The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-06

is a wall builder. The wall must be
perpendicular or there Us no real
masonry In it Father, mother. son,
daughter, Sunday school teacher.
church member God, the great Ma
son, Is applying the plumb-line TO
your life tonight. | wonder how
the wall Is? There are many OF Us
who would like to have the granite
blocks Of Siani just little slant, the
and to have a piece Of masonry just
little oblique rather than square.
Mans or Gods Standard
Every man and woman must have
standard, VIII you have mans
standard or Gods? Come let us be
honest. Who dictates the standard
Of your life2 God is throwing the
plumb-line on our commercialism,
both as to buying and selling and
paying for the same. Merchant man.
grocery man. Gods plumb-line Is on
your business. Men and women that
buy, do you pay7 Gods plumb-line
is hanging ever you tonight If a
barrel of apples Is shipped. the big,
fine ones are on the top. But every
act Of our lives must be measured
by Gods plumb-line.
Some New Religions
Our religion must be measured by
Gods plumb-Ine. Some of the new
religions are: First Spiritualisn.
whose chief w0k is with ghosts
co,o,1 poi,,,oN .conopov relivior,
proposing to end human misery by a
new style Of taxation. Third-A hui
manitarian religion, that looks after
the body and forgets the soul. Fourth
Legislative religion, that proposes
to redeem society by law. Fifth
Aesthetic religion, that proposes &c
save the world by the rules of good
to conjure men with. The religion
that Is true begins with the demand
that we first get right with God
Ninety-nine times out OF hundred
when any man or woman gives up
the old fashioned religion Of the Son
Of God, the old straight up and down
religion OF the Bible for Some new
suit his sinful life and whims. They
want religion that will save them
| from death, but will let them keep
to their worldliness and sin. l must
be honest with you. 1t cannot be
done. Young men and women, you
cannot make out without the plumb
line. You cannot build the wall OF
| -, w,Ikt 4, . Ax "a
and hand. Every Mason will tell you
that The wall will be awry The
law OF gravitation will pull It down.
Gods Law OF Gravitation
Gods eternal law OF gravitation Of
right and wrong will pull your SOU
down when the soul becomes etern'
ally awry. The wan Of character
not perpendicular, may become un
perpendicular. Well, we sometimes
say you would shut us out from
all fun Oh, no, We have lots OF
fun but we do not have to go in the
pathway OF sin to find it. Alas, fol-
that kind Of fun that shuts us out
from God! Oh! my soul, stand back
frcm such fun. Young men. there
is no fun in shipwrecking your char
acter. No fun in disgracing you:
mothers fine name. There is n'
fun in Christless eternity. 1t is
all mighty grim reality. Not once
in the darkened halls of the damne(
win your laughter ring out.
Paraclesus said he could take th'
ashes Of q burnt rose and brrn:
| l.
but he made grim, dark failure. A
life once burnt down into death ash
Of sin can never be made to rehloon
again
God, the Great Mason
God. the great Mason, is throwins
HIS plumb-liue over US tonight; 0vei
you and you and you-this plumb
| line cf the eyarla sting right, III