The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-21

from the dead. and they can't help
but believe that | am the Son of God,
and it will fulfill prophecy"
Up to that time we had no record
that Jesus had raised anybody from
the dead, so l think it required more
love for Jesus to stay away than for
him to go. He wanted to go up there
and dry the tears on the cheeks of
Martha and Mary by healing their
sick brother, but he said,
Those Jews won't believe if I
raise a man from the sick bed. They
will say | am fake and a fraud /
will let him die
Now. wait and see if | am not
right.
Yellow Will Show
In Revival.
Now, as I go up and down the land
and preach, l find pastors as a rule
are willing to do all they can. Once
| in a while l find a fellow that's got
a yellow streak in him If he has
/ got a corner of the Spanish flag
! tucked away in his makeup, can
! dig it out as quick as anybody If
! you have got any saffron in your
makeup, a revival like this will show
who you are, and you never had any
! thing in the universe come to you as
an individual to show whether you
! really loved God or not, or whether
you are following him. for the Ioaves
and the fishes.
You have your c<st chance to show
your grit on Jesus Christ that you
ever had in your life. l have just
given you a chance to get our men
/ tai adjustment here for couple Of
weeks. But Christ will never come
| to this or any other city until his re-
demptive power-until the entire fam
lily of God go out to meet him. But
if God had to wait for every preach
err in this town and every church
/ member to be absolutely in harmony
before he saved soul, you would be
F.; in He'll in forty-eieht hours. He
won't do it. So God will take those
that will get right, and do want some
thing, and through you he will save
people.
/ Oh God, how the church is tying
the Lords hands nowadays instead
Of getting out and doing what she
ought to do. If the entire family of
the redeemed would go out to pray
/ and to work, and to do personal work,
| oh, how you would stir not only this
| city, but this nation.
! They had personal interview with
Jesus. Every sinner must come as
an individual | can't save you and
you can't save your husbands. Re-
ligion is a personal matter, the same
as everything else is a personal mat
ter food, and air, and water, and
medicine All the medicine that
4 might take if you were i'll wouldn't
cure you. 1t is a personal matter
between me and that bottle of medi-
cine. And | can't step in. There is
no proxy business in that, neither is
there any in religion.
i Now. Lazarus was dead, and if he
was going to be raised someone must
see Jesus. Now, | believe in so
cieties. l believe in organizations.
believe in evangelists. / believe in
seminaries / believe in the pastor
ate. But what is needed today is
personal contact on the part of the
individual with Jesus Christ. There
is too much depending on the preach.
er to do it. There is too much
lproxy business. There seems to be a
J perpetual sign hanging around in
every church WANTED, a recipe by
; which our work can be accomplished
by proxy" And so you are dropping
money into the collection plate while
God wants you. But you don't give
: yourself to him. Somebody's got to
DO It. You do your part, whatever
7 you are able to do in the world.
/ friend of mine, went one time tc