The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-22

that crime again. The pardon jusu-
fies him before the law, he is no longer
guilty, he has paid the penalty, he is
free.
And when / accept of Jesus as my
Savior, am justified before God. God
looks upon me as though never have
sinned, am free, the law has no claim
on me. l am free through faith in
Jesus Christ.
Some people think they'd be happy
II they were in heaven. You wouldn't.
If God Almighty would reach down
now and take you out of your seat ard
take you TO heaven your attitude
wouldn't be any different from what
1t is right now. If you are an old devil
here you'd be devil up in heaven.
You would-yes, God Almighty's got
TO get into your heart by your repent
ance and faith in Jesus Christ, you
must be born again. Death won't make
any difference in your character. The
character you have when you die will
be the kind you will have forever If
You die Christian, you will be that
all through eternity. Death won't af-
feet you at all,-not at ALL
4 Some years ago In Pittsburgh q fell
low stopped in the old MonongaheIa.
! used to play baseball, and fellow
was stopping at the old Monongahela
house and boat was backing away
from her dock and he wanted to catch
that boat and he ran down and hol-
Tered: "Wait, Wait!" and he thought
he could jump from the dock to the
boat and he made a leap and fell into
the water.
People Begin
To Sing.
They threw a rope in and the PEG
pie on deck commenced to sing:
Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross"
He went up and said to the cap
tain:
Where is this boat going, up to the
race track?"
He said:
/ NO, this is sunday-school picnic
going up here to McKeesport"
He said:
"This is hell to me, and if you will
run her close enough to shore for me
to leave it, l will give you a ten dollar
gold piece
that whiskey-soaked gambler and tax
en- him to heaven, heaven would have
been as much hell to him as the Sun
day-school picnic was. So Gods got to
get into your heart and change it.
What you are here you will be through
an unending eternity So, therefore,
You will be happy in heaven only by
faith in Jesus Christ.
. Suppose you'd committed a crime.
Suppose you were lying yonder in pris-
on ready to be executed and suppose
my friend and your friend, the gov
ernor, should say:
81 want to see the evidence. The
circumstances in that case were
somewhat eXtenuating enough in my
opinion to justify executive clemency
to the extent l am going to pardon
that fellow"
7 And he sends word down to the war
) den. The warden goes into the death
house, and ne goes in and says:
"Cheer up, | have good news fol-
! you. Here's a pardon from the gov
eminent, and your wife and children
4 are in an auto waiting out in front anc
r you can walk out from behind these
walls in sight of the commonwealth
+ and no man can lay hands on you
p You are free"
1t would seem that man would bl
a happy now, wouldn't he? And he't
{ say to his wife about midnight:
q Wife. I've got to leave you. JUS
now l heard the voice of the mar
whose life l took, just now l saw
h his face pleading and | must 60"
g But, husband, the governor ha!
r pardoned you"
5 Eyes, the governor has pardoned
v but the governor hasn't justified"
V Cannot Escape
d His Crime.
Where will he go to get away from
: the fact that he committed tina
r. crime? Where will he journey? tt
u the uttermost corners of the earth?
J. You go to man and say:
# did you ever swear"
"Yes".
j. Lie? or drink
. Eyes, but / was never happier /,
n my life than / am now"
e God hasn't only pardoned that mai
Z, but has justified him and made hin
as though he never did it. That i
S the gospel of Jesus Christ Whe1
h God pardons, God justifies and max
t. es it as though you never did It s.
s therefore you are free through faitl
It in Jesus Christ the Son of God. B,
?. faith in Him we are saved.
S | say death will make no chang
o in your character Let me illustrate
o In the 18th chapter of Luke, we ar
o told of a certain beggar who fet
o from the crumbs which fell from tn
d rich mans table. And it came to pas
that they both died and the rich man
we are told, went to hell.
And in hell he lifted up his eyes
k being in torment and looking, h
> could see Lazarus in the bosom o
l. Abraham
It He cried out and said. Send some
It one with water to moisten my parch
II ed lips"
o They cried back and said, "Ther
o is a great gulf between me and the
It fixed so that I cannot get to thee
e neither canst thou get to me-"
d And he said, "Send someone bacl
from the dead. l have brother o.
u earth
d Listen
o God.
Il They shouted back. "They hav
e Moses and the prophets, let then
q hear them"
i Nov l am here and when lief
the earth my brothers were Twin
q the same kind of a life l lived an
know if they do not repent the
+ will come where 1 am and if 20
q will send somebody back from tn
dead, / think they will believe an
s. thew will listen TO them .