The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-29

As soon as you reach this apprecia-
ton, where you are dead to the sense
OF sin and iniquity, then the scene is
changed to one Of feasting and bles-
sing. If you want the blessings of
God TO come to YOU, after you have
done your part and given yourself up
to the Lord. then the peace of God
will be yours.
The Roman emperors used to have q
brutal custom. They would return
from a military expedition and bring
with them their captives, and they'd
have huge amphitheatre and they'd
nave bull rings in the floor and pill
fars, and they used to chain these
captives to the pillars and starve them
for days, giving them neither food
nor drink, and on an appointed day
they would put on the tables all the
delicate viands that they could pro-
duce. and they would ransack the
known markets of the world
These men, starving and dying from
hunger and thirst, would drink in the
aroma of the food and see the spark
ling water, and they would tug at
their chains and beg and plead and
implore and beseech and weep, that
they might have one morsel of food,
Just one drop Of water to moIsten
their lips.
Then at signal the emperor would
enter, and with his lords and ladies
they would sit down in the presence
of the enemies of Rome and feast and
quaff their wine and gormandize and
satisfy their epicurian appetites, while,
the captives were pleading and moan
ing. AS soon as the repast was fin
ished, the emperor would give the sig
nal, and through the doors would rush
the eagles of Rome with their spears
and battle axes, and cutlass, and they
would cut and sabre and slash and
hack to mince-meat the bodies of the
captives, and they'd turn the banquet
hall into slaughter house, and blood
would flow like water.
They did 1t to strike terror into the
heart of any that dare lift their voices
against the imperial authority Of
Rome. They prepared a table in the
presence of their enemies.
Q, In all thy ways acknowledge Him.
! He will direct your paths. He will
bless you. He will do great and won-
derfuI things II you will do His will.
Thou anointest my head with oil;
my cup runneth over"
| Heaven 10
a Place.
Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days of my life, and
| / shall dwell in the House of the Lord
forever, and that is my reward.
! Some people say heaven is state
and not a place. ! don't believe it.
Heaven is place. This tabernacle is
a place: so is your home: SO is your
store. Heaven is a place!
I'm my Fathers house are many
mansions; If it were not so, | would
have told you. / go to prepare a place
/ for you"
Heaven is not a state or condition
heaven is place, and there must be
place for the resurrected body
/ Jesus Christ went with His apostles
out to Bethany, and the clouds re-
ceived Him. Bodily, He went into the
skies; bodily He will come again.
i / am going to preach on THE Sec
ong Coming of Jesus Christ" That IS
the next great event in Gods plan for
the world When that takes place
/ don't know. I have no cranky ideas
/ to air on the subject at all. | am not
a fanatic. But that is the next great
event in Gods program.
And so He arose bodily. He will
return bodily He will return.
:, When Lafayette returned to this
country as the guest of our nation in
4 1924, the ships went out into the har-
Dor to receive him, and as he sailed
in, the guns Numbered his welcome.
He never shed a tear.
She came up to her dock. He
walked the gangplank and the earth
trembled with the shouts and the ap-
lplause of the grateful people whom h.
: had helped to deliver He never shed
tear
Artillery
Shakes Earth
4 He got into a carriage and was
!. driven down the streets Of New York,
and the streets had been paved with
| palms and flowers, mementos Of af-
lection. He never shed tear.
d The earth trembled with the roar
Of musketry and artillery. The road
was lined with the populace that stood
! about with barred heads. shrieking and
'I screaming. He never shed tear.
He passed beneath the triumphal
arches which had been erected for his
honor, but he never shed tear
They took him to Castle Garden.
then the largest auditorium in New
York, where the great men Of our ma
ton had assembled to do him honor.
and as he entered they cheered until
the building trembled, and they arose.
He sat down in the seat OF honor.
assigned to HON, and as he did, they
raised a curtain. There, on the stage,
they had reproduced in miniature his
old home back in France-the house,
the trees, the brook, the hill. his
father and mother and brother sitting
upon the veranda. all reproduced in
miniature. And when Lafayette saw
it and it painted upon the canvas Of
his memory his home in sunny France,
the tears rolled like rivers OF water
down his cheeks, and the great
Frenchman shook as II he had the
! ague.
Oh, If could just pull back the cur
tain and let you take one glimpse into
heaven and see all that God has pre-
. pared for you. if you'd only forsaka
your sin, and, l believe could break
the heart of every unsaved man or
woman in this tabernacle and there
wouldn't be a man or woman going
out of here tonight without Jesus, un-
less he were fool or an imbecile-
and God lets you out on the ground
that you are an imbecile.
Heaven Is
Splendid Abode.