The Washington herald., 1918-01-17
Il Come Here as Gods
Recruiting Officer to
Gather You to Christ .
THE EVENING SERMON.
THE HOUR is COME

full, free, perfect and eternal to
every man, woman and child that
would accept Jesus Christ as their
substitute. He shed His blood in your
place and mine. He became our Sc
curity. So, therefore. when you sin.
you don't need to take a turtle dove
or a pigeon or a heifer or a bullock
or a ram to a priest. You're got ac-
cess to God through faith in Jesus
Christ and not faith in a lamb or
bullock or a pigeon. That Is why God
offers salvation to mankind through
Jesus Christ and it is His last offer
to this old world.
You Have Reached the Crisis.
So the priesthood, my friend, offer
ing a sacrifice on an altar for atone
ment for sin ended at the cross. Sal
walton by faith began and that is the
plan Of God now and always will be.
So, The hour is come" The hour
Is come to realize first that you have
reached the crisis. / believe that this
city is facing the greatest crisis, re-
ligiously, that she has ever faced.
There never was such a chance In
all your history for you to show your
loyalty to God and to Christ, and by
and through that loyalty. inspire
others who have never walked the
streets Of your city, because what
ever is enthroned in city is going TO
give influence to the country round
about. Let a city be righteous and
the whole country will be Influenced
to righteousness. They will be CIV
ing I'D the sin and corruption and
vileness and drunkenness and the
whole country will be damned because
of the damnation in the city.
And generations yet unborn will be
affected by this campaign because
you yielded to Jesus Christ and you
who are to become the fathers and
mothers of the next generations
then your life will surround them with
religious influence. So for the next
century. my friends, this city is go
ing to feel the influence of this cam
paiSn which you and 1 are in the
midst of, long after We have left this
old earth and the influence of this
1 campaign will be felt in the lives of
| others.
In every disease there Is a crisis.
All the skill of all the physicians on
/ earth can't make typhoid fever or
pneumonia turn except on the seventh,
! fouIteenth and twenty-first and twen-
! ty-eighth days. They are seven day
| diseases and the disease always
! reaches a crisis on the seventh day
and if the crisis has been reached at
! the end Of the first seven days, the
chances are about three to one, they
| will mend. II the crisis runs to the
| fourteenth day, is it about fifty to
! fifty. 1t it runs to the twenty-f1rst
: day it is about three to one they Won't
I live. fAnd the longer the crisis is put
! OFF, the less and less chance there is
for the patient to get well, because 1t
; is all the time drawing upon your re-
serve source and the chances are that
! you never will get well. The sooner
I the crisis can be reached, the better
it will be for that person.
In every battle there is crisis.
In the battle of Shiloh, it was when
General Bull came on the field with
twenty-five thousand reinforce
ments. and turned the tide in IA
vor of the Union forces. At the
battle of Waterloo, it was when the
,Germans under B1ucher came to the
aid of the British. All day long
Napolean and the Duke of Wei
/ lington had matched their military
genius and strategy, one against
the other, and Napoleon had hurled
the seasoned veterans of France
against the solid phalanx of Eng
land until they had begun to stag
/ ger back under their assaults. But
in reality it was a rain storm that
turned the battle of Waterloo, for
it rained hard and the roads were
muddy and Marshall de Grouchy
was scheduled to arrive at three
o'clock with reinforcements and II
was nearly sundoWn before he ar
rived. The French had crumpled
up and the victory was won and
the Duke of Wellington stood in
the sand up to his ankles and he
bit his lip until the blood trickled
down his chin and his clenched
fists lacerated the palms of his
hands and his eye ever and anon
swept the horizon and he was heard
to cry out:
20 God, that night, or Blucher,
would come" and in the distance
they saw the dust curling from the
! highway and Gen. Blucher, with
twenty-five thousand fresh rein
fOrcements, fell upon the French
the battle was won, and Napoleon
spent his last days upon st. Helena S
barren rock.
AutOcracy Overthrow.
In every nation there is a crisis.
We are in the midst of one of THE
greatest crises of our history. We
are in the midst of a crisis where
our homes are in danger and the
very principles of the government
of freedom is in danger all over the
land. oh! Autocracy has been over
thrown in China, overthrown in
Russia and in Turkey, and the peo-
pie rule in France, and the Presi-
dent of the United States has more
authority and power than the king
of England; the people rule in Italy
and for us it is to determine wheth-
er or not we shall have the collar
of imperialism fastened around our
Inecks, or whether We shall be free
Nations are in the midst of crises
There has never been a time in the
history of the world when there
twas more turmoil, and more nations
linterlocked in mortal combat over
the principles of free government
on one hand, and military autocracy
upon the other hand. So, We are in
the midst of II.
And Adam and Eve reached the
crisis in the Garden of Eden when the
devil tempted them. 1 wish to God.
friends, that they would have stopped
their ears and cried. Life! Life! Life!T
If they had would not need to be
working my life out. If they had cried
"Life"' and not listened to the tempter
l-but they listened and ate the forbid
den fruit, and the world became a
human graveyard, for the death PEN
atty passed upon the human race.
II they hadn't have sinned, they'd
never have died. Gods plan was that
thau shot,I1 1fuo forauar aa5 sR ,h.,