The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-27
There Is More Christian Faith
In Average Congregation Than
In Average Preacher--Sunday
Il Am Just the Boy that Will Tell YOU Too Says Evange.
list If Preacher Doesn't Believe and Is Decent and
Honest, He Will Not Stay in Pulpit and Vomit Out
His Unbelef

dom, and healing all manner of sick
ness and all manner Of disease among |
the people But when he saw the i
multitudes he was moved with COM
passion, because they were faint and |
scattered abroad as sheep having no +
shepherd" He said to the disciples |
1.-THE harvest truly is plenteous, but |
the laborers are few. Pray We there |
fore the Lord of the. harvest, that he |
will send forth laborers into his har- i
vest"
Now that was the motive that caus-
ed him to send out his disciples, when !
he saw the harvest truly is plenteous |
but the laborers are few. He saw the |
people as he went from place to place. |
He saw them as no one else saw them !
The life he lived was in the immediate
presence of God, therefore, he was
looking at things from the divine
standpoint. And if the church was
divine, then they'd look at things
from Gods standpoint.
You wouldn't hear a peep nor al
criticism frem the lips of any man orr
woman, my friends, in the church, ifl
they were looking at things from
Gods standpoint. What business has
anybody to stand up and say they
don't like the way ! preach? What's
that got to do with It? That ought.
MT to cut any Ice with them, | am
not preaching to them!
! They say, II don't like his man
nerisms'
It's none of your business. II
God likes it what's it to you then?
None, is it? Not at all-no, sir!
| MuItitudes Fail
To See Sins.
And if the life you now live in the
! flesh, you live by the faith of the
Son of God, then you'd be doing what
the Son of God would do if he lived
here. You can't get around the arg
ument-not on your life!
He saw the temptations, he saw the
| difficulties, he saw the multitudes,
not as the multitudes saw themselves.
If the multitudes would only see
themselves as God sees them, there
! wouldn't be a sinner on earth, be-
cause they'd all rush to Jesus Christ
to be saved.
So the work in the church is to try
and get the multitudes to see them
selves as God sees them. We are
| looking at the thing from Gods stand
point because we profess that the
life we now live is the life we live by
the faith of the Son Of God. So we
are looking at that from Gods stand
point.
He saw the multitudes, my friends,
not as the multitudes saw themselves.
If the multitudes saw themselves as
God there wouldn't be anybody liv-
ing in sin. He saw them, not as the
disciples did-oh, no. Not as the
rulers = oh, no! Not as the Phafi-
sees-oh, no!
The Pharisees couldn't see any
body that wasn't a Pharisee. The
Sadducees couldn't see anybody that
wasn't a Sadducee. Not as the Ro-
mans = they looked upon the Jews
as their mealtickets. The Romans
were lazy but the Jews were thrifty.
!, They were hard working people. So
the Jews earned the most of the mon
ey that ran the Roman government
And this vision of the multitudes
from the divine standpoint caused
him to send out his disciples. He
} said, THE harvest truly is plenteous,
, but the laborers are few"
: A Hard Nut
To Crack
1 was up in Boston and met my
friend, Prof. Phelps of Yale. / was
, talking to him along this line. / had
read a little pamphlet that he had
written about some things which in
! terested me very much and one of the
favorite questions, both in public dis
cussion and in private debate nova
days, is: Why do not more men &c
regularly to church? And like al
! church questions it Is good dea
, easier to ask that it is to answer, anc
the pews undoubtedly contain more
: women than men, but this fact neec
not occasion any alarm, think.
! 1t doesn't prove that the church
| is losing hold or that men have aband
!. oned the church. Women have al
, ways taken more interest in religion!
! organizations and they have more
/ time, and it seems to appeal more tt
+ their nature, perhaps, don't know.
/ Now if the mere fact that the min
. lister sees more feathers than he doe
= whiskers, and more false hair than h.
I does bald heads, if that be a sign tina
r religion doesn't appeal to the mascu
I line proportion of humanity, the'
neither does the symphony, nor arr
:, nor the museum. For the masculin
/, proportion, my friends, of listener
:, at a high class musicale, or among tn
q visitors at an art gallery, is even les
. than it is at church. Isn't that fact
4 Sure 1t is!
! Women go daffy over pictures
3 men don't much. Women listen t
4 music aud say, "Oh, it is divine.
v Man listens and says. "That is punk.
q But wait a minute, don't get e1