The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-24

AlAlS Va A1Itu hIu LUG CSSSpOOl Oh vice
and she went home with the tears of
repentance coursing down her beau
tiful cheeks. Oh, she doesn't think
I'm vulgar
No! Another says he is sensational.
Nothing would be more sensational
than IL some of you would be decent.
Nothing good was ever accomplished
without sensation.
Sensation 10 life. Staanatlon Is
damnatlon. The bounding, rushing,
tumbling, roaring, plunsing mountain
stream Is sensational, yes; the stag
nant pool breeding miasmatIe germs
and nlasma, that Is vile. ! choose
Christian enthusiasm In place of
putrid stagnation any day. | would
rather be a guide post than a tomb
stone any day.
1t is high time we brought up the
cavalry; some of our big guns are
stuck in the mud, bring up the rank
and file. One reason why sin tri-
umphs, l think, is because it is treat
ed as though it were a cream puff in
stead OF rattlesnake. You can't
brush away sin with feather buster.
Prudery is no more sign of virtue
tnan a wig Is OF hair-both are used
TO cover a bald spot. Religions, /
mink, is too often associated with
dollars. In political conventions ev-
eryoody is awake and on the qui vive
put IN religious assemblages, where
christ used to be crowned, they are
somnambulant. In financial gather
ings, where dollars and cents are at
stake, everybody is alert, but in re-
lgious gatherings where men are
10 he
en- or pauperized in hell, they are
apathetic.
Trot Square with
God to Succeed.
In court room where a man Is on
trial and fighting for his life every
body sits forward and scarcely
breathes, for they want to hear ey-
cry word in the conflict, SO | don't
care whether you cry, whether you
laugh, whether you hiss, whether YOU
applaud, whether you stay, whether
you go. SO long as you will cut out
sin and trot square with God AL
mighty.
Lyman Beecher, after a meeting.
said, I'VE had a wonderful revival
They said, How many did you take
in?"
None. We turned out forty-seven."
Did you ever read the History of
the Salvation Army in India?" by
Mrs. Booth. She tells the story of a
pet tiger the children used to play
with and one day the little girl was
out in the yard playing with the
tiger when 1t came bounding into the
bungalow, hair standing on end, ewes
like balls of fire, his great claws dis
tended, flashing its side with it's great
tail, and in its tusks hung a fragment
or the dress of the little girl.
The mother yelled, Great God, the
tiger has killed the child"
Not stopping to investigate. the
father seized a huge piece of marble
they used for holding the door of the
bungalow open and he crushed the
skull of the tiger and he fell dead AT
his feet. Then they ran into the ward
and there found the little girl. her
clotnlng torn to shreds, her body lac
Grated, otherwise uninjured and right
Dy her another tiger disemboweled and
It's vital organs scattered over the
lawn 1t had come in from the inn
gle, scented the human flesh, leaned
the fence and rushed to seize the child
and the pet tiger had jumped between
the little girl and the tiger and there
was an awful fight and when the CON
h1ct ended the enemy was living dead
while the child sat beneath the tree.
When You Strike
At Revivals You Err
And when you strike at REVEALS YOU
SPIT INTO the face of God Almighty
ana You tear the sides of Jesus Christ
ana you put few more thorns on His
prov. 1t is Gods way to keep people
out OF hell and if I didn't believe If.
as preacher l would resign and get
put OF the church. l wouldn't insult |
God.
me hour has come to go to the end |
Pralse God for what He is going tn |
10! Oh, the people that He is going
Q save! Thank Him for the crops that |
he is going to give us. Thank Him
or what He is going to do! will |
1--WE you an illustration. Over in the /
second Chronicles the children of I
srael were on the march from Egvnt /
o the Promised Land and they came |
o the country of the Moabites, They
ilont have power enough to force |
heir way through and so there tbev
itood and they said:
Lord, wilt Thou not iudee tb;s
'reat company, for we have no might
'galnst them, neither know we what
o do" nat
And the Lord said, Stand still and
ee the salvation of God, you need
lot night in his battle, the battle is
lot yours, but the Lords"
Then we are told that upon Jaba-
lei, the son of Zechariah, and a whole
ot OF other people whose names Won
an pronounce when you get time
speil EN- out, came the spirit of
ne Lord, and He said:
Appoint singers" and they appoint-
singers and they went out before
he people and sang, Praise We the ,
ORD. They went out praising God !
or what He was going to do and God ,
10 II and the children of Ammon, {
loao and Mount Sier and they turned {
no Fought one against the other and !
udah gained the day.
Inc hour is come to praise God for !
nat he Is going to do in old Rich 7
iona Tor the cause of God and of 2
esus, His only begotten son. Get ac- +
TAINTED with your neighbor Won i,
hight like him. You might. a
out In a western state a Young I
reacher went to a town as pastor, E
round seltishness had the upper +
ana and the social castle springing s
and was blighting the good infiu- I
noes of the Community So bo stor+od