The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-27

influences. On our coins we stamp
in God We Trust"
Under the influence of 1t, you have
turned as naturally toward this tab
ernacle as a flower will turn toward
the sun, when it left it's lips to be
kissed by the sunshine and the dew
! And then, companions. Many are
in Heaven because of the influence
OF companions. Others are in He'll
! because they have gone with the
wrong crowd.
Many Have
Good Associates.
Many a man has a good, cody
wife. or he had a cody mother, and
! l believe the prayers of many a
mans wife are a lightning rod above
his head to keep God from knock
ing him down in his cussedness and
sin. SO therefore, for the sake of
companions, you can thank the Lord.
i l was preaching out in Illinois, in
the midst of a fabulously rich val
ley. There was a man there who
owned over $500 acres of this land
i He sneered and wouldn't go to church,
although his wife plead with him to
I go.
won't go with me. l have helped you
to get all that you have got, yet you
pay more attention to others than to
me-"
| He said. "Pd go to the meeting
but I've got to milk the cows. That
was his job
She said. Wen pitch in and help
you to milk the cows" And they
did it. He drove with her to town
and when he got there he said:
I'D be willing to go to the meet
ing with you, all right, but my
clothes aren't good enough"
They're good enough for you to
wear to lodge" she said, land they
are good enough for you to go around
to the neighbors on Sundays"
well, he said, "They are not good
enough to wear to church"
Then We'll go into the store and
get you some clothes" And they
did. They went in and bought a suit
then she said, Now let's go to the
meeting"
NO" he said, TITS too late now
It's $50" So they didn't go.
Collects $40
Debt
Next day they helped him mill
, again and the man and his wife
started for town in the evening. Wher
they got there he said: See that mar
over thereA He owed me $40 and
! must go and see him.
But it is only So" she said
That's not much - you own $50,
acres, and it's we'll stocked and We
+, have money in the bank"
YES" he said, but I am COINS
to get that money" And I'll b.
: logged if he didn't go to get it.
! SO she said the next day. "Il
: give you just two days. I'll cook u
! lot of stuff, and then I'll never fir,
another egg or boil or bake anothe
thing until you go to church"
She flew around and cut the head
, off the chickens and turkeys, ant
! baked cakes and pies and little fla
! biscuits. They had great feast TO
: three days, then the supplies began t.
= play out. She began to bring bones t
o the table, and when there was no but
: ter left on the plate she brought tn
a empty plate. When there was n
y sugar in the bowl she brought tn
O empty bowl
: He stuck for two or three days an
then he said, Come, be sensible
4 Cook me a dinner, and I'll go I
!, NO" she said, You have foole
n me too often. You have got to G
first"
= They drove to town and hitche
# the horse, and as they went up tn
h church steps, she said afterward
n her heart nearly burst out Of he
h dress, she couldn't believe that sh
u was really going to get him into tn
church.
n Accepts
a. Jesus Christ.
N But they went in, and went dow
n the aisle and took seats. When th
20 invitation was given, he came dow
q. the aisle and fell on his face befoI
is Jesus, and was saved. Then the
. went home and raided the hen roo!
II and had one glorious feast Whe
a saw him again he said:
# well, Bill, I'm on the road
heaven. My wife starved me I'M
it."
He was thinking seriously. He we
N moved by reverent inquiry.
p Sometimes | think if it were n,
h for a wife many d man would ha\
NJ been in He'll long ago. So you wi
ID never know until you get to glor
q how much you are indebted to Il
in PRAYERS and tears of someone WI
held you dear and true.
Id And you are likely to drift ava
re from God. Thou art not far fro
hit the kingdom of God
OIL I will never forget that there a
re two gates which lead into the inn'
f. nature of every man and woma
r. One is the heart, the other the hea
The heart must be purified of 81
n-ino matter what your mind may
or able to conceive, if your heart
il wrong that very heart will conden
III you.
I'd If you want to get into my hear
nd come through the door of my re
no son. Now then. l don't want to 5;
if ANYTHING. my friends, my sympathi
at are too profound, my respect is t.
of great. to say anything bitter and I
II. nrOachful toward the man or womS
2 who is honestly saying, IF you wa
tx to get into my heart convince
rs reason" And in all my preachil
III here l have tried to put the heaI
Ie- side of the Gospel. l have tried
NJ show YOU that religion is the mo
.rl reasonable thing on earth and tn
d Won must be a moral idiot that "
to don't see that a man is unreasonah
At. if he is unrighteous and that rig
OF teous and reasonableness are syno
o-,o,,r towns Nobody is reaSOndE