The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-12
EVERY SIN CARRIES IT'S own PUNISHMENT,
No ONE CAN ESCAPE RESULT OF EVIL ACT,
IT PAYS To Be GOOD, OPINES EVANGELIST

Thursday evening. He said:
BE sure your sins will find yor
out"
No man or woman can ever escap
from his or her sins. Every sin will
find you out, cali you to account, ant
make you pay. Sometime, If not in
stantly, sometime. No man or woman
ever committed sin that did no
have to pay in some way l am no
simply talking about dollars ant
cents. No man or woman ever com
mitted sin that wasn't loser by it
Why will you do thing when yol
know You are losing every time you
do it? Never has man or woman
committed sin, never will a man o.
woman commit a sin, that pays.
The most stupendous and ggan
tic folly that can possess any mar
Of woman Is to imagine that you gair
anything by doing wrong. You lose
In character, reputation, In every
thing that Is decent, that God ad
mires and men respect. You eair
nothing. Absolutely nothing.
l challenge any man or woman on
earth to show me where anybody has
ever gained anything by doing
wrong.
There may be those here tonight
who are contemplating committing
some sin. You may be here in or
der to allay suspicion that there is
In your mind or heart the slightest
inclination toward sin. You may be
here until a more convenient hour
presents itself. You may have
dropped in here because 1t is nicely
lighted, and comfortable and you'd
like to hear the speaking and sing
ing. If that is true, please remem-
Der the words of my text, BE sure
that sin will find you out"
Not Sure About
Some Things.
There are some things we are not
sure about. You are not sure you
will die. Jesus Christ may return
and some will go to heaven without
ever seeing death.
You are not sure that the sun will
rise tomorrow. 1t has risen regu-
larly sinceever God said, LET there
be light" and swung in the skies to
travel in its orbit, but there isn't
one word of authority in the Word
Of God that the sun will rise. We
are not sure that we will die, but
the Bible says, BE sure your sins
will find you out"
You needn't come here to find out
whether my text Is true. You needn't
read the Bible. You needn't read the
newspapers. Just go down to the
prisons, 90 down to the death houses,
GO through the hospitals, 90 through
FaAkla ,,oinIa1
through the asylums, go down through
the haunts of sin, see the wrecks and
the derelicts of humanity, Scared,
bruised, filthy, a stencil arising from
a decayed body because Of sin. Their
sins have found them out.
There is an inscription on a monu-
ment in Egypt, which says, The i'm
pious shall commit iniquity with
but not without re-
If you are bound to sin, you will
suffer, remember that. If you put
your hand. into the fire, you must
expect to he rned by doing it.
Therefore, WREN you sin, you must
expect the reward for that sin and
that's punishment, surely.
Now, why do you do the thing
that you positively, absolutely know
Is a detriment to you from every
and every angle that you
can. or men and women can argue?
Absolutely from every viewpoint. No
exception.
God Wants Us
To Be Christians.
Get UP and tell me why you have
got to plead to get man or woman
TO be a Christian; get up and tell
me why you have to plead with a
man or woman to get them to do
what God wants them to do. To be!
a Christian is what God wants you
to be, and when you are what God
wants you to be, you are the best
on earth. Then for any man or
woman to refuse to be what God
wants them to be - want you 10
get up and show me. Come on want
to see. =,
BE sure your sins will find you
out" You may escape the law, but
you cannot escape the consequences
of sin. You may escape the law OF
man, but you cannot escape the law
of God. That's an impossibility. And
there is no place where any man or
woman can hide away from God.
Sin Is the one thing and the only
thinq in this universe which can per-
manentIy damage a man, or eter-
naIIy damn him. Disappointment
NAV worry him and grief may sad
den him, adversely may bring hard
ships and hunger into his life. II,
may bring squaIor and want, but
sin is the one thing In this universe
that can permanently mark your
character with a mark that will last.
Be sure, be sure sin finds you our
in the execution of human laws.
The execution of all laws depends
upon human agents. If the mere
of law was all that was
necessary for its enforcement and
then we'd have no police,
sberiffs or penitentiaries. No law is |
automatic. Every law depends upon
men to make that law alive or dead. !
Law Is Rule
Of Majority.
Law is the majority rule. Law is
the basic principle of our govern |
ment All men are given equal pro- i
tection by the law. All men owe
aoual obedience and respect to the
aw If one man has a right to |
break some laws, then all men have
he same right to break the same
avs If one man has a right to
,rnak all laws, then all men have a
right to break all laws. And when