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

In his third sermon on Personal
Work" Rev. w. A. Sunday Friday
afternoon said:
The boy that's gone out and
hooked worm on bent pin knows
more about fishing from the practical
standpoint than some fellow who read
Sir Isaac Walton's book on Com
plete Angling" and never hooked a ,
worm in his life.
There's too much theorIzIng on how
things ought to be done and too lit
tie practice.
We need wisdom to do anything in
the world, particularly what the Lord |
wants done, and God can use horse
sense, and the church needs a bap- i
tism of good horse sense.
There are many kinds Of wisdom
the wisdom Of winning men, the wis |
dom of winning money, the wisdom
OBI teaching, the wisdom of construct. |
ing buIIdings-the kind that makes
somebody forsake their sins and be-
come a Christian.
wise man believes in God; the
fool doesn't. The wise man built his
house On a rock; the fool on the
sands. A wise man will pray; a fool
won't. A wise man will do what God
tells him to do to go to heaven; the
fool doesn't care. The fool hath said
in his heart: There is no god"
LIfe-SaVlng Crew
Knows Work
Did you ever watch a life-saving
crew at work? When | played base
ball l used to go out to Northwestern
university out at Evanston, trying to
get something that / might go out
and preach and talk to people, and
one thing l delighted to do was to
stroll out about o'clock and watch
the life-saving crew at work There
were half dozen big, strong, husky
fellows pulling and as many pushing
bot down into the surf, and they'd
get in and pick out the oars and laz-
lily row out about quarter of a mile
from the shore where the United
States government had allowed them
TO erect what represented the mast
of wrecked ship.
Then those on shore would bring
out the cannon and fire out the life
line. There was a shell that had
hole through it and through that
fish line, and attached to the fish
line a halfinch Manila rope. They
shot the shell out to the wreck and
the men there would grasp it and
drag it up and pull it through and
make it fast to the mast, and they'd
run out the bouy and bring them in
! used to watch them, and if there
had been real storm and a real
wreck everybody would have been at
- the bottom of Lake Michigan before
that crew would have reached them.
The hour had come for their daily
routine and maneuvers and they were
just practicing.
That's the way of a lot of people
today. On one day in seven the
church bells ring and the calender
says it's the Sabbath, and the hour
has come for their regular routine
and maneuvers; but they never try
to save anybody; they just go through
the motions. They go to church, put
on little better dress than they us
ually wear, fix up their hair a little
different, and call that serving God
You just hang your head! | expect
you're fair specimen perhaps of the
majority Of people in the church, and
If everybody in the world did no more
than you do, the world would have
been in hell long ago. It's a Gods
fact; it's disgrace!
If two-thirds of the people of this
country had showed no more loyalty
to the government in her call for sol
diers for help in the last war. my
friends, Portugal could have whipped
US to frazzle-or some other little
country
Christ Calls
for Loyalty
1 tell you, there is no greater cal
tor loyalty TO your country than 10y
atty to Jesus Christ, too. Show that
you're for the Lord, too, willing to die
for either of them, or both
What would our country amount tc
II 1t were not for Jesus Christ, anc
what would the church amount tc
without the country?
And up there at Evanston there was
the hulk of what had been an old boat
p pounded to pieces on the sandbar tina
= runs out from the shore that a
Evanston, and the ship was wrecked
and they had fired the lifelong, but to,
far away. The high waves and heav,
surf beat back the life-savers and the,
found key on board this old boat ant
put this key in a sack, tied a rope Il
it. threw it overheard, and the wint
and the waves carried the old keg il
to the shore, and they made the en-,
OF the rope fast to the shore an,
brought II people off the wreck an
saved them. And they kept that oil
keg there as a relic, and I'd look at
and say:
lord, make me an old kea tina
will carry the lifeline to some strands
sailor in this old world"
If you are trying to save someon
from the stormy seas of passion an
unbelief, you are doing what Go
wants done, and you are doing wha
the devil doesn't want done, in carry
ing out the plan of salvation.
When a travelling caravan in tn
East runs out of water, the entir
company will separate. One man wi
go as far as his voice will carry I
another on either side, and they wi
string the company out across grea
area of land. Then they will go lool
ing for water, and when one finds W;
ter he turns and calls to the one nea
est him.
water found! Water found! Waite
found" And he will pass it to th
next, and he to the next, until the el
tire company is informed that one ha
found water.
What would you think if you wei
with a company of people dying frol
thirst and one should find water an
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