The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1914-01-29

the tenth chapter of Mark, seven
teenht to twenty-fourth verse
Does Not Abuse Audience.
This Scripture lesson is about the
rich young ruler. The lesson is not
what you would expect. | love to read
about good folks, and when l want to
read about them, l read about this
young man. 1t has some frightful
warnings. l am going to try to ap-
ply them, but you have been preached
at and too for five weeks, and you
don't need much application. Here is
TINS tabernacle and seventeen
churches and preachers wearing their
life away, Honeywell preaching his
head off to get you to Jesus Christ. l
am not here to abuse you, but am
here to love you, and if these warnings
will fit you and l can help you, l will
be very happy man.
First warning to the rich man
This man went away sorrowful. The
Bible doesn't speak against riches as
such. Only the use and abuse of
them. l would like to have enough
money to run my own car, buy my
own gasoline and be my own "chif-
fonier.' l have often felt that l would
like to take a chance at being rich.
know what / would do with most of
1t. | think | would open missions
all over the land. If l had it, maybe
| wouldn't, and maybe that is the
reason the Lord doesn't give me any
| am not out abusing the rich men.
| couldn't run my work without them.
1t is the abuse that is being talked
about. Have you ever noticed that
the story doesn't mention amounts?
A man who makes $12 a week and
let's his business interfere with his
religion comes under the same head
as if he made $12,000,000. Let me
say that if anything in this world
keeps you away from Christ, crooked
business or anything else, you are the
man | want.
Where Morality Fails.
There is another class of people
that is warned here: a class we meet
as mission men and ministers. The
moral man The man that is moral
says, 1 am willing to take my
chances. l am a man that is clean.
| don't do certain things. | am a
man that pays my debts. l educate
my children, vote the right ticket,
and give my money to good institu-
tons Why take a chance when God
has given you a chance? Morality
uoeSH save. IL you tI DdHhluS Oh
morality, you are making a mis-
take, and I will prove it to you.
Thou knowest the commandments,
Do not kill Say, 1 never killed a
man in my life, but he that hateth
his brother is a murderer
"Do not commit adultery. Say
never looked upon woman to lust
after her. And Jesus beholding him
loved him. because he told the truth
Men of Richmond, get alongside of
him. If you can stand up with him,
l am almost afraid you are liar,
but l don't say you are.
''Do not steal Say, I never took
a thing that didn't belong to me. |
have never taken anything, not even a
remark that Mr. Honeywell made. Can
you measure up alongside of this fel-
low?
do not bear false witness Say,
I never said an untruthful word about
a soul in my life. l saw your hat
blow off, old top. Moral men, are
you standing up yet?
"'Defraud not Say, l never de-
frouded person in my life. l never
beat a man out of a cent or out of
the affections of his wife. If you are
still standing up. listen to this:
Honor thy father and mother My
mother and father never carried a pail
of water since l was big enough to
carry it. Never stay up nights wait
ing for me; | was always in ahead
of them. If there was a piece of meat
left on the plate, | always insisted
upon mothers taking it. Mr.. Moral
Man, measure up.
"Best Man" is Lost.
Il don't believe there is a man in
iob hot
say, That is my picture And when
you measure up. you will have to ad
nit at once that he is a better man
than you are. You are a good man,
and | live you for telling the truth,
yet you lack one thing. | don't intend
to condemn him or send him to hell,
because God didn't. But you never
find that he came back That man is
lost in his morality, and he is the best
man that ever went to hell. That is
the best man that ever lived that |
know anything about, except the Son
of God himself, and his morality didn't
save him any more than your moral
ity will save you. You moral man,
the righteous man, the man that
walks uprightly and refuses to recog-
ni2e Jesus Christ is doing more harm
in Richmond today than any of the
drunken men or licentiOus men. Many
of you lack but one thing, and that
thing is life. In spite of your moral
ity you are dead. You must be born
again
The man that I want to warm now
is the man that is SO near the King
dom of God but was lost This man
saw Jesus and fell at His feet and
looked up in that matchless face. /
can just see the look that Jesus gave
him. He was so near to God that
morning that he could just have said
the word and been in. But he turned