The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-05-14

Photo by American lfeSS ASsoCldtlon'
BILLY AND MA SUNDAY.
freckle faceu, pigeon toed, cross eyed
kid, with a stone bruise on each heel,
can ride a horse to water, but a pro.
fessor with forty-nine diplomas can't
make him drink if the horse hasn't the
desire.
IF you want to become a robber read
'Deadshot Sam and 'DeadwoOd Dick
and stuff like that and you'll be one, all
right"
Sunday said he would like to sen.
tence fifty of the popular writer's Of to-
day to serve in the penitentiary for
their teachings to young America.
"When boy drinks or swears or
sneers at religion it's simply because
he is keeping bad company or his lob
ster Of a father swears in his hearing"
said Sunday.
Have an aim in life" he added.
There are lots of you gray haired men
here" pointing TO several in the front
rows, that have walked on and on for
fifty years and all you have to show
for your life is a bleary eye and
whisky breath.
Grit is one of the most important
parts of the boy or girl who would be
successful Lots Of boys are all right,
but they lack the punch that produces
the sleeper Grit is the Samson in
youth that isn't afraid when the lion
roars. You're a mutt if you're quit.
ter"
In telling the students of the value Of
grit Sunday paid n. tribute to Abraham
Lincoln and said his success would
never have come about without grit.
"Those are the kind of fellows who
hang their mugs in the hall of fame"
he said
Self conceit was also attacked by the
evangelist who said the conceited man
was like the stripes on barber pole"
or newspaper with big scare heads
and no telegraph news"
Sunday spoke of the necessity of
cheerfulness, saying:
Every smile is il crimp in the un-
dertaker's business. BY smiling you
can keep them from pumping you full
Of embalmlug fluid and your hair from
being singed.
'One Of the worst things that a min.
lister can say over mans coffin is that
he had no enemies. If he was the kind
of man that he should be and led the
life that he should he would have
pack Of enemies. The man who has no
enemies is carbuncle on the neck of
the body polite.
Every church is cursed by small
minority which attempts to run it.
They think, because they have a little
money, they are the only pebbles ON
the beach As with the Pharisees, ev-
erything with them is either the NOM
NATIVE l., the poSsessive my or the
objective me-
He Believes Entire Bible.
"A whole lot of ministers are scared
to death If you do anything for Jesus
out of the ordinary way. They would
rather 90 to hell than be saved through
an innovation. On the other hand. vor
don't find people AZ rule so scared of
the innovations of the devil. You
know the thousand and one 'isms' thar
the devil has invented to drive you off
the path Of life
Il believe in the Bible from cover 10
cover. | don't pretend to understand
1t all. | would consider myself low.
down and damned If | with nv in.
initesimal mind and my jack rabbit
and pigheaded intellect should under.
take to tell God that | disapproved of
His plan of salvation.
but they say that the consensus of
the latest scholarship shows that the
Bible is wrong. Well. the consensus
of the latest scholarship can go plumb
to h.
"All the booze sellers. the brewers.
the distillers. the white slavers, the red
light element, the thieves and the hold
up men hate me and hate revivals.
That these manifestations of evil exist
is not Gods fault. 1t is the fault of
the churches which have become dor
in which the devil administers
opiates. instead of being beehives of
Industry.
Rsvivsls Are Defended.
IL am for revival which will result
In a mans buying duds for bis own
wife instead Of helping to pay for the
silks on the back of the wife Of the sa-