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

never done anything that / couldn't
pick it all to pieces after / did it, but
if / can't do as well as you think l
ought to do, or as well as / would
like to do (and never do), l always
do the best / know how to do, and l
am always for Jesus Christ
Wants to See
Women Active
But, wait a minute! II you are
satisfied with what you are doing,
then l don't want to know you.
like to see the man or woman always
striving to greater heights or spirit
ual success and triumph; like to see
a man or woman trying to do more
for Jesus Christ. Imperfections faint
everything that we do.
Listen! Raphael painted the Ma
donna, and after he had finished it
he turned aside and wept as if his
heart would break. There was pic
ture in his soul he couldn't paint, al
though there has never been one
painted like it since. Never! Never!
And kipIlng, after he had written
the RecessionaI, threw it In the waste
paper basket, disguised with bis eff
forts, and his wife, in digging the
rubbish out to burn, found the manu-.
script, read it, detected its literary
merit, saved it, gave 1t to the world
and kipling never wrote anything
better than the RecesslonaI. There
was poem in his soul he couldn't
express.
Spurgeon preached afsermon and
moved thousands, and when he'd pro
nounced the benediction he went to
his study and some friends found him
lying on his face sobbing as If his
heart would break. There was a ser
mon in his soul he couldn't preach
although he never preached any bet
ter.
So you will always want to do bet
| ter than you are doing, although what
you did was the best you could do.
Try to Cheat
the Waves
Galveston, Texas, is an island only
! six feet above high-tide. They've got
low stretch of land there and wher
| the great tidal wave swept through
there, driven by a typhoon, Their -yas
an Orphans asylum kept by the Cath
Ollie church, and the Sisters of Char
ity hurried away and got rope. They
| divided the children up and made
|
then tied the other end of the rope
:, around her body. They made up theii
minds If worst come to worst they'C
do their best to keep those children
| from being sucked out into the har
bor But you know the next tida
wave that swept through went to tn,
| second and third stories of the build
| ings and engulfed them. Two day
later they found two of the dead boo
les of those Sisters of Charity float
ing out in the Galveston HarbcN eacl
with eight children tied to her. Sh
didn't save the children, but she di
the best she could, and the world ar
plauded their efforts.
So do your best for Jesus Christ
All the Lord asks you to do in tn
world is your best!
Then the formality, Oh, people wi
have nothing to do with the churc
never go TO prayer meetings-th
preacher has never seen their map
in the prayer meeting door, has neye
heard their voices. They never Civ
testimony or say anything for Go
iif they do happen to go OCCASIONAL!
They cruelty Him.
ooh, the preacher is vulger, he
crude, his eccentricitits and idiosyl
! crasies CRATE on my nerves."
: Aha! A-hai And so the church
being killed by dignity. If you hay
no passion for souls. you need to b
: converted. You ought to walk rigf
down and renew your VOW and Co
2 enant and get something you haven
4 got; If you haven't got a burden
l see people brought to Jesus Chris
5 then you are going wrong, and
!, come down and get it. That's VIII;
t l would do-never mind who you a.
i I'D come down and say:
Everybody Must
be Saved
: Lord, I'm in the church, but ha-
no passion for having people broug
: to Christ. / don't care whether tn,
: are saved or lost, and, therefore,
know l am wrong and l haven't z
what I ought to have"
o l wouldn't let day go but VIII
+ I'd do it.
q Reforms are needed when religi
: is at low ebb. Caesar, riding dov
the streets of Rome one day, stopp
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