The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-20


In the CRATE
The love of Christ
Doth compensate.
A. E. Smith.
erected in the cemetery where they
lie buried
Soon, they were shouting happy, for
they said, Rejoice, for the Lord hath
overthrow the horse and the rider in
the sea-" No impossibilties with God
Human hanas would help you if
they could. If your mother could. a
lot of you fellows that are here to-
night sinners would not be here sin
ners, you'd be here Christians.
Others Cannot
Help Ycu
A friend can't help you or your wife
can't. If her prayers have helped
you, you'd have been saved, and l
believe one reason why many a man
who is a sinner gets along in this
old world is because his wife or moth
er's prayers are like lightning rod
above his head and keeps the wrath
of God warded Off
No, they can't help you The fact
that he took David out of a horrible
pit, is sure proof that he will take US
i out. If the Lord wasn't willing to
help US, you can bet every dollar
you've got the forty-sixth Psalm
would never have been put in the
Bible. Never! Never.
! And what God does for one, He
stands pledged to do for all, for he
is no respector Of persons. who
soeVer will may come"
Some people consider Psalms as all
poetry Wrong Psalms are Christian
experience THE horrible pit and the
miry clay"-they are not figures of
| speech, but they are reality in the
i life of every unsaved man or woman
i No matter where a sinner goes, he
travels in mud, and the longer he
lives in sin, the deeper he will sink
| in sin
Take the girl, out merchandising
her womanhood, selling for gain. Oh,
/! there was time when she lived in a
flat. There was a time when some
body, perhaps, bought her clothes,
grew tired, cast her off, and threw
her to one side. Now she is creeping
away by herself; she didn't start
lthere,-no, no!
Goes Bad
Step BY Step
A fellow that's in the penitentiary
didn't jump there at once, he started
out and kept going deeper and deep.
er, and finally the poor, blear-eyed,
hop'ess, helpless drunkard was lying
in stale beer joint. 1t took him a
good many years to get there. He
didn't get there quickly, he kept get
ting deeper and deeper in sin and
making it more improbable that he
would ever be saved, and the devil
frightened his grip on his throat ev.
cry time he said, NO" to an invitation
to be Christian.
You just tie another knot in the
moose that's about your neck and il
you decide to hold on TO that sin and
indulge in it twenty-four hours more
God Almighty may let you keep il
,, forever. He may say, We'll my pat
fence is exhausted with you Ny
spirit won't always strive. and if you
have made up your mind you'd rather
do that than to be decent all right
1t wasn't because he was the sor
of Jesus that God heard his cry. Oh
no. 1t wasn't because he'd taken the
/ stone and hurled it and slain Goliath
), the giant of Gath that God heard hi!
I prayer.
! No, it wasn't because he was pat
iient and forbearing with old Saul, blu
t David might have chopped his blocl
!, off and been King half dozen times
:, but he never took hair from hi
I head. That wasn't the reason Coz
< heard his cry. No!
- 1t wasn't because he'd slain the liol
and the bear that came to take tn,
y lambs from the flock, that God heart
), his cry No! 1t wasn't because h
|. was great king that God heard him
y No it wasn't because he was a grea
general, and David never knew de
v feat, and the army of Israel which
I David led never dipped their color
/, to any nation on earth. That WASH
n the reason God heard his prayer
:, God Sends
l. Help To All
s 1t wasn't because he was the swee
t singer of Israel No, 1t wasn't be
Il cause he was the harpist of old. No
Playing for old King Saul in his me
h ancholy moods, no!
4 Whenever the cry goes up to tn
# throne of God for help, that he'll
!, comes down to the beggar just tn
4 same as to the king on the throne Q
# the President in the White Hous,
= No man is so humble, so sinful c
;. so ignorant that God Almighty wi
= not hear his cry. Just as well as h
~ will the most gifted being on eartl
!, And God will hear the cry no ma
: ter from whose lips it goes up. Ths
is the reason God wants to help Us.
Now some fellow said, q will te
IS you Bill, I'd be a Christian, I'd b
the first fellow to go down ther
" and take you by the hand, but l al
n afraid l can't live up to it."
IS Think of David preferring to sta
s. in the pit for fear when he got GU
If he'd fall in again.
s. Think of a sick man not wantin
IS to get well for fear of getting sic
Ell again. Imagine a hungry man r
lie fusing to eat because he'd get hui
b, CRY again. Think of a thirsty ma
y thirsty again, or freezing man r
re fusing to warm himself for fear he
re get cold again.
You Can
n, Trust God
e. Oh, listen! if you can trust &C
IS to take you out. you can trust &C
re to keep you out. If God Almigh
in is able to do one he can do the othe
ly and if he can take a sinner out
re sin, you can bet your bottom d.
lar he can keep him out.