The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-12-18
Ministers
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conveniences and comforts in the
house of God must be of the very
best. Now this man, though he was
a Pharlsee, went to pray, and he did
pray. To be sure we do not want
you to make his prayer your model.
Sd. There [ want you to notice in
the third place another good quality
in this man. He says: | fast twice
in the week. He did more than the
law required. According to the law
he was only to fast once in the week,
and he did it twice. Was not that
commendable. Friend, how much do
you fast, of how much d. you deny
yourself in order 10 lshow your love
to God and man. Jesus says: He
that will not deny himself, and take
up his cross and follow me, is not
| worthy of me. That is what fasting
! means for us. 1t does not mean not
to eat of certain kinds of MEATH or
der that we may eat of something
, else the more, it means life of self
denial every day of our life, in order
. to show that we are followers of
Jesus Christ.
4th. Then notice one more most
excellent quality in this man. | give
tithes Of all that I possess. He did
not come empty handed into the tenn
pie. Even here he did more than the
law required. Why it seems to me
that this mans name ought to be
changed, instead of calling him a
, Pharisee, he ought to be called
saint. Why, think Of it, he gave not
, only the tenth of his income, but he
gave the tenth of all that he pos
sessed. If we had this kind of
church members in Richmond, or any
where else, the financial problems of
the church of Jeseus Christ would be
solved. The money question would
never be mentioned. All we would
need to do would be to give the peo-
pie an opportunity to bring from
their Lords treasury into Gods
house, and it would be the most joy
full thing that they could do in God 5
service Insted Of grumbling and
fault finding. as is now so much the
case. they would rejoice in the priv
ilege to bring an offering for God s
cause, whether for the work at home
or abroad. [ am quite sure that AL
eNander the coppersmith, who has
been doing much harm, would be
h@nished from the work of the
church. md the silver and goldsmith
would take his place Our churches
are living on too Iowa phn. on the
matter of giving. The giving of the
tenth Is the lowest amount spoken of
, IN tie Scriptures, and yet there are
thousands of so called christians who
come far short Of this amount. The
Pharisee gave one tenth of all that
he possessed. The church must rise
higher on this point, if she will do
her God given work in the saving of
the world. We have looked upon this
Pharlsee, and examined his good
qualities. Now if these qualities
would be an index Or proof of true
piety, than this Pharisee, and all that
belong to this class, could not be ex-
celled. And yet We find some things
radically wrong in this man, and tie
class of people he represents. Let us
look at him again from another stand
point, for we have not seen the re i
man; we have only looked on lie
outward shell. 1t is not. all gold thar
glitters. What is wrong with this
man.
He seems to look so well. so healthy
he has such a good appearance, that
no one who looks upon him wo i
think that anything was the ma. er
with him. But you just put your ,.,r
to his heart, and YOU will find what is
wrong with him. The mans heart
is not right He has heart disease.
Well, to say the least, that is a ve.y
! dangerous and treacherous disease.
While We are all mortals and never
know what a day may bring forth.
Yet when person has heart trouble.
he never knows what the next mo-
! ment may have in store for him. This
Pharisee was sorely troubled with
this disease. Let us diagnose his case