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for one hour a day and gaze upon
those scenes which reminded him of
the fact that he at one time had been
a shepherd. He didn't want to lose
touch and sympathy with the people:
he didn't want to become exalted over
the fact that he now had a crown
The old ruler wanted to be re-
minded of the days when he used to
wander and roam, bareheaded, my
friends. 1t is good thingl
Sit down, if you have got a shark
of decency in you, and run back. See
| what a low-down, disreputable God
forsaken degenerate you would be if
1t wasn't for the gospel of Jesus
Christ. And yet you sit there and
sheer and say you have no use for
the gospel. say to you, the reason
you are as decent as you are, is due
to the restraining influence of the Cos
pei of Jesus Christ, although you NAV
not be decent enough to admit it. Yet
you are SO low-down that you take all
God will give you and live as good
as you can, while you refuse to ac-
knowledge allegiance to the one that
makes you as decent as you are, and
| you act as though it were something
inherent in you, and if you were left
to yourself, you'd go to the devil SO
fast, they couldn't see you for dust.
| It's good thing. The biggest as.
set to this city is not her great banks
with her millions, it is not your great
stores, it is not, my friends, this won.
derful marvel of the twentieth cen.
/ tury-the greatest asset to New York,
Chicago, Pittsburgh, Boston, or any
other city, is the gospel of Jesus
/ Christ, for if you drive all the Chris.
tan people out of the city, your real
estate wouldn't be worth twenty-five
cents on the dollar by Christmas
There wouldn't be a decent man OF
woman living in a community where
| there was no Christianity, That's
how much you are indebted to the very
thing you damn and sheer at. You
are SO lowdown, l wouldn't spit on
you!
Religion Does
Great Things
lCl4 you that 1t . d SoOu IulHS
Sit down and see what you'd be if il
wasn't for religion; see how much you
owe to God
Now the position of it is significant
lit follows the twenty-second. It has
been called the Psalm of the Cross
4 You have got to first reach the place
where you see Jesus dying on the cross
for your sins, accept Him as your Saw
I for, before you can ever say, or ever
know, or have the experience that
I THE Lord is my Shepherd" God is
not the Shepherd of any that turn
/ their back on Jesus Christ
4 do not believe In the doctrine o.
the universal Fatherhood of God ane
the universal brotherhood of man
which Is an Internal Iie.. Spiritually
you are a creature of God-God ere
ated you. We all descended from
) Adam and Eve; but you are not chile
of God unless you are born again BY
faith in Jesus Christ.
'Ye are of your father, the devil
: and the lusts of your father We will do
for he was a liar from the beginning,
: said Jesus.
Oh, child of the devil, and full of al
sufferingi We are all children o.
God, through faith in Jesus Christ. L
you have no faith in Jesus Christ, yol
J are a child of the devil You are
creature of God-so is the COW tina
eats grass. No man is my spiritua
brother, who denies Jesus Christ Ht
is in the flesh; he is a human being
so am I. But he is not my brother
and Will not call him that. When hi
| repents and turns from his sin, the1
he is my spiritual brother, and if hi
doesn't repent, he isn't, no matter WHIT
: he is.
Must See
Christ Suffering.
First, you have got to see Jesus
: hanging on the cross as your Saviour
i before you will ever have the exper
/ fence of the 23rd psalm-and it is fol
lowed by the oath: Life up your head
o We gates; and be We lifted up, Y,
everlasting doors; and the King o
: Glory shall come in
: And if you want to walk through
the gatesp into the city, you have go