Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-20
Christianity Was Extended to Produce
Highest Degree of Human Happiness

Preaching from the text, How
shall we escape if we neglect 50
great salvation" Rev. Mr.. Sunday
last evening at the tabernacle SAID
in part as follows:
In Hebrew the End chapter and
the Bird verse, How shall we escape
If we neglect SO great salvation"
The only way to escape is
through this salvation and If you
neglect it there is no escape. Hence,
there is no answer to my text
Our first thought about saliva
ton is we are saved from hell, and
made fit for heaven. Nobody is mt
to associate with God until he has
had the spirit of God, and you are
mighty particular about your COM
panions. There are some people,
as long as they live the way they
live, you wouldn't want them in
your home and you won't associate
with them, but IL they'd brace up
and live the way they ought to live
you'd be glad to receive them
Don't you think God Almighty is as
particular about his company as
you are?
Do you think God is going to
take every old nbertine and thief
and thug, take him up to heaycl
and let him have front seat? Not
on your life. But If he will get
down and express to God his sor-
row for his sins, God will forgive
that mans sins and he will be born
again. God has the right to state
the conditions of the terms upon
which they can cross the threshold
Of heaven.
l haven't as much to say to you
as a doubter as l have to the man
or woman who admits that it il
true but up until now you haven't
found it convenient to confess
Jesus Christ and turn from your
sins. You are hoping to find a
more convenient time and if this
isn't a convenient time, tell me
when it is. If you can resist all
the influences that Gods spirit has
brought to bear upon this old city
and yet with all the evidences if
you can steel your heart, God pity
you! Your doom is sealed, in my
opinion, if you can resist all this.
There isn't much hope that you WI
come in under ordinary conditions.
All Expect to Be Christians.
/ never met a man in my life
that said he believed he was going
to an eternal literal hell. A friend
of mine who preached for % years
said he'd never met but two and
they were both converted before
the meetings were over.
Most people believe and expect
to die Christians. l can go through
this audience tonight. l think l
could go down through the haunts
of sin and search this old city and
/ couldn't find 5000 out of them
that believe in an eternal hell and
expect to go there.
Most people expect to die
Christians. Every man is making
his own future. You are deter
that for yourself. God has
set before US an open door of bless
ing and cursing, heaven or hell. He
has done all He can, the plan is
fixed, the die is cast, it's up to hu-
mainly. God has done all he can.
I can just simply tell you and
leave it to you.
A man said to me one time,
Then you believe in an eternal,
literal hell?"
Yes, 1 have never gotten so
damnable and low-down and vile
as to have the audacity to put my
pigmy, intellect up to
the defiance of the Omnipotent and
tell Him the spirit of damnation
didn't meet with my stupenous, gi-
gantic, conception. He is a big
idiot
You show me the man that loves
his children that would not suffer
mental agony and distress of mind
a thousand fold more excruciating
than the mere physical suffering of
walking on Goals. .
To have a mental condition like
that, TO have it prolonged through
an ternity with no cessation, great
God! To be turned into shades like
Dante's shadows, TO want to go and
can't go, to want to do and be I'M
able to do, to want to say and to be
unable to have 1t. l beg of you, in
the name Of God, don't be q fool
and live the life Of rebellion to God.
To have a mental agony like that
continued through eternity with
nothing under heaven to release
and relax, don't beg OF you.