The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-19

the principle of the Christian reli-
gion as God Almighty holds it out.
If it were not for the principles of
Jesus Christ there would not be any
country worth living in. / would
not want to live in it either, would
you?
Make haste! Make haste!
Years ago a friend of mine was
preaching up in Saginaw, Michigan,
and bright, keen looking fellow
entered and sat down. And when he
gave the invitation he was the first
to walk down and take his stand for
Jesus Christ. That man was Colonel
A. T. Bliss, the Ex-Governor of that
state and the congressman
And when l went to Saginaw,
Some body said, There is woman
at the door who wants to get in
And it was Mrs. Bliss and l had
the honor of taking them up on the
platform.
Later on when we went to Detroit
we asked Colonel Bliss to say a few
words and then he said: when the
war broke out l was a young man
a trifle under age, and my mother
urged me to give my heart to Christ
before l went away, for she said
You may be killed."
He went out a private and he
came back a colonel, but he still
said mo" to God.
And he said, IF I could only be-
come very rich I could use my sur
plus on Jesus Christ
And he became a multi-millionaire
and he said NO to God
Then he said, 'If l could only
represent this district at Washing
toni" And yet he said mo" to God.
! If you want to know from me, I
would say that now is the best time
i to be a Christian Now! The best
time was the time you let go by but
! the best time is the time you have
J left Your best time has become
history. Your best is now, and if
you sit there and listen to me you
should know that now is the best
time.
I How Zacchaeus
| Extended Invitation.
! When Zaccnaeus came down from
that tree he drew himself up with
i all the dignity of his little dwarfed
! body and he stood in the presence
of Jesus and said to him:
j "Why Jesus, you don't know who
| am. l am the richest duck in this
town. Why, l am Zacchaeus, the
tax gatherer. l wish you would hon
or me by coming up to my house to
dinner"
i Did he do that? No.
4 He talked of restitution; he said
"Half of my good l give to the poor
Jesus did not ask him what kind
of a life he had lived, but when he
shined down that tree and stood in
the presence of Jesus, he said, "The
half of my goods l will give to the
poor"
\ He was already giving the half OF
his goods to the poor, trying to make
up and trying to have his gifts act
as a sort of disinfectant for the way
he got the money in the first place
He said, "The half of my goods
give to the poor" y
4 He spoke Of restitution. Oh! sc
many will have to yank out theiI
check books and write a check or
. the bank and pay back some money
J they skinned somebody out of il
} some transaction, before they viii
ever find Jesus Christ.
: Years ago in a town out West
"A L.
worked for the Adams Express com
: pany, and one night they missed {
: package containing $4,000 in green
: backs. They searched everywhere ap(
could not locate it, and finally they
arrested a clerk on suspicion. H
5 readily proved his innocence and ye
} some people still thought that ht
took that money.
- M
: longer so he left and went up ant
down the land some months late
he went to Chicago and went arount
: the FarweIl Hall and heard Mood.
He spoke something about maxim!
f the wrongs in your life right, if yol
i can.
We Cannot Make
: Some Things Right.
will tell you there are things il
the lives of everybody that we can
$ not make right. And there are som
2 things that if you had your life Il
+ live over again you would do AM
r would not do. And so this youn
g man went to hear Moody. When h
got through he said, 81 want to tall
+ to you"
j Moody said, 81 am tired"
l The young man said, Il am sur
e you will be glad to hear what 1 hav
:. to say"
v Moody said, "If it is confession
: I will gladly listen to it.
o 81 am a thief, l stole that money.
d And he told Moody where $3.50
of it was hidden, and said, 81 onl
took $500 of it. What will I do?"
Moody said, go back and Civ
4 yourself up"
d But" he said, "They will send m
o to the penitenitary if l do"
/ Moody said, you ought to b
; there"
d And he went back and his fathe
I and a few friends made up the $50
e and they walked into the Adams E.
r press company office and they lai
a the $4,000 on the desk and sal
Here is the money"
y What did they do? They sentence
/ him to the penitentiary at Columbu
It for two years. When he walked bt
hind the prison bars for the frs
i time in his life he was a free ma
n He only served for a little less tina
. a year and he was pardoned and b
went out and brought his fathe
mother and sister to Christ and the
u died within short time.