New-York tribune., 1918-01-27
Billy Sunday
"A FTER Eve had eaten the apple, she beat

n tTER Eve had eaten the apple. she beat
L it over to tell Adam
She loved Adam, and she did not want to
enjoy the forbidden fruit alone
She wanted him to eat of it, too
She wasn't bit selfish.
Il have found the cutest apple, ADAM" she
said; land you can have the core"
Where did you get it ?" he demanded.
Prom that tree God was telling US about.
It's delicious! Have a bite!"
'Nothing doing. don't care for any," said
Adam.
Don't be qutter," pleaded Eve.
I'm not hungry" said Adam; "I don't care
for apples, anyhow"
And he tried to get out of it by paving her
compliments
But no man can ever stall woman when
she once makes up her mind.
II shall be miserable all day if Won don't
have some of my APPLE said Eve. Adam felt
tear drop on his manly bosom.
IF you'll dry your tears and be hapnv
again, III take many bites as YOU want me
to-"
Adam wasn't the last man to sacrifice the
big things of life to make peace in his own
household.
After they had eaten of the forbidden fruit,
lor the hrst time, they viewed nudeness with
a sudden shame.
possibilities
No longer was the world all innocence and
beauty.
Adam and Eve suddenly wanted to hide their
nakedncss because they had sinned
After covering their bodies Adam and Eve
wanted to hide themselves still moro. Thew
weren't satisfied.
so they beat it off into the bushes.
They knew God would be coming to look
fnr how, hDf1
to be at home.
1t is always a safe bet that God will hap
pen around like the policeman on the beat
when we have been trying to pull something
mat we want to keep under cover
Conscience got on the job for the first time
when Adam and Eve began to realize that
they had eaten Gods forbidden fruit
Conscience is the best old sleuth in the
business.
Sherlock Holmes some ferret, but Con-
science has him backed off the boards and
painting for breath
Adam and Eve shivered in the bushes with
fear.
&ITNALLY they heard God calling
And He was speaking with some au-
thority.
God is no mollycoddlc or wcak-voiced sissy
when it comes to calling sinner down.
"Adam, where art thou ?" called God.
God was looking for Adam, the sinner That
is way God has. He is always looking for
those who have wandered away
There is no more beautiful thought in the
Bible than that of Gods search for Adam
and Eve, after their fall.
When God found them each tried to blame
some else; Adam said, "The woman
tempted me and did cat" and Eve blamed
the devil.
Ru+ II,
When Eve tried to blame the devil she
showed what kind of a weak-Eneed object sin
had made of her.
1t is impossible to put anything over on
God. He has our number and record and
our Bertillon measurements and finger prints
whenever He wants to them.
Every man has got to do his own SHINING
God sent Adam and Eve out of the Garden
of Eden without waiting even until the end
Of the month.
They had to get along the best they could
in rented quarters outside.
All of their luxurcs were taken from
them. There to be no more elevator or
steam heat telephones for them.
And they often longed for their old bunga-
low, where everything was handy.
But they had lost it for good.
CURTA1LED in the telling, the Sam
~ son and Delilah story runs as fol-
lows:
Samson was the first strong man to exhibit
before large audiences-but he wasn't strong
enough to exhibit before himself in private.
He thought he was making a big hit be-
cause he was making big nose-and had
Buffalo Bill hair.
If he had stuck to overalls he would have
made better history.
When he dolled up in his hurrah togs he /
only made troube-but he couldn't subdue
lis hankerings for the forbidden things.
He was just like kid home from college
or the summer vacation, when he breezed
n on his dad one day in his fathers office.
He was all doled up with a purple band
around his new Panama, pushed down onto
one ear over the flowing locks, and he was
wearing purple socks, and a purple necktie.
and SILK handkerchief with a purple band
falling out of his breast pocket.
Also he fiourished dnky bamboo walk
ng-stck, and altogether thought he was the
original Big Noise
HIS father was trying to answer the tele-
none and dicrate letter at the same time.
or it was the rush season in the cattle trad /
ng market
But little thing like other peoples bust k
less never bothered Samson
he pushed his Panama a little further over
is ear blew out cloud of cigarette smoke.
linking that this made him look like p real
nan OF the world to the blond stenographer.
nd said:
i've come to tell you want to get spliSMed
'overnor. And it's up to you to come across
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