The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-02-07
SAYS GRIFFITH
MADE OWN HE'LL
DIR. LocKHART USES MoUNDSVnLE
A MAN AS ILLUSTRATIONS IN
STRIKING DISCOURSE
Colonial Theatre was Packed - THE
Devil and Holly Griffith"
Next Sunday

The Colonial theatre was packed last
night to hear Rev. Geo. r.. l.ockhart
speak on Hell and Holly Griffith.
People werc even standing in the rear.
The meeting opened with an excellent
pipe organ recital by Professor Lester
ieight. Rev. Lockhart spoke in part as
There is a hell for degenerate char,
act"rs because God cannot max pau ha
men happy and He is determined the
disease called sin that has caused snch
moral ruin to men shall be kept hmm
itely from Heaven
We cannot &C South ana arrive
! North: We cannot 20 down and be EoinS
nm. we cannot SOW sin and reap good
ness: nc cannot praCtiS" the INSANITY
of the damned and arrive in Heaven.
The universe is against the man or
woman who tries thcS" Things. iou
would never SOW oats in the nope 'hai
ha rlcy would come up. Seeds OF cyl
never can yield fruits Of virtue. We
arc making a character for Heaven or
n character for hell. Holly Er;nith
has determined to make one TOT mel IN
fac, lie is in he'll already. Death ~
only an episode for the immortal Snirit
Of man. God. by his very nature. could
not make a hell for any man. Each' I'M"
makes his own.
"Tbc old testament does not say much
that IS dc6n!t about hell but the New
Testament says Il great deal about II.
and Christ. who spoke and knc" AZ
never man could speak and know, spnhe
with great certainty about our nhat
states. He says explicitly that there is
4 Heaven and A world for the miserable
In the hereafter.
light a sufficient length OF time, ilSnL
blasts him. When a soul seeks carr
ness and evil a sufficient lrnGth OF
time virtue ~antagonizes and blasts u:
This accounts for the nScns!tlNcneSs OF
q number nf us as regards our par
licuiar bcSrttinE sing o
us hell an IndctcrmiDIte sentence
JesuS' account OF Dives ana Lazarus
teaches tina there is a great suit ilNe1
between the lost and the reueetheo'
! Character tends ever to become Li1eu'
Acts arc cumulative in their erect HSIS'
Dives had spent his ne ~ Ihe 10,
nursuits Of eating and drinking ana Nv
ing sumptously every day. MS vas a
! crnde. hunrrring and thirSting creature
/ life. According TO Jesus ne va. 49,
! thirst and crude desire In hrl! ana mere
was nothing to satisfy him therc' IA.
uiI he the tragic condition laced oS
every soul in hcll-inCress sing deS!lt 70
, continue to pervert but no opportunity
for II; for there will be no Enod tneFe -
abusr. VIII God ev"r rescue us rom
bciIp He couldn't. our wills are cIe"-
,iyn nj themselves. God respects them
rs snch. lie leaves rs sovereign WIN
,Lcrn If cod should rescue us aroI-
trarilr from our bcnts and perverS!ois
, In hcii We would b" things om'' q"
hea ven. The Arlm Ehty "ould NOT IRA.
drce us farther. Cod must H!13W i'Ur ,
Griffith to remain sovereign Oh IL" VII
VIVA is the Bib;c solution for US
when all have sinned and conc Shore
Of tho glory Christ says i"t NE Esp
You Ia succeed AT the points you H.:
You cannot do It Yourself. ticrco.l!
IA sin leave YOUR own Can:taI STOCK 700
T%% T TO succeed in such an enterprise
IO, nc give YOU what l have: tse IT,:
MAKE the real business OF living your r
nighes, enterprise For "h&t WILL ii
nroft, = man II he gain the whole worLd
- ,-HGc ,rraturc desires and go stead
w downwards' Friend. n yol won |
roIow HIM in this world where &c you
rynect 70 be able to follow Him: .,r
Ncxi Sunday Rev. locNnatc VIZ 80 The
m.yii and Holly Griffith" or rs the