The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-08

that. You think it is weak-minded-
| ness for a man or woman to believe
in Jesus Christ as the Son of God.
What shall the end be to them that
obey not the gospel of God?" What
is the gospel that people ought to obey
it? Well, it is the good news of sal
walton through faith in Jesus.
"Oh," says a man, do you call the
knowledge of that book that have lost
on the road to hell, good news?"
No, sir, that in itself is not good
| news-no-but if it is a fact, the
sooner you find if it is a fact, the
sooner you find it out the better off
you will be. You can call 1t gospel
law, prophecy, good news or anything
if it is fact, the sooner you find out
you are lost, the better for you.
Suppose you were lost in a swamp
wandering about and not knowing of
your lost condition, and a man should
come up to you, and say "You are
! lost" That wouldn't meet your con-
dition.
But supposing that man should say,
"You are lost, and l am a guide and l
will lead you out of your lost condi-
ton back to your home"
That would meet your condition,
wouldn't it? Not only did the man tell
you that you were lost, but he told
you how to get out.
! God Provides
Plan of Salvation.
God never told mankind that they
were lost, headed for hell, and then
left you to grope your way out your
self. But God says: 81 have sent a
guide, my only begotten Son, who will
, tell you how to get out of your lost
condition.
That is good news for God to tell a
man, that he is lost and then send a
guide to lead him out and bring him
back home and back TO peace and back
to joy.
Wasn't it good news for Noah to
know that when the flood came he
would be saved in the ark? Wasn't it
good news for Rahab to know that she
and her household would be saved
when Jericho fell, by hanging a scarlet
line out of window? Wasn't it good
! news for the Israelites to know that
they would be saved? When they were
bitten by the serpent in the wilderness
all they had to do was to look at the
brazen serpent that Moses had raised
up, and be saved.
Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for
He shall save His people from their
sins"
Never was there such good news
published to the old world.
Suppose a man owes you $4,000 and
has nothing to pay, and you should
seize upon him and put him in prison
and while in that condition you would
take pity upon him and find somebody
that would pay the debt that he might
go free, and suppose your son would
step forward and pay the price and
allow you to open the prison doors and
allow him to come free
We Are Mortgaged
| To God.
You and l, my friends, were mort
| gagged to God, and the mortgage was
/ due, and we had nothing with which
| to pay, and inflexible justice seized up
on us and put us in the prison of con-
demnation. While in that attitude,
Jesus Christ, stepped forward and
said: Father, will go down and pay
| their debts"
! He became bone of our bone They
/ nailed Him on the cross When He
| shed His blood, His shed blood made
! atonement for our sins.
/ When ! accept Jesus Christ as my
Saviour, God puts it down to my credit
as though ! had kept the law, and lets
| me escape on the condition of my &C.
| ceptance of Jesus as my substitute He
| becomes my security and by bonds
man, hence the law has no claim upon
man or woman that accepts Jesus
Christ as his Saviour.
Suppose a man was down in a Dit
and you would come down to him and
say: Come out of the pit; wash your
self
That wouldn't meet the mans condi-
ton. He would say to you, 81 can't"
But suppose you come with a ladder
and shove that down in front of him,
and tell him to climb out of the pit.
then give him food to eat and water
to wash with-that would meet the
mans condition.
All right, God comes to the sinner
and tells you how to get out of your
lost condition; He doesn't leave you
there.
Telegram Brings
Glad Tidines.
Years ago when the North German
Lloyd steamer, the Elbe, went down
| in the North Sea, only 10 people were
| saved. Among the number was a coun-
| ~ commissioner who lived in Cleve-
land. o. When he reached the little
English town, he sent a cablegram to
his wife, in which he said, "The Elbe
! Is lost, but / am saved"
| She crumpled the telegram and ran
out the door. across the lawn and
down the street, waving it above her
head 4 shrieking to her neighbors,
/ HE is saw, is saved"
| The cablegram i. framed and hangs
upon the wall of their beautiful Euclid
! avenue home.
! Oh, it was good news to her that her
/ husband was saved
| The gospel is glad tidlngs of saliva.
ton, offered full, free and eternal to
all mankind who will accept Jesus
Christ as his or her personal Saviour.
/ What is the gospel and what is it to
/ obey it? What was it for Noah to
j obey, build the ark and get in? What
/ was 1t for Rahab to obey and hang the
scarlet line out of the window? What
was it for the Israelites to obey and
| look at the brazen serpent on the pole
! All that was believing Gods message.
| doing what God told them to do; trust
| ing in the finished work of Jesus
| Christ, that is what it means to YOU
| and to me today.
/ And God gave him work to do. and