The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-24

eldHu anu lSi you.
out Of wool, but you can't make
wool. You can make things out of
flax, but not the flax. You can make
shoes out of leather, you can't make
hide And if an infidel has to build
universe he has to have a little
star, duct to start with In the be-
ginning God created Therefore, you
can build out of something that is
already, but you can't create it. You
can't do that.
Can Only
Give It Chance
We can't make electricity, it is al
ready there. All we can do is to
give it a chance to blaze out You
can't make coal, all you can do is
| to light it and let it burn. You can't
distil water; all you can do is to
drink what God has already given you.
/ You can't make that seed grow, put
it in the mineral kingdom, God will
! tell you the rest of it.
There is no such thing as out and
out originality in anybody, absolutely
nobody on earth. You cannot take
! anything that you see that doesn't
represent something else that you
have seen. And all we see today
is the outgrowth of something else
! The first railway cars looked like
the old stage coaches, and the first
automobiles looked like carriages
Remember the first bicycles, great big
wheel in front and a little bit of one
behind, remember those funny old
i ones?
No book was ever. made unlike any
other book, oh, no.
The stories of the Dutch and the
Irish are older than the Dutch and
the Irish nations. You can find stor
les like that in literature right now
but here, you can't find stories in
any literature of any nation on earth
that resemble the parallels of Jesus
The parallels of the good Samaritan
the prodigal son, the unjust judge
the ten virgins and all they are alb
solutely new. Jesus Christ was the
first one that ever created parallels
and the first one that he ever taught
parallels, and you can't find anything
in any literature that resembles the
parallels of Jesus Christ They are
absolutely new Jesus could create
because He was Divine. You and
can't.
Teaches
Wonderful Lesson
His teaching was wonderful, anC
the way He taught was wonderful
and what He taught was wonderful
He taught that He was greater thai
Moses. Imagine the audacity of maj
standing before a crowd of Jews anC
saying, Il am greater than Moses"
Imagine the audacity of a mai
lefo line of Ar1on iaa N
and saying, 81 am greater than Georg
: Washington" How long would WI
; stand for that? That is what Jesu
did. He said, 81 am greater thai
Moses" or Il am the one that Moses
was talking about" What He laugh
was wonderful and the way He laugh
: it was wonderful
He said, Il fulfill the law of Moses
am fulfilling all of that. Here
: am, the One"
Now, then, He made no proof, NJ
effort to prove His claims. He said
Il am the Son of God"
They said, I'VE do not believe it,
and all He did was to point to Hi
works
He said, you don't believe m
when l say so, then believe me TO
: the works, couldn't do these work
3 if l wasn't what l claim, and if
: do this, 50 you or l are wrong. If
were what you said l was, l couldn'
: do that, so you are wrong"
Points to His
I Works
. So He made no effort to prove Hi
: claims He just pointed to His work:
D They said, I'VE don't believe you ar
S the Son of God"
: He said, There was a fellow VIII
! was blind; he has good eyes now"
9 They said, I'VE don't believe 20
q are the Son of God"
He said, THAT fellow was lame; h
$ is walking now" That is all He dig
t He never argued with them a mil
a ute. All right, that is good enough
I About the first thing an imposte
a does is to overprove his statemen
a You can know he is an imposte
t when he is trying to overprove hi
s case every time.
Another thing, Jesus never turne
His hand to convince His enemie
that He was the Son of God. Yo
have got to explain the oil lamp, bl
you don't have to explain the SUI
the green grass and the flowers, an
the trees budding forth Nature e
| plains the sun, so therefore we kno
it because this explains it. / don
| need any argument about the sun
the light. The light explains the ele
/ tricity. Here is an explanation rigl
here.
II That is true in religion, too-trl
in nature and in everything in all tn
world. He taught all would be 10
that didn't believe in Him. And n
body will ever be saved that did n
| get their salvation from Jesus.
Ii People try to get saved by their CT
ture in America as well as in CT
cutta and Madras. There are just