Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-17
"WHERE ART THOU?'
DR.. Mlley Asks His Congregation
Pertinent Question.
ONLY The INDIVIDUAL Can DECIDE
Question First Asked Of Adam, but Is
Continually Being asked Of Sinner
and Processing Christian Today

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And God called unto Adam, and
said unto him, Where are thou?"-
Genesis $40. .'
I'VE frequently ask ourselves the
question, Where am ~ said Rev. DR.,
Miley at the First Presbyterian church
Wednesday night, as he stood before
congregation that filed the church
mere than half full. when we travel
and get into unfamiliar places we ask,
Where am To- Boys and girls in col
lege and school in the midst of their
school work and examinations fire.
quently ask themselves this question,
class" The professional man, the pol
itician, the business man all ask this
same question in relation to their af-
fairs. So in the social affairs Of life,
we are interested in where we stand
with neighbors and friends. Are we
moving in just the right social sphere.
But strange to say, it Is rarely in this
| world that ever word Is said as to
where we stand with God.
"When God asked Adam this ques-
tion he did not care to know just the
spot where Adam stood, what bush or
tree he was standing behind. He
wanted to know where Adam stood in
relation to him. God had told Adam
that he should not eat Of the fruit Of
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would surely die. The devil in the
form Of a serpent had told Adam and
Eve that they would not die. They
disc. God and were hiding be-
cause of a guilty conscience.
Where are you?" asked DIR. Miley
Of his hearers. What is your spiritual
condition? There are some in this
congregation who are young, others
are at the age of young manhood and
young womanhood, others are still
older and some have grown old. The
open grave is ahead of you. To every
one Of you God will ask the question
Where are your"
A VOW is sacred thing. After JOSH
ua had entered the promised land
and was conquering all the people of
that land and destroying them, he was
deceived by the Gibeonites and made q
league with them not to destroy them,
and also this league was the result. Of
fraud, as was later discovered when 1t
was found that the Gibeonites, who
represented that they had come from
q far country, were found to be resi-
dents of the Promised Land, yet this
vow to the Gibeonites was sacred and
was adhered to by Joshua and the Is
raelites. And some four hundred
years later the VOW was violated by
Saul, when he slew the Gibeonites, a
three-year famine was sent upon Is
rael in the days Of David for the
breaking Of that vow. Also the VOW
of Jephthah, when he promised God
that If he would give him victory he
would give him whatsoever cometh
out of his house to meet him. The
victory over the Ammonites was given
to him and when he returned home
Jephthah's own daughter came out to
meet him. He remembered his VOW to
God and it was fulfilled.
There are many here tonight who
have made VOW to God to serve him.
How about that vow? How about
your Christian duties. Jesus Christ
gave the command that we preach the
gospel to every creature-not to every
nation, but to every creature. Are we
doing our duty in this respect? Where
art thou?
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works
and glorify your father which Is in
heaven" We sometimes sing Let the
lower lights be burning" Are your
lights burning? The upper light, rep
resented by Jesus Christ is burning as
brightly as ever, but are the lower
lights as represented by you, what
about them?
Illustrating the influence Of one
PERSONS life on another DR.. Miley told
the story of a lighthouse keeper whose
son had gone on q whaling trip. One
night while the keeper of the light
slept a terrific storm broke In the vi
cinity and incidentally the lights went
out. Next morning the keeper look
ing out from his quarters saw wreck
age strewn along the shore and heard
voices in loud conversation n about the
outside. Hurrying out he met squad
of coast guards bearing the body OF
his son, his vessel having been wreck
ed largely because there were no lights
fer his guidance. There are boys and
girls all around us who are losing
their spiritual lives because fathers
and mothers are asleep"
Where are we? No man liveth to
himself alone, and no one dies to him.
self Somebody is closer to heaven or
farther away because of your life and
mine. What has Jesus meant to you!
What have you meant to Jesus?" ask
ed DR.. Miley, as he pointed to two wall
banners bearing these questions.
The speaker then told Of wealthy
old Kentucky farmer, who in later years
was led to Christ by young boy.
ard there are protesting Christians