The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-18
GOD REQUIRES WILLING
MIND, DESIRE TO KNOW
TRUTH CONFESSION
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do Gods will because you know ii
will make you decent and you don't
want to be decent In order to un-
derstand God you'd need to know all
mystery and prophecy and all his
tory and you'd have to explore with
your mind all time and space. In
other words, you'd have to be God
yourself. You'd have to be equal to
God in intelligence and wisdom; you
would have the greatest develop
ment of mind the world has ever
known, but in order to know God,
IN order to know Jesus Christ, all
you need to do is to surrender your
will to God
Surrender Will
To God.
You may not know whether two
and two makes seven or nine or one,
You may not have enough to buy a
government bond, but all you have to
do is to surrender your will to God.
/ might as well try and speak with
my feet l might as well try and
think with my finger. That chair
might as we'll try TO understand the
words l am talking over as for you
to find God by any other method,
plan or principle than your surren-
der to God.
Some fellows assert, "Well, 1 take
nothing on trust"
Well, you are a fool and they con
slider people weak-brained, overcred-
ulous souls that never use the reason
God gives them. Do you mean to
insult and insinuate, that that man
uses his wisdom
Tom Paine wrote a book, "The
Age of Reason" Do you want to in
sinuate that the people that didn't
believe in Jesus Christ used their
reason, while the people that did
were weak, sissified and boneheads:
Do you mean to tell me that the mar
that goes home drunk uses his rea
son? No, it is the fellow that goes
home sober Do you mean to tell me
that the man who damns Jesus Christ
uses his reason? No, the man thai
gets down on his knees and prays
to God, he uses his reason. He is
the reasonable man.
Explains Meaning
OF Faith.
So they consider people of faitE
WCdk-DTdinCQg ObCT-CTGQUiOuS SCuIS
stupid and never use their reason
But to the reasonable, faith, belief
the acceptance of the truth on the
authority of others is the basis of ouI
judgment in courts, our conclusionG
and our reasoning in every depart
ment of life.
have never been in Rome, but
can tell you of ST. Peter. can tel
IS al.
been in Athens but | can tell you o
Mars Hill. I've never been in Pari:
but can tell you of the tomb of Ma
poleon. I've never. been in Londo2
but ] can tell you all about Trafalga
Square; ! can tell you about Bucking
ham palace, about the London tower
about Windsor castle on the authori
ty of others. / did not live in the day
of Jesus Christ, but | accept the Cos
pei as genuine, authentic history o,
the testimony of others; believe
what they said.
l never saw Moses and he onl.
lived 500 years before Homer. Nv
never seen Alexander the Great, bu
/ believe on the authority of Others
The newspapers tell me they had
war in Europe. How did | know
have never heard gun free
They tell me the airship made raj
on England / haven't seen them, bu
believe on the authority of other:
] am fool not to believe it.
A fellow writes me and says hi
mother is dead How do | know sh
is dead? He said so in his letter.
believe on the authority of other
My doctor tells me / have pneumoni
or appendicitis. | believe it.
Chemists tell me that two gases
mixed together produce water. Ho
do | know it? History tells m
Julius Caesar was murdered. Ho
do / know? l believe on the autho
ity of others. oh, see.
Faith Is
Necessary.
And so you must believe on tt
authority of others or cease to lily
right now l don't give a rap no
skeptical you are, you are compelle
to believe on the authority of othel
or cease to live Then | am 70
to believe in Jesus Christ? No. sil
You are a fool because you don
The other Is, set the machine in m
ton. Start her up and see if it wi
make the egg crate filters, and if
does you've got to believe what II
fellow says. All right. set the M
Gll0e IN n1OliOu. DGSln W uO u
will of God and see if God won't {
for you what He said He would.
There are no activities in life apa
from your will. You are a doctor b
cause you will. you are lawyer b
cause you will. ycu are banker b
cause you will. No activity in Ii
is apart from our will. Your will
the base line of your character; 20
will is sovereign; your will is
preme.
The natural man is in rebellit
against God. The development
one faculty may make man a gel
us, may make him an intellectu;
musical or financial genius. The G
velopment of one faculty may ma,
man a genius, but il can never ma
a man a Christian.
Gives An
Incident.
was at a Chautauqua one time
the west. They had a merry-go-roul
and | stood and watched them.
came a girl with little, fifty, fluf
sort of a dress on and Gainesbo
hat. She had on lavender shoes a,
stockings and lavender ribbon arou
her and she was chewing gum a
She said: 81 think will take a ride