The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-18

wrath of God cometh upon the child
rem of disobedience."
No man rises higher than his mo
tives,-the idea that moves, and no
body can go faster than the dynamo
that impels and drives him.
Some of you have got new heart,
that is the reason you will pray, that's
the reason. You will do what God
wants you to do in this old world. II
anybody here today is making fail
ure, do what Jesus did. He said,
prayer and fasting
Oh, the kind that destroys men and
women. The kind that makes I'm,
happy homes. The kind that breaks
parents hearts. The kind that sends
men home brutal and drunk. The
kind that makes men untrue to their
wives and wives untrue to their hus
bands. The kind that wrecks virtue
and send girls out into lives of shame
The kind that makes men merciless
and grinding to the poor. The kind
that robs the widows and orphans
The kind that is merciless as hell and
as black as hate and as relentless as
despair That kind in people comes
from the devil, and the power that
will cast that kind out of the people
comes by prayer and fasting.
Now you know why the church isn't
casting that kind out - because they
are not praying, and they are hitting
the booze, and they never darken the
prayer meeting door. They are going
to the devil and they are chewing the
rag instead of getting on their knees
Now you know!
This kind, the kind that can put
that kind out. That kind comes by
prayer and fasting and the church
isn't doing it No, sir. That is why
they don't cast him out.
Prominent Places
Of No Significance.
Wait a minute! They had been dis
putting who'd be the greatest, on the
way up to that meeting. They'd found
they were no match for the devil
they'd been wrangling to see WHO'D
have the most feathers in their hat
Oh, what poor weak sisters We are
Peter, up on the Mount of Trans
figuration, wanting to stay there said
Lets build three tabernacles, one
for you, one for Moses, and one fol
Elijah. Let the crowd down in the
valley go to the devil, and let's stay
up here"
And the crowd in the valley pull
ing hair, chewing the rag to see who't
sit in the highest seat! Oh, if the
angels see what goes on here on earth
they must wonder at the patience o
| God! No wonder they couldn't pray
II think that God is too busy to pan
any attention to the fellow who is try
ing to lift himself by his own boo
straps There is nothing to SHOW
that God Almighty will do anything
out of the common to help fool. No
| There is something wrong with tn
man or the woman that wants the big
| gest bee In his bonnet and the chic
seat in the synagogue. 1t is as i'm
possible to pray right when your lif
| is wrong as it is to run an automobil
with dishwater. 1t can't be did!
Now, they'd been disputing amon'
themselves who'd be the greatest. Oh
mercy, isn't it fierce? Mind yo1
now, get this point, l wouldn't hav
dreamed it possible If the Bible had
mt told me. 1 wouldn't dream it pos
sible that people in church woul
scrap if / didn't know it. l wouldn'
dream that some of the biggest devil
on earth sit in church pews with thei
names on the records, baptiseC
sprinkled, and immersed, and knoy
the thirty-eight articles of confession
and been to mass and to confession
going to the devil so fast you can
| see them for dust. If l don't knoN
| it, wouldn't believe it. | have me
every form of beast in the arena, i
all these years for God, and / know.
Christians Ought Not
Start a Quarrel.
Now, say here they'd been dispu
ing among themselves who'd be tn
greatest, instead of trying to do some
thing to get the devil out. I'd neve
have dreamed it possible if the Bibl
hadn't said so. Disciples of Jesu
Christ falling out! Think of tn
fingers on your hands quarrelling
Think if your thumb said,
Get off the earth, you little runt.
Think of the little finger saying
"Oh, you big stiff, because you towe
above the rest you think you are tn
only pebble on the beach,
Go to it. My! Think of the wheel