The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-03

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for God won't save your guilty old soul
when you've got money in the bank
that belongs to somebody else. Not
on your life! You bet your boots he
won't
Restitution, Obedience and blessing
walk hand in hand, and if you want
God to bless you, then obey and God
will bless you in proportion to your
obedience every time.
The Bible is your only guide, not
the opinions and theories and deduc-
lions of men. The Bible is your only
guide. There's no salvation in hell,
and the man who breaches future pro
baton is preaching an internal lie.
There are lots of internal lies being
preached from orthodox pulpits today
al over this country-blind leaders of
the blind. Jesus Christ says they will
both go into the pit There is no sal
walton in hell. If man is going to have
a chance to repent after he's through
preaching, by jinks, I'll quit and go
home. He's not going to worry me
any longer. What's the use of killing
myself, If that's the case? What's the
use of building tabernacles and
churches if mans going to have a
chance? On what grounds do you
argue that man has a chance after
he dies that he would not do in the
next world what the old scoundreI
would not do in this world? I'm
going to preach on that sometime-no
second chance.
Some Seed Will Be Wasted
Listen! Some seed will fall on
stony ground. The hearts of some
men and women are just like that
street out there. and you might as
we'll sow seed on Broadway and ex-
pect it to grow-their hearts are like
adamant.
| Some will fall among thorns; there
will be fair success, it will spring up
/ and grow, but it will be choked. Some
people will run we'll for a while. but
people will say, twill they hold out7'
! No! They never did, They never
! did! They never did, Well. don't
forget that the new converts will be
just as good as you old ones-you old
mossbacks.
Then some seed will produce thirty,
some sixty, some hundred-fold. Oh,
my! When l look around about me
/ and | see young men and young wo-
men with their characters forming,
when | look at the influences of hell
to drag them away from God Almighty
/ and realize that they are going to be.
! come the fathers and the mothers OF
1 the next generation-I am no pessi
mist, but God have mercy on the gen.
Grafton that's going to-come when ouI
| boys and girls are going to the devil
and yet their minds are pliable and
susceptible to gospel influence if we
will do something for Jesus Christ!
Then, if you will allow me to make
a suggestion, l am through: Be cour
teous, be natural. People are natura
everywhere else, seemingly, but il
| the church. | don't like to see
: preacvher that has mannerism TO
/ the pulpit and another for the street
: When preacher goes down to blu,
groceries, he doesn't go in and say
t You may give me a bunch of eel
! cry, pound OF coffee, and send it W
! if you please" In very pompou
} tone with many airs)
l Now, I'm perfectly natural.
Everybody Can Find Work to Do
!. There is work that everybody Cal
! do. Invite the unsaved to come t
} the tabernacle. Pray with them il
: private. Pray for them in private
!. Speak about the meetings.; don't knocl
; amy devil can do that. Write lei
: tiers. Call them up on the phone. LIE
4 them know you are interested in then
) and that you want them to receive
e blessing.
a There are forces at work that de
c feat you: First, timidity. Il neve
] tried to speak to anybody" Well yor
r can never begin any younger.
in
was a woman there whose nusban
i was an elder in the church-the Pres
Y byterian church-and she was one G
t those weak, timid, retiring little bodie
S and she was a member of the literar
e society. l said to her, Mrs. R., VIII
don't you go out and try to get thos
Il women for God?" | said, There
4 the speediest bunch of women Nv
I ever seen"
:. Il don't mean they were immora
e but-oh, gee, You have seen the pet
f pie that had a little money and
y little social position in a little rub
town? If you have, you know what
d mean.
! said: There's the specifies
!. bunch of women that l have eve
t seen You are the only professin
a Christian that they will associate wit
/. and it's up to you to win them fo
!, Christ"
t She commenced to boo-hoo and
said: Drops of grief can ne'er repa
h the debt of love you owe. Let's &c
g down and pray about it, and we dit
Il She started out and in nine days sh
d brought eleven out of the fifteen I
Christ. Those women are leaders t
Il day in that little town for God and H
: truth, and if I'd tell you what theyy
done for the Lord in missionary wor
it would stagger you-that little cor
munity out in Iowa that's so rich the
m don't know which way to look If 81
% had had her way she'd have dor
a nothing.
y, Tells Personal Experience
% | went to town once to preach ar
= was entertained at the home of
NJ very rich man with two children, bot
y grown; and the girl was the brighte
~ Of her age | have ever seen. She W;
a % years old and had graduated fro
n Northwestern university and she W;
- principle CT the high school. She ";
snappy as steel trap, and said to h
q one day: Harriet, Gods going to {
D. great things through you"
10 She said to me: I'm not going
n do personal work"
10 l said: Don't you tell God VIII
i you'll do or what you won't do. "
!. will do what God wants you to q
9. All you can do is to make a prop
sition and tell Him what You'll do"