The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-23

verses of scripture and have given
us their reason for not believing the
Bible because of the fact that the
statements therein contained are in
opposition to their ideas and opinions.
I think it is pitable! When God says
a thing, you can't improve on it. You
might as well walk out with a brush.
and a pot of paint and ladder and
lean it up against rock, the flowers
all in bloom. the grass is green, all ma
ture clapping its hands and then paint
on the rock, This is Spring." AS
though you could improve over Sthe
flowers and the trees and the grass.
They say, why. 1t would be
physiological impossibility for any
I body to sweat blood and still live
3 Yet Dr. Osler n his Modern Medi
cine, Volume 4 page 6s5, give in
stances where men and women have
been in such mental agony that
they've sweat blood and still lived
DR.. Weitzel was located in Boston.
He said he knew of a father who for
eight YEARS had heard nothing from
his son and one morning hi received
a telegram that the boy had been ar
rested and tried and convicted and
sentenced to be executed and they
were sending this message to learn
from the father what disposition he'd
like to have made of the body after
the execution, and the agony was so
intense that the blood oozed through
the pores, proving that even in our
day a man or woman would be placed
in such a mental condition that they
would sweat blood, thus proving that
that verse in the Scriptures is not
an impossibility And there are sew
eral lessons that l learn from this,
this morning.
What Constitutes
An American.
"And being in an agony, he prayed
more earnestly, and his sweat was
as It were great drops of blood fall
ing down to the ground"
First. it must have been new sight
for the angels. They had beheld
many wonderful things, they had
seen their brethren angels, who re-
belled, hurled over the battlements
of glory. Angels are angels only be-
cause they do the will of God and
when they cease to do the will Of
God, they become devils. The devils
were once angels and the reason they
are not angels now is because they re-
belled against the will of God. When
you refuse to do the will of God you
are sinner, you are saint because
J YOU will do the will of God.
Submit To The Will
OF The Government.
You are an American when you
submit to the will of the government.
When you refuse, you are a traitor.
1t must have been a new sight for
the angels. They had seen Sodom
and Gomorrah destroyed with the fire
because Of their transgressions: they
had seen the old world destroyed
with a flood because of mans iniqul,
ty and they had seen the destroying
angel with drawn sword go through
the camp of the Assyrians and stay
$4,000 of them; they had seen God
beat back the waters of the Red Sea
and they had beheld the first born
in every Egyptian home slain; but
they had never before beheld the Son
of God sweating blood.
learn that the divine cup is bit
ter cup, whether the fallen angels
drink in their eternal imprisonment
or whether fallen man drinks the bit
ter curse of God upon him, or whether
the unfallen Christ drinks it. Christ
said, Is there no other way whereby
we can save this sincursed world?"
Churches Should
Follow Example.
The Father said, Absolutely none
other way, my son. You have to &C
on the cross and die,
And Jesus said, Not my will but
thine be done"
When the churches say that with
their lives as we'll as their lips they
will overthrow the forces of evil thai
have been beating against the cause
of God and his truth. God doesn't
hate the sinners but he does hate
their sins.
u II was terrific exhibition - Jesus
Christ who had never sinned, staining
his clothes with blood, not for any
thing He had done but because Of tht
mental agony He was in, knowing
what punishment was going to fai
on those who were rejecting Him anc
His offer of mercy 1t wasn't bodily
pain that Jesus suffered. Jesus Was
no coward If He had been afraic
of suffering martyrdom and the pair
that would have been inflicted by Hi'
death on the cross, He wouldn't havI
been as brave as multitudes who have
oone to the cross and have burned a
the stake.
Don't ever dream of entering heav
en- without first of all you have beer
regenerated by faith in Jesus Christ
| think the universe sees God in /;
new light I think the angels have
too. What joy must have swep
through the hearts of the angels wht
didn't join in that rebellion but wht
stood and fought against the devil
And If | ever have the least shadow
of a doubt about the existence of a,
eternal hell it will all vanish wheI
/ see Jesus going into the garden
OF Gethsemane sweating drops o
blood
Devils Knew
Christ's Purpose.
Therefore, if the devils in hell eve
had any idea that there ever woult
come a time when they would b,
emancipated from their eternal i'm
prisonment, it all vanished when Je
a sus Christ vent into the garden, TO
they know that He was there pray
ing and sweating drops of blood be
cause of the sins that they hat
brought to humanity through thei