The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-13


multitudes of people that would do
nothing else in the world The big /
gest lie the devil ever persuaded any,
body to believe is that God is hard |
to find and that He dwells afar off !
and that you'll have to make a long
journey
oh, God is nearer to you than the
air you breathe, or the man or wom- /
an that rubs elbows with you, or !
the light that pours upon your head !
He will be found when you seek for |
Him with willing heart.
You Must Search
For God.
Seek We the Lord" God can only
be found when you do so with the
same earnestness that you would
seek health, or that you would seek
for gold. or that men seek for an
education or to become famous in
the world When God has not been
found, it is because you've sough.
Him too late or you've sought Him
with a divided heart You wanted
to keep sin in your life and have
God too, and you can't do it. You
couldn't do that any more than old
Herod could have his brother Phil
and kept on living with the woman.
There is such thing as delaying
seeking anything too long,-oh, yes
There is no doubt about that Null
titudes of people have died from ap-
pendicitis because they waited too
long before they went onto the OPP
Grating table. MuItitudes of people
have gone to premature graves be-
cause they waited too long before
they went to Colorado, Arizona, Of:
| New Mexico to breathe a rarified air,
to cure tuberculosis. MuItitudes of
people are in their graves that would
have still been on earth enjoying
| life, but they waited too long.
There are multitudes of people
| in He'll that never expected to be
there any more than you do, but they
waited too long and let the opportu-
nifty go by. Their hearts became
hardened and God could do nothing
to turn them from their sins, to yield
to Jesus Christ.
| Salvation Your
i Highest Need.
! Oh, seeking God, my friends,
should be the first business in life!
Seek We first the Kingdom of God"
and with good many people, it IS
the last thing they do in the world
| 1t is thousand times more impor
! tant to be righteous than to be rich
or famous or cultured. l commend
you for Your ambition to leave your
wife and children a comfortable in
come when you leave. 1 commend
you for your ambition in order to
have good education, a good strong
physique Why put God in on the
side track, and give the devil the
main line?
Seek We the Lord" The present
| life has a good many things that
are alluring and attractive, and they
minutei / am showing that a good
| life to have these things. but you
will never know the real meaning of
possessing until you know God.
! Knowing God is as essential to
enjoyment and happiness as sight is,
my friends, or light. Oh, I'd rather be
an invalid, all my days than miss
Heaven at last, when l am through!
I'd rather do that I'd rather lose
my sight and grope my way in dark
ness. I'd rather lose my mind, and
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wife and children than to have God
| turn his back upon me.
Take No Chances
On Reaching Heaven.
Let my days be filled with pain,
and my night with distress, rather
than to miss Heaven. I'd rather have
the worst that can come to a man
in this life and have Jesus in Heav-
en-, than to have the best now and
not have Christ then.
4 Sin cuts like a two-edge sword.
; Nothing is more true than that a
sinner destroys not only himself but
another person who is good. 1t is
alleged that lack of proper insula
, ton of the electric wires caused the
burning of the Iroquois theatre in
!, Chicago. If that is true, then the
man whose neglect caused that woe
. full disaster couldn't have done more
|, harm if he had gone down into the
. audience with dynamite stick and
torch. He couldn't have wrought
, more destruction by his neglect.
) 1t isn't necessary to lie. 1t ISM
j necessary to steal, to be drunkard
| or a gambler or a thief, nor harlot
, TO be sinner,-oh, not! All sin
' starts at the same root, and that's the
t rejection of Jesus Christ. Every
l burglar rejects Christ. Every anarch
list rejects Christ Every murderer re
jects Christ. Every thief rejects
Christ. Every prostitute rejects
l Christ-oh, it all starts at the same
, root, rejecting Jesus Christ, no mat
!, ter what it may come 10 after while
/, it starts there!
The fellow spat in the face of Jesus
D Christ the Jew that did who cried
$ Cruelty Him." rejected Him as mucf
as the fellow who hurled the stone
t as he went down the street. They al
t yelled, Cruelty Him.. Although the.
Y didn't need to open their lips, the!
v did it by their acts They rejected
Jesus Christ.
J. Mistake Made in Rejecting Christ
2 The old God-forsaken, infamous
{ Pharisee that folded his arms owe
|. his self-righteous, black heart, cried
I Cruelty Him." just as much as thu
v bowling mob, or the soldier that drov'
the nails through his hands and thru
His feet, and put the crown of thorn
n upon His brow.
I Not to let Jesus Christ come int
g your heart-oh, it means that that
J. your crowd, and you are standinl
r with them. My God, anybody her,
v that hasn't sense enough to know
that its foolish. God let you out OF
s the grounds that you are an idiot
e Can't you see what a fool you ar
. standing with a bunch that will re