Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-07-27


the year 1922 that you paid $1,000
to the church. Yes Lord, that ii
right Everything was very high
at that time. / also see where you
paid 5000 for your chewing and
smoking tobacco to satisfy an abnor-
NAL, artificial appetite that you had
to make yourself sick to create. You
stand over there to the left with
the goats. Now ] am not a lunatie
or an extremist on the tobacco ques-
ton. | don't unchristianize you be-
cause you are addicted to the habit.
I'have seen men just as good as
am that used it but believe they
would have been better if they had
not used it. | want you to under
stand | am not saying anything
about your weed, neither do | UNI
christianize you for indulging in
the habit. II you want to chew, 60
ahead, but don't use it here under
the tabernacle or in the church;
just leave it out there ON the side
walk or post, and I'll guarantee that
no hog or dog will bother it until
you get back. Men, what / want
you to see is this: When you report
at the Judgment you will feel awful
ly embarrassed when you realize
that you have spent three times as
much to satisfy an abnormal, arti-
fetal appetite as you have the Cos
pei of Jesus Christ. And to you,
dear women, / would like to say that
some congregations that preach to
] hardly know whether | am in a
henroost or flower garden. Some of
you pay more for flower plums, fea-
theirs and rooster tails in one season
than you do for the cause of the Cos.
pei in year, and yet you have the
nerve and audacity to claim to be a
follower of the lowly Nazarene. I'm
derstand me, | am not against your
wearing plumes, and feathers and
trying to look good, because some
of you need to; but ] am afraid you
will feel embarrassed at the judg-
ment when the all-seeing eye of God
is turned on you.
i see the old farmer as he steps
to the front and looks wise as he
milks his whiskers, and says, Well,
how can a fellow get at the tenth?
Just stand still; if it was coming
your way you would get at it to the
penny. Titheing has reference(
says the objector, to the Old Testa-
ment Scriptures, declaring we have
nothing to do with them. Give us,
say they, New Testament author
ity.'
The Old Testament Scriptures
have more vital concern for us than
we some times suppose. The Old
Testament is the-New Unfolded. The
New Testament is the Old Testament
Unfolded. This indicates the insep-
of the Scriptures. Fur
Their, no moral law has ever been
changed, nor ever will be. If the
world should stand billion years
and million dispensations be pass
ed along through, no moral law,
given by God, would ever be repeal
ed. The only possible change
which could be made would be in
tensity in accordance with or I'M
keeping with Gods revelation of
Himself. The law in recognizing
Gods claims is a moral law, based, |
rs we have seen upon Gods owner
ship or proprietorship, which, in
urn is based upon His dictatorship.
He may, if He chooses, emphasize
His claims increasing His demands,
out never can in keeping with His
relation to the earth and man, with
lraw such claims. 1t is TO be con-
,eded, however, that no chain or
argument is stronger than it's weak
ast link, and if we should fail to find |
some stamp of New Testament ap- /
prevail upon the law of the 1.-THE,
grave suspicion as to the adaptable
ty of it to the New Testament dis