The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-22

able, although the statement may ap-
pear a paradox.
II ! should go down town tomorrow
morning they might explain to me the
principles necessary to pursue, and I'd
thank them for the information, and
then I'd ask them the question of my
text, but they'd shake their heads and
I'D receive no answer.
If / should engage with your law
yers in conversation they might ex-
plain to me about the codes and
ordinances. and I would thank them
for their information, but if / should
ask them the question of my text I'd
receive no reply.
If should go to your leading doc
tors and engage with them in CONVEX
sation they'd explain to inc many
things about therapeutics and obstet-
RIGS and the advancement of the sci
ence of medicine, and | would thank
them for their information, and then
l would attempt to express the graft
tude of the human race for the knowl-
edge they possess and the good and
benefits that have accrued to us, then
I'd ask the question of my text, but
I'd receive no reply.
And if a lost soul should leave the
lower world and come to this taber-
nacle and Pd ask the question of my
text, it would turn and go back to it's
eternal Imprisonment and I'd stand
without an answer.
If an angel should leave heaven
and come down to the tabernacle and
honor US by it's presence the heavenly
messenger would turn and wing its
flight back again, fold its wings, and
I'd stand gazing off into the skies,
but no answer would come back to my
ears.
Salvation is
Only Escape
In Hebrews, the second chapter and
the third verse, How shall we escape
if we neglect so great salvation?"
The only way to escape is through
this salvation, and If you neglect it
there is no escape. Hence, there is no
answer to my text.
Our first thought about salvation
is we are saved from hell and made
fit for heaven. Nobody is fit to assoc
ciate with God until he has had the
spirit of God, and you are mighty par
ticular about your companions. There
are some people, as long as they live
the way they live, you wouldn't want
them in your home and you won't
associate with them, but If they'd
brace UP and live the way they ought
TO live you'd be glad to receive them.
Don't you think God Almighty is as
particular about his company as you
are
Do you think God is going to take
every old libertine and thief and thug,
take him up to heaven and let him
have a front seat? Not on your life.
But If he will get down and express
to God his sorrow for his sins God
will forgive that mans sins and he
will be born again. God has the right
to state the conditions of the terms
upon which they can cross the thresh-
old of heaven.
Yes, that's true, you are saved from
hell, but you are made fit for heaven.
Nobody lives until they are Christ
ian. Christianity was extended to
produce and prompt the highest de-
gree of human happiness, and 1T is
only when l am in harmony and sym
pathy with God l am receiving the
best there is in the world.
Future Punishment
For Wicked
Therefore, whenever I make any
reference to future punishment | an
always confronted with this difficulty
l find class of people that want tc
eliminate from the Bible that which
isn't pleasant for them to receive
They imagine if they say they dom
believe a thing, of course that settles
it and that makes them immune from
any punishment for their belief
Well, it doesn't make any difference
whether you believe there is hell 0.
not, you will go to hell any way, ant
that doesn't shut the gate nor put tbs
fire out. If hell is not everlasting
neither is heaven. God said, "Eterna
damnation," and he said, "Eterna
Joy" and the Word of God is the onl.
source of information which we hav,
regarding the future. All | know
about heaven is what the Bible says
the Bible says it is eternal All
know about hell is what the Bibl
says and it says it is eternal. | hav
no information about heaven or hel
only as it is in the Bible.
Upon what grounds do you say tina
hell isn't eternal, but heaven is? Yo1
are a fool You can't determine scrip
tural truth on ethical lines or tn
opinions of people You can't deter
mine it on scientific lines.
A friend OF mine went to a seminar,
to study He said, "That isn't what
believe" .tts&stst e
He says That's what we beliey
now We don't know what we will be
lieve month from now He says
That is our scientific conclusion
now"
BY links, when / jump in | want t
know where l am coming out, I'll te
you that None of that for you
Uncle Fuller.
Voltare's Great
Mistake
Old Voltaire propounded 81 scieI
tific principles. every one of which h
said proved the Bible full of sophis
tries. contradictions, errors and fals'
hoods, and today the French inst
tute. which is infidel, has discarde
every one of Voltaires original s
scientific principles as being III
scientific.
That's the way with a lot of stu
today which they say proves the Bib
full of falsehoods; in two or thre
years from now they will be proved
be old liars. But the Bible will stan
triumphant over all they say or do
The man who steals he doesn
believe in policemen or prison. Ba
people disbelieve in hell +, SO you can
settle spiritual truth on any scientif
theory at all. Whether. or not ther
is a hell is question which til
church by virtue of its existence ca
.ne,uar in hut one wav: die that b