The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-12
What Shall the End Be-
Copyright, 1917, by wnHam Ashley SUNDAY.


and sa Id to the Alpine pudc-u was
sklrted by a narrow ledge of rock no
{ Wldcr thau your Two hapds--"T
never could cross that. ! would be-
/ come dizzy and / would fan to my
/ death"
And the Alpine guide laughed him
20 scofn. lie threw away his Alpine
over his eyes and with only MS feet
TO fcol with he threaded his way
| across the yawning abyss To- The
| other side ana the dog born and
reared In the mountains, WINGED aud
turned back.
What is your life-a hands
breadth-yes, a hairs breadth yes.
one single heart beat between every
! man and woman here tonight and
eternity. just heart beat and
heaven or hell for you, according as
you have accepted or you have re-
FUSED Jesus Christ az your Savior.
Now l have never met man or a
woman In my life who objected to
religion that / could not classify un-
der one OF two headings. First, men
and women, who. because OF an utter
uhrcgard OF God = claims upon their
| llVcs, have become by and through
that disregard, blase, degenerate. the
poltroons ana marplots OF Gods
earth and have thus thrown them
seles away beyond the pale Of Gods
mercy or any hope OF salatlou.
or, second, men and women with
splendid, noble and magnificent ahu.
tiles which they have allowed To be-
come absorbed I'm other matters ana
they do not give to the subject of re-
llgion so muCn as passing attention
And yet, they have the audaClty to
claim for themselves an intellectual
superiority to those who believe the
Bible, which they sneeringly term
that superstition.
Listen! | will challenge YOU. II
you Will demand Of yourself the
same honest, candid inquiry you de-
mand of yourself in other matters.
that you do in medicine, you do in
law, you do in science, you will know
that God Is God and Jesus Christ rs
the Son OF God ana the Bible is the
word of God, But you won't do
that. You think It is weakminded-
ness for a man or woman to believe
In Jesus Christ as the Son Of God.
What shall the end be to them
that obey not the gospel OF God. 2"
What is the gospel that people
good news Of salvation through
faith in Jesus.
oh" says man, "do you call
the knowledge OF that book that /
have lost on the road to he'll, good
news?"
No, sir; that in Itself is not good
nows-no--but IL IL Is n fact, the
sooner you find It out the better off
you will be. You can call It gospel
law, prophcsy good news or any
thtng--if II is fact the sooner you
find out you are lost the better for
you.
Suppose you were lost In a swamp,
wandering about and not knowing
OF your lost condition and a man
should come up to you and say,
You are lost" That wouldn't meet
| your condition.
| But supposing that man should
say, You are lost and | am a guide
| and | viii lead you out OF your lost
condition back to your home"
THAT would meet your condition
wouldn't II? Not only did the man
tell you that you were lost, but he
told you how to get out.
God never told mankind that they
were lost, hoaded for hell and then
left you to grope your way out
yourself. But God says: "I have
sent guide my only begotten Son
who will tell you how to get out OF
your lost condition"
That is good news for God to tell
a man that he is lost and then send
a guide to lead him out and bring
him back 10 peace and back to Joy,
Wasn't IL good news for Noah to
1 know that when the flood came he
would be saved in the ark? Wasn't
1t good news for Rahab to know that
she and her household would be
saved, when Jericho fell, by hanging
a scarlet line out OF the window?
Wasn't it good news for the Israel
ties to know they would be saved
when they We're bitten by the SER
pents I'm tho wilderness. all they had
to do was 20 look AZ the braZen ser
pent that Moses had raised up, and
be saved.
Thou shalt call His name Jesus
for He shall save His people from
their sins"
Never was there such good news
published TO the world.
Suppose man owes you 5000
and has nothing to pay, and you
should seize upon him and put him
In prison, and while In that condition
you would take pity upon him and
look around 10 see II you couldn't
find somebody that would pay the
debt that he might go free, and sup
pose your son should step forward
and pay the price and allow you to
open the prison doors and allow him
to 20 tree.
You and I, my friends, were mort
gagged TO God, and the mortgage was
due, and we had nothing with which
to pay, and inflexibe Justice seized
upon us and put us in the prison Of
condemnation. While in that attir
Itude, Jesus Christ stepped forward
and said, Father ] will go down
and pay off their debts"
He became bone Of our bone,
They nailed Him to the cross Whom
He shed His blood His shed blood
made atonement for our sins
When accept Jesus Christ as my
Savior, God puts II down 10 my
credit as though I had kept the law,
and lets me escape on the condition
OF my acceptance Of Jesus as my
substitute. He becomes my security
and my hondsman, hence the law
has no claim upon the man or Wom-
an who accepts Jesus Christ as his
Savior,
God Goes All the Way.
Suppose n man was down in a pit
and YOU would come down 70 hin
and say. Come out OF tho pit wash
yourself
. That yycuIdn't meet the man