The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-11
CHARACTER is BEST ASSET MAN CAN HAVE;
IT NEEDS NO EPITAPH ON ITS TOMBSTONE.
" 1fISA BENEDICTION To WHOLE COMMUNITY

raised the window and said. "Who Is
it? / wasn't expecting you before
Monday or Tuesday"
He said, 'T had to come home, l am
so sick. No you can't do anything. "
She said. 81 viii call up father"
Finally he told her. Why, the love
seemed to flee from her heart. She
said. Out OF my house, out of my
heart, and out of my memory"
He said, "Afe you a Christian ?'
She said, II hope am Christian. I"
Finally Arouses
Conscience.
HAS God ever had occasion to for
give you for anything?"
Not for anything like that"
He said, But God counts your re-
lationship with me at the marriage
altar and relationship"
He said, 81 am married to you and
He counts your faithlessness to me
the same as fornication."
He talked and reasoned with her,
and finally their little girl, about 2
years Of age, had awakened and she
heard them talking. AS she stood
at the head of the stairs, clothed in
a white silk nightie, she looked like
an angel dropped from the throne
OF God. He bounded up the stairs
and threw his arms about her, kissed
her as he carried her through the
rooms, and he said, What a sin a
man has to commit to drive him from
his home"
He put the little one down and
opened the door and said, Good
night, Araelle"
And as if from a sepulchre she
said, wait, let me think"
She fell on her knees and sobbed
and prayed and she jumped to her
Feet, brushed the tears from her
eyes and said, you must have been
sorry or you wouldn't have come
home and told me what didn't know,
and what l might have never known,
and since you have promised to be
true, l will forgive you"
They rushed to each others arms,
and he laid his head upon her breast
and heard the beating of that out
ragged heart-a picture of the love of
God. And can take you to a home
tonight that's as noble and clean and
true as any home beneath the stars
and stripes.
No matter what you have done, God
says, "All ] am waiting for you to do
is to express your sorrow for that
sin, and forgiveness, full, free and
perfect and eternal is yours"
And every word shows that God
IS good and God is mercifuI and pa
tient and God is forbearing; and
there is not word said about Gods
anxiety to punish; he wants to make
Us all good. Can you find any fault
with that?
Do you object to the physician
who wants to make you well?" Well,
10 you object to anybody that wants
70 do something that will make you
.ell the truth instead of lie? Do
you object to anybody that wants
you to be sober instead of drunk?
No Reason Why
Man Should Refuse.
Why does man refuse to be a
Christian and receive God? God has
10 pleasure in the death of the wick
I'd. God knows that if a man dies a.
sinner, he will be in He'll before mid
hight. God has no pleasure in the
leath of the wicked, because he knows
lie isn't ready to die Not at all
God sent Jesus into the world, not to
condemn the world, the world was
condemned before Jesus Christ came
He came into the world to open up a
plan of redemption to save the world
| didn't come here to preach any
hing to condemn you. You were
already condemned before you ever
heard of me. If you came in here to-
hight to be saved, l am not coming
mere to condemn you. l am coming
here to preach to you, to tell you
what to do to be saved
You came in here condemned, you
may go out without condemnation,
Jesus didn't come to condemn the
world, he came to save. Give a man
/ chance to be redeemed and if God
owes the world and if this world has
gone into sin, God must do something
70 win it back to prove that he does
owe it.
If you will take the New Tesla
nent and study what Jesus said
about the Father, you will say every
word of that is true.
He said, the time would come
when God would wipe up this world
and he'd separate the good from the
bad, like the shepherd does the sheep!
from the goats. Well, we do that
same thing. We separate the sick
rom the well; we separate the coal
rom the Stag; we separate the wheat
rom the chaff; we separate the Grim
mails from those that will keep the
aw.
Saw Boys In
7eformatory.
l was going through a reformatory
'ut in Illinois, in Pontiac, and 1 saw
boys there-the laws of Illinois take
boys 10 years old. If a child is 1Ol
1ears of age, they will take him and
,onfine him in the reformatory!
/ saw about 200 boys in there from
10 years up to IA and Is years of age,
md it seems to me as if the State of
Illinois, by exercising its sovereign
power in penning these boys up with
hardened criminals, was doing all in
IS power to prevent those boys from
ever becoming decent or having a de-
,ent thought.
/ never wanted to be governor of
Illinois so badly in my life as l did
% turn the key and send those 200
boys back home to their mothers and
)ut of that institution, for if they
stayed with those hardened criminals |
hey never would succeed when they
ret out in the world
God, we all know, could not be God |