The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-18

the church and there was an infidel
doctor in the town. One day the
minister met him on the street, and
he said:
Doctor, I haven't seen you at the
meeting"
NO." he said, But I believe the
meetings are having a splendid moral
effect upon the community and in so
far as they have that moral effect
they meet with my appreciation"
Infidels make me sick They give
me a stomach ache and l want a soda
mint to settle my stomach when they
talk about moral effect. Where in
the name of God did you ever learn
about moral effect? 1t isn't because
you learn anything from an infidel.
It is because of the constraining in
fluence of Christianity that you are
as decent as you are
well said the minister, "if you
believe they are having a splendid
moral effect, and if you believe in
morality, they ought to receive your
Endorsement and presence and help"
He said, eff | should go down there
people would misinterpret the motive
which prompted my presence and they
infidelity''
He said, "See here, Doc, come down
! to the meetings"
| He met him the next day and said,
You weren't there"
He said, IF l go the people would
misinterpret it. I believe they are
| having splendid moral effect upon
the community
He said: Say Doc, If you will come
and bring a number of your friends
with you, I'll reserve a block of seats
and afterwards I'll make a statement
to the audience that you and they are
here, not that you particularly are
prepared to renounce your belief and
and accept Christianity, but because
you believe that the meetings are es.
| pecialIy having a splendid moral ef
feet upon the community and that you
are anxious to have the people know
about it,"
Old Doc took the bait, hook, snker
| line and all, and that night he was
there with 26 of his young men anc
two of them found the way to Christ
/ The next night old Doc was back with
some of those same ones and others
who had been interested. That night
three of them took their stand. The
4 next night old Doc bobbed up serene
ly with more and he was seen to turr
and urge the young men to do Il. The
minister said: "Say, don't understand
such a paradox; you say there i:
nothing in it and ! saw you tonigh
urging your young men to embrace it
;, If there is nothing in it, why unde
heavens name ask them to accept it?
He said: Some of the young mel
are drinking in my club; some Of then
are gambling, and l presume the com
munity and the parents hold me re
fsponsible in a degree for their con
duct, and I'd be very thankful if
could induce them to take any mora
, tonic which would tone them up
little bit"
Saw His
Plight
Infidel that he was, he knew that al
the infidelity this side of hell couldn'
: keep a man on the water wagon, o
out of the arms of a prostitute, blu
if he'd accept Jesus Christ as hi
Savior and live it, then there weren'
enough devils in hell to pull him int
: a booze joint.
The next day he met this ministe
: and said: Say, I've been so busy
haven't had time to take an inventory
2 Could l see you for a little while thi
afternoon at four?"
you may"
He didn't show up and the mex
morning he met the minister and sale
81 apologize but ! went home last nigh
and took down the Bible and read tn
! gospel of John and the more | read tn
| more saw the Divine problem unfoI
2 itself and have accepted Jesus Chris
e as my Savior and ! have come to te
u you that | will be down to the churc
tonight and make public acknow
y edgment of my faith"
d He did and he led every one of thos
5 young men but three into the kim
d dom of God. He willed to do God
will and he knew that God was rigf
r and he was wrong.
Il DR.. Rainsford who used to be rectC
It of ST. Georges church had a fello
d come to visit him who had been
e classmate of his. He was a skeptt
y and of course being entertained thei
e he had to go and hear him preach. An
d after they were through DR.. Rainsfor
said to him: well, what do you thin
n about it ?"
], Doubts the
s Good
j, He said, Its very pretty the wa
1t you preach it, but l don't believe it
r. Don't you believe it's possib
d there is a God?"
y He said, Il believe that is possib
n but l don't believe Gods word is
revelation"
% DR.. Rainsford said, "If there is
S God, he could make a revelatio
e couldn't He?"
n He said, IF there is a God and
1t He is such a God as that book r
IF vealed, if He were disposed, He cou
1t make a revelation" Dr. Rainsfol
er said, "If there is a God, and if v
l are his creatures and if we are goiI
IS to be rewarded for doing His will,
It damned if we don't isn't it extreme
~ important that God should reveal H
m will to us ?"
h ooh" said the old skeptic, "Profe
n sor, I'd have to believe that. If the
" is a God and if He is kindly dispose
ID toward His creatures, it wouldn't
fair or just and honorable to damn
when we didn't know what that W
was"
ID He said, Have you ever tried
&c find out whether there is a God?'
1u Never have"
re Would you like to know"
of 81 would
n He said, Come on, let's pray abo
m it"