The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-15
. Atonement of Jesus Christi
Is Central Doctrine of Whole
Christian Religion Sunday
jesus Christ Stands Between God Almighty and the Human
Race as Our Mediator-In One Hand He Holds the
Sword of Inflexible Justice, With the Other He Offers
Gifts of Salvation, Full, Free and Perfect to All.

that law separates him from God and
he can't return only through Jesus
Christ. But no sooner did they find
themselves sinners and naked. than
they made garments Of the foliage of
the tree with which TO hide it, and
from hat day to this whenever a
man finds himself exposed to the
wrath of a just and -.ghteous God he
has sought and is seeking through
philosophy and culture and education.
through science and all her p~ostulates,
woven into her frail plans, to justify
himself, but God looked down through
their fig leaves, through their man.
made garments; God looks through
your philosophy and science and cul-
ture.
How God
Forgives Sin
God walked out into the fields and
slew the beasts. He took the skins
from their dead bodies and wrapped
them around Adam and Eve and
from that minute until tonight,
wherever a sinner has been screened
and shielded and protected from the
wrath of a just God it has been by
and through faith in the blood unto
the Mosaic law,
You had to bring a high priest, a
turtle dove or a heifer or bullocks or
ram. and when Jesus Christ died on
the cross the plan of salvation
switched from a bullock and heifer
and ram to Jesus Christ, and it is
His blood that comes between God
and the sinner, and there is no way
except through Jesus Christ.
Oh, a man said to me out in Hi
nois, an old infidel, he said to me;
Bill, l don't believe in atonementt
in the doctrines of substitution, in
the innocent suffering for the guilty
l said, why don't you?"
He said, 1T doesn't come up tc
my ideas of what is right"
Well, if you have an idea contrary
to the word of God, l suppose God
is wrong and you are right. We'll
you are a big fool" l said to him.
So men go to hell because of their
opinions. There are men in prison
because of their opinions. The laws
! Sid one thing, and they acted an
other, they followed their opinions and
that was contrary to the law so they
are doing time. If they'd have follow
ed the law they could have been sit
ting here listening to me-.
So, you see the difference between
them. Now let me tell you. I've
| read about everything that n man
or woman would read who values
his time. | haven't read it all, won't
have time. I've read about everything
that was ever written from the in
fidels standpoint against the doctrine
of atonement and l am frank to tel
you that l have yet to find the frs
argument that would ever stand the
test of common sense and reason.
Read Silly
Infidel Book.
Why, not long ago l read a silly
infidel book by a silly infidel woman
and she proceeded to rip up the plar
Bible. Then she proceeded to set III
her theories and opinions. Lo, anC
i behold, when she finished, if the little
fool had sense enough to go into an!
orthodox church, she would have
heard the preacher dilating upon thu
same basic principles which she haC
advocated and she thought she found
something new in the world to offe,
to the people.
Why, there is many an 4nfidel tina
Is decent tonight, he is moral ant
virtuous and homes: in business, Blu
his morality and nervousness ant
his honesty aren't due to infidelity
it is due to the restraining influences
of Christianity. A man can rul
away with another mans wife ant
still be a consistent infidel.
| say to you. sir, tha- | find tn
rule of life that the innocent suffe
with, and far more, than the guilty
He said Il don't believe in tn
innocent suffering for the guilty"
| said 10 him. Then YOU haven
seen life as l have seen it or yo'
wouldn't talk like that
| say i. is the iule o. life that tn
innocent suffer with and Tor and eve
more than the guilty.
Look at that old mother. Sh
weeps and p7ays for the coming FOO
!, steps of him whom she brought int
the world in pain and suffering. Sh
builded an iconoclast 20 her prayer
and tears and when at last he stas
> gers and reels and vomits and spew
and mutters and sputters and puke
into her arms and presence, to dam
, her for her just rebuke of his imam.
and then reels and staggers to hi
bed and he is snoring in his drunke
: stupor, filthy in his excrement sh
) worries all night long and vets he
, pillows with her tears of angusl
, wrung from a broken heart, while b
. SHORES in his drunken stupor. VIII
/. suffers the most? That drunkel
. bloated loafer, sleeping off a drunk {
!, that innocent, broken-hearted mothe
! praying for her drunken boy?
! God Not Responsible
J For Mans Sins
? You only have to be unfortunat
enough to be a mother of a drum
{ en- wretch like that to know who su
u fers the most, the guilty or the j
nocent. So don't you charge it up
! Cos to be a piece of foolishness
e have His son suffer for US %reprobate
Look at that young wife. She pra,
E and waits and longs and hopes unit
5 the small hours of the morning wal
n ing for the coming footsteps of hi
S whose name she bears. Whose IL
age is woven into the fibre of h,
heart, who swore to love, hont
cherish and obey as long as the 81
was blue. when at last he comes in
u her presence stamped with the TO
" stencil of his unfaithfulness and h
sin, look at her lips become ashe
look at her cheeks become anaemi
n look at her form totter and reel.
Who suffers the most, that inn
e cent, virtuous, pure wife, who h
e been true to him as h swore