The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-09

, your thought should be, what can | do
to take that man and woman to heaven
with me? Oh, get so sick and nause-
ated l want a soda mint to settle my
stomach. repeat, your problem should
not be just simply the mot" and
| don't" that's the negative, that's only
half. That's why the church is not a
power, she is nothing but the negative
side.
Some Of you never get up and give
testimony In public, some of you never
pray, some of you never do anything
under Gods heaven but go to church
on Sunday morning and look pious for
| half an hour.
| So therefore, don't simply concern
yourself about preventing that man or
woman, by your side, from dragging
you to the deViI-that's half of it, but
then concern yourself, what can ! do
to take that man or woman to heaven
with me? That's the positive side of
it. Add that and see what force you
will be In this old universe.
/ Jesus was no aesthete-no. no. His
goodness was not of the dollhouse va
riety-no, no, no! 1t was robust, red
blooded, my friends, Jesus Christ did
not fear contact with people Of the
world. Mo- And for these four rea-
sons / am thoroughly convinced that to
be Christian doesn't demand that I
run away from the world, hide in a
monastery or hide behind the stone
walls of a church on Sunday morning
or lock myself in my pew, my friends
no, no! Not on your life!
Religion Stands
For Action
Religion consists in something more
than pushing you down a carpeted
aisle into your pews on Sunday morn.
ing, when you can come whenever you
please. Then you keep the crowds
standing around in the vestibules wait
ing for you to come there before they
can be seated. If you can't come when
the rest OF the bunch comes, let them
sit down and you stand up
There is nothing under heaven that
breeds caste, that engenders it like
that pew rental system of the church
DON'T give your money unless you car
pay it and can sit down in your pew
some sinner comes down here anc
goes away because he hasn't any pIac.
to sit. Come here to the tabernacI.
and sit down, and the richest buck II
this town can't bulge you, you'v,
a squatter sovereignty rights.
/ Here's the fact This sentence ha.
/ been ringing down the centuries
What shall it profit a man if he gail
I the whole world and lose his owl
:. soul?"
q But, when your soul is saved, it's
4 good thing for you to sit down and say
i What will it profit man if he save
Q his soul and lets the rest of the worIt
!, 60 to heII?" Come on, get the othe
\ side too!
Religion is just two things. Now
9 here they are. Antitoxin to render yol
5 Immune from the poison and the sin
!. of this old world. 81 pray not tina
y Thou shouldst take them out of tn
world, but that thou shouldst kee
n them fro mthe evil that is in tn
world"
;. In the theology of Jesus, religion i
!. just two things. First: an anti-toxi
i which renders you immune from tn
! sins of this old world. Second: a pow
der blast sending you like bullet on
e into the heart of the world, there t
q act as leaven to leaven the lump an
v bring this world to Jesus Christ. That
q rellgion-the whole thing summed u
: IN nutshell. That's all there is to i
v In the teachings of Jesus it makes yo
immune fgrom sin and it sends YOU ou
after the other fellow to bring him t
Jesus Christ. That's religion. Their
it is