The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-19


the back of the seat and remain in
that attitude most of the time / was
preaching. When / got through 1 !
gave the invitation, and the first one
to come was this fellow who has been
sitting here in front Of this other fell
low. When the service was over the
man who had made the request of
me rushed up, his face aglow, and he
said, do you remember what ] asked
you to pray for?" He said, Il had
no sooner taken my seat than the
usher gave him a seat up in front of
me, and when you gave the invitation
he was the first man to go to the
front, and / never was so surprised in
all my life"
Power of God
Never Thwarted.
New. Jacob undertook to struggle
with God, and God broke his thigh.
Thigh is the symbol of power, and he
had to do it to make him realize his
weakness. Oh, God may have to reach
in behind the counter and grab some
of you bankers by your collar and
yank you out and throw you on your
backs and shake shrouds over you, and
ask you how you have solved the
problem.
What doth it profit a man if he
gain the whole world and lose his own
soul?" God may have to take some Of
you women and shake a shroud over
you He may have to back a hearse
up in front of your house before you
will ever pray. He will do it if he
has to. He will show you how weak
you are and how helpless you are.
Then you turn TO him. He said, Lord
deliver me-" If you will all offer an
! honest prayer you will make that
prayer God deliver me-"
/! ! don't know what your trouble is.
! I don't care to know. | have no dis
position to butt into your affairs or
/ your weakness. Some person would
say, "God deliver me from my PRIDE"
Some people are so contemptibly
proud they are uncomfortable.
/ And some, Lord deliver me from
my lust" Lord deliver me from my
strong drink" Lord, deliver me from
my spirit of deception" Lord, de-
liver me from the gossiping disposi-
| ton that / possess" God will come
as nurse-kind, gentle, tender, SYM
pathetic, with the opiates and the
panaceas-and if you don't listen to
! him then, he will come as surgeon
He will drive his scapel and trocar
into the very purifying assesses that
are boring their way toward your
vitals.
God Wants to Keep
You Out of He'll.
Gods doing his best to keep you
! out of hell. You'd better listen to
/ the Lord and give him chance. Gods
/ your friend He wants to do you
good If God would have his way this
old world would be a grand, glorious
place in which to live. We have
i reached the crisis as nation. The
nations of the world are in the midst
of such a crisis as has not been re-
corded on the pages of history for
centuries and centuries; in the midst
! of crisis spiritually and morally.
| God won't be here but will be par
ticularly near in these days. He
reached a crisis. Is God wrestling
with you to give up some sin that you
roll like a sweet morsel under your
/ tongue; to give up your companion
! that is dragging you down as a mill
stone about your neck? You may have
| brought him here tonight because it
is a convenient place to spend little
time, and you have suspicion that
is within your heart-the least thought
about sin-and the companion with
whom you are going to sin may rub
n elbows with you now. Take it from
me. BE sure your sin will find you
out"
i Give UP your companion-anybody
that will drag you down and away
from God and decency and truth.
| Some of you may have to pull out
your bankbooks, write check on the
, bank, pay back some man you skinned
, with some fake mining stock, or you
:, sold him real estate down in Florida
, and you'd have to have a submarine
, to find it.
What Is Your
/ Real Name?
, He confessed his sin. He said
!, What is your name?"
, He said. my name is Jacob" When
7 God named the Children of Israel in
, those days the name stood for some
thing. Now we name them because il
sounds pretty What is your name:
. Jacob! That means supplant and
{ scheme. What is your name? / don't
: mean the name on your doorplate
) What is your name? I don't mean the
one the people call you by, l don't
mean that. Not the one in which you
f got an automobile license; not the
: one with which you pay your income
, tax, or your county or your city tax:
} not the one on your marriage certf
} ficate.
What is your name? Not the one
in the telephone directory. What Is
your name? | mean the one that God
: knows you by. Somebody said Good
r Morning" God said, "You weasel
:, eyed, hatchet-faced, lantern-jawed
+ neighborhood gossips. You can start
: more factions and feuds and stir uI
/ more trouble"
) What is your name? Good morn
| ing" God says, you old booze
) holster, keeping somebody in the
( side" what is your name?" He
' said, sit is Jacob. / am schemer
, am a supplanter." God says, q
| won't call you Jacob any more. II
{ give you a new name. I'll call vol
Israel CAS- prince thou hast power
/ with God and with men,
, Oh, prayer, my friends, can move
5 God And God can move things. u
, won't be easy to come out and pu
I on a badge and usher people; 1t won"
j be easy to come and sing in choir;
!. it won't be easy to 90 and pray; !