Show IS WORSE THAN PURITAN PICTURE Rev Dr Short Describes Sin Sinners Sinners ners Destiny If They Do DoNot DoNot Not Repent The servIces at the First Methodist Episcopal church yesterday were all allwell allwell well attended Many strangers strange were noted at the morning service and among them was the Rev Dr Barnes of Mich MichIgan Michigan Igan who Is visiting his son Attorney General Barnes of this state In his morning sermon Family Religion ws was the subject in a most ImpressIve and tender manner and all hearts were caused to see the of parental responsibility in bringing their children Into the church At the evening service Dr F B Short used as his text Matt 46 And these shall go away Into ever everlasting everlasting lasting punishment among mong other things the speaker said We often divide men Into many classes but the Bible speaks of only good and the bad It also speaks of two destinIes and toward one or the other every man Is moving Just which It shall be every man decides for himself There Is nothing new nor unique about this statement It simply har harmonizes harmonizes monizes with universal law Those that break the laws of health must pay the consequences to the degree that the law Is broken The same Is true rela relative live tive to the relations which we sustain to lIfe and liberty Obey the tho laws that obtain In these realms and one enjoys the blessings of both life and liberty The highest good for man and to man manIs manIs Is obtained by guaranteeing unto him and for him pleasure for obedience and punishment for disobedience Right doing should be rewarded be because because cause it is rIght and yet righteousness Is Its own unfailing reward Wrong Wrongdoing Wrongdoing doing should always be punished for forthe forthe the protection of society and yet wrongdoing Is always a punishment Men are not saved be because because cause they are poor nor damned be because because cause they are rich They re saved because they seek to do right and choose to do right They are lost to themselves and to society and to heaven because they refuse to do right and choose to do wrong And It if It Is rIght to reward those that live right surely It Is right to punish them that live wrong But you do not believe in hell That does not abolish the awful place You do not believe In the fire that cannot be quenched Your unbelief does not put out those consuming flames The hell of our fathers Is Indescribably hor horrible horrible but the hell of which I think Is Infinitely worse than that Failing to contribute my share to human up uplift lift being denied a place among the right thinking and right doing people of earth or robbed of the liberty which my God and my country have given me would be a hell more horribly horn horri horrible ble than all the hell of fire and brim brimstone brimstone stone spoken of In the Bible The fire would soon consume this body and It would be gone but the guilty con conscience conscience science the what might have been thought could never die out The These e shall go away Into everlasting Ing punishment not because Christ wills it but because they would not come unto him for tor life Ufe The door Is ever open the church Is a standing In Invitation Invitation and the spirit calls caUs you Will you choose Christ and lIfe and happi happiness happiness ness or will you drift away from every Influence that calls and life Ufe eter eternal eternal nal Where will you go |