The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-26


that they had the means of escape
offered to them and they rejected it,
and that they are there through sheer
neglect. That is one Of the torrents
that comes to a man in the peniten-
sees where he did the things, that
brought him there and says, What
tool was to do the thing that
brought me here"
One of the great terrors of punish
ment, is to reflect on the fact that
he needn't to have been there if he
hadn't been fool. They told me
that from Sing Sing to ST Quentin,
and all over the country where have
spoken.
He'll Is A
Certainty.
He'll is certain. / am not giving
you my theories and speculations but
i God knows and God has told US and
one ounce of revelation is worth ten
tons of speculation. We are abso-
lutely certain that it is. You say
some scholarly ministers have gwen
up that belief Well, that may be
true. All right. That is always the
way, favor the argument with a fell
low who has weak cause and wants
to bolster it up with a strong asser-
ton. | will admit that, but they
didn't give up because that has new
er been taught them in the Bible.
They gave it up for sentimental rea-
sons. They gave it up for speculative
reasons, to be popular. No man
/ breathes. l don't care who he Is, lis
ten! That man don't breathe that
can go to the New Testament and
read it to find out what it teaches
in order to preach it to the people,
my friends, and then not stand up
and say, There is an eternal dam.
nation for the impenitent." Suppose
all the preachers had, that wouldn't
prove the Bible wrong. Facts are
facts, whether anybody believes it or
not. You don't change or alter them.
If you were familiar with the his
tory of the world and of the church
there is not an invention nor a dis.
covery. nor doctrine, which we
know to be absolutely true today
that weren't ridiculed and Knocked
when they were first advocated No;
a one! There was Bacon, he could
see by the laws, which were then in
effect, where the nation was drift
ing and he told the people. They
sneered and damned him and he had
to spend ten years in Jail because
he was courageous enough to tel
them. And today they take their hats
off to him. He was right
GaIiiIeo Was
Right.
Gallileo-he said the world moves
and on his knees he was compelled
to retract his statement by the pro
fessors of his day and the scholar.
who didn't believe him. On his knee!
they forced him down and as he
arose he said, ct moves notwith
standing" All right, who was right
Gallileo, or the people that condemn
ed him?
And DR.. Jenner - he said, al cal
cure smallpox.
Nlnety-eieht people out Of a hun
: dred used to die from smallpox. To
| day the death rate is only four. Or
Jenner discovered the power and TIL
! value of incubation.
: They expelled Dr. Jenner. w,
take our hats off to him. There ism
a thing today, a discovery since. o
invention since, to be compared witt
it.
. Didn't they try and kill Martin
Luther, because he said that the Jew
should be saved by faith and the,
were saved by faith and not b,
works? They would have killed hin
if it hadn't been for somebody hid
ing him in the black forest. Martin
? Luther was right.
Didn't they ridicule Wesley, whe,
he got up and preached that ma,
!: and if he doesn't put his will on tn
has something to do to be saved
! side of God, although he is omnipc
tent, God can't save a man agains
his free will Hats off to John We:
ley. They damned him because b
preached that. He was right, a.
through.
DisbeIieVed
Noah's Warning.
And Noah said. "God is going t
i destroy this world with a flood"
j They said, What, he will not d
: anything of the kind"
f And he pounded for a hundre
!, and twenty years on that old arl
but God turned the hose on them jus
t the same.
S Jesus walked down the streets c
$ Jerusalem. He looked at the cit
s and said, Not one stone will stan
+ on top of another"
9 They said, What is that?".
Y They hurled stones at him and spa
= upon him. Forty years after he u
J tered those words the Rehoboa1
q army entered Jerusalem and levelle
y its walls to the ground. Who wa
right?
| have the words of Jesus, "The
shall he say also unto them on tn
y left hand. Depart from me, we curset
y into everlasting fire, prepared for til
Q devils and his angels"
l have the words of Paul, "And
. you who are troubled rest with u
, when the Lord Jesus shall be revea
> ed from heaven with his mighty an
= els, in flaming fire taking vengenc
: on them that know not God, and tn:
q obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesu
4 Christ. Who shall be punished wit
= everlasting destruction from the pre-
- ence Of the Lord, and from the glor
:. Of his power"
Quotes From
ST. Peter.
l have the words of Peter, For
+, God spared not the angels that si
- ned, but cast them down to hell, an
" delivered them into chains of dar
4 ness, to be reserved unto judgment