Show TRUE repentance it is reliably stated that those who feel too sure of their salvation are furthest from from it while the repentant stand in constant fear they fear because they know god is just they know the law has been decreed and that god is not handing out any special favors because of name or genealogical genea logical relationships they simply know he is just and it it may seem that with all the billions born to this earth each with different temperament and characteristics god would have a busy time justly judging all but gods accounting system is efficient as well as just and all men who have heard beard his law will be their own judges under his order of justice instead of standing and arguing excusing and explaining and pleading every person will see his own record his own picture reel with talkie attached and after the show he steps up to the accountants window where he sees his own ledger sheet no one needs to talk he cant blame anyone if he feels he getting a square deal the last entry on his page of the ledger is significant he saw it all in the picture and he knows exactly where hes going going perhaps with a smile perhaps not and as he passes through the corridor of awards he picking up a crown that fit his head any more than he would have bought a hat that came down over his ears maybe he goes out bareheaded bare headed and so when a man begins begin s to forget the despicable things he used to do when he forgets he used to be more of a pest than a pal when he do anything without being told when he laid down on the job while his friends did his work when he avoided the widows woodpile while his gang chopped it up when he be depended upon to ride against time to save the life of a friend when he forgets when he profaned the name of god with satanic vehemence when he forgets his inherent craving to expose the sins of his neighbors household but shields and covers those of his own when he forgets when he spoke of his sweetheart in the dirtiest rottenest rott enest filthiest vulgar language that ever passed human lips but remembers now that from his youth he has had a sacred regard for the sanctity of womanhood when he remembers the soul destructiveness of a cigarette that his lips have never been moistened with wine or cocktail or afflicted with ca caused used by a cud of tobacco but forgets when his tongue revealed the pictures of a not too virtuous mind when he begins to canonize hii himself itself with descriptive beautifulness of a dutiful past life as he slowly approaches the threshold of another world when he forgets all the bad and remembers only the good then and there that man has stepped up on the border of true repentance those who are worthy and goodenough after their last picture show and last accounting for conduct 0 on n this earth as they walk through the corridor of that palatial mansion where justice is consummated looking over the jeweled crowns they will f forget as they pick the one that f fits its their head morton bargan editors note the arbole article was wa sent by an upstate friend for publication and because we are so near the greatest of all accounting times we believe it mi might C lit be well to consider the points outlined as sins of omission or commission |