The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-27

at the tabernacle Wednesday night.
Rev. Sunday said:
When you leave the world, you leave
something more than an epitaph on a
tombstone. You leave regrets in the
hearts of people whom you have lifted
toward God because you yourself had
known something of the Lord.
A little girl was asked why she fell
out of bed and she said. 81 went to
sleep too close to where l crawled
in"
We don't get far enough away from
the things of the world.
Out in a western state they had n
> strike on the railroad. They filled
The strikers places with any kind of
an engineer, whether locomotive or
stationary. They put an Irishman up
in the cab of locomotive, and he did
very we'll He brought the engine on
2 the turn table and he saw she was
going through, so he started back on
the turn table and repeated this sew
eral times.
pat, why don't you shut her off
and keep her in here?" said fellow
workman
why don't you shut the door and
keep her in?" he replied
A friend of mine was preaching in
southern city and in the middle Of
the sermon he asked: "How many of
you people once knew God, had any
experience, and now don't pray and
have grown careless in your life? Are
you willing to admit it?"
Forty or so people arose and in the
mute way acknowledged their neglect
and their carelessness. And as they
sat down he said:
Must Explain Why
They Lost Faith
Now, are you willing to go a step
further? Will you tell us what caused
you to lose your touch with God and
why you left the gospel train?
One man said: well, l thought I
could keep My store open on Sunday
morning to accommodate few stray
Cling customers and then close it in
time to get around to the church
Nothing doing You can't cut the
week up into seven parts and spirit.
aaIize the secular by trotting out to
church on Sunday morning and look
ing a little more pious than you did
on Saturday. Not on your life! |
say a man that will keep his store
open on Sunday, in my opinion, is an
anarchist and he can't have dollar
of my money. Not a dollar!
He mightn't go into bankruptcy il
he didn't have my trade, but he can't
have it he trampled Gods law meath
his feet.
Presently a young lady arose and
she said: well, a young lady friend
of mine gave card party and |
thought l had to give a bridge in re-
turn and among those l invited was a
young man l didn't know and when
he arrived at my house, he felt cha
grined and Mortified to imagine that
! thought he'd stoop to do that and he
took his coat and hat and left the
house and made up my mind that as
long as 1 did that l was not worthy
10 be a member of the church. That
is why l drifted away, trying to ape
other people"
Another fellow said: 81 backslid
when voted a whiskey ticket
You bet your life he backsld be-
fore he voted or he never would have
voted for that dirty, oWdoWn bust
ness, and in my opinion, a man can.
stand sponsor to that dirty business
and keep his manhood ten minutes
Make up your mind! Bootleggers are
the bitterest enemies to virtue, to
is on God AImighty's dirt. Don't you
lift your hand and look decent man
In the face when you stand sponsor
for the most damnabIe institution that
ever wrigeled its carcass out of heI
the liquor traffic!
1t is one thing to be a member o.
a church, another to be member o.
the body of Jesus Christ, although
they ought to be synonymous but they
are not. There are thousands of mem
bers of the visible church-the Metho
dist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Congre
gationalist-they are members of the
visible church but not members o
the body of Jesus Christ, for they have
never been born again.
Many Church Members
Will Be In He'll.
There will be lots of church mem
: bers in hell. Lots of Professionals il
: hell, lots of Catholics in hell-the'
Z never were converted, they never hat
q change of life, never were borl
again.
You can't beat the devil sister, h.
= has been preyirg on his old world TO
six thousand years, he never has rheu
! matism or appendicitis or peritonitis
II you get to playing tag with the dew
IN MS door yaFo ne VIII MI you %
the back and say tag, you are it..
You can't put it over on him.
Z Some church members have the hoo
and mouth disease, they run arount
the neighborhood and windiam abou
their neighbors and talk about them
| preach against certain amuse
ments, you will be aware of this fac
before | leave this city. | don't do
to arouse your antagonism. l am no
a crank about anything, and my wal
fare is for the interest and virtue AM
morals of men and women. don't car
three whoops who | have TO antagor
ize or what institution or corporation
| have to fight to make it easier TO
men to get to heaven and harder TO
men to get to hell!
| find more people in the churc
that are kept out from communiol
: with God, and more people kept out
: side than are coming in. If you liv
wrong you can't die right so max
: ND your mind what you want to dc
: Emerson said:
What you are, speaks so loud,
! can not hear what you say"
| tell you life is chuck full of hal
. done things. Things started and neve
( finished: trades begun. then abar
doned; education started. then stopI