The Washington herald., 1918-01-18

sinners Are Rebels.
The mercies of God! Nowhere in
the Bible do you fipd such language
addressed to a sinner. Sinners arS
rebels, Sinners are in rebellion
against God and they are never call
ed ':brethren.p They are not en-
treated. They are commanded. God
commands all men everywhere to re-
pent. God entreats you to do some-
thing for Him.
When Lincoln called for volunteers
Il was addressed to citizens of the
United States, not to foreigners. So
IL we are Christians, We are not for
eingers or strangers, but We are fell
low-citizens with the saints.
It is a call to trust God In the full
est and IN the completest sense, like
Isaac trusted his father, Abraham;
and IL we love God as we should.
then we will trust God as we should,
and when I fully realize Gods mer-
cies to me- / am not going to have
much mercy on myself. will not
simply sit down and fan myself and
sing. II will go where you want me
to go, dear Lord" and then go to
the devil or to bed or some place.
No, no, that won't do.
Present your body, not your wife.
Present yourself. not your child. Pre-
sent our body, not your neighbors.
Not the members Of your lodge. Not
the people that work for you-no
proxy business, nothing of that sort.
can't present mine for you nor you
present yours for me. 1t is a person.
a hnf Wi thn 4 Ar1
Present your body, your individu-
al flesh and blood and bone; that
body that can act; that body that
can bleed: that body that can be
racked with pain; that can be ex-
hausted with insomnia. Do you love
God enough to trust Him to do what
He pleases with you by the mercies
of God?
Henry varley said to Moody
when he was in England. Moody,
God is waiting to show this world
what He can do through some man
who is willing that He should do
what He pleases with that man"
Moody jumped to his feet and
said. ''Varley by the grace of God,
will be that man: and God took
him and hurled him as a mighty
thunderbolt and shook the world
for Jesus Christ with His truth.
Give God a Chance.
And are you willing to let God
my friend. have q chance to show
through you to the world what re-
ligfon is? The college shows
through it's graduates what they
can do, the medical school, the law
school. Let God show to the world
through you what Christianity is in
the world. He is helpless to do it
and that is all He is doing and the
only way he can do II.
Now. are you willing to let God
say where you shall live? Are you
willing to let God say whether He
wants you here. in China, in Japan,
or on the Malay Peninsular? Are
you willing to let God take your
body and do as He pleases with IT?
In this you have got the greatest
question ever put to a human be-
ing. and think the angels are
leaning over the battlements of
glory and they are loking down TO
see how you will answer the ques-
ton when it is put up to you.
BY the mercies of God" At the
beginning of the civil war, I heard
or a fellow who was wonderfully
stirred. He said, This union must
and shall be preserved. The re-
bellion must be put down, no mat
ter what the cost is in blood and in
treasAres." =
He was willing that every able
oodls1 man Of military age should
go on The firing line and become
bullet-meat for s13 q month, and
eat sow-belly and hard tack and
sleep in the trenches and the storm
and the sunshine, but he never
went step.
It's Right Against Wrong.
Oh, God has a warfare on hand
II Is right against wrong, heaven
against hell, Christ against the
devil. virtue against vice, sobriety
against drunkenness. God has a
warfare on hand the same as our
nation has a warfare on hand. and
God and the country are calling for
volunteers. God doesn't want 10
draft you IL you are not willing to
of God"
And If God could only ret
possession of the flesh and blood
that belongs to Him, what a COM
motion He'd create on earth and in
hell. And If God had some of your
feet, He'd point your toes in dir
ferent directions from what tbey
have ever gone bsfore. God wouId
make some of you fellows walk
straighter in politics and religion
than you ever have done in the
past. take it from me.
by the mercies OF God; I beseech
you' therefore, brethren. by the mer.
cies OF God" He would make some
OF you begin to wear out shoes, maxi
ing things right that have been wrong
ne would keep some of you busy
carrying back goods and money that
You have swindled somebody out of,
that you have acquired by crooked
practices or cunning. Some of you
haven't been to prayer meeting for
years. and you'd give the preacher
nervous prostration II he saw You,
OLD map walk into the church and give
a testimony. It's a Gods fact. I'll
bet my life some OF you haven't been
10 church for a year, now on the
square.
by the mercies Of God, I beseecb
you" If God had the feet that be-
long to Him you wouldn't let the devil
use them, trotting around. gossipins
about your neighbors. No. II God had
your feet, you'd find 1t easier to walk
toward the church, harder to 60 to-
wards the haunts of sin, and you
wouldn't be so busy that you couldn't
get down on your knees and look up
to heaven. and you'd make overy ster
OF your life conform to the Golden
Rule and the sermon on the mount.
Some people do all their work for God
with their mouth. God wants thai
part Of you that is on the ground as
well as up in the air.