The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-25

In his sermon wednesday night
the Rev. w A. Sunday said:
The apostle Paul seemed to live in
a perpetual state of revival He had
only to come into Philippi, the chief
city of Macedonia and sit by the riv-
er bank, and we are told the Lydia,
the seller of purple, believedi and was
baptized.
There was so much power and con-
viction about him that he had only
to walk the street and a girl possess
ed with the spirit of dfyination, or as
we say, had the devil in her." walk
ed after Paul and with derision said,
These are the servants OF the
Most High God. that show unto us the
way of salvation"
AS if there was anything these men
could impart which. by doing, would
benefit our position-the a1dacity of
these men that they come to us and
talk to us about the improvements in
our conduct in the manner of living.
These are the servants of the
Most High God who come to teach
US the way of salvation."
Paul was grieved because OF evil
dences of the devil within her and he
said, st command you in the name
of Jesus, come out Of her"
And when her masters saw that
the hope of their gain was gone-the
hope of their gain lay in the keep
ing of the devil in that girl ana
as long as the devil was within her
they would feed and fatten and gor-
mandize off the money she earned-as
long as the devil was in her she was
nothing but mere pawn on the chess
board to be moved by that licenhous
crowd that had her under their grip
like a panderer today-and when her
masters saw that the hope of their
gain was gone, and when the devil
went out, their gain went with him,
and when Jesus Christ came in the
girl was no longer under their pow
er-when her masters saw that the
hope of their gain was gone, that they
could no longer feed and fateen and
gormandize on her sin, they seized
the men God had used to drive the
devil out of her rushed them over
to the magistrate and they said:
These men teach doctrines contrary
for US to receive"
Certainly the doctrine "Thou shalt
have one WIFE" is contrary for an
old Mormon.
Certainly the doctrine of salvation
through faith in Jesus Christ is con-
trary for Unitarian.
Certainly the doctrine of eternal
damnation. in hell for the unrepentanC
is contrary for the Universaiists.
"These men teach doctrines con-
trary for US to receive.
And old Demetrius used to make
silver shrines for Diana of the Ephe-
slams. and Paul had gone over there
and preached, and the people had
been converted from heathenism so
they wounldn't buy his little silver
shrines any more. He saw that the
effect of Paul's preaching hurt his
business, so he called together every
body of the like craft and said:
See here. our profits are being al
fected by these men. If that fellow
stays here and breaches that doc
trine, people won't buy these little
silver gods we're making for Diana
of the Ephesians. If they remain, we
are ruined.
And every bum and every bartender
and every brewer and every distiller
yelIs: Rights" Rights" Rights as a
great tidal wave of temperance
sweeps over our land"
"Why, If Christianity comes, then
we've got to 60" And wherever re-
ligion interferes with a mans bust
ness he is in dirty rotten business
I don't care whether he's rum sell
er, crap-shooter or mult-millionare.
If religion cuts off your revenue, you
are a moral pauper.
'If they stay here, we'll have to
go" The world must learn this les
son and learn it quick too. You can
sharpen your iack-knife but you can't
cut off a sunbeam. You can imprisoh
a messenger but you can't lock up his
message Stopping your ears and shut,
ting your eyes won't put the fire out
when the alarm sounds. You will go
to hell anyway whether you believe
there Is a hell or not. That won't keep
You out.
And so they delivered Paul and
Silas to the iailer and he thrust them
in the inner prison and locked their
hands and feet in stocks, but doubt
less they found as one OF our modern
poets has described it:
Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars q cage.
for | read that at midnight they sang
and prayed unto God.
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been for that old Philippian jaileT
when he heard nothing but oaths
and blasphemy. Now he heard men
singing and praying, and in response
to their faith as expressed in their
prayers and songs. the hand of God
fell and that old Jail staggered and
reeled like a drunken man down the
street. and the walls cracked and the
taller thinking that all the prisoners
had escaped, leaped in with drawn
sword and was about to commit sui
eide. for the Roman law was that Il
an officer allowed a prisoner to es
cape through his negligence, he'd
have to forfeit his own life to pay fol
it.
This Roman officer knew how in
exorable was the Roman law, so he
thought he'd take the matter into his
own hands and kill himself. for he
supposed of course, that the whole
gang had beat it when the doors had
been swung open. So he jumped in
with drawn sword and was about te
kin himself. when Paul said:
Hold on. Hold on Do yourself
no harm, we are all here. We're al
here"
The jailer came with light and