The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-18

Rev. Sunday said:
Jesus Christ has staked his cause
upon the character and the uterances
and the lives of his followers. But
the world wants a religion of deeds
rather than words. Talks cheap!
And when he wanted to leave the
world, he wanted to leave behind him
words they would remember and pre-
cepts they would propagate and spread
broadcast throughout the world.
His claims to be the Son of God are
to be witnessed to by those that have
experienced the saving power through
faith in his shed blood.
In Isaiah, in my text, God issues a
challenge to the world. He said:
You bring forth your witnesses and
you let them tell what you are doing.
/ will bring forth mine and l will let
them tell what | am doing, and upon
their testimony | am perfectly willing
whether the Lord shall be God or the
devil"
And that wonderful confidence that
God places in it. He says:
If it's better to be drunk than sober,
we want to know it,
IF we are better because we are
vile than pure, let's know it,
IF man is better because he's a
thief than honest, let's know it,"
IF man who goes home and cusses
and beats his wife up is better than
the one that goes home and kisses her,
let's know it,
Bring forth your witnesses and let
them tell what they are doing and
will bring forth mine and | will let
them tell what | am doing and | am
perfectly willing to go before the world
and to put up the proposition and
know who they will serve and who
they will accept
Deal God
Offers Is Fair
If that isn't fair deal, I'd like to
know what it is. Sometimes in the
processes of law there is corruption
of judges, and the bribing of juries
and of witnesses. There is one thing
that's absolutely indispensable and
that's true witness. A witness may
be man or woman. They may
know very little They may say:
He was in an automobile and there
we're four in the machine" or They
we're driving a team and one horse
was gray and the other black
But witness is one who is supposed
to be in possession of some informa-
ticn that you do not have and that
that information is asked and expected
10 be given for the purpose either of
liberating somebody upon some charge
or OF convicting them
II Is a sad thing to put a man or
woman on the witness stand and have
them testify, and Immediately prove
that they are liar and fraud. That
ANlN ~
ter Of the witness, but it initiates also
AGAINST the cause of the individual
which that witness had hoped to help
I by and through his or her testimony
so not only is he injured but the cause
Of somebody else is injured.
II is a sad thing to have man gel
up and stroke his whiskers and read
his testimony and say he is a Chris
tian. and somebody come along anC
prove he is an old liar and a fraud
and a hypocrite. That not only mill
tates against his character, but it hurts
the cause of Jesus Christ as we'll.
"Ye are my witnesses, saith the
Lord God of hosts"
This Evidence
Is Trustworthy
Now there is a kind of testimony
that can not be overthrow. Paul wa:
on his way to Rome, he'd made his
apneal to Caesar They said:
You go up to Jerusalem and b.
tried"
And he said: Not on your life; yo,
can't put that over on me"
For they had framed it up to xii
him His sisters son put him wise
He said:
Nothing doing. I'm going to Rome
appeal to Caesar
They said: All right, you go tt
Caesar
And on the way they were ship
wrecked and cast upon an.island |
was Geld and blustery Gathering u
some sticks out of which to build
fire perhaps they might have gathered
up the serpent, because their protec
ton is to color like the surroundings
When you get out on the plains of Ar
IONA you can't tell rattlesnake from
the ground-that's his protection.
And when the fire began to burn
Paul stopped down to replenish it an
= The serpent coiled and struck him wit
- his fangs, and the natives on tn
island, knowing the venomous charaC
ter of that snake. supposed that Pau
was a criminal. and although he'd eS
not permit him to escape fully an
thew were going to kill him with
snake. and they expected to see hir
fall dead. and when he didn't the
worshipped him as a god. And h
said
breaches Christ
to Them
Don't you worship me-" He said
ITS my God that is able to keep tn
poison of that snake that you thin
YOUR gods made bite me from dying.
And so he preached Jesus Christ I
hem and they believed on him throug
the fact that the venom of that wipe
hadn't killed him.
Oh. God can use a rattlesnake t
preach the gospel. He don't need
preacher to get along. God can us
an animal in the field; God can use
wriggling snake to do it.
So the people believed on Jesu
Christ through Pauls preaching, an
they believed that what he said wa
true because he told them that HI
God had kept the poison from KILN
him, and they saw that he was aliv'
so they couldn't get around 1t.
So that's how they bore witness
And the heather nations are gain
on the nominal Christian nations