The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-26

CePted time, now iS the day OF SalVa- /
ton" II Corinthians, 9th chapter, End
verse.
In his sermon Friday afternoon Rev. |
w. A. Sunday said:
We hear a great deal about a |
chance after death, and the false hope
is held out, that of a second chance. |
And God sends forth his preach
ers to preach salvation now. The dew
ii gets up and breaches to him. The
holy spirit says, To-day If you will
hear his voice, harden not your
hearts. Take heed lest there be an
enemy Of an evil heart, of unbelief,
in departing from the living God
Comfort one another daily lest you
be hardened through the deceitful-
ness of sin. Those that seek me ear
ly shall find me. Remember thy
creator in the days of thy youth"
In such strains, does God urge up
Mon man the necessity of choosing sal
walton now. Jesus said, Hath never
forgiveness" neither in this world,
nor In the world to come The smoke
of their torment ascendeth forever
and ever and they shall go away into
everlasting punishment, but the righ-
teous, into everlasting life He that
believeth on the Son shall have ever
lasting life and / give unto them eter-
nal life. No man shall pluck them out
of my hand. The wages of sin is
death and the gift of God is eternal
life"
l wish | would believe that there
is no hell and that all people would
repent Nothing would make me hap
pier than to see every man and wom-
an on earth repent and be saved, but
If men and women persist in living
in sin and persist in rejecting Jesus
Christ, it's perfectly right and proper
and just that there should be a hell
in which to confine them. If people
choose sin instead of salvation, it is
for the good of the universe and the
glory of God that there should be,
place of punishment. 1t is right
there should be jails and peniten-
tiaries for the law-breakers. The man
that deliberately breaks the law isn't
entitled to the same consideration as
the man who will keep the law, and
If he wants to break the law, let him
take the penalty that goes with it.
Defiant Man
Must Take Result.
II a man wants to. defy God, no
body will stop him, but please remem-
Der you will have to take what goes
with your life of defiance and your
life of sin. Sending the impenitent
to hell demonstrates Gods justice,
and sooner than repeal his law or suf
fer it to be trampled under the foot
of man with IMMUNITY, God gave his
son to die to open up a way whereby
man might escape hell, although he
has yiolated Gods law
Hence, that rolls the responsibility
for your damnatIon on your should
ers, takes it off from Gods shoulders
and puts il up to you. ! wish al
men would repent and make hell un
necessary so far as the human RAGS
is concerned. ! wish everybody would
keep the law and make jails and pen
itentIaries unnecessary. ! wish every
body would live sober and ther
there'd be no saloons nor breweriei
or distilleries. | wish everybody wal
Virtuous, then there would be NJ
houses of shame for wrecked man
hood. I wish, my friends, that ev
erybody would repent, and make hel
unnecessary so far as the rest o
the human race is concerned. Thos'
that haven't repented and have gon
there, their case is settled so l hav,
no argument about that.
Now, l don't want to believe AM
preach a lie. If you will show m,
where anything l ever preach is
lie, l will apologize. l don't want t
believe and preach a lie, I'd rattle
believe and preach an unpleasant
truth than to believe and preach
pleasant lie.
Devout Preachers
Are Ridiculed.
And the man who stands fou
square on the Bible and breaches it
truth without fear or favor will b
sneered at and Knocked and raile
and ridiculed and called bigoted an
be called narrow. Oh, is the ma
who breaches the gospel bigoted
No! The devil that don't is the bigo
ed man, not the man that breaches tn
truth. l am not the bigoted maj
1t is the fellow that tells you the B
BILE isn't true He is the bigot, nc
me. He has got it wrong No sir!
And is the man who breaches til
truth narrow? No sir! ! have n
disposition to be more broad tina
Jesus Christ And Is the man cru,
that tells you the truth? Is the do
tor cruel when he tells you your b
by has diphtheria? No, he is kin
is the man cruel who tells you yoI
house is Attire? No! Is the persc
cruel who warns you that If you e;
certain things or breathe certain a
nosphere, that you will have di
esse2 No, sir! They are your friend
Is the preacher cruel who tells yc
there is a hell? No sir, he Is you
friend! The miserable liar who tel
you there Isn't one, he is your en-
my, not me-! You can't blame me.
am your friend.
So, it is kindness to point out u
danger. That's the one that is kin
So, I'd rather be cruel because a
kind than to be called kind becau
am a liar.
/ know in these days of ne
thoughts, so called, it makes me sic
New thought, and new theology. thu
have resolved into somnolence {
anxiety about the fate of souls al
many so-called preachers are flippa
and they say. I'VE will eat, drink al
be merry.
4 Devil Uses
- TrIekery.
The devil, you know, Transform
himself into an angel of light.
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