Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-26


doesn't enter into it. You are. But
he becomes a criminal by his &C
tons, but il he never puts his
! thoughts into action and his actions
are not contrary, well then he IS
! never a criminal. But man be
comes a sinner bythis thoughts He
doesn't need ito put his thoughts
into action toA be "a sinner. When
he thinks or 2aeS he is sinner. So
he plays both ends against the
middle. He whiQSaws.
How did Cod, treat David who
said to Nathan. II have sinned
! against the Lordg' Did he uncork
| the walls Of his wrath and pour
them out upon hin? No. He sent
! Nathan, the prophdz. to have talk.
God never put a sinner in hell that
! he didn't first send a preacher to
/ tell him TO keep out OF it. There is
not a man in the Ienitentiary that
| didn't go contrary to somebody $
advice OK he wouldn't have been
/ there. There isn't a girl selling
! her virtne tonight that she didn't
/ go contrary to the pEeadirgs of her
mother, or some good friend, Don't
you go with that gang, if YOU do
/ you will lose out
God sent Nathan, the prophet, to
J talk with David.
/ II was "A gre& sin for David
Why? He sinned tagainst his light.
/ He knew better. So do you. There
isn't a ban thai goes out and sins
/ chat he doesn't know from what
] fAIT lair he
! There isn't a man thar starts out
! to drink that doesn't know that
| that's the way a fellow becomes a
| arunkard. There isn't a girl that
| starts to go down the line with a
gang and doesn't wear clothes
enough to wad a shot gun, that
| doesn't know She has the example
OF others, no difference where you
| GO.
| The boy that shoots craps and
! 1ips pennies begins TO gamble. He
/ knew better There isn't a man or
! woman on earth that doesn't know
| better. There isn't a man or wom-
an on earth thai doesn't know, my
| friends, that to have one unfor-
given sin in their life places them
in the awful peril of Gods judg-
meEt. that they can forsake the
vilest sins that control the lives of
men and women if they surrender
to God and Jesus Christ. l chal-
!enge you
There isn't a soul on earth, l
don't care where they are, bound
hand and foot by avarice and greed
and sensuaIitY. but that man or
woman can rise in all their liberty
and freedom if'they will only yield
to God in faith and Jesus Christ. l
don't care what his sin or what he
may have done.
You may have read it, it occurred
years ago. A man was arrested and
taLen to the tombs and in the
morning when the drunken stupor
went over he said, What are the
charges against me?"
1T is murder" he was told.
He said, Don't tell my wife,
1T is your wife that you killed"
And yet that crime put him in
Sing Sing.
They know better when they start
out 1t was a great sin He sinned
my friends, against his light for he
I knew better. He sinned against
| his position, too as a king When
ever a man sins he hurts somebody
else. If the sinner was the only
one affected 1 wouldn't be working
so hard.
When you sin you hurt your wife
and children, and somebody else
suffers. We are all tied together
moves up, the others pull along
with it
In love, home influence, mar
riage, labor or anything of that
kind, you are all tied with some
body else in the world. You hut
somebody else when you sin.
l have been in communities and
said, Who is that girl?"
Her name is such and such. Her
mother is so and so. Her father is
such a man.
So the children have to live in
the community ostracized and stig-
n1atized because they are unfortun-
ate enough TO have flowing through
their veins the blood of that man
who is living in defiance with God
Other people don't want them 20
play with their children, because
their parents have sinned. When
you sin you hurt your wife, and
your children, you are not the only
one that has got to suffer for H.
AS sure as you live and breathe
now it was a great repentance. +
wish 1 could stop and read the 51st
psalm that was written by David
during the period when the tears of
sorrow were rolling down his
cheeks that he sinned against the
Lord.
l wish / had time to stop and ask
the audience what is repentance?
would get a variety OF definitions. !
One man would say, it is sorrow for F!
sin. Oh, no, l have never known
sinner in my life that was not
sorry that he committed sin, espe- !
cially if he got caught in it. Oh, |
no, not convicts. ! know men, sir, !
that are afraid TO come to this !
tabernacle, for fear if they put
themselves under the influence /
here. that they would yield to Jesus !
Christ and do one decent thing be- /
fore they die. They are afraid. !
They are convicted. They know
what l preach is right. They know /
the way they live is wrong. and f.,
they know if they come they would !!
yield TO the spirit of God and live /
the way l preach and they don't /
want to live the way I preach and /
thay are afraid CO tbaxv a.. 49,