The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-03

Soul" 142nd Psalm, 4th verse.
Speaking on mo Man Cared" in the
tabernacle Tuesday evening, Rev. w
A. Sunday said:
Life and nature seemed to be
made up largely of contrasts = heat
and coal. light and darkness, noun
tains and hills. valleys and plains,
rain and drought, famine and plenty,
sickness and health, vice and vir-
tue, success and failure, joy and
sorrows, trouble, tears and happiness.
All lives are made up more or less
of contrasts, but no life in history,
sacred or profane, presents larger
number in my opinion, than that of
David. the author of my psalm and
text. | am first introduced to him
as little shepherd boy, and he was
herding his fathers flocks when
Samuel was sent of God to anoint
David king of Israel. for Saul had
defied God and made a blunder and
a failure, and God said:
81 have got a shepherd boy out
here that is going to wear the crown
instead of you"
And the next vision catch Of
David is that he has become king.
on the ground. put the crown on his
head, and he is sitting yonder on
the throne of Israel; and God kept
him to keep the flag flying when the
clouds were lowering and threaten
ing in the Jewish nation.
And then David was a poet of no
mean ability; and when l read the
70 psalms of which he was the au-
thor, made up my mind that there
is a man who passed through all the
varied experiences to which flesh is
heir, and he seems nearer. He was
a musician, too, and he played for
old King Saul in his melancholy moods
and charmed the crouch away from
the old king when he was sullen.
David Was
Successful Leader.
And he was a warrior, too, and the
Jews never knew defeat when David
led them on the battlefield = never
And here he stoops to sin to drag
the name of God down. 1t seems
strange to me that anybody could use
the words of my text-you know his
sons had rebeIled against him and
sought his life and David had been
compelled to flee, and old King Saul
Jealous of David's popularity, chased
him like partridge over the mountain
and David took refuge in the cave OF
the Engaddl.
Then" he said, ut was that
looked upon my right hand and upon
my left hand and refuge failed me
No man would know me. No mar
cared for my SOUL
1t seems strange to me that any
man at any period of the world S
history could use words like these
and they would be an absolutely hon
est expression of the utter and abso
lutte indifference on the part of people
to his or her welfare who ought to be
considered interested in them anC
Jealous to see them doing right In
stead of wrong, living for God instead
of for the devil, praying instead Of
cursing. being pure instead of impure
sober instead of drunk, filling tbs
churches instead of the haunts of sin
1t seems strange to me that any
man in any period of the world
could use words like that and they
be an honest expression of the uttel
and absolute Indifference of the worlc
as to whether he went to heaven o.
went to hell But more than passlns
strange to me is that in your day ant
mine. with all we understand, AM
with all the opportunity to do goot
and serve God, and with every in
centive to do it, that any man o
woman with a scintilla of decenc,
or reason would stoop to assasslnat
YOUR manhood and electrocute an
high and noble ambition. to stop t
do anything that the devil wants yo
to do, and then want people to re
spect you.
We Overlook
HeIpnq Soul.
mo man cared for my soul" Di
YOU ever note the concern we NANTES
in people in times of physical dis
tress?
When the wires brought us tn
news that San Francisco lay sup1n
and helpless and that fire had broke
out and burned and destroyed tn
city. we ran our hands into our pool
cts up to our elbows and a stream {
gold flowed to the Pacific coast unit
nearly s10,000,000 had been sent
supply the people with food an
clothing and the necessities of lif
who had thus been so rudely drive
out and their homes wrecked and CO
cred with incinerated ashes.
And when the earthquake shoe
Italy, the united states WAS the III
to load vessels to the waters edg
and send them with provisions an
clothing and tents and lumber
build temporary homes in order
house those whose homes had bee
destroyed by the forces of natur
1t made you feel proud and chess
that YOU lived beneath the Stars ar
Stripes and that we were always II
first to respond when people are
danger and need.
A friend of mine told me that yea
ago he sat in the old Russell hou!
in Detroit. Mich, where the Por
chartrain hotel now stands, and viii
he sat eating his dinner the fiji
alarm sounded and soon Al sounde
which summoned all the apparatus e
cept the reserves. He said that
hurriedly completed his meal al
then followed the people and the m
chimes down the street. and thu
stopped in front of a building nil
stories high, which was reputed to
fireproof, and the fire broke out
he ninth story.
The people stood on the inside u
til the flames drove them out, al
they raised the windows and sto
on the outside until the flames sh