand IT a red hot beam of steel and it burn )c have violated the law I touch IT
 hand to fire charged with electricit
 and it grasps me; cannot turn it loos it burns and fries and swivels n
 hand. I have violated the law. I pl f, on a rubber glove and take hold of u ef wire. It does not burn. My hand r. insulated. have not violated the la' re The steel beam has not changed; 'tl le electric wire has not changed. - INTERESTING NARRATIVE "Sam Jones and I were. preaching St. Louis. When we came into the in mense exposition hall wa saw ma slap a soldier of the Salvation Arm in the face and knock him into u gutter because he had stuck a copy