The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-10
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bad egg-if 1 had a chance 1 would
show you too--You pay him better
for living a white life than / could
pay him for living for me but if you
will just take away his property he
will curse you to your face"
That is the charge the devil and
his workers bring against those who
are true to God.
That man is preaching for money!
Has not preacher just as good a
right to live by the money he earns
by preaching, as a bull-necked sa-
loon-keeper had to live by the money
he earns. damning people and sending
them to He'll? You bet your life he
has; you bet your lifel
Don't you come up and tell me l
am CRATER. If you do | would adj
wise you to have your picture taken
before you come. Your wife would
MT know you when you went home
today. Come on! One = two =
three-four-fiv six seven =
eight-nine-ten.
So that is the charge the devil al
ways brings against us. That wom-
an belongs to the church because she
can stand a little higher in society!
That man has not grain of religion.
That man joined the church to sell
goods. Yep, so he could get votes in
an election.
But wait a minute. The devil him.
self has declared that the Christian
life is the safest, the best, the most
/ profitable. What an ass you are to
follow the devil when he tells you
that you are doing right.
Devil Admits
Gods Work.
Here is what he says. Hast thou
not made a hedge about him and his
house and about all that he has or
every side? Hast thou not blessed
the work of his hands and his sub
! stances and the increase of his landE
/ Even the devil admitted that Goo
had done all that for Job as a reward
for his being decent And you biz
fool, you are serving the devil. The
devil himself declares the best way tx
live and why does he pull the WOO
over your eyes and put ring il
your nose?
"Have you noticed my servant Job
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, yes, sure he had.
God did not have to try any expert
ments with Job, no, sir, to find gu
whether he could be trusted; he knew
just as we'll before the trial as He dit
afterward, and God knew that Jol
would stand without hitching. CO.
knew all along that the devil was ;
har, and God turned to the devil AM
said:
Look here, devil; he is in you
|, hands, you may take away his prop
/ erty. You may do what you will wit
: him, but you don't dare touch him
: See? You can't put your hand o.
him; l won't allow you that. Yo
: can take away his property if yo
: want to, but you cannot touch him.
And if the devil was ever glad, h
: must have felt like shouting when h
heard that, for before that time tn
: devil could not steal the smalles
lamb that Job had in his flock.
3 Devil Figured
| to Get Job
| Now, listeni Here we are. If Their
| ever was joy in hell, they must hav
) been hilarious that day. The devi
no doubt, figured out that Job woul
t become one of the best captains i
7 his army, and he started out to max
! short work of the peace of that CRANE
' old servant of the Lord. They held
speedy council of war in hell and til
q campaign was planned, and they wer
:. going to take possession of Jobs SER
ants and fill, their mouths with lie
, and then they would go like the win
!. and give Job a blow; and, before b
could recover, they would give hi
= another blow.
: 1t is not positively stated that 10
lost his property and his children; tn
;, statement to the effect that he di
, came from the devil and his mana
: ers. The devil is the father of lie
and he never tells the truth when h
:. can help it, and in case a lie woul
: suit his purpose better than the trut
? he would tell it, and if Job believe
a lie it would have the same effe'
upon him if it was the truth. If
could get Job to believe that all thi
was destroyed, it would have the san
I. effect upon Job as if It had been
|; stroyed.
; The, devil turned around and char
z ed God that Job served him for gal
q "If that is true and the service stop
Il the cussing will begin"
n And the devil would say, "Oh! W
IL miserable old hypocrite, you, Jol
y you have not lost anything. We ha'
y put one over on you"
q Then Job would be ashamed of hi
a self and he would never want to
Y, back to God, thinking what a fool
5, was to believe that and whine abo
v it. He'll would have mortgage {
E. him. No doubt that was what Il
devil figured out.
IS Pays to be
u Christian
'e Now, let's see what results. We
IS sir, l bring you the message TONG
p to show you that it pays to be
.e Christian and to serve God. And
D. will say that if / positively knew tn
lie this life was all, that death was /;
I'd eternal sleep, and that when l d
le that ends it, that there is no heav,
r, nor reward, no hell nor punishme
p Cor sinners, l weld still continue
IS live the kind of a life l am for t
lie sake of the peace and blessings al
ID decency that come to me while l a
a here.
Now great and manifold were t