Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-09-09

The law is a looking glass 70 show
man how foul he is in the sight
Of God. ! remember little girl about
years old wanted to go with her
daddy one day, she asked mother 10
wash her up and dress ner, then she
had a little time to wait for daddy
and went out to pay again and got
al dirty, face, hands, little shoes,
dress and all. Why | said you are not
ready I'll take You in and have You
washed and the little one says, On,
Daddy Use ready, Mamma washed me,
sc clean. | could not make her be-
sieve her face was dirty. She could
not believe it. that her face was dirty.
40 her Mamma had washed her clean.
SO / picked her up and held her be
fore q looking glass. She saw the art
all over her and she stopped talking.
held her up 10 the looking glass to
ict her see her condition with a dirty
ace, but | didn't take the looking
glass 10 wash her face. That IS what
Ople do, the law was not given to
save men, it was given to show him
his lost and ruined condition. 1t was
not given to save men, the Son OF
Cod came to do that work, but the
dW is the school master that came to
show US what to DO when we are
saved. ! don't know whether Pharl-
see or a drunk is the worst III the
sight OF God ] don't know whether the
Adulterer is worse than the profess
ing christian that only worshlps God
with their liDs and not with Their
hearts, ana | find you can just sum
uD the whole human race INTO about
two heads, the Publican and the
lharisce. Yonder is an orchard, IN
that orchard are two apple trees, ms
cradle sour bitter, one tree has 5OO
apples on it, the other tree has . on
lac, nut there is no difference, the Tact
is both trees are bad. One may have
more fruit than the other but they
are both bad. Make the fountain good
ana the stream Of water will be good,
make mems hearts good and men $
/ lives will be good. The way to I'M
prove the soul of q man is to strike
at the root Of his lie, if the heart
.5 right and in sympathy with God.
Pthcrc will be no trouble about the life
You need not be cultivating crab
tree, tha. is what some people are
trying TO do. Now In the law IL Is
written that he that breaks the least
IF one of the laws IS guilty Of all.
Some people say ! have not broken
/ the Ten Commandments, they seem 10
Jhirk the Ten Commandments are ten
different laws. Measure your heart
by the law of God and If You are
honest about it my friends You will
lind yourself guilty. The reason why
/ people sin SO much is that they don {
/ think they are SHINING. You go TO the
( prison and you Will find there a good
many criminals. one is there for one
( offence, another is there for another,
But they are all criminals, so some
. of US are guilty of one sin and some
are guilty Of another sin, but We are
all sinners.
My friends have any OF You missed
the mark. see a man down there
lin the audience bow his head, there
is hope of YOU being saved if you feel
and know IN your heart that you have
siNned and who Of Us mere today
jE2t nave not failed in many ways,
We are all failures and every man
since Adarn has been d failure
4 Man is q great failure and God on
Mount IIoreb showed the law to man,
and man said, Oh Yea Lord we will
keep the law, we viii not break thy
: Commandments, and the first Com
mandment God gave every one Of US
! has broken, Thou shalt nave no other
! God but me; Oh if that was true in
( this church the devil would drop
dead at the door. That men would
t-trulv WorShiD God Won find IL i'm
many places. One man says give me
more money, give me more shares
gives me more houses. Oh woman
who worships the drcssmaker, the
milimcr and pushes God aside. where
are you going to get off at when the
day of reconing comes. Oh it is easy to
smile but beware that you are not
guilty Of the same sin. Moses and
Joshua went TO have an interview with
God and while they were away, the
people they had left behind began
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