The Washington herald., 1918-02-27

in moving men and women to great
things, to do mighty deeds.
None was ever equal to Jesus Christ
in molding the lives of men and wom-
en-, From the beginning of His earthly
career, 1000 years ago, until tonight,
He has been molding and shaping the
lives of men and women.
Our hearts are like a great big
piano; each heart is like a key, to
which He sits and upon which He
plays. He brings forth sounds and
notes Of sorrow and sin, then great
hallelujah and triumphs over the
world and the flesh and the devil
He knows the capacity OF the hu-
man heart. He knows all about 1t.
Explain why it Is men and women
come down the aisles and take my
hand. That explains why 1t Is.
1t Is the name of Jesus Christ that
moves you to dc great and noble
deeds. That explains why 1t Is that
the name of Jesus Christ appeals to
you and leads the booze fighter to
cut it out, and the thief to steal
no more, and the cussing man he
makes pray and leads men to leave
sin and iniquity.
That explains to me why it Is that
Jesus Christ moves men and women
to do mighty deeds.
There has never been a time in
the history of this world when the
divinity of Jesus Christ and the in
spiration of that Book has been more
generally accepted and firmly believ-
ed by the intelligent men and women
that live in your day and mine. And
for you TO sneer and scoff at Jesus
Christ and the Bible is a sign that
you are a fool. s.r- ...
DIsbeIIevers Live In Sin.
Tell you another thing; listen to
me.
A man or woman becomes too
progressive to be a Christian. When
ever you become too intelligent to
believe in the Bible as the Word of
God then your influence as a busi-
ness associate and as a companion
for others is at an end.
Don't you be hoodwinked. young
man. into supposing that to be a
doubter is evidence of a superior in
telligence 1t is evidence of a pigmy
intellect or a black heart, one of
the two, and 1 have never met a
man in my life that disbelieved that
the Bible was the Word of God who
wasn't living in sin. When I can
get him to give up sin he doesn't
have much trouble about believing.
Explain to me why II is that mis-
sionaries leave their homes and leave
their bones bleaching on the sand
hills. People don't leave their homes
and so to Europe and all that for
Shakespeare.
Explain to me why missionaries
kiss their loved ones good-by and
go out and live in foreign fields.
Say! 1 am going to believe these
things. I see sinners being saved,
drunkards made sober, men and wom-
en- being transformed. How are you
going to disbelieve all you hear
sweeping our land?
Accept Jesus Christ as the Son of
God and the rest will become easy.
1 tell you 1t is the followers of
this Christ that make the world what
she is tonight.
"The word became flesh and dwelt
among u.s."
And lastly It is prophecy not so
much of a foretelling. am telling
you that by faith the drunkard can
be made sober. I am telling you
that the liar can be made truthful.
I am telling you that God win trans
form you. IL you will accept Him
as your Christ. Listen.
II man starts out to live the
kind of life he knows he ought
to live, sooner or later something
happens to make him realivo how far
short he is of reaching his ideal.
Wants Reversed.
Here Is a man that wants to be
generous, he finds himself a rasp-
ing, prasping. squeezing old skim
flint.
Here is a man who concludes he
wants to be truthful and he finds
himself a liar:
Here is a man who wants to be
a pure man and he finds himself
libertine. And here is a man
that wants his hands to reach out,
his mouth to be filled with words
OF praise and messages of love
and he discovers that they are fire.
quently filled with obscenity and
profanity and in his failure to
reach his ideal he gets discovered.
Here Is a man who wants to be
sober and he falls off the water
wagon. He wants to pray and he
eusses; he wants to be honest and
he steals. Now in his failure to
reach his high ideals every man
starts out to live the kind of life
that he knows he ought to live.
Some day something happens that
win make, him realize how far
short he Is of attaining his ideals.
4 want to help you. everybody. I