The Washington herald., 1918-03-04

| DOuy anu you say, Will IOu1OTTOW.
You should yield yourself to Jesus
Christ and turn from your sins. You
have said, II will wait until the
meetings are over and then I'll go
quietly into the church" I would
take you, understand, but I would not
give that much for you after got
you.
All you would be 1T for would be
to help make a crowd and make one
more when they sent the report in.
Opportunity VIII Not Come Again.
! It's no use to spin out words in
analysis of the thief OF time. Take
this for your motto: 'T will not
think of tomorrow. Ny possessions
are today and will do all can to-
day. I will not IulI myself to sleep
promising myself about a time that
will never come"
Tomorrow is a soft couch upon
which multitudes lie down and
never awaken. 1t takes an effort of
the brain to say, Il will" It takes
an effort OF manhood and woman
hood to say, 'T will"
Now. you ought to say, Il viii"
for several reasons First, because
by so doing you would be relieved
of the burden of sin in this life as
well as the dread Of the future con-
sequences of sin. and every man
and woman bearing that burden OF
guilt by yielding to Jesus you would
be relieved of the sin, for there is
not one that does not know that to
have one unforgotten sin in your
life you stand in the awful peril OF
Gods Judgment.
There is not q person here this
minute that doesn't know that you
could forsake the vilest sins IL you
would submit to God by faith in
Jesus Christ.
Hear me! OF all the times you
! ever had to fit your souls for heaven
you have had it in the days that
have come and gone. God never
flashes such light in your face. You
never had such an opportunity be-
fore and you never will again.
Procrastination, frresoIution, Ian
guidness. idleness, weakness Of
character are the milestones along
the great highway Of life which
lead over the precipice We call
Failure and there is where you
stand.
Great opportunities love great
company. They always do. They
rarely travel alone. They are gre
! gGriOus in their fiOcks. Travel in
herds. Every opportunity is a bell
wether to a school, a flock or a
| herd OF opportunities.
II is like the key log in a river
: jam: when removed all will rush
down the stream, and you are fac
ing just such an opportunity right
| here.
Resisting Truth In spite of All.
Think OF the sermons you have had
to resist; the tears and the pleadings
to which you have to say NO"
1t has taken years to get into the
| hardened condition that many of
you here tonight are in.
Listen, If were you, and had made
up my mind that I never would be
Christian, l would leave the building
now. If standing, go; if sitting, arise
and / will wait. Worm and elbow
your way to the door, get out and
hurry down the street and get away
from the sound of my voice
If 1 were you and had made up my
mind I never would be a Christian, 1
wouldn't wait. II ever a man spoke to
me of Jesus Christ / would run from
his presence, and if heard church
he'll toll a funeral, would stop my
ears. and IL ever I saw a crepe hang
ing from the doorknob OF a hearse
going down the street l would shut
my eyes and l never would darken a
church door
Il wouldn't go within sound of the
voice of a preacher. if had made up
my mind that 1 never would be a
Christian. I would get out of here
now, for every minute is adding guilt
TO your poor. miserable soul.
When death calls, you must go, mill
liOnaire or hobo. When death comes
you must go and nothing can hold you
/ back. God pity you, If you have SIM
ply lived in the world.
The annual death rate OF the human
race is 100000. That's 81, 600 a day.
".'00 every hour. g every minute. One
half OF the human race die before
. they are 16 years old; one-quarter OF
The human race die before they are 5
years old. The average length of a
human life is 80 l-3 years. Not one
man or one woman in 1000. 600 lives to
be 100 years old
SuppOsing I would come back TO
/ Washington five years from now. How
many of you would respond and take
your place where you are? II 1 would
come back ten years from now, how
! many of you would come and stand
or sit about where you are? II 1
would come back fift" years from
! now it would seem like a sepuIchre.
You. and you, and you. and you would
be in the graveyard. and the little
ones would be old and decrepit.
II 1 would come back in seventy
| five years those who are in arms to-
night would then hobble down here
gray-haired and with wrinkled brow.
You have gone, and still you say
No" to God.
II Have Missed It," Said Young Man
A friend OF mine was preaching
in a town in New Jersey, and there
was a young fellow there. cashier
in bank. whom they tried to get
to give his heart to God. He made
the excuse that he had to go to New
York.
1t was in 1883. when they had that
famous snOwstorm, snow twelve
feet deep. He had no other excuse
to go than to get away from the
meeting.
He was hours and hours founder
ing his way through the slush and
the snow to his armpits to reach
his hotel, and when he arrived at
the old Astor House, down on
broadway. he was wet and chilled
and he could hardly stand.
They summoned a physician. One
glance and he said to him: Have
you a mother alive?
Yes, sir"
wife alive?"
Yes"