Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-29
ACCEPT JESUS
TO ESCAPE SIN
UNPARDONABLE
Rev. Mr.. Sunday Delivers Powerful
Sermon and Demonstrates
ReTiVnI Benefits.
BIZ GOTTA BARTHOLOMEW.

Sunday a powerful and convincing
sermon in which he defined the I'M
pardonable sin as the constant and
continual and final rejection Of
Jesus Christ as the personal Sa-
vior 1T Is no one act. but the
constant repetition Of the same
thing, refusing TO be a Christian
until your heart becomes hard and
your will is set and you grieve the
Spirit of God, and He will bear
with you no longer and He will let
you alone" continued Mr.. Sunday.
by the known laws of your mind
your conversion must be effected
through the influence of the truth
Of your mind. Your name may be
synonymous with virtue. honor, in
tegrity and philanthropy; your name
may be as good as a government
bond for any reasonable amount at
any bank, and yet, if you say NO
to Jesus Christ. you are commit
ting the objectionable sin
We are living in the dispensa-
ton of the Holy Ghost. Therefore
II takes the Holy Ghost to convict
you that you are a sinner; it takes
the pardon of God for you to be
saved; 1t takes the Trinity to keep
your soul out Of hell.
81 presume there are men and
women who have never stopped to
consider their souls eternal des-
tiny. who may take time to con-
slider and yield on their deathbed.
God has a right to state the terms
upon which you can have salvation,
and IL you are not willing to com
ply with Gods terms. then go to
hell and don't try to throw it into
the teeth of God and say He is not
loving. Get up and tell me where
you could improve on Jesus Christ
if you had the chance Wherein
does He not come up to the great
est mans ideas of the greatest
man? I'd like to find out"
Revival Influence.
In speaking Of the influences that
go out as the result of revival
meetings. Mr.. Sunday said Most
people that are converted become
Christians in time OF reyivals. spe-
ctal meetings." and he proceeded
to prove his statement by asking
all young men and women who are
protesting Christians and who gave
their hearts to God in times OF
special meetings outside of the
ordinary church services. to rise to
their feet, and a large percentage
of the people stood.
He then asked how many In the
audience were protesting Chris
tians, and practically the entire
crowd rose to it's feet, and while
they remained standing he asked
those to sit who protested Christ
before they were 20, then 80, then
40 and so, and the results showed
that OF the enormous crowd only
eight were converted after they
were 4Osyears Of age. and only two
after they were so. Mr.. Sunday
wished to show that now Is the &C
cepted time for salvation and that
the older a man grows the harder
II IS to do anything all through
life.
Continuing on the subject OF re-
vivals, he said: People that sheer
at REVEALS! That's Gods way to
keep people out OF hell. So have
absolutely not a scintilla of respect
for anybody that lifts their voice
against the revival efforts; that's
Gods way Of saving people, and l
have no more respect for you II
you growled at God than If you
sneered at revivals.
God has a plan in nature and
God has a plan in religion. II He
wants you 10 plant your seeds in
April instead OF February, It is &C
cording to His plan.
why will not God forgive #?
The bible says, Hath never for
giveness in this world or the world
to come That proves that If you
are not forgiven of your sins IN
this world, you will not have a
chance In the world to come, and
the doctrine OF future probation is
an Internal lie
IF you should injure me and I'd
say 4 forgive you you'd say had
a good spirit. Well, sir. I've been
so years building up a Christian
character, and the man or the dirty
bunch that tries to tear It down
can compliment themselves on hav-
ever looked at
Fight for God.
81 can fight as hard for God and
His truth, my friends. as l know
how, and when I say Goodbye to
this city 1 shall not carry with me
one scintilla of enmity. promised
Mrs. Sunday and our four children
/ would take care Of her husband
and their daddy, and II you should
in1ure my loved ones. If you would
ALLEVIATE nv wife's affections and
break up my homo and I'd say, I
forgive you
I'D have 20 pray hard to keep
from shooting you'll don't know
that I would; 1 don't know what
I'd do. don't make any bones
about what / would do.
"But God says, See here. you
nav spurn My love or trample the
blood OF My Son under foot. If
you've been a thief, I'll forgive you
and If you've been Indifferent to
the appeal OF the ministers or the
tears OF your wife or children. I'll
forgive VOC. I'll forgive all man
ner of sin. I'll forgive, but when
/ come down to this old world and
bear testimony through My only
begotten Son that salvation is
through Him and you reject # and
cling to your sin, you've never for
giveness in this world nor in athe
world to come
Mr.. Sunday made a request which
he said he would not make again
while in the city. and that was that
every man and women there last
night stand II they have an honest