Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-02
GODS LINE OF BATTLE Is EASY TO
FOLLOW ALONG PATHS OF LOVE, PEACE

| GOFC gOAI SAShlcS was AhC
theme upon which Rev. Mr.. Sun
day this afternoon built his ser
mon, speaking on the subject
Gods Line of Battle" Faith
without love, that's power without
heart" said Mr.. Sunday, lis like a
stick of dynamite under your
house. It's a knife in the hands OF
a bad man" In part he said:
One of the hardest verses in the
bible for me to live up tc. l want
to preach it because l try to live
| it. Matthew, 5:44 Love your
enemies, bless them that curse you
do good to them that hate you, and
! pray for them which despitefully
use you and persecute you"
These things are not hard to do
if they are taken in the order in
which they are named. Let work
begin with love and it will be easy
to do all the rest. One of the first
characteristics of love is TO suffer
whatever it may be called upon TO
endure. The character of love does
not change with the circumstances
or with the climate. 1t is the same
summer or winter, day and night
What it is in one place, it will be
( in all places.
Being kind by nature, you are
sure to be kind in conduct and il
isn't hard for loving wife to bear
the faults of her husband which
she could not possibly endure in
any other man.
1t requires no effort for a mother
to be patient with her child, and
love never looks for faults, and
whenever it discovers them, ii
throws the mantle of charity over
them and it does not blame; it does
not censure. Where others see only
wrong, love sees some good Too
many people have a great deal OF
religion but no love. They pay
tithes, they fast and they've got
long faces but they are not follow
ers of Jesus Christ. They mako a
noise in the church but they keep
away from the altar of sacrifice
and if noise was religion, then A
Chinese joss house would be the
hottest spot on earth. And a bass
drum could Guido a preacher in
promoting a revival.
There is a noise that counts.
That is the noise that is made by
laying down things that you give
up for Christ, and We need relig-
ion, that will make US pay our
debts and behave like Christians in
the middle of the week, more thar
we need silver tongues or gold
mouths.
No man ever loved his neighbor
as himself until he knew in his
soul that God loved him. To know
that God loves US is sure to make
US like Him in loving others. 1t is
an enemy We are told to love.
Love your enemy" All men love
their friends. No one not related
to God in spirit can love an enemy.
The thing that Christ asks US to
do is unnatural for an unconverted
man. He can't do it.
Now, had God commanded US to
love them that love Us, there are
thousands of people that would
never find out that they needed re-
ligion. Therefore, if the command
had been to love your friends, you
never would have known you need
your religion, because that's easy
to do, but it is hard to love your
enemy and you can't do it without
religion. Love enriches whatever
it touches; love enriches whoever
possesses it. Love makes every
good thing better and every better
thing the best.
Judge Not By Wealth.
We may have talent, knowledge,
faith, zeal, benevolence and yet be
beggars in spirit. Love your en-
emies. Men judge one another by
their possessions but God judges US
by the way we love. If We love
much, we are much whether we
have any gold on deposit or not.
Men look at the Storehouses, barns.
hanks, but God looks at the heart
God writes his judgment, not ac-
cording TO the color of your hair,
the number of your teeth or your
social relationship, but according
to your heart And If your heart
is filled with love, the angels will
keep close to you, waiting to bear
you home when you drift out with
the tide.
If you've nothing but money, you
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who has no money. is poor, but the
nan that has nothing but money
is poorer still and that's all some
felix's have got. The young ruler
possessions were a curse to him
because they made him part com
pany with Chris. Your pride may
be a curse to you, YOUR love of
clothes may be curse II y1H,
your intellectual pride may be a
curse to you, whatever makes you
say, Goodbye God, 60" is a curse
to you. 1t don't make any differ
ence what it is.
With some people it is their poll
tics, some people one thing anu
some another. 1t isn't always
money / am sick and tired of this
a little money. If you used as
much horse sense and saved and
worked like he did, maybe you'o
have had a lite. They had to work
for it just as hard as you. There
aren't very many people today that
get it any other way. A few of
them, not many.
Love made the poor widow give
her all. Let's see. Love is the es-
sential thing if you would please
God. Get it? Heaven is heaven
because there is nothing there but
love- He'll is hell because there is
nothing there but hate. If all the
love in heaven were to go to hell,
and all the hate in hell were to go
to heaven, then heaven would be-
coVaa hall and hell would hprOnf.