Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-30
SUNDAY DRAWS
LESSONS FROM
LIFE RICH MAN
: Speaking on Subject "Zaechaeus7
Evangelist Tells Rewards of Sin
I'm This and Other World.
BY GOTTA BARTHOLOMEW.

BY tUIIA BARIHOIOMEN W.
Taking 'Zacchaeus" as the rath-
er unusual subject Of his discourse
last evening Rev. Mr.. Sunday drew
from the story Of the curious man
many lessons applicable to every
+ one who will but apply them to
himself and try to live up TO them.
=. From Zacchaeus' curiosity to see
the Savior he was induced to be-
come a follower of the Lord and
power for good.
." NJ" said Mr.. Sunday, spells
the cause of all misery in this old
world. It spells murder and thefts
and outrages, and seductions. and
Just and drunkenness, blasphemy,
broken hearts, all that blights like
a pestilence and causes misery in
the world, all is spelled with that
one word sin. Come down from sin
and turn from it to the name of
Jesus Christ and do His will
Sin, you roll ii like a sweet NOR
sci under your tongue. II may be
Temunerative to you but don't you
forget that the way of transgres-
sion is hard, but the end Of the road
is good deal harder than the
road"
Come down." continued Mr.
Sunday, from your perch of cur
sosity, come down from your perch
of pride, many Of you are too proud
to walk down this aisle and take
me by the hand and promise to live
better lives in the days to come. 1
tell you there are things in the
lives of everybody that we cannot
make right. And there are things
that il you had your life to live
over again you would do and you
wouldn't do.
Men," he said, make haste to be
rich. they make haste to write
their names on the scroll of honor,
which is commendable, they make
haste to secure a brilliant educa- |
tion which is also commendable, to
secure health when they are sick, |
but why in the name of God don't |
you make haste to get right with !
God? Zacchaeus was rich in money |
and he went to see a man rich in |
blessing and benediction which |
was bestowed upon the man. |
Jesus was really and truly a rich |
man though he didn't have two
coats to his name.
What Lost Means.
4 wish l was able to put into |
that word lost all that it will !
mean to you if it ever becomes a |
reality, which I pray from the
depths of my heart it never will.
then 1 could startIe you and the |
time will come when you would
give 10000 worlds like this to have
-
Say" continued Mr.. Sunday, "if
God would give me the privilege to
90 to hell and preach one sermon
and give the invitation, could de-
hell in Is minutes; just
one sermon. They that are in there
would give the world to get out and
you big fool, you are trying to get
in. Don't you do it. Don't you
do it
Il could take two ribbons One of
one color and one of another; on
one ribbon I could print one word,
on the other ribbon, another. and
could leave this platform and go
down around here and through this
audience. down through the vesti-
bules where you stand, go down
the street. I could stop the auto
mobiles, go through the haunts Of
sin and vice and I can pin one or
the other on the breast of every
man or woman. Upon one would
be printed the word Lost and on
the other Saved and the cross of
Jesus Christ divides the people,
nothing else.
1T isn't intellectually, culture
Sr anything else but religion. You
sre lost. You are lost.
Il wish l could make men AMI
women realize their position. You
are lost to a good many things.
First, you are lost to happiness,
and out Of Jesus Christ there is
none. J.
IL used to think there was, but I ,
want to say this to you, I have ii
been a protesting Christian for 80 !
years, and five minutes knowing
that my sins we're forgiven gave me
more peace than I ever found in all
the years 1 served the devil. You {
are lost.
Jesus Ready to Save. {
you don't know what is missing {
put of your life, do you?" he said {
You have been seeking but you {
have turned your back on him s
Turn around and you will find him |
right here and ready to throw his 1
arms around you. /
The Son OF Man has come to 5
seek and to save that which is lost,
and He has been seeking some of
you for 10, 20, 80, so years and /
you have not found him. For he-is '
zone to seek and save the lost e
81 wish 1 were able to put into {
hat one word all that it will mean d
o you II it ever becomes reality,