The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-11

tuCTep Hopooy mao any DOUBT who he
meant or what he meant.
II Jesus Christ should become pas
tor of one of the leading churches in
this city and talk as straight to them
as he did to the treacherous Jerusa-
lem set in the temple, wonder how
long he'd hold his job. l think some
OF these elders would be pulling their
long whiskers.
Then the prudential committee
would get on their high horse, and
the vestrymen would hit the ceiling.
Then the stewards that are always
making a muss out of the stew; and
the church dignitaries that are dig
gfng for the devil would kick.
Take his rebuke, my friends, to
the Jerusalem crowd and see if he
was always the weak, two-by-four,
three-carat sissified Jesus that a lot
of people are always trying to pic
ture him.
81 find no fault In him. Can you
find any fault with what his teaching
has done for the world? Wherever his
teaching has been accepted and be-
lieved, it has made the desert bios
som as the rose. Homes have been
made sober. Tears have been dried
on the cheeks. Mothers have ben
able to sleep.
Is Supreme
Old libertines have been made pure.
Blasphemers have been made to pray.
Girls that sold their womanhood now
go home with tears of repentance
coursing down their cheeks. Men have
been made true to their wives and
employers true to those that toll.
Before Jesus Christ came, there
wasn't a hospital on earth. There
wasn't an asylum on earth. There
wasn't home for the aged or the in
firm, or for the boys and girls. His
teachings have planted them, until to-
day, they are as thick as the sands on
the seashore. That's what Jesus Christ
did and is doing for the world.
Il find no fault in him" Before
Jesus came, woman was a slave. She
was looked upon as a divine preroga-
tive, as something having no soul To-
day, the respect and honor that is paid
to womanhood is due to the restrain
ing Influence of Jesus Christ.
l think you are an ungrateful
wretch if you refuse to arise and put
the crown upon tho brow of him that
has brought such wonderful blessings
to womanhood and to you as a woman
in the world; and he has come to help
all that need it.
A father and son were in the same
company. and at the close of the bat
tie of FRANKLIN, when the roll was
called the son was missing. The faith
er went out, stumbling over the dead
and dying, calling John Hartman, John
Harkman!"
Hears His
Sons Voice
Away in the distance he heard a
faint voice. At last he stopped beside
his son. He dragged him back to the
hospital. There he was nursed back
to health and strength.
Jesus Christ's mission on earth was
to bind up the broken heart and help
those that needed it.
Il find no fault in him" Do you
find any fault with his peace? "My
peace" he said, 81 leave with you"
Some men, when they die, leave
their land to their children. Other
men, when they die, leave a bad char
acter to their children. And others,
when they die, bequeath weak, ane-
mic bodies to their children.
Still others, when they die, bequeath
ldlotic minds to their children, and
others bequeath to their children faint
ed blood, but Jesus said, MY peace, II
leave with you"
will give you something better
than that. Some people, my friends,
couldn't wear any longer faces than
they do, if they were dead sure that
God was dead. When they smile. why,
they do it in way that makes you
think it hurts them and you are glad
when they quit
Some people are praying for the
Lord to use them. You ought to pray
God to help you stop looking sour, for
God can't use you with a map like that.
If Paul and Silas had gone to jail
looking as sour as some folks do when
they come to the tabernacle, that
Philippian jailer wouldn't have been
converted yet. No, it is a great mis-
take to think that God wants YOU to
look solemn, when you put on your
Sunday clothes and start for church.
no, no!
He said if you will accept him, you
will be saved. That was his mission
in the world.