The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1922-05-01

why call you me, Lord, Lord, and
do not the things say?"
You say: Hold on, Bill! l won't be
hypocrite or four-flusher. | will
be out for Him or against Him. l
won't pretend to be for Him and then
put 1t over on Him"
| am not asking you to do it. l am
making a suggestion, that's all; let
me help you to decide it. You can
treat the matter with indifference If
you wish. There was a class in Jeru-
salem, my friends, who on the very
day that He hung on the cross took
no notice of Him; they opened their
stores. they went on with their bust
ness, they bought and sold, married
and gave in marriage. They had
feasts and went to their games and
amusements, while Jesus was hanging
on the cross. They all did that. You
say: mo, l wouldn't do that?"
Well, you can do it if you wish
I'm not asking you to. You can be a
trimmer-how would you like to do
that? You can play the towards part,
old Plate did. Yes, he was for Jesus
He wanted to save Jesus, but if he
had saved Jesus he would have lost
the friendship of that other crowd.
Parenthetically, many people SYM
pathize with old PLATE. They know
what Is right, but would stand up for
him, but If they did, they know they
would damage their standing with 9TH
ers that have no use for Jesus. Then
let them go to the devil! Why should
you sacrifice your soul for fear of dis
pleaslng?. Anybody that you dis
please by being a Christian is a low
down pup don't care who he is
In my opinion. II to be a Christian
you dispIease somebody, God be
praised that you have found out that
their friendship isn't worth three
Whoops this side of perdition.
What shall do with Jesus?" You
can be trimmer. Wait minute. 1t
didn't pay for old Plate to trim, and
| want to warn you before you make
that decision, if you do, it won't pay
for you to. PLATE was trimmer and
he afterwards lost the favor of Caes-
ar. He was driven from his position.
He lost his reason and died at the
hand of suicide. That was the end
of PLATE. He trimmed the PROPOSE
ton. 1t won't pay for you; it didn't
pay for him.
It Doesn't Pay
To Be Two-faced.
You can do as Judas did. You can
betray Him, you can sell Him. Judas
got 80 pieces of silver-$15.92. What
did you get?
Did you get that automobile you
drove up here tonight?
Did you get that suit of clothes you
are wearing?
Did you get that dress you have on ?
Did you get the jewels that scintil-
late from your ears? Oh, what did
you get?
Did you get raise in your salary ?
| Did you get enough money to buy
that house?
You can do just as Judas did
| you can sell Him. Some people sell
Him and give their virtue; some sell
their manhood, their womanhood, their
honesty. l am not asking to do it
/ they did. You may do the same thing
, if you wish.
What shall l do, then? That is de,
! scrlblng some future time and between
! the choice Of one or two things. If
hold something in this hand and some.
! thing in this hand, if you reject this
! you accept that by subversion. What
\ shall l do then?
| Power of Choice
| Rests With You
You can repute His Divinity If you
want, but you have the warm, glowing
historical Christ left with you &C
!ahead-what will you do? You can't
write the history OF this world and
leave Jesus out of it any more than
you can write the history of Rome and
leave out julius Caesar or Mark An
thony, or you can write the history oi
the United States and leave out George
/ Washington or Benjamin Franklin OIL
Aaron Burr or Admiral Dewey or Deea
ture or any one else.
Jesus Christ was truly a historical
character. Don't you know, my friends
that Julius Caesar lived and died A.
years before Jesus Christ was born?
You have been in Central Park, You
have noticed that great monument that
! William Vanderbilt placed there at ar
expense of 100000? That manument
stood in Egypt when Joseph was boy
Oh, we are not so far from the cross
of Jesus Christ. And when you look
+! upon that monument you look at some
thing that Moses may have touched OF
Joseph may have touched-at least
they looked upon it.
| What will you do with the historical
Christ? What will these fools, weak
minded and all those that sneered al
Cleveland fool? Was Benjamin Har
rison a fooI7 Are the members of the
| United States senate and house of rep
Jesus strong intellect do? Was Grover
resentatives and justices of the su
preme court-are they all fooIs7 They
are believers in Jesus Christ as the
Son of God.
/ Is William Jennings Bryan a fool
| Is he believer in Jesus Christ as the
Son of God? What are you going to dC
with the Christ of these Christian
men?
Was the late William Mckinley {
fool? When the assassin's bulle
struck him down at Buffalo, fondIy anC
revently did he pray that he would bt
spared, and when they gave him tn,
anesthetic and the doctors bent owe
him to catch what might have been hi!
last words, he was muttering tn,
Lords Prayer.
We smiled and dried our tears anC
We shook hands and forgot our polit
ical differences. Then the relapse cam,
and we were informed that he wa.
igrowing worse. They sent for hi
wife. He looked up and said: TT
Gods will-His way, not ours, b,
done"
And he started, my friends, to re
peat Nearer, My God to Thee, Neare
to Thee" and the lamp of life flick
cred and went out forever.
Down tho of Duff oil