The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-17

to placate the god she had to stand |
before at the judgment.
That is the way the Aztecs and the |
Indians tried to save themselves. |
Here, they try to do it by philanthro-I
Ply and cults. You can go to hell as
quick from a mansion, as you can
from anywhere else.
You can't save yourself Wealth, |
culture, these things that are COM
mendable, don't save you. l am not
fool enough to preach against them. |
Nc, that isn't | am saying thatl
these things without Jesus won't save
you. So. Whatsoever things arel
true, think on these things.
| am dead sure that there would
MT be an unrepentant man in this
audience or city that would continue
to live twenty-four hours longer in
sin, Indifferent to his souls saliva
ton, if he'd stop to think that ev-
cry time the sun rises and sets, you
are brought just that much nearer the
judgment.
Men live in sin now and scott and
mock at God when they know the
penalty that will come to them. They
do it anyway. Great God, if they are
as bad as they are, knowing they are
going to hell, what would they be if
they didn't know it?
But" you say, Bill, l don't think
could be comfortable in the hell
they tell about in the Bible"
God Wants Us
To Escape.
God didn't make hell for you to be
comfortable in. Penalties, my friends
were not made to conform to the
comforts of the criminal No, no,
that isn't it at all You thin& you
might be happy in a hell where they
had carpet on the floor, electric light,
electric fan, water and lemonade, icy
lemonade that you suck through
straw, have the daily papers and per-
/ iodicals. You think that would be all
right. Well, it isn't fitted up like a
clubhouse. take it from me. You
don't have any water there.
! Penalties are not made for the
comfort of the criminal All unre-
pentant sinners, big or little, rich or
poor, will be lost. Are you foolish
enough to run the risk, and wake up
at last in perdition, through your fail.
ure to think on these things? What
4 soever things are true, think on these
] things" That is what God wants
you and me to do. Now, we are all
glad when some fellow-mortal cuts
bad out of his or her life and yields
to God and says, Il am going to be a
Christian"
The Bible says, Though your sins
be as scarlet, they shall be white as
i snow"
! There is nothing known to chem
| istry that cans change a scarlet rag
to a white one, and when a rag picker
] brings a scarlet rag to paper man
ufacturer, he never attempts to make
white paper out of it, because it can
not be done, for there is nothing
known to chemistry that will make
scarlet white. 1t is an indelible dye.
i But God says, though your sins be
as scarlet, I will make them like
snow, though they be red as Grim
son, l will make them like an arctic
snow, make them white as wool. So,
we are all glad when man or WON
an says, 81 am through with sin,
am going to serve the Lord and keep
his commandments and do his will. ]
am going to heaven some day, halle
lujah!"
Wants To
Be Saved.
a lSlOW lOlu HE u go W Hell Tue
other day, but l said, Nothing do
ing" | am not going, and l don't
want you to go, nor does God want
you to go either. The angels in heaven
don't want you to go and your moth
er doesn't want you to go, and your
children don't want you to go. The
preacher doesn't want you to go
That is why we build the Tabernacle
and come here and preach. l am go
ing to heaven some day, hallelujah!
| think l will make a goose of my
self when l get to heaven. God has
arranged that every mortal that will
] accept Jesus Christ as his or her saw
ior and obey him shall go to heaven
Come, go too; God has room for ev
/ erybody to go if everybody will go
, but God knows a lot of them won't
: go. And if they don't, it isn't be
, cause God doesn't want them to go
l am going to heaven some day,-yes
f sir.
The Lord has arranged it, and he
has planned that every mortal that
will cut sin out of his or her life, &C
) cept Jesus Christ as the savior, Car
= 90, too. Jesus said on that great
) day, "Come, we blessed of my Father
t inherit the kingdom prepared for yoL
t from the foundation of the world"
And to the others he said, "De
! part from me, We cursed, into ever
: lasting fire, prepared for the devil
, and his angels"
Tell me, which crowd will you be
with?
The Car of Russia lay dying year,
} ago. His daughter, Elizabeth, who
was heir to the throne, was reluc
/ tant about thinking of even wearing
t the crown if he did die. When he
died, the man who corresponds to oul
Secretary of State rushed to The
, palace. He had prepared pictures, il
5 case of her refusal, in order that ht
2 might use every influence to induce
! her to choose. When she resisted
/ and said, mo, / don't want to-" he
. held up the two pictures, one to rep
{ resent her seated on the throne, the
4 crown on her head, robes of royalty
: about her, and the people applaud
. ing and falling in homage at hel
+ feet. The other represented hel
: standing on scaffold, with a ropf
5 around her neck, and the black car
! on He said, Choose instantly. You
] life depends on it"
5 Jesus says, ENTER thou, or depart
s which crowd will you be with?
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