The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-11-14
HALF THE PEOPLE
OF RICHMOND ARE
DEAD, MANY SAYS
Physically They Are Moving
Around and Existing, but
Spiritually, He Says, They
Are Not Living.


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character Of Christ, the combination
Of righteousness and innocence. HIS
knowledge Of men. His knowledge OF
sin and His knowledge Of all the evil
the world contained. And then. he
seid. he believed because OF the
claim that Jesus made directly-the
promises, the Invitations. the warn
ings and the commandments Of Jesus.
III Christ were not the Son OF God
then he was . blasphemer. a. the
Jews said He was. Either He was
what He said or He was perjurer. 1t
10 convincing that all through His
life He lived up to His claim. where
% men who make claims to being
equal to Christ makes fools Of them
selves" Then he believes because Of
the witness Of the apostles. Every
time you look at your calendar the
apostles make their case. for whatever
the day of the week or month It reads
"A. D."-the year OF our Lord. Then
he believes because OF those who died
for Christ. who were not afraid OF the
mob, or the wild beasts or black death
the martyrs to the faith. The evan
gelist said he believes also because Of
the written and oral evidence and be-
cause Of his personal experience. OF
which he told In q most impressive
way. He spoke Of the opposition on
the part Of some creeds, which he de-
nominated 40 silly. characterizing
much Of this opposition 40 coming
from "some poor little. silly fool who
never gave ave cents worth Of sacri.
nee and who 10 living . worthless
Ilfe."
The Evening Services.
At the evening service Evangelist
Many gave II a. his opinion that half
Of the people Of Richmond are dead.
They are moving around and existing
but spiritually they are dead. His
theme WAs care you alive or merely
sxisting?" and he showed what It
really means to be alive and how one
can know that he 10 alive. The last
words Of Noses to the Children Of
Israel. Therefore choose life that
thou and thy seed may nve." were not
delivered In . cemetery. said the evan.
selist. but TO the living. Knowledge
Of whether you are really alive de-
ponds ON what you are alive to. Ono
test Of whether you are alive or not
10 q willingness to believe the truth
90 revealed In the scriptures and .
second test II . growing tendency TO
cover up sin. But there are three peo-
PIE you cannot dsceive-yourself. your
nsishbor and God. There 10 NO such
thing % . hidden life Of sin. The
Bible says that he that covereth his
Gin shall not prosper. He may get
money, but there win be worm In his
heart all his life. Why does God want
men TO forsake stint Because He said.
sHe that sinneth against me wrongs
his own SOUL. Disbelief 10 the greatest
ain. One really begins to live when
he casts himself on Christ and He
then gives them power to become the
children Of God. You don't have to
plead with God TO forgive sins. but
merely hook mp 70 Him with heart
that 10 hungry. Time makes no DIFF.
ference with God. whether your sin 10
Of IN hour or Of 1fty years.
AZ 70 Russlan Dancers.
Some ono had called Mr.. Mahy's at.
teution' to an article In reference to
the conduct OF church people and the
/. Russian dancers that were recently in
Richmond. He believes that there ID
Something more beautiful than the
toes Of . Russian dancer and that ID
the toll worn fingers Of mother. and
Il has been his observation that the
most ardent admirers Of the dancing
toes are not the most ardent admir-.
ers q mothers faithful fingers.
Mr.. Manly deplored the tendency OF
the American public to shower its
money on the things that are Of NO
real value-monkey shows for In
stance-and to DO stingy In the work
OF the church. There are those who
are ready to complain II twenty cents
10 spent In the cause Of Christ. He
told Of . city In which he worked In
which $1,000 day was spent for II
Quor and amusements. and where
there Was complaint because It wal
proposed to spend $4,000 In one
month In the work Of the church.
Services viii BE- held each evening
this week at 1880 o'clock. Supple
mentary services were held Sunday
evening at the Second and Trinity
Lutheran churches.
Several thousand cards Of persona
Invitation viii be distributed over the
city this week.