The Washington herald., 1918-03-02
In Forceful Sermon He Contrasts the
Glitter of Worldly Living with the
Gold of True Christian Character
Says If You Are Not Saved It Is
Your Fault, Not Gods.
EVENING SERMON

| tions wit hothers in the world is
wrong and q great many would
rather keep this up than to accept
Jesusu Christ.
God will damn you in the hottest
hell II you make your clerks lie.
II you sell goods on your shelves
that are misrepresented, Just to
make few dirty dollars.
I would rather walk over a rough
and stony road to heaven than to
ride to hell-on dirty money.
There Is many a fellow that gets
rich robbing the orphan or the
widow and he is too slick to get
caught In the meshes of the law.
And he goes down the street and
so and so says. There he goes"
And his name Is honored and 1t is
only necessary to attach his name
to any project to insure success.
Resolutions Don't ssse.
Bye and bye he dies and there is an
uproar and a fuss. and a. powwow
over his old carcass at the funeral,
and they pass resolutions as long as
from here to the back door, and send
a copy to his wife and the members
OF the club and the lodges and the
other things he was a member of.
stating whereases and whereisss and
resolves, &C, while the bones of his
victims lie in the potter's field.
Do you mean to tell me there is no
hell for q guy like that?
Many fellow lives today without a
thought of God in his business, soci-
ETY.. politics or home. No thought OF
God In his lodge; no thought Of God
In his church.
ten drunkards for Jesus Christ than
one fellow who viii scheme to get
rich quick.
a,o00, 900. but you knew when the sun
rose in the morning you would be
proved to be a defaulter and an en-
oezzier and spend the rest of your
days In the penitentiary.
Or suppose you were a hobo or a
Weary Willie tonight and You knew
that tomorrow morning when the sun
rises you would be heir to q. .eOO, 900?
which VIII You Choose.
Which would you rather have, the
future hope of the hobo or the pres
ent possessions Of the millionaire that
were to end in hell?
All the wealth of the world will not
and cannot give US assurance of life.
You don't know but that you are lis
tening to your funeral. sermon tonight.
There was Vanderbilt. In the beau
tiful palatial home with all the lux
uries OF life surrounding him, he was
talking with George Garret, the pres
ident Of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road. when suddenly he gasped.
moaned and fell dead. MI the money
be hid could not give him the assur-
ance Of sitting there and talking over
that business transaction.
The world cannot sell that. There
Is no assurance. You don't know that
you will live to see the morrow, yet
you will say, 81 will choose the pleas
ures Of the world instead Of Jesus
Christ"
Do you mean to say that you cannot
have a good time unless you are a
devil? The only way to have a good
time Is to sin? Then the prostitutes
life Is the only happy lfe-living in
sin? You insult God.
Worlds Grip Grows.
hee a great many people who
are Oiu, BEdy-ndlEcuS vi udio-hCduCu'
with no hair on your head between
you and perdition and you think that
after a while you will turn to Christ.
The longer you live the less joy you
will extract from the things Of the
world, but the tithes of the world
will grip your old shriveled, weazen-
ed-up soul, There Is many a young
man needs Jesus, but he is unwilling
to turn from the gang.
A young man gives up years Of
study to get an education. He gives
up years of apprenticeship to master
and medicine; why shouldn't we do
it in religion?
Now suppose a fellow is going with
girl. and she was one of those
fool kinds of girls, one that put on
| everything and overdid everything
and wore a great string of beads
around her neck and brass earrings
with glass In them and she thought
people imagined that they were dia-
monds and rubies. and she put on
all the ribbons and filagree business,
and this young fellow fell in love
with her.
He loves her. but he knows she is
the laughing stock Of the town and
he says to her, Look here; every
body Is making fun of you and your
old brass jewelry. Give it up"
She says, Look hsrs. I love you.
and have demonstrated it by the
fact that have promised to be your
wife. But IL it comes to giving up
the tewelry for you, will just have
to give you up."
Real Jewels vs. sham.
But the next night he comes back
and has a brown leather box and he
pushes the spring and pulls out a
string Of real, pearls and says Throw
away your old dough beads and 1 will
give you the real thing"
Ana ne takes a diamond ring from
another box, and it Is beautiful one.
with Tiffany setting, and he says
You must give up that old brass
ring and take this solitaire and put
It on" =
Would 1t be hard for her to give
up the glass to get diamonds? No, in
deed; II would be easy. 20.
Is II hard for you to give up the
devil to get Jesus? Is It hard for you
10 give up he'll to get heaven?
II Il Is hard, the Lord pity you, for
you haven't got good sense. What
We give up is nothing to what Jesus
Christ gave up. Just think about
what he gave up. Do you think he
Whined about what he had to give up?
he came into this old cursed world
OF ours to be damned and spit upon
and crucifed- Think of. what Jesus
Christ gave up to get you to heaven.
l am sick Of hearing people talk Of
what they have to give up.
They will not come ,nto mo that