The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-20

world to come"
His tabernacle shall He hide me- This
poor man cried to the Lord, and He
heard him and delivered him out Of
all his troubles"
"The Lord redeemeth the soul of
His servant"
''The Lord is a stronghold in the
day of trouble
Let not your hearts be troubled"
''If you believe in God, believe also
IN me-"
Cast your burden upon the Lord,
He shall sustain thee"
He will not suffer the righteous to
be moved"
| A captain had taken his little child
with him on trip across the Aa-
/ lantic, and she was passing through
/ her first experience in storm at sea-
| She said as she was crying and
trembling with fear, Where is papa"
They said, "He is up on deck
watching the storm"
"Oh, goodby, then l guess 1 will 90
to bed!"
| So, remember, that when the storm
is beating, God is standing on the
brink Of the old Gospel ship, and
when He says, "Peace, be STILL" the
waves will COO like a baby Juggling
at his mothers breast. He Is keep
Ing watch over His own. Exceed
Ing great and precious promises"
/ might go on, but ! won't, show
ing you the rich inheritance to the,
man or the woman who will def1
nitely appropriate by faith these
promises, make them your own, claim
them, live by them.
Il
inherit the land of Canaan by step
ping on the land, so we by taking
the promises and putting them to the
test. And you cannot pray expect
ing to be heard unless you 90 plead
ing God to fulfill something that He
has promised. That is the wayl
I know when good many people
pray, they don't expect anything
from God, they don't rest their faith
on anything that God has said. SO
when you pray, start out and coax
some verses Of scripture, put them
down for a foundation, then put on
top Of that what you have got to say,
then capsheaf IL with some Of the,
Lords and single it with promise,
and the devil won't be able to tear,
through the foundation.
4 The Lord gives US promises by the,
: thousands. II he hadn't done II, I
u wouldn't be able to live by faith,
neither would you. These are scat
tered through the Bible from Genesis
to Revelation.
, And yet, why have we got so much
milk and cider chalk and vinegar,
! good Lord, good devil, two by four,
: pliable. plastic lickspittle three carat
sort of religion? l will tell you. We
don't take God at His word and put
God to the test For that reason.
every son of Jacob that went out OF
l Egypt didn't get a farm in Canaan,
} because they wouldn't go in by faith
! and plant their feet on it. God had
/ farm for every one of them. but
they wouldn't do it, so they didn'
: have it.
God has a blessing for you. So n
: something has come into your life
that is keeping the blessing away, do
what God tells you and the benedic-
Y ton shall be yours.
When you look at the giants Of dit
j ficulty, remembering that you have a
r God bigger than the devil. Remember
e that He that is for you is greater
than he that is against you. So don't
a ever worry about it.
: An aunt gave young lady book
e and she couldn't become interested in
{ it at all She made several ineffect.
ual attempts to do so, but failed with
q every attempt. Finally she used to
5 evade her aunt because she'd ask her
n If she read the book, when she hadn't
t Some time ran by. when a bright
|. clean-cut looking fellow came out
d from the west like Lochinvar and she
|. became infatuated with him She
) found that his name was the same as
I the author of this book in which she
y couldn't become interested. One night
o she asked him if he ever wrote a
y book. He said, Yes. It was this
book that her aunt had given her.
She could hardly wait until he'd
gone. After he'd left, she ran and
o grabbed the book and never stopped
IS until she finished it at O'Clock In
d the morning Same book, same girl
g but she fell in love with the author
Y so she fell in love with his works.
You get to know God and the Bible
1t will be new book to you If It u
dull and dead and has no attraction
d. just you get in love with the author
lie see how you will love His works. Tn
Of IT, sHx.