The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-17

The Text-"Why call ye me Lord,
Lord, and do not the things ! say"
Luke 9th chapter, 46th verse.
Billy Sunday delivered the follow
Ing sermon on Easter Sunday night in
the tabernacle:
Why call yourself a Democrat and
then vote the Republican ticket?
Why call yourself honest and then
lie?
Why say that you are pure and
then live in sin?
"Why call We me Lord. Lord, and
DO not the things which I say?"
What did Jesus mean? Do you be-
heve he meant the things that are re-
corded that he said, or do you believe
that he said one thing and meant an
Dther? Do you believe that he ut
II ered things that were impractical
and impossible for US to carry into
effect and then told us he'd damn US
II we did not live up to it? / don't
believe you are foor enough to charge
him witt that, and If you are that
doesn't Justify the fact that you are a
fool if you do it.
Is the Standard High?
Not for Christianity.
Did he put the standard too high
for human attainment and then tell
us he'd damn us if we didn't reach 1t!
No!
I read where a Bishop OF the Eng
lish church said that the teachings
of Jesus Christ should be regarded as
ideal and were never intended to be
carried into effect or lived.
knew of " NJ c. A. that had a
debating society, and it just decided
that under social, political. econom-
ical conditions, that the teachings OF
Jesus should be regarded as ideal and
we're not intended to be lived, yet
they both had the audacity to call
themselves Christians.
Another man said Christianity had
failed He lied!
I will admit that Christianity has
fallen away beneath love as the origi'
nal standard. Love is the dominant
principle of the world; love can never
be defeated. Love may be checked;
love may be prevented for the time
being, in accomplishing it's aim, but
love will drill tunnel through all the
mountains of opposition and reach
the goal of a touchdown. Love =
it's the mightiest thing in the world!
And the world is starving today for
the manifestation OF the love OF God
in the hearts of men and women.
Christ's Power Will
Drive Out Hatred.
I always had a good deal Of sym
= no hat
back door of a protesting Christian
woman's home and pandhandled hei
for a cup of coffee and mooched hel
for a flapjack and after much per
suasion she came across with trac'
on the bread of life. and he began t
tear the tract up and curse and NUT
ter. | have no sympathy with hi!
oaths but l have good deal OF sym
pathy with the feelings that possessed
him. What that fellow needed theI
was a piece of meat with two pieces
of bread under it. The shortes
route into that fellows heart was b.
the way of his stomach. 1t was tn
quickest way to land him there.
believe that there is no prejudice
existing between man and men. be
tween masses and classes, between
capital and labor, that can't be dr1V
en- from the world by the principles 0
Jesus Christ manifested in the live
OF man and men, masses and classes
capital and labor.
/ read of Scotchman who Learned
lust enough of the French Language
to say. God loves you" and he walk
ed the streets of gay, sinful Pari
with the tears trucking down hi
cheeks and his arms outstretched, cry
ing the words in French. 1t strucl
conviction to the hearts OF the peopl
until out of that the great All Mis-
sion work in Paris was started.
story Shows How
Christianity Works.
I heard of a professor who was
Christian. He had a brother-in-law
q doctor, who was an infidel and thi
doctor said the reason that all Christ
Z ians didn't sin was because the
- weren't sufficiently tempted. Some