The Washington herald., 1918-02-07

Herald by s-year old Richard Rie-
get to the bottom. God commands all
men everywhere to repent
God Is no respecter of persons, no
matter who he may be, whether he is
President In the White House or a
king on a throne, or a president in a
bank. God says IL he doesn't repent
he will go to hell. Not /, don't say
it. God tells you. I am just telling
you what the Lord says. God COM
mands all men everywhere to re-
pent"
think there are wrongs in every
body's life that you can't make right.
Isn't that so? / know there are
wrongs in my life that you can't
make right, and IL 1 had as much
sense before I was converted !
wouldn't have to regret that 1 ever
did what did, but it has been buried
in grace for thirty years, until I can
stand before this audience or any au-
dience on Gods earth and challenge
any man or woman to Show anything
in my life in the thirty years that
have been a Christian that I would
be ashamed of. II you can. will pay
your car fare to any city in America
And IL what I say isn't true I will go
to the penitentiary.
Repentance is doing what God COM
mands you with no compromising. n
is no toning down half way. 1t is
either right or wrong.
Peace of Atonement.
l will tell you, take a tip from Inc.
Bring your repentance right down on
a spot-cash basis. Every time you do
wrong, make it right. right there
Whenever you buy anything. don't buy
it IL you can't pay for 1t. That's
spot cash proposition. You go to bed
and go to sleep. Make it a rule in
your life to get right the instant you
are wrong. You will thank me as long
as you live for the peace that will
come to you if you will do it. Simply
making good resolutions won't free
yourself from sin. You must forsake
it, turn your back on that sin. blot
blot it out. Let the wicked forsake his
way, no matter how pleasant that
way. 1t may be a path Of roses, it
may be a dream of love. oh, but the
next step may mean your immortal
and eternal damnation, forsake it!
God has put a monitor in your breast,
that will not let you do wrong and
you not know about 1t.
Every man and woman knows what
1t is that's keeping them away from
God. and, il you are not rejoicing in
Gods love and forgiveness, you know
why. II you are not as pure as a
snow flake, you know why. If you are
not as lovely as a sunkissed noun
tain, you know why. If you are not
as lovely as the spring morning, you
know why. Why? Give your heart to
Jesus Christ
1t is not for me to tell you what
is wrong in your life. God has al
ready done that through your con-
science, but my place as a preacher
is to cry out Repent! Repent! Re
pent! Repent!-and tear away the
screens behind which the sinners
are hiding and back them against
the wall and cry out Repent! Re-
pent! Repent! That's my business
as a preacher. God commands all
men everywhere to repent"
The man who will keep on in sin
isn't entitled to forgiveness. A
prisoner in the penitentiary that
will not promise the board of par
dons that he will keep the law isn't
entitled to a parole. If he would
stand up there and damn the laws
and damn the President, damn the
governor of the State and say he
wouldn't keep the laws If he was
out, then he doesn't deserve to be
out. His place is right there. II he
would do that. No, sir! God is true
to you and God is true with you.
God will not deceive you and God
won't let anybody deceive you,
never!
Lesson of ProdIgaI. t
All right, then, l say the govern
ment hasn't any right to the whisky
business, to let each State or COM
munity settle it. 1t is a government
question for the nation to settle and
not the State. And the only reason
it isn't settled is because Of dirty,
stinking politics in the country.
You come Gods way, and God will
shake hands with you, and say, Let
us have peace"
But you will have to meet under
the cross. You have got to come
Gods way. You had to come the
governments way.
All right, give up your sins, stop
doing wrong; stop and consider. Stop
to consider! That saved the Prodi-
gal Son and sent him home. He
thought of his mother and father and
said, Home is better than the hog
PEN"
Oh. heaven is better than helli
am going to heaven. Jesus Christ
is better than the devil. 1 am
going to walk arm in arm with
Jesus Christ. Health, that's better
than sickness. Good eyes, that's
better than blindness. Virtue, that's
better than vice. To pray, that's
better than to cuss. am going
home. am going home to the
Lord. God commands all men
everywhere to repent" The man
that will not think puts out his
eyes. He stabs himself, commits
suicide, assassinates his character.
SomeN things God entreats peo-
pie to do, but God commands sim
ners.
God commands all men every
where to repent" God entreats
some people to do things, only
Chrfstians God daesp,f arfraat q