The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-20

rushing pell nell to the grave, this !
thought sweeps over me, "How great |
are the sorrows and the sins and the
troubles Of the people,"
And l feel like Jonah of old, as
he walked down the streets of Min
even with the seaweeds hanging over
his ears and crying, Repent! Repent!
Repent! Repent"
Many people get in the worst
trouble trying to get out Of the trou-
BILE they are already in, in their own
way. 1t is true that the man who
commits a crime tries to cover it up
without another crime, and then an
other to cover up the crime that he
had already committed. He keeps
getting in deeper and deeper Poor
short-sighted fool, he can't see that
you can't commit one sin and then
stop.
Deceived The
Public.
l know of a man who used to mako
living by telling people that he was
soldier and was crippled in the war.
He'd go around and panhandle and
they'd ask him. How does it happen
that you are a cripple?"
He said, 81 was in the war"
He walked up to a fellow one day
and asked him for some money. He
said, What's the trouble? How did
you become a cripple?"
He said, I'm the war
He said, Il was in the forty-ninth"
why" he said, THAT was my reg
iment. What company"
He said, Il was in company eight"
He said, Il was in No. L.
Well, don't you see how the fellow
would be in a cold sweat Now per-
haps that sounds like a chapter out
of your own life, but you can see
where he'd been going.
Like a fellow out in Iowa a
farmer living in Sidney yoked him
self up with steer. He was trying
!, to break it and the steer started
down the road and the fellow had to
get down to his mutton to do his best
! to keep from being choked to death.
He couldn't hold back; if he had, the
| steer would have choked him to death.
| Sin Gets
! You in Bad.
| &c. when sin gets a hold of you,
you are just about the same as If
| you were in fire, you can't stand
still in fire any more than you can
! in sin. And it is imp ortant for US
| to remember that And so, on they
go, all embeZzlers. and all abscond-
ers, and all bank wreckers; they
began by taking a little bit, and af.
! ter they made a start, they took a
little more to try and retrieve what
! they had taken, and then they took
little more to try and retrieve
that. and they kept getting deeper
and deeper until after a while you
we're Mortified to find the bank was
looted and your savings had gone
up in smoke.
So it is with the man who drinks
he takes little more and more and
until at last it holds him in bands
stronger than steel and more terrible
i Now, we all know that's true. Some
people are aware of that from sac
and bitter experience.
This poor man cried, and the Lore
heard him, and saved him out of al
his troubles"
I The man of my text was bly
! trying to get out of his trouble il
/ his own way and there will Away;
be trouble where there is sin. 1t ii
the DEVILS business to make trouble
You don't need to read the Bible t
know that's the truth. You don't neeC
to consume my energy or time listen
ing to me to know it is true. We al
know it is true, and most everybod.
from experience, too.
You Cannot
Hide Sin.
The child soon learns if it disc
, beys the parents there will be trou
BILE, and if you hide your sins yor
will have trouble. The Bible says
HE that covereth his sins shall no
prosper, but whose confesseth an
forsaketh them shall have mercy"
This poor man cried" If you wan
to know what Christian experience i:
: read the Psalms. They are full of il
! and they are authentic. You can
always tell by hearing a fellow tai
:. in meeting just what Christian expe
rience is. The reason is that nobod
has ever lived so they could clearl
: express what they feel in their heart'
: that is, to be fully understood
: Spiritual things at best are might
. poorly expressed in words.
= There are some things you kno'
: that you can't find words to e,
2 press. l love my wife and children
!, but if you'd ask me to frame it
: the words of the English Language
, ten million more words wouldn't col
L tain the words that I'd like to expires
:. that l mean in my innards. can
: do it, so there are some things yo
!, can't even tell in words.
But words are the vehicles throug
!. which we convey our thoughts an
feelings to our friends, and even "
\ they are mighty poor. Some peopl
when they talk, say too little, an
i some people windjam too much, bl
i the Psalms are Christian experience
= in inspired language. When God il
/ spires it, they don't say too much {
too little-just what the Lord says {
. wants you to say. So if you wal
e to know what it is, you go and read
: This Man
II Had Sorrow
= This poor man cried" That show
= he was in great trouble. When
n man cries, he is generally in sorro
nigh unto death. He reached the plaC
= where he would stop expecting he
:. from others or from himself. He We
in place where there were no pro
poets that he would ever get out
it, SO he cried unto the Lord, and de