The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-08

heaven Is literally like that or not, or
whether it is the fittest emblem that
God could employ to talk to me in Ian
guage that | could understand want
to go TO heaven whether the fire in hell
Is literal or not, or whether fire was
the fittest emblem that God could EN-
ploy to convey to my mind the terrors
of hell. l don't want to go to hell,
either. That's all there is to It, What
difference does it make? 1t doesn't
make bit of difference.
He'll Must Be
Awful Place,
Hell must be an awful place if God
didn't want me to go there and if He
gave Jesus Christ to keep me out of
there; and You are big fool if you
want to live life of rebellion and go
to hell just to find out il the fire is
literal or not.
What shall the end be of them
that obey not the gospel of God?"
Now listen to me! / believe this =
believe no human virtue has ever
been able to propagate itself from
generation to generation, to redeem
society and the individual from grav-
itating downward to moral wreckage
known everywhere, that is not built
on belief in a future life, no mat
ter where you come from.
What shall the end be of them
that obey the gospel of God?"
What was the end of those that
didn't obey and didn't get a place in
the ark? They found watery grave.
What was the end of those that
dInnf ont %
Rahab? They were all killed. What
was the end of those that wouldn't
look on the brazen serpent on the
pole? They all died
What shall the end be of them
that obey not the gospel of God ?"
Eternal damnation.
How He Sized
Up Situation
|. l said to a man one day in Chi
cago, Don't you think that possibly
there is hell?"
"oh, yes" he said, possibly there
is a hell"
We'll" said. it's pretty good
sense, then, to get ready for the
maybe"
You know when you build build
ing the law requires you to put a fire
escape on it. Do you expect it to
burn? No, sir. But it may burn; SO
you are ready for it. That is common
sense, good business. The law re-
quires every ship to carry lifeboats
and life preservers equal to her pas
senger capacity. Do they expect her
to sink? No, but she may sink and
they are prepared for the emergency
There may be a hell. All riuht, I'm
ready for it. What about you?
Next to my faith in God, that which
would give me most comfort when
come to die is to remember that
carried life insurance that would
take care of my wife and children;
the wolves could scrap and howl and
they could give them the laugh for
years to come, long after old dad had
gone back to the dust of the earth
I don't believe that a man does the
right, square thing by his wife or
children unless he provides for them
in a life insurance policy, so that he
can shuttle off this mortal coil and
have them put him in the ground and
still know that his wife and chill
dren are provided for, and don't have
to go out from home looking for
washing the next day, manicuring
their nails on wash board. You
owe it to them to make provision for
them. Now, l don't get anything for
| that! But 1 am glad, however, of
the chance to say it. l think it ought
to be said. l think it is one of the
best institutions on Gods earth-life
insurance. l don't expect to die. but
l may die, and on that account I
carry policies on my life, my friends.
Live Life
OF Harmony.
Now, then, you say you can't be-
lieve there is a hell. You live a life
in harmony with your unbelief-very
well. Then you die-very well-still
believing there is no hell
All right. l believe there is a hell,
and live life in harmony with
my belief, and l die, and l find out
you are right-there is no hell. But
where have you got anything on me-?
You say you don't believe it; you
find there is hell. I die; | find
1 have got you skinned, old scoun-
drel any way you look at it!
So if there is no hell, I haven't
lost anything by being decent and
living Christian life while l am
here; and if there is, and l believe
there is, and you don't, when | die
/ am saved, but when you die, where
do you get off? You are a fool any
way you look at it.
A man is on journey The Jour
ney is well if it ends we'll We are
on journey to eternity. What shall
the end be? Let God answer it;
don't you quarrel with me.
"a lake of fire and a furnace of
fire"
I'm hell he lifted up his eyes, be-
ing in torment"
Eternal damnation'
The smoke of their torment as
cended forever and ever"
Behold, now is the accepted time"
Will you say, God, had no light"
Will you say, Lord, l though
was good enough"
Didn't 1 say all had sinned and
come short of the glory of God?
Didn't l command all men every.
where?
That didn't exclude you-"all men. :"
Old Prospector
Tells Story
An old mining prospector out in
Colorado had hunted over the noun
tains for 20 years A friend of mine
met him. He said TO him, How do
you measure the depth of an abyss?"
oh" said the old, grizzled pros
hector fsT stand or, .bo od1a ond Y