The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1922-05-01
CHRIS STlANS ARE NOT WISHWASHY MILKSOPS !
GR DlSHRAG KIND OF FELLOWS, DECLARES
SUNDAY in DENUNCIATION OF VARIOUS SINS

0Tluuie, rev. w. A. sunday, In an
address to men only Sunday afternoon
said in part:
"ReJoiee, oh, young man, In thy
youth; and det thy heart cheer thee In
the days Of thy youth, and walk in
the ways Of thine heart, and In the
sight Of thine eyes; but know thou,
that for all these things God will bring
thee into Judgment"
BE not deceived; God Is not mock
ed; for whatever man soweth that
shall he also reap"
In other words, do just as you
please. If you want to lie. 1ie If
you want to swear, swear. If you
want to sneer. sneer If you want to
drink, go ahead. If you want to live
in sin, go ahead God won't stop you,
but He will bring you into Judgment
and make you pay for it when you
are through.
God has decreed the freedom of the
human will and He stops at that de-
cree. He will not coerce you, He
will not grab you by the throat and
choke. you to make you be decent.
No! And II you are not man enough
to be decent, and God wants you to
please, hut know that when you get
through God will step in.
A man may start out to live life
of pleasure. gratifying his desires,
recognizing no law but his own am
bitions. When, he does that he faces
two, considerations at the kickoff.
First, a life. Of pleasure will soon
have to end. The wicked shall not
live out half their days, and there is
a day of Judgment coming that will
correspond with the kind of life
that man lives. "It is appointed
unto man once to die. but after death,
the Judgment"
Wants to Know
Honesty Of Speaker.
When a man stands up and tells
me that he is going to speak upon a
subject such as have announced for
today, there are three or four ques.
tions that I'd like to ask him, and II
he could give me satisfactory answers
to them, I'd say: Go ahead"
"Are you kindly disposed toward
me?" Are you doing this to help
ne?" do you know what you are
talking about?" do you practice
what you preach?"
God knows that I am kindly dis
posed toward you, with no other OBJ
ject or aim or incentive or motive
than that what l do and say, 1 dc
and say because want to make ii
easier for man to do right and harder
to do wrong.
As 20 whether 7 know what am
talking about, will not pump hot
air at you.
AS to whether or not I practice
what r preach, defy and challenge
man or devil-understand it, man or
deviI-to come up with anything, my
friends, in my life in the thirty years
that have been a Christian that is
not up to the teaching in this book SO
far as am able to interpret 1t and
by the faith Of man to live it.
Let me say another thing. am
not one OF those people that go UP
and down the land talking to men and
women in all sorts of laborious dis
sertations, jumbling and meaningless
iargon.
Knows What Hard
Work Means.
was born and bred on a farm
and / know what it Is to go to bed
with an honest dollar in my breeches
pocket that 1 earned by the sweat
OF my brow, under the blazing sun in
the cornfields of Iowa, when tbs
Statue of Liberty on one side be
came Jenny Lind and the American
eagle on the other became a night
ingale, and they'd sing a poor, home
less orphan boy to sleep.
And / know about the hard knocks
and the dark and seamy side of life
I am not like a fellow who whe1
asked: "Are you going up to hea
Bil1' replied: 81 don't like to g
where l can't take my wife"
Well, the old devil has been goot
many places, guess, where he neve
took his wife. You always keep sh,
Of those bucks!
If sin wasn't so deceitful 1t woult
not be so attractive. The devil doe
not, allow a man to stop and thinl
that every time he INDUCES his desire
that desire is growing stronger ant
through accumulative force of habi
he Is growing weaker in his power t
resist it.
meet a good many people VIII
seem to think that TO be ChrIstlal
means to be sort Of a dlshrag kim
of fellow, a wlshwashy milksop.
want TO tell you you never mdoe
bigger bIunder in your life.
Before / was converted ] could pu
on a pair of running shoes and hi
the dirt 100 yards in 10 seconds fror
the crack Of the pistol. l could Gil
Gle the diamond in IA seconds fror
standing start And l was hand
with my dukes, too.
Christianity Does Not
Weaken Health.
| could run just as fast after | wa
decent as / could before ! was de
cent, and could circle the bases jus
as fast after l prayed as l could bt
fore | prayed. l can still handle m
dukes pretty good. l can go SO fas
for five rounds you can't see me.
, meet lot of people that seem t
think that a mystery. They don
know that Christianity was intende
to increase the highest possible d.
gree of happiness, and the man tha
flies IN the face of God is a fool.
Years ago when I quit playing bass
ball became Secretary of one {
the Y. M. @. AS in Chicago. l ha
the saloon route, going through S;
looms and giving men tickets invi
ing them to come to the Y. NJ. C.
to our mems meetings. One day
went into a saloon that used to stan
across the street from where the oil
Boston Store now stands, and was
there giving our tickets, and l met
Young fellow that I used to know OIL