The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-20
World Full of Windjammers;
Billy Condemns Self-satistied
Pharisees Lnfesting Churches
Sham Religion Menace to Church, Declares Evangelist
Pharisees Spread Their Views Everywhere Mans Duty
Is to Help Downfaen Regardless of Cause Of Fall Lord
Approves Work of Righteous and Humble Men.

like that and get anything from God
you have my best wishes, but if
should attempt it, I'd feel like David
when he went out to fight old King
Saul with his armor on. He felt like
fellow with a hand-me-down suit,
four sizes too big, but when he took
it off and walked down to the brook,
picked up five stones, he made the
giant of Gath bite the dust, so you
fight the devil with your mannerisms,
! will fight him the best ! know how
with mine and we will both unite and
give him the best run for his money
we know how"
A preacher out in Iowa. he came
to me and said, bill, why don't you
do the way | do?"
| said, "If | did | wouldn't be worth
any more than you are"
Now notice what he said 81 thank
thee. God, l am not as other men
are"
You Must Be
Consistent Christian.
Gratitude to God is never coupled
with a defamation of his creatures.
You can't thank God with one breath
and turn around and assassinate your
neighbor with the next; You can't
thank God with one breath and lie
about somebody the next; you can't
put that over on God,-no sir! Graft
! tude to God is never coupled with 4
defamation of his creatures.
He thinks he is righteous. He puts
! himself in a class here, puts all the
| rest in class by themselves, and
says, 81 thank you, God, l am not as
other men are
! Now he, lied at the very begin
ming of his prayer. Mind you, Jesus
! had two purposes in view: First, to
show some who think they are righ-
teouS that they are not; second, to
show why the prayers of some are
answered and others are not.
This man, lied at the beginning of
[ his prayer If you will read the first
seventeen chapters of Luke. BY the
way, you ought to know the contents
of the first seventeen chapters before
you attempt to find out what's in the
eiehteenth-that's the way you do
with a novel, | suppose, but that's the
way you don't do with the Bible and
/ if you read the novel in the same slip
shod, happy-go-lucky, good-lord-good-
devil, milk, cider chalk and vinegar
way you do the Bible, you'd know no
more about the novel than you do
! about the Bible.
| So if you will read the first seven
teen chapters of Luke you will find
that the Pharisees hated everybody
Oh, they despised the Greeks: they
hated the Romans; they despised
John the Baptist and above every
body they despised Jesus Christ. He
told that bunch of ecclesiastical crooks
where to head in. Jesus Christ proved
himself an inconoclast
A man said to me, Weren't the
Pharisees Jealous for the law?'
Eyes"
Didn't they stone offenders against
the moral law?''
! Eyes"
well why was Jesus at such cross
purposes with the Pharisees until in
our day some people go so far as Il
take the side of the Pharisees against
Jesus in the QUARREL"
pharisees Taught
Jewish Tradition.
Why did they? | will tell you
Jesus said to them, Look here
You are teaching these people tradi
: tons instead of commandments"
And when Jesus came into the
: world, he did not fulfill their tradi
tons; he did fulfill the command
ments of God. And therefore, the,