The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-22

your country, why Costa Rica coul
lick us.
Behold, stand at the door an
knock Well, one says, Il give
DO you? Yes, but | give in m
name, | like to see a hungry ma
fed. | like to see naked ma
clothed. do this in the name OF hu
manity, Mr.. Sunday
"The word humanity was un
known until Jesus Christ came an
taught it to us, my friends. There
fore, you are a wolf in sleeps cloth
ing. You are taking the benefits o
religion, which inspires you to b
as decent and philanthropic as yo,
are. Instead OF giving the credit t,
JeSusChrist for being as decent a
you are, you act as though it wa
something within you.
when you had developed to tina
stage of personality, you'd say good
bye, God, / can get along withou
you. Forget! And that is why to
day people that sneer at God-it i.
due to the restraining influences o.
religion that they are decent.
at is the love of God that en-.
ables YOU to sit here tonight insteao
OF being in your coffin. God ISM
dealing with you according TO what
we deserve or rewarding us accord.
ing to our iniquitieS.
90, God. knock louder, knock
longer upon the hard, obtuse hearts
Of some of those old sinners.
Jesus Christ has knocked so long
fle knocked through the doctor
when you were sick. He knocked
through the pleadings of your wife
and children. lie has knocked
through your wife and children. He
has knocked through your adversely
and through your prosperity.
Must Have Invitation.
"Now. when Christ used this fig
ure OF knocking, he used a custom
that everybody would understand.
You go into house and you push a
button, or you rap or use one OF
these old-fashioned knockers. So
Jesus said 81 stand at the door and
knock" He won't come in unless
you invite him.
Suppose we have been living here
in town five weeks, and | have been
down to some beautiful homes. Sup
pose | say There is 4 cracker-jack
OF home. Let's go down and have
them entertain us the rest of the
time. We will stop taking collec
tions and take our trunks and my
baggage and we will drive up in
front OF this house. mind YOU, we
haven't been invted.) | say Take my
trunk right up there in the front
room
The lady would say, Sir, what
does this mean?
"If | did that, I'd be no more
welcome in your home than Jesus
Christ would be in your heart with
out welcome. All right, for Jesus
Christ to be welcome in your heart,
you've got to do the inviting.
Gle would have to come in re-
sponse to your invitation, and if you
don't invite him, he will never cross
your threshold. He stands and
Knocks and wants to come in. You
need him, but if you are not man
)r woman enough to invite him to |
,ome in, he will never come.
Behold, | stand at the door and
mock.
Some of you have let Jesus in, but
'ou have got him locked up in the
pare room. Say Go home with us
onight.'
open the door and say, Jesus
ONE on, have the parlor. Sit with
S, dine with us. Go down town in
he car with my husband in the
lorning. Go with me into society,"
Will Cause Change.
Take Jesus Christ along as COM
anion. Don't treat him as some
ling to keep around the house as
on would an idol. Give him
hance to keep you out OF evil.
you keep him out for one of two
easons, for the things that are in
our life that he will cast out when
e comes in, or the things that he
i'll bring with him when he comes,
lat you haven't got and never will
ave until he comes. He takes these
lings wherever he goes and he will
lange you.
zone OF those two reasons is that
lu refuse to be Christian. 1t does
OF make any difference who you
e or what you say to the world.
hen Jesus Christ enters, out goes
lat revengeful. malicious, unfor
wing spirit. Out go lying and drink
@. Out go these things that curse
,ur manhood and womanhood.
Billy Sunday preached this alter
,on on two kinds OF religion. He
id:
Il want to take two texts this
ternoon. One in the Bible and one
Itside of the Bible. One is the ex-
ession of the human desire, the !
her is the answer to that desire.
Gerald Stanley Lee in recent ar
lie on advertising Goodness said:
want to be good, but | don't want
go up on top OF a mountain and
e all alone; on some island in the
ddle OF the sea in order TO be
od.'
Two Ideas of Good. III
The other text is from one or the
mortal prayers OF Jesus when he II
ted up his eyes to the heavens
Il the etars and snid II nraN not iii