The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-01
"What Shall | Do9" Is Query
All Must Answer in Reference
To Their Altitude toward Christ
Ponus Pilates Answer Nailed Jesus the Cross said Billy
Sunday, and Millions Today Would Follow His Example
Many Are Willing to Sacrifice Their Souls Because
They Fear to Stand Up for Christ.

thrown his influence on the side of
Jesus. that would only increase their
enmity and their hatred and they
would bring stronger influence to
bear. And PLATE figured out: These
Jews up at Jerusalem have no use
for Jesus. They say he is a fraud. |
II they hear that l say that he is not i
fraud, they will have no use for |
me; but if they hear that l have de- !
nounced him, will win their friend !
ship, they will withdraw their opposi- |
ton and will hold my job"
And PLATE was willing to let that
| gang nail Jesus Christ on the cross
to keep their friendship and hold his
job; he was perfectly willing to do it. !
And there are people that are willing
to do the same thing today, all over
this land, for a trlfling reason. And
/ PLATE, my friends, asked himself: !
What would the Jews say about it7"
PLATE should not have yielded to
/ their clamor. He should have been
willing to sacrifice his office and his
life to avoid convicting Jesus Christ
an innocent person. 1t was that Jew
ish hierarchy that threatened old Pi-
late as an officeholder.
/ PLATE was a stand-pat, free lunch,
| pie counter, pliabe, plastic, ickspit.
tie, rat hole, tin horn, weaseleyed,
ward-heellne, grating, whskey-soaked
politician of his day, pure and simple.
Old PLATE was direct product of the
political system of Rome. plate was
a typical machine politician, and there
/, is no lower down scoundreI on earth
than mere typical machine politician.
! 1t wasn't the common people-no
- that led the mob. The common
people heard Him gladly. The COM
mon people shouted, "Hosanna." The
! common people pressed upon Him to
hear the word of God. The common
people plucked branches from the
trees and they tore the flowers and
paved His way with mementoes of
i esteem. The common people tore off
their garments and they threw them
at His feet for paving stones as He
went down the streets of Jerusalem.
Delegated Power
Crucified Christ.
The common people? No! 1t was
the, temple thieves and the high
priests. the elders, the scribes, the
Pharisees, the hierarchy who pos
sessed the delegated power, and they
used that power in defiance of the
common people. They made a mis-
take when they gave the dirty pups
the power
So. What will the Jews say?"
/ Listen What will Caesar say?"
Caesars word was law.
PLATE says; IF Caesar up at Rome
hears that | have let Jesus go, and
by that act admitted that l believe
His claims are just. Caesar won't
Icto Aff Wi
and l will surely lose my job But
If Caesar hears that | say that this
man Jesus is a fraud, and | let them
put Him on the cross, he will know
that l am onto my job and that l am
working for the interests of Rome.
: will win Caesars favor and | will
I keep my job.
!, Oh, and he was willing to sacrifice
!. Jesus Christ to please old Caesar and
to please the gang that had no use
a for Jesus Christ. despise man
: like that. But, hold on. | don't have
;, to 90 back to old PLATE; | don't have
. to go out of this city to find people
: of the same Iow-down type as old
: PLATE was.
: Plate often heard of Jesus, and
!, no doubt he was prejudiced against
!. Him, and he was longing for the
chance to present itself for him to
q pass sentence against Jesus. And
have imagined the look of wonder
70 that swept over the face of Plate as
y Jesus was ushered into his prenence
= and Plate turned to Him and said:
Are thou the Son of God?" and Jesus
said: 81 am"
He was either the Son of God, con
q ceived by the Holy Ghost, born Of the
: Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius
He was a bastard, for He was born
out of wedlock. He was either con
ceived by the Holy Ghost or He wa;
- an illegitimate offspring of a Jewish
N harlot.
! Christ Was
= Divine in Birth.
% Away with your damnable unitar
:, ian theory that makes Jesus a bas
I. tard! My mother taught me that the
~ Good Book didn't lie, and if Jesu
Christ wasn't the Son of God, it doe!
e lie. My mother taught me that
= good man didn't lie. and if Jesu
~ Christ wasn't the Son of God He wa
. liar and all the teachings of TIL
>. Bible are false.
~ 1t would take an unearthly imagi
: nation, something like that of julie
- Verne or H. G. Wells. to imagine ant
:, picture the way history might hav,
- been different if a strong press hat
- existed since the beginning of time
>. And l have often tried to imagin
~ how different the early history nigh
+. have been if there had been in Jeru