The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-02
"Lord, Teach Us to Pray, Not
To Talk About Our Neighbors,
Begs Sunday in Stirring Appeal
The Only Time Some Pray in Calamity or When Death
Threatens But That is Cowardly, Says Rev. W. A. Sun
day. as He Points Out that Prayer Second Nature to
Devout Christian.

We abide in me" not gossip, not doc
tr1ne. If We abide in me-" not creed
IF you abide in me, the living. reign
ing Christ and my words abide in
you, then you who abide in me and
IN whom my words abide shall ask
what you will and 1t shall be done
because you abide in me and my
words abide in you"
See the inseparable connection, men
and women? = "If We abide in me-
it shall be done unto you"
In James ", I read, aye ask, and
receive not, because We ask amiss
lusts," or vice versa your measures
are your lusts.
Don't pray any man or woman to
come and simply be saved and let
the world go to the devil. God asks
you to come and be saved and then
go out and try to help save some
body else. That Is what God wants
you to do. He don't ask you to come
and be saved alone. If he asked me to
come and be simply saved, I'D go and
let you 90 to thunder, but he asked
me to be saved and then come and
try and help bring you to Christ. That
is the plan of salvation. So, I'VE ask,
and receive not, because we ask amiss,
that we may consume 1t upon your
Iusts."
Isaiah LIX: I, Behold, the Lords
hand is not shortened, that it cannot
save, neither his ear heavy, that it
cannot hear But your sins have sep
arated between you and your God, and
your Sins have hid his face from you,
that he will not hear YOU
! God Had Provided
Plan of Salvation.
Now, If you want to be saved and
God hasn't provided salvation, blame
| God, but when God has provided sal
walton and you are lost, blame your
self.
| If you had wanted food and God
/ hadn't provided 1t, blame the Lord,
but when God has provided 1t and
you are too lazy to eat 1t, blame
yourself! 1.-THE Lords hand is not
shortened that he cannot save, Meth
er is his ear heavy that he cannot
hear"
If you wanted to be saved and
| God couldn't save you, then the
Lord wouldn't have saved you, but
| if the Lord has provided salvation
and you are not saved, you are then
| to blame 1.-THE Lords hand is not
shortened that he cannot save, Meth
Yer is his ear heavy that he cannot
! hear, but your sins have separated
/ between you and your God, and your
sins have hid his face from you that
he will not hear"
So, therefore, the prayer you can
offer Is, "God be mercifuI to me, a
sinner" That IL the prayer for a
sinner to offer. Then pray for bless
lnqs and they will come to you, but
don't pray God to bless you when
you don't do your part. Then he
won't do it, and you will go out and
blame the Lord!
/ Here is another verse, "Son of man,
these men have set up their idols in
! their hearts"
Some people have the idol of pride,
the idol of intellectually, the idol OF
money, the idol of clothes. These
men have set up their idols In their
hearts. That is one reason why God
won't hear you, something else has got
the right-of-way instead of the Lord
Proverbs Whose stoppeth his ears
at the cry of the poor, he also shall
cry himself but shall not be heard.
Some People
Are Too Stiney.
Some people are too stingy. Give
: and it shall be given unto you, good
measure, pressed down, heaping up
} running over, shall be given TO you
All right that is true!
Mark, "And when you stand pray
ing, forgive, if We have ought against
any; that your Father also which Il
in heaven may forgive you your tres
passes"
That may be one reason why Coo
doesn't hear you, because of the I'm
forgiving spirit that you carry II
J your heart and in your life. Ant
prayer, my friends, brings US neal
: to God. 1t is a great privilege to say
: Lord, teach us to pray"
, A friend of mine was taken IL
l and he had to go to Chicago TO
an operation and asked me to come
!, out and preach during his absence
and did.
! Mr.. Alexander, who led the sing
} ing. had been leading the singing IL
a great big tent and he called a llttl'
' girl to the platform to sing. | don
|. think she was over eight, beautlfu
7 little girl, and l said to myself, no
= body can hear that little girl 90 Zee
t from the platform!"
But she sang with such sweetness
t and wonderfulness that 1t penetrate'
e that great tent and l saw scores o