The Washington herald., 1918-02-09

and spew out can't stop it today.
You might as well shoot green peas
against Gibraltar with a popgun or
try to sink the battleship Illinois
with q shotgun as to try to over
throw Christianity.
Where Is the Jewish power today?
1t Is swept from Jerusalem and that
city is in the power of the infideIs,
the Turks, today. But God will bring
the Jews back to it.
Where Is the Roman power? The
palace Of Caesar and the Coliseum
are in ruins. No longer do the eagles
OF Rome nod in the air. Where is
it? Gone. But the cross Of Jesus
Christ is the greatest power on earth
today
Bible Has Spread All Over World.
There have been some of the
greatest and fercest wars against
the Bible, but the blessed old book
has triumphed over them all, and
this night there are upward of 2OO,-
100000 copies of it in circulation.
1t has made and is making con-
verts today. 1t gives life to uphold
faith. 1t takes the power of God to
do anything like that.
The greatest burden borne today
is that Of a guilty conscience, and
one look at the cross and it is all
gone.
The power of God saves from the
guilt OF sin, and to get this saliva
tion you must have faith In God
believe in him.
What is belief? Why, It is trust
and confidence. the same trust and
confidence that you have in the skill
ful surgeon to whom you entrust
your child for an operation.
No one can do any good unless
you have confidence in them.
Necessary to Understand God.
1t isn't necessary for you to un-
derstand the power of God in your
salvation. You don't understand
electricity, but you can send a tele-
gram or a telephone message, you
can enjoy electric light in your
home. You don't know how your
food is assimilated to nourish your
body and give you strength for your
daily toll. All you have to do is to
eat the food Al you have to do is
to yield to Jesus Christ God will
take care of the rest of it.
This power of God saves from
the guilt of sin and also keeps you
from the power of sin. The drunk
ard must have some help to keep
him from the power of sin. If he
didn't, he'd be falling OF the water
wagon all the time. You may insu-
late a man so that electricity can
not harm him; and if you give your
self completely to Jesus Christ,
then all the devils in hell can't drag
you from Him.
Jesus Sole Savior.
And you might as well expect
motorman- to push a car uphill by
blowing his breath on the vestibule
as for you to be saved by some other
power than that Of Jesus Christ.
When John the Baptist was born
the friends of the family came around
and sought to name him. but his
father called him John.
The world nowadays seems to be try
ing to reoaptize this power OF God and
to call 1t by some other name
A sinner leads a better life and they
call 1t evolution. A man stops swear
ing and resorts to prayer and they call
1t hypnotism. A man suddenly quits
RIGHTEOUSNESS and they prate Of psy-
chology and the Psychological moment.
prostitute turns from the evils of
her way and begins a life of virtue,
and they say 1t is science that does II
and sociology--it is the power of God
that does 1t.
You Are q Fool to Refuse God.
Edison says that he expects to see
the day when a piece of leather can
be fed into one end Of a machine
and will come out of the other end
made into a pair Of ready-to-wear
boots and shoes; or to see a piece of
cloth fed into one end and a suit of
clothes, lined and buttoned, come out
at the other.
And now you laugh. Bigger things
have been done. Your grandfathers
laughed. You can't stop religion by
making fun of it.
And every power Is able to demon
strate itself. I something's think that
II we were not so dul God would
make US all rich with the latent DOW
ers lying everywhere about US.
But every power will demonstrate
itself IL given a chance. One spark
of fire will demonstrate the power of
a pile OF powder more tnan all the
books in forty libraries. So a man
says Of religion, "Ah. there's nothing
in II" Well. why don't you take
Jesus Christ into your heart and give
God a chance to demonstrate His
power?
And you can get the benefit Of the
power only by obeying the law. If
you would get the benefit of water,
then you must obey the laws of wa
ter.
Many Close to Hell.
30 with the Christian life. A lot
OF men are so close to hell now
they can smell the fumes, but won't
give God a chance.
Yours fool Why don't you obey
the law Of God and see If this power
Of God will not deliver you from
swearing and booze fighting? You
are the biggest fool this side of hell
II you don't.
You buy a railroad ticket and get
on the train. II you have obeyed
the laws Of the railroad it will
carry you to your destination. II
the conductor punches the ticket
instead of punching you, then you
know that you've got q good ticket.
You needn't argue as to whether
or not have been born, and you
needn't argue as to whether or not
1 have ever been born again. I win
say you are Just forty-seven years
too late, or you are just twenty
seven years too late.
know was born Of my mother.
and I know ! was born again of the
spirit. ] am as sure of one as the
other.
Put God to the test. He says: "If
any man come unto Ne, him win I
In no wise cast out.