The Washington herald., 1918-01-14

self approved unto God, a workman
that needeth not to be ASHAMED,
rightly dividing the word Of truth"
We seem to be living in a new era
politically. physically, socially, eco
nomically. educationally and relig-
iously.
There never has been a time when
people seemed to be more self-cen-
tered, self-complacent than in your
day and mine. Somehow the aver
age man or woman imagine that when
| God strikes a balance at the end OF
the world the man that lives a pass
ably decent life and has been gener-
Gus and philanthropic, and Deem true
to his wife, and his marriage vows,
| he will stand just as good a chance
| to get to heaven as the fellow that's
| been on the firilng line for Jesus
\ Christ, and for truth, and held up the
bleeding form of Christ as Gods ulti-
matum for sin and mans only hopS
of redemption.
A man is a fool TO think he can inn
prove on Gods plan, whether in Ma
ture or in religion. The Lord knows
how to do such things. He ran this
world before you came here and He'll
be on the job after you've shuffIed OF
this mortal ball of dirt
To Keep Out of He'll
There is only one way to keep out
of hell and that is by repentance and
faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ
And II God will spare my life and
! give me strength TO preach. in the
day oj Judgment when God calls for
old Washington, I'll look you in the
face and say. God. I'm free from
their blood"
Then listen! The pernicious infiu-
ence of fiction upon people. Oh. every
novel writer seemingly has some the
Ory or idea of religion. and most all
of them are anything but Biblical, or
thodox. evangelical truth that God
wants this old world to know! Oftimes
a re-hash of 1t in the pulpit. tacking
a verse Of Scripture on and calling it
a sermon!
1 read book sometime ago where
the author advocated that marriage
should not be life contract but. on the
installment plan-like we buy furni-
ture. II you see a girl and she is
pretty, good locker. you say:
sis, let's hook up and try It for six
months, and il we like one another
as well as the end of that time az
We appear to now, we will continue;
IL not, why we'll just sidestep and
call IL on"
thank God such a damnable, hell
fish, irreligious doctrine will never find
devotees as long as there are found
people that will preach Gods truth
and men and women will sit and listen
to the unsearchable riches of Jesus
Christ as preached to the multitudes
of the land,
And then the ceaseless flow Of emil
grafton. l haven't one word TO say
against any man or woman who was
born across the sea. But say, I tell
you object TO America becoming the
back-dooryard for Europe to dump
her paupers and her criminals.
Many of them come here with Just
! money and morals enough to escape
the pauper and criminal laws. and
they settle in our cities and they re-
fuse to assimilate our laws and they
become carbuncles on the neck of the
body polite and they have turned the
| American idea OF the Sabbath into -
continental idea of the Sabbath Day.
tell you people of Washington.
the world needs Jesus Christ as much
today as she did the days he walked
the hilltops of Judea, Gallilee and Sa-
maria!
There's many a preacher who is
I spouting some thea-y or principle
from the pulpit, talking about evolu-
ton, until, after you hear many a
preacher you couldn't tell whether
man came from the Garden of Eden
or a Geological Garden.
1t is my mission in life to peel the
bark off and clear away the fog and
mist so you can see more clearly the
bleeding form of the Son Of God who
opened his veins with the instrument
of the cross and bathed the world in
blood and tears to keep you out OF
hell.
Oh, I used to think a man was a
sinner. heIl-bound, if he didn't repent
he'd go to hell. that salvation was by
faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ.
oh" says your ethical culture;
| "oh" says the false leader of the peO-
pie: ''oh" says the hereto. spouting
| in unbelief, formerly that was re-
garded as true, but it has been dls
carded as being altogether too crude
for the enlightened people Of the
twentieth century"
Then to hell with the twentieth
| century,
Are people in any century on earth
! or in any community. immune from
the necessity of getting on their
knees? Not on your life! Never!
More Pep for Preachers.
| So we need something, my friends,
that will put ginger and tabasco
! sauce, and pepperino into our veins
! for God and for his cause and for his
| truth,
Oftimes a preacher will say, Now,
that's going to be a fine sermon, and
when l get up and begin my intellec-
! tual pyrotechnics. that physician out
! there will think I've taken a course
in materia medica, therapeutics and
obstetrics; that lawyer will think 1
can interpret and codify the laws of
| the Supreme Court" instead OF say
| ing:
II wonder what can put in that
sermon that will make that old booze
holster get on the water wagon. L
wonder what can say that will make
| that dirty old pup stop keeping some
! body on the side. wonder what I
can say that will make that frizzle-
| headed sissy leave that bunch and
stop breaking her mothers heart
coming in all hours OF the night.
wonder what i can say that will make
! that little whiskey-soaked, bIasphem-
ing infidel. 9 missing link between the
monkey and man, stop living in such
way that his mother vets her
1 pillow with tears OF anguish. I
wonder what can do to make a man
' or woman hate the devil and fall in
love with Jesus Christ and want to
live right in this old world
So thew have taken auay the Lord