The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-26

Know what IL means, no, sir.
Did you ever thank God that you
can breathe, breathe without pain,
that you have good lungs? OF all the
people who die in this country, one
out of eleven die from consumption;
and of all the women who die, one
out of eight die from cancer. But
the time will come when the physici-
ans, by their marvellous skill, will de-
feat the white plague and beat back
that dread scourge which pushes one
out of eleven into the coffin. Ever
thank God that you can breathe?
Did you ever thank God that you
can sleep? If not, II / was the Lord,
I'd keep you awake every night for
about a month until you appreciated
it. There are a lot of people that
don't know what it is to sleep unless
! they take an opiate, and then they
work over in their mind what has
been their calling through the day.
| Did you ever thank God for the
hospitals? Did you ever thank God
| for the doctors? Even thank God for
/ the nurses? Oh, how many of us here
tonight would be in our graves If it
wasn't for the skill of the men who
come with their scalpel and trocar
to remove the putrefying abcesses that
bore their way toward our vitals and
threaten to put us in the grave?
Did you ever thank God for all the
wonderful blessings in the world, by
the mercies of God? For the bread
you ate for your supper, while other
people just as good as you will go to
! bed hungry? You live above the hun
| ger-line and they live below the hun
! ger-line.
Did you ever thank God for the
drought that never came; for the fact
:, that America has never scraped the
| bottom of her meal barrel, never; for
/ the cattle on a thousand hills; for the
green of spring, which is a harbinger
of what God will do for US, and our
granarfes will be full in the fall; for
the lie that somebody uttered about
you, derogatory to your character, and
that became boomerang in the face
of the reprobate that dared spew 1t
out to assassinate your character; for
the health that enables you to sit
here and listen while others just as
good are writhing in pain and suffer.
ing in some hospital or home?
by the mercies of God'-by the
baby that will wait for you when
you come home tonight, while some
body piles six feet of dirt on top OF
theirs this afternoon; by the wife,
while some man buries his, and he
has to be father and mother to the
little brood left behind; by the saliva
ton that you enjoy, with your name
written in the Lambs Book of Life,
while the fellow that sits next to you,
if he died, he'd be in hell before mid
&c, fxx0 Vt iun in
utes past eight.
by the. mercies of God,-if your
heart isn't piece of adamant, a
hunk of stone, it will melt with graf
itude to the Giyer of all good.
81 beseech you brethren" No or.
ders from a staggering martinez, no
; delivery down to the rank and file;
no speaking down from some lofty
superior eminence of wealth or Of
learning or social position.
Are You Willing
To Give God Chance
And are you willing to let God, my
friend, have a chance to show through
you to the world what religion is:
The college shows through it's grad
yates what they can do, the medical
school, the law school. Let God show
> to the world through you what Christ
! ianity is in the world. He is helpless
l to do it and that is all He is doing
: and the only way He can do it.
Now, are you willing to let Goo
9 say where you shall live? Are yoI
9 willing to let God say whether HI
I wants you here, in China, in Japa1
: or on the Malay Peninsula? Are you
willing to let God take your bod.
+ and do as He pleases with it?
r In this you have got the creates
|, question ever put to a human being
It and I think the angels are leaning
e over the battlements of glory ant
l. they are looking down to see hov
Q you will answer the question whel
q it is put up to you.
i Yes-all l have said about tn
preachers, l can say it about yol
and add one hundred per cent, ant
d then double it and / could not ge
e within gun shot of you.
IL If God has full control of GU
e hands, 81 beseech you, by the mel
Il cies of God, he would present you
IS bodies as living sacrifice"
If God had full control of our hands
IT how many things you would let hol
o of that you are holding on now wit
n a death-like grip. What have you il
IS your hand that God wants you to drop
l, There are things in our possession
10 that we must let go of or they wi
" drag us to He'll. How many dollar
e have you raked in that belonged {
n somebody else? Oh! give your hand
10 to God and see how quickly he wi
n pry open your fingers.
N Some People Use
III Much Rake
20 Some people are working so har
with the muck rake they are going t
III lose the crown that God has stretche
y above their head.
ri A friend of mine started to lear
n, typewriting. His fingers were lik
1T sticks. He became so proficient thu
" he can rattle off one hundred twent
lie words a minute on trial. You let Go
ID have your hands and he will trail
,r them to do things with them that wi
If make the angels wonder and look wit
Irt jealousy.
NJ How many burdens you would b
lifting on that day, you would neve
20 touch your fingers to. How man
n tears you would see that you woul
:, stop to wipe away if God Almight
AZ only had your hands. This old worl
n would be vestibule to glory and
- suburb to Heaven, if God only ha
- your hands.
~ Down in southern city, was
-, ~, young lady. They were having VIII;
- they called dress all,'-"undres
- i L RVyr-