The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-29
Nou Is the Time to Accept Jesus,
Says Sunday in His FareweN
Sermon; Tomorrow is too Late
The Present Time Means the Victory Of Heaven Postpone
ment Until Later Means Defeat In He'll, Shouts Evangelist
in Final Appeal Sinners Of Richmond to Hit Trail and
Accept Message of Hope

appeal to the highest and the noblest
within you, and for you to be able
to resist all that,-great God, don't
have any hope for you! l don't ex-
pect to see you after tonight; | am
going to heaven. No. sir, l don't ex-
pect to see you! And you would be
relieved of the heaviest burdens, the
burdens of guilt which bear down
| upon you and make you dread the
future consequences.
ProcrastinatIon, lrresoIution, Ian
euIdness, failure, IdIeness, weakness
character,-these are the milestones
along the highway Of life which lead
over the preclpice we call "Failure"
and there is where you stand.
! Great opportunities always love COM
pany. They rarely travel alone. They
are gregarious in their habits; they
| fly in flocks, they swim in schools;
they travel in herds. Each oppor-
tunity is bellwether to a school,
flock or herd of opportunities.
It is like the key log in the river
| jam; when that is released, they all
sweep on unobstructed to their des-
| tination.
Years ago a ship was wrecked. The
captain and his wife became stranded
on an island They fired the lifeline
and then attached to that a larger
rope, which the captain fastened un-
der the arms of his wife.
Now get ready" he said, "and
when the wave breaks and l tell you,
leap, and they on shore will pull you
through"
Captain Finds
Wife's Body
He said: Now" and she hesitat-
ed, chung to her husband, but the re-
ceding wave caught her and hurled
her back. They pulled the rope taut
and fired the lifeline. She was cast
into the sea. The captain, with the
aid of those on shore, found the dead
body of his wife lying upon the beach.
She had hesitated and the undertow
caught her and hurled her back.
1t is the flood tide now,-God helps
you to leap out in faith to Jesus
Christ and to do his will, do 1t for
the sake of his influence.
In no time or place have I ever
preached where men and women
seemed more hungry for the gospel
of Jesus Christ and bent their ear
more to hear it than here. And to-
night finds you still beyond the pale
of Gods mercies. Not only you, but
others. Maybe some act of your own
could have saved all of you.
| In a western town crowd stood
in front of bird store. There, upon
a perch, sat an eagle. Around his
neck was a string. On a round piece
of cardboard was For Sale-$2. So"
, His feathers were ruffled eyes heavy,
and around his leg was a clamp and
, fastened to that, a chain.
A fellow walked in and said: How
much for that eagle?"
Two dollars and fifty cents
Here's your money"
:, He took the eagle and took the
clamp from his leg and carried il
, across the street and put the eagle en-
t top of a billboard. The old eagle
: Strengthened up. He threw out his
, feathers. He shot out one wing as
if he were going to fly, then spread
) the other. He started to fly. He
: scared higher till he mounted above
] the buildings, then he shot off to
! ward his mountain home. They
S watched him until he disappeared.
: They asked him: why did you
| buy that bird and let him go?"
He came from the section of the
f country that l did, he said, many
9 swoop down and take a lamb from
S my flock. The best l could do was
D to knock a few feathers from him. But
Y although we were enemies. I couldn'
n bear to see him chained when
2 had seen him beating the air with hi!
d wings in freedom"
= Salvation Means
/ Freedom
!! When you have taken your stand
then you will be free instead of sit
ting there enslaved and brutaliZet
| by sin with bands stronger than stee
d and more enduring. For the SAX,
5 of your influence, you should all TAX,
your stand for Jesus Christ and Their,
are not ten men here tonight VIII;
think that if they had done thei
= duty they wouldn't have been in tn
!, kingdom of God long, long ago.
Delays are dangerous. When yoI
, delay your heart grows hard, and whei
l. you drive the spirit away and it leave
: you, you become Indifferent. 1000.
You say that you are not afraid L
!, die. Great God, that's no indication
Il that you're fit to die. Many a NAL
. who cares nothing for God has sal
- that in spirit of bravado.
80 When | lived in Chicago, a won
y and took morphine, intending to xii
# herself. They rubbed snow on he
!. face and bare arms and breast an
Y led her out into one of the parks
III They cut hole in the ice and mad
If her stand in the water. She moane
and said: "Oh, please, please, let m
N lie down for just five minutes, the
ir I'll be all right"
). They knew five minutes mean
81 eternity for her, and l believe tn
;: devil is using all his influence toda
to deaden any sensibility or desir
ST you may have to be a Christian.
+ have every hope you will yield t
81 Jesus Christ and become saved.
,e When they led Sir Walter Raleig
II out to execute him, friend said t
e. him: How lieth the head?
N Heart Action
" Counts
,e st matters little how lieth the head
re he said, so long as the heart col
at demneth not
If So it matters little whether yo
Of know much about the plan of salv;
ton, so long as your heart is fu
Of faith in Jesus Christ. Don't sta
ger away because you can't eompr
ut bend it in full.
lie Years and years ago when the
to executed Gibbs, the pirate, in Boston
~ he made statement similar to thi