The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-19

that dirty, sinking, bIack-hearted
gang will have to go out Of business.
That is what is the matter with
them.
Zacchaeus climbed that tree with no
other ambition than to get a glimpse
of Jesus Christ. Everybody was talk
ing about Jesus and they were dis
cussing Jesus, and so he wanted to
see Jesus.
l was preaching out in Iowa and
a fellow went into a saloon to get a
drink and the barkeeper was calling
me everything he could lay his tongue
to, and if all the venom in his heart
against me and Christianity had been
injected into his stomach he would
have died of black vomit in three min
utes.
The fellow threw down his dime
! for a glass OF whiskey and he said
to him, Have you been up to the
tabernacle to hear Billy Sunday"
/ And he said, mo, And by the
eternal blankety- blank blank, don't
propose to so and hear that blank
vulgar blankety-blank."
1 He was just throwing blankets over
/ everything.
/ This fellow stood and listened to
him and he said, '"To be on the
square, am ashamed to tell you that
I have not been up there myself and
| if / got close enough to Billy to
! shake hands with him, 1 wouldn't
want him to smell the whiskey on
my breath: so guess I'll change my
mind l don't want to drink, am 60
ing up to hear Bill"
Come Forward
I For Christ.
And he came up to hear me. That
fellow sat there and listened to me
and he had not drawn a sober
| breath for fourteen years and had
drunk enough whiskey to float a bat
I tleship, but there he was. And one
night he came forward and gave his
heart to Jesus Christ. And he was
| elected chairman of the Civic Fed
Grafton and he cleaned that God-for
saken, whiskey-soaked, infidel town
up for Jesus Christ.
1 preached in Omaha two years
ago and met the leading lawye,
Frank Turner, who is mayor of the
city, and 1 said, Frank, how about
Jack?"
| He said, HE went to Heaven two
years ago but he kept the old towr
! clean for Jesus Christ while he was
on the job"
All right,I don't care what inspir
ed or moved you to come here, il
you only will realize that you are
here to get glimpse of Jesus Christ
Come down from your pride. VIII!
not saved, because they are too
proud TO become near this tabernacle
and too proud to get up and wall
down the aisles and by that act admi
that there is something they can d.
that will make them better and brins
them near to Jesus Christ. They are
too proud to admit that they ough
to live a different life from what the.
are living, and they are willing to 81
on, imagining that it would be humil
iating.
Jesus didn't give rap about wha
the people of Jerusalem would sa.
about Zacchaeus climbing a tree t.
see him. l believe multitudes ar
more concerned about what othe
/. people may say or think than the.
! are about God Almighty.
Ask them, if their names wer
called in the judgment, will they pa,
the penalty Ask them if they wan
you to steal tonight, if you are a,
/ rested they will pay the penalty
: No sir, they will never do that.
| suppose there are men and wome,
: here tonight who would like to TAX
| their stand but are afraid of tn
/ laugh, that some members of you
lodge, club, literary society, or you
r social circles, would give you, o
: what they would say if they kneN
? you had taken your stand for JesC
t Christ
t Don't Sheer at
5 Christians
? Any man or woman that tries t
! prevent you from being a Christian
Y any man or woman that will snee
/ at you to make you regret that 20