The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-04

"WeIl," Myers said, "Your college
| professor that's been talking to
them for years has never brought
! any of them into church, and
/ don't know whether the barber
could do any worse than that" He
said, "You give him a chance. |
/ will take the responsibility"
They turned that class of 30-odd |
/ young men over to that barber and /
/ in two months he'd brought every |
one of them into the church on con-
4 fession of their faith in Jesus /
4 Christ
"He that winneth souls is WISE"
that animal and shed it's blood in
sacrifice TO an idol; then they put the
meat on sale in the butchershop and
Paul went and bought piece of the
flesh of the animal whose blood had
been shed in sacrifice to the idol,
this fellow used to worship, and he
said TO paul:
why, you can't do that They've
shed the blood of that animal and
sacrificed it to this idol"
Paul said, well, that doesn't hurt
the meat"
But the fellow said, at hurts me. I
couldn't buy piece of meat of an ami
NAL that l knew had its blood shed in
sacrifice to an idol
And Paul said, "All right if my
buying that piece of meat to eat for
myself is going to hurt you and make
it harder for you TO be Christian
| then | will eat no meat while the
worlds stands, if it makes my brother
to offend"
! Paul said he wouldn't do it; he
wouldn't eat that piece of meat of the
| animal whose blood had been shed on
| that idol. But can see Paul slam that
piece down and say, IF my eating
i makes my brother to offend, then
will eat no meat while the stands.
And SO. if you'd stop to think OF
what effect your conduct has on some
! body else that's looking to you fol
| an example and trying to see Jesus in
you, l want to tell you that yor
| change your lives and there wouldn't
be so much of this cussedness going
/ on today by lot of church members
Look at the difference-half of the
| church members have consciences
/ They know the way We have the
ability to do it whether the doing hurts
somebody or not: they do it because
they want to do it. All right. you see
where you'll land when you get
| through. too.
Now l always found that one thai
isn't doing personal work as rule
has some sin in his life About the
last thing the devil let's you do is Il
speak to somebody about being {
Christian. He lets you attend prayer
meetings and lectures on the Bible
and give you your tenth, and pin OF
badge, and pass a collection plate, anC
lets you do almost anything but per
! sonal work, sing in choir; If you
| want to be a deacon or elder commit
teeman. or vestryman, anything ex
cept talking to somebody about Jesu!
Christ.
Good Christians Active
In Work.
! And | don't believe you're a sane
and hea!ty Christian unless you are
trying to win somebody to God
About the last thing that most peopl,
give to God is their time and you
have got to live straight if you wan
to have any power for God. When yol
stop winning souls for God, you dry
up, as a Christian. That's the reason
we have so many spiritual nummIes
So, go right at it. Don't be everIast
ingIy getting busy to do something
but go right to work with what yol
have. God will bless you if you will
use what you have.
Surprising I'd go through this audi
ence this afternoon or tonight AM
say. who is wiser
! oh, you'd say, THE millionaire cap
tain of industry"
Who is wise"?"
| oh, his honor, the Governor
Who is wise?"
"Oh, his honor, the mayor"
Who is wise?"
"Oh. the judge of the Suprem
J, Court"
Who is wise?"
"Oh, the general"
!, WHO is wise?"
: oh, the inventor
, I'd get great variety of answer
to my question.
| But supposing I say to God, VIVA
: do you think about it-who is wise?
i The Lord says, HE that winnetl
. souls is wise
You remember the rich man VIII
strolled out one day and looked at hi
fields. He said my barns and grar
!, cries are full; I have enough to las
for next year. and no place to put al
of it, This will | do; / will pull dow
my barns and build greater and | wi
t say to my soul, Take thine ease, eat
! drink and be merry"
And the Lord said, Thou fool thi
: night thy soul shall be required G
2 thee
| Men Who Do Are
j Remembered.
: Then who's to get thee? The ma
that simply lives for honor, and tn
r woman who simply lives for pleasur,
/ and the person who simply lives IN
/ education-thou fool, thou fool
IL Who are the bright stars finally
. Get up and tell me the name of tn
man that financed the Civil war fc
: the United States government. The
blaze for little while, but thew al
+ forgotten. Tell me the name of tbs
man. There are not five people in tn
audience that can tell me the name
that man. Jay Cooke of Philadelpbj
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