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

UN-IELEIhAA1, kIlsHMOND, 1
my lambs" for the book of God is so
high they could never reach it.
Many preacher Is trying to feed a
Few intellectual CRATES in his aud
fence and starves the sheep that are
sitting in the pews.
/ have never aspired to be known
as an Intellectual preacher. / like
these good, old Anglo Saxon words,
that's why use them. II should
say 1T is disintegrating by the forma-
ton of new chemical compounds" hun
dreds OF people In this audience
wouldn't know what / was talking
about.
Tries To Preach
To Common People.
If should say it was rotten, every
body would reach for his nose. So 1t
means the same thing, one is classical
and the other is ordinary.
So, have always tried to put the
cookies and the jam on the lower
shelf / always like, when a fellow
comes to hear me preach to know that
he don't need to lug dictionary along
to try and dig out the meaning of
words. l have never aspired to that.
A lady heard me the other day.
What do you think Of him?"
Why. dear me-" she said, eat first
1 thought his eccentricities and lido
syncracies were astonishing, but"
she said, ''he was the man of contrast.
He was January and June, he was
Mount Vesuvius in hemorrhage of
| lava. Now he was mining daffodils
and primroses, now he was as refined
and chaste as Addison; now he was
as slangy as a hobo in a stale beer
joint"
| But she's got II right. ! try to be
all things for all people. don't al
ways stick to my text but | do stick
to my crowd.
Every Sunday school teacher and
| officer, every member of the church
have received a commission to do your
part. Now l know what some people
think about revivals. / know what
some people think about revivalists
and particularly about me. But you
are entitled to your opinion, have
no fuss or quarrel with you, If you
can sleep better after spewing out
your maledictions, all right, it dom
i hurt me at all.
Warns Against
Failures.
l know what some people would
sneeringly say if some man or won
an who has protested faith in these
meetings should tumble and fall TO
morrow. "Ah! Ha! Just as l expected
to see."
Take a tip from me, the new con
verts will be just as good as the oil
and they will be just like the old
You might as we'll bring a baby int
this world and bind it hand and foot
throw it into a snowdrift and expec
it to live and thrive and develop ply
sically as to expect a man or woman
, would make any progress in spiritua
development by creeping into som
! of these great big ice houses know
| as churches, with cakes Of ice on tn
top of them.
) And when | pronounce the benedic
! ton, absolutely refuse to assume an
; responsibility or allow anybody Of
earth to offer me any carping crit
| cism for what ! have done. ] hav
: done my duty. ! am through when
: pronounce the benediction. It's up t
, you. am through.
t There are doctors present when
baby is born, it's up to you to TAX
7 care of it afterwards. So have don
{ my duty with all the strength / have
i have done everything know ho'
) to do, but l know what some woul
: say. I'll tell you what the Bible tell
/ you.
!. Brethren, If a man be overtake
q a fault, let him alone; brethren II
$ man be overtaken in fault, give hill
kick; brethren, don't speak to him
brethren, If man be overtaken in
fault, chew the rag. but offer no a,
3 vice Brethren get out show handful
V and scatter them around the streets
: brethren get it into the newspaper
5 and put it on the front page; tramp
S him deeper in the mud.
y Keep On
r Studying Bible.
i Brethren, if man be overtake
S in a fault, We which are spiritual
store such an one in the spirit
e meekness; considering thysen, le
d thou also be tempted
|, And I say to you, friends, get dow
l. into the old Mother Book. Get dow
|, into the old Book, read it as newool
{" babies desire the sincere milk or Il
e word. Sincere, that is milk before u
9 cheese principle forms in it. Desii
r the sincere meaning of the word.
n What bread and meat is to yol
n body, what milk is to the baby, Il
|, Bible is to a new convert. When
baby is born, what do you do WI
a it, put it in a refrigerator? That
a good place for dead chickens, al
d meat and butter and milk. What
9 you give a baby to eat when 1t
born? Gristle and meat and bon'
t. You give a baby milk-as newbol
II babies desire the sincere milk of Il
r word-that it may grow and the Bib
t will be to you spiritually what food
d to you physically. Read it! Pray! 4
tend the church services, join Il
d church, not a meeting house, join Z
d church, not simply the prayer me-
y ing, not simply the Sunday mornil
d service, join the church. Give 20
st means and God will wonderfully bic
y you.
lie | remember when our children we
g learning to walk, used to put clio
. under their arms to hold them up
is don't need to do that now Gosh,
get tired watching them go. But the
was a time when they were weak a
they needed strength. Now they ha
Id become strong enough to take care
~ themselves and help others and SO
i, that are strong, bear the infirmitl