The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-28

ond Samuel, 18th chapter, 18th verse. !
Nathan and David" was Billy Sun |
days topic for Thursday night He
said
That is a part of one Of the sad
dest statements found upon the pages
of the Old Testament. 1 always read
it with two conflicting emotions. One
is a feeling of assurance and satisfac-
ton, in the fact that the Bible was in
spired by God, for If a man or COM
pany of men uninspired of God had
written or compiled the Bible, you
never would have been told the story
of mans sin, and shame and short
comings particularly if that man had
been prominent and king.
But when God inspires a man to
write it He puts it all in black and
white, the good and the bad. God
leaves none of it out. He does not
do that because He is anxious to pa
rade before the world the shortcom-
ings of human nature and our prone
ness to sin, but God tells you and me
what men and women did in other
ages of the worlds history and He
tells us that they repented and He
lOTSdNG lucIu lUClI 0lllo anu IAAeSS AN-O'
out hope for you and me, for what
God did for one, he will do for all
and what God did thousands of years
ago for the penitent sinner He will do
for the penitent sinner today
So God has made record of 1t in
order that we might take courage by
knowing that God would forgive our
sins if we did what they did, confess
our sins
If a man had been writing the Bible,
he never would have told us that
Noah got drunk when he came out OF
the ark. He never would have told US
that David committed adultry with
Bathsheba, and that Solomon had 400
more wives than old Brig Young,
and made him look like piker; of Pc
ter denying the oaths and curses; OF
Ananias and Sapphire holding back
part of the price, and of Judas betray
ing. But when God inspires He puts
it all in.
1t is a sad thing to tie your hopes to
some man or woman and be dlsap
pointed.
Many Woman
is Disappointed.
There is many wife amidst the
nerf1me of the orange blossoms and
in the wedding ceremony has plight
ed her fidelity to that man and has
turned and broken vows; or NJ
pledged his fidelity to her and prom
ised to be true as long as the SIX;
and the waves were blue, and Their
turned from those vows and broke
them as If they were made of spider
webs
There is many a mother, she has
brought forth her children in pair
and suffering, she has bu1lded hlgl
her hopes that when she was agec
and decrepit that young man by nj;
strong right arm might go out anG
earn the bread to keep her from
want. But he has turned and he ha
proyen himself an inconoclolast to he
PRAYERS and her hopes. And Their
is many girl that her mothe
brought forth in pain and tears ant
suffering: she has builded hlgh ne
hopes. She has gone down the I'M
of the wine room with a CODES
gang and she knows the way she l
living. the places she goes. 1t won
be long until the mute effects OF dis
sipation can no longer be hidden
The mother will be compelled I
withdraw from society and creep u
the back alley. my friends, and neN
er lift her eyes to look people /
the face. not for anything to tie you
hopes to some man or woman If the
prove a traitor or iconoclast 10 you
PRAYERS and to your tears.
Think of a man that could write
psalm like the 23rd psalm. Henr
Ward Beecher called that the nigh
Inoale psalm, for he said 1t seems tn
sweetest SONG in night time OF b
reavement, and of affliction, and
SUFFERING and that and kindred psalm
Of David seem to lift me so close
heaven that imagine can hear II
garment of the Son of God as he sWeI
by me by faith. The man that II
Bible tells me was man OF God
own heart.
ooh" said an old blantant, bluste
ing. whiskey-soaked infidel to n
out in Iowa one time, bill. if d
vid was a man after Gods own heal
am frank to tell you that | haver
yerv much respect for the choice
God"
David's Sin
Was Hagrant.
said to him. David was not
man after Gods heart, simply I
cause he sinned; but David was
man after Gods heart because VIII
he Sln0p0 NE NdS ucNSil anu liz
enough to tell God that he had 81
ned. and if you want to become
man after Gods heart get down
your knees and tell God you
an old hell-bound sinner and you
so close to the pit that you can sm
the sulphur fumes as they vomit frc
the funnel. and God will snatch y
from the brink, and then you will
come A man after Gods heart. If Y
are man enough to tell God that y
are an old sinner and that you wa
TO square with him. And that is W
David was man after Gods hea
not because he sinned, but when
sinned he was man enough to tell G
he was a sinner and so you VIII
come a man after Gods heart VIII
YOU do that"
Now it was a great sin for DaV
think it was a worse sin for Da'
than it might have been for any otf
man in the world. God looks at
mans surroundings. He takes II
account your opportunities and If y
have opportunities, and you have c
tonqht, that would condemn you.
is YOUR business to know what G
wants you to do. God takes into
count the chances men have. There
church bell ringing, there is