Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1919-11-21

holy gospel is written and the con-
gregation instantly arise, and while
the clergyman read the holy gospel you
would see the spark of divinity in his
eyes you would naturally conclude
that he had been with Jesus and mad
learned of him. For it. is just as easy
for the beauty. the glory and the di-
vinity OF jehovah 10 shine in the eyes
and on lac face of "a black man as it is
for His beauty. glory and Divinity to
shine on the fair face ana in the large
blue eyes of the auburn haired Angli-
clan on the auction block at Rome
What / had in mind to show by the
Illustration was this: a scholar as well
as an ignorant man. such as | am,
would naturally conclude that the
church was planted in the primitive
days of Christianity by an apostle to
the black man although there be no
historical data TO be found on tables
of stone or in the books Of history.
Say YOU could find nothing except a
legend so old that none living knew of
its origin. but you know. there can be
no legend Of fairy tale unless there be
a living being to write about.
Another point to which / beg an at
tentivc ear is this: You may grow
weary n times and feel like giving up
the race, and that all your earnest
ministry. every effort and the many
men and women to whom you have
spoken and invited into the Kingdom
have either looked or acted. go thy
way for this time when ! have a more
convenient season ] viii call for thee"
But this is the other part of the truth 4
surrounding the incident But as St /
Paul reasoned on righteousness, tom (
perance and the judgement to come. (
Felix trembled and answered Go thy
way" The application of your invi- I
tation may. and in many cases does /
awaken many drOwsy, sleepy and al /
most dead convictions in the hearts of /
men and women, that the christian re- /
ligion is verify, and that her truths /
are to be accounted for and reckoned |
with. For they take first and last |
place in the life of every man and wo-
man. For man is profoundly religious, 7
but the evidence of this may be hid
den or eclipsed from your mind of a
period by business worries or some ac-
tivity. thought or veXation to which
you are a perfect stranger. and leave
you with the wrong impression rela-
tive to the man or woman from whom
you expected an answer in the affir-
native.
But just now let your brother say
the three excuses given in the parable
under the head of pray have me ex-
eused" are applicable to our day and
and almost every iother
period in the history of the world up
20 the present time. But those of you
who are not familiar with the parable
md biblical lorein general know the
outcome of those who We're hidden to
he feast and refused to go. The
lrincely gentleman who sent 10 his
friends men of his class and asso-
ciates a written invitation long enough
n advance of the dinner to satisfy the
'ubrick of society. and the unwritten-
aw was wroth. Because he wrote I
hem in the first place, and in the sec .
md to show his hospitality was be-
'ond doubt, sent his servants at the
Inner hour to invite in persons, those
whom he had hidden to the feast.
But the servants returned, the dinner {
et and informed their Lord of the 7
,laring breach of etiquet on the part Of i
lis friends. He was boiling over with {
and commanded his ser -
ants to go out into the highways
nd hedges and compel the lame, the
alt and the blind to come in that
ny house" said he may be full Here
hen my brethren is our commission.
Co" And politely refuse to accept
No" for an answer. For God is ear
estly and lovingly calling the while
-orld to the feast of nuleavened bread,
nd to the midnight feast Of the pass
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