The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-26

DretnrenJ by the mercieS OF God, that
ye present your bodies living sacrI-
flee, holy, acceptable unto God" Rom
ans 18th chapter, list verse.
In his sermon on "The Mercies of
Cod" Rev. w. A. Sunday Tuesday
evening said:
We have here call for volunteers
and not an order for a draft. The
army of God is never made up OF
drafted men and women. God has
never owned a slave. All the service
that weighs an ounce in the sight of
God is that which is prompted by
love. 1t isn't call to a hard duty,
but to glorious privilege. 1t is not
something you must debut some
thing that you may do. It is not a
command or bid to laborer to take
hoe and spade and go out in the
field and dig, but loving invitation
to a son to do the thing that can ex-
press your gratitude.
See the motive that prompts our
action: 81 beseech you by the mercy
of God"-not the judgment of God,
not the seventies of God, not the an
ger of God. 1t is Calvary to which
the text points and not Sinai. 1t is
the Gospel and not the law through
which God makes the appeal, and
the compelling force is gratitude, not
fear
No child will ever do its best II 1t
is kept half scared to death for fear
1t will be licked If it doesn't and If
it is doing its best, and you appreci-
70 do no
ter.
we are not commanded to do It,
but we are entreated, and that's the
amazing thing. God has the right
and the power to make you or me do
anything He wants done, but He
isn't dealing with you in that way,
not at all He is giving you a chance
to show Him that you love Him.
"By the mercies of God" What do
they mean to US? Has God been coed
to us, and If so, how good has He
been and how much? Have we any
thing to be grateful for, and if SO,
what?
Faithful Husband
Thinks of. WiVe.
The man who loves his wife, he
will take time, no matter how many
business cares and duties crowd in
upon him, to sit down and think back
and recall how good she has been, the
sacrifices she has made, and if he
does that, his heart will never grow
cold and you will never find him
whining around the courthouse for a
divorce.
An old lady one time heard ser
mon that filled her heart with graft
tude for the goodness of the Lord
She said, 81 have never tried to count
His mercies in my life and l am go
ing to just spend tomorrow doing
nothing else"
"In one hour she was confused and
at noon she was tagged out, and she
went to bed at two o'clock, tired
and said. "They come three times
faster than 1 can count them"
So we sit down and sing "Coun'
your many blessings, name them
one by one; it will surprise you what
the Lord has done"
A visitor was walking through the
beautiful and well-kept grounds Of
an insane asylum out west, and he
heard a voice shieking to him from
the fourth story. Looking up, he saw
a man standing at the grated bars
shaking them, and he shrieked dowr
to nv friend and said, stranger, dit
you ever thank God for your rea
SOM"
He said it startled him and mad'
him think Up to that time n
couldn't recall that he ever had, bu
he never allowed day to go by al
ter that that he didn't do 1t.
Have you ever thanked God TO
your reason? Did you ever do it, o
7 hnp Of Won
begin now. There are people jus
as good as YOU yonder in the insan
ASYLUM that don't even know the mott
or who gave them birth and at who's
breast they nursed. oh, how gran
IT Is to be clothed and in your RICH
mind and not locked up in mac
house!
think II would be thousan
times easier to follow my child to tn
graveyard and listen to the clods IA
with unutterable agony, and I'LL IN
grave myself, than to see one OF tneI
lose his mind and pound his brain
ont in cell in an insane asylum.
Did YOU ever thank God for you
eyesight? Whenever you look Int
the sightless eyes of a man or woma
Won ought to thank God that He ha
given you eyes to see this old worlC
filled with beauty; to see the ros
and the sky, the waterfall. the snow
covered mountains, the sunrise, IN
sunset, the rainbow and the storl
cease oh, never again look into tn
face of your mother or your chlldre
without thanking God that you ca
see. while others just as good as yo
are cropping and feeling their way
a hearse.
"By the mercies of Cod" Did yo
ever thank God that you can hear
hear the voice of your friends, YOU
dear ones, your wife or your chlldrel
md the sound of little children ;
plav: that you can drink in the melod
with which God has filled this who
world: hear the Word preached an
hear them sing it? You can hes
the voice Of your mother or yol
child. Step to a telephone. hear you
loved ones in Chicago or San Fra.
cisco.
oh. what an awful calamity to
deaf. and to lose all the good thi
comes through being able to heal
And can you think of such a gre
blessing coming to you through sue
a wonderful privilege and not hay
vour heart quicken with gratitude
God? Then never hear sour
again without thanking God that yc
-, haar NV the mercies of God.