The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-01

heard John the Baptist preach. John
had said: This isn't for you to have
your brother Philips wife" He want
ed Jesus and his brother Philips wife,
but he couldn't have both, so he turn
ed Jesus down and kept his brother
! Philips wife, which was against the
law
If you are willing to forsake every
known sin, God will forgive you, but
you can't compromise the thing
What shall 1 do with Jesus?"
You must do one of two things, either
accept or reject Him. There is moth
ing else to do. Neutrality is absolute
| ly impossible. The opportunity to do
right, imposes the obligation to do
right. There is no middle ground; you
either accept or you reject.
/ Queen Elizabeth gave to her lover.
! the Earl of Essex-and, as many his
/ torians say, her paramount ring OF
wondrous beauty and of fablous price
and said: Take this as an evidence
j of my undying affection for you and
! if you will return this ring as an evil
dence of your appeal for clemency, l
will grant you any petition, even to
pardonlng you for treason
1 And time rolled on and her lover.
/ the Earl of Essex, was arrested on a
trumped-up charge of treason by his
| political enemies, and remembering
the queens request, he sent the ring
back to her as an appeal for her par
don, and one of her maid s-in-waiting,
Countess of Nottingham. had sought
the engraft her affection into those of
the Earl of Essex, and he spuned
her advices, and like the proverbial
worm, she turned.
They gave her the ring She with
held the ring, from sheer spite, and
\ when the queen learned that he had
been arrested she was too proud to
take the initiative to send a messen-
ger up to ask for the ring and sleep
forsook her couch. She denied her
self friends and she refused food
The days went by and all night long
she would be awake, thinking of him
! Sorrow Pursued
Her All Her Life.
The night before the day of execu-
ton she paced the balance. She
would wiring her hands and sob and
moan in grief. She'd frame her face
in the window and look out through
the darkness, trying to catch a
; glimpse with the ring as an appeal.
They didn't come. The day dawned
and the axe of the headsman cleaned
in the ,ir and the head of her lover,
the Earl of Essex, rolled in the dust,
| and when she learned that he had sent
the ring and that the Countess of Not
i tingham had withheld it, she flew al
| her and would have torn her heart
from her breast and trampled it be,
, meath her feet if friends hadn't have
, interceeded and torn her from her
!, And from that day until her deathbed
: she cried with $500 dresses hanging
in her wardrobe, her jewels by .se
, peck, she moaned and said: "All
, my possessions for one moment OF
, time" for broken-hearted Queen Eliza
beth never knew surcease from sor
row
And there is one enemy that keeps
Jesus Christ away from you tonight
= that is your will. You will not Weld
! you will not acknowledge that you
!, might have that pardon for He offer;
! it to you.
what shall l do?"
: Not what shall | do-iust cut me-
y out of it, forget me. l settled tina
: question 80 years ago when / cas-
!, myself at His feet one dark, stormy
!. night in Chicago took Him to my
: heart.s / never regretted it and
! never will. Not what shall ! do =
: forget me, please, just leave me gu
of it, No!
: Some questions concern nations
= some concern states, some conceri
!, families = but this is a persona
i question
4
\ What shall do?"
a Wait a minute. Maybe can hell
/ you to decide it; that is the reason
. am preaching this sermon tonight.
). What shall | do?"
Not with Caesar, not with the Oh
. Testament, not with the Jews, no
+ with politics, not with society-you
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