The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-24

IrlenQss that they would have stopped
their ears and cried. ''Lifei Lifel
Life"
II they had, I would net need 20 be
working my life out. II they had
| cried life" and not listened to the
tempter-but they listened and ate
the forbidden fruit, and the world be-
came human graveyard, for the
death penalty passed upon the human
race.
If they hadn't have sinned, they'd
never have died. Gods plan was that
they should live forever and If they
hadn't sinned we wouldn't have had
to work, but when Adam and Eve ate
the forbidden fruit, that decreed the
length of the time that man should
live and God said "By the sweat of
your brow shall you earn your bread
all the days Of your life"
Life! Lifei"
We have reached a crisis and you,
as individuals, will reach it. Dur
ing the English Mutiny in India the
English were surrounded and in the
battle of Lucknow they were giving
themselves up to the fate which they
believed, inevitably awaited every
man, and woman and child. Outrage
for the women and murder and mas
sacre of children and men. There
were $4,000 Sepoys clamoring and
thirsting for their blood, and they
were soon to be reinforced by fifty
thousand more. The English garrison
was giving itself up to the fate of
death, when suddenly Mrs Brown, the
wife Of one of the English officers,
put her ear to the ground and she lis
tened, and she listened. And sudden
ly, leaping to her feet, and with her
hair streaming in the wind, she ran
and cried out as she ran, 81 hear them
comingl"
And the Scottish Highlanders,
marching to the tune Of Annie Laur-
ie," under the leadership of Colonel
Campbell, fell upon the right wing
of the Sepoys and beat them back
and paved the ground with their dead
bodies and set the imprisoned garri-
son free.
Hears Them Entering
Gods Kingdom.
And by faith I can put my ear to
the ground and can hear them COM
ing into the kingdom of God like
doves to their windows. Thousands
and thousands of them. We have
reached crisis. Now the hour has
come to realize that the church is not
an end but a means to an end Edu-
cation, my friends, is the end, the
universities or the colleges are the
means to an end.
Any church that thinks Il ls an end
Is a curse to any city. Churches are
not dropped down on a street corner
to be known as churches of a certain
denomination, but that church Is put
IN this city to try and save this old
city TOR Jesus Christ, and for no other
purpose does she exist.
The church, my friends, is the means
to the end: the end is salvation of
souls. A friend of mine told me he
was at one time asked to become a
pastor of church. That he thought
was the end He never achieved to
so much money and so little religion
forty thousand dollars on the interior
decorations and they to make their
servants sit in the gallery-would not
allow them to sit below. l want to
say to you that the woman who scrubs
your floors and washes your dirty
duds is as good as you are If she
lives square with Jesus Christ.
1t Is not down from the parlor to |
the kitchen, it is not down from the |
piano to the wash tub, it is not down
from pink tea to ascrub brush, my
friends, it Is not down from silk to |
homespun, and the man that drives |
your car Is as good as you are, you
lobster, II he trots square.
And he said they never took col |
Iections except for charitable pur- |
poses, for they had an endowment |
fund, the interest upon which paid !
the running expenses of the church.
And they used to come and hug their
sleek well groomed sides and say.
This is our idea of a church." and all /
the time the old town was going to
hell SO fast you couldn't see it.
Buys New Gospel
Hymn Books
Nobody was converted and finally
he went around and bought several
hundred copies of Moody's Gospel
hymns and he scattered them through
the pews. In the morning one of his
elders came in and shuffled down the
aisle. He had to take SO many pills his
Joints were ball-bearing.
He came down and took a pew and
ne picked up one of the hymn books
and he dropped it like a hot potato
he shuff1ed out and said, What is
hat? What is that?"
And the preacher said, "a Gospel
lynn, sir"
He said, take 'ern out. Let's have
he old hymnals," and he kicked up
such row that in order that the serv-
ce might not be spoiled my friend
vent and got the basket and the sex
on gathered them up and put the
I'D Dutch hymn books back into the
)ew
He struggled along for months and
Nobody was converted He said. 81
lon't propose that any God-forsaken,
'ack-slidden old official should tell
ne how to preach. If he knows more
low to preach than /, he ought to be ,
reaching" :.
So. without calling the officials to ..
'ether he had thousands of tickets
printed and hired men to distribute :
hem, saying that there would be a .
gospel service on Sunday night in the
Id church. 1t created a sensation.
Everybody flocked to see what his
ospel service would be like with that
unch-it was such an innovation and !
he first hymn they started to sing
7as Ring the Bells of Heaven, There :.
S Joy Today"
Ny friend said he heard the voice I
I the old elder ring out clear above {
he $4,000 saprano up in the choir {
DIT and this old feIlo whad a voice c
hat was cross between a cane mill S
n Too