The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-15

chapter, 9TH verse.
Choose Ye This Day" was the sub.
ject about which Rev. w. A. Sunday
on Sunday afternoon said:
These are the words of Joshua,
the successor of Moses. Moses was
one of the most famous men in the
world. He took a great horde of
half-civiliZed men, the Jews, who
had been for four hundred and thir-
ty years in Egyptian bondage, and
out of them he made the greatest
nation the world has ever known.
Other nations have lost their ma
tionality by intermarriage and assim-
ilating together, but not the Jew. A
Jew is just as much a Jew today as
he was six thousand years ago.
Moses led the Jews to the border
land of Canaan but God denied him
the privilege of going in. Then JOSH
ua took them in, and after he was an
old man ready to shuttle off this NOR
tai coil, he said,
81 want you to remember what
God has done for you and that all
the blessings you have received have
come to you through the beneficence
of God, and all the trouble that has
come to you has come to you through
your own disobedience. / want you
to choose this day whom o are go
ing to serve@whether you're going to
serve God or serve the devil. Ali
you've got to do is to look around and
see what the two have done for you,
and it ought not take o long to
make up your mind what you're 60
ing to do"
So. l bring you the words that
fell from the lips of Joshua three
thousand years ago. I'd like to ap-
peal to your manhood today n l
know can do it for o are the
highest type of manhood.
God Has Given
Man Reason.
Someone has defined mar as being
a rational animal. Now I know that
God has given every man a reason
and he expects you to use it. The
man doesn't use his reason when he
swears or refuses to be a Christian.
He doesn't use his reason when he
doesn't do what God wants him to
do. Therefore, a man must be a
moral idiot who doesn't see that a
man is unreasonable when he is I'M
righteous and only righteous when
he does the will of God through faith
in Jesus Christ.
I cannot define manhood except
as catch the meaning in Jesus Christ,
the definition of manhood. Avoirdu.
pois doesn't make a man, a man isn't
a man because he stands six feet tall
that doesn't constitute manhood
Some of the nobIest specimens of man
hood | nave ever met have been small
men. On the other hand, some of the
Abandoned wretches have seen have
been of powerful physique.
Some of the finest specimens OF
Christian manhood it has ever been
my privilege to associate with have
been men of frail stature, on the
other hand some of the most menda
cious, rapacious buffoons, poltroon5
and moral and sexual perverts and
rotten degenerates l have ever me
have been men of great build.
There are some men that remind
me of sign, Dressed Beef" "Dress
ed Pork" They are h~og-jowled me1
and they lack the principles of real
true manhood for they seem to i'm
agine it is on the basis of avoirdu
pois-and it is not so. 1t takes some
thing more than that.
Describes
A. II. Stephens.
AlGAdIucl H. DiCPACuS, inc IdI
Ex-Vice-President of the Confedel
ate States of America, was a mai
OF frail stature and during his las
term in the United States Senat
he was an invalid. He was incisive
furious. vindictive. His words woul
cut like a Damascus blade.
One day a subject was up for dis
cussion and his colleague from Geol
gia, Bob Thomas, took the opposit
side of the contest. Stephens sal
something in retort that made Thoma
mad and Bob walked up and shoe
his fist in his face and said, stephen;
damn you, | can eat you!"
Stephens said. IF you did, Boil
you'd have more brains in you bell
thai you've got in your head.
And then Thomas said to hin
well, sir, | haven't had the oppol
tunities to advance and prepare M
self like you have. | am a self-mad
man"
stephens said, 81 am glad to kno'
that. That relieves God from a wol
derful responsibility. l always di
doubt that God had anything to d
with you and now know it and
am glad to know 1t.
So, therefore, in Jesus Christ
find the revelation of manhood, an
Jesus Christ not only revealed Go
to man but he revealed man to mai
and in Jesus | nave the highest re-
citation of God to me, and ! have til
HIGHEST revelation of myself to m,
self. In Jesus ! know what kind of
maj God wants me to be and kno'
what kind of a man he wants you I
be. In Jesus | have my standard fc
calling you to choose this day whol
ye will serve.
Everybody Can
Find Excuse.
| meet a good many men who Civ
excuses for not being a Christian.
never have met a man that coul
give a reason for no man on cart
can give a reason. Everybody ca
give an excuse but that man doesn
exist who can give a reason. A re-
son is a ground that justifies you
not doing a thing. If you are brougf
into~court and you prove self-defens
il is a reason, it isn't an excuse.
is a reason and that justifies you, fl
the laws of the land and the Const
tuition of the United States give ever
man the right to defend his life an
his property.
But no man a give a reason f
not beino a Christian, for no ma