The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-27

financial and intellectual influence
you are driven sUainst God, but you
stand tied. If you give way there
would be an avalanche of souls in
the kingdom of God.
better or worse, but Jesus cannot.
He Is perfect.
"If thou art the son of God" The
Devil starts his campaign with an
IF" Opens his campaign with sus-
picion. If - if you doubt the Bible
if you doubt He'll if you doubt
Heaven - if you doubt salvation - if
you doubt regeneration - if you
doubt the church - if you doubt the
devil
No offs"
Allowed In Creed.
If you allow the devil to write an
''If'' across your creed. you are lost.
Lost. Sure as you live. If, if, If.
IF you are what your name i'm
plies" said the Devil, IF you are
what the prophets teach; if you are
what the angels said, if you are what
God said, speak. Turn these stones
into bread"
days of fasting. I know men that
are in He'll for I know the way they
! lived because they did not believe
a man could fast forty days. They
said the Bible was a lie, that nobody
could do that.
| Old Doctor Tanner went twenty
/ five days the first time and thirty
+ six the second time and siXty-two the
third time. And l have never heard
an infidel doubt from that day to
! this that Jesus tasted forty days.
/ So God takes great delight in show
ing up some of these old Holsters.
Even people nowadays go more than
forty days without something to eat.
SO the Son of God was hungry?
! Imagine the Son of God being hun
cry. Why, IF thou art the Son of
| God, Speak and turn these stones in
to bread" That is what God did at
the beginning. Let there be light
and there was light"
How He Sought
"If thou art the Son of God, turn
these stones into bread and convince
me that you are the Son of God.
am from Missouri and if you want me
stones into bread, and then l will be
lieve it. And you can satisfy your
hunger at the same time"
1T does not look right that you
the Son of God should be hungry and
you don't need to be hungry
Now if you think the Devil is a
. fool you have another guess coming
i He knew that Jesus had been fast
ing for forty days and he though,
he would appeal to his weakness. Why
tread on his weakness? Why hi
him when he is down? Why battle
with him when he is feeble Why
that is the Devid's game. That is his
game.
Why teach me to make bread by
{ breaking the moral law. PastebOarC
: soles on shoes instead of leather. Al
wool humbug when it is half cotton
Pitted chicken that never scratched {
: barnyard or flew over a coop. Lamt
that never said Bah Hog tina
never grunted. Knocked down carfare
Entries on expense accounts for you,
own personal pleasure. Graft. greed
gambling, adultery, hold-up, burglary
! Get Rick Quick" schemes. Girls sell
: ing their womanhood in the red igh
IS district. All this is making bread thu
t wrong way.
! Speak. Turn these stones int
? bread" That would have been thu
/, wrong way. That is the way with
V lot of fools today. You are fool t
? take advice from Hell.
Get Our Opinions From
! Washington.
We don't take our opinions from
Berlin. We get them from Washing
+ ton.
4 A fellow said to me, But Bill, thi
is an age of competition. l have t
= live"
Death is better than a dishonest liz
ing.
i That girl would have been bette
/; dead with a calico dress on than I
i have sold her womanhood and go t
u He'll with silks and diamonds. Yo
don't have to do that to live. If 20
$ make bread out of stones they Wi
;" lay heavy on your conscience.
S. If you have somebody's money i
= your pocket it lays heavy You iV
- in that house that you stole the none
from other people to buy it with it
heavy on your conscience.
Making bread the wrong way. Nal
ing bread the wrong way.
IF thou are the Son of God, al
like a God"
| If you are a Christian, act like
| Christian.
Here is a fellow that processes
be honest but he sells inferior good
Here is a fellow says he loves his Wi
and he beats her up. l say you are q
old liar. I don't care what you sa
when l see her going around with
black eye.
Here is a fellow says he loves
family, and he will get drunk. He,
is a fellow says he loves the truth al
he can lie faster than blue racer CT
run.
III What did Jesus do? Instead of a