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PREJUDICE
Extracts from a Sermon Preached at the First Baptist Church by Pastor
W. H. Faust.
Text—“And Nathanael said untc
him, can any good come out of Naz
areth. Phillip said unto him; come
and see.”
Webster defines in a general way
as a leaning towards one side of a
question for other considerations thai
those belonging to it. Or judging
before adequate facts have been duly
considered.
The world is full or prejudice as
an egg of meat. Men are strangely
inclined to form an opinion without
due consideration of facts. Bias
seLDjs .to be on the minds of manj
naturally.
The cjiurdh has a, great work to do
in getting men to think right for
right action always follows right
thinking. A great sermon could
be preached on our church and its
relation to the secular. And t the
fellow who loves sin and evil and
goes around howling for the preacher
to confine himself to the Gospel and
not to try to solve present day prob
lems of sin is barking up the wrong
tree.
As soon as Phillip *had found the
Messiah, or rather as soon as the
Messiah had found Phillip he at once
sought for Nathanael and wished for
him the same great' blessings that
had come thereby into his own life.
But when he came to Nathanael lie
did not believe that any good could
come out of Nazareth. Here we set
the evil consequences of prejudice.
When men blaze out new trails au<
seek out new inventions even though
they are for the general uplift am
betterment of humanity they usually
have to suffer for their benevolent in
t ntions. Arkright invented the spin
ning frame and at once a lot of poor
uninformed workmen began to feel
that their rights were being infringed
upon wihen in reality they were be
ing wonderfully aided.
When Stephenson invented the
steam enjine people were so prejudic
ed that they could not tolerate him
they thought that their work would
be taken from them and they would
no longer have any means of gaining
a livelihood.
When the harvester was first put
into operation thousands of disgrun
tled unfortunate non thinkers pre
sumed that their work would be no
longer needed and thus opposed it.
When Gallilleo stated that the
earth revolved about the sun he
created a figure that brought down
upon his innocent head the wrath of
the theologians and educators of his
times.
When John Wesley commenced to
preach a spirtual religion and urged
no longer have any means of gaining
more organization and consecration
for the church 'lie at once aroused all
the meaner prejudices of the church
men of his day.
Doubtless Mrs. ('orra Harris will
arouse a bit of caustic comment at
least by her graphic portrayal in
the recent issue of the Saturday Hv
ening Post of a Methodist Confer
nece and her statements relative to
that great churcli and its need
of adhering to the tenets and princi
ples of its founder but it will help.
Martin Luther endured many af
flictions and much suffering on ac
count of his views regarding the sep
aration of churcli and state and the
great doctrine of Just feat ilion by
faith. And proclaim it in Dan and
publish it in lleersheba the heresy
hunter is seldom ever in this world
the greatest of soul winners. The
champion of orthodoxy is not often
the champion of orthopraxy.
1900 years ago Jesus came unto his
own and his own received him not
but to as many as did receive \him
to them he gave the power to be
come the son of God. The Jews
would not take him because of prej
udice against his views and mission.
They did not like the manner of his
coming nor the methods upon which
he proposed to build his kingdom.
They wanted a temporal kingdom
and he had plainly told them tliat
his was to be a spiritual one.
They set great store by formalities
and ceremonies and he positively re
fused to stress either days or cus
toms and taught that in his kingdom
there was to be no Jews or Gentiles
but that all were to be the children
of God.
In Bunyans Holy War there is viv
idly told the story of the battle of
Mansoue. How Prejudice with 60
deaf men was stationed at the gate
for protection. There was much ol
hidden truth in the description. The
men who absolutely refuse to listen
make good adherents of a bad cause.
The man who can surround himself
with followers whose ears and minds
are stopped to reason anei filled
with only one way of thinking are
fine adherents of such a cause.
S me men are prejudiced against
Christ because of the opinions e>f fa
mous sc* ptics and unbelievers. Vol
taire and Ingorsoll have led many
loose thinkers away from the man
of Gallilee. The dogmas of theolo
gians have driven yther thousands
away from) Jesus. God is a God of
Justice and yet preachers have st O oi
in the pulpit and taught that sin is
sin and that one sinner is in the
same class of every other sinner
and will he rewarded or punished ex
actly like every other one. Men do
not even believe and punish so un
justly. How then can God wihoee na
ture is founded on Justice do wrong.
Others are restrained from yield
ing to Christ because of the incou
slstencles of Christians. There are
thousands of Christians who do not
live right/’ but this is not the will
of Christ concerning their lives. He
would have them perfect even as he
is perfect.
There is one tremenduously im
portant fiaet that we should continu
ally bear in ind and that is that
Jesus suffers now for our sins an.
this should re&rain.us.when evil pas
sions arise and wicked thoughts do
press heavily upon us.
Now to the Cure.
Phillip knew that there was no
need of arguing with Nathanael. In
fact tlluse days it does very little
good to argue with a man. It usual
ly results in simply strengthening
him in the views lie already holds
So Philip tactfully took Nathanael to
see. In other words Nathanael was
from Missouri and had to be shown.
When lie saw Jesus the work was
done the argument ended. The Sa
vior accepted.
Hastings and Ingersoll were clos
ing the famous debate in Chicago.
The last speech was made and twe
eminent lawyers were going heme.
One said to the other didn’t Ingle
soll riddle his opponent and wipe uj
the earth with his arguments and
take away everything from him to
night and leave nothing for Christian
ity. No said the other lie left my
sainted mothers religion and her sa
vior.
The trouble with too .many of us
is tfliat we look through colored glas
ses and fail to see as we should wit!
our own eyes clarified by the Spir
it‘of Light and Wisdom. When Na
thanael saw lie said thou art the
Son of God, tliou are the King of Is
rael and so will we all say when
prejudice is removed and we see
Christ in his truth and beauty.
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/vKay&S. FOR
L i' Furniture
No, I am not surprised at everything being HIGH
this fall, in fact, I looked for it in the spring and
HEDGED, so to speak. The general conditions on
every side was bound to warrant high cotton, high
steel, high glass, and of course the prosperous con
ditions throughout the South necessarily makes
things cost more.
BUT, we STOCKED up very heavily last fall and early this
Spring, hence can sell, and DO SELL, some medium furniture cheaper
than we can buy on today’s prices, simply on account of having bought
on the FIRST advance and it’s GOING HIGHER.
SO take advantage of some of this 20c cotton and yon will be
absolutely shocked at the amount of Furniture you can buy for just
ONE bale of cotton, and you know Furniture is a thing you don’t have
to buy but ONCE in a lifetime—lf you get Good Stuff.
So be wise and don’t hope to get high grades at low prices.
Don’t put your money in so-called “cheap” Furniture. Don’t expect to
be able to find a store that can surpass us in value-giving. Don’t think
that by buying from out of town people you can get more for your money,
.YOU CAN NOT!
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