The Washington herald., 1918-02-28

tegrity and philanthropy. your name
may be as good as . government
bond for any reasonable amount at
any bank. you may be true to your
wife, you would die before you'd
sidestep your marriage vows and
break the pledge you took amidst
the perfume of the orange bios
SONS. I honor you for 1t.
You may even defend the meet
ings or the Bible, but you let Jesus
Christ try and get into your hearts
and try to get you on your feet to
walk down these aisles. and your
hearts are sealed like q bank vault
and God can make no impression
upon you in the world.
What is the work of the Holy
Spirit? It hasn't drop Of blood.
but hereI You listen to q man
preach or sing or pray and some
thing says, Il ought to be Chris
TAIN"
That's the Holy Spirit convict
ing you that you need the salvation
that Jesus has provided.
The Holy Ghost can't save you
but the once work of the Holy
Ghost is to make you feel your need
Of the salvation that Jesus Christ
provided for you when he died on
the cross, and the Holy Spirit Is
the only representative of the Trim
ity in the world today.
Sin 10 No Trihe.
Sin is no trifle, but it takes the
Holy Spirit to convict you that you
are q sinner; II takes your faith in
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forgive your sins; It takes the par
don through your faith in Christ,
convicted by the Holy Ghost that
yeu need.
Oh, Godi Sin, Is no trihe. God
says sin Is no trifle when 1t takes
the Trinity to keep you out Of he'll.
Hath never forgiveness neither
in this world neither in the world
to come"
How does 1t show itself?" asks q
man or woman oh, I don't know.
There are dozens Of ways, but they
are all subdivisions of two princi-
pies. First, by its mayignity. Take
q man or woman that has sinned
away their day of grace. Nothing
stirs that old reprobate like seeing
the great throngs of people back in
this building. going through all the
inconyeniences, my friends. that you
have to, walking. as thousands of
you do. coming long distances to the
Tabernacle. Nothing stirs him so
with hatred as to see the people
come and want to be decent.
I have never said here or anywhere,
that all unbelievers are in agony.
Ordinarily q man dies as he has lived.
don't go very much on so-called
deathbed repentances. I think it's a
mean, dirty, stinking. low-down, con-
temptible, unmanly. unwomanly thing
to keep the control of your life in
your own hands, indulging in your
pleasures and your desires whenever
indulgence is diametricaIly opposed to
your conscience and the Word OF
! God, when Gods spirit begs and pleads
with you to forsake your sin, then
when you are lying on your deathbed
whine like a sick cat and whine for
the preacher to save your carcass,
After you've drained the cup of life,
then you throw the dregs into the
face Of God: after you've burned the
candle of life In the service of the
devil. have the audacity to blow the
smoke in Gods face.
Many Fail to Consider.
I presume there are men and wom-
en- who have never stopped to con-
slider their souls eternal destiny, who
may take time to consider and yield
on their deathbed- If you never had a
chance before and never had another,
you'd go out and squeeze this old
world like you would a lemon. But,
by the eternal God, men and women,
while I am in possession of the very
apex, OF my physical and intellectual
development and power, I want to
give that to God and to Jesus Christ
and humanity, so when I drift out
with the tide won't have to spend
my time whining and snuffling to God
and confessing my sins, when ought
to have done it and been getting
ready years ago.
God has a right to state the terms
upon which you can have salvation
and II you are not willing to comply
with Gods terms, then go to hell, but
don't Try to throw It into the teeth of
COO and say he Ii not loving.
God states the terms upon which
you can keep out Of hell and If you
are not willing to comply with IT,
eNeS gOAE AhOuIn anu 20 on. Let
God alone. God can't stop you, but
he's doing all that he can In this old
world to do It.
All manner Of SIM God says he
Will forgive, but It Is conditioned upon
you doing something to have his for
giyeness. Supposing you are a thief.
VIII God forgive a man for theft?
DIDN'T he say to Zacchaeus,. This
Ia Iva
house?"
"An manner Of SINS" Get up ana tell
me where you could improve on Jesus
Christ II you had the chance. Wherein
does he not come up to the greatest
mans greatest ideas Of the greatest
manf I'd like to ind out.
somebody says, MY hands are red
with blood" That doesn't make anv
dinerence. AN manner Of sin God says
he viii forgive.
God win Forgive An sfnH
An manner Of sin God says win be