The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-28
EVIL THOUGHTS WILL CAUSE EVIL DESIRES;
EVIL DESIRES WILL LEAD TO WICKED DEEDS;
KEEP MIND Pure is WARNING OF EVANGELIST

to idols of wood and stone, than I !,
would to be a man or woman in this !
city, in these days with opportun-
tiles and privileges that God gives
you to know about your souls saliva
ton, what you have to do to be saved,
and not to take advantage of the op
portunity. Yet you needn't go out
side of this city to find the heather.
You needn't leave the tabernacle.
A heather is any man that doesn't
believe in God. His skin doesn't need
to be black. He doesn't need to have
a queue hanging down his back like
a Chink Anybody is heather that
doesn't believe in God, whether from
China or Africa, whether his skin is
white or black. The same old heather,
although you are a president of a
bank. You are heather if you don't
! believe in God. 1t makes no differ
ence whether you live under the Stars
and Stripes or in the jungIes of Africa,
! If you don't believe in God you are a
heather.
So guilt is graded by light. The
more light you have, the greater the
/ guilt.
Now, it might be just as bad for
me to lose my temper as it would be
for you to get drunk. | was not born
with an appetite for drink, but | was
born with a disposition to lose lit
tie piece of my temper once in Il
while, and gosh, / haven't gotten over
it yet l can clear for action like a
battleship when it comes to show
down.
i So you who put your thumbs in the
armhoIes of your vest and swell up
like poisoned pup, and thank God
), you are not like other people, you
may be worse in the sight Of God than
the very one you condemn, for you
may have had greater chance than
! he had, more light. ! said guilt is
graded by light.
Jesus said, 'Woe unto thee. Beth
saida and Capernaum, if the mighty
t works done in thee had been done
< in Tyre and Sidon they would have
: repented long ago in sackcloth and
ashes 1t shall be more tolerable fol
Sodom and Gomorrah in the day oil
judgment than for you" Why? They
= never heard Him.
Chance Is Given
People Here.
Jesus said, "You people of Caper
2 naum and Bethsaida have looked in
/ NY face and heard My voice, and
: see Me raise the dead. You have
S seen Me speak and unstop the ears
g of the deaf. You have heard M
+ speak and the eyes of the blind have
2 been opened You have heard M
4 speak and devils have gone out o.
e men. Sirs, for you are worse sinners
= than the people of Sodom and Com
orrah for you have got more Hgh
$ than they have. So it will be NOR;
4 tolerable for Sodom and Gomorral
h than it will be for you
d Why? Because they had more ligh
5 than Sodom and Gomorrah. The!
d sinned against their light. You ar
n shining againsts your light. You hav'
5 got more light than the people 0
+ Tyre and Sidon. You have got NOR
e light than the people of Capernaum
II So the people of this city are wors
d sinners than they were in the day
II of Jesus Christ for you have go
e more light. There you stand cor
s demned before God,
IS Here is one of the sweetest picture
t of the love of God to man that ha
s. gone astray that can find, SO ! brin
it to you for my text. If you Woul
o ask me how best to overcome tempts
p ton and could only answer in ser
v tence. would say, keep busy TO
n God. Satan finds some mischief sti
II for idle hands to do, and idle ma
" tempts the devil"
If Tatooed on the arm of a Frenc
convict were the words, 81 never di
Il a days work in my life"
~ The fellow that stands aroun
It. with his hands in his breeches pock'
re up to his elbows, it won't be Ion
e- until he tries to get into the otht
OF fellows pockets. Idlenesss is the fC
rs of youth. 1t is the curse of ma
to kind. Oh, mo trade" is the pas
ne port, and the password by which
pit per cent of our criminals enter II
he reformatories and the penitentiari'
rs of the land.
Street loafers grow up to be gu
7r- men, with no object and aim in lif
ne oh. an idle brain is the devils wor
IA shop. Keep busy for God. my frient
TT, and then you will never land in perc
q ton.
or David's ldieness
Cause of Trouble.
David was living in the midst
ease and luxury and do you know
a one little corner of his kingdom
be- had a little case of insubordinatio
an lnclplenI SORT Oh d IepcilloA' al
en- instead of going down there to p
an down the instruction he delegat
in that to Joab. David stayed at hor
Il and he was talking of walking on t
on housetops in the cool of the evenir
ire They built the houses close togeth
ire in those days and they didn't ha
ell ground spread out all over creat
ON and they did not build the roof
'ou Gothic but flat like we do tin TO
be- and so they used to walk on the 70
-oul That's where they got the roof g
-ou den idea And we gid the dome
ant our temples. The first dome that W
hy gilded with gold was Solomon's tie
lrt, pie. There is where we got the i'd,
he We think we are great. Old So
iod mon did that way back yonder. Sc
be- So David was walking on the hou
len tops in the cool of the evening a
he saw a woman famed for her sy
I'D, metry of form and beauty of ia
vid Bathsheba And there came to Da7
ner a shot of sin.
. Thought Comes
nto First.
you No man or woman ever sinned Il
one didn't first think the sin No N
1t ever reached out his hand to st
Sod that the thief in him didn't st
ac- first. No man ever used his lips
E is lie that he didn't lie in his mind a
) d his heart first. No man ever reacf
"a Al II