The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-29

on the clutches OF decrepitude. He
said, II am afraid you are going to
make failure out of this. You
are the first young man that has
ever been pastor of the church"
The old man thought that the
success was synonymous with gray
hair and failure with youth. He,
said, 'T am going to help you"
He looked at the old man pity
ingly and with mingled feeling Of
gratitude and pity. he thought:
What can you dor" 1 expect the
undertaken has already started for
you and you've got one foot hang.
ing over the edge of the grave"
The old man said, -Four men came
to my house this morning on my In
vitation and on our knees we pledged
to each other that we'd pray for you
every day you were pastor of this
church"
Easy To
Preach There.
The five rose to twenty, the TWEEN
ty to fifty, the fifty to a hundred,
and then they doubled and many a
Sunday morning he'd meet with five
hundred men and they'd say, Now
God bless our minister. Make him n
soul winner. Bless our church, make
people come with a spirit of prayer"
He said he had never served in a
church in all his life where it was
SO easy to preach. For he knew that
at least hundreds of men were hold
ing him up in prayer as he stood
and for the zeal that he possessed.
- rI,O Inox
| ing a pastorate that he had served
for fourteen years. He was around
| bidding the members of his church
goodbye He went into the home of
bedridden saint who said to him,
Pastor In all the fourteen years
| you have served us, l have never
heard you preach, but there hasn't
been a day or night that have been
racked by pain that l haven't prayed
; God to bless you"
The other ministers were Jealous
| of his success. They said, "He hasn't
winning personality" but he never
/. had a communion, that he didn't have
f, accessions to his church. He had
a praying church behind his back.
J Look To
/ Yourselves.
IlOOh W yOuA OCAfCcs hc~I 40 oOhAC
thing you can all do, you can al
pray. If you can't preach and sing
there is something that you can al
do and that is TO pray.
i During the Crimean war soldier
a Russian soldier, was hurriedly sum
moned to picket duty. Not suffi
GENTLY equipped to prevent contract
\ ing a severe cold he was pacing back
and forth on duty when along came
a Russian peasant and seeing the
sentinel shivering, he said, ''You take
my overcoat"
i He said, 'I wouldn't think of that.
He said, you take my overcoat,
and he removed it and hurried home
, contracted a severe cold which devel
oped into typhoid and pneumonia ant
be died
Before he died he dreamed he wa
! In the presence of Jesus and there ly
ing at the feet of the Master, he saw
! his coat and in amazement he said
r How does it happen that 1t is here?
/, He said, "Inasmuch as you di'
, that to one of the least Of my breth
' ren, you did it unto me-"
You never gave a handshake or
smile or a cup of cold water in tn
/ name of God, but He said, IT vii
L see that you don't lose your reward
1 They would wear the victors crow
Mid that triumphant throng.
= Who never made one struggle her
j For the conquest of right DER wrong
/, They would wear the victor
j crown who never lifted their finger:
? can tell you church members VIII
i haven't darkened this tabernacle i
! six weeks. ! can name you preach
0 ers OF orthodox churches who haven
poked their old faces in this tabel
nacle.
God Uses
Q Other Forces.
y Look to yourselves that We n
S ceive full reward" If God has I
/, depend on them to save this cit.
5 she'd have been In hell long ago.
S First Corinthians, And every ma
d that striveth for the mastery is ten
= perate in all things. Now they do
to obtain a corruptible crown bT
t we an incorruptible.
5. l think Paul got the inspiratio
l. of that verse by watching til
e Olympic games at Athens becaus
e he says in Hebrews, Let us la
If aside every weight. and the 81
which doth so easily beset us, an
e let US run with patience the rae
n that is set before us looking unit
# Jesus the author and finisher of OF
o faith"
e He saw that the athletes, whe
3 they got out to run, laid aside ever
% thing that would impede their pro
y ress. He said, "If men are willin
% to do that to win race, why aren
x we willing to do that make a su
% cess of the Christian racer"
n / used to run, could run a hui
It bred yards in ten seconds at II
crack of a pistol. / could circle IL
d diamond in fourteen seconds fro
d the standing point, had a pair
IL running shoes. the two of them didn
i weigh a pound l used to lay asit
S all superfluous clothing, so l wouldr
d. have anything to impede the workir
" of my muscles. l never tried to W
t. a race with milestone strapped {
er my back. l don't propose to try ar
s, run Gods race with besetting sill
impeding my progress.
l was straining every muscle al
l didn't want any man to breast TIL
id tape ahead of me. and they couldr
lg do it, either. So Paul said, Let
Ii Law aside every weight and LET