The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-22

doctrine, who favor and spew forth all
OF the 1sims and cisms that have just
enough religion to make them float
In their damnable designs to doubt the
divinity of Christ and the existance OF
nell for the damned and heaven for
the saved, are only typical men like
the one that hung on the left.
OF course he scorned the Christ who
was close to him, the Christ that
could give him salvation, as he gave
70 the figure on the other cross. He is
Ike some men who could listen to
the sermons of Jesus himself, who
could see him perform miracles, and
still not recognize that he was the
son of God
He was an migrate. eff thou be
Christ, save yourself and u.s." he cried,
and the Bible says he rallied on Jesus.
He did not have the spirit that asks
for forgiveness, or that has faith
Because he was not taken from his
misery he rallied.
The man on the right cross was not
as much to blame as the man of today
who rejects Christ, for he had seen
him on that cross for the first time,
and Christ was not SO widely known.
But thousands are being lost to hell
today because of that little 'if'' that
the thief put into his speech It was
that "if'' that lost Ingersoll, that lost
all of the other doubters.
The actions of the man on that
cross were typical of the soldiers who
Knocked and called on Jesus to save
| himself
Thou that destroyeth the temple
and rebuildeth it in three days, save
! yourself. If thou be the Son of God
come down from the cross"
! They lacked the faith We know
i that Christ died on the cross for our
| sins, that his blood was shed as an
! atonement for US, but they could not
understand that.
And those people that scorned
| Christ are just as alive in the world
today We find them all, in the
church and out of it Doubling the
word of God, calling Jesus Christ a
mortal man, and expecting things of
him that it was not proper for him
| to do.
lnfideIs Are
Well Known.
You know the doubters, the men who
blaspheme the holy word of God the
! infidels who say, Il don't think there
is a God"
why down in their dirty souls
they know there is something which
! they cannot understand They know
that all Of the morals which they boast
as the panacea are based upon Chris
tianity, and without it would never
exist" declared Mr. Sunday And in
their black ungrateful hearts they
IL 1. T. -
for all the honesty and the welfare
Of man that permits them to live il
security and spit out their blasphem
Gus ideas"
Next are the sceptics, that are no
willing to give God and Christ
chance to demonstrate through theil
lives that there is power in the love
of Christ that has led men from sir
to lives of usefulness, and snatcheC
them from the burning mouth Of hel
! and eternal damnation.
Filled with the venom of hatred
men have spat on Jesus and sneereC
at him because he did not save himsel
: on the cross. They act as though
their own selfish wish to do only wha
benefits themselves alone were tn
: rule that Christ and God should follow
Cannot Comprehend
Life of Christ
Little did they comprehend the rich
ness and the beauty of the life tina
t Christ led, let alone the sacrednes
: and the benefit to us that his sacrifc
on the cross has meant to the world
; Christ died to save sin-cursed world
: he died that we might have salvation
} if we have faith in him
. Tho apd Of fbiof tho nroc
t can be but one. Utter destruction
with whatever punishment there !
in store for the wicked, could be hi
only reward. disappearing agains
God. disappearing when the salvatio
- of the world was being given, whe
Y he could have by single word joine
s In with the other thief, he missed tn
richest reward that any man coul
ask.
? Doubters, skeptics, sneering me
y and women, whether they belong
! the body of the church, or are outsid
Z of it, are in one with the malefacto
: on the left cross.
Contrast
Two Men
But contrast the picture on the eros
l. to the right To the left was unr,
L pented sin, to the right was sin-bJ
a sin repented and redeemed
Now this is what the other ma
/ said But the other answering, r
" buked him saying, Dost thou not fes
1t God. seeing thou art in the sam
L condemnation?
And we indeed justly for we r
a. ceive the just reward of our deed
n but this man has done nothing amiss
d and he said unto Jesus, Lord, r
is member me when thou cometh int
thy kingdom.
"And Jesus said unto him, Verify
say unto you, today shalt thou be wit
t. me in paradise"
r That was man who was aware
t, his sins. ooh, Lord, be merciful uni
IS me, sinner" prayed the publican, an
c. "Oh, Lord. am glad that am not {
other men are prayed the Pharase
IT The man on the right was not sayir
c, that he was good, he confessed h
IT sins, and humbly he asked a favor
ID his Christ.
Ie Seeks Forgiveness
for His Sins
IS We do not know the sins that ma
It committed, outside of the fact tn
Of he was thief. as the Bible says; v
ar do not even know his name, but v
Il, do know that he offered repentan,
81 for his sins with the right kind
10 heart, and we know that he was fC
given and will be there in heaven, b