The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1922-04-21


Newberry is willing to do 1t, we are
willing to do it,
And the best folks in Detroit were
on the committees, lifting for Jesus
Christ. They said, I'VE are will
ing to do the work of God"
Why not? He gives you something
to eat, and breath. Why should you
hover around? Don't wait until 1t
becomes popular, gripping at the tail
feathers of success; not at all.
Now listen, here's the verse that
staggers me: Jesus was not yet
come into town, but at the place
where Martha met him.
Martha met Jesus while He was
outside Of town, wasn't even in town
and Jesus said, Where is Mary?"
"She's at home"
Didn't she hear I was coming?'
eyes"
"Well, why is she sitting in the
house?" You go tell her l want her.
Poor Martha had to hike back ovel
the hot, dusty road.
Some Churches
Holding Aloof.
Oh, / know nothing about the
churches of this city. | haven't ask
ed and | haven't been informed, bu
will venture that not all of them art
interested in this campaign right now
And when Martha rushed back SHE
went to Mary and said, 1.-The Maste
is come and calleth for thee" I
only took eight words to move Mary
"The Master is come and calleth TO
thee"
When she heard that Jesus wa
coming, nothing she could So.
would bulge Mary. She wouldn'
bulge, but Martha went out, met Je
sus, and had her interview, then sh
ran back. 1t only took eight word
to get her.
All right, you get in touch wit
Jesus and see if you haven't got tn
power to help somebody else. Yo'
get right yourself then see what vii
happen and how people will come t
the Lord.
The Master is come and callet,
for you" Then do your best fo
! Jesus, whether the best you do is tn
best you'd like to do or not.
| And so the girls came on in wit,
Him and Jesus said, Where hav
you laid him?"
/ Did they say, "You go out throug
| the kitchen, Jesus, then through tn
| garden, and be careful. because w
| have got an asparagus bed just con
! ing up, and go down past the oliv
tree, then across that little bridg
and then turn to the right and yo
will find four sepulchres and ou
| brother is in the last one"
Did they talk like that? No! Jesu
said, where have you laid him
Where is he?"
They said, Come and see. We wi
show you"
] All right, you lock arms with Jesu
Christ and go home and say to you
/ husband, Husband, you ought to
a Christian. Let's go down to tn
tabernacle with our children and a
give our hearts to God"
Go ahead Don't ask somebod
else to do your work. Do it yourse
and see what God will do. l believ
the Lord is saying, 81 am going
raise the people that are in trespas
es and sin, but l am not going to
it with the churches sitting still an
doing nothing No, sir.
And now when they arrived at th
sepulchre, here is what Jesus sal,
"Take We away the stone" VIII;
does that mean? 1t means that II
wanted them to still do their par
They couldn't raise the dead but the
could roll the stone away.
All OF Us Must
Do Our Part.
So God won't do what we can d
l can preach Rody can sing. Yc
can sing. We must do our part.
And so what feelings of expect
tion must have filed the hearts
those girls, Martha and Mary. The
had been over that road twice. The
went down when they buried Laz
rus, to the funeral, and then they ha
gone back home after the funera
Now they are going down with Jesu
and l can imagine the feelings thi
, must have been in their hearts.
And Martha said when they reac
ed the sepulchre, Jesus, he has bee
J dead four days
Well, the Lord knew all about tha
; You can't put God in possession
some information that He hasn't {
ready got You don't need to te
the Lord what that mans sins arr
He knows that.
All he asks of you and me is to 6
right and dc our part. 1t is His bu:
7 ness to save people.
r He didn't ask anything, in raisil
: him from the dead, whether he'd bee
!. dead four days or forty. That di
: MT make any difference.
( Take We away the stone" VIII
!, stone? Oh, the stone of worldlines
: the stone of indifference, the stol
V of half-heartedness, the stone of
cold, critical spirit, the stone of or
L i1nic In stn nf Of Ii,