The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-27
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our country, beat 1t back to where
you came from.
Another thing, Sabbath desecra-
ton A lot of people come to this
country with their damnable Euro
pean ideas of a Sabbath and then we
lower the standard to let sthem do
what they please, until we have no
Sabbath it seems. These are the reas-
ons why we're not what we ought to
be-
! And then the infideI influences In
some of our colleges, wrecking the
| faith of our boys and girls that we do
send there to learn and to be taught
of God.
/ Professor James, down in Bryn
Mawr, conducted an investigation re-
Gently. He took five thousand, five
| hundred names of the leading scient-
| lists, historians, socialists and from
them he picked one thousand names
and then he divided them into two
groups Then he asked these profess
, sors in the twelve leading institutions
/ in America, do you believe in per-
sonal God?"
And the eminent professors, seven
ty per cent of them said. mo-" and
of the less eminent, fifty-two per cent
| of them said No.
Then he took the students, in nine
! teen of the leading colleges of the
United States and he asked them the
same question Forty-siX per cent. of
the men students said, Eyes" and sew
enty-two per cent. of the women stu
! dents said Yes"
Then he divided them up. Eight per
cent of the Freshmen said yes" we
believe in God and personal immor-
tality" Seventy-six per cent of the
Sophomores said yes" Seventy per
cent of the Juniors said YES" Sixty
per cent of the Seniors said Eyes"
So here are the conditions as they
are. The only way to meet the charge
of inefficiency is to become efficient
! The only way to become efficient is
/ by the grace of God, who is sufficient
for these things. Our sufficiency is OF
God. Therefore, | call on the church
to get on her knees and get converted
That is my call.
Look at the multitudes. They were
scattered abroad as sheep having no
|. shepherd. The harvest is great. The
laborers are few.
Compassion Was
I Keynote of Christ
Now, compassion,-that was the key
in the life of Jesus. Not only on one
occasion, but on all occasions he saw
all sorts and conditions of people
When he saw the multitudes, saw the
thief, the down and outs, the publican
he saw the infidel and all of that. He
saw the possibilities.
} He knew the devil didn't make men
: He knew the reason men were moi
what they ought to be was because Of
the devil in them. He saw the posi-
bilites. Can't you see the possibili
ties of a man being sober instead OF
drunk? OF man honest instead Of
liar? OF man pure instead OF i'm
: pure?
Jesus Christ saw the possibilities Of
, everybody living the way they ought
to live Sin married the world. Mar
was created in the image of God. Sill
: has destroyed that image. Jesuk
Christ came into the world and no
only revealed man to the world, but ht
: came to reveal God to man. l have {
: revelation of Gods relation to me ant
of my relation to God, through Jesus
Christ. That is what he came into the
: world to do. So the only way viii
ever get any knowledge of good, |:
through Jesus, and talk about loving
God and Shaping Jesus Christ in the
face is nonsense.
/, Go back to Eden, when God created
] man, what did he say? Let us make
man in our image" and he didn'
? make him the image of the devil
not at all! What was the effect whe1
he saw the multitudes? / can't ana
l I'VE the vision the cross had upo1
l Jesus Christ. He saw the limitations
. man was placing upon himself be
cause of sin, when he went into th'
e Garden of Eden and said, Father, re
t move this cup from me-"
!. That was the vision of the cross
2 He said, There is no other way to re
!. deem this old world my SON"
j And he said. "All right, your viii
5 be done. not mine"
\ Church Lacks
Compassion
/ Why is the church doing so little
There is no compassion, no concerl
for the salvation of people. Minis
tiers, a good many of them. are Incl
Y ficient. What you see depends upol
n your viewpoint. If you live by faitl
t in the Son of God, when you look int
/ this old world, you look from the di
y vine standpoint and it makes yol
want to be good man.
r Half of this world has never beel
: converted. That is the reason whel
p he saw the multitudes, he was moves
e with compassion. Some people hav
u their vision so low that they are thun
t der struck at the sight of mountain
}. You can't see very high with your ey
t looking at the Bottom. You can't Sc
S very high when you look at Co
e through the bottom of a champaign
# glass. Your vision is too low.
: Compassion indicates suffering wit
l. and for another Like the sin of tn
e Venetian woman When she brough
9 her daughter she cried unto him sa!
ing, 20, Lord thou. son of David. m
It daughter is grievously vexed with
G to become a drunkard, hard to &c
h back. 1t is easy to steal from you
d employer, hard to get back your rel
[, utation after you get it. But Go
n never considers, If you will only n
turn and come to the Lord. He wi
n kiss away your guilt.
It Say. do you want to know the s,
I1Itiau of the prohIeD1 of the tWpntiof