Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-06
ETERNAL DAMNATION SHALL BE END OF
THEM THAT OBEY NOT GOSPEL OF GOD

halo or glory; those s1ghtlesS eyes
flash, and she cries out: Blessed
Assurance, Jesus is Mine"-''Oh.
What a Foretaste of Glory Divine"
Pass Ne Not, o Gentle Savior"
Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross"
There is a Precious Fountain
Safe in the Arms of Jesus"-"1
Am ClInging Close to Thee"-"Res-
cue the Perishing'--Once l Was
Blind; Now Can Settle Light
of a World is Jesus"
What is it? It is to trust in the
finished work of Jesus Christ
Years ago Napoleon was riding
| in review before his troops, when
the horse upon which he sat sud-
denly became unmanageable, and
Selling the bit in his teeth, dashed
off down the road, and the life of
/ the great warrior was in danger,
when a private, at the risk OF his
own life, leaped from the ranks,
seized the runaway horse by the
bride and was dragged for nearly
a hundred yards by the rearing,
plunging horse. Finally he sue
ceeded in stopping the horse. He
was severely injured and bruised,
and as he lay on the ground Ma
poleon, out of gratitude, rose in
his stirrups and said to the man,
Thank you, captain
So l am Christian because God
says so, and that is the last word,
and that is the supreme authority
What God says, no man can deny
There are three things incom-
prehensible to me. That isn't ex-
actly what l mean-some fellow
would go out OF there and say
there are only three things /
couldn't understand. There are a
million. but these three are pre-
eminently incomprehensible to me
There are three that are incompre-
hensible to me above the multi
tudes.
First, is eternity Away of yon-
der you think it will end. but it
leads on and on and on. If l take
100000 and subtract soc 900, there
is my answer; if 1 take a billion
and subtract a million, there is my
answer. / might take a trilIion or
septillion of years from eternity
and 1 wouldn't so much as disturb
its original terms, until minds
trained to deal with intricate prob
lens go reeling back in their utter
inability to comprehend eternity.
The other is space. When you go
out tonight, look up and you will
see the moon, 100000 miles from
the earth, and it is one of our near
est neighbors / could walk to
the moon in II years, walking 40
miles a day, but the moon is a
nearby neighbor. You saw the sun
today; how brilliantly it shone to |
tease and coax and beg the flowers |
and the vegetables to grow. 1t is |
80, 500, 900 miles away. If should /
travel on an express train so miles !
per hour, it would take me 215 |
years to reach the sun-that's at |
the rate Of so miles per hour. The |
sun, too, is one of our nearest |
neighbOrs.
In the early morning you will |
look up and see a star near the |
$1,000, 600 milec /
away; travels around the sun once
in So days, going at a speed of
10000 miles per hour.
Then comes the earth, the planet
upon which we live. 1t travels
around the sun once in 365 days.
or one calendar year, going at a
speed of $500 miles per hour;
and as you sit there, as you stand
yonder, this old earth upon which
we live is swinging in her orbit
at the rate Of $4,000 miles per
hour.
Gods Love for Man.
"Oh. God, what is man. that
~ Il NF p 7
Delie*e an inffdel ever studied as
Lronomy or looked through a tel
escope. The fool hath said in his
heart, There is no God" But he
Is a fool. I am not an infidel, be-
cause l am not fool.
Then the third thing that is in
to me- can un-
lerstand eternity in a degree; L
ian grasp space to a certain ex-
ent, but the third is the love of
Tod to this old sin-cursed world, I
md mans indifference to Gods
owe. If you can get up and tell
ne why it is that a human being
S Indifferent to Gods love, I'll
luit. I can't understand it; 1 can't ,
10 it; give up.
In these days it is big man and {
title Cod" gigantic 81" and pig :
ny God" These are days when !
t is ''Ponderous man, infinitesmal |
fod."
There are 1,4O0, 900, 900 people on /
he earth. You are one OF that I
lumber; so am /. You don't I
mount to much: neither do 1.
You and l are just one: we are 7
Inits of 1,400, 100000 people that {
re on this earth. There are 400 '
90 worlds like the worlds in which +
We live. There are q million 9th v
r suns as large as the sun of our :
olar system, and each sun holds i
n its power other worlds such as Y
he world in which we live. b
Oh, if I should take 1,40o. 0O0,-
90, the number of people on the I
arth, and multiply it by 100000
90, my friends. and then multiply s
nat by 100000, then multiply il
nat by several million more, and a
hen multiply that by infnity. and $
nat is God. That is the God you a
Durn, whose Son you damn-you r
ont give a rap about That is the
cd. sir, that you have been bias h
hemiEg and refusing to accept all v
lese years. d
If I we're to take the sun and cut v
up into 100000 pieces, each I
Iece would be as big as the earth Il
4 which we live. and If I could y
Ike an auger and bore a hole in h
lie top OF the sun, could bore a
ole 1,4O0, 900 times the size Of this m
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