The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-26

kfdL am d Hldug j WOulO re-
lison, and | would cry and cry, be-
cause J am their daddy. That is
| why would cry.
damnation, lust and vileness would
cut loose which are now held in
leash by the fear of punishment
There is many fellow tonight would
come out and stick a gun under your
nose if he wasn't afraid he'd go to
Sing Sing if he did.
Fear Keeps
Many Straight
There's many fellow would crack
your safe tonight and he would crack
your bean, too. So, therefore, his
fear of punishment holds him in
leash, keeps him. All right! That's
just as true of the other, too. Just
exactly.
Everybody that keeps the law don't
keep it because they love the law, IL
is because they are afraid if they
don't they will get up against it.
That is true with a whole lot of folks
today.
A man one time said to Belief,
Say, if l believed as you do about
the future, I'd fail to do anything in
this life," and Belief, shrewd as he
was, replied, 81 believe you would
you look like it."
oh, that didn't remove the question
that the fellow had raised by his ques-
ton. That was what was in his mind
II what you say is true, then l will be
free to do anything in this world
knowing that will get chance to re
pent over there.
| See what it would mean then. What
damnable doctrine it is. God AL
mighty never taught the world thai
doctrine. That crawled out Of the pi
of hell He never taught the work
that. No, sir! Wait a minute! If yoi
would be sure that the door of God:
great big heart would stand open for
ever, still if you die unrepentent il
the light of experience and of com
mon sense, you haven't gambling
chance that you would reverse the de
cision that you have made in this life
in rejecting Jesus Christ, and accep
in the next world what you refused
in this world.
How Cook
Believed
er of New England, advertised on,
time he was going to preach on tn,
second chance after death and all tn,
preachers, my friends, orthodox, TRIM
tartan and Unitarian, and all othe
''tarians," they hocked to hear JOSEPH
Cook and he summed it all up by say
ing, Il am not going to stake my i'm
mortal soul on a guess. and the bes
. Won do ic to OF IL - a sol II
81 am not going to do it
Yes, hell is a horrid word, | vii
agree with Lieber, in his book upol
deviltry. And that has been banishe
: from many a pulpit today and tn
word has been banished from So-caIle
polite society The doctrines, som
say, which proved to be a powerful
deterrent in holding people in othe
days. Oh, they won't hold good in tn
} enlightened days of the twentieth Ger
fury. Just as if God Almighty woul
: change his revelation and WITHDRAW
his DEGREES and repeal his law as tn
world grows old. Just as though we
say. We'll God, it was all right 70
the sun to rise in the East and set
: the West for the other days, but
these enlightened days we prefer t
South" God would say, You go
hell"
: No, sir; not at all! And in spite {
the ieers and the laughter, hell n
: mains fact No scofing or sneerin
based on human ideas of justice ca
Gisprove the divine revelation. If thu
; doesn't meet with your approval, thu
isn't a sign that you are right an
God is wrong. Oh, no, not bit! TIL
! human race in past ages believed in
All Nations
: Believe In He'll I'M
And it is held now by nearly ii n
! tons and nearly all tribes anS near
!, all tongues. The most ancient tribe
of the world of which histo4y tells l
! anything were the Chalderens and tt
Egyptians and the Romars. The Cha
deans, history tells us, believed in he
: and the Egyptians believed in the il
:. mortality of the soul. they believed
: the resurrection of the body, they b
/. lieved in rewards and in punishment
= and the Greeks. in their books whiC
:. are now extant, they believed in r
= wards and they believed in punis
= nents and when we find mat this hi
g been a universal belief in all age
|, which can not be traced to any sour
. of error, or opinions of man, the co
r clusion, my friends, is that it had
: torigin in divine revelation.
i If God is, then God is molly, and
must necessarily love virtue and ha
vice, and if he is just, then he mu
reward the right and punish the wrol
r. or he wouldn't be just. Now, th
| is all there is to it. Wait minu
II 1 will not deny but that hell is 81
| rounded by mystery. Many things a
a mystery, but God Almighty oft
acts for reasons beyond our power
| penetrate. Is he. therefore, wrong |
cause he does things we can't und
| stand?
| Is that true? No, Then don't
a fool and say there is no hell.
You Cannot
Fathom God
| Often, my friends, God acts beyo
your reason to understand God a,
beyond your reason to understa
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