The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-17
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I have made the journey of life by
it. | know all about II, so far as
my experience goes.
The Bible wasn't written to give
me history of science any more
than a erow-bar was made to take
the place of tooth-pick-not a par
ticle! So, use it for the purpose it
was intended
"These things are written that We
might believe" That is why God
\told men to write the Bible, in order
that l might believe that Jesus was
the Christ and I'd be saved And it
was written that dead men might
live, and it is true that for all prac-
teal purposes those that are with
out God are dead in tresspasses and
in sin. Life is the realistic thing in
this world, or any other world When
people are alive, they know it; and
when they are dead, other people
know it. Therefore, man is dead
to a thing that is nothing to him.
II education is nothing to you,
then you are dead to it. If science is
nothing to you, you are dead to it.
If God is nothing to you, if you are
not living for God, then you are dead
to God and living for the devil. Any
man is dead to God, if God isn't in
his life; he is as dead to God as an
Egyptian mummy is dead to the first
call for dinner in the dining car.
When the dead are gathered from
the battle-fields, some are mangled
beyond possibility of recognition,
others have scarcely any marks Of
violence upon them; but they are all
dead, they are no longer in the realm
of the living. There are lots of peo-
pie that live physically, but they are
dead spiritually, because they are not
Christians, and, being dead spiritu-
ally, they are lost because they are
out of Jesus Christ
1t is as necessary to believe in Je-
sus to have spiritual life as it is to
have eyes to see or lungs to breathe
or ears to hear.
There are men who honestly and
candidly say, Il can't believe in Je-
sus. l have tried to-"
Well, | think l can sympathize
with you, for l was in that fix my
self one time. l couldn't believe, and
the harder l tried, it seemed to me
the worse off l got. But the trouble
with me was the same as it was with
you'll didn't take the right course.
And then, thirty years ago, one dark,
stormy night in Chicago, l came and
got down on my knees and said,
God, l am sinner, accept Jesus
Christ as my Savior
The trouble with me was / would
mt take the right course. When ]
took the right course and told God
was an old sinner bound for hell
that was really the right course, and
| haven't had any trouble since.
Now, you take the safe side and
see how you will come out. And
there is only one way to have your
doubts destroyed. Go TO the Bible
read the Bible and obey it. Suppose
a man knew nothing about Greek OF
Latin-how is he going to find out
Why, he has to begin with the sim
plest things, the "a b c's." There is
an ga " in knowledge! that's why
we have a kindergarten. There's an
"a C" in religion, and we have go
to start here. If you begin with tbs
"a C" of religion, you will have nc
more trouble than you do when you
begin with the "a b C" in knowledge
The trouble with lot of people is
that they want to start in the senior
department when they ought to star
in the primary.
Bible Written
For Men.
You have got to begin at the be
ginning of anything, whether it is {
trade, knowledge or religion, and see
how you will come out. The Bible
is written. it says, that men NIGH
believe. You can put that to tht
test, but God isn't something to try
we know what he is.
You can put stTychnine to the
test, and if you don't believe it will
kill you, try it and see. You say
l don't believe that fire will burn
but if you put it to the test, you vii
believe that Jesus Christ is the Sor
of God. All right. l challenge yol
to put that to a test.
My friends, South Africa is rich il
diamonds. the richest diamond mines
in the world The Kimberley mine:
are there. 1t has been published Il
the world, but it is only those tina
go there and dig that ever find an,
diamonds or the gold.
Jerry Maccauley was a convict III
in Sing Sing. An old side-kick,
pal OF his, Gardner, went up thert
and talked to the prisoners, and il
the course of his talk he quoted
verse of scripture. When Jerry wen
back to his cell, he wanted to inC
the verse. He took out his Bible ant
started in Genesis to find it. TIL
verse was in Hebrews. but he fount
Jesus Christ before he ever founc
that verse, and he made his nam,
ring throughout New York, and New
York couldn't hold it, and it spillet
over into New Jersey. You couldn'
hold it there, and it reached away GU
into the corn rows of Iowa. And the.