The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-20
God Giues Great Promises to-
His Believers, Fulfllment of
All AHested to by Experience
His Promises Rest on Cod Justice, Gods Truth, Gods Grace
and Cod Power Back of Which Are the Throne Of God
Says Rev. W. A. Sunday in Speaking of the Certainty of
the Christian Religion.


and the funeral expenses. 1t only
amounted to few hundred dollars,
which was soon spent, and for forty
years that man lived bordering on
want, and he was packing up few
belongings to go spend the rest Of
his years with his son, when he hap
pened to turn open the family Bible
that his aunt had bequeathed him in
1874. He found $4,000 scattered
through it. and he hadn't looked in
it for forty years.
Miss The
Great Things.
So there are multitudes of people
today that miss the great things in
Gods work. They don't look in it
to see what God has in store for them
and the exceeding great promises.
That is the way with a great many
with the promises of God-they never
use them for what they were meant.
They hold few of them because of
their expression, but they don't lay
hold upon them for their face value
and put them to the test.
General Booth told of a man that
was in great want and a friend of
distress and he sent him a check.
When the fellow found the check he
was beside himself with joy. He said,
~ am going to have that framed and
hang it on the wall" That won't do
him any good, unless he'd take 1t
down to the bank and cash it.
The promise must be used to be of
any value to you. There Is big diff
ference between singing psalms and
having responsive readings and then
living by the word Of God. A prom
, Ise hanging on a wall with frame
around 1t, that ls one thing. Plant
ing your feet on It and living by il,
that Is another thing and putting the
thing to test and seeing.
There are multitudes that scarcely
know there are many promises in the
Bible. They pay no attention to them.
They never consider their meaning
Like man addressing an audience
of 1000 protesting Christians. He
said, 81 will give copy of the scrip
ture like this to any man or woman
who will quote ten promises in the
Bible accurately and tell me where
they are located.
will bet you, I can take freight
car full of Bibles and l can start at
New ork and go to San Francisco,
and make that proposition and when
1 get to the Pacific coast l will have
half of them left. Yes, and I wouldn't
rule the preachers out on the deal
either.
In reading the story of Exodus,
/ how many times we lost our patience
with those thick-headed lsraeIItes.
4 feiN e.
before them and fight their battles,
and chase out the giants and give them
every foot of land they put their feet
upon, and yet suppose some of 'em
i starved along on little hillside farm,
/ lived on sage tea and green's, simply
because they didn't do as Caleb did.
! Go in where the giants live and
pick out the biggest river bottom farm
! and build house and go to live in
+ there Take God at His word and
believe that God could overthrow the
enemies Too many people today are
just as slow to take God at His word
as were the Jews of old. They starve
along, picking up a few crumbs of
blessing when God Almighty is able
to give you a bake shop or benedic-
| tons
/ A soldier reached Napoleon with a
report from a general, and just as
he dashed up in front of the famous
warrior, the horse upon which he was
riding fell dead Napoleon read the
orders and answering them leaped
| from his saddle and said to the sol
der, take my horse and ride back
The soldier said, mo, l wouldn't
think of taking your horse, it's toe
good for me-"
Nothing Is
i Too Good.
u He said, There is nothing too good
for a brave soldier of France"
And there is nothing too good fol
a man that will do the will of God
God will send his twelve legions Of
angels to fight for you. 1t only took
one angel two hours and forty min
utes to kill $4,000 of the Syrians.
Instead of going to the Bible wher
they are in trouble to find a way
out of their troubles, they look a
their troubles and their troubles grow
bigger and bigger every minute. Their
they lose hope and heart and courage
and they think that God has forsakeI
:, them or He is in the hospital. ant
they are afraid to step out on the
promise, for they will find nothing be
meath their feet to support them.
A fellow was crossing the OhiC
river some years ago on ice. A few
, years ago the Ohio river froze owe
! and he was crossing on the ice ant
he heard the ice crack. He dropped
, down on his hands and knees to craw
to shore. He looked over his shoulde
! and saw a fellow with four-hors'
: team hitched to wagon of pig irol
; coming trotting behind him.
: Take this promise, Whatsoever y
: shall ask the Father in my name, tina
D will l do
0 If you shall ask anything in m,
name l will do it. If that isn't
a bank check for you to fill out up t
the limit of your needs, don't know
q one. That means open the windoy
S and God will pour out the BLESSING
g upon you. If somebody had said tn
t same words, "If ye ask anything il
my name, l will do it." if somebod
said the same words and signed Ar
4 drew Carnegie or John D. Rockefelle
or J. Pierpont Morgan, why yo
l. wouldn't sleep, you'd sit up all nigh
= filling out bank checks. When tn
banks opened you'd be the first on
s to line up in front of the window
o Yet you let the Bible lie on your Ger
5 ter table chuck full of life, for ever