Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-27
Without Faith in Jesus Christ !
Man Is But Creature of DeUil

Man Is But Z
Cast in beautiful language Rev.
Mr. Sunday yesterday afternoon
gave the Interpretation of the
23rd psalm, The Lord is Ny Shep-
herd" in which he said:
Three thousand years have pass
ed away since David wrote the 23rd
Psalm. The harp upon which he
used 70 play to charm King Saul
in his melancholy moods, and the
book of the law out of whom he
meditated and got inspiration to do
the viii Of God; the sling which he
used to hurl the stone that slew
the giant OF Gath; the palace in
which he lived, the throne upon
which he sat and the crown which
he wore-they have all crumbled
into dust and they couldn't be
found today by any possibility Of
research, and yet this Psalm is as
sweet and inspiring as the day it
fell from his harp and his lips,
5000 years ago.
To me. nothing is fresher and
more inspiring than the truth Of it
It comes like a gale from heaven
and like the song OF angels.
Little children have lisped It at
their mothers knee. l have no
doubt but that the infant Jesus
used TO say it over and over again
as he knelt by his mothers side,
because every Jewish child was
taught by his parents, familiarity
with the Scriptures, and If we were
only as particular today to fnstill
the principles of the gospel in the
hearts and minds of children, there
wouldn't be so many of them going
to the devil with the dew Of youth
on their brow: and there wouldn't
be so many Of our boys numbered
among the criminals; and
wouldn't be compelled to stand up
here and tell you that " per cent
of our criminals are young men
under 81 years Of age.
Inspiration In Psalm.
Pilgrims, as they pushed forward
in their journey over roads hard to
travel, have gained inspiration, and
prisoners in their cell have forgot
ten their gloom, and men and wom-
en- held by an enslaving, supplying
demonizing habit and appetite,
have felt it snap, as they became
free creatures in Jesus Christ
Martyrs have gone to the stake and
have been incinerated to ashes, be-
fore they would deny the God who
they reVered; and old men and
women, young men and maidens
have pillowed their heads upon it;
gaining inspiration. they have
swept out to meet the God who it
inspired them to love.
After you have read the Psalm,
you say, there is a man who was
subject to all the passions that
were. and therefore you feel that
somebody is more in sympathy with
you than ever, because there is a
man who passed through the va
rious experiences to which human
flesh Is heir. He may have written
it when youth. watching the
sheep. He may have written it as
a song to sing for old King Saul,
and l have often tried to imagine
the sweet singer of Israel, David,
with his rudy cheeks, standing be-
fore this old grouchy Saul. singing
his Psalm-and many OF the psalms
We're written and sung as songs in
the temple-I have tried to imagine
hearing David put the emphasis on
the personal pronouns, for this
psalm had been forged on the anvil
of experience.
Now the position OF it is signifi-
cant-it follows the 22nd. 1t has
been called the Psalm OF the Cross.
You have got to first reach the
on the cross for your sins, accept
Him as your Saviour. before you
can ever say: or ever know. or
have the experience that. The
Lord is my Shepherd" God is not
the Shepherd Of any who turn their
back on Jesus Christ.
Creatures Of God.
I do not believe in the doctrine OF
the Universal Fatherhood of God
and the Universal Brotherhood Of
Man. which is an Internal lie Spir-
itually, you are creature OF God
God created you. We all de-
scended from Adam and Eve; but
you are not a child OF God unless
you are born again by faith in
Jesus Christ.
I'VE are of your father the devil,
and the lusts of your father We will
do. for he was a liar from the be-
ginning" said Jesus.
Oh, child Of the devil, and full Of
all suffering, We are all children
Of God, through faith in Jesus
Christ. II you have no faith in
Jesus Christ. you are a child Of
the devil. You are a creature OF
God-so is the COW that eats grass.
No man is my spiritual brother,
who denies Jesus Christ. He is in
the flesh; he is a human being-so
am I. But he is not my brother,
and I will not call him that. When
he repents and turns from his sin.
then he is my spiritual brother, and
If he doesn't repent, he isn't, no
matter who he is.
First, you have got to see Jesus
hanging on the cross as your Sa-