The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-25

coat hanging from his arm, diamond
in his shirt front as big as a hickory
nut He walked up to me and took
me by the hand and said. "Mr. Sun
day, l accept Jesus Christ as my Sa-
vior"
He walked over and sat down on
the seat. put his coat and hat by
his side, folded his arms-not a tear.
Would You say that that fellow
lying down there on the ground
kicking I'D the sawdust was more con-
verted than that other fellow? No,
that fellow had lived a different life
from this man. You could tell by his
looks he had gone down the line, that
he had an emotional makeup. cried
easily. This other fellow didn't.
So, you will have the same kind
of temperament after you are con-
verted as you had before I've got
the same tabasco sauce, vim and
vigor that I had before was con-
verted. I haven't slowed up any -
I've only given it over to the Lord
Stanley tells us that he found
people in Africa who never knew
they were black until they saw white
men, and when they saw Stanley and
his European followers for the first
time in theft lives they knew that
there stood the representatives of an
other race, of another color, that lived
somewhere in a remote corner of the
earth that they had never seen. They
never knew there was any other col
or, they had never seen anybody but
black people.
What must I do to be saved?"
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ"
said Paul, "and thou shalt be saved"
And I read here that he fell down
before them. Oh, you cannot come
to God without first of all a broken
and contrite heart God is willing to
forgive but God cannot forgive if you
are not willing to be forgiven. He
will not do it as long as you are in
a state of rebellion and glory in your
sin. God Almighty has nothing for
you then.
l tell you, God will stop making
worlds to help you if you are re-
pentant and know you are a sinner
and are willing to go square and are
willing to ask God to forgive you
through faith in Jesus Christ There
must be this spirit of sorrow for sin
before there can ever be forgive
ness but the moment you manifest
this spirit, it is yours as a gift from
Jesus Christ.
New Heart
Is Needed.
Some people think that what they
need is new surroundings. oh, no,
no! 1t isn't that at all! Here is my
watch-it won't run. / will put it
~, ! il,
new surroundings. All right, / will
put it over here in this other pocket
But that doesn't work. What's the
surroundings, it needs a new main
spring.
So, what you need isn't a new
suit or new haircut. You need a
new heart If you've got the devil
in you now you will turn people to
the devil no matter where you go.
What you need is a 'heart and a
new nature, not 4 new environment.
read of father years ago who
had that fool idea and he purchased
his boy a lieutcnant's commission in
the Russian army. This man was A
Russian, a personal friend of the Car,
and it was during the Crimean War.
The Gar was walking around to view
the Notifications and encourage his
men when France and England we're
fighting Russia for Constantinople.
This young fellow sat down and
tried to recall all that he owed, and
he put down column after column of
figures, then he added them up and
the sum overwhelmed him and he
wrote underneath, who will pay all
this?"
Meditating upon his hayward life,
the vast sums that he owed, he fell
asleep and the Gar. walking around,
recognized the son of his personal
friend as he sat there asleep. He saw
| this paper lying on his lap, he stoop-
ed over and read it-"Who will pay
all this?"
The Car stopped down and sign
ed it and sealed it with the royal
signet and put it back, and when the
young fellow opened his eyes he was
alarmed to think the Car has come
and he'd been asleep.
Finds Debts
Cancelled
He examined the paper and found
there an order on the treasury for
the amount of Indebtedness. He pre-
sented it and they refused to pay it
| because it didn't come in the accus-
| toned form They made an appeal
to the Gar and he said, PAY it. l
feel honored to think that l can carry
on a war and pay the debts of my
! friends" and he did
! You can sit down and pile up your
sins one on top of another until you
will have a pile higher than the
/ Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky
Mountains, and in your despair and
hopelessness you will say. "Oh God,
who will pay all this?' and I'd like to
| write one name
/ The sweetest name on mortal tongue,
The sweetest carol ever sung,
Jesus, blessed Jesus.
He paid it all!
And then l read, HE was con-
verted" "They washed his stripes. .
At first they exultingly showed his
| hands and feet into the stocks. Now
/ l see this jailer STOPPING down with
! easing touch, ease the pain and cool
the fever, wash away the stains that
had been made by the scourges as
! they beat their back.
There must be conversion, nv
friends, If you are ever saved. !
am not speaking of new birth
listen! That's Gods part of saliva
| ton that transaction. I'm telling