Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-01-13

who had no room for God He plan |
ned for larger barns in which to store
his fruits, his goods. You remember
how God came to him that night, that
man who was preoccupied with his
own business affairs, God, the mex
orable factor in every mans life, and
said: "Thou foolish one! This night
is thy soul required of thee; and the
things which thou hast prepared,
whose shall they be? So is he that
layeth up treasure for himself, and
is not rich toward Cod" Have you
come to the place in your life where
you would subordinate the hum0n
soul to stocks and bonds? What
shall it profit a man if he shall gain
the whole world and write on it all,
''This is all mine," and then lose his
own soul?
Men turn away from Christ be-
cause of sensual worldly pleasures.
Moses chose to suffer with the chill
dren of Israel rather than to enjoy
the pleasures of sin for a season.
Then there are those who are lovers
of pleasure rather than of God. 1
must remind you that if you sip at
every spring in the world you will go
away with an aching heart, If you
have only what the world gives.
Nothing short of eternity can satisfy
the human heart. God has set eter-
nifty in the heart.
There are those who drift away
from Christ through the power and
peril of representation. Procrasti-
nation is the thief of souls, as well
as of time. The downward way is
crowded with men whom procrasti-
nation has enticed with its entangling
alliances. Men desire to be saved;
they desire to accept Christ. Back
in their subconsciOusness there is
latent purpose to come out for Christ,
but procrastination comes in and ere
the great decision is made they are
hurried away into eternity. Ger
tainIy that is Satan's supreme device
to ruin the world. By and by, men
saw, but not now. May / tell you a
sad experience out of my young man
hood? An earnest preacher was hold
ing a meeting in the college we at
tended. Next to the last night l felt
that l must say word to my desk
mate, and so l reached over and said
to him, "Jim, won't you go? Won't
you go now? Won't you go now and
settle it," He looked over at me
and said, ''Let me off tonight. If l
| feel tomorrow night as l do tonight,
will settle it." I said, "The issue is
not with me, it is with Christ. End
| the battle now" He put his face in
his hands for a moment. | said,
"Come and / will go with you" Then
| he looked into my face aid said, mot
tonight" The next day came, he was
not in school; the last night of the
meeting, and he was not there. Three
or four days passed. I feE that
must go to his home and find out why
! he was absent. His mother met me
at the door and told me that Jim was
in the grip of a terrible attack OF
pneumonia, that he was delirious and
could not see anyone. I went back
/ the sixth day and the seventh day
when the mother said: "The disease
has reached the crisis, and the doctor
says there is very little hope fol
him." She let me sit down by his
bed, but he did not know me. Along
toward midnight his condition be-
came more and more critical. He
pulled at the cover and. looked about
at those in the room without a sigr
of recognition. Then he said some.
thing in a hoarse whisper which has
come to me many a time since, By
day and by night, whether on the
high seas or on the fast-flying train
''Not tonight, George; let me off to-
night. If 1 feel tomorrow night like
do tonight, will accept Christ" II
another hour he was gone. Intelli
gent men ought not to come to life''
end in any such fashion. Take
Christ now.
"To whom shall we go?" asked TIT
disciples. To whom shall we turn
Turn away from Him and you will
get rid of the Bible. # you get rio
Of the Bible you will get rid Of
Christ. You will get rid of that won
derful twenty-third Psalm, and tina