Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-10-07

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know but two ways in which
your question can be answered.
One is an appeal to this old book,
thank God for it and may we new
er depart from it. The other
an appeal to experience and in the
heart of this old book, back in tn,
days that might be called the days
Of shadows, Or shadoWy days,
comes a voice of revelation-and
the voice OF God speaking; The
Lord loveth the gates OF Zion
more than all the dwellings, of ia
cob or all the habitations of man
and this, to my mind, forever
settles, so far as | am concerned.
the attitude of God toward His
church, or you may search Ian
guage-language is dead and the
spoken word, and YOU will never
find a word that more completely
interprets the mind and heart OF
God than this little word: loVeth :;
loveth. The Lord loveth. You can
all but hear the angels sing a.
they fly around the throne Of
God: The Lord lovcth the gates
of Zion more than all the habita-
lions Of man.
And then, in addition to that, |
Will have you this morning, if You
will, climb the steps of Golgotha
and stand for a moment under
the shadow Of the cross and see
the son Of Mar, who was the
Son OF God, as he hung and watch
Him bleed and hear Him groan.
and see Him die, and there is 4
Interpretation Of the attitude Of
God toward men. toward the
world and toward His church. Any
man with this Interpretation Of it.
can stand, III his Imagination i! he
will. in the presence Of the GRO
Of Jesus Christ and understand
there what the attitude Of God is
toward His church. You can
hear it, | repeat it, rs the angels
sing and it reverberatcs over the
hilltops OF today: Tie Lord Low
eth the gates OF Zion more than
all the habitations Of men.
Therefore, so far as | am CON
cerned, this settles the question
in my mind as to the attitude OF
God. But the question which dis
turbs me this morning and tn,
question which ought to disturb
YOU this morning, is, not the atti-
tude of God, but your attitude.
What is it? With some men of.
rare intelligence you will fri
once in. a while, them saying My.
is. that pf supreme. indff=
ference. It may live OF it; may die
SO far as I am concerned. / don't
to do anything, for it nor
l don't propose, as I have inter
preted to do anything against ii
But, listen to the words of the
Son of Mary saying: He that is
not for me is against me-" And
no man in these awful, terrible
days in which we are living can.
for a moment, afford to take an
as we may express it
indifference concerning
lis church. We are living in
day when Jesus Christ, the Son of
Mary the Son of God, is being
afresh. We are living in
1 day when every man, when el-
cry man who knows anything
about the love of God, about the /
spirit of self-sacrihce and the
spirit of self-abnegation, owes i
10 himself and to his home, to hi
children, to his wife, to his nation
to his state, TO his natio,
o the world owes it to eve'
one Of these, above everything
Else, to come and take an open
lvowal TO stand for all the thing
that the church of God stands fol
in these awful days, far above the !
roar, the din of the worlds mad
strife and over yorlder the blood |
Of the innocent at Smyrna-are !
the words of the Son of God. If !
we turn not to Thee to whom
shall we and the only road To
hat other world along which any
man can afford to walk is the
road that leads by Calvary's
cross and any other road is a dark