Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-06
ETERNITY,LOST;
WORDS SINNERS
OUGHT TO FEAR
ReV. Mr. Sunday in Sermon SAYS
That Life is But Heartbeat
From the Great Unknown.
BY GOTTA BARTHOLOMEW.

pie Var1ously estimated from nine
TO ten thousand people, Rev. Billy
Sunday last evening delivered a
powerful sermon at the tabernacle
in which he carried his audience
through comprehensive study in
astronomy in order to convince
them how infinitesimal they are
compared to the great works that
the Lord has wrought. What is
man that God is mindful of him"
that he will turn aside from max
Ing great worlds and planets to
come to this small world and map
out plan of salvation for his peo-
pie, to show them the great love
that God has for His people through
they are so unmindful of his grac-
iousness.
He spoke from the theme What
shall the end be of them that obey
not the gospel of God" taken from
iirst Peter 4:17 and around it he
built the plan of salvation as told
by the bible What is the gospel
that people ought to obey it? Well,
It is the good news OF salvation
through faith in Jesus" he said and
continuing God never told man
kind that they were lost, headed
for hell, and then left him to grope
MS way out himself. 1t is good
news for God to tell a man that he
IS lost and then send a guide to
lead him out and bring him back
nome and back to peace and JOY.
The gospel is glad tidings of
salvation offered full, free and
eternal to all mankind who will &C
cept Jesus Christ as his or her Der-
sonal God
What is Eternity2
There are three things that are
incomprehensible to me above the
multitudes and the first of these is
eternity. Away OF yonder you
think it will end, but it leads on
and on and on. If take one million
and subtract 100000 there is my
answer; if / take a billion and sub
tract a million, there is my answer
l might take a septillion of years
from eternity and I wouldn't so
much as disturb it's original terms,
until minds trained to deal with in
tricate problems go Keeling back in
their utter inability to comprehend
eternity.
The other is space. II I were to
take the sun and cut it up into l.
100000 pieces each piece would be
as big as the earth on which we live
and if I could taEe an augur and
bore hole 1.40C zoe times the size
Of this earth there would still
Be room Tor more auo sod made
the sun. That is the COO that you
have been blaspd en- ine and refus-
ing to accept all these years Oh,
If ever a man appears like a con-
summate idiot, it is when he has no
use for God and the plan of saliva
tiOn through Jesus Christ.
Is Fire Of Hell Real.
Some people are tempted to
deny that their sufferings in the
next world if they are lost, will be
eternal fire. Some scoff at the
idea said Mr.. Sunday, in discuss
ing the literal application of the |
fire of hell, but he continued, what |
does it matter to you whether the (
FIRE in he'll is literal or whether it .
IS the fittest emblem that God /!
could employ to convey to our !
minds the terrors of the world to
come? Fire is the limit of our COM /
prehension. God is talking to us in !
language that we can understand, :
and fire is the very apex of Our
hatred. and when we talk of it
aFerybo1y shFinks 70 think OF il. .
Whzt difference does II make 20
you whether the gold on the streets
of heaven is ACCURATELY gold or
really gold? Gold was the flttest
emblem that God could use 10 con-
Tey to your minds the beauty of
heaven. Gold is the very top notch
1f our comprehension of wealth
and of beauty; hell1re is that of
error and punishment.
at doesn't make any difference
% me whether the gold on the
Itreets of heaven is literally like
hat or not, or whether it is the
ittest emblem that God could en-
boy to talk to me in language that
could understand want to go to
leaven whether the fire in hell is
literal or not, or whether fire was
he fttest emblem that God could
imploy to convey to my mind the
error Of hell.
Hell must be an awful place if
sod didn't want me to go there,
nd if He gave Jesus Christ to keep
ne out of there; any you are a big
COL if you want to live a life of re-
,elIion and go to hell, just to find Z
ut if the fire is literal or not.
Lose Nothing as Christian.
eff there isn't any hell, haven't
ost anything by being decent and !
wing a Christian life while 1 am ]
ere; and if there is, and l believe !
here is and you don't, when 1 die {
am saved, but when you die where /
o you get OFF? You are fool any I
ray you look At it
There are two ends to every
hing" he continued, the apparent {
nd the real you are going to live t
n until the constellation of the I
eayens are snuffed out. You are {
Ding to live on until the rocks +
rumble to dust. You are going to r
We on until the mountain peaks
re incinerated into ashes and =
cd blows them to the four corners .
[ infnitude by the breath of
eaven." !,
With illustration croUding illus
alton, Mr. Sunday proved the
nptinesS Of infidelity, "the great
st the world can give you through :
Ifidelity will be crushed in the end
he infideL won't be in hell i've l,
fnutes before he viii be sorry Z
lat he eliminated the plan of sal q
alton as worked out by Jesus Il
nrist. And am just old fashion b
! enough to believe that when God s
iys hell is fire and heaven is Il
aved with gold. that It Is Just so. " Z
MIR. Sunday had a lot of kind Y
aryaS IN say far life insurance he IL