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

Christ and know it's a good thing, if
you don't pass 1t to the next one?
II it's better for you to go to heav-
en- than to go to hell, it's just as good |
for the fellow next to you to go to i
heaven instead of hell, so let some /
body else know what you have found.
If you are sick and some doctor
gives you medicine that makes you !
we'll, and you know of friend that |
has the same trouble, you always tell |
them about the doctor, don't you?
Pass it on!
And SO, If the gospel is good
thing, tell the other person. The !
people of old found 1t good and pass !
ed II on to US, let's pass 1t on to
others in our day. Leave somebody
behind that will keep on telling the
plan of salvation to the world.
The keynotes of the gospel are
come" and "go"-
Come unto me all We that are weary
and heavy laden and l will give you
rest"
GO ye into all the world and preach
the gospel to every creature"
You can't take anything to heaven
with you but your soul-not your
property, your automobile, your beau
but your soul, my friends.
II you want to do anyone a person
al favor, win them to Jesus Christ.
It's the greatest thing wife can do
for her husband, or husband for a
wife; it's the greatest thing parent
can do for a child or a child for a
parent; it's the greatest thing you
can do for your neighbor, or members
of your lodge or your club, and il
you want to please Christ do that,
! and if you want to displease the devil
| do it. Say, you ought to break your
neck to please God and you ought to
/ take supreme delight in making Jesus
Christ smile and the devil groan. l lie
awake nights studying up something
/ the devil doesn't want done and then
/ go and do 1t.
1t Requires Effort
To Save People
/ 1t requires effort to save people.
| worked on a farm when / was only
! ten years old, MIXED ten cows night
and morning. / used to bind oats
/ before Mccormick invented the self
/, binder, and l was only eleven years
old I fired for railroad; I've play
| ed baseball; I've been an athlete, my
! friends. You'd naturally think it's the
easiest thing on earth to get people
to do right-well, it's the hardest thing
and yet it's no compliment to any man
or woman to know that they are not
Christian. / would be ashamed to
look a decent man or woman in the
face and say l was not Christian, my
friend! If to be a Christian meant
to be something disreputable, l would
understand why anyone would refuse
1t but when 1t means to be the highest
and noblest man or woman on God S
dirt, tell me why you refuse and ex-
!, pect people to respect you.
And you need courage. oh, there
Is nothing harder, seemingly, than to
!, get out and taIk-talk to somebody
about being a Christian. You can
talk about business about politics,
about society-that doesn't hurt the
, DEVILS cause but when you begin
your assault on his kingdom, all the
devils in hell will be on your back.
. Don't be afraid; don't go around
! with your head hanging down like a
. bullrush, as though you are going tC
! fail. Many fail from lack of courage
!, / suppose l read the story of Noah
and the flood twenty times before
got this lesson out of It: God told
: Noat to build the ark, and he built it
and he was a hundred and twenty
, years in building it. And when he
! got it complete he couldn't convince
! anybody but his wife, his three sons
and their wives, that God was goins
to destroy the world. In other words
after a hundred and twenty years, hi
! could only convince seven people
: and only eight went into the arl
. with himself)
a Jesus Christ Was
True to Calling.
So, Jesus Christ lived on this eartl
:. thirty-three years and at Pentecos
: he could muster one hundred anC
twenty-after thirty-three years o
work and of preaching. Some o
them followed him as long as he'C
:, feed them, but when he cut the com
: missary department off. they stopped
, ! They just followed him for tn
= loaves and fishes.
| got that lesson out of 1t, and We
} Jesus Christ said, HE that believed
J on me, the works that l do shall b
u do also; and greater works tina,
= these shall he do because / go unit
my Father"
Il Jesus was a great worker. He said
u 81 must work the works Of Him tina
u send me-"
- When His disciples came along a
y He sat on the well of Sychar the
II went on into the town to buy bread
and while he was sitting there, Their
q came out a woman with pitcher VI
% on her shoulder to draw water fror
the we'll and Jesus asked her to Civ
le him a drink She said:
a mo, you are a jew; l am Samar
q tan. We have no dealings one wit
y another"
y You can bet your life the racls
lines were mighty finely drawn whe
lie that Samaritan woman wouldn't Civ
re Jesus a drink because he was jew
III They wouldn't have any dealings on
% with the other"
III Il am a Samaritan; you are Jew
at we have no dealings" she said.
And Jesus said, "If you only kne'
a who it was that was asking you, 70
r. would ask of him the living water"
And she became a materialist an
er said, Lord, give me that water tn;
he came not hither to draw.
n Christ Tells of
as True Water.
He said, IF you drink that waite
re you will get thirsty again but VIII
m ever drinks the water / give him sha
Id never thirst and shall be a well
ST wafer Swinging I'D into eyerIastir