The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-11-20

dam 10 that they could turn the river
IN an entirely different direction. On
the, night of the revelry! they knew
that everyone Of consequence in the
city was drunk, so they turned the
course OF the river and then the SOL
diers jumped into the bed of the river
and marched under the great walls
until they were in the city, never stop
uing until they reached the banquet
ball. can hear the. shrieks Of the
women and the curses of the men and
see the sword that Topped off the head
Of Belshaszar.
Suppose you and I were weighed in
the same balances that Belshazzar
was weighed in? Not the balances
CT Union, or the balances Of public
opinion, or the balances of our loved
ones, but in Gods balances. It is pos
sible that you are a heavyweight in
the estimation Of your friends, but
nonentity in the sight Of God. In the
estimation of public opinion you may
be ranked as big gun, but feather.
weight In the sight of God.
Let's imagine that we have a pail
Of tremendous scales in front of u.
here. We1l place you into one OF
the scales and then throw into tn,
ctEer side, first the injunction: "Tho,
shalt not have any gods but me-"
Every man has his, god. What i.
yours? 1t is that thing which you
think Of more than anything else in
the world. To some it is pleasure
business, family, loved ones or money
For money some men are willing tc
commit murder, villify others in orde,
:" have larger credit in the bank
If you have ability to make money il
is God given. You can take five cen;
piece and put it over your eye and j.
will be closed to the world. takes
very small coin to place over you,
cars and they will be closed to human.
ity's call. If you can make money and
know how to take care of it, it is
fiod given ability. Blu: He never mean
that we should worship it.
There Is one thing that none,
won't buy. 1t will build hospitals, get
| you the best of nurses, surgeons and
surgical equipment, but when the doc.
tor takes out his watch and shakes
his head, and God calls you will leave
YOUR beautiful home, your costly ga
rage with its latest model car, and
| your cellars stocked with imported
stuff. They will become as nothing
hut a -glorifed tombstone. Money is
n fine servant but a mighty poor god
Then there are many persons who
are mad for pleasure and the day may
come when we will have to hire a Jazz
orchestra in order to get people to
attend the Lords sacrament. Money
and pleasure are many a persons God
Then there are myriads of women
who dress the ws9 they do simply be-
cause society says so. If society says
one thing and God another they obey
society. There are men who make
the church play second fiddle.
If was asked to conduct the fun
eral of one of these people I would
like to ask all the young people to
come to the services and exclude the
rest and then ! would say: Here he
is and here are his gods. the things
he worked for and worshiped in life
but his caskket and his shrowd can
not tae them with him. One by one
would like to lay the things that
he put first in his life beside his cas-
k"t, the fads anl frivolities of this
world, and say, you know exactly
what he worshipped. Well, he's gone
but his gods are, still here. There is
ore thing that these false gods cannot
do, they cannot make you live. How
much do you weigh in His scales? Is
He first or is there something else b?
God said: "Have no other Gods but
me-"
Now. we toss another injunction
into the scales: "Thou shalt not take
the name Of the Lord thy God in
vain"
Are you guiltless in the sight Of
God? No matter how much you count
for in Union, if you take the name
Of the Lord in vain then you are
guilty. There are many men that
think it is all right, even before their
women folk and children, to God damn
this and Jesus Christ that. It has al
ways been a puzzle to me how Christ
ians allow the name Of the Lord to
be taken in vain in their presence. If
their women would be insulted they
would scrap II their assailant was as
big as a mountain! Yet they will al
low Christ, who died for them to be
villified and say: 1.-THE poor chap
doesn't mean anything by it."
Nowadays it is considered smart
and flippant to say "My God" This
Is an expression that liz common tor
many women to use and those that
do in Gods sight are filthy and not
clean.
God will not hold. them ,guiltless.
how much do you weigh? Do you dare
jump into these scales with me?
Twill throw in another. Honor thy