The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-11

. and sermon. Rural night.
up in Boston they showed where the
waves rolled up, a quarter of a mile
on the shore, that they have never
been known to reach that point again.
Houses were wrecked and torn into
sea by the undertow. 1t was terrific
And in the height of the storm, re-
ports went down the streets of Boston
that the lighthouse had gone down
in the fury of the blast And while
the storm was still raging and the
clouds were lowering and you couldn't
see the old lighthouse, one man met
the lighthouse keeper, opposite the
commons and he said, well am glad
to see you. How is the world did
you escape with your life? We heard
that the men on the lighthouse went
down in the fury of the blast"
The old, grizzled lighthouse keeper
who had kept her blinking at the
harbor entrance threw back his
shoulders and said, "The men on the
lighthouse went down in the storm I!
Ho. ha-she never shooki"
So you needn't be afraid of all the
blatent blasphemy and all the sneer-
ing criticism, all the vile epithets that
may be hurled against Gods word.
She stands immovable as Gibralter.
You needn't worry, Gods truth tow
ers over all!
Where Church
Is Weak
Now, l think, the church is at fault
read little book-it is today pub
lished across the seat was called
the grammar of the church and ii
said among other things that the
church has lost its interrogation point
You know at Pentecost men marveled
and when they saw, they said, What
can these things be-"
Why don't they ask it today? And
yet, if we would all believe and give
I ourselves to God, God would manifest
his power until people would staggel
and become overawed at the evi
I dences of the Lords power. SO, why
not? 1t is because we are mingling
and mixing, and amalgamating with
| the things of the world. We have
lost favor with God and we have lost
our power. That's the reason the
forces of hell sheer and blaspheme
That's the reason they don't stand
and stagger back and say, "Whal
| can these things be-"
o, l am not afraid. my friends!
am afraid of being dignified. A lady
said to me, "He isn't dignified."
/ That's what l am afraid of. | an
afraid / will be dignified. Religion
has been hurt and killed by dig
nifty and formality, and ritualism
] and all that. If you want to see me
! when | am dignified, just please come
around and look into my coffin. Yo'
attend my funeral l will be dignified
then to suit the most fastidious.
| Oh, we speak of Jesus as a Savior
/ in general, but what is there aboui
my Savior that is personal, that hal
gotten tangled in your heart strings
! look at a crowd of women, and say
"Llook at the woman"
Must Learn To
| Know God.
Look at Mrs. Sunday" that's
my wife-that's a different PROPOSE
ton Your Savior and my Savior
that's personal But the trouble is
very few people have any persona
knowledge of Jesus Christ. They re
duce their religion to an ethical codt
and they don't know anything abou
God from an experimental standpoint
You know that food is good. Yol
have eaten it. You know that waite
will help your thirst. You have
drunk it. You know that sleep vii
rest your body You have gone t;
bed. That's experience. | don't meet
to stand here and waste my strengt'
telling you that. We all know that
That's what we call experience, bu
| have to waste my strength telling
you about God because rultitudes o
people don't live so that God car
manifest his power through their life
so that they know of the persona
contact with God ! believe in eH
permental religion, and it is the onl,
kind that | do believe in. SO there
fore, we have lost all that. We hav'
lost our possessive case and we haV'
lost the imperative mood.
1t is true today, that when thu
I church lifts her hands and takes he
stand against any evil, that evil viii
be driven from the land. 1t will b.
stopped, and if the churches would al
unite against the wrong. there isn't
one that couldn't be driven back.
Stage Could
Be Purified.
If the church of God would with
draw her patronage from the theatre
unless they cleaned up their stage
and took a lot of these offensive
things off. the stage would be change
and it would be purified, if tn
church would refuse its patronag
until they did Then you'd chang
something.
That's true of the whole bushes
today But if>you sleep with the dog
you must expect to get up with lie
on you.
used to say, 1--WE are going t
have a revival next year" l chang
my prophecies. l have learned with
in the last few years that the promiS
es of God are in the present tense
We have it now, but you will have t
pay the price.
A lady went up to friend of min
and said, I'D give the world if / onl
had your experienced" He sal
Lady, that's what l gave to have i
That's what it cost me. That's wha