Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-15

Remove hence to yonder place
and it shall remove; and nothing
shall be impossible unto you.
/ Therefore, when God wills, thu
Holy Spirit does an act, accom-
plishes material phenomena.
When Joshua fought the battle
he saw that the sun would go dowI
and it would be dark before ht
could finish the conflict. He said
Lord, it's taking me longer thai
figured out, and if you've go
some way just to prolong this day
and keep the sun from behind the
western hills, I'll lick this bunch
to a FRAGILE and I'll send your name
ringing down through the ages.
And God reached up and grabbed
the sun and said, You stay there
and don't you move an inch until
Joshua gives you the high ball"
He accomplished material phe-
nomena in this old world. Samson
with the Spirit of God on him
could take the jaw bone of an ass
and fay a thousand Philistines
Samson, alone, without the Spirit
of God, was as weak as a new
horn babe; and the church of God
today, with all her wealth, with
her vested choir, her pipe organs
and her numbers, without Jesus
Christ and the Holy Ghost, be-
comes four walls with a roof over
her and a pipe organ built up in
the corner and a preacher doing
stunts two times, one day out of
seven.
Who is the Spirit of God? There
is no force on earth or in hell that
can stand the onward march of the
church of Jesus Christ and His
truth.
The best way to grasp scriptural
truth is to compare scripture with
scripture. The greatest Canger, as
see it today, is egotistical SELF
content. A lot of people don't give
whoop whether anybody goes to
hell, or where they go, SO long as
they themselves are saved. EgotiS-
teal seIf-conteutment is one of the
curses of the world and of the
church. A man will not walk to a
precipice and leap over with two
good eyes and a good head; no cap
tain would put to sea without the
chart of the pilot and the com
pass, for it is by the trembling Of
that tiny needle that she can leave
the harbor at New York and enter
the harbor at Liverpool and never
deviate two miles unless driven by
a storm.
Oh, death turks in the poisoned
cup as we'll as it CLEANS upon the
point of the poniard or glistens
upon the barrel of a gun. Satan
plumes himself into a dove OF light
and he sharpens his fangs and in
jectS his venom. The flowers fade
and the sun becomes as blood, and
it is in this guise that the devil
does his most effective work. If
we could see the devil as he is, he
would be in the hospital. That's
the trouble today; he's got you.
He leads you astray and puts a
ring in your nose, and he's got you
now.
The danger is that the tired
traveller will walk out too far on
the beach and the incoming tide
will engulf him. The trouble is
that past sins will not be dragged
out and confessed and fOrsaken.
But are you willing that man
should see you as God sees you?
Man looketh on the outward show
but God looketh on the heart"
Now, then, how is the Lord going
to convict the world? He is going
to do it through those who live,
believe and preach the truth.
There are three classes in the
as I have sized it up i'm
partially after 81 years. Listen!
First, there are people in the
church who personally want to be
saved. They don't give a rap
whether anybody else is saved or
not: they are absolutely Indifferent
10 it. That's one class. Then there
IS a second class-they have a lit
lie concern; they think the work
IS to be done by human wisdom
and discretion. They have great
zeal to say about the latent power
n the church. There is no such
hing as power, expressed or i'm
1Iled-I mean latent power. Power
S as distinct from the individual
IS that current is from that light.
What are these lights without tho
current? Nothing but glass bulbs
waiting for the scrap heap. VIVA
S mantle individual, without the
Spirit Of God? Nothing but sound
ng brass and tinkling cymbals. !
That's all it is in the universe.
Without the Spirit OF God, she de- !
generates into a third-rate amuse-
nent bureau with religion left out. |
Then the third class-they have
earned this lesson, sit is not by |
night, nor by power, but by My |
Spirit" saith the Lord God OF
losts. From the third class came |
he prophets; from the third class |
anne Gideon, who put TO flight the |
Iidianites; from the third class |
anne Moses, who beat back the |
vaters of the Red sea; from the |
bird class came Daniel, who shut
he lions mouth by the power or
,od: from the third class came
very man and every woman who
as ever been used of God to light !
ID the dark, rotten, fostering spots
{ this misunderstanding. whisky
Oaked, CAMPING Seu Oiu WI w
hats going to hell so fast she's
reaking the speed limit.
Now am no pessimist; l am an
ptimist of the Optimists. 1 be-
eve, sir. that a brighter day has
ever dawned in history, my /
-iends, than now. I believe, sir,
nat no church door should ever
wing open. I believe no sermon
nould ever be preached, no songs
ing nor prayer prayed that hasn't
IT its only purpose the clarifying
G Cnd and the hrinpinR of SOHO |