The Washington herald., 1918-02-14
EVENING SERMON
How ShallWe Escape?'

everything. God doesn't stop the sun
from rising or setting or the tide
from ebbing and flowing. God doesn't
stop the seasons of the year just to
punish that old reprobate. No!
Punishment Coming.
But. God has set a time when he
will punish him and he will reward
the righteous. So God lets the world
go on. Although men are living in
sin he doesn't throw 1t out of gear
just to punish that old fellow, or a
million of them. He lets them go
ahead in the world.
Oh. how pity a fool that will stand
up in defiance Of God Almighty and
say that the Lord is wrong, and that
hell isn't eternal or 1t isn't hot or
thatt here Is no hell Oh. there is
mental agony, my friends. that per-
haps would be equal to fire!
Yet, wait a minute. Fire is the one
element that man and all animal Gre
alton fear. A baby learns to keep
away from the fire before it learns
the name of the fire or the elements
of it.
Now God means to say this: my
power of Furnishing you is beyond
your power to understand"
II God should try to tell US of His
power our minds wouldn't compre-
hend it, for we see nothing and have
nothing that God could use to explain
it.
Fire is the limit Of our understand
ing. That's one thing that man and
animal creation fear. Let out a cry of
fire, and everybody will rush from
the building.
Eternal Fire.
Fire is the limit of our comprehen-
sion. God says. ""I have a power to
punish you beyond your power to un-
derstand. God says, IT can go beyond
that, but that's as far as your mind
can CO."
OF course we all know that, and the
Lords says, ''I will use that word and
you will understand that, but il I'd
explain it in the language that can
understand. you wouldn't understand,
because you don't have it in this world.
But we do have fire in this world"
God says. THAT is the limit of your
mind"
So God speaks in terms that we may
not be in the dark. That is good
That's kind.
He SAYS. "The flames shall not be
quenched''-that's eternal.
He says, 1.-The worm that never
dies" You shiver at the very thought
of a repulsive thing wriggling over
you, and the strongest man here, or
the most refined woman would shrek
like an Indian if you'd feel a worm
wriggling down your back. Oh. will
admit it,
Gods description of hell is growing
in vividness. God is anxious to impress
your mind so you won't forget it.
Why, you big idiot, why do you sit
there and say you are not going to go
to hell if you can't understand all
about the formation of divine grace?
You big chump!-and that's letting you
on easy!
College Professors In He'll.
Now, say you don't have to under
stand. The precipice is the thing,
that's the thing! The penitentiary is
the thing. You will get there if you
do certain things, that's all there is
to it, now. And n the precipice is
high enough, and the bottom is hard
enough, it doesn't make any difference
whether it is made out of marble or
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charlotte russo. 1t doesn't make any
difference.
Do you know there are a lot of
college professors in hell-oh, sure;
sure! A lot more of them will be
there. know a lot more that will
be there, too, If they don't change.
Now listen, hell will be a polyglot
center. Alongside of a millionaire
will stand a hobo. Alongside of some
high-brow. chin-musicing Greek and
Latin, will stand a low-brow, mutter-
ing the thieves jargon-yes, yes! Hell
will be a polyglot center!
The precipice will drop both impair
TALLY, if both reject Jesus Christ. The
college professor will go to hell, and
so will the hobo-you bet your boots.
and you too
You reject Jesus Christ, as a society
woman and you will go to hell just
the same as the maid that may dress
you. You reject Jesus Christ as a
and you will go to hell just
the same as the chauffeur that drives
your machine if he rejects Him. Hell
will drop impartially. it makes no dis
tinction.
When the Titanic and the Lusitania
went down, all went down, whether
they were rich or poor. The ocean
knew no distinction, absolutely noneI
There was no distinction-alI went,
rich and poor, just the same. A
stoker in the hold went down lust the
same as the millionaire leaning over
the rail.
You reject Jesus Christ-it doesn't
make any difference what earthly dis
tinction. there may have been-and
you will go to hell.
Now, another says, well. God is
all love. I will escape through that
door. God won't separate a man from
his wife,
No DESTRUCTION.
Then suppose a government that
Will imprison criminal isn't a good
government. Then 1 suppose the State,
the government, of the United States
isn't good because they will put an
criminal behind the bars.
and say, IF you don't keep the law,
you will go there
There are lots of people that don't
wait for God to separate them. They
do 1t now, not only by divorce. but
they will separate themselves from a
family by their cursing and their
drinking, their gambling and their
their abuse and their
vicious life.
You are a human being. I am a hu-
man being, but have been born again
faith in Jesus Christ. There
fore. the man that isn't born again
Is not my spiritual brother. He is a
human and am a human, we are
all made of one blood, from Adam and
Eve, my friends. but I want to tell