night . il’"'i.‘ho have of God and Fu-
lure Will-harem. " follows:
(copyright, 1923, George Wood
Anderson.)
. (item not God so loved the world
that he gave His only begotten Son
the! whosoever bellevelh in film
should not perish but have everlast-
in; life. John 3:10.
Slow men can quote this Verse of
scripture to prove the love of God
and speak slightlngiy of sin. and
the fearful consequences of sinful
lying. I cannot understand. God
‘ at his son that men ‘might not
perish. All heaven and all hell are
oiow'ded into this verse. Everlasting
‘ life and enternal death stand face to
face. Every sensible man knows that
Godw‘ould not send His Hon to suf-
‘ , fer as he suffered and to die in such
a dreadful manner as he did unless
‘ there had been something awful to
save a man from. :
.- Punishment.
Christ came to save men from hell
and during his ministry never failed
:to proclaim the reality of a place of
' future punishment. When he saw
the priesthood of his day setting at
naught the things of God and plac-
ing emphasis upon outward forms
he told them plainly that they
were whitened sepulyhres. ‘hype-
critos. who could not escape the
3‘" damnation of hell. Speaking of
\those who were angry with their
brothers, he declared that they were
"‘in danger of hell fire." Looking at.
the sin-smitten multitudes be ex-
claimed: "Whether it be thy hand
or thy foot offend thee; it is het-
7', tor for thee to enter into life halt
.. and maimed. rather than having
two: hands or two feet to be cast in-
to everlasting fire. It thine eye of-
fend thee pluck it out and cast it
, from thee: it is better for thee to
’ 3 enter into life with one eye rather
than having two eyes be cast into
hell fire.”
It in the sight of‘ Jesus whose ut-
terances are always tempered with
mercy and whose ministeries are ev-
er of the most tender and loving
nature, hell' is a place of such ter-
rible suffering that he would urge
hisafolowers to take the most des-
perate methods to avoid it. we eer-
tainiy should give his words rover-
tent attention. When he says that
rather .ihan yield to temptations
’ that come through the eye it .were
; better to pluck the eyeballs from
‘ their, sockets: rather than yield to
tomfilfiution «by walking for-hidden
, paths it were better to cut off the
fleet: it‘d rather than sin with the
hands to cut them off and go crip-
pled through life, Jesus Christ was
talking with an earnestness and a
3 power that no individual can lgnOlc
.or trifle with.
I do not care that men say is
criticism of the doctrine of future
‘ punishment. When there is a con-
tradlotion between the theory of
' some scientist and the positive
teachings of Jesus. I always choose
the teachings of Jesus. My reason
36v this is that there is not one sins
gle fact; that science has established
. that has cmtradicted a single teach-
ing of Jesus. . If in the years of
BMW they had found one single
factfhat g sprovcs Jesus as the per-
. r, then will I listen to
.. :- 0 his every word and utter-
ance“ ,Whenetllere is a contradic-
. tion today I know it is not because
5 Jesus is Wrong but because science
_ has not yet der- sloped sufficiently to
, discover the real truth.
-. 'No the truth of the matter is
that will!) the Bible is supreme au-
thority on all spiritual and moral
questions. you do not have to turn to
.? its pages to find the fundamentals
that underlie the teachings of Jesus
‘ roger ing the punishment of sin in
‘ both his "and the world to come.
“ Let us stop for a while this eve-
ning and see what our own experi-
once has taught us on this subject.
, We have lived long enough in this
~~ world to know that sin is always
punished. Laws govern both the
‘ physical and spiritual natures. A
broken law means suffering. Touch
» fire and you suffer with a burned
;or paisied hand. Taste poison and
you become sick. Overlook the
stomach and the penalty is indiges-
tion. Sit in a dhught and you suf-
fer- from a cold. Tell a falsehood
and your brain burns with a scorch-
ing guilt. Take God's name in vain
' and you suffer the death of all your
nobler feelings toward God. Sin se-
may and the fear of exposure 'wlll
‘ turn each waking moment into a
hell. A. young man at one of the
vision points of the Big Four read
here I held a large tabernacle
campaign began stealing from the
trains. At first it was great
sport but at last he suffered so that
witch the officer arrested him he
1 said: “Thank God. it is all over. I
have never heard a sound or furt-
fall on the steps or platform that I
did not become petrified with terror.
. my arrest. 1 am glad it is over. I
can rest now." We always pay the
price dol- our sins.
The second thing that we have
suffering from ‘sin always follovm in
a perfectly natural manner. Many
times we have said: “My punishment
is greater than I can bear." but never
once has any of us dared to say that
the punishment was unjust. Punish-
ment cornea in true proportion to our
sins and in a most natural manner. It
u as not live coals that Got! sprinkled
out upon us to blister the skin. we
“ere not thrust intone dungeon cell;
neither were we haullted by evil spir-
its er stinging serpents; Such pun-
ishment would have been forced
upon us by some power from with-
out and while We were being pun-
thinking it was some one seeking »
learned from experience is that the:
not come from without but within.
When sln- began the punishment be-
sau. and comes in such a natural
manner that no one has ever doubt-
for what sin we suffered. Just as
rain stalk points traixht to‘a lit-
tle seed that was planted in the soil.
to some definite sin, and we always
recognize it without any question or
doubting.
Punishmlint Is Awful.
The third fact that we have learn.
ed from experience is that the pun-
ishment of sin is always awful in its
nature. There is no form of outward
persecution that can compare with.
it. To free one's self from its terrors
many a‘ man has surrendered to an
officer, believing that a prison cell. or
even death itself was preferable to
the torments of a guilty conseience.‘
A man in an eastern city commit-
ted murder and eschped without be~
ing suspected of the deed. :To make
himself doubly secure be flat west
and under an assumed name built up
a prosperous business and was leek.’
ed upon as an honored man. After
a while his conscience awoke. He
could not sleep. His days were fill-
ed with forebodings. leillug his pos-
sessions. he boarded a train for the
city of his crime, where he surren-
dered. The crimehad been forgot-
ten and the search for the murderer
had ended years before.‘but he in-
sisted upon arrest. plead guilt at the
trial, wasp-sentenced to death and
went to the scaffold with a smile on
his face, believing that death would
be a relief from the fire that burned
within his bosom. The punishment
of sin is always terrible.
The fourth fact that we have
learned is that this suffering does not
stop with death. Suffering from re-
morse one may seek relief in death,
but we know that that will not re-
lieve their sufferings. Death works
no change in the soul. Death deals
only with the flesh. making it insen-
slhie to pain. But the punishment
for sin is seldom physical. It is the
soul that suffers and the soul lives
on after death. I open the door of
a cage and allow a bird to escape. I
have worked no inward change in
the nature. disposition or habits of
the bird. I havelonly changed its
abode. Death opens the cage; leav-
ing the soul escape from the body
and fly to other realms. but it has
not changed the nature of the soul.
What it was before death the soul is
now. It retains its will. carries its
scnsiiiveness to pain and suffering.
This does not seem strange for the
soul is always superior to the body.
Cut off the hands and the soul still
lives. Cut off both feet and the soul
is not harmed. Blind the eye, deaf-
en the ear, palsy the tongue, para-
lyze the muscles and still the soul is
unaffected. In the midst of the
greatest physical pain the soul may
have control of all its faculties and
rest in perfect peace . The soul is
more than the body and long after
the body is crumbled into .dust the
soul will live on just as u did be-
fore death It will still retain its
power to suffer afler the last physi—
cal nerve and muscle has become
stiffened in death.
Increase in Suffering.
fl‘herc is 0th one diii'crence be.
tween the suffering beyond and the
suffering here, and that is an in-
crease of its intensity with the pass-
ing of eternity. That is the effect
of new light on old deeds. The
thoughtless sins become monstrous
as their consequences come to light
and eternity is the harvest field
where men shall reap the conse-
quences of their Christian or sinful
lives. There one will behold all
their deeds in the light of eternity.
Freed from the restrictions and
limitations of time and temporal af—
fairs, our sins will stand out raster
and more awful in their proportions
than we could have ever suspected
here. How may We know this? Read
it out of your own experience. There
have been sins in your past life,
committed in unguarded moments
that did not seem to be very bad
and gave to them , little thought.
Suddenly, long afterward. in the
light of a new revelation We saw
those sins as they really are. We
saw them in their true awfulness
and in an instant we were suffering
mental and spiritual anguish. New
truths and new revelations cause
our smallest and most thoughtless
sins to stand out' in hideous propor-
tions. 80 in the world after death.
In the light of its revelations we will
see the true relations and true
meanings'of all our sins, and as we
see them arise from out the shad-
so every punishment points straight «
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terror to the soul. The suffering of
the mitt world will be even worse
than in this world. Tongue cannot
grasp the awfulness that follows
sin when one sees it in the light of
God's presence in an unending
world.
Now these truths gleaned not
from books or men- -made creeds. but
out of our own daily experiences,
and which can be duplicated in the
lives‘ of every man and .woman in
the world. demand consideration.
Especially is this true when not one
of these contradiot‘any other estab-
lished truth in- any known realm of
knowledge. The Only conclusion is
that there must be a place where
the wicked suffer.
But you say: “How do you recon-
cile that with the love of God?"
There isno reconciliation needed
God never made hell. God made a
slniess planet for men in this world
and heaven for the souls throughout
eternity. God never thrust a soul
into hell. but "God so loveth the
world that He gave His only begot-
ten Son that whosoever beiieveth in
Him should not perish. but have
everlasting life." God not only re.
(uses to send a soul to hell.»but He
does all He can to‘keep a man from
going there.
Get away with that weak. inane.
sentimentallsm that excuses sin and
apologizes for not believing in the.
Lord Jesus Christ on the ground
that you have such a high and lolly
conception of God that you do not
believe lie could have the heuri to
send a soul to hell. GOd never (13(3
and timer has sent souls to hell.
is a sin that’ does that. It was :lIn
that made hell and its sin that grips
a man‘s soul and drugs him into the
bottomless pit of despair and ever-
lasting remorse. If men will leave
sin alone the question of hell is set-
tled; but so long as men reject God
and refuse the ministers of Christ
and the Holy Spirit hell is a moral
necessity. \
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