The Washington herald., 1918-02-14

Billy sunday denYered this sermon
last night:
Hebrews, the second chapter and the
third verse, How shall We escape. if
we neglect so great salvation"
There are some questions that have
never been answered by the wise OF
this earth and they never will. They
have never been stumbled on by
chance and they have never been
opened by force.
The words OF my text have been
Through the mill of a thousand uni
versities and colleges. They have
Threaded their way through the fields
of atheism and higher criticism and
skepticism. 1t has ben hammered at
in the darkness of the Eastern cults.
II has been ridiculed by the so-called
wise OF the earth, laughed at and
sneered at and Knocked at by the in
1idel But none of them have ever
been able to bring back the answer.
God says, "Come, let's reason to-
gether" That's the divine condescen-
sion Of the Creator, the ruler of this
universe, author of salvation, king OF
kings, inviting the objects of his
creative power into the council
chamber.
Live Gods Way.
The square deal originated with God
God has given US a reason, and he
shows no disposition to take it back,
or act in any way that is contrary to
our reason. And when we act con-
uary to Gods revelation, then we act
foolish. A man must be a moral idiot
that doesn't see that a man is reason
able when he is righteous, and only
unreasonable when he is unrighteous.
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Synonymous.
Humanity has got to work with God.
or starve to death. You have got to
come in Gods appointed way in ma
ture, If you are going to live. You've
got to come in that way, If you ever
go to heaven. God has a way and
you've got to fall in harmony with it.
all the way through life.
Now. God never endorsed the doc
trine Of good enough in every man or
woman to save themselves by some
inherent development. If men are not
totally lost through sin, then they are
not totally saved by faith in Jesus
Christ, and if men are only partially
lost then they are only partially
saved. II men are not lost at all. then
they don't need salvation, and If they
are lost, then they do need salvation.
Let's not try and dodge or argue or
debate or shut our eyes to the facts.
Let's reason with God on the PROPOSE
tion.
God knew that men would deny that
there was future punishment. God
knew that men would be fools and
close their eyes to the truth. So he
planted the fundamental instinct in the
breast Of every one made in his image.
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a mere argument in the fact, my
friends, that there has never been
found a nation Of people on earth that
did not worship some idea OF a su-
preme being.
An Have Idols
Even the AbOrigines or the South
Sea Islands. who are lowest down in
the scale of humanity, have a god of
their own, and they worship some idea
Of a supreme being.
OF course, the farther down in the
scale of humanity you go. the farther
away you get from the Bible idea of
God, but all races of people on earth
and all nations, all have some idea
of a supreme being.
II there is no hell, there is no
heaven; and If death is an eternal
SANNRE gOu Alh5AAL as "Gll tdls
and be merry and go to the devil. If
there is a heaven, there is a hell
don't forget taht!
cut that hand. 1t isn't my body
that suffers, it is my soul, and when
my soul moves out of this body, you
can cut an arm or a leg or and there
is no feeling. So the feeling isn't in
this body. but in the soul that in
habits this body.
If suffering on earth was hell, then
Jesus Christ had more hell while on
earth than the hounds of infamy that
prosecuted him and spit in face and
threw stones at him-if that's your
argument, you're a fool.
II suffering here was hell then
Paul had more hell than old Felix or
Agrippa, for he was beaten and stoned
and spit upon and shipwrecked.
If suffering here was hell. Savon-
arola had more hell than those did
who incinerated his body to ashes. If
suffering here was hell, Martin Luther
had more hell than the people that
perescuted him.
No, no-the sinner often has a high
old time on earth, simply because he
obeys no laws. he INDUCES his desires,
gratifies his passions. drinks, lies,
commits adultery.
But God Almighty doesn't throw the
universe out of gear; God doesn't stop