The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-07-06

HE that covereth his sins shall not
prosper" Pisa. S5:2-"Thou hast COW
cred all their sins, selah." or, think of
that, is what that word means. SO
you see the difference is in who COW
ers the sin. The old king had de-
based all the holy things and now in
his drunken frenzy can't you almost
see him and hear him calling for the
holy vessels of the temple. There's
an old fable told of a man who had
the choice of three sins to commit
drunk, adultery or murder. He thought
he'd take the least-got drunk,-but
when drunk he committed both the
other two. No mistake in saying that
drink is the devils trump card. Our
success or failure in life depends on
the choice of friends and helpers. And
can't be told in better language than
found in the first Psalm. They who
set aside the Daniels know what's
the matter with them. A woman said
battle, you are disabled for life;
it is too bad His face shone as he
said: Disabled; l am decorated" A
fellow said to me, 81 see that the
drink is to be shut out ard ! want
hand in the victory" Suppose oar
blessed Lord was here in the flesh
again and he'd say to US, Pm going
to save and sanctify certain number
this summer and all you Christians
who want to lay off to go away for
what you call good time may go and
l will do without you" What would
you do? Jump to your feet like a
school child and shout gCCdy, or fall
at his feet and plead for place. Did
you ever hear men say: 81 want to
see a bit of life, but often what they
mean is a bit of death. Life is not
found in dissipation but in Christ
John Ia. Change the man from Saul
to Paul and you change the message.
-2nd Cor. 5:17. Daniel said, "The
most high God" You see there were
all kinds of Gods all around Daniel.
He knew but one. You'll hear the So
called higher critic talking about the
literalist with a contempt. What is
literalist? He is one who believes
what the Bible says-that God was
big enough, that he had sense enough
to reveal himself to his children. And
in this book OF Daniel is a great bat
tie ground for the critic. But We be-
lieve that he has sufficient ability to
accomplish what he says he will do
and, says one, Such saves from
brain flag, nervous prostration and
blue Mondays We don't explain the
word away and put our own interpre-
tation on it. End Peter 1920 reads:
knowing this first, that no prophecy
of the scripture is Of any private in
depreciation" Jesus was talking to
Just such fellows in Math. 22:29: "Ye
do err, not knowing the scriptures
nor the power CT God" III never be
able to tell you how glad | am be-
cause of having my Bible alone in my
caboose five years before coming i'll
touch with an ordained infidel. But
they say we can't understand it. Well.
now read Math. 11:25-Jesus prayed,
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heaven and earth because thou hast
hid these things from the wise and
prudent and hast revealed them unto
babes" Again in list Cor. 2:14, THE
unconverted man cannot receive the
things CT God" God sent Daniel to
preach against sin. He did that and
he didn't start in with the assistant
call boy, but the king, and there are
very few of today who can do that
and be it known once for all that the
so-called critic can't do it. A friend
says 81 look for the church and find
it in the world; l lcok for the world
and find it in the church, and no voice
against it." | remember the day when
the lewd woman had no better way of
promoting her business than by decor
ating and exposing her body but today
the same thing can be seen in the
church choir and sometimes in the
minister's family. The Bible rings cut
very solemn warning against it all
but the minister's hands are tied and
we have unloaded it all onto him and
not one, as a rule, to stand by him if
he dare. | so often think of the great
tumult all those people were in and
Daniel-well, it never touched him.
Like in Mark, chapter 8, Jesus in the
storm with his disciples, they all
fused up and he sound asleep. They
were foolish enough to think the devil
could kick up a wind big enough to
drown our Lord. When satan is cast
out all discord goes with him and the
peace of God fills the soul. When L.
T Burress, a conductor, was caught
fast in a wreck, he said, when they
came trying to take him out, "Oh,
leave me to the last, please; go to
the unsaved. l am ready to be with
Him because He is with me-" What
the whole church membership needs is
passion for the lost. An American
minister was to preach in the pulpit
of Robert Murray McCheyne. He
asked for some one who knew him
personally but could find none. All
had died or moved away since his day.
At last he met an old Scotchman bent