The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-01

mdttneW ZItn Cnapterp ZEno VeTse'
In his sermon Sunday night, Rev. W.
A. Sunday said:
Nineteen hundred years ago star
poised above a lowly manger in
Bethlehem, and above the moonlit
hills of Judea the angels heralded
the beginning of the life of Jesus
Christ upon this earth, who came to
teach US the religion of human kind
ness, brotherly love and repentance
through faith in his shed blood.
No matter what he said or did,
the Jews refused to acknowledge his
claims as the Messiah, and their en-
nifty finally eliminated in the great
est tragedy that the brutality of man
ever committed or the eye of God
ever witnessed-the murder of Jesus
Christ under false testimony. Jealous
of His popularity, and rejecting His
Divinity. they resolved at all hazards
to kill Him.
Not having the power of life and
or death in their own hands or tr1-
bunals, they denounced Him before
Plate, the Roman Governor. To stir
up his enmity, they said that He
was an imposter, that He had stirred
up sedition and that He was an enc.
my Of the government.
And PLATE examined Him, and being
unable to prove Him guilty of any
offense worthy of death, Plate pro
posed that they release Him. But
the rabble shrieked and screamed
No! Away with Him! Give US q
Barrabbas!"
PLATE Puts
Question to Jews.
And next to Jesus, Plate is the
scene and it is from his lips fal
the words l have taken for my text
And when they cried "Barrabbas, he
turned to them: We'll, then, wha
will I do with Jesus, which is called
the Christ? l have got rid of Barrab
bas at your suggestion but | still have
Jesus on my hands
And PLATE was very near the line
He tried to reason with them and hi
arose from the throne and took Jesu:
by the hand and led him. out in from
of them and asked them: What shall
do then with Jesus, which is calico
the Christi"
ana SO l6du Till Oul OCAOAC ms
audience tonight and ask you tho
same words that PLATE asked the
crowd that surged around the throne
that day.
plate was confronted. my friends
with difficulties. He haf many thing
to encourage him and he had man,
things to discourage him. First to en-
COURAGE him, he had his Wife's dream
ie hPiA
ly told in the Bible. 1t is all containet
in one verse of Scripture. 1t is no eN
idence of her worth and character as
woman that God condescended to re
veal Himself in dream to her. n
revealed Himself in dream to Phal
aoh, to Nebuchadnezzar. Yet for a
we know Mrs. PLATE might have pee
very reverent, devout woman, Cor
stantIy on the alert to save her hu'
hand from the difficulties which sh
knew his miserable, pliable tempe
would lead him into. And somehoN
while she slept, God worried her oy
dream. What He revealed, ! don
know, but it was presumably abot
Jesus and the part her husband wa
to play in this tragedy, because the
couldn't put Him on the cross wltnoI
the consent of plate.
And she sent messenger to Pllat
with the message: Have thou not
ing to do with this just man.
others WHnt to murder him, let thel
do so, but don't you ever be led 10 q
it. Have nothing to do with him.
SO we have the personality OF Jesu
Never had such personality appea
ed before plate for sentence. Thel
nly,,T1
ty and in His power, more beautif'
than a dream of Pericles.
Personality
Counts Muck
am frank to tell you, if I was c
Jury the personality of the ma
would have a big drag with me, g
most as much as what the man woul
saw on the witness stand. If | wei
called upon to try man like Brya
Roosevelt, am frank to tell you the
, personality would have tremendol
drag with your Uncle Fuller.
And so he had the personality
Jesus. He had the miracles of Jesu
do not know that plate had ev'
witnessed Christ perform a miracl
7 don't know that PLATE had ev
seen a man or woman who had bee
A recipient of the power of Jesu
Positive am that he knew about Il
miracles, for they were current co
versation, and there was no sectiC
of the country that he could go in
that YOU couldn't find somebody tn
Jesus Christ had benefited, eth
by opening their eyes or curing the
lameness.
So while certain things were IT
ing to influence PLATE to get him I
the side of Jesus other things we
irving to discourage him: and viii
God is trying to bring influence
bear to make you Christian the de-
is bringing influence to bear to Ike
you away from Jesus.
So PLATE had these things to &C
slider:
First, what would the Jews sa
The Jews were at this time und
the control of the Romans and t
Romans were severe in their eXS
lions and Plate was the very TRIP
essence of severity. He was so har
that some of the influential Je'
had gone to Rome to intercede wi
Caesar to have PLATE. recalled a
a more kind and humane man plac
over them in Jerusalem.
coWdardice
Cause OF Action.
Plate knew that these Jews h
no use for Jesus, and Plate kn'
that II they heard that he h