The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-15

Christ there is no mercy and there
could be none and if there were mercy
out of Christ, then Jesus Christ died
in vain on the cross. If salvation
could have been attained otherwise
than by the death of Jesus then all
He went through was useless. If |
could save myself by my culture and
morality and my philanthropy, Jesus
Christ needn't to have ONE into the
world to die. 1t was perfectly need
less, if / can save myself and if sal
walton is to be gotten by some other
way than through the faith of Jesus
Christ; it was useless for him to
come and suffer. There is no saliva
ton in any other way.
According to the Bible, men are
saved because they accept Jesus
Christ and men are lost not because
they are worse than others but be-
cause they reject Jesus Christ. And
our sins, to be forgiven, must be con-
veyed somewhere and God laid on
Jesus Christ our inlquity, so accept
the one who bears my guilt and that
lets me escape. And if the world
would be firmly convinced that Jesus
Christ is the Son of God then accept
Him, sin would instantly cease. No
man would stagger home drunk, no
body would lie and defame another's
character, and | come tonight to pre-
sent to you the only power thai can
set you free from the sins which hold
you an unwilling prisoner, chained to
your evil habits and | can't imagine
the possibility of anybody with or
binary intelligence entertaining the
least doubt about Jesus Christ being
the Son of God.
Convinced of
His Belief
And if l were the only man in the
world who believed in Jesus Christ
as the Son of God, that belief would
be all the evidence that | needed for
myself-it wouldn't make any differ
ence what you believed. So over
whelmingly is the evidence or the
side of Christ that it is impossible
for anybody to deny that Jesus is
the Christ without committing intel
lectual and moral suicide.
/ know a world that is sunk in shame,
OF hearts that are sick and tired;
| know of a name. a name. a name
That can set the world on fire.
And that can cleanse every sinner
and make every drunhard sober and
every thief to steal no more and
am presenting to you that name to-
night: Jesus Christ. the Son of God.
Someone has said:
Give me all the gold of the earth
and l will weld a scepter for Him.
Give me all the mountains of the
earth and | will build a throne for
Him. Give me all the stars of the
night and l will weave a garland for
His brow"
Now the blood stands for several
things. First, for poured-out life
Your life is in your blood. Draw the
blood from your veins and arteries
then you are dead. A l~ifeless lump
Jesus Christ gave his life, a ran.
som for me. Some of your hymnol
ogy and a great deal of our ~so-called
theology is misleading. I never like
the clarifying process of the blood
| believe the blood flowing from the
wound of Jesus would stain my liner
as much as the blood from the saloon
keeper would have stained my linen
The blood of Jesus wouldn't make my
|. linen be white-the blood of Jesus was
red. when we are speaking from tina
standpoint.
Atonement Theory
is correct
When it is charged anon us tina
our Bibles a bloody Bible and GU
gospel is q bloody gospel and thil
world is a bloody world. | have neye,
apologized and so help me God,
never will. You take the blood o
Jesus Christ out of the plan of atone
ment, and that book we call the Bibl
won't be worth the paper it is printet
on. You take the blood out of you
body and you are dead. a lifeles
thing. 1t is the blood that gives u
life and it is the blood of the atone
ment that gives the Christian religio
life. Without that we've got nothint
to offer to the world.
That's why a lot of preachers ar
failures, they are preaching a lot G
tommy-rot, p~oppy-cock, nonsense an
they've got an Improvement over tn
blood of Jesus Christ. the Son of Goo
Whatever the blood touches it rs
deems and as long as the blood is o
the mercy seat the sinner may return
am not like an infidel who came I
me out west and said: "Bill, ! don
like your siaughter-house religion"
l said: you Goddess old reprobatel
I said: IF your old carcass is eve
kept out of hell ii will be by repen
ance and faith in what you sneeringl
term this slaughter-house religion
There has never been a sinner thu
has ever been saved in any other wa
and never will be-"
don't the blame the people half {