The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-26

verse.
Personal Work-Proverbs" was the
topic on which Rev. Sunday preached
Wednesday afternoon. He said:
When l was a little boy was going
down the street in my home town,
where l was born, in Iowa, and 4
couple of dogs we're fighting, and an
old fellow came along and he asked,
Whose dog is that?" and he was
told and he said, 1T isn't my dog"
There is that same spirit today.
We see a boy going down the street,
drunk. 'He isn't my boy
Or you see a woman selling her
womanhood and that disposition of
spirit just passes because they
have no family relation to us. tt
seems to be prevalent even in the
church. and that's my subject today.
He isn't my boy
My text is in Proverbs-11:3 -
"He that winneth souls is wise" You
know there are vast multitudes in.
this enlightened land of ours that are
in open rebellion against God.
I'VE will not have this man, Jesus
Christ, to reign over us" is the heart
less cry that wings its flight from Of
flee, and shop, and store, and fac
tory, and home, and college, and the
busy mart of trade.
Lots of People
Want Bible Changed.
There are lots of the people that are
willing, my friends. to accept what
ever they want from the Bible. They'd
like to codify it; they'd like to sit
down and eliminate that which isn't
pleasant to them to receive, and
which they don't like to adjust their
lives to, and insert something they'd
like.
You take it as it's given, and If
you don't you'll go to hell. God Al
mighty won't adjust his principles to
suit the opinions of anybody; the
Lord has made his revelation to the
world and it is up to you and not to
the Lord. He has done all he ever
will or can to save this world. He
has given sunshine and rain and
ground, and it's up to you to pillow it
and plant the seed, or starVe to death.
Gods done his part; he will do no
more. He will do no more.
They say they will give us the ser
mon on the mount, or the Decalogue,
minus the things that they don't like.
They say, I'VE have no king but self"
and the only law that multitudes of
people recognize is the law of their
own desires and ambitions. They
do the things because they personally
want to do it, and they don't give 4
rap what influence it has upon their
character or what influence theic
conduct has upon others that are
looking to them for an example. All
the law they know is the law of their
own desire. That's all!
"And so our Lord is now rejected
and by the world disowned; by the
many still neglected, but by the few
enthroned" That is true of the de-
nominations that are represented in
these meetings, too
Wouldn't Take Long
To Go To He'll.
Out in western state where I live,
four years ago they made a report
that during that year now there
were three hundred churches Of that
denomination in that state and they
spent three hundred thousand dol
lars for current expenses-they held
forty-six thousand meetings and dur
ing the year there were just eighty
seven men and women converted and
Joined those churches on confession
of faith. | suppose that is this safe
and sane evangelism that | hear SC
much about.
1t wouldn't take the world long to
oct into hell if that's all there is to
L!
And in Chicago, just few years
ago the church made report and
there was an average of five Joined
each church on confession of faith
some more, some less-but it aver
aged up five for a year.
And last year seven thousand five
hundred churches of all denomina
tions made reports and not one &C
cession this year on confession Of
faith All right, look at it! JUS
face the conditions and you will see
why ! talk probably in way that
may CRATE on your nerves. But you
will realize that l am only telling
you the truth; you will all open youl
eyes.
What is Cause
OF Meager Results.
Now. what's lacking? Why these
meager results? Why the expendi
ture of so much energy and time anC
money? | will tell you why 1t is.
It's because there is not a definite
effort put forth to persuade a defin
ite person to accept a definite Saw
Jour at definite time-and that Tins
NOW. That's the whole thing in
nutshell, boiled down into the few
est sentences | can put 1t in, - be
cause there is not put forth a definite
effort to persuade a definite person t.
accept a definite Savior, Jesus Chris
at definite time, and that time NOW
NOW! That's why we are not max
ing Roadway.
But wait. This element of fail
ure is not simply confined to the
church. Ninety-nine per cent of thi
business men fail. A banker told m;
in Chicago that forty years ago ther'
were one hundred business houses
any one of whose paper would hav,
passed without protest, and toda!
only four of those houses were nam
ed The rest of them have been ruin
ed, gone into bankruptcy, out of bust
ness. Four of them, after forty years
and they all passed without protes
at any bank.
And only about three men out o
\ a thousand succeed-just about three
Seventy-five percent of the lawyer:
who graduate from law school fai
TO make good. Sixty-five per cent
-. f-;apdc Of tho phvcinianS foil 4,