The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-25

day afternoon. He said:
Somebody has said that the Bible
is such a complete system that il this
nation were governed by no other set
of laws than those found within its
pages, 1t would be- enough. 1t con-
tains everything that's needful for a
man or woman to know or to do. 1t
affords a copy for President or a
King. by which to live. 1t furnishes
rules for a subject, and counsel for a
senator, or for a governor or for a
mayor, and it cautions the witnesses
and it requires impartial verdicts
from juries. 1t tells children to honor
their parents, and it tells the parents
to provoke not their children to
wrath. 1t gives a directory for we'd
dings and for funerals.
1t teaches man to set his house
in order; it tells him to make his
will. 1t appoints a dowry for the
widow 1t defends the rights of all
and it reveals vengeance to the de-
famer 1t is the first book in all the
world. 1t is the best book in the
world, and it is the oldest book in
the world. To understand and obey
1t is to be wise; to spurn and reject
it is to be fool! Its author is God.
1t has sixty-six books, thirty-nine in
the Old Testament and twenty-seven
in the New, and they cover nearly two
thousand years of human history.
And if | should take away all of the
Old Testament and leave only the
New, there's enough in that to save
every man or woman on earth. And
If | should take away all the New
Testament and leave only the Old,
there's enough there to put you in
heaven or put you in hell as you
would obey or disobey. And if l
should take away twenty-three books
of the New Testament and leave only
four, there's enough in those four
books to save everybody, although we
would lose the history of the early
church in the Book of Acts; we
would lose all of Paul's wonderful
Epistles; and we would lose Johns
Book of Revelations, and that mag
nificent closing verse where
The Important
Text.
The Spirit and bride say: Come.
And let him that heareth say, Come.
And let him that is athirst come.
And whosoever will. let him take the
water of life freely"
And if I should take away three of
the four remaining books, enough re-
mains to damn everybody that will
reject it. And if l should take away
all the chapters out of that one book,
my friends, except the third, there's
enough religion in that one chapter
to save every man and woman on
earth or send them to hell. And if
should take away all the Bible and
leave only one verse, there's enough
religion in that one verse to put every
man and every woman on the streets
of heaven, or put you in hell if you
don't obey it.
Will you give me my text. Quote
ii.
"For God SO loved the world, that
He gave His only beeotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in Him should
not perish, but have everlasting life"
| wanted to see how we'll you knew
the Bible.
Now famous German one time said
that when German loves, he gives.
Well, that's true OF all the nationali-
ties and all individuals, that our gifts
are the measures of our love. There
fore, measuring love by gifts, God
must have had a great, big heart for
this sin-cursed earth, when He gave
His only begotten Son. Ii He would
one, he would not have missed Him
so much but God gave His only be-
gotten Son" While we were still
sinners, Christ died for us
Deeds Must
Back Words.
| know of man who used to tell
how much he loved his wife, and yet
he boosted that he made her wear
the same hat for ten years. All his
love was in words, not deeds. He
was wind TANNER and a. past master
at it.
1t is love that NANTES itself in
action, that moves the old world
Abraham Lincoln said in his dedica
tory address at Gettys burg:
The world will little note nor long
remember what we say here, but il
can never forget what they did here
And the world cares very little fol
those who rule it. What do we care
that Julius Caesar re ached the Rubi
con that none would ever have dared
cross without the consent of the Ro
man senate, and he said THE die i:
cast" and he leape6t in; and that &C
changed the history of the world
What do we care for julius Caesar
What do we care for Alexander the
when he was eighteen; that he wa!
King Of Macedonia when he was TWEEN
ty, and sat upon the shores of tn,
Aegean Sea and uiept that there wer,
not other worlds to conquer; crep
into his grave. the conqueror of thu
then known world, when he was onl,
thirty-two years old?
What do we care if Napoleon Bon
aparte made tn thrones of Europe
tremble, and made and unmade tn,
maps OF the wo rid; spent his last day
upon st. Hele1a's barren rocks, ant
he sleeps ton; ght upon the bank o
the Seine in his magnificent home
The world Today does not care 70
those that have ruled it, but we will
never forget those that have servet
it.
We will never forget Washington
First in peace, first in war, ant
first in the hearts of his country
men,"
LineoIn's Memory
Lives On.
We will never forget Lincoln, VIII
said, 81 hope it may always be said O
me, that / plucked up thorn an
1 painted rose wherever a flower vii
grow"
And we will never forget Florenc
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