Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-07-27
PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD.
Powerful Sermon With Dramatic Climaxes
Preached by Cyclone Mack" at Rockingham,
N. c., in July, 1922.
printed by The Post.Dispatch)

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Amos 1874" Prepare to meet they
God"
This is one of the texts of Scrip.
ture that startles whenever it faces
us. The Jewish government was a
theoeracy and therefore a violation
either of the civil or the ecclesiasti-
cal law. Was treason against Al
mighty God and all the signs of
Israel there was none that was
higher treason against God than
was the sin of idolatry and conform
ity to the nations by whom they
were surrounded. Now they had
backsliden and lost out, and had
gone after these strange Gods, they
had mixed, mingled, co-mingled
with these surrounding nations,
they had thus violated Gods law,
and had been disobedient unto His
commandments. Now God speaks
through His prophet Amos to these
disobedient people, and tries to
show them something of what had
been done in their behalf.
He SAID have called you in the
days of your prosperity, and We
would not repent. Thave called you
in the days of adversely and We
would not repent, | have called you
in the days of peace when there
was no enemy at your gate, and in
the days Of peace you would not re-
pent, and then when the armies of
the enemies came and blood flowed
like a river you would not repent.
/ called you in the days of health
and you would not repent, and |
also called you in the days of afflic-
ton, when the plaques were upon
you and you would not repent.
Here is a people that God eX-
hausted every means of grace. He
blockaded every path. He seemed
to say, I have taxed Heaven but
there is nothing left for you but to
prepare, that quickly, to meet thy
God People just as God dealt with
Israel, in the long ago, just so God
deals with individuals today. Just
as God called Israel away back
there in the centuries gone by, He
is calling you today. The calls of
God to man are as numerous as
the stars. of. heaven. A man who
will set down and read this book
carefully and prayerfully must come
to one conclusion that God not only
wills the salvation of all men but
that He has provided salvation for
all men. 1t is enough to bring me
to my feet when | know who the
author is, because it is the great God
who made this world, who numbers
the hairs of every head, who
watches every step of our life, and
analyze every motive of our being.
God is called every. man of you who
has crossed the line of responsible
ity. Some he has called at the FAM
lily altar, some he has celled through
the tears and love Of mother, some
he has called through the Christian
life, an example of sanity father,
some of you men sitting out there,
God has called you through the love
and fidelity Of noble life. Others
He has called through your children
and the voice of the church. God
sends His divine spirit into this
world, and this divine spirit poses
Himself over the pages of this book
and battles every utterance of the
book in sea Of life, and shows
power and grace and great loving
heart are in every one of these
words, and He calls to us by His
spirit How the Holy Ghost is GO
ing up and down this country and
He calls and calls and calls and He |
broods over this world, day and |
night, and is calling for all men to |
come to a higher and better life. |
fou have had consecrated ministers !
in this city who are speaking and
crying aloud and sparing not and |
are calling men to d better life, The
pleading OF pastors, the entreaties of |
evangelists, but with all these God !
sent calls, you have stiffened ycur
neck, hardened your hearts, and re-
Iected my offer Oh, the tragedy
of it, oh the heart break of it. Oh I
he crime Of it, oh that shame oil
you, | have gone Sd far as / canl
%, and now there is nothing left,
md very quickly YOU will have Il