The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-11


In his sermon at the tabernacle on
Thursday afternoon, Rev. ". A. Sun
day said:
Where there is no vision, the peo-
pie perish
That is where there is no apprecia-
ton of Gods plan. That is where ev-
erybody becomes a law unto them
selves. That is where you don't stop
to consider or care whether your &C
ton or conduct will make it easier for
anyone else to do right or wrong. You
do that because you personally want to
do it.
The only law you recognize is the
law of your own desire, and you are
actuated by the desire to crafty your
one ambition or inclination, prospect
i've Of the influence upon others
through that qualification.
Where there is no vision! There is
a better way for you to live than you
6are living.
Where there is no vision! A man is
better to be well than to be sick.
Where there is no vision! Our peo-
pie are better if they pray than if
they curse, or If they obey God rather
than If they live in sin.
Where there is no vision, the peo-
pie perish
Religion Restraints
People.
They run riot. The restraining in
fluences today are due to religion.
There is many man today that does
not care about God. He doesn't be-
lieve in God Yet ne lives passably
decent life, and the fact that he does,
isn't due to his unbelief, but it is due
to the restraining influences of Chris
tianity. You do away with religion
and you will sound the death knell OF
morality. Morality will never stand,
my friends, and survive the death of
Christianity.
The fact that a lot of people live as
good as they do, and yet have no use
for God Isn't due to anything which
they develop through contact with
each other, but it is due to the restrain
Ing influence of the religion which
they sneer and blast at.
Therefore, you take that religion
away and then see what will become of
your morality. So: Where there
is no vision, the people perish, and
the hope, my friends, of the world is
to get people to see that God is good
and that he is concerned for their
welfare.
We have visions of the fact that we
have got to pillow and plant in the
spring, If we have anything to eat in
the winter. Therefore by working in
harmony with Gods law, we are kept
ssoing, and our nation is kept going
yand our bread-my friends, we have
never scraped the bottom of our meal
barrel as a nation.
What do we do? We simply work
in harmony with the fact that God
Almighty has appointed that we have
got to pillow our fields and plant our
crops in spring if we have anything to
eat in the winter That's vision, so we
work in harmony with God to make
that
God Ought to Be First
In Life
The Bible opens with this verse,
'In the beginning Cod"
That's the first verse in Genesis.
That ought to be the very first with
every life.
Seek ye first the Kingdom of
God That ought to be the first
verse. but with great many people
it is the last.
ABOUT the last p6ISOH I16y WANT "
see is the preacher. They have no
use for the preacher in the days of
prosperity, when they go down the
line and indulge their desires, but
when the shadows of life begin to
gather, and they realize that they are
about to drift out with the tide, then
they like TO have the preacher aroundI
Well, send for him. He will come
any hour of the day or night, but l
say | consider it is a mean, contempti-
bic, unmanly, unwomanly thing to do,
TO keep the control OF your life in your
own hands and then at the end of a
miserably spent life, try to creep into
Gods kingdom because of his long
suffering with you.
think it is damnable and sneaky
to Give your life and influence to the
nService of the devil and just before
on die ask God Almighty to take you
10 heaven, wheA you never served
God a day as long as you lived
And yet there are lots of people
that that's just exactly the way they
live But l am very glad to say that
they are in the minority. Most people
are honest Most people are truthful
Most people are on the square. Most
people believe in God Now and then
YOU find one that doesn't believe in
God
The Bible says he is a fool il he
doesn't, and the man or the woman
that lives disregarding Gods plan for
their lives is as big fool as the cap.
tain who steered his ship by the
:lock instead of the compass.
Nations Must
Have Vision.
Every nation must have vision or
go down. We stand where we do TO
day because of the fact that we have
had visions, that our people were bet
ter under certain laws than under
others, and this nation, my friends
has recently declared and entered the
great world conflict because that is q
vision that the nations of this world
are better governed by laws for the
people and by the people than they
are to wear the collar of militarism
For that reason, we barred our breast
to the bullets of the world and have
gone forth to help the nations. We
have had a vision that they were bet
ter in that way and we are willing
to pour our men and money and oul
abstinence and our unsurpassed power
IS a nation into the great vortex oil
| war In order that peace might reign
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