The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-26

upon people. And he transforms
himself into an angel of light and in
that disguise he does his most effect
i've work The plain devil insight
wouldn't tempt anybody and anybody |
would be disguised to think they've
ever listened to him as much as they |
have and so the devil don't do that. |
Now, l don't see how any sensible
man or woman can believe in re-
wards without punishment. You
can't believe in summer without win
ter, you can't believe in daylight
without darkness at all and you
can't believe in pleasure without |
pain. you can't believe in a heaven
without a hell, and l believe in a !
heaven to get to and hell to keep
away from, and l believe in God
who will boost the sinner If you will
only climb. That is what 1 believe.
Now Satan argues with man on the
ground of Gods love and Gods mer
cy. He says of God. Why, he Is al
mighty and God could have prevented
evil, and II he has allowed It, surely
he isn't going to visit punishment up
/ on feeble mankind"
Woe unto him that striveth with
i his maker Shall the clay say to the
potter, Thou art nothing?" Shall the
/ board say to the carpenter who is
saving 1t, you are nothing?" Not
at all. You can't tell God what He
will do. God couldn't have made
anybody a free agent without giving
that man or woman the liberty to do
wrong If they want to do wrong; 9th
/ erwise they wouldn't be free, they'd
be a nonentity
You Have Chance
To Choose.
i And so, the freedom of the will
carries with it your privilege to do
right or wrong just as you please, so
4 God made mankind and womankind
free. God gave man a free will and
man has rebelled against God. Can
a king pardon a rebel while he is
still In a state of rebellion, and would
a government give pardon to rebel
who refused to lay down his arm!
Wouldn't a vow to surrender be ex-
pected as the grounds upon which
they would pardon them? Shall God
Almighty be untrue to himself? Shall
earthly rulers maintain their rights
when they would refuse to pardon a
rebel that wouldn't lay down his arms
and do you suppose that God AL
mighty is going to pardon anybody
when he is still in a state of rebellion
He will not! He will not! So don't
you accord man the privileges that
/, you deny God in the world. Not at
/ all!
3 And God reveals himself not only
Y as the father of those who are Chris.
2 tians, but as the Judge of those who
are not, and a Judge has nothing to
' do, my friends, with mercy but to
J. do, my friends, with mercy but to
S pass sentence. And If you approach
/ some people and ask them to become
J. Christians, they will say,
G l believe in a God of love, l be
lieve God is too good to damn any
l. one. l don't need to forsake my sins
2 Oh, God is good, there is no hell. Dc
n you think that God would permit g
S hell? l am trusting in Gods good
S ness | don't need to forsake my
o sins l believe that all will be saw
l. ed"
, Conscience Tells
Il You About Wrong.
# Does that meet the highest de
e mands of your conscience? Whe1
e your conscience comes to you ant
e points out to you the fact that you
are living in sin, does it meet the
d highest demands for you to say,
e Eyes, l know l am shining.
a know | am living in defiance of Coz
o and trampling his law meath m!
IT feet. know God gave his son to di'
I'LL for me. Yes, but l take great de
a light in doing just what God don
want me to do because God love
me-"
Well. if that meets the demands o
lr your conscience, all l can say is
IS you've got a dirty, sinking, lowdowl
'e conscience.
d Here, for example, we will say
d here is a boy He has been sick an
n his mother has watched over hin
|? carefully and now he has becom
t. convalescent and he is able to go on
lie and play in the sunlight and she sue
n. cumbs to the dread malady. She
81 lying on her bed of affliction and sh
OF says to him, You can go out an
pluck all the flowers from any be
Re in the garden but that one over 1
10 the corner next to the fence. Tha
IN : is a choice one of mine and don
ell pluck those, please. You may haV
&C. all the others"
"a And l go and find that boy pull
d. ing up the flowers in that very be
u- and l say, Didn't your mother as
on you not to do that? Why are 20
at doing it?''
At Also a Bad
is Practice.
Is. "Oh, my mother loves me and
on take a great delight in doing whs
ur she doesn't want me to do becaus
lis she loves me so much"
le- Well, what would l do with brs
| like that? That is just exactly tt
attitude Of a lot of so-called r
he spectacle people are taking towar
Id. God today and his offer to them.
IN have known men and women to b
Sc come worldly and sinful because the
had been inoculated with the perni
ew ious error of future probation, whic
* is an internal lie. If punishmel
ey hereafter is not continuous, that
all forever and eternal, then you will
nd corrected and purified. You mu
mt reach stage where you will be pu
nd flied by the punishment.
The Bible says. Eternal dam
nation and the wrath of God abidet
forever" So if salvation was fro
ms any other method than that, then
1t would be besides the blood of Jes'