The Washington herald., 1918-02-01
istency Is Not in the Bible But in Your Rotten Lite

hog has will-power. Any man that
can grab a hog and not lose his re-
ligion win stand without hitching.
The muscular system Of your body
by exercise, and the muscular
system of your soul develops by
prayer, and doing the things that God
tells you to do to develop your
spiritual nature; the same as you
must do the things God tells US for
our, physical nature. II you sit and
wait you will wither and die. It is
the process OF nature.
I can strap this hand to my side
and by the time these meetings close
to comb my hair. Why? Because I
have lost the use of 1t through dis
use. There was q time I could use 1t
and wouldn't use 1t. Now when I
can use 1t I can't use 1t because I
wouldn't use 1t when could use 1t.
Take my eye. foS instance. lean
shut that eve and bandage 1t and
keep it shut for three weeks; that
eye would grow weaker through dis
use and the other would grow strong
er through use and when I remove
that bandage I can't see your face
when 1 leave you. That is the prin-
ciple Of religion.
Use Your Faculties.
The man in the cave used to cover
his eyes. having no use for eyes in
the dark subterranean caves, and he
became blind. II you don't use what
God Is giving you to use. God will
take it away from you. All through
life, you will see 1t.
We belive in the. light of evidence.
1 can go down to the courthouse and
convict anyone of you on a charge
or I can set you free. For 1900 years
the light of evidence has flashed about
Jesus Christ until he stands out the
grandest individual.
So, man is the only being on
earth to whom we can teach some
thing about God. Having not seem,
we love. Man can tell. 1 can teach
you something about a place you
have never seen or about a being
you have never seen, God and
Heaven. Man is the only being that
has a soul and therefore he Is the
only one to[whom you can teach
anything about something he has
never seen.
Moral faculties-did you ever see
a dog that had morals? No. Why?
They have no soul. Cat, dog, COW,
horse, hog. they do not know right
from wrong. They have no moral
conception. Why? They have no soul.
You know right from wrong, there
fore you are capable Of being taught
for you have got an immortal soul
and 1t is that thing that knows right
from wrong and that God Almighty
wants to save.
So therefore, the conscience OF man.
memory. imagination, will power, they
are all faculties of the mind. Seeing,
hearing, smelling and tasting and
touching are faculties of the body,
but the soul has three faculties which
neither the mind nor body control
First. mind; second, faith; and third.
conscience.
A fellow says to met will fol-
low my conscience" You are like
the farmer that follows the hind
wheel when he comes into town. 1t
is the first thing that comes into
town and the last thing that goes
out of town.
A fellow said to me, Didn't your
God make conscience as a guide?'
Maybe he did"
When He created Adam and Eve He
gave them a conscience. But Adam
and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and
sin came to the world through dis
obedience. Their conscience and
faith and moral faculties went down
in the fan.
Conscience Good Guide.
And therefore God Almighty step
ped in and inspired men and women
with the Holy Ghost to write his
Word and there is the only infallible
rule of faith and prayer for any be-
ing on earth. Gods word.
Your conscience is a good guide, II
1t has been regenerated, but IL it has
not 1t will take you to Hell. There
are men and women following their
and they are so close to
Hell they can look into the pit now.
Let me illustrate.
When God tells you to do something
you are moved. When God says you
have lived there long enough, you
move over here, then you are put into
the grave. They won't put you in
the grave. They will put the old
shell that you used to live in. That
Is the thing that God wants to save
and at last when you stand on that
narrow neck of land and the waves of
eternity are washing the stains from
about you and beneath your feet and
you stand alone with your memory
and conscience and 1t will say, RE-
member, you heard" And you will
say, God, have forgotten it."
At some time in your life every
thing you have ever done will pass
in front Of your mind like a panor-
anna, and last when you stand and
God turns the secret spring, your
will do its work. You will
again see my face and hear. my voice.
You will again have it all brought
back to you; the opportunities you had
and rejected and wouldn't yield your
self to Jesus Christ.
Over In Assyria they dug I'D an in
scription and they read the history of
Babylon and Assyria. Every day you
live and every act your perform and
every deed is being written down in
the soft clay OF your memory, and
when God touches the secret spring
your memory will do its work. You
wilYrecall all the sermons you heard,
God pity you, I can't do anything for
you. Why should 1?
You give up your lives for the ap-
plause of the people, for the privilege
of sitting with your feet under their
table. for the privilege of having
them call you a dead game sport"
Some day you will toss 1t for the
last time. You will toss it too far
Some day that old frail bark will give
a lurch, and down into the fathomless
depths of He'll you will go and You
will be lost forever, because YOU
wouldn't do Gods will.
Jesus, we pray now that thou wilt