The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-12

and then the kids would laugh at me
and l would go out and fight two of
them after l got through, so / used to
have fight every Friday
When ! was converted | made up
my mind ! would give testimony
wherever had the opportunity.
would think of some things | wanted
to say and when would stand there
would forget it, but would get up
and bIunder and stagger through it,
and ! kept on. If anybody ever
worked hard to be able to talk and
say something, have. | have grown
by expression.
So, therefore, we grow by express
sion. God wants us TO develop, that
is why God wants you to ask and
tell Him. He is anxious for you to
grow mentally and physically, and He
is anxious for your faith to increase.
We get by giving.
The more you give, the more you
get, intellectually, physically and spir-
ltually-everything. That Is why we
put seed in the ground. Put a ker-
mel Of corn In the ground and you get
1899 times as much as you put In.
So you give and get.
That is why man goes out and
sows the wheat. Look at the abund-
ance God gives him back. If the
4, farmer got no more than he put in
the ground he would starve to death
in four months. You cut little po-
| tato and put in an eye, and God will
| give you a hill.
| / used TO be weak physicSsdy. NY
grandmother on my mothers side and
three of her brothers and two of her
sisters died with consumption. Ny
mother was the last one to die, and
she died of heart disease, and was
IS years old when she died.
! When l was boy l was weak
lunged. Caught cold and it always
went to my lungs. When 1 went to
Chicago to play ball 1 was weak.
lunged. l went to a gymnasium and
developed my physique. l wouldn't
take a million dollars for the physical
benefit that my life as a ballplayer
and athlete is to me now, for l have
preached for 81 years and have never
missed night preaching. So there
i are lots Of fellows stronger than l, but
l would not trade with any guy have
ever seen.
Can Still Travel
Down Cinder Path
dred yards in II seconds. All
would have to do would be to get my
? wind a little bit. And my dad was
: in the army, at that; yet have some
} of the young bucks beaten. l haze
laid foundation, that is why. By
doing things l grow physically and in
: tellectually- So that is why God
wants you to do all that for your
good. That is why He requires you
to ask.
: Then He tells you to pray. ''If you
ask for bread will You be given &
stone?"
, If your child comes up to you anc
| asks you for bread, you don't give hin
stone. If he asks you for fish, yol
don't give him snake. If you have
sense enough, don't you think YOU
Father up in heaven has sense enouoF
to give you the things you ask for?'
ASK and ye shall receive Knocl
, and it shall be opened unto you"
, Now, there are immediate as vel
, as deferred answers to prayers
| Please remember, the devils bushes!
is to prevent prayers from being an
swered, and while you are prayin,
for your husband or for some cause
please remember the devil is work
ing hard to oppose that.
| The devils business is to oppos,
] God in everything that is for the hu
man race, and how anybody will stanC
up for the devil is more than l car
understand. Yet, you think when
talk against the devil l am hitting
you. Some of you.
Now let me give you an illustra
ton. In the ninth chapter of Dan
2 iel, Daniel prayed for something
5 Here is what the Lord said
D Daniel, at the beginning of tn.
supplication Your prayer was heard.
When Daniel prayed, God hearc
I and God started an angel on tn,
wing with the answer to Daniel ant
it took the angel three weeks to ge
to Daniel with the answer and whel
/, the angel arrived he said, AT tn,
: beginning of your supplication you
prayer was heard but the princes o
the power of the air hath withstoot
, me three and twenty days, so tn,
angel was three weeks getting dow
! to Daniel with that answer.
5 Why? Because the DEVILS busi
ness was to keep him away with tn
answer. So when you pray, Cod
r answer is on the way, but the devil i
going to keep it in his power ava,
from you, so that you will say Their,
is nothing in God. So therefore tn,
devil may keep the answer ava,
from some people for years, get then
discouraged and get them to quit.
Some don't get what they pray TO
because they look downward, it is to-
: low.
! | went into a town in Indiana ant
> a man came up to me and he said
: There are seventy-siX men her,
who have pledged themselves tina
three times we will pray for you il
the meetings. We have arranged
with every firm and they will lie
them off any hour of the day or nigh
/. and if there is any encouragement O.
trouble that you want me to help yol
with, you let me know and l will sum
mon that band of men and we vii
, meet you. We are Gods and we hav'
signed our contract and we have go
it all arranged and l want you t
know that there are seventy-six mel
: in this town that will die for Jesu!
/ Christ and are willing to go with 20,
to the last ditch
Old Men Sing
Coming Down Aisle.
1 saw men 20 and so years of ag.
that had resisted every appeal, com'
down the aisle and they would sin.
as the tears rolled down their cheek