The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-11

Homer RodeheaVer
that you are doing Then you haye
Gods power in your life"
A man said to me, as modern
Evangelism a success?"
know nothing about modern
Evangelism. Mine is not modern
Mine is as old as the cross of Jesus
Christ Mine is as old as the nails
driven through his hands and feet.
My Evangelism is as old as the crown
of thorns that they put upon his brow,
and any Evangelism that doesn't hang
on the cross of Jesus Christ is no
Evangelism for me.
Sometimes. Ministers
Are Wrong.
| know nothing about your TWEEN
tieth century stuff. know nothing
about it. And so, l am not posted
on that proposition at all, Not at all!
where there is no vision, the peo-
pie perish"
Sometimes the ministers are wrong.
l don't want to criticize my brethren.
i don't criticize the ministry as an
organization or an institution, but /
do criticize when they don't preach
have And as l told them, it is my
humble experience that there is more
religion in the pews today than in the
average pupil. That's one reason why
the people are denied their vision.
Now another thing, and many a
minister today has lost his vision. He
is standing up in the pulpit preach.
ing 3mmyrot to the people, stalking
-. ALL kAt a.
the concerns of Adam, and that we
came from protoplasm, instead OF
being born of God Almighty, and In
stead of being created of the Lord.
l don't believe the old bastard the
DRY of evolution. ] want you to under
stand it. / don't believe in it. | be.
lieve 1 am just as God Almighty made
me right here, and | believe you are
and everything in this world.
Many a church is denied it's reve
lation because the minister has lost
his vision of the cross of Jesus Christ,
and therefore he is still standing in
the pulpit, but the church doesn't
catch a glimpse of Jesus Christ, be-
cause he is lost, and there is the at
titude.
Noted Speakers
Attend.
l live in Winona Lake, Indiana,
where we have the great interdenomi-
national associations, and a great
Bible conference there, and we get
men from all quarters of the globe to
come and talk But nobody has ever
been more welcome and given us more
help than my friend, DIR. Powett, pas.
tor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church in New York. l remember
hearing him one time tell about bril-
liant woman in England named Susan
Terrier, and some one asked her to
j write her deepest wish and she wrote
my deepest wish is that my life may
never lose its halo. That is, that moth.
ing may ever appear common or com
monplace. That is, that nothing that
l look upon or touch may be bereft OF
the divine. That is, that everywhere
there may open mystic doors that will
lead me into the presence of Jesus
Christ and to a higher plane of use
fulness in the world"
MY deepest wish" said Susan Fer
rier. is that my life may never lose
its halo, that nothing may ever appear
common or commonplace, that what
] ever l touch may be divine, that
wherever | go, it will give me a vision
of Jesus Christ, that mystic doors may
| constantly open which would lead ms
straight into the arms and the heart
of Jesus Christ, the Son of God" What
| a blessing it would be,
! / read a little story the other day BY
Mrs. Helen Gould Finlay Shepard. She
/ was down there to some homes of want
and squalor and misery years ago, Civ
j ing the little ones shoes and clothing
and food. She clothed the boys and
girls. When she got ready to go. q
f, child three years old pulled her by the
dress and said, Lady, are you Jesus
wife,"
/ Do You Practice
/ Your Belief?
Did you ever do anything that would
have made anybody wonder what rela
! tionship you have to Jesus Christ?
Have you so lived that people would
know by your conversation and your
/ absence and your presence that yoJ
are related to Jesus Christ? We
ought to be glad of the opportunity t.
let the world know that we bear a re
lationship to God and that God i!
! ours, and we are trying to lift this
old world to his tender, beating heart
and make it better that we have livet
in it. "Oh, where there is no vision
the people perish"
/ A friend of mine was going owe
to Chautauqua in New York to Civ,
lecture, and he told ne he had t
change four times to get there. Whel
he arrived he was tired and dust-cov
cred, and Bishop Vincent met hin
and said, We'll, l am glad you hav,
arrived. Hurry up to the hotel, W
have got your room waiting for you
Take little bath, and tidy up, yoI
look dust covered. Then hurry dow
to the auditorium. / want you 1
come down and hear Professo
i Smoker, from Ohio. This is his las
lecture"
4 My friend tried to beg off, but tn
Bishop said, You know how intensel
interesting he is and he will give yo
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