Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 120, 20 May 1922 — Page 12

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND.. SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1922.

TROUBLES ARE COMMON LOT OF HUMANITY; ONLY REMEDY IS FOUND IN JESUS CHRIST AND HIS MESSAGE OF SALVATION AND HOPE

The text: "This poor man cried,' and the Lord heard them, and saved him out of all his troubles." 34th Psalm, 6th verse. , .... In his sermon Friday night, Rev. W. A. Sunday said: . .. The 34th Psalm is one of my favorite Psalms. You may see me sign my name sometimes and I put Psalm 34, because that is my favorite psalm. That text was put in the Bihle to help people that were having a hard

time, so it must have been put in

there to help a good many people,

tor everybody at Bome time in their

life has a hard time.

What the Lord did for that poor man he will do for all, if all will do

what that poor man did.

"This poor man cried, and the Lord

heard him and saved him out of all

his troubles."

There never was a case known of a man or a woman In trouble who did what this man did and the Lord failed to help them. When Jesus was here on earth, he helped everybody that sought his help, and he helped a good many that didn't seek his help, and he never sent anybody away with a heavy he.rt The disciples often wanted him to do it. but he always replied, "They need no depart." This Young Man Missed Chance. The only one we have any record of that went away with a heavy heart was the rich young ruler. He had so much money and he was such a prominent young fellow that he thought he

could get along without jesus nnsi,

things

even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!" But they would not, and as I walk the streets, my friends, of the great cities, and elbow through the hurrying crowd, and watch the busy throng rushing pell mell to the grave, this thought sweeps over me, "How great

are the sorrows and the sins and the

He'd look decent people, troubles of the people."

And I feel like Jonah of old, as

on the side

in the face. And that poor wife would i

be biting her lip and wetting her Pil- he walked down the streets of Ninlow with her tears of anguish, and i wlth the seaweeds hanging over she'd withdraw from society and shejhis earB crying, "Repent! Repent! was going to a premature grave be-jnepent; Repent!" cause she didn't want to publicly ap-i . . . ply for a divorce and thus bring the Many People get ,a the worst

stain upon the family and put a stain! irounie trying to gex out or tne trou-

upon the escutcheon that nothing could ever eradicate. I'd learn all that and much more too. There are all kinds of trouble. The trouble we bring on ourselves, and the trouble that other people bring on us, and if everybody would mind their own business, we wouldn't have as much trouble as we do. Save Your Money You'll Need It. So Just take a tip from me and keep your darn nose out of other

people's affairs. But much of the trouble is due to our own improvidence. When you are getting along,

making a little money, you go ahead and spend every dollar you have got and you lay nothing by for the rainy day that will come to everybody. There will come a time in every man's life when he will want work. There will come a time when his money earning capacity decreases, and if you knew you'd always be

able to find work, and if you knew

ble they are already In, in their own

way. It is true that the man who commits a crime tries to cover it up

without another crime, and then an

other to cover up the crime that he had already committed. He keep3 getting in deeper and deeper. Poor

Bhort-sighted fool, he can't see that

you can't commit one Bin and then stop. Deceived The Public. I know of a man who used to make a living by telling people that-he was a soldier and was crippled In the war. He'd go around and panhandle and

they'd ask himt

Christ's Power It's a cold old place Where I have to stay. There's no fire on the hearth The Tong bleak day. I kindled a lire In the open grate. But it soon died out In spite of faith. An angel came from Heaven above, And kindled my fire With Christ's own love. In my abode, at the Present time. Through the grace of God AH is sublime. The fire burns brightly In the grate. The love of Christ Doth compensate. i A. E. Smith.

Shavings From the Tabernacle Sawdust Trail

WARM PLACE , "This is the warmest place I have

! been in all day," Sunday told his audi- ! ence at the Friday afternoon meeting. i'This is an ideal building to heat up, and it will make a fine temporary gym

tor t-armam college. BERNE INVITATION Rev. P. C. Schoeder, pastor of the Mennonite church at Berne, came to Richmond Friday to invite Billy Sun-

I aay xo aeiiver a sermon uiere, dui me distance, 60 miles, was too great, and Mr. Sunday had to decline. Rev.

Schoeder gave the opening prayer at

the Friday evening meeting and received the commendation of Mr. Sun

day on his effort.

erected in the cemetery where they lie buried. Soon, they were shouting happy, for they said, "Rejoice, for the Lord hath overthrown the horse and the rider in the eea." No impossibilties with God. Human hanas would help you if they could. If your mother could, a

How does it happen ! lot of you fellows that are here to-

that you are a cripple?" He said, "I was in the war." He walked up to a fellow one day and asked him for some money. He said, "What's the trouble? How did you become a cripple?"

He said, "In the war."

night sinners would not be here sin

ners, you'd be here Christians.

J Others Cannot

Help You A friend can't help you or your wife can't. If her prayers have helped you, you'd have been saved, and I

believe one reason why many a man

He said, "I was in the forty-ninth." J who is a sinner gets along in this "Whv " 1iA Rfiiri "That -ran a mv rof. i old world is because his wife or moth-

you'd outlive all that depend uponjlment " what company?" Ier"s prayers are like a lightning rod you for something to eat and clothes ( He sai(i ..j wa3 Jn company eight " i above his head and keeps the wrath to wear, still you'd need to lay aside j He said'. ..j wa3 ln No 1 ,. j of God warded off. a little bit out of your surplus to pre-, well, don't you see how the fellow tney can't nelP yu- The fact pare for the day, that will come toj.Qyij 'De in a cojd gweat jjow per-'tnat ne took David out of a horrible everybody. ini. that sound Hio 'rhantPr out ! Pit Is sure proof that he will take us

Much of the trouble that's brought upon people is due to their own improvidence and due to their impru-

went there be

ef your own life, but

where he'd been going.

JuiKe a reiiow out in

you can see

Iowa

I

ai

out. If the Lord wasn't willing to

help us, you can bet every dollar

1 you've got the forty-sixth Psalm

and one of the interesting

when I tret to Heaven and look around

upon the beauty and find that thatidence and their neglect. Everybody j farmer i;ving m Sidney yoked him-iwould never have been put in the inn't t)ic urdl ho to that' in Hell tnnlnht went there he.! .. ,. ,r . t . 'Bihle. Xfiver! Npvor'

juuug iwiuw "-' - - - - ' j , - 7 sen up wun a steer, ne was trying; ep what a fool he was and what hef cause they neglected salvation, for tn voai, 4, ...j ,, I And what God does for

' - . . W un. 11 UUU UtV - N.- V A u u

missed by going away from Jesus, all. the trouble that Hell brings on down the road and the fellow had to stands pledged to do for all, for he wnere he could travel ln joy a - w Tr...a nroMtA i 4 vn in thAm fluf- tku hmunkt An them.! - ... ..... i .. M iAu I v u JJ

ana 10 see wuai warned ........ j - get oown to nis mutton to no nis Dest;10 "u 'cai-wr pcrouua.

HOLD MEETINGS This next week the Business Women's meeting are to be held three times during the noon hour at the Reid Memorial church, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Instead of just Wednesday and Thursday as heretofore. MEETING AT STORE Tuesday evening at 5:30 o'clock Mrs. Asher will conduct a meeting for the girls of the Lee B. Nausbaum company. The meeting will be held at the store. 2ARTMAN A VISITOR Parley E. Zartman, who was with

Dr. Chapman, and was secretary of the

evangelistic work of the Presbyterian

church, and is now secretary of the

National Evangelistic association, was in Richmond Friday night. Mr. art-

He has pledged to do tortus what he did for others. That's the reason I am preaching to you. If he had simply done it for David, I wouldn't have any text, I couldn't preach to you if there wasn't any hope, but I am telling you what he did for him . Therefore that's an example of what he will do for us, because he is the same God and we have the same promises after David

man is connected with Rodeheaver's school at Winona Lake. ARE ORGANIZED Even the revivalists are organized and have their national association, to which most of the members of the Sunday party belong. The presence of Mr. Zanman, who is secretary of the organization, brought that interesting fact to the attention of Richmond.

PAUL SUNDAY NOT HERE Paul Sunday, a son of Billy Sunday, who was to have attended the track meet at Earlham college Saturday, did not come to Richmond, a telegram from Mrs. Sunday Baying that he was not feeling well.

MEN TO WORK The suggestion of Mr. Rodeheaver that the men might take care of the babies on Saturday night and let the women attend the meeting, was greeted with laughter. "Well, some men have volunteered,"

Mr. Rodeheaver said, "and maybe they might have a woman consent to stay to do the important things, while the

men aid the amusing." GETS INTO PRESS BOX

Rev. Sunday got off Into a press box

again Friday night during one of his most strenuous dashes back and forth across the platform. He has not been so far from the platform itself during a sermon for a long time.

GOD GIVES (Continued from preceding page) camped around about Port Arthur, the angel of the Lord encampeth. Just as the Germans around about Verdun, but they -did not pass. Hallelujah! Now, and bo the Lord will help us. Like a traveling man. He'd been out on tha ttq H TXThw ia nt V n

One, He was taken out of thn nit snH nut! ha found threM hoon a ln r knnr.

come to when he wanted him to for- selves because of neglect.

sake his sins. I Lots of people are going to prer So, it will be amazing to think j mature graves because of neglect of that anybody could turn away, and their health, and they violated the that Isn't all, God told him it was I laws of health and they brought some all there, so he didn't go away" Ig-j disease upon themselves that baffled norant So, if you turn your bacXithe skill of the physicians. Trouble! on God, you are not going away ig- Trouble! Much of it through grave norant. The Lord tells you that mistakes of our own, and much of it "you have not seen nor heard, neith- through indecisions in matters of er hath It entered into the heart of! great importance.

man the tninas inai uoa natn uio-jmuo'- iiwuuio

to keep from being choked to death. He couldn't hold back; if he had, the steer would have choked him to death. Sin Gets You in Bad. So, when sin gets a hold of you.

you are just about the same as if! life of every unsaved man or woman

I you were in fire, you can t standi"0 inane r wnere a Sinner goes, ne . 1 1 - M 3 S 11 1 1

still in fire any more than you caniiraveis m muu, ana me longer ne in sin. And it is important for usles in sin, the deeper he will sink

Wnc- Thp first thlnp- that hsnnan,

soever will may come. forgiven sinner is that he finds deSome people consider Psalms as all light in doing the will of God. It is nnptrv Wrrnip' Psnlmu am P.hriatian I n tA..nnnj 1 u

. n " I Ok IUUU3011U LIUICB I.U ii V O I U I 1 - OUWl II. OUU 111 III t? fillUlO UI" experience. "The .horrible pit and the please God than it is to live to not rection at the same time.- And he

lars around the neighborhood. Every

body was excited and he went down

town and bought a magazine gun and

brought it home and taught his wife

to shoot it and look in the same di

SOVIET AND MOVIES SCORED BY SUNDAY IN FRIDAY'S SERMON

Jumping from the outline of his sermon to chastise the Russian government, and to take another fling at the movies and evolution and . dancing. Rev. Sunday, Friday afternoon delivered a sermon on "The Inner Wall" that was almost equal to one of his evening sermons in intensity and action. "The only thing that the Russians did not confiscate in Russia was the International Harvester company," said Mr. Sunday, "because they knew that they could not hope to do the business as that company could. "The women had to register, and belonged to the state, and were liable to be chosen as mates by any man that so wished. I'd like to pull a Winchester on them, then pull the trigger, and slow music' Did Not Want to Work. "Those Bolsheviks did not want to

work, they wonted to live on the accumulated earnings of ether years and that cannot be done. Society and business Is better when everyone Is busy. The things that society needed were characterized by Mr. Sunday as work, law, love, patriotism, but most important of all a religion of Christ. In his scoring of the motion picture industry, Sunday declared that Fatty Arbuckle was no worse than others. "Fatty eimply got caught, that was all," he said. "Now remember I am not standing up for Fatty Arbuckle, but if Will Hays is going to blacklist him, he will have to blacklist a lot, more. , , "Unless they change their ways the ' public is going to give their Bupport to some one else." In the opening of his sermon Mr. Sunday said: "I should think that a man would be a Christian for the Bake of the influence he would have in the community, without a reference to the world to come."

miry clay" they are not figures of please God.

speech, but they are reality in the God A M k ' H To fif avorv iincovcn man nr ujnm a n :

a Road

oared for them that love him."

So if you turn your back on Heaven, you know what you are going to, you are going to Hell, end you know all about that. Nobody is left in the dark about it. What a familiar sound this word "trouble" has. That's one word everybody knows the meaning of. You never need to look into a dictionary tn find out what "trouble" means. It

Traced to Sin. But a greater part of all our trouble is the result of sin, either our own sins or the sins of some one else, for wherever there is sin there is trouble. We all believe in the transmission of certain diseases, and so we all know that if a certain person has a

certain disease, they had to commit a sin to get that; and although you

meets us all at the cradle and itfjdidnt see them commit the sin, you

kept mighty close to everybody from

that minute untU now. Every Back Has Its Burden. Job said, "Man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble." "Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward." There is no hack on earth that doesn't have its burden, no heart on earth that doesn't have Its sorrow. Trouble Is the common lot of us all. We are not all rich. We are not all wise ; we are not all ignorant. We are not all sick; we are not all well, but we all of us have trouble. That is one thing that everybody's got. Vnn mav have some things I

haven't. I may have some things you don't possess, but we all have troubles. They know it everywhere. They know it from the palace of the mill

ionaire down to the hovel. They;

knew they'd done it or they wouldn't have had it. Now all the trouble comes from the devil; please remember it didn't come from above, but It crawled out of the nit. Just remember that!

Now the man in my text is call

ed a poor man. This poor man cried. The Lord heard him. and delivered him out of all his troubles. What is true of him is true of every man that's in trouble. Whosoever is in trouble is a poor man whether he

lives in a hovel or if he is a multi

millionaire and lives in a palace

.Jairus was a wealthy ruler; and how poor and helpless he was when

his daughter was dead, and he wouju gladly have given his wealth if he could have had the little daughter in his arms alive. Trouble makes us all poor because

we are all so helpless in the presence

to remember that. And so, on they

go, all embezzlers, and -all absconders, and all bank wreckers; they began by taking a little bit, and after they made a start, they took a little more to try and retrieve what they had taken, and then they took a little more to try and retrieve

in sin.

Take the girl, out merchandising her womanhood, selling for gain. Oh, there was a time when she lived in a flat. There was a time when somebody, perhaps, bought her clothes, grew tired, cast her off, and threw her to one side. Now she is creeping t i u . i juti i i.

that, and they kept getting deeper nerseu, bne umn t Biari. and de3per until after a while you aere,D.0' no-T,,aT-ci hnrriFioH in finJ tho hanb- win i GOCS Bad

savings had goneisteP Bv steP

looted and your up in smoke.

So it is with the man who drinks; he takes a little more and more and until at last it holds him in bands stronger than steel and more terrible. Now, we all know that's true. Some people are aware of that from sad and bitter experience. "This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles." The man of my text was probably trying to get out of his trouble in his own way and there will always be trouble where there is sin. It is the devil's business to make trouble. You don't need to read the Bible to

A fellow that's in the penitentiary

didn't Jump there at once, he started out and kept going deeper and deeper, and finally the poor, blear-eyed, hop'ess, helpless drunkard was lying in a stale beer joint. It took him a good many years to get there. He didn't get there quickly, he kept getting deeper and deeper in sin and

God always makes the road that He wants His pilgrims to walk in. and it is free from mire and from nith. It is free from the things that damn other people in the world. It was

made for man. Hallelujah, and the

man is made for the way. Just the same as an engine is made for the rails and the rails were made for the engine.

A boat, my friends, was made for

the water; the water for the boat

They didn't make a boat to travel

on land; they didn't make a locomo

tive to go through the water. The way was made for the rails and the engine was made for that, and so God will make the road He wants you to walk in; and if you 6tep where God tells you, I tell you, you will find solid rock. Thats' what David

found when he got out of the pit, and in the pit he was sinking deeper.

making it more improbable that he j And so is everybody who is a sinner.

would ever be saved, and the devil

tightened his grip on his throat every time h9 said. "No" to an invitation to be a Christian. You just tie another knot In the

noose that's about your neck and if

you decide to hold on to that sin and ; a man.

Every breath you draw you are get

ting worse and farther and farther from God. Look at the two pictures. One shows where the devil puts a man. The other shows what God does for

indulge in it twenty-four hours more.

know it from the boulevard down to ' ot trouble. That's the reason he was the festering alley. They know it called a poor man. This poor man from the halls of Legislation down to , cried. He was a king, but he was the ignorant people who don't know, poor because he was helpless.

the A. B. C S. They Know somcining money iu mm

of trouble everywnerc

The millionaire can build a homo

that will keep out the cold, biting

No Good.

Look at Marshall Field, the mer

chant prince of Chicago, worth $150,-

know that's the truth. You don't need ; Go Almighty may let you keep it to consume my energy or time listen-j forevr. He may say; "Well my pating to me to know it is true. We all IenCfi ls Mhausted with von. Mv

know it is true, and most everybody ! Fpirit won-t auvays strive, and if you ' does for humanity

We look In pity, my friends, upon a man down in the disgusting pit,

sinking deeper and deeper into the filthy slime. That's what the devil

from experience, too

You Cannot Hide Sin. The child soon learns

if

I hiire maia iit rron mind t'Aii rl wnthon '

ido that than to be decent all right." 1 It wasn't because he was the son

it aiso-or Jesus that God heard his cry. Oh

Get tip! My God! Get up, intelli

gent people; tell me why a man has got to work his life out to get people to be decent! Come on and tell me

stands up and

said, "There now, I feel all right

So he went out on the road. When

he got down to pray, he'd say, "Lord take care of my wife and children." The Lord said, "You don't need my help, she's got a gun." Every time he'd go down and pray it seemed to go through his mind. "She's got a i magazine gun in the house." When he got home he rushed in and said. "Where ls that gun I bought you?" He rushed upstairs and got it and

took it downtown and traded it off for a jardinier. Here is another, my friends, that will relieve you from want. Here tc

another that will keep the poorhouse on the other side of the street. Here

is another, you will never fear famine if you keep God in sight. God has plenty of corn in Egypt, plenty of ravens. Here is a promise that will keep the poorhouse away: "Trust in the Lord.. and do good; bo shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed." That is a promise for house rent, clothes, and if not a Fierce-Arrow, a tin Lizzie, anyway. Meet the conditions and your children will never cry for bread. David said, "Once I was young, now I am old, but I have never seen the righteous forsaken by Him." No Christian Bums. You bet your bottom dollar, you will

never see a Christian among the hoboes, pandhandling at your back door

ror a handout Now, trust in the Lord.

Here is another that will put some-

tnmg on, the table and give straw-

beys the parents there will be trou-! no! jt wasn't because he'd taken the 'why. When a man

uic. uu juu muc ,uu. d.uo Biooe ana nunea u ana siain uoiiatn, ; preaches, tells you what to do, and berries in the winter. "The young will have trouble. The Bible says, the giant of Gath that God heard his ; you refuse to follow God, tell me what lions do lack, and suffer hunger- bu "H that rnrpreth hia afna chnll nor nro . . . ... . I . .. . . . " 6

home that will keep out trouble. He

can't do that. No Trouble

In Heaven

winter winds, but he can't build aj 000,000. Look at him flying on a

special train, irom uvs Augciea iu Chicago as fast as the Sante Fe could roll him, and they put everything in on the side track. He paid $4,500 for

Thi -n orm and the one to which ' a special train to rush him from Los

the wicked are going are the onl7 ; Angele3 to Chicago to see if he couldworlds where they ever have any trou- n't arrive there before the death of ble They have no trouble in Heaven, his son, who had accidentally shot And the reason vou have trouble here i himself, cleaning his guns prepara , tnTxr tha'ifovii. And torv to a trio for a hunting expedition

then when you leave here after you and dust-covered and wet, the San-

serve the devil and go to Hell, you will

have more trouble than ever, because you were a fool. So this world, and the one to which the wicked are going, are the only worlds where they have any trouble, and it is because of the devil. Now I have been entertained in

homes in all parts of the land, ana

ta Fe reached Fort Madison, la. There

they put on two of the best and fastest locomotive, and they whirled across the prairies of Illinois eighty miles and ninety miles an hour. Oh. she went like a meteor through the

air, and as she rolled into the depot in Chicago. With tear-stained cheeks and dust-covered clothes, "he said,

t .,in't hp thfr lone until I'd! "How is Marshall?

learn that it was a home of trouble. They said, "You are twenty min And I have been in homes where ev-iutes too late." erything was beautiful, where I walk-j He was poor because he was help j Pnrdnn nie-s and with tap-1 less. helDless!

strips of fabulous prices hung on And all his millions they couldn't

the walls, sat beneath the ttasning candelabra of wealth; shoved my feet beneath mahogany, ate from handpainted china, quaffed water from cut glass, had the best that the market could afford and a retinue of servants stood by me to anticipate my wants and gratify my desires. "Oh," I said, "Surely, there is no skeleton hanging around in the closets in this palatial home." But before I had left, I'd get under the covers a little bit, and I'd find it was a veritable haunt of trouble, i What He Learned. Sometimes I'd learn that there was a boy, wayward. Godless, goodfnr.Tiothine drinkinc. Eoing down

the line with a gang of thugs, who demoralized virtue and sneered and mocked at God Almighty, and he'd stagger and reel and jabber and sputter and spew and vomit into the home and over the carpet as he'd reel to his room. Sometimes I'd learn that it was a willful, frivolous, coquetlsh little frizzle-headed sissy, that wouldn't listen to her father and mother and would go out with the gang who would assassinate every high and no

ble ambition that ever siruggiea 10

prosper, but who-so confesseth and

forsaketh them shall have mercy." "This poor man cried." If you want to know what Christian experience is, read the Psalms. They are full of it, and they are authentic. You can't alwavs tell bv hearine a fellow talk

in meeting just what Christian expe-j

rience is. The reason is that nobody has ever lived so they could clearly express what they feel in their hearts, that ' is. to be fully understood. Spiritual things at best . are mighty poorly expressed In words. There are some things you know

that you can't find words to express. I love my wife and children, but if you'd ask me to frame it in the words of the English language, ten million more words wouldn't contain the words that I'd like to express that I mean in my innards. I can t do it, so there are some things you can't even tell in words. But words are the vehicles through which we convey our thoughts and feelings to our friends, and even yet

they are mighty poor. Some people,

No! it wasn't because he was pat- call you decent! I want to know!

Sent and forbearing with old Saul, but; Come on, tell me why! David might have chopped his block! My friends, tell me why you can't off and been King a half dozen times even, be a decent American, for, in but he never took a hair from his j my opinion, the very principles of head. That wasn't the reason God ' Americanism were built on faith in

heard his cry. No!

It wasn't because he'd slain the lion ! Bible is

God and in the Bible.

and the bear that came to take the lambs from the flock, that God heard his cry. No! It wasn't because he was a great king that God heard him. No it wasn't because he was a great general, and David never knew de

feat, and the army of Israel which

Best Book As Andrew Jackson said, pointing to the Bible, "That book, sir, is the rock upon which the American republic rests; you can't move it." "The poor man cried." Oh, my! And so your feet are taken out of

David led never dipped their colors ; the mire and planted on the rock. He to any nation on earth. That wasn't ' goes running, leaping, with a eong on

God Sends up as he thinks of the city whose a.P'fce ' Ple and ?n eS and a dill

Help To All I builder and maker is God. There is iVCKle, ana asanawicn Qisappear nice It wasn't because he was the sweet ! no question which is best. . Iye9 do,WI the throat of an alligator, singer of Israel. No! It wasn't be- There is no question which is best,!He aIked UP and touched the fellow . . . . . . . . ! . . . . ! on tha cnnnlrlor an1 coH "f-wr dq f

cause ne was tne narpist oi oia. jno: Playing for old King Saul in his melancholy moods, no!

Whenever the cry goes up to the' drunk or to be sober, to be a liar or

they that seek the Lord shall not want

any good thing." Why Delmonico starved, stomach trouble, couldn't eat J. Pierpont Morgan, who commanded thirty-five billion of dollars, starved to death, stomach trouble.

P. D. Armour, head of the great packing house in Chicago, wajking through the establishment one day when the whistle blew at noon, watched a great big, husky fellow

that sat down and yanked off the tin lid of his dinner bucket He grabbed in and peeled an egg and threw it into his mouth. Then he drew up a hunk of dill pickle. Armour stood there and watched

to be si

obtain, for him the boon which his heart craved that was to look into the face of his boy before he died. No! No!

And the man who fell among

thieves, where they stripped him, he must have been the son of a rich man.

Thieves wouldn't stick up a hobo. So

I am sure he must have been a, rich fellow. Going down there to Jericho,

they pounced upon him. How help

less he was.

"This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out; of all his troubles." Has Pity For Them. Oh, the poor people I meet In this old world, how my heart aches as I

look upon them as I go to and fro where my duties call me. Many faces into which you cannot look and not see the tragic marks of sin and sorrow and of misery. People whose faces bear the foot prints of the devil and marks of sin, helpless, groaning, crying, moaning ones that do not want to do wrong, oh, but they serve a master, the devil, who drives them with whip lashes, my friends, like scorpions and there are times that I feel my heart torn with sorrow; people that don't want to do wrong, but

they arc driven by tne power or tne

throne of God for help, that . help to be honest there is no question

comes down to the beggar just the which is best.

when thev talk say ' too little and same M to the kinS on the throne ori Whether to go to heaven or hell, 0 nil innlam t m, , hut the President in the White House. I whether to have God smile on you or rUCsVe I'm sS on'vou ' dlDdyin inspired language. When God in-; oran that God 7.mjlW

ff &.m "'will the most gifted being on earth. ! is onesure way to get out of trou-

text

was the

ick or well, to be blind or haveton th shoulder and said, "My dear

good eyes, to be deaf or able to hear, ieuow. i a give a minion collars u i to be virtuous or to be impure, to benad appetite."

r. j. Armour siarvea to aeatn. God's best gifts can't be bought With money. You can't buy love. You

iZi.,7t wht thi t or av or will the most gifted being on earth, is one sure way to get out of t 3 tn T.v o Vf vo.f want Und God will hear the cry no mat-! ble. Do what the man in my ::TlJ,t?t?- J J iter from who., lips it goes up. That Ud.. Cry unto the Lord. It wa

vi..l in mino". or to Dut it into! devil.

action Sometimes.I think I understand o tm lonrn that it was aia little bit how Jesus felt when he

hi,hand who wasn't a Christian and ; stood one day looking over Jerusa-

who professed to De, auu " "u : im uu vncu, v1l ,q nis life that the devil would jusalem! thou that killest . the IirkluD an allev to avoid meeting) prophets, and stonest them which on the-street"- " iare sent unto thee, how often would W I d learn he was keeping somebody have gathered thy children together,

xhfTM,r 6 iIs the reason God wants to help us.

Had Sorrow ' Now some fellow said, "I will tell "This poor man cried." That shows ! you Bill, I'd be a Christian, I'd be he was in great trouble. When a j tne first fellow to go down there man cries, he is generally in sorrow . . . . . . . . . nrn nigh unto death. He reached the place j and .tae y0U by the hand' ,?Ut 1 am

where he would stop expecting help I taai me up 10 u. from others or from himself. He was I Think of David preferring to stay in a place where there were no pros-' in the pit for fear when he got out.

pects that he would ever get out of

it, bo he cried unto the Lord, and des-

he'd fall in again.

Think of a sick man not wanting

hedged in like the children of Isarel

on their march from Egypt to the Promised Land. They said, "Oh, were there no graves in Egypt to bury us? Why did you bring us out here in the wilderness? Ob. our souls are disgusted with this light bread." The Red Sea rolled in front of them, and Pharaoh and his army were behind them. The perpendicular rocks were on one hand, the mountains were on the other, and they were hedged in there. Their case seemed absolutely hopeless, my friends. Oh, there are no impossibilities with God! God said to Moses, "Stretch out your rod", and Moses did it, and beat back the waters of the Red Sea. and they walked In safety across. When they reached the other side, and he reached out his rod, the Red Sea rolled and Pharaoh and his hosts are waiting for the trumpet to sound on the resurrection morn. Then they will come clambering up the coral wreaths which were but tombstones

pair was on his track, and he was to get well for fear of getting sick

again, imagine a hungry man re

fusing to eat because he'd get hun

gry again. Think of a thirsty man I

thirsty again, or a freezing man refusing to warm himself for fear he'd get cold again. You Can Trust God Oh, listen! if you can trust God to take you out, you can trust God to keep you out. If God Almighty is able to do one he can do the other, and if he can take a sinner out of sin, you can bet your bottom dollar he can keep him out. God Almighty reached down, one dark and stormy night in Chicago, thirty years ago, and grabbed me out, yanked me out and put my feet on a rock and God Almighty has kept me out from that minute to this. He can do all that all the way through. Yes, and its because the Lord did something for the man in the text that he has promised to do the same for us all the way through.

best thing he could, and the only

thing he could do. And wherever a man reaches the point where he will cry to the Lord, then, sir, he has reached the place where he i3 dead sure he will get to heaven, and he was stopped expecting help from your morality. That can't take you out. Only One Thing Will Help Your money! Oh, wake up here and show me your bank book and make me your attorney. That won't

help me out. Give up and present

can't buy that no not at all! No

good thing that ought to do more than a bank account or a Liberty loan bond, no good thing will He withhold. Take this one, "My God shall supply all your needs." Not all you want. - You may want a whole lot of things you don't need "My God 6hall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." Here is another. It will lift you out of trouble easier than an elevator will carry you from the Bubway to the roof garden. "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea." Those words are from the 46th

psalm. That was Martin Luther's

loTo, r! ?nn .TnVvo,,rithat old. lion-hearted preacher of L .hLJ-t05..,!?!Ct.,S5 Z1 God's truth would get discouraged.

nhu.n Ja a overwhelmed -with difficulties, he d

rommnoVhi nrt whirh rtn ai. & and read that psalm for comfort, became infatuated with him.

mighty loves; but they can't take you ont Kn! Va'

"This poor man cried, and the Lord ! n,elp

heard him, and delivered him out of his troubles." When a man cries to God for help, that's evidence that he is willing to be helped in God's way. Some of you don't want God to have

His way. You keep your mouth shut.

So, therefore, we need It; God is

always closer to you, a very present

That means extraordinarily

close. When you are in trouble go

to the Bible. That tells you the way out Not to your friends. So By God's Word.

When Jesus walked with the two

When you cry to the Lord, that disciples on the way to Emmaus

means that God will not do it your

way as you want Him to. When you have reached the place when you will stop rejecting God's plan of salvation, then I want to tell you God is nearby to help you. "The Lord saved him out of all his troubles." When the Lord helps, He makes a clean vs weep.

His tabernacle shall He hide me. This poor man cried to the Lord, and He heard him and delivered him out of all his troubles." "The Lord redeemeth the soul of His servant." "The Lord is a stronghold In the day of trouble." "Let not your hearts be troubled." "If you believe in God, believe also In me." "Cast your burden upon the Lord, He shall Bustain thee." "He will not suffer the righteous to be moved." A captain had taken his little child with him on a trip across the Aalantic, and she was passing through

her first experience in a storm at sea. She said as she was crying and trembling with fear, "Where is papa?" They said, "He is up on deck watching the storm." "Oh, goodby, then I guess I will go to bed!" So, remember, that when the storm

a ucaimg, a vu is Bicmaing on inc brink of the old Gospel ship, and when He says, "Peace, be still," the waves will coo like a baby tugginj at his mother's breast He Is keeping watch over His own. "Exceeding great and precious promises." I might go on, but I wont, shoving you the rich Inheritance to the man or the woman who will def4J nitely appropriate by faith these promises, make them your own, claim them, live by them. Just as the Israelites were made to Inherit the land of Canaan by stepping on the land, so we by taking the promises and putting them to the test And you cannot pray expect. Ing to be heard unless you go pleading God to fulfill something that He has promised. That Is the way! I know when a good many people pray, they don't expect anything from God, they don't rest their faith on anything that God has said. So when you pray, start out and coax some verses of scripture, put them down for a foundation, then put on top of that what you have got to say, then capsheaf It with some of the, Lord's and shingle it with a promise.

and the devil won't be able to tear" through the foundation. The Lord gives us promises by th.iv thousands. If he hadn't done It, I wouldn't be able to live by faith, neither would you. These are scat-, tered through the Bible from Genesl3 to Revelation. And yet why have we got so nrach. milk and cider, chalk and vinegar, good Lord, good devil, two by four, pliable, plastic lickspittle three carat sort of religion? I will tell you. W don't take God at His word and put God to the test For that reason, every son of Jacob that went out of Egypt didn't get a farm in Canaan,

because they wouldn't go in by faith and plant their feet on it God had

& lcuui iui cveiy one oi mem, uui v they wouldn't do it, bo they didn" J) have It God has a blessing for you. So If something has come into your life that Is keeping the blessing away, do what God tells you and the benediction shall be yours. When you look at the giants of difficulty, remembering that you have a God bigger than the devil. Remember that He that is for you is greater than he that is against you. So don't ever worry about it. An aunt gave a young lady a book and she-couldn't become interested In it at all. She made several IneffecN ual attempts to do so, but failed with every attempt. Finally she used to evade her aunt because she'd ask her if Bhe read the book, when she hadn't. Some time ran by. when a bright clean-cut looking fellow came out

from the west like Lochinvar and she

She

found that his name was the same as the author of this book in which she couldn't become interested. One night she asked him if he ever wrote a book. He said, 'Yes". It was this book that her aunt had given her. She could hardly wait until he'd gone. After he'd left she ran and grabbed the book and never stopped until she finished it at 3 o'clock In the morning. Same book, same girl, but she fell in love .with the author, so she fell in love with his works. You get to know God and the BIblal will be a new book to you. If It 1jT dull and dead and has no

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that first Easter morning, He turned their sorrow into joy by opening the scriptures and explaining everything to them.

So, don't go by appearances, but

go by what God says,

k Here are a few as I go to the end. just you get in love with the author.

" wm. tmuuic, no Buan mue see now you wui love His works Trv me in His pavilion; in the secret of It! t!