The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-10
MESSIANlC ORIGIN OF CHRIST DEFENDED
BY BILLY SUNDAY INCONSISTENCIES OF
Bible EXIST IN OUR OWN MINDS MOSTLY


success"
She said, 81 pick my company, sir. ,
and l give you to understand that
do not choose church"
said, Lady, l haven't any use
for you and your choice If you
stay out of the church l am frank to |
tell you that I have no respect for
you or your choice"
She said, "Sir, do not go into a
church where there are hypocrites."
said. do you know what hyp-
ocrite is?''
| said "a hypocrIte Is any man orr
woman who does not live up to their
vows and their promises. The people
you are pointing out and turning your
nose up at are some of your own
gang that got into the church without
BEING reqenerated. I'd stand by my
bunch if | were you. And further
more, you have wrecked their man.
hood and womanhood and because
they want to be decent in the church;
because they are weakened and un-
dermined and occasionally stumble
and fall, you turn up your nose, your
proboscis."
I said, Furthermore. sister, If
we did apply the discipline to these
people and turned them out why
then you would refuse to come into
the church by saying that that was
not Christianlike to be so cruel. You
old scoundrel, you wouldn't come IN
anyway"
That is the trouble with lot of
! you. We are reaching down into
i the slime pits and the cesspools Of
Il iniquity where you have pushed
them and because they are weak,
then you turn your nose up and sheer.
We are trying to help them. We
would rather see them ID Heaven
than in He'll.
| Wen, a man says. 81 don't be-
lieve in the Bible
said, "Why not?"
: He said, Because of the inconsist-
encies''
: Whenever you hear a man begin
to harp about the inconsistencies IN
, the Bible. keep your head. If you
ever have to take his note, have some
: body go the security for him.
Tries To Dodge
Real Issue.
i Whenever l bring up the memory
, ;of an evil deed before some man
, he instantly begins to find fault with
the Bible, begins to harp about the
{ hypocrites, begins to harp about my
vocabulary and mannerisms, says
! that / am crude and that l astonish
: and alarm and shock. oh, God-it
would take more than that to shock
a lot of these guys.
| You go to a man and talk business,
; he will talk sense. Talk politics
, with him and he will talk sense. Go
!, ito a woman and talk business she
, will talk sense Talk society with her
and she will talk sense. But talk re
ligion and they will talk nonsense.
; Like an old woman down in Ar
t kansas She used to chew and cuss
: and booze fight. One time she ripped
t out an oath and her grandson said
q Granny, Granny, please don't swear
3 She said, mind your own business
E you little simpleton."
e He said, Granny, you have got tc
( die some day"
! She said, "Well, you little fool,
1 amt dead yet"
vi When he cornered her on her whis
t ky drinking and profanity she made
n that nonsense reply If you hat
I walked up and asked her how to boi
k a head of cabbage or roast 'possum
: she would have made sensible reply
"If any man will do his will h
shall know" And therefore on
character is in our will What W,
s will. We are. You will to be drunk
n ard or you will to be Christian. Yol
d will to be a prostitute. Every MAJ
r that walks the streets of heaven will
ed he would and that is why he i
10 there.
n Man Is Lost
% On His Record.
Every man that is in hell, he willie
is and that is why he is there.
At A fellow came up to me one tim
1T and asked me and / seldom preac
lie at a meeting that some mutt does nc
d. ask me this question: want to as
80 you a question"
e. / said, "Sail in."
ct He said, Where did Cain get hi
Il wife,"
IS said, HE got her from his fathe
:" in-law."
We well" he said, ''the Bible say
at he got her in the land of Nod" an
II. when an infidel starts in to quot
ee Scripture he is all IN.
AMI The Bible says nothing of the kin
m The Bible says that Cain knew h
at wife in the land of Nod and she CO.
ceived and bore a child. 1t alway
ge looks sort of suspicious to me to st
an a man so much interested in SON
other fellows wife. l don't think
Al-,is Gains wife that bothers some
to you old Holsters half as much as
en- is the wife of your neighbor.
nix Adam and Eve had other ehildre
lis beside Cain and Abel, no matte
ar whether the first pair came by &c
lis Grafton. creation or evolution or
lot accident They were produced by
protoplasm.
lty You are trying to pin your hol
DO of heaven on where Cain got his wifi
ny That cuts no ice with me at all. WI
ny did you ask that silly, ridiculo'
a question? Is it because you are tr
ing to take a side against the Bib
-discredit the Bible? Is it becau
you are trying to find some excu
Ter that will justify you in being de1
lot and rejecting Jesus Christ and livil
lat in sin?
or When the papers and the people
as the other side of the political fai
a could find no fault in Benjamin n;
rison, one of the highest types
a American manhood that ever sat
ay. the White House-none of them HI
on anything on Benjamin Harrison
of they BEGUN to sneer about his graz
to fathers hat, and Benjamin Harris
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