Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-27


and il is followed by the Gath:
Lift up your heads, o ye gates;
and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting
doors; and the King of glory shall
come in"
And if you want TO walk through
the gates, into the city, you have
got to first come through faith in
Jesus Christ. There, l accept Him
as my Saviour. Here, / have the
blessed experiences. There at last
I will wear the crown when am
through with the world.
The Lord is my Shepherd: 1
shall not want" The word Lord
is printed in italics. That, means
Jehovah, God.
Morals at standstilL
Oh, with all our boosted civiliza-
ton, all our searchlight, electric
light, all our wonderful advance
ment, my friends, we have ad-
vanced in everything under heaven
except in morals. We have advanc-
er intellectually and physically;
we have been born again and made
over, except in morals. We need
to be born again.
Go down and listen to the aver
age group Of men. You can't hear
them talk FIVE minutes. that some
fellow doesn't yomit and spew out
a blood-curdling, right angular,
| trapezoidal, horizontal, perpendic-
ular string of oaths, until you
would think that God was demon.
He restoreth my soul: He lead
eth me in the paths OF righteous
ness for His names sake"
How often we need restitution.
We get all run down and we need
a tonic. We need toning up NOR
ally, the same as we do physically.
/ We have schools to do that intel
lectually; we have gymnasiums to
do it physically. The people who
live in the country go to the city;
the people who live in the noun
tain region, go to the seashore. and
vice versa; people who live down
south come up north, and vice
versa. We are as migratory as
the birds. We are looking for
! some condition and locality which
will be conducive to a higher and
stronger physical condition, which
We will enjoy.
I You and I go with our loved ones
as far as we can. We will go with
them to the coffin, to the grave
yard. That is as far as we can go,
and when we have gone as far as
we can go, Jesus will go as far as
that with them, too, and He will go
with them the rest Of the way,
where we can't go.
So the spirit of God is lowering
over your loved ones. He watches
over his own. You have gone as
I far as you can go. You have hired
a doctor and nurse and cared for
them.
YEA, though I walk through the
valley of the Shadow of Death, I
will fear no evil, for Thou are with
me"
Thou preparest a table before
me in the presence of mine enc
mics; thou anointest my head with
oil; my cup runneth over"
| AS soon as you reach this appre-
citation, where you are dead to the
| sense Of sin and iniquity. then the
/ scene is changed to one of feasting
and blessing If you want the
blessing Of God to come to you.
after you have done your part and
| given yourself No TO the Lord, then
/ the peace Of God will be yours.
o, in all thy ways acknowledge
Him. He will direct your paths.
He will bless you. He will do
great and wonderful things If you
will do His will.
Thou annointest my head with
oil; my cup runneth over"
| Surely goodness and mercy shall
| follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the House of
the Lord forever, and that is my
reward
Some people say heaven is
state and not a place. I don't be-
lieve it. Heaven is a place. This
tabernacle is a place; so is your
home; so is your store. Heaven is
! a place,
o. if could just pull back the
curtain and let you take one
/ glimpse into heaven and see all
that God has prepared for you. If
/ you'd only forsake your sin. and I
believe could break the heart OF
every unsaved man or woman in
/ this tabernacle and there wouldn't
/ be man or woman going out OF
here tonight without Jesus. unless
he were a fool or an imbecile-and
God lets you out on the ground
that you are an imbecile.
Heaven is a place Of splendor,
too. Everything that ever came
from there tells US so-streets of
gold and gates Of pearl, walls of
jewels. Some day you may go
sweeping through the gate, but the
entering in rests with you, sir. If
you accept Jesus Christ. it is set
tied. If you don't then It isn't for
you.
They say. the deeper the water,
the larger and more costly the
pearl do not know whether that
is so or not.
But I know this much: from the
greatest depths Of iniquity God
brightest jewels. Some Of those
who have blazed the brightest and
lighted up this dark, rotten, Tester
ing, sin-cursed world, have been
men who have crept and crawled
in the sewers OF iniquity and OF
transgression and OF squalor, so it
is no cause for encouragement If
you have been or still are q sinner.
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