The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1922-04-21


Hamilton Mabie said: Most of our
criticism of others Is idle, cruel, un-
Just, because 1t does not take into ac-
count the obstacles they have over
coms nor the progress they have ac-
complished nor the distance they have
journeyed."
When you see man or woman. II
they are not as good as you'd like
to have them, II you'd think how
hard they worked to get to be as good
as they are, you'd stop your darned
fault-finding. You bet your boots!
If it has taken you thirty years as a
Christian to reach the position you
occupy and somebody else has only
been at it for a week or a month, you
can't expect them to know as much
as you.
When baby is born, you don't slap
+. 1t because it doesn't know as much
as you, when you are its mother. No.
give 1t twenty or thirty years trial
and it will get along. it will be all
right.
Now at last, here is my sermon.
1t takes two minutes for my sermon.
Jesus, when He got done preaching
in Jerusalem, would hurry away, to the
home Of Martha, Mary and Lazarus.
Nobody else cared a rap about Him.
Nobody else seemed to open their
hor1es but Martha, Mary and Lazarus.
Jesus Never Stopped
In His Work.
Jesus would work up here, fight the
Pharisees, tell them he was the Son
of God, cast out devils, raise the dead
do that all day, and then He would
walk way down there. Then in the
morning He'd get up early and start
back to Jerusalem, and the Pharisees
would tag Him around and hang
around when He came out in the
morning.
He walked through a cornfield one
Sabbath day and plucked ears of corr
and ate them-they wouldn't give Hin
anything to eat-and they said, "Oh
he plucked corn on the Sabbath"
l suppose if Jesus would come Il
this city and go around to the home
of some folks who are members of the
church, they might give Him a hand
/: . out at the back door and tell Him Il
dig something out Of the garbage can
That's the way they treated Hin
when He was on earth. Martha, Mar,
and Lazarus were the only ones tina
| ever gave Him anything.
So He went down there and H,
5 went way over here to preach. Will,
! He was gone, Lazarus took sick ant
the girls said, You go tell Him t
come up here. He whom He love
! is sick"
And this messenger hiked away owe
F. /. here and said to Jesus, HE whom yo
| love is sick"
He stayed there two days after H
L heard about him, and in the INTERN
l ! Lazarus died Then Jesus started t
I come up to Bethlehem to the home c
; Martha and Mary and Lazarus. Whe
d Martha and Mary heard that He wa
/ coming, Martha jumped up and ra
d out to meet Him. Mary sat still
e the house.
Q Martha Fears Master
! Arrived Too Late.
Martha rushed out mere and sh
said, "Oh, Jesus, you are too lat
q He is dead If you had been here, b
{ wouldn't have died"
L "Oh," Jesus said, don't you worr
n about that, Martha. 1 am the Resu
e rection and the Life. He that livet
9 and believeth in me, though he weI
n Mary?"
She is back home"
II "Well, didn't she hear l was cor
=, ing?"
d Eyes"
d "Well, you go tell her want her
Poor Martha had to be the goa
and back she went. She rushed
the house and said to Mary, "Tf
Master is come and calleth for thee
Mary jumped up.
q Listen: Jesus was not yet in Il
= town. but at the place where Martt
% met him.
I think Jesus said. Look her
S. Martha, if Mary doesn't care anythir
o. about this, / am not going. to bottle
n If she doesn't want her brother aliv
n he can stay in the grave. She heal
n was coming"
o. I don't believe that Jesus wou
t. ever have entered the town or crosse
n the threshold if Mary hadn't come o.
too. He had not yet come into Il
" town, but was at the place whe
v Martha met Him, so when Martha al
ID Mary came out. He went in.
You get the entire family of the I
h deemed. you Presbyterians and Met
s. odists and Baptists and Quakers al
e, Lutherans and all of you go out
In meet Jesus Christ and you will s.
!: what will happen to the community
Of take 1t from me. You will see VIII
g, people will be saved-your crowd al
at your clique.
fe And they came with Jesus al
,e Jesus said. Where have you laid hil
girls ?" Where is he?"
They said, Come on and see.'
So they walked up and said, ''He
in there, right there in the sepulchre
= Stone on Grave
- Is Rolled Away.
ie Jesus said, "Take the stone ava
girls"
y They stopped down and rolled
~ ~ away. and they could see LaZar
!, lying in there dead and they col
~ menced to boo-hoo Jesus said. 'Wh
y do you cry for?" just to show His syl
III pathy for them.
He could speak and make that de;
" man jump into life, but He stood the
y blubbering like a baby, great, bi
1ss hearted Jesus.
u u And He stood there and He locke
- Mind you now, this gang was rig
~ here by Him. this bunch of knockel
y Jesus stood there and said, "LazarI
=. ~ come FORTH" and he that was de-
"a came forth.
~ ~ Jesus said, Loose him. Let hi
ap go. Cut the grave-clothes off of hin
o. o. They used to wrap them about
,. thosa davs Co thev cut them off a,