Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 124, 25 May 1922 — Page 8

"WHAT MUST 1 DO 70 BE SAVED?" QUERY MAN HAS ALVA7S ASKED; ANSWER IT BY ' AGCEPTINGiGHRIST AS PERSONAL SAVIOR

r THE TEXT "What Must I Do to! be Saved?" Acts 16th Chapten, . 30th verse. In his x sermon Wednesday night the Rev. W. A. Sunday said: The apostle Paul seemed to 'live In a perpetual state -of revival. Ha had only to come Into Philippi, the chief city of Macedonia and sit by the river bank, and we are told the Lydia, the iseller of purple, ' believed and was baptized. There was so much power and conviction about him that he had only to walk the street and a girl possessed with the spirit of divination, or as we say, "had the .devil in her." walk"ed after Paul and with derision said, "These are the servants of the Most High God, that show unto, us the way of salvation." As if there was anything- these men could impart which, by doing, would benefit our position the; acudacity of these men that they come -to us and talk to us about the improvements in our conduct in the manner of living. "These are the servants of the Most High God who come to teach us the way of ralvation ." Paul was grieved because of evidences of the devil within her and he said, "I command you in the name of Jesus, come out of her." And when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was .gone the hope of their gain lay in the keeping of the devil in that girl ana as long as the devil was within her they would feed and fatten and gormandize off the money she earned as long as the devil was in her she was nothing but a mere pawn on the chess board to be moved by that licentious crowd that had her under their grip like a panderer today and when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, and when the devil went out, their gain went with him, and when Jesus Christ came in the girl was no longer under their powerwhen her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, that they could no longer feed and fateen and gormandize on her sin, they seized the men God had used to drive the devil out of her rushed them over to the magistrate and they said : "These men teach doctrines contrary for us to receive." I Certainly the doctrine "Thou shalt have one wife," is - contrary for an old Mormon. Certainly the doctrine of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ is contrary for a Unitarian. Certainly the doctrine of eternal damnation-in hell for the unrepentant is contrary for the Universalists. "These men teach doctrines contrary for us to receive. v - And old Demetrius used to make silver shrines for Diana of the Ephesians. and Paul had gone over there and preached, and the people had been converted from heathenism so they wounldn't buy his little silver shrines any more.-.' He saw that the effect of Paul's preaching hurt his business, so he called together everybody of the like craft and said: "See here, our profits are being affected by these men. If that fellow stays here and preaches that doctrine, people won't buy these little silver gods we're making for Diana of the Ephesians. If they remain, we are ruined." - And every bum ajid every bartender and every brewer and every distiller yells: "Rights," Rights," Rights," as a great tidal wave of temperance sweeps over our land." , "Why, if Christianity comes, then we've cot to go." And wherever re-He-ion interferes with a man's busi ness he is In dirty rotten business I don't care whether he's a rum seller, crap-shooter or a multi-millionare. If religion cuts off your revenue, you are a moral pauper.

"If they stay here, well havetollagt vestige 0f lt was consumed and

go. J ne worm mma lvaiu mia eon and learn it quick too. You can fharpen your Jack-knife but you can't cut off a sunbeam. You can imprison a messenger but you can't lock up his message. Stopping your ears and shutting your eyes won't put the fire out when the alarm sounds. You will go to hell anyway whether you believe there is a hell or not. That won't keep you out. And so they delivered Paul and Silas to the jailer and he thrust them la the inner prison and locked their hands and feet in stocks, but doubtless they found as one of our modern poets hns described it: Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, for I read that at midnight they sang and prayed unto God. s What strange sounds it must have been for that old Philippian jailer when he heard nothing but oaths and blasphemy. Now he heard men finging and praying, and in response to their faith as expressed in their prayers and songs, the .hand of God fell and that old jail staggered and reeled like a drunken man down the street, and the walls cracked and the jailer thinking that all the prisoners had escaped, leaped in with drawn sword and was about to commit suicide, for the Roman law was that if an officer alowed a prisoner to escape through his negligence, he'd have to forfeit his own life to pay for it. . This Roman officer knew how Inexorable was the Roman law, so he thought he'd take the matter into hi3 own hands and kill himself, for he 1 . i 1 tkla l.j. supposed of course, that the whole! gang had beat lt wnen tne aoors naa been swung open. So he jumped in with drawn sword and was about to kill himself, when Paul said: "Hold on. Hold on. Do yourself no harm, we are all here. We're all here." The jailer came with a light and said, "I'm from Missouri, show me." He couldn't imagine why anybody would be there when he had a chance to escape, and when he discovered that Paul was right,, he cried out in the words of my text, sirs, "What must I do to be saved?" 'You've got something I haven't got. How did you get it? I want it. Tell me what you did and I am willing to do whatever you tell me to do. Sirs "What must I do to be caved?" Aid Paul replied, "Believe on tho Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." A v Now, what does it mean to be saved? The New Testament speaks of salvation from sickness. "Go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole, anf 1 speaks of the prodigal son

and his return from his ptocigality. It

speaks about the apostles drowning and rescued from the watery grave It speaks about the crucified Christ hanging on the Cross. Thus we see that salvation means to take-a man or woman out of a condition that is not favorable for their welfare and put them into a condition that is What Salvation Means. The salvation of : the sick would be their health. The salvation : of the apostles about to drown would have been their rescue from a watery grave. The salvation-of the crucified Christ would have meant for him to come down from the cross. Thus it means to take a man or woman out of a condition that is not favorable to their welfare or happiness and put them into a condition that is favor able to their welfare or happiness. But the salvation that my text speaks of is salvation from sin. Well, what is sin? Sin is the transgression of the law and every sinner is liable in accordance with the law which he transgresses, to punishment. But punishment brings pain. Men shrink from the electric chair, from the jail, from the death house, from the stone walls. Why? It isn't ,favorable there to their welfare. Now to be rescued means to be saved from the upnishtment you've brought on yourself by violating the law, and while you escape the punish' ment that doesn't abrogate the law, The law stands, and when a sinner pleads to God for salvation, he Is pleading that God Almighty will set aside the penalty which that sinner has brought on himself, or herself. because they violated God's law, Therefore, when I say, "What must I do to be saved from the punish ment, from hell?" That's what salvation means. The party who has tho right and the power to inflict the punishment has the right and the power to state the condition upon which you can escape It The sovereign power of the state has' the right and the power to electrocute, to put you behind bars If you violate a law. She has the right and power to state the condition upon which you can escape. She is the only power that can. The same power that can inflict the punishment is the same power that can let you escape that punishment, my friends. . Governor Has . Sovereign Power. The governor can turn that key and let every man out of state's prison if he wants to. Why? He is the sovereign power of the state and has the power to do that He is the only man that has that power. Therefore, when we violate God's law. he has the power and right to inflict the punishment to state the condition upon which you can escape it He has stated it to humanity. It i3 by faith in Jesus Christ. I say to you, it is Jesus Christ and nothing else, for every man or woman on God's earth. "What must I do to be saved from the punishment?" Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Trust his willingness. Trust his power and you will be saved. They say of King Charles V, that he was loaned a vast sum of money for which he gave his note, or bond, and when the note became due the king found himself bankrupt and unable to meet the obligation. This merchant who had loaned the money invited the king to his home to a banquet and they sat around the banqueting table, before he ordered the food brought on he ordered a silver platter, placed it in front of him on the table and then he ordered a fire, kindled thereon. Taking from his pocket this note, evidence of the king's indebtedness, he held it in the flames until every nothing remained but a pile of ashes to show that he'd ever been indebted to the merchant, and thg king's friends congratulated him that he had fallen into the hands of such a kind, philanthropic man.' We Are Mortgaged To God. We were all mortgaged to God, and the note was due? We had nothing to nay and inflexible justice seized upon us to put us in the prison of condemnation, but nineteen hundred years ago God invited the world to the gospel feast ana m tne crucmxion agonies of the cross of Jesus Christ he held your sins and mine until every last vestige was consumed. And God extends to all. salvation on the grounds that we will accept Jesus a3 our substitute, our security, our bondsman. He died In our stead. He took the penalty that we deserve and by my faith In Christ will I be saved, and If you turn your back on Jesus, you will go to hell. "What must I do to be saved?" He was convicted, he came trembling. His idea was that he was lost Ho said, "I believe you are all right I know I am wrong. I want to get out of what I am into what you are; how did you do it? Tell me and I will do it. Nobody can be saved without first of all real true conviction but in dif ferent individuals conviction shows itself In different ways. First, there is the evidence of great need. You display your ignorance If you'd 'say of Nicodemus that he was the ehlef of sinners. He Was a ruler of the people. He was an honored member of the Sanhedrin and a much respect ed man and yet with all that, there was something that he didn't have so he sneaked around one night to ask Jesus Christ what he must do to be saved. He was afraid to walk down the streets openly for fear the gang would give him the horse laugh, so he waited until dark and then went around to see Jesus to ask him what he had to do to be saved. There :is the evidence of great need. And I want to tell you when you realize you are lost, there is nothing in this world that will satisfy you until you find peace with God no music, no merriment no revelry, no Joy, no intoxication, nothing on earth until you are saved by faith in in your heart that the world isn't satisfying and you have a sense of your need of something that you do not possess, that your wealth and culture and learning cannot give It to you, I say to you come to Jesus Christ and he will satisfy you. Years and years ago in London a

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TABERNACLE STATISTICS Wednesday Afternoon Attendance 1,200. Wednesday Evening Attendance 4,500. Trail Hitters 205v noted literary gathering was being held, and among the guests was a man named Caosar Milan. A young lady made her debut that night and played and Bang most charmingly The minister Baid to her, after listening to her in company with others, "I was moved by your ability, and T thought as I listened to you play and sing, how much good you might do, and how many sinners you plight wiu to Christ if you'd only dedicate your ability to the Lord and sing and play for God." She snapped out something cynical, and sarcastic. He said, "Lady, I meant no offense. God can use ability as well as the devil, and if you would dedicate your ability to the Lord, use that talent, how many sinners you could win to Jesus Christ" The evening's entertainment came to a close, they became units and went to their homes and retired. This young lady rolled and tossed with a troubled insomnia she couldnt sleep, she couldn't get away from the face of the old preacher or his words ring ing in her ears, and at two o'clock in the morning she leaped out of bed, got a light seized a pencil and paper, fell on her knees and as the tears of repentance coursed down her cheeks, Charlotte Elliot wrote: Just as I am, without one plea, But that Thy blood was shed for me. And that Thou bid'st me. come to Thee O Lamb of God! I come, I come! God Will Take , Care Of You. So, come as you are and God will satisfy you and supply your need. Sometimes you get a feeling of unworthiness, like the publican. That's a very hopeful sign. I hate to see a man or woman who feels as though God owed them something and that salvation was a sort of reward of merit. I like to see a man or woman who is like that get what is coming to them they get hell here and when they are through here God doesn't owe you anything; God doesn't owe you salvation. He owes you the opportunity to aeept, but he doesn't owe it to you If you don't want it But he offers it to you ful', free, perfect and eternal, if you will come God's way if you won't do that, let it alone. You can't have It on any other grounds at all. I don't care what your sin is, grace won't keep you out of hell, if you; don't repent. Some men don't go to hell because they are 6inners; they go to hell because, they reject Jesus Christ, for God says, "Whosoever will may come and whosoever will not, will be cast out," so that's the reason not because they are sinners, but because they won't come and be saved. There are some men and women who live good, honest lives. There are Bome people honest, upright, moral, virtuous who would stand up and let a regiment of soldiers fire at them, every man armed with a machine gun, before they .would be untrue to their marriage vow. Some live a life just opposite to that but no matter what your condition, you como to Jesus Christ and salvation is yours. How Men Interpreted Deeds I can imagine the blind men whose eyes Jesus had opened, holdine a con-1 vention. They were differing with themselves in giving their testimony of experience. One man got up and said, "Now look here, if you want toj have your eyes opened, go sit on the wayside. Jesus came along and I said, 'What wouldst thou do unto me that I might receive my sight!" Another fellow jumped up and said, "Look here, that's a bum steer! You don't get it all at once, you get It on the installment plan like you buy furniture." He said, "I was blind and Jesus came up to me and he said, 'What wouldst thou have? I said, I want to see. He said, What do you see now? WTiy I see trees as men walking. What do you see now. And at the third attempt I can see, so you don't get it all at once, little by little after a while you get it." Another fellow said, "See here! You're both wrong. I was blind and I came to JesuB and he said, What do you want? I said, I want to see. He turned around, spat on the ground and he mixed clay and put it on my eyes and he said, You go to the pool of Siloam and wash. I got hold of a fellow to help me and went to tho pool an8 dipped my head in and washed and my eyesight came.' Another fellow said, "I can see as well as you and I've never been near the pool." Jesus Chlrst never told but one blind man to go to the pool. The whole thing was faith in, Christ. It was faith in Christ that opened the eyes of all of them. It was faith in Jesus that opened their eyes, and they all 'said, "Whereas once we were all blind now we can all see!" Faith In Jesus Is Effective. Jesus was the one that did lt, and it is faith in Christ that does It all and brings you the blessings in different ways. ' Sometimes lt Is the consciousness that you have sinned and that the curse of the broken law rests upon you like a prisoner in the deathhouse waiting for the time when he will walk through the little door from which no one has ever returned, that some people have a deeper conviction of sin than they had before. Some people have a deeper conviction of sin before they were converted than after that's true of some. I think most people have it before. Some people can tell you the day, hour and spot where they were converted; others cannot. I can tell you where and why I was saved thirty years ago one dark and stor my night in Chicago. Mrs. Sunday couldn't tell you to save her life, she was born under Christian Influence and never knew anything oth er. She couldn't tell you to save her life when or where. I preached In a town one time in Illinois. I saw a fellow come down the aisle, he took me by the hand, walked over and sat down. Pretty soon he got on his knees, and then he fell down In the sawdust . and rolled and groaned. I said to one of the Methodist preachers, What's the matter with that fellow?" He said to me, "BilL he's getting religion." I said, "It looks to me as though he's got the stomach ache or some thing of that kind.1 Pretty soon I saw a fellow come down the aisle, a bright, snappy,

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(keencut looking fellow. He had a silk lid in his hand, a silk-lined over- ( coat hanging from his arm, a diamond i in his shirt front as big as a hickory nut He walked up to me and took me by the hand and said, "Mr. Sunday, I accept Jesus Christ as my Savior." He walked over and sat down on the seat put his coat and hat by his side, folded his arms not a tear. Would you say that that fellow lying down there on the ground kicking up the sawdust was more converted than that other fellow? No, that -fellow had lived a different life from this man. You could tell by his looks he had gone down the line, that he had an emotional make-up, cried easily. This other fellow didn't. So, you will have the same kind of temperament after you are converted as you had before. I've got the same tabasco sauce, Tim and vigor that I had before I was converted. I haven't slowed up any I've only given It over to the Lord. Stanley tells us that he found people in Africa who never knew they were black until they saw white men, and when they saw Stanley and his European followers for the first time 4n their lives they -knew that there stood the representatives of another race, of another color, that lived somewhere in a remote corner of the earth that they had never seen. They never knew there was any other color, they had never seen anybody but black people. "What must I do to be saved?" "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ," said Paul, "and thou shalt be saved." And I read here that he fell down before them. Oh, you cannot coma to God without first of all a broken and contrite heart God is willing to forgive but God cannot forgive if you are not willing to be forgiven. He will not do it as long as you are in a state of rebellion and glory in your sin. God Almighty has nothing for you then. I tell you, God will stop making worlds to help you if you are repentant and know you are a sinner and. are willing to go square and are willing to ask God to forgive you through faith in Jesus Christ There must be this spirit of sorrow for sin before there can ever be forgiveness but the moment you manifest this spirit, it is yours as a gift from Jesus Christ. New Heart Is Needed. Some people think that what they need is new surroundings. Oh, no, no! It isn't that at all! Here is my watch it won't run. I will put it in my pocket here. You say it needa new surroundings. All right, I will put it over here in this other pocket. But that doesn't work. What's the matter with it? It doesnt need new surroundings, it needs a new mainspring. So, what you need Isn't a new suit or a new Haircut You need a new heart. If you've got the devil in you now -you will turn people to the devil no matter where you go. What you need is a new 'heart and a new nature, not a new environment I read of a father years ago who had that fool idea and he purchased his boy a lieutenant's commission in the Russian army. This man was a Russian, a personal friend of the Czar, and it was during the Crimean 'War. The Czar was walking around to view the fortifications and encourage his men when France and England were fighting Russia for Constantinople. This young fellow teat down and tried to recall all that he owed, and he put down column after column of figures, then he added them up and the sum overwhelmed him and he wrote underneath, "Who will pay all this?" Meditating upon his wayward life, the vast sums that he owed, he fell asleep and the Czar, walking around, recognized the son of his personal friend as he sat there asleep. He saw this paper lying on his lap, he stooped over and read it "Who will pay all this?" '. The Czar stooped down and signed it and sealed it with the royal signet and put it back, and when the young fellow opened his eyes he was alarmed to think the Czar has come and he'd been asleep. Finds Debts Cancelled. He examined the paper and found there an order on the treasury for the amount of indebtedness. He presented it and they refused to pay it because it didn't come in the accustomed form. They made an appeal to the Czar and he said, "Pay it. I feel honored to think that I can carry on a war and pay the debts of my friends," and be did. You can sit down and pile up your sins one on top of another until you will have a pile higher than the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains, and in your despair and hopelessness you will say. "Oh God, who will pay all this?" and I'd like to write one name The sweetest name on mortal tongue, The sweetest carol ever sung, Jesus, blessed Jesus. He paid it all! And then I read, "He was converted." "They washed his stripes." At first they exultingly shoved his hands and feet into the stocks. . Now I see this jailer stooping down with easing touch, ease the pain and cool the fever, wash away the stains that hadj been made by the scourges as they beat their back. There must be conversion, my friends, if you are ever saved. I am not speaking of a new birth, listen! That's God's part of salvation that transaction. I'm telling you what to do. God has done his part, what are you going to do? God has made the sunshine and the rain and the earth and the sea3. what is your part? Plow the ground and plant the seed. If you don't do your part you will starve to death. SIN IS (Continued from preceding page) lest heart of a -man or a woman into granite or steel. God is the enemy of sin, and sin is the enemy, of God. Which side are you lined up with? The Lord or the Devil? The first, sin will lead to the second; the second to the. third and the third will lead to the fourth and eo on. - At first sin is like a slender spider thread that you can break but at last lt becomes a rope. A friend of mine sometime ago went Into the office of Mr. McCormick, General Passenger Agent of the Southern Pacific out in 'Frisco

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and said to my friend. "Have you seen the big trees of Caurornla?" "No." He said, "Don't you go back without seeing them." He took out an affidavit which a man had made after he had measured one of those big trees and the tree was 105 feet in circumference and 35 feet in diameter and nearly 400 feet high. Those trees stood there before Jesus was born in the manger at Bethlehem. Perhaps," he said, "you would like to see the seed, from which' these huge monsters of the Pacific grow." He thought he would have the fellow wheel in on a cart, a seed as big as a 14-inch shell. McCormick reached up into the pigeon hole of his desk, he took out an envelope and dumped out some seeds no . larger than lettuce seeds. He dumped them out and said, "There, that is the seed from which those monsters grow." You take the first drink. You see that bleary eyed fellow he started With that. You see that girl selling ! nap vnmonhnnfl .-t f c.t--a i with thnt t vuiouuvuu ii otai icy TV iiu Ljjai innocent flirtation which she is feed' ing with her womanhood and her virtue. How You Can Be Led On. There are thousands and tens of thousands of people in this old world that have lost their grip and there are thousands of them that are gradually slipping toward Hell. By associating with the vile, by consorting with drunkards, you become drunkards; by delighting to accompany the vile, you become vile. In the days of the Spanish Inauisition they had in their underground prisons an instrument of torture which they sneerlngly called the "VirPin Th.n ofnnH h e,mKi nf a beautiful woman dressed in the richest robes with an inviting seductive smile on her lips, waiting to receive with outstretched arms whoever might be pushed toward her. The victim of religious hate was pushed forward to kiss this virgin and as he did, suddenly moved by a secret spring, she would throw her arms about him, and he would be pierced with one hundred Tazor-like blades that would shoot from little openings all through the body and impale him. i and he would stand there screaming as his le blood oozed away. Sin is like that. Sin can put up a cracker jack of an exterior and smilingly invite you to take her arm and walk along the deadly paths of worldly delight. Oh, Oh, Ob, Oh, hear me, certain death awaits any man or woman that dare kiss her treacherous lips. Yet "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but havo everlasting life." That is what God did. Sin Is Deadly Enemy. Sin is deadly. The same as one hole will sink the biggest ship that ever floated; so one stab in the heart with a pen-knife will kill you just the same as if you were hit with a fourteen inch shell; or a drop of poison will cause instant death. Out in the state of Nevada when a man is convicted of murder and sentenced to be executed, they let him choose the mode. He can either be hanged, shot or poisoned, and he can choose which method. If he selects to be poisoned, one half hour before the hour, the doctor walks into his cell, mixes the deadly poison, cyanide of potassium, or something like it that will kill him instantly; puts the glass in there and says to him: "You have half an hour to make up your mind whether you will drink the poison." If he does not drink It the polgon is thrown out and they, take him out and hang him. When the state exercises sovereignty they say "Hang him." They have those three methods. Take poison, be shot, or hang, and he can select. One drop of that poison on his lips and he will fall dead instantly, he 1b gone. Now, the sin you might commit today may sting you years and years later. Like the wound inflicted by a mad dog may heal, months pass but the virus is still there and you begin to froth at the mouth, howl and bark and you have hydrophobia. So with Sin. Yet, "God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Sin Can Mar Any Life. Sin can mar the fairest face in the world. No incident that I have ever remembered in history better illustrates than the one you may have heard, but it is absolutely true, the one in connection with De Vinci, who painted the famous picture of "The Last Supper." Long the artist- sought for a model for his Christ, for he said he must find some young man with a pure life to get the expression of the face; and his attention was called by a friend of his to a young fellow named Pedro Bandinelli, who sang in a church choir, and when he saw him, he cried out, "I have found the face for the Christ," and he painted him and the years passed by and "The Last Supper" was not finished. The eleven apostles had been sketched, all but the model of Judas. He said, "I must find the face hard ened and stained by the sin of wick ed living. And one day he was walking In the streets of Rome and he started back as he saw the most hideous, repulsive features ever, and he Induced the man to go and sit for his model for Judas. And after he had sketched him and he was leaving he turned to De Vinci and said, "You do not know me." "No." "Yet you did nine years ago." "Who are you?" "I am Pedro Bandinelli. I sat for your Chri6t. That Is what sin has done for me after nine years.' The next time you . look at De Vinci's "Last Supper" notice that the same man that sat for Christ, sat for Judas and the devil had molded his features thus after nine years. Yet "God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son. that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Christ Sets Us Free. And He came down and set us free. Hallelujah! I will begin to shout when there Is a Presbyterian shout' ing. I will tell you that Every sin of act or word bring a scar on your soul. I read of a man who had a son who was strangely given to the sin of anger and several times a day he would fly Into a sage and almost kin you.

And the father reproved him but also without effect One day seeing his boy ?n a fit of anger, the father brought him a box of nails and a. hammer and he said, "Whenever you are angry I wantsyou to go drive a nail in that post And the boy inwardly resolved "I

will drive mighty few nails, believe me." And" so. weeks after the father andi the son met at that post and he said. "See here, my son, why th top of I this post is full of nails." And he said, "My son, that is Just the way your soul looks in the sight of God, corresponding with every wound the nail has made. Sia mars and makes your image and yet God came to change all of that by our Faith in' Jesus Christ" Every time you perform a wicked act or utter an unholy word, every time you harbor an impure thought, you drive a nail that will disfigure your very' soul and .there is nothing but the blood of Jesus Christ that can cleanse us from all -6 in. And there is nothing on this old earth that.ran r.hanee our miilt into innocence and pardon us for our transgressions; and there is nothing in the universe that possesses the Lsllghte6t power to take away guilt but Faith la then blood of Christ Philanthropy won't do it; nothing but Faith in the blood af Jesus Christ Tells Story Of Reformer. The story la told of Martin Luther that one nighti the devil, the King of Hell, appeared to enter his room, and with an air of; insolent triumph. He had a huge roll of parchment under his arm. "What Is thai?" asked Martin Luther? He said. "Thaft is the catalog of all that 7 J ever commitH an(1 Luther leaped from his bed in mortal terror; and beads of per spiration stood on his brow, and he was in a death-like agony. And the devil opened the scroll, and Luther was compelled to sit there hour after hour and read the damning list of Bins ? hf oaodJ M e. some vile sins he had committed and forgotten. How long the list looked! How black, the ink in whicfr they were written! ' How tightly and gleefully the devil seemed to hold the scroll in his scaly fingers. Sins just as God would set before him in the day of Judgment Suddenly the devil called him by name saying, "Martin Luther, all sin. all sin" and Laither began to shiver and his agony was intense and Hell seemed to yawn and wait for him to stumble over inlo the abyss, find the devil kept on screaming, "All sin, All sin." Luther knew something of the word of God and h said, "Where does the word of God say All sin?" and he leaped forward and tore the scroll from the devil's hands but the devil had. Oh! so beautifully hid. the words. "The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin" and he tried to hide the fact that the blood of the Son of God cleanses us from all , sin. That is the devil's business. Tells Another Incident Years ago off the coast of Corn wall, a 8hip was wrecked and in the early morning the people came down and straining their eyes across tho stormy seas they saw it pounding to pieces and a man. clinging to the rigging. They made comments, "Who is he?" "Wonder where he came from," "How long has he .been there?" And presently ,a great stalwart young fellow as ho gazed out said, "I am going to savehim And the old captain said, "John, don't you talk like that A boat could not live in such a sea. And his mother came and said, "Son. do not go. You know your father went away twelve years ago to save your brother John and he never came back." He said. "Mother, if you want to do anything for me, you pray." She knew her boy. She fell upon her knees upon the sand and prayed and he leaped into a boat and with brave heart and strong arms he bent to the oars but the winds carried him away from the ship. And the old captain said, "Ding my halyards, he will never bring her back again. He said, "Blast my top-sails, boys, he's gone." And then he said, "No, yonder he goes riding the waves like the sea gulls. Give him a cheer." There is many a fellow needs a cheer. O! there is many a wife, give her a cheer and she will fight and work better. There is many a girl behind your counters needs a little cheer. There is many a preacher fighting for righteousness and Truth; he needs a word of cheer. The world is dying for a little encouragement and help The cheers rang out as he climbed the ship and helped the man from it, and they said, "Why doesn't he leavn the old wreck, it is going to pieces?" They were seen to enter the boat and as they neared the shore the people cheered and the old captain said "Keep still, my lads, what is that I hear?" And above the waves they heard him screaming, "Mother, it is brother John." And when the boat came to shore the mother had two b&ys instead of one. So Jesus came into the word in order that he might save us from the power of Sin. You say, "Remember, Bill, I am going to have it sometime." Is that so? Well, it is only a question of time. A young fellow came to me and said, "I know I ought to and I am going to." Say," I am afraid that many of you are going to lose Heaven like Louis the XIV lost . his empire, and the Parisians came howling and surging around him, and the National Guard stood in defense of the Palace, and the General turned to Louis XVI and said, "Shall I fire now shall 1 order the troops to fire?" And Louis the XVI said, "No, not now. Wait" .Five minutes later he turned to the General and he said as the crowds surged, howling around the palac. "You may order the troops to fire." And the General said. "You are too late sir. Don't you see the soldiers changing arms with the citizens?" Down went the throne of Louis the XVL To the block went the King and his beautiful Queen, and away from the face of the earth went the house of Orleans, all because the Kins said "Not yet" ', He waited too long. There are people in Hell tfcut never expected to be there. , . At the beginning of the war the

RAIN DOES NOT DETER, j MANY FROM HEARING 1 . SERMON BYiSDUDAY' Prospects of rain diii not hinder

ternoon, as over 1.200 ;people. gathered to hear Billy Sunday preach, his famous sermon on "His Name Shall Be Called Wonderful." Telling the story of ;Jlesus and his life and works, Mr. Sunday preached one of the, strongest sersrons that he has yet given from the1 platform. "When Jesus cried, 'It. is finished,' Iho Mosaic ceremonial taw stopped," Sunday declared, "A newiorder marks from the date of Jesus." Rev. D. M. Ulmer, of Whitewater gave the opening prayer, while Miss ' Lena Molter and Mrs. Elsifc Wirschin?, both of Dayton sang a, duet. They were accompanied to Richmond by ' Dr. Williamson, the diiwctor of the Westminster Choir of D.rj ton, and an Instructor in Rodeheaverfs school at Winona Lake. FOUNTAIN CITY HEARS MISS KINNEY SPEAK Fountain City had a "su3jirlse" meeting, Wednesday morning a;t the M. E. church, and closed" all of the stores and banks, to hear Miss Kinry speak. The meeting which was jprepared in a very short time, was a i urprise to Miss Kinney, who did not know about it until just before she wasl invited to speak. . "It was a most interesting and enthusiastic meeting," Miss Kinney said, "and I was only too glad too able to go." Miss Kinney spoke at 10:30 A. M. returning to Richmond in! time to conduct an invitation meetiig at the Westcott hotel.

London Chronicle sent over Tc ere, Harold Begbie, author of "Tvr.ice Born Men" and "Proof of God," 1 tell the people of America the attitude of Great Britain and the allis in the conflict and to try and learrS the attitude of America toward G:a?at Britain and the allies in the comTlict He came to learn about it. ; Oh! God Almighty sent Jesus Christ down here to tell thi3 world what He thought about it ac d what He wanted to do, and we turned to his ambasador, we spat in lits face, we picked up stones and we hurled them at him; we damned lem and called him a wine bibber a ad glutton and we nailed him on th' cross with a crown of thorns on hiB. brow. Oh! he went back to tell Gnl what' the world thought ' Change it a little bit Co;me on. Others may do that but do not let God Almighty have to record sou as His enemy. Not at all, becatee tb,e Lord wants to help you. Did you ever hear the story wf the beautiful Scotch shepherd? Hetdrove his sheep to the fold and daunted them, one, two, three, four, tfive ninety-five, ninety-six and so oni He returned to the cabin and he saiid to his collie, "Sister, there are still jthree out on the mountain. Go get tr em." She looked at her master and she howled in return, and he said, fl am right, three of them. Go." ' Returns With Sheep. She bounded into the storm (and was gone. By and by she returned with two of the sheep and he ook them to the fold and counted themj the second time. He came back andshe was lying in the corner with ', the I I pups. He patted her on the head and he said, "I was right Theije is still one out there."t t She bounded to the open door and into the storm howling and the thsnder rolling down the mountain sSde. and she winced and turned back land he said,! "Go on, you are not going to die." She looked at her master and could not say '"No" and she bounded Into the storm and she was gone. One. two, three, four hours -went by and he heard her scratching onjthe cabin doer. He threw it open and there shei stood, beaten by the storm, drenched by the rain, torn by the jagged rocks and thorns, but she-ihad found the sheep that was lost He took her tenderly, and in his shepherds; plaid, he carried her to the fold. One, two, three, four, five, six ninety-six, ninety-seven, ninety- ; eight nmety-nine. and one hundred.! He locked? the fold and entered the cabin and! she had fallen exhausted on the flrtor. She was$ lying there panting and at the sound of his voice and footsteps she staggared to her knees, reeling and fell dead. Christ Gfvsji Us Chance. That Jesnu Christ should come to this old world to give us a chance to be saved, to-' try and find us, cursed and scarred and bruised with Sin. That is Gc-da message to the world. "He so lovedTtthe world, that He gave His only begotten "Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Once, years ?o in New York I was told there lived, a very wealthy Christian merchant He married a beautiful woman, g.tfe her a beautiful home and unbelcnown to him she drank.. She used to go away and visit friends on piatense that she was visiting relatives- She kept it up and at last she fell i.uio a life of sin and shame. One night he cmie home and found a note telling him that she had gone away never to return. That her life could not merit ifcis true. Christian character and life. He hired detectives and they serrached everywhere and they could not lind her. Copies of her pictures were left with the police and svith undertakers around the country and he said. "If you run across her bly, buy the best clothes that money ceri buy; buy the finest casket etc.; bax k it witk flowers and send for me.' . Three years went 07 when the 'phone rang and a vo$:e said, "We have found her." i And he went to theA undertaking establishment and as he looked through the glass upon the face, he cried, "Oh, Mary, if ytMi only knew how I loved you, you woald have come back. He stood weeping as lif bis "heart would break and he said,! "Bury her." And he erected a costly monument and said to the stone woiflUer, "Chisel on lt one word. 'Forgiveik" That is God's message o ua. He forgives our transgressions! and I am ( i glad that I have a God ariil a Christ

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