The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-08
HEART AFFAIRS MUST Be REPAIRED BEFORE
\ GOD CAN enter SOUL To MAKE 1T ABODE
81 !. OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND SPIRITUAL TRUTH

the biggest stir that that old whisky
soaked, Iicentious, idolatrous, cor
rupt, Goddess, blasphemous country
had ever seen or has ever recorded,
and it made Ahab and JeZebl mad
enough, l think, my friends, to spit
fire out of their mouths.
And if you wish to see dead
church awakened, oh, do something
out of the common. There's plenty
C Bible authority for not pushing
thing aside because it seems sensa-
tional. When Noah built the Ark and
loaded it with a strange cargo, that
was a sensation. When Jonah walked
down the streets of Nineveh covered
with sea-weed crying Repent! Re-
pent. Repent! Repent, that was
sensational And when he told them
he had been three days in the whales
belly, that was sensational. Jesus
Christ created a sensation when he
went into the synagogue at the be-
ginning of his ministry and taught
not as the scribes but as one that had
authority; that was sensational Now
| if you will get a little ginger and
vim, I'd like it better than this dead,
lazy sort of thing; get little enthus-
| iasm for Jesus.
The preacher who can't preach as
one who has authority has no call
| from God to open his mouth any
| where on earth.
John the Baptist
Spoke Sharply.
The twenty-third chapter of Mat
thew is sensational preaching in
words that cut like a razor John the
Baptist was sensational in what he
said as well as in what he did, and
because he was not like one of the
| bunch all Jerusalem and Judea came
out to see Gods lion-hearted preach
er that hurled the anathemas of the
Lord into the ranks of sin. High,
low. rich and poori
Why don't people go to church
is question that's always asked, and
my guess is that it's too much like
going to a cemetery or funeral.
That's one reason why I think it's
not done. Put more life in it and
you won't have so many complaints
to offer The prayer meetings arc
dead, because a corpse is leading it
many time.
And when Ahab saw Elijah, he
4
and a sort of a sanctimonious whine
troubleth Israeli"
But the Prophet of God came back
with an upper cut and old Ahab go:
it under the fifth rib. The old Pro
phet Strengthened up like a fire lad
der, and, with a look that went
through that old licentious King like
an X-ray, he Numbered out,
81 have not troubled Israel, but
thou hast in your fathers house, in
that you have forsaken the Lord, your
God, and you are worshipping idols
sir; that's why"
If that wasn't sensational, show
me something that was, will you
please?
Preachers Fall
To Tell Truth.
If some preachers would talk as
plain to some of the big sinners on the
front seats, l want to tell you, you'd
soon see them begin to crowd the
peWs, and if your churches are full
of men that are working overtime fol
the devil seven days in the week and
then doing overtime at night, tel
them SO! Call spade a spads
and you will hear things begin tc
rattle like castanets for Jesus Christ
One reason why there are 50 few
revivals in some sections and why re
ligion and morality is at such an aw
full low tide is because there is Sc
little of the Tishbite kind of preach
, ing done today to the chief sinner;
that occupy the chief seats in the
synagogues. If Bible results are ex
I pected, there must be Bible preach
t ing; then God will honor that, no mat
, ter who may preach it in the world
When David killed Goliath, he dit
: ! it because he went against him will
| suitable ammunition; he loaded hi
t sling according to the size of the jol
l that he had on hand. oh, some woult
: have tried to kill the giant with lii
r tie sand in. a blow-pipe; but vol
2 couldn't do it in that way. David did
! mt waste any time skirmishing TO
position; he took dead aim and he pu
r muscle enough behind the throw t
: crack the giants bean the first throw
: | out of the box.
S Elijah Trusted
n In God.
+ If he'd only meant to wing him
Y there'd have been no mourning in tn
0 camp of the Philistines at that time
I 4 AuQ Wu0IS llO uCll1lIC AOpS 10 ca
pected, nothing out of the common
+ will ever happen.
J. The next thing | learn about Eliza
S is that he knew his God well enoug
Il to trust him Some of us are so yer
e slightly acquainted with the Lor
e that we are afraid 20 do this. S
many of US get such little help froT
= God because we are afraid to trus
l. Him 20 do very much for us The
It won't trust him any further than the
t. have to. They are like the little gil
d who said,
S Il don't have to pray any more tina
d | won't get scarlet fever because Nv
e got sulphur bag around my neck.
d And so they won't go any furthe
Y than seemingly they have to for tn
d Lord.
i Elijah had a God that made tn
d ravens feed him; and the widows o
d and meal failed not; and he WASH
afraid of anything that could harper
o So many of us are, and that's the rel
IS son we accomplished so little in tn
8 world in which we live. And the mi
O ment the Lord told Elijah to go an
IS show himself to old Ahab, he girde
o his loins about him and started gu
" He didn't lose a minute considerin
n what great odds were against him q
Y all: he only thought of the help tia
it God would give him to go out an
d win that conflict.
;; God Helps