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

work, he is seated at table shoVellng
grub down his esophoeus.
! The farmer says to him, when
do you feel that you are going to go
out to work?
He said Don't I praise your wife's
/ cooking? Don't eat as much as any
man you ever had on your farm
! Don't | sleep in the bed provided?
Don't come when you call me for the
meals? What more do you want?"
The farmer said, 81 didn't hire you
and agree to pay you so many dollars
month and feed you three meals
a day for you to enjoy yourself, ex-
pect you to go out in the field to
work and pay me back. In other
words l am doing for you
ooh. you say. "We understand that
i in these material matters = y, and
don't you know that the church of
Jesus Christ has been a hundred
! years trying to learn the same COM
mon sense lesson in religious things.
/ They think they are serving God be-
cause they take two meals on Sunday
and cold lunch on Thursday night
| in prayer meeting.
Go to Church
As Matter of Course.
They get up on Sunday morning
when the bell happens to ring and
you ask them to pray, they will come
back at you: aren't you satisfied
Don't go to church Sunday morning /?
! Don't | put little money in the col
lection plate?"s
Yes, but that's all under Heaven
lot of you do That's the extent of
your religion You don't go any fur
Their"
Then a lot of people outside say,
well, as | see in your religion is
going to church and keeping out of
mischief"
You have got big gang here that
! don't even do that Then the man
outside will say, 'If you don't get
any more out of it than that, | don't
want it. If what you have got is re-
ligion, | don't want it."
/ There you are breeding infidels.
| see two lives. They start from
the same home, the same church,
the same surroundings, and the same
city, and they go side by side until
they reach the age of accountability.
One accepts Jesus Christ, the other
rejects him What about the ends of
the way? Heaven and He'll are the
ends of the road
Then God started out, my friends,
and tried his best. He sought,
through the songs of poets to warn
men to flee from Hell. and God placed
in prophecy a mountain, Mount Cal
vary. There is where the road de-
fleets.
We all walk on the same road until
we reach the age of accounta bility.
don't know anything about this state
but Illinois, the law says a child Of
ten years is old enough to know right
from wrong. They take a child of
ten years of age out of your home
and put it in reformatory.
Cross Points
To Right Way.
Then there stands the cross. IT
points to the right and to the left,
and God placed right there where
the road defects, my friends, the
cross and the emblem of hope and
peace and JOY and gladness. mingled
with sorrow, just as the smile shines
through the tears, and the rainbow
through the spray.
AS Joseph Parker said, the cross
was the STUMBLING block over which
the waves Of eternal love of God
broke into spray When John said,
For God so loved the world, that
he gave his only begotten Son, that
whatsoever believeth in him should
not perish. but have everlasting life"
God said, "Well men won't claim
that cross, but they .declaim that
cross"
Then on that cross He hung his
only begotten Son, and God said,
81 will touch the hearts of men with
the thought of Father and Son. He
is my Son. They know what that
means. They won't spit on Him any
more than they would their own boy.
Even if they won't have respect for
me they won't trample his blood be-
meath their feet"
For 1917 years humanity has scaled
that mountain, over the quiverino
body of Jesus Christ, and they have
trampIed into the sin-cursed soil of
this old God-hating, Christ-hating,
Sabbath breaking, ripping, damning,
disappearing old world, my friends,
every message of Gods love.
Opponents Have
RdicuIed Cross.
They have spurned the preachers
and damned the evangelists, laugh
ing to scorn the tenderest message
that God can give, through prophet
or priest or king or preacher. Get
up and tell me what more God can
do to keep you out of hell. Get up,
and tell me what more God can do
TO keep you from getting into hell by
what you are doing.
AS Moody said, Christ said to
Peter: Peter, you go back to Jer-
usalem and chase around and if you
can find the fellow that put the crown
of tlorns on my brow, tell him l have
got a crown of glory waiting for him,
and if you can find the fellow that
drove the spear in my side, tell him
there is a shorter route than with a
spear into my heart.
IF you can find the fellow that
spat into my face, tell him | have
forgiveness. Tell the high priest and !
all that stoned me that l have a par
don for them if they will only ask it"
What more could God do?
I have looked into this book we
call the Bible. ! have looked upI
into the face of God. l have look
ed out into this old sin-cursed world, |
and l have said, Lord, this world is |
like a great big hospital after ALL |
There is the drunkards ward, the |
libertines' ward, the infidels' ward, |
the thieves ward, the blasphemers'
ward damned MANNED StrIloplinc t