The Washington herald., 1918-02-01
Every Man That Is in
He'll Willed 1t; That
Is How He Got There
EVENING SERMON
eff Any Man WHIP

credit the Bible? Is it because you
are trying to find some excuse that
will justify you in being a devil and
rejecting Jesus Christ and living in
sin?
The curse of God on the ground to-
day is because q man sinned and that
is why we have briers and thorfs
and thistles and deserts The cure
on the ground.
When Adam and Eve ate the for
bidder fruit, God drove them from
the garden of Eden and said, 'The
ground is cursed because of your sim"
We say that Cain was 12S years
of age when he met her and courted
her. Now then, old Euhler, the
statistician, says that population will
double in twenty-five years. Allow
ing that there were seven pairs on
earth at the end OF the first twelve
years, and that the population will
double in twenty-five years under IA
vorable circumstances, and Cain was
12S years old when he knew his wife
in the land of Nod, that would have,
made the population Of the world then
11,g7O. Allowing that half were female.
which proportion holds good in every
land on the globe. that would have
made ). .sS5 buxom damssls from whom
old Cain could have selected a wife,
good enough to satisfy the most fas-
tidious devotee with matrimonial in
clination buzzing in his belfry. Yet
a lot of fellows are going to hell to-
night because they wonder where Cain
got his wife!
Bible L. Co6sIstent.
The inconsistency is not in the
Bible, but in your rotten life.
If good preaching would have
saved your town you would have
been in Heaven long ago. You need
something else. Here are people
who journey all through the Word
of God from Genesis to Revelations
and they can see nothing but a
great big hay stack going the other
way.
where did Cain get his wife?
They lose sight of these beautiful
truths which would make capital
and labor shake hands and it would
transform this whisky-soaked, Sab
bath-hating world into a paradise
of blessing and peace. and the lamb
and the lion would lie down to-
getfrer and the lamb would not be
inside the lion either; IL we would
only live for Jesus Christ.
Oh, the trouble is you are not
high enough up. That is the trouble
with you.
Did you ever go home and did
you ever call your wife and children
in and did you ever sit down and
read the Word of God, and did you
ever say. Now, get down on your
knees and say I am seeking the
way of life, light and salvation,
God"
Did you ever do that and then get
up and live the way you had
prayed?
1 challenge you old infidels. no
man ever did it and doubted Jesus
Christ or found the Bible false. No
man ever did 1t and said: There is
nothing in religion"
Somebody says that Gods nature
and the Bible is Gods will. That
is very true, but Nature Is Gods
will in force. That is equally true.
Some people pay no heed to the
Bible. They will gulp down the nov-
els as they are taken from the press
each day. Some of you have not
looked into the Bible for months and
years. Don't blame God then If you
wake up in the mouth of Hell. But
you will go home tonight. disrobe,
jump into bed and reach up and grab
novel and begin to read:
He refined his painting steed and
smote his breast with three rapid
smotes. Upon the vine-clad veranda
stood the silly. frizzle-headed Reta,
her eyes red with weeping. because
our rich naughty dady would not have
our poor hero for a son-in-law."
Then you blow out the light and
have four or five Nightmares, one
after the other.
A fellow says to me, bill. here is
this immortality business. This soul
business worries me. Here is my
dog. my horse, my cat, my COW! You
say they have no soul?',
Yes. 1 say they have no soul"
You say 1 have?'
Yes"
Pictures Creation.
What makes the difference?"
1 will first call your attention to
a picture of that creative morn. in
ornate language. by DIR. Munsey, a
preacher of other days. He said
when the fat had gone forth then
God said, "Let US make man." he
imagines the. qdadruped mamalia,
each species IN turn. walking by and
saying, Make him like unto one of
u.s.
God said, "No." Then the fishes
of the sea swan by and each spe-
cies made their appeal Make him
like unto U.s." The Lord said, mo"
The birds of the air flew by, and
dipping upon their pinions, sang their
sweetest songs and said, Make him
like unto one Of u.s." God said. mo.
Let<us make man in our image"
Where did he get the plural? I
believe when He created man, He
gave him a body like unto the glorious
body of our Saviour. He gave him
mind to dominate brute creation.
He breathed into man the breath of
life, and man became a living soul.
If a man had been making this
Bible he would have had God chas-
ing around with an elephant or a
hippopotamus.
Only in man did God breathe the
btedlh u HIe. man became n HVlnB
soul, he was created in the image
OF God Almighty, in this old uni
verse.
A man said, Look here. we read
of will. Judgment, reason, memory,
imagination, faculties of the soul.
You say my dog has no soulT'
Yes"
My dog has a mind"
Has a body" Yes"
We'll. sir. IL he has all these they