The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-23
GOD WORKS
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used to drive in miles and miles ev-
cry night and the spirit of the Lord
used to say to him, "You go and
ask him to give his heart to me-"
The Lord said, "If anybody is Of
Tended because you ask, they are
going to hell any way so you had
better clean your skirts of 1t and go
and ask them to take their stand"
Finally he said, Lord, I will speak
to him"
That night he wasn't out. He said,
IT will go out to him"
That night a snow storm arose and
he drove out to the fellows farm.
The fellow was coming out of the
barn and he said, "I've come out to
ask you to be Christian
He said, "You mind your blankety
blank business, when l make up my
mind to be a Christian, I'll be it, /
. want you to understand. Go and do
your blankety blank business"
Change Takes
Place Later.
And my friend said he felt so Of
Tended when the fellow didn't in
wife him in the house that he went
back to the town and he got cold
which almost killed him. Later or
he went to city to preach and there
he gave the invitation one night anC
down the aisle came a bright, keer
cut, snappy fellow and he took hin
by the hand he said, "Don't vol
know me? Don't you remember Mr.
Benedict This is Mr.. Benedict"
He said, you don't know how
glad I am to see you"
He said, 81 wish you would tell mi
what it was in my sermon that moved
YOU"
He said, Nothing, I've never heart
a song that moved me as a sermon
that moved me, but" he said, "whel
you came to my home ten years agt
and stood in my barnyard up to you
knees in snow the tears chilling OF
your cheeks and told me that vol
were praying for me and l curset
you, I've never forgotten your fac
from that day to this. I've been pray
ing about it, l heard you was owe
here and have come $50 miles"
He said, "If you want to know wha
has brought me down here on m
knees, it was the tears that you she
down in my barnyard ten years ago.
You meet this community with a
argument like that and the numbe
of people that have taken their stan
viii be nothing compared with wha
they have done. What this old worl
needs is little concern.
Has Early
Visitor.
/ was preaching In a town in Yves
ern Iowa and one morning a ma
came to the home where was bein
entertained and raped. Six o'cloc
in the morning. | went down Their
and found fellow there who said
Mr.. Sunday. am not living right
| said, That's too bad
He said, What have l got to do?
/ said Just confess that you al
not living right"
He said, You don't believe l hav
TO tell people what / have done?"
mo, that is none of their bushes
l said, "All you've got to do is ju!
admit by a public declaration thu
you want to renew your vow and thu
there are things in your life that yo
know ought not to be there. TIL;
is nobody's business what thos
things are, you go tell it to the Lord
He said, "All right, | will do it." H
said to me, Twill you pray for n
boy?"
| said, rs your son home"
mo, he has gone to college.
/ said, YES will
He came to the meeting in the al
ernoon and he did it. And he can
to the meeting at night. He said.
am going to be of more use to Il
church than I've ever been. | jul
Joined the meeting house, ! am g
ing to join the prayer meeting al
the Sunday school and the Sund;
! morning services and the night ser
ices. | am going to take up cla'