The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-01-28
STORY OF TROTTER
CAUSES A NUMBER


\OO0LlQucO from rage Ou0y
guy on ono side? Well, l am after TAX
ing. Mr.. Honeywell selected this text
for me: John 9Th Chapter, 9Th verse.
IF the son therefore shall make you
free, you shall be free indeed" 1t is no
trouble for me to talk about 1t. l can
take text and leave it and never get
back to 1t. / am long on texts. l preach
ed the other night on three of them.
Ye shall be free from the condemning
power of the law, from the controlling
power of sin and from the conquering
power Of death. l shall speak about
the past, the present and the future. 1t
is all right to talk about the past for
we all have one. Yours is not mine and
mine Is not yours, thank God.
Relates Incident In Work.
'The soul that sinneth, it shall die
When God says a word l believe 1t
and I am standing right on what God
says about it. The wages Of sin is
death. l was holding a meeting in
Traverse City, Michigan, one time in
the Baptist church with my deep wa
ter friends. A lady was playing the pi-
ano and l spoke to her about her soul
She didn't come to Christ that night
but she promised me an answer the
next day. The next day she said I am
just going on having a good time and
when I get ready, l shall just come
God doesn't forgive like that. I know
he doesn't
II could tell you about a woman that
left Grand Rapids. She said I'm not
going to let that thing ruin my life
am going to rise above it She left
Grand Rapids and spent three years
in Western city, and was later mar
ried One day she was walking down
the street with her husband. She grab
bed him by the arm and nearly faint
ed. He asked what was wrong and a
man from Grand Rapids stepped up
and said. I guess l can tell you
You go out tonight and get a bun
on old top, and tomorrow morning you
Will have to take a garden rake to
scratch your head 1t will keep right
on pounding. You burn the candle at
both ends and you will look like a
snuff box. That is the reason a lot of
men are supporting cripples instead
of wives. Because in violation of laws
of nature and dress and excess in 9TH
er things, you are paying for it. You
can take them to every surgeon in the
world, but it's no use. Sin against ma
ture and she don't forgive you. For
giveness is outside of the realm of ma
ture; you never can find it there
How many of you would almost
give your life if you could turn the
clock back to certain hour, and be-
gin life over from there? You can't
forgive yourself. You can't do it, And
how can you expect Him to forgive
you? There is no forgiveness any
where you turn. Search in the Bible
land where do you find it,. An eye for
an eye was Gods law. But you will
| find in the Ninth Chapter of Matthews,
| Son thy sins be forgiven The only
way God could ever forgive sin that
had been committed against himself
was to punish himself and his son.
Meets Many Drunkards.
Il meet more drunkards and talk
| with them than any man in Indiana
You can't contradict me- | never knew
| a man that was a drunkard because he
| wanted to be one He can't help it, I've
seen the day when I'd sell my shoes
for drink. | was a sinner for years.
You struggle against drink. I was a
slave to drunkenness. No man ever
E, lost his home. his manhood, his soul
i deliberately but because he couldn't
help it. You say I can drink or leave
| it alone You took one drink last year.
You are taking two, or three, or four
now. 1t has got your goat and always
! has had it.
Il never found a woman in sin that
! wouldn't get out if she could Take
the great army of 100000 women liv-
| ing in houses of i'll fame in this coun-
try alone and not a single one of them
ever intended to land there. What is
I she there fOrS She can't holm If
Il have gone through the hands of
most every reformation known to man.
| If you are any judge of human nature,
! you know very well | may be a weak
| ling in some ways but | didn't have an
old-fashioned German Lutheran moth
er and an Irishman for a father for
| nothing. | have scrapped myself
! through this world for forty-three
, years and | have never asked a man
to get off my foot. | just knocked him
| off
Went To Chicago.
"In spite of the tears of mother,
prayers of wife and pleadings of baby
| landed in Chicago in 1879, an out
cast of society. No underclothes and
no socks on my feet. | tell it to the
honor and glory of God. For years |
was a drunkard. Do you know what
| Hell is? Look in drunkard'S home
Nobody that drinks suffers alone. | ha-
| ted drunkard and hated myself. | liv-
! ed better off the free lunch counter
than my wife did at home.
| Mrs. Trotter made a silly speech TO
me one day She said You give me my
| husband sober and | would rather
have hirr than any other man | ever
knew l loved my wife and my baby
Drunken men love their families just