The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-20
MANY AN OLD REPROBkTE HIDES SnFE'S
COFFIN WITH FLOWERS WHO never GAVE
Il E.,a Her FIVE DOLLARS IN HIS LIFE-BILLy

young fellow In and gave him seat
in front
/ saw this fellow bow his head on
the back of the seat and remain in
that attitude most of the time | was
preaching. When l got through |
gave the invitation, and the first one
to come was this fellow who has been
sitting here in front of this other fell
low. When the service was over the
man who had made the request of
me rushed up, his face aglow, and he
said, do you remember what | asked
you to pray for?" He said, 81 had
no sooner taken my seat than the
usher gave him seat up in front of
me, and when you gave the invitation
he was the first man to go to the
front, and 1 never was SO surprised in
all my life"
Power of God
Never Thwarted.
New, Jacob undertook to struggle
with God, and God broke his thigh.
Thigh is the symbol of power, and he
had to do it to make him realize his
weakness. Oh, God may have to reach
| in behind the counter and grab some
of you bankers by your collar and
yank you out and throw you on your
backs and shake shrouds over you, and
ask you how you have solved the
problem.
What doth it profit man If he
gain the whole world and lose his own
| soul?" God may have to take some of
you women and shake a shroud over
you. He may have to back a hearsc
| L nf hafnra
will ever pray. He will do it if he
| has to. He will show you how weak
you are and how helpless you are.
| Then you turn to him. He said, Lord
1 deliver me-" If you will all offer an
/, honest prayer you will make that
prayer God deliver me-"
| don't know what your trouble is.
! don't care to know. | have no dis
| position to butt into your affairs or
! your weakness. Some person would
say, "God deliver me from my pride"
1 Some people are so contemptbly
proud they are uncomfortable.
j And some, Lord deliver me from
my lust" Lord deliver me from my
4 strong drink" Lord, deliver me from
I my spirit of deception" Lord, de-
i liver me from the gossiping disposi-
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as a nurse-kind, gentle, tender, SYM
! pathetic, with the opiates and the
/ panaceas-and if you don't listen to
him then, he will come as surgeon.
I He will drive his scapel and trocar
/ into the very purifying assesses that
are boring their way toward your
/ vitals.
] God Wants to Keep
! You Out of He'll.
! Gods doing his best to keep you
out of hell. You'd better listen to
| the Lord and give him chance. God S
j your friend. He wants to do you
good If God would have his way this
old world would be grand, glorious
place in which to live. We have
reached the crisis as nation. The
nations of the world are in the midst
of such a crisis as has not been re-
corded on the pages of history for
! centuries and centuries; in the midst
of a crisis spiritually and morally.
i God won't be here but will be par
ticularly near in these days. He
reached a crisis. Is God wrestling
/ with you to give up some sin that you
roll like a sweet morsel under your
1 tongue; to give up your companion
j that is dragging you down as mill
stone about your neck? You may have
brought him here tonight because it
is a convenient place to spend a little
time, and you have a suspicion that
is within your heart-the least thought
!, about sin-and the companion with
! whom you are going to sin may rub
elbows with you now. Take it from
me. BE sure your sin will find you
!, out"
: Give up your companion anybody
that will drag you down and away
i from God and decency and truth
Some of you may have to pull out
/, your bankbooks, write check on the
! bank, pay back some man you skinned
: with some fake mining stock, or you
' sold him real estate down in Florida
} and you'd have to have submarine
, to find it.
. What Is Your
! Real Manner
. He confessed his sin. He said
} What is your manner"
2 He said, my name is Jacob" When
y God named the Children of Israel in
/ those days the name stood for some
, thing. Now we name them because II
!, sounds pretty. What is your name;
. Jacob! That means supplant and
f scheme. What is your name? l don't
: mean the name on your doorplate
e What is your name? l don't mean the
one the people call you by. l don't
5 mean that Not the one in which yor
f got an automobile license; not the
: see with which you pay your income
e tax, or your county or your city tax;
D not the one on your marriage certi
D ficate.
What is your name? Not the one
| in the telephone directory. What Is
your name? l mean the one that Goo
: knows you by. Somebody said GOOD
r Morning" God said, you weasel
D eyed, hatchet-faced, lantern-jawed
f neighborhood gossips. You can start
: more factions and feuds and stir uE
4 more trouble"
E What is your name? Good morn
4 ing" God says, You old booze
= holster, keeping somebody in the
K side" what is your name" He
v said. at is Jacob. I am schemeri
o l am a supplanter." God says, &c
i won't call you Jacob any more. IT
{ give you a new name. I'll call yor
Israel "As a prince thou hast power
i with God and with men,"
\, Oh, prayer, my friends, can NOV.
S Goo. And God can move things. u