The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-02
Gods DeteCtiUe'
Copyright, 1917 by William Ashley Sunday.

y .e,tpou. "tlod's Detective preached
4 Thursday night. follows;
a This evening the text Is: Numbers
4 hIrty-second chapter. twenty-thlr1
Il verse.
n eBc suro your sins will find you
n or
n SO man or woman can ever cs
N zane from his or her sins. Every
A I'M Will lind you out call you TO nc-
A count and make sou pay. Some
! limo. II not instantly some time. No
4 man or woman ever committed n
sIn that did not have to paw in some
Way. I am not simply talking about
IA dollars and cents. No man OF wum
Il An ever committed sin that wasn't
loser by Il. why will you 40 a
n thing when you know you are los
A inc every time you do it2 Never
Il has man or woman committed n
sin. never will a man or woman
II commit a sin that pays.
NJ The most stupendous and gigan.
lie folly that can possess any man
or woman is To imagine that you
gain anything by doing wrong. You
lose iu character, reputation and
u health You lose In responsibility.
In gerything that is decent. that
N Goa -dmires ana men respect. You
= rasn nothing. Absolutely nothing.
challenge any man or woman
on earth TO show me whore anybody
has ever gained anything by doing
wrong.
There may he those here tonight.
y who are contemplating committing
some sin. You may be here in or
/ der " allay suspicion that there is
IN your mind or heart the slightest
inclination toward sin. You may
] 4 a.. "a rfaF
hour presents Itself You may have
Esdropped In here because 1t is nicely
llghted and comfortable and you'd
like to hear the speaking and sing
ling II that is true, please remen.
/ her the words Of myrcxt, BE sure
4 that sin viii find you out"
There are some things we are not
sure about You are not sure you
will die Jesus Christ may refuro
and some will go to heaven without
ever seeming death.
Iou are not sure that the sun will
N riF tomorrow. II has ris'u regu
II larly ever since God said, Let there
be light and swung I'm the skies 90
M travel I'm its orbit. but there isn't on
word OF authority in the Word OF
~ God that the sun Will rice. We arc
not sure that we will die. hut tn"
Bible says: "Be sure your sins will
n find you out"
4 You needut come here to find out
whether my text IS true. You need
Il not read the p bic. You needn't
n .ead the newspapers, Just co down
y 10 the prisons, go down to the death
s houses. go through the hospitals 60
n through the homes for tho feeble
II minded, 20 through the asvluus %
down through the haunts OF sin.
see the wrecks and the derelicts @.
humanity Scared, bruised, filthy
4 a stencil arising from decayed
body because OF sin. Their sins have
n found them out.
Sinners Suffer.
There is an inscription on n mon
Il ument In Egypt. which says, "Th"
impious shall commit iniuuity with
recompense. but not without re-
morse"
II you are bound to sin. you will
suffer remember that. II you put
your hand INTO the fire, you must
expect to be burned by doing it.
Therefore, when you sin. you mus.
expect the reward for that sin and
that's punishment. surely
Now, why do you do the thing
that you positively, absolutely know
Is detriment to you from every
viewpoint and every angle that YOU
II a
Absolutely from every viewpoint.
No exception. .
Get up and tell me why You have
got to plead TO get n man or wom-
M an TO be a Christian: get up ami
tell me Why you have TO plead with
man or woman TO get them to do
what God wants them 10 do. To be
Christian is what God wants you
TO be, and when you are what God
wants you to be. you are the best on
earth. Then for any man or WON
an 70 refuse 10 be what God wants
them TO bel want you 10 got up
and show me. Come on. I want to
zee.
Be sure your sins will find You
'ut" You may escape the law, but
IL you cannot escape the consequence
OF sin. You may escape the law
In or man, but you cannot escape tho
law Of God. That's an impossible
NY. And there is no place whera
any man OF woman can hide away
] y trsm God.
HI hn is the one thing and the only
ming In this universe which can
permanently damage man, or
Gernally damn him. Dlsappolnt
ment may worry him and grief mas
sadden him. adversely may hring
hardships, and hunger inen his life
u may bring squalor and want, but
IN ls the one thing in this universe
\ mat can permanently mark your
character with a mark that will mas.
be sure. be sure sin finds you> ou'
lhe execution ~ human laws.
u The execution OF all laws depends
upon human agents. II the mere
Enactment ~ law was all that wa'
4 necessary for its enforcement and
respect. then we'd have no police
III herlffs or penitentiaries. No laW
HI automatic. Every law depend.
dead.
~ Law is the mn iority rule. Law 4
III me basic principle OF our govern
*W ment All men are equal before th'
al wv. All men are given equal prot"C
4H an by the law. All men owe equa
+N otalentc ana rCsu"ct 20 the law. u
tU ue man has a right to break som.
7T SWF then ali men have tho sam
jH lgnt 10 break the same laws I
M we man has right 20 break al
2& avs then all men have a right e
3H Itak All laws. And when ali mer
ahd all women break al laws. tn
EU nHr and the blue in the flag Wi
N Mol'e into the red, and ola Glor'
! Il WI he pulled dov- r~0-, her FLAG
III aan, and the blood red flag OF an
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