The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-18

the same direction, for they were all
pivoted on the same center old,
young, rich and poor. Here is
crowd of people. Here is rich man,
poor man, intellectual illiterate -
they all reject Jesus Christ. They
are all going to hell, for they are all
pivoted on the same center. They
won't do Gods will.
Everything RevoIves
About Will.
/ Here's another crowd. They all do
the will of God; they will go to
| heaven, for they are all pivoted on
/ Gods will 1t is the question of
whether you are doing Gods will or
whether you are not. Every man
and woman has a perverted will
Your will is set on blessing yourself;
that is what the thief does. He
steals to please himself. That's what
the "get-rich-quick" fellow does And
! so that's what the fellow does that
! sticks a gun under your nose, pleases,
| himself He does the thing because
it pleases him to do it.
Although it may not please you to
! lie, get drunk, to steal, to swear, but
you are doing what you do because
|
God imparts His spirit to you and His
nature, then you will want to please
God because you have Gods spir;t
and nature in you, and when you do
/ Gods will, it will be your pleasure to
please God. because you have Gods
nature. Then if you will do that, It
j will lead you to a knowledge of sin
!, and you will be sorry for it.
I
ton of God and is profitable for cor
rection, reproof and instruction in
i righteousness and l believe that prac-
tice is more so. / believe a man will
be convicted of sin in proportion as
he tries to do the will of God.
believe man will have Cody sor-
row for his sin in proportion as he
tries to be Godlike and do the will OF
God. I believe the nearer you get to
/, God the more sensitive you are to sin
Speck In Eye
Irritates You.
Like a speck in your eye irritates
and agitates. Why? Because it Is
: sensitive. The nearer you get to God
the more sensitive you are to sin
Paul said, 81 am not worthy to be
called an apostle" H said, 81 an
the chief of sinners" I don't believe
that Paul was getting farther away
from God. l believe every day thai
! Paul lived he was striving his bes
to do the will of God and every da!
he did he got nearer to God ant
/, the nearer he got to God he looked
back at what he used to be and wha
he is now and he contrasted the twf
and he said, How in the world
could / ever have been so low dowI
! as to have lived like that?"
! / don't believe that you believe
that Paul was getting more and more
, sinful every day, but 1 believe, ant
: believe that you believe that ever
: day Paul lived he was striving hard
J er to do the things that pleased Coz
and as he did the things that pleased
God he was amazed to think how
| he could ever have done the thing.
| that didn't please God.
: You might be down in dark Gel
+ lar tonight and a v1omous snak'
s ready to inject its venom, but whel
i a fellow opens the door above ant
\ lowers the candle, that little candle
r will dispel every cubic inch of dark
+ ness That's why we have the light
:. here in this tabernacle. The cleo
. trio lights are all positive and tn
S darkness is negative, but when tn
: positive is turned on, the negativ
\ beats It. That's why you can Sc
= / in here.
Religion Is Positive;
y Sin Is Negative.
Ell So, religion is positive and sin i
t negative. So here! When a ma
!. lowers a candle and that instant vii
a every cubic inch of darkness b
? broken and it reveals to you tn
|. snake You are dissatisfied, yo
d want to get out of there. A httl
ii bit ago you were content to sta
5. there. Why? Light has come an
the light revealed your surrounding
IS and now you never will be Statistic
e to remain there.
ii All right, so long as you do you
S. will and stay where you are, you wi
"a be perfectly satisfied to do 1t, bl
when you start to do the will of Go
if and yet out of your haunts and chang
W your way of living, then you will sd
lie with Paul. How could l ever hay
W been low down enough to do that an
r serve the devil?"
Some years ago a soldier arose
a regimental prayer meeting and sal
"Pray for me that ! may be Chri
n
re in view of the past life he lived, TIL
W he should have manifested more SO
ID row. He heard of it and felt grieVe
rs at it. He didn't show up at the pra
oil err meeting for many weeks and whe
r! at last he did return, he said:
t. Three weeks ago l asked you
o. pray for me that l might be a Chri
i'll tian. l heard that l should hay
it manifested more sorrow for my S
ne than did when l arose and made tn
a. request. A girl died in a house
ne shame in Washington and my sin p
10 her there" He said, I have nev,
offered prayer from the day that
RI asked You to pray for me, three weel
ie- ago. Three weeks that / haver
'e- prayed God to spare my life for mar
'e- years that there might radiate fro
fe my life and influence for good whit
is would counterfeit in a degree the
Vi fluence for evil that went from n
u life in the days when | was subsidiz'
and followed the devil"
on Follow Your
of Convictions.
nj If you were honest, you'd get l
al. and walk down these aisles and tai
le- me by the hand and every time y
Ike get on your knees say, 20 God, spa
Ike me for many years that i may be
good influence to others to countt
oct tho had Influence that went fro