The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-15

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age her to keep on praying. What
you do discourage her and instead
of doing something to make her faith
stronger your attitude toward her is
making her faith weaker; instead Of
encouraging her to go to church and
your children to go to church you are
d~iscouraging them, perhaps, by your
attitude.
your attitude.
Men StifIe
Christian Desire.
Oh, there are men here casting cold
water upon your religion and upon
the religion of others instead of be-
Ing enthusiastic for it, You are
throwing cold water on it to chill it.
There are men here today whose chill
dren never hear them pray, or hear
the name of God fall from their lips
except as it has fallen in profanity
and in derision. There are men here
today whose children have never seen
them read the Bible. There are men
here today whose children have never
heard them ask a blessing at the Ia
BILE. No sir! Not one!
There are not ten men here this
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had done their duty toward their
God and feIlowmen they'd have
been in the kingdom because they
took their stand and they'd have in
fluenced others to follow Christ.
A fellow said to me, I'm not a
member of a church but if you can
prove to me where | am any more
obligated to be sober and decent than
you are, I'll quit"
You are under just as much oblt-
cation to be decent as I am. It's a
disgrace for you to be able to sit
out there this afternoon and say.
81 am not a member of a church"
Non-Church
Member Disgrace.
That's no compliment to any man
on Gods earth. It's an insult and
it's a disgrace to an intelligent Amer
lean citizen for him to be able to
: say, I'm not a member of a church
and don't go to church."
You are under just as much obIi-
| cation to be a Christian as the preach
er. You are under just as much OBJ
legation to serve God as | am. You
are human, so am |, but God doesn't
put the responsibility on me to be a
Christian and let you escape. He
puts it on all of us. You need to lose
your mind and 60 into an insane asy.
lum before you can eve do anything
contrary to the Word of God and not
be responsible to God for what you
have done in the world.
Here you are in business. You
are under just as much obligation
as a business man to be able to tell
a man how to die as you are to sell
him a commodity. No matter what
you may possess you are under just
as much obligation.
In a town one time where a friend
of mine was holding a meeting they
went around to ask the merchants
if they wouldn't close the stores ev
cry evening except Saturday during
the campaign, and one merchant who
had a hundred and fifty clerks called
them in and said,
"In common with tha other mer
chants of this city, to show our in
terest in these meetings and religion
we are going to close this store ev
cry evening at six o'clock except
Saturday. Now if any of you wan
to go to the meeting you may; j
you don't, you don't need to. but | want
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this firm will not be gagged by your
presence or absence at this meeting
or your presence or absence at The
front. I don't expect to go and i
| should happen to stroll arounj
where the meeting is being held
won't go to the front. l want t.
make myself clear here-you go i
you want to or stay away if you wan
to-"
Explains
Wrong Position.
He said to a friend of mine, Don
you think did a fine thing?"
My friend said, mo, sir. You re
mind me of a fellow going down thu
street and he sees a house on fir
and there is a woman up in the toI
story screaming, Help! Help! Help!'
You stop and say, Madam, l feel sor
ry for you but | can't help you.
am not a member of the Fire Depart
ment. / am very sorry but | will
go on down the street and l will max,
inquiries and if l meet a member o
the Fire Department l will tell hin
of your sad predicament and advis,
/, him to come III and rescue you. Blu
in the meantime if you should be in
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made inquiry for you"
He is under just as much obligation
TO her whether he wears a blue uni
form or not. You are under obligation
to lead the way for Jesus Christ tt
help others to take their stand for Coz
and for his truth and it doesn't releas'
! you from the obligation to say you ar
not a member of the church.
/ preached in a town one time il
Nebraska. / saw a man come runnin:
down the aisle. He had a cast in hi
+ hand that told me he was a doctor, AM
! one of the merchants said to me, "Yo1
don't know that man."
Tells of
: His Change.
mo, sir, never saw him before"
i? He said, He's the leading physician
r and surgeon in this part of the coun
! try. We've got three hundred and fit
; infidels out here. charter members o
an infidel church and he's the vice
! president of that concern. You don
> know what it means. We've neve
3 been able to break into that crowd
B.! He's the vice-president, DR.. NJ,
l said, Or. NJ. what was it that
said that caused you to come dow
here? You came down that aisle trot
I ting"
b He said, Nothing in the sermon a
all, although l enjoyed it."
| said, What was it?"
+ He said, You know I am a men