Viewing Life's Sunset from Pike's Peak

From these glimpses into the past, you look back at lifc's sunset from the top of Pike's Peak. I began my life's work in Pike's Peak Country, Lea.dsvIlle, .Cripple Creek, Canon City and Colorado Spnngs.

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The new math professor went to the president of the board of trustees, Capt. He went on to talk about the great universities of the world and what they meant to the cities where they were located.

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If you want to hear a really good sermon, go and hear a really good Negro preacher preach. The white preachers do not have time to become really great preachers; they are worked to death.

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34;M y third lesson—let these "eager young Baptist preachers rejoice to-day that they sat at the feet of Basil Manly." That man at that time "'who preaches. 34;My next lesson-let old '~alnut Street Church rejoice that she ever had Basil Manly as a member." He then showed what the quiet influence of Basil Manly had meant to the great church.

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He will preach." Then he said, "No one else who has been raised from the dead has brought a message. I have to go to heaven soon.” They made me think of a preacher on a ship at sea in a storm.

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So when one stands among the living, it is difficult to choose the highest, the greatest; but wait till the shadows of time fall, and When others shall be wrapped in the misty shrouds of the forgotten past, William Jennings Bryan's life will be still. If you will do this, we will swing from the wet wing to the dry wing tomorrow morning and nominate you for the presidency unanimously, and you will receive the largest majority that any president has ever received."

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He walked fourteen miles from out of the country to hear you lecture this morning. Bryan turned over his hundred dollar check and wrote on the back "William Jennings Bryan" and jumped into his car and sped off, handing the check to the boy.

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MARTIN IN 1900

Plowed under cotton while thousands of people shiver in the shivering cold of lack of clothing. Judge Cauiniss, a political friend of Caldwell and the Negroes, James Nelson, a Baptist minister, and my father, a university math professor.

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A committee of citizens went north and begged the family to let her body lie beneath our Southern pyre, made sacred by the martyrdom of this sweet Yankee woman. And out in one of our southern cemeteries is a beautiful monument over the holy body of that sweet northern girl, that northern angel of mercy.

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The leader of the mob came out and asked me to spend the night with him. The captain of the party came out and asked the privilege of taking me to town the next morning in his carriage.

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I then pleaded with the people to be true; to be patient; and waiting for our Government to come to the rescue. Why don't you talk like a man~" Sobbing, he pressed me to his bosom; and, kissing me on my check, said, "Brother Martin, they're going to kill you to-night." Old Dick will never know how near to the death he scared me that night.

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The next day, two kite-flyers got together to get the courage to take me off the stand that night and take me out into the woods and beat me. The two would-be assailants, speeding in an old car to reach the tent in front of us, hit a cow lying in the road, tearing the car apart and nearly killing the two men.

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He noticed the difference between the way the saved die and the way the unsaved die. The white-haired old doctor dropped his head to the side of the bed and cried.

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I answered, "It is not your work, and you have nothing to do with it, for it is the work of the Holy Spirit, and He never fails to do His work. Here is what the Savior said about it, John 3:8, ' The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell when it comes and where it goes; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

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34;This is what God says about it, Romans 4:5: 'To him who does not work, but believes on Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is counted to him for righteousness.' He says that Christ will justify the wicked; therefore it is not about becoming good enough to be saved, or to go to heaven. 34. Now God says: 'To him who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked.' Here is the work of your salvation that must be done by someone.

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26:28, "This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins." His blood, therefore, was laid for our sins; as Paul says, Ephesians 1:7, 'in whom we have redemption through his blood.' Then our Lord said, John 14:15, 'If you love me, keep my commandments'; not 'if you fear Hell'; nor 'if you wish to go to Heaven'—for both these matters were settled by His blood; but 'if ye love me.'" He suffered and died for my sins, and if I accept Him as my Savior and trust Him to save me, that saves me; and then I serve him for the rest. of my life because I love Him for the suffering and death for me and the salvation of Jlle, and not because I am afraid of losing".

Bow you look forward, hoping that you will be saved when you die, or are you already saved. Do you hope that you will be saved on Judgment Day, or are you already saved now.

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Therefore, no evolutionist believes that the Savior was born of a human mother without a human father - as was the Deity. The Savior taught that no one would be saved who did not believe in his deity, John I said it: trust that you will die in your sins, for if you do not believe that I am.

Professor Villiam Bateson of the University of Cambridge said that if Mendel's book had been published before Darwin wrote his books, they would never have been published. Herbert Spencer said (which is a fact) that without the inheritance of acquired characteristics there can be no evolution.

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And just then an old farmer came along and the boys decided they would arbitrate and let the old farmer decide. One of them said, "We caught this turtle about this time yesterday and cut off its head; cut it off; there lies the turtle and there lies the head; isn't it dead?" The other boy pushed his fishing rod into the side of the turtle and it bounced around; he asked, "Can a dead thing wiggle like that?" The confused old farmer scratched his head for a moment; then said, "I tell you how it is, boys; he is dead, but the foolish thing does not realize it!".

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I know that I know the white people of the South; they are thousands of miles ahead of what the Negroes think they are. My people are servants who work for the white people; and they imitate the white people's vices instead of their virtues (The Curse of the Negroes of the South.

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After the other ministers had rubbed him and puffed him up on his wonderful, up-to-date, progressive talk, my negro brother, Reverend '!\T, came. Said Gladden, "He has given us a wonderful paper on 'Salvation By Character.' I would like to ask him what he would preach if he were a pastor to a people who have no character?".

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Elder Pastor Olle said, "The Blue Mountain Evangelists have been the largest group of sound preachers of the Gospel and confident evangelists that has operated throughout the South." Another pastor, whose name is known throughout America, says: "Wherever I have found the work of one of the Blue Mountain Evangelists, it has been sound preaching, sound work, and great soul winnings."

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Then, too, it is difficult for a man to come to the light of the Gospel. I stood for three weeks, night after night, explaining the Gospel, the way of Salvation, and the people would get angry, or squirm and squirm, or sit in silence and watch, and then suddenly the light broke upon the people—that Salvation is alone and only in Christ who dies for our sins (1 Cor. 15:3), and that trusting Him with all our salvation, we are saved (Acts 16:31).

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How many times have I sat in my room at night and thought of the great work these men were doing, and bowed my head and thanked our heavenly Father for ever leading me to the organization of the Blue Mountain Evangelists. Our heavenly Father allowed me to touch them and lead them to see the greatest importance of always explaining the gospel and explaining the way of salvation, as pastors, evangelists and many now great leaders in our great work of cooperation.

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As an illustration: At a meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in \J\T aco, Texas, a great battle was brewing. McCurry of Virginia will preach in the First Methodist Church," one of the most powerful, most eloquent preachers in the South, a preacher, a congressman and superintendent of the great Peabody Foundation.

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He said that any man of any ability could know him; but he should have sense enough that men should not see that he knew it; that when he first went to preach, he preached only in popular words; and the people flocked to him in great numbers; that he saw Southern Baptists becoming liberalized; and because they had no liberal doctrines, they were not popular, they were neglected, and that it was ruining the Southern Baptists; that he also saw that the man who would try to stem the flow and defend the unpopular teachings of God's Word would be crucified. He said the price was too high and he decided not to go into it; but that night in a vision or dream he saw an angel standing on the top of a mountain; two roads leading from him up the mountain to the angel; one narrow, steep, rocky, thorny, but flat; the second, a beautiful boulevard, with beautiful flowers on each side; the road is well maintained, but winding, to Angel.

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And yet many of them, when the cold, cold winds of the dying hour mourn and whistle around their souls, will weep and weep and whimper and beg the mercy of God, whose Son they have insulted and trampled upon all their lives. . But about three-fifths of the world dies without everyone knowing they are dying; thus three-fifths of the professors of evolution and their deluded students will die without a chance in the hour of death.

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One blushes with shame at the thought of humanity, of these and others, especially authors of some "bestsellers". As someone recently well said, "I think we're entitled to a new deal in novels." A famous writer just said, "I am fed up with carnality, rapine, seduction, incest, lynching, murder, and general hell!" Amen.

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The claim that eternity refers to the quality of life rather than its duration is a fatal error. In the only instance on record, when the Savior leads a soul to be saved (and this instance is our pattern; for God has but one way), to the woman at the well, the Savior explains that the duration of life is essentially involved; referring to the water in the well (Jn 4:13-14), the Savior said: "Whoever drinks this water will be thirsty again (it will stop; drinking will have to be repeated);."

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The redeemed, the child of God, is saved from his sins by confessing to God the Father. The scripture cited to prove that God is the Father of the unredeemed has been horribly twisted and mutilated.

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But it is claimed that "Give me your heart" is Scripture, but like so much preaching and teaching today, it is perverted Scripture. A Mohammedan may say that—and all still believe that the Savior was not deity, and still do not believe that "Christ died for our sins," but that he was a mere man, and that his death has no power to salvation that it does not pay for our sins.

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You hear ignorant preachers at a parent's funeral praying for the bereaved and orphans: "Oh, Lord, temper the cold winds to the shorn lamb." Go out to Colorado and put a shorn lamb on the mountainside in the winter and see what happens. MARTIN, LIF:E STORY 115 savior lives, and finally he will rise on earth;.

I would rather see a soul, though a coward, slip through the dark shadows of the back stairs to heaven, than in haughty arrogance and bravura leave forever the stage of life in hell. But all these objections to substitution lose sight of the logical, psychological, and moral effect of accepting substitution.

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Therefore he is free from Hell; but unless he was born again, given a new nature by the Holy Spirit, he would not be happy in Heaven. Take the purest woman in America, who has never been born again, and put her in Heaven, and she would be utterly miserable.

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34 "That the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work." Then God's plan for saving people could not have started on December 31, 1796. 34 There is one God and one Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all.”

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34;mourning bench" to be prayed for, to be saved, then the jailer and his family are in hell today. 34;mourning bench" to be prayed for, to be saved; none for whom the Savior ever prayed is in Hell.

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But again it is objected, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins." If this is how a sinner is saved, why didn't Paul and Silas tell the jailer and his family. It is taken from the first letter of John; and that book was written to believers and not to unbelievers: "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God." Can it be applied.

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34;In your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures forever." Fullness of joy forever" will not mean sitting around on the smooth edge of a cloud playing a harp forever.

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A rich woman of southern society, dying in fashion (They do that), turns to her pastor, kneels by her bed and says, "Pastor, everything's right but one thing; do you think Betty, my negro cook, and I'll be in the same place in Heaven?" The pastor said, "Don't worry, my sister; you and Betty will never JJ1 be the same place beyond the grave", and they won't.

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MARTIN LEAVING HOME ON ONE· OF HIS EVANGELISTIC TOURS

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The college had no assets of any kind and was at the mercy of the Mortgagor. But finally, since no solution could be reached and the rough side of the law had to be taken into account, M.

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He believed that man is saved by grace through faith in Jesus, independent of any and all forms of human works. Therefore, "Martinism" is not an argument against the truth, but proof positive that the rejector of the truth had no defense.

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34;Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty." So if someone is thirsty, it can only mean one thing, and that is: he drank from some other well than Jesus. This book is still can always be obtained from the editor and publisher of the present volume, Evangelist A.

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He accepted invitations to churches, large or small, on a first-come, first-served basis. He was much sought after far and near. Later he accepted the pastorate of the Baptist Church in Gloucester, Mississippi, where he remained for many years, and from there held many meetings.

The mother and daughter wanted to know the truth and the messenger was at his best, readily told them the truth, which they gladly accepted there. Who can clearly explain why only one of the two men was crucified next to Christ.

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Tom Martin is 'on the ground' again. He was not a sissy, but he enjoyed the respect and appreciation of a full-fledged boy in all college activities. Early in his life he became a Christian and after that he never hesitated to ask and expect help from God in all that he undertook; he always sought divine guidance and he was much in prayer all his life.

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150 T. T. MARTIN, LIFE STORY . ville, Colorado where he gave himself to the utmost of his strength in preaching and teaching; learn only the scriptures.. and wonderful were the results that followed. This in turn led to a call to the first Baptist Church in that wicked mining town, Cripple Creek, Colorado; containing 60,000 people and 800 salons.

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Whiskey then, at the time of the organization of the church was not regarded as it is now. The presence of these whiskey men in the church in full and regular status made dr.

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All this was indeed a blow to the forces of the underworld and old St. Walnut. Therefore he believed in the verbal inspiration of the Bible and that the Holy Spirit would certainly use the Scriptures when and as they should.

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His habit was to keep an eye out for someone he could teach how to be saved. On the train out of St. Louis, carrying his father's body to Gloster, Mississippi, for burial, he was moved to speak to the negro porter - "Yes sar, boss, I want to be saved."

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Then we returned to my father's home in Mississippi, where we received a telegram call to the pastorate of the Baptist Church in Canyon, Texas. Ayers, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Vicksburg, Miss., when I was pastor there, said of this sermon: “That was the most excellent piece of true homiletic production and pulpit eloquence I think I ever heard.

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But that is not the truth; stop there and you will be twisted and sideways. Another picture: the driving power of the believer is the driving power of the child to the father.