The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-26

quiet IN religion, III dO0 Amlgntyl
owned their mouths, and there would
be more preaching out of the Bible
and less high-brow preaching.
If God had your mouths you would
be better all around. How hard it |
would be for sinner to get away i'll
everybody were looking for Christ?
How many troubled hearts you can
comfort every day. How many
tears would soon be wiped away
How many homes of squalor and want
would be made glad? How many will
ling hands would be lifting burdens
How many things you would find
pleasure in doing, you would stop do
ing. If God only had your hands.
Things that we do that make us proud,
make US selfish, make US devilish,
make us unclean, make us un-Chrts-
tan.
Present your bodies" That body
you love as you love your life. That
body that can bleed. That body that
can suffer. That body that can en-
dure. That body that can die.
Oh, that body that can show the
face of Jesus Christ to the fallen
sons of man, God wants you to trust
him with it.
Are you willing to walk up and say
Here, God, take it,
You go down to the banks and say
! Here, take my money"
Why don't say, Here, God. you
can take all / have. My feet, eyes,
head and ALL 1t is yours. Work out
through me your glorious plan of sal
walton"
Must Take Care
OF Your Bodies
/ 1t is a part of our religion to take
care of our bodies. Ir you did, dis
sipation would stop, late hours would
stop, loose habits would stop, over
eating would stop. Understanding
would stop. We'd play the game
right, and we would pay better at
tention to our health.
Present your bodies-"That means
you shall love the Lord your God with
all your heart, your mind and your
soul.
Present your bodies" Past, pres
ent or future. Your strength, your
weakness, your wisdom, your ignor-
ance-all you have suffered, all you
have heard, all you have loved, all
you have enjoyed-give the whole
thing to God.
Il beseech you brethren, by the mer-
cies of Cod"
Never was there a victory won that
did not cost suffering. Paul preach
ed and they chopped off his head.
Jesus Christ demonstrated and they
nailed him on a cross. Abraham
Lincoln signed the Emancipation
Proclamation and John Wilkes Booth
paid him with a bullet.
Present your bodies as living
sacrifice" That is what the wife
!, does. She says II give myself wholly
to the husband" And he says, Il
give myself wholly to the wife"
Lots of people shy at that word
wholly" If that were our watch
word in business what a wonderful
world~this would be. What STAN
pede there would be in short yard
sticks.
, Graft would be unknown. No lying
! in advertisements. No Fire Sale
when there had been no fire, within
, one hundred blocks of it. There would
be no difference in Goodness in bust
ness and Goodness in the church.
If that were true there would be no
fallen women merchandising their
; womanhood. No thieves. Nobody to
f stick gun under your nose or mine
, and say, your money or your life
! No infidelity. Nobody to wriggle their
carcass across our threshold and try
to seduce your wife and wreck our
home.
Thank God For
Having Reason
, Oh, I think one of the noblest at
tributes of God is reason. I think He
is never unreasonable. God only asks
his rights. God only asks you to dc
what hurts you if you don't do.
= / believe no law was ever made fol
a us that we would not have made our
! selves, if we had known the Truth as
= God knows it. God doesn't ask you tC
do anything that you would not de
mand yourself to do if you knew every
: thing as God knows it. God never
asks us to do anything that you were
: not better off by doing.
God never asks Humanity to de
anything that is not for the good O.
I it.
d Oh l will admit all these things
O then | am through. God will ash
g some things that are hard things
: will admit that, but never unreason
Il able.
IL 1t was a hard thing when God sait
} to Abraham you go out with you
son, Isaac and he took him upo1
\ the mountain as a sacrifice; but Coo
: had reason. Abraham understands
q tonight, and he is satisfied.
? Is Satisfied With
= His Work.
l have gone for 81 years and hell
y up the bleeding form of Jesus Christ
9 have gone into the ranks of sin
been lied about; slandered, black
. mailed, framed-up, and the whiske.
bunch hire black-hearted liars to tai
s me from one end of the land to tn
2 other to vomit puke and spew GU
e their malicious dictations. They hav
II threatened my life from the Atlanti
5 to the Pacific; insulted my wife an
v children, and when at last, l hav
preached my last sermon, when the
IL have built the last tabernacle; whel
S the boys have reported the last sci
e mon; when l have given the last il
/ Walton, and l drift. out with the tide
e and burst through the gates into tina
city, and look into the face of Jesu
'r Christ; walk on the golden streets hiC
W den behind the pearly gates; the Lor
II will call an angel and say SHOW Bi
Ie to his mansion" and when / go in an
e sit down, Jesus will say Bill, tina
1t was the reason
And I will say. Lord, I am sati.
n fled"