The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-24
SUNDAY GIVES HIS THEORY REGARDING
SIN AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST; WARNS
I AGAINST CONSTANT REJECTION OF GOD

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! famous men. He was candidate for
governor of his state, and men said,
''Why, he vii be elected. It's a lead
| pipe cinch He will be elected"
! All the brewery and all the liquor
interests of the state backed him and
when the campaign was at its height
he went to a minister, friend of
mine, and this minister told this story
at this mans funeral:
The lawyer said to him. 81 feel
strongly impelled to accept Jesus
Christ as my saviour, and publicly con-
| fess and join the church, for Christ is
knocking at my heart
My friend said to him, LET Him in.
He stands with open arms. His head
is bent with patience which never
falters and listening for the faintest
cry that will come from your lips. Let
Him In
He said, "I'd like to, but can't right
now. You know people would say It
was for political effect and to get the
/ church vote, and if did that there are
certain influences that are now back
i of me that | would lose and would turn
] against me. But" he said, "as soon as
i am elected governor, before the inau-
] guratIon | am coming down to your
/ church, publicly confess Jesus Christ
and join the church"
/ He was not elected and his defeat
! broke his heart. His health failed. He
went to Chicago to consult famous
specialist who said: There is no hope
for you. You have an incurable all
ment. Go home and set your house in
order and get ready. You will not live
/ one year"
Calls for
/ His Partner.
/ He went back, set his house in order
and went out to Pasadena, Calf, hop
ing the mild climate of that western
paradise would be conducive to health.
AS he lay there, getting weaker, he
wired back to this city of which he'd
/ been mayor, and where he'd repre-
scented the people in congress, for his
law partner, another famous man of
that state, to come and pray with him,
and this man jumped on the Santa Fe
Limited; he went to Pasadena, and
when he stood by the bedside of his
partner he said to him: II am dying,
I've sent. for you to come and pray
with me-"
4 He said, 81 can't pray. 1 never
prayed in my life" He said, 81 will
go out and round up all the preachers
in Pasadena, and the priests, and will
} bring them in here to pray with you
and for you, but l can't pray at ALL
He said, why don't you pray for
yourself?"
The great man replied, 81 can't pray.
i All my life turned away from God. ]
argued that Jesus was a myth, that
heaven was a dream, hell was a fable
and that the Bible was a clever sort
of an Arabian Nights Tale of oriental
logic and lore. Young men patterned
after me and they turned from God be
cause turned from God. They heard
me, as mayor; they heard me, as a
congressman; they heard me, as law
tdoesn't need God; don't need God
Now God has turned away and can
not pray"
| And he didn't pray. He lived a
! Christless life, he died a Christless
i death. They sent him back to his
! home, He sleeps in Christless grave
! in that cemetery, my friends. Oh,
when he would have inherited the
) blessing he was rejected and he found
no place for repentance.
Escapes -
Certain Death.
, Over in Scotland men make a living
by gathering the eggs of birds laid
upon Lodges of rocks away below the
? top of the ground. They will lower
, themselves and swing in upon the
!; ledge of rock and gather the birds OF
the fledglings as the case might be.
ri Some years ago a man was doing
!, that when the rope under his arms be
came united and swung many feet be
yond his reach. The projecting rocE
held the rope beyond his reach. Al
3 afternoon, all night, he was on the
: ledge and was giving himself up tx
: the fate of starvation and death from
thirst which he felt inevitably. await
ed him, when a breeze came in from
l the ocean and caused the rope to star
vibrating. AS the wind increased il
velocity it increased the vibration O
the rope so that it swung very nea
the ledge on which he was standing
81 He said, eff 1 stay here l will die
If l leap and miss that rope l will die
That is my only chance" and with
prayer, when the wind was at it
= height, he rushed out and leaned owe
e the chasm and seized the rope an,
u made his way hand over hand to tn,
n top. When he climbed out on the SUI
$ face his hair was as white as the driv
en- snow.
e There is but one cord that swing
Il through this world tonight, and tina
g is the Holy Ghost, and with every pull
: sation of your heart it grows less. /
did swing close to you at one time, blu
. you said. mo-
e You are like my friend who died il
2. the west without Jesus Christ an
n without hope.
n By the known laws of your min
= your conversation must be effecte
x through the influence of the truth o.
It your mind 1t is a known law of tn
d mind that truth resisted loses its pow
t er over the mind that resists it, an
that each resistance weakens tn
: truth, strengthens you against tn
, truth, and each resistance makes
!. that much harder for you to yield an
q do the right.
uI No matter what Jesus said or die
% they said He was liar and a frau
1t and they refused to believe Him. H
stood one day at the grave of Lazaru
;. who had been dead four days. H
: cried, Lazarus. come forth" He tina
7. was dead awakened into life.
s Jesus said, Isn't that enough to cor
u vince you am the Son of God?" On
u day He was going into the city G
= Main. They were bearing young ma
i out to the cemetery. Jesus came alon