The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-13

Your task ends when you pillow the
ground and plant the seed. It's up
to God to make it grow. Therefore,
when | accept Jesus Christ, it is up
TO god to save me. How God does
It. | don't know. How God makes
the seed grow, don't know. That's
none of my business.
/ ! can't explain how il is that the
food that ! eat assimilate to my
body, makes brain, molecue, cor.
/ puscles, weighs and cuticle. don'r
need to understand, all I've got to
/ do is to sit down and shovel it down
my throat-that's all I've got to do.
! But am l going to be a fool and
sit at a table and starve because
can't explain how it's done? Oh,
am not that big fool; l may be
fool about some things, but not
about that
/ Salvation does not come my
friends, by compromising God with
the mind, but knowing Him in the
heart,-that's how it comes to you
in the world!
Hyocrites
In Church.
i Now, you say there are hypocrites
in the church Yes, and there are
people in the church that are not.
too. There are hypocrites in the
Masonic Lodge and there are fellows
that are not There are hypocrites
in the Odd Fellows and Elks and all
the lodges, and there are fellows
that are not, but that doesn't keep
the good fellows out of the lodge,
because there are some in there who
don't live up to the way they ought
to.
Oh, yes. and there are fellows that
are not true to their wives, but that
doesn't keep you from being true to
yours, does it? Oh, no.
You say there are hypocrites. Ger
tainIy, and if you wait until the
church is living the way they ought
to before you go to church, you will
go to HeII,-yes, you will, old top!
Now, you say there are hypocrites.
will admit it. I won't argue it.
What's that to you?
Seek We the Lord" Heaven
wouldn't look right if you looked
at it through the devils glasses, and
when You look at religion through
a hypocrite; you've got the devils
specs on, take it from me!
/ a thousand hypocrites outside the
church to one inside of the church.
You will be dumb-founded to find
out what a good crowd we are.
There is nothing bright about the
sunlight when you look at it through
smoked glasses, and l don't wonder
religion doesn't look very good to
you, if you look at it through hyp-
ocrite Finding God will not only
make you right, but it will take the
kinks out of lot of other folks too,
Yes!
Mind Your
Own Business.
:! You will find that your neighbor's
house will look better if you will just
wash your own windows. The man
who looks through cobweb sees moth.
ing but spiders. The man who looks
at womanhood through prostitution
thinks they are all bad. The man that
looks at Christianity through hyp
! ocrite, thinks we are all hypocrites
Well, you are fool
Certainly, there are hypocrites
but there are lot of folks that are
! not hypocrites. Don't forget that!
, Now, you say, 81 never did any harm. >
That has nothing to do with the
, question at all, my friends, absolutely
; Conduct is not an issue here so far a.
I can find out. There are plenty Of
snakes in the grass that have never
bitten anybody yet, but you wouldn't
!, let your child play with that one
would you? 1t is only question o
: time until it would. Nobody would
= vote to turn a mad dog loose, because
. it hadn't bitten anybody yet.
81 You say some people haven't done
= any harm yet. 1t is only question
: of time until they will, if they haV'
!, cot any of the devil in them.
n Character is what God approve
or opposes, not conduct In God
i sight there is no difference between
= being wrong and doing wrong, ant
! the reason you do wrong is becaus
o YOU are wrong And the reason VIII,
7 YOU are wrong is because you won
. WELD to God-that's the reason 20,
= are wrong in the world.
+ How To Get
9. Into Heaven.
Now. Seek We the Lord" A ma,
gets into a lodge on the pass WORD
not because he is president of a bank
q not atall. You get into HEAVIER
\ not because you are rich or pool
n learned or illiterate. You get int
Heaven by the pass word-the pas
II word is Jesus Christ, not money.
Q The pass word is Jesus Christ, nc
4 culture. You go up and try to &c
10 into a lodge when you don't kno1
the pass word, and see how quick
:" they will give you the hot-foot.
I? You say, well, I can do all RICH
a I can be a Christian and not belon
Z to a church Well, now. Tha
id doesn't enter into this question
IS Maybe you couldn't, l couldn't and
v don't believe you can. / never sa7
Christian in my life that stage
Id out of the church.
" You will need all the help you ca
r. get, and that's the institution thu
ID God Almighty has destined to hel
~ you. Whenever man is truly col
at verted. the first place he hunts fo
w is a church, that is if he is trul
| saved.
n You give your heart to Jesu
n Christ, and l want to tell you tn
~ church membership will take care {
Itself. as sure as you live and breath
Of You say, 81 can go to Heaven an
n not be a member of the church VIII,
n some men can live with woman the
" are not married to, but that isn't m
v. way,-no, live another way.
d You Can Easily
i'd Lose Your Soul
lyI You can lose your soul, simply b
cause you won't yield to Jesus Chris