The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-26
MAN WANTS TO WHITENASH HIS SINS; GOD
WANTS TO WASH Them WHITE; SALVATION
IS FREE TO THOSE WHO ACCEPT REDEEMER

aSf. w. "A. SUNDAY preached Thurs
day evening He said:
l would like in my sermon, If my
strength will permit and your patience
endure, to ask and answer three ques-
tons.
First, what do want most of all?
A man in Chicago said to me one day,
eff I could have all I wanted of any
one thing / would take money"
He would be fool, and so would
you, if you would make similar
choice. Not that money is not neces-
sary, but there are lots of things that
money cannot buy.
II you should meet with an acci-
dent; when you require a surgical op-
Grafton or your life would be de-
SPARED of, there Is not man here
but that would gladly part with all
the money he has If that would give
him the assurance that he could live
IL months longer.
But If you had all the money in the
world, you couldn't go TO the grave
yard and put that loved one back in
your arms and have them all around
the family circle again, and hear that
voice speak your name again!
Some years ago steamer tied up
at her wharf, having just returned
from the Klondike, and as the people
walked down the gangplank their
friends met them to congratulate them
on their success or to encourage them
through their defeat. And among the
crowd was a man l used to know in
Fargo, N. D.
Friends rushed up and said, well
we hear that you were very success
full in the far-off north"
Eyes, wife and l left here six
months ago with just enough money
to pay our fare and now we have
$15O,000 worth of gold dust in the
hold of that ship"
Find Money
Lose Son
Then somebody discovered that
their little boy was not with them
and said, Where is JIM"
The tears rolled down his cheeks
and he said, 1--WE left him buried or
the banks Of the Yukon beneath the
snow and ice, and we would gladly
part with all the gold If we only had
our boy
But all the wealth of the Klondike
could not open the grave and put
that child back into their arms. Mon
ey can't buy the peace of God thai
passeth understanding. Money cant
take the sin out of your life.
Money can surround your sick bee
with luxuries, but it cannot restore
your health. Money can furnish yor
with a bed of swandown, but it vii
not take the thorns out of a guilt!
conscience. Money will purchase para
sites, but it has never bought
true and tried friend that will stand
by you until the last ditch.
Is there any particular kind Of life
you would like to have? II you coulc
live 100 years you wouldn't want tc
die, would you? ! wouldn't. wan
to stay as long as Gods will will LEI
me stay, but when Gods time comes
for me Pm ready to go. But II
could live 1000 years, I'd like to stay
/ don't want to die. ! always though
there was something wrong with th'
fellow who wanted to die. ! am no
afraid to die. But ! will put up az
argument with God to try to convince
Him that it would not hurt to let mt
stay little longer.
And so. what l want is eternal life
You want it, everybody wants it.
Go to Doctor
in Illness
If you are i'll, the most natura
thing for you to do is to go for you
doctor He is to whom you phon
any hour of the day or night, an
then you let him whistle for hi
money.
You will say to him: 81 have bee
thinking this matter over and 1 hav
come to the conclusion that ] don
want to die. Can you hold me?'
He will tell you: 81 can diagnos
your case and can prescribe 70
your malady, but I cannot sch life.
have one hundred patients on m
hand, all asking me the same thint
None of them wants to die. cannc
prolong life"
When your time comes you wi
have to go.
So, then, you go to your philosopl
err. He it is that reasons out the pro-
lens and mysteries of life by the al
plication of reason. You say to hin
81 have come to you for help. l war
to live forever. Can you help me-"
He says to you, Young man, m
hair and my beard have grown lon
and white as snow. and my eyes al
dim and my shoulders bent with til
weight of my years, and am just
far from the solution of that pro
lem as | was when | started. |, to-
must die soon and sleep beneath til
sod"
Then you turn to the millionair
and YOU say: ooh! millionaire, yo
will not die. You can bride death"
He will say: 81 can hire the be-
doctors and visit the world-famol
sanitariums, and l can cruise in m
yacht and travel, but l cannot bril-
death. l cannot prolong life"
Cannot Cheat
Death
And in my imagination have stoc
by the bedside of the dying Pullma
palace car magnate. George M. Pu
man, whose will probated $25,000,00
and 1 have said: "Oh! Mr.. Pullma
you will not die. You can bril-
death"
I watched the pupils of his eyes
late and his breast heaves and gas
and he is gone! Then send for Il
undertaken, and he makes an incisiC
in his left arm, pumps in the emball
ing fluid, beneath whose power
turns as rigid and white as ice al
alabaster, and they put him in Il
rosewood jeweled coffin trimmt
with silver and gold, and then they p
- -T1J 81.