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

preston made Is neutraled by some
foolish, twaddIe-taIk after the sermon
is over. Some women get together
and this is the conversation they
have:
"Oh, were you down at the liter
airy Thursday? Did you hear Mrs.
AS paper on Ruskin? And that pap
er in the Lady of the Lake? Have
you seen her new gown? Her new
coat? l wonder if it's seal or near
seal?"
And darned If l haven't seen them
back up and feel of it just to find
out. Yes, sir Pretend to be at
fectionate and just walk up and put
their hand on her arm to tell by the
touch whether it was seal or near
seal. What do they care? Nothing!
Many Hold
Themselves Aloof.
Others hold themselves aloof
can tell lot of people that haven't
been near this revival,-officials in
the church and preachers. I've been
preaching as hard as I have ever
preached in my life and they haven't
poked their old head around here. Do
you think Jesus Christ would live here
! that long and never go around to see
( how his work was coming on?
/ They hold themselves aloof. They
| say, what's the use of this revival?'
l suppose there were people stand,
ing around when Jesus raised Lazarus
! from the grave who said, whats
the use of raising Lazarus from the
dead. he'll die again"
| l expect you could have heard line
of talk like that in Jerusalem then.
/ Years ago | went away up in the
northern part of Minnesota, hun
dred and twenty-five miles northeast
of Duluth, away up on the Mesabi
! Range, away up in the Carnegie and
/ Rockefeller interests in the mining re-
I gion. l was up there preaching in
| Finn Hall. They are mostly all min
! ers UP there and they are mostly Fin
! landers, and most every Finlander is
a temperance man, and SO they had
/ Temperance Hall, or Finn Hall. And
! I was holding a meeting In Finn Hall
and there was woman there and they
tried to get her to come to the meet
ing Her husband was an elder-a
! Presbyterian-and they said to her:
Mrs. Kingsbury, haven't you beer
to the meeting?"
i And she said, 81 can't understand
(she talked as though she had ho
mush in her mouth-one Of those kline
of women)-and she reached her eye
brows and drew in her diaphragm and
said: 81 can't understand why VIZ
have to send to Chicago and have /;
strange preacher come and preach tt
u.s."
She Could Not
See Point
I And somebody ventured the remarl
that it was to make the communit!
better
She said, Make our community bet
/ ter! | think we have an absolutel,
; fine community"
: There was one of the most good
) for-nothing, God-forsaken, whiskey
soaked, disappearing, accursed, harloi
! ridden communitii5 that ] have eve
preached the gospel in in the twenty
one years l have been preaching
Herei You listen to me! littl
: jay town with thirty-five hundred pee
1 pie and had 81 saloons; IL gamblin
2 halls with doors wide open day an
: night SO that men, women and chi
dren could walk right in and gamble
4 had SO girls in it, and the path frol
: those houses to the town was beate
: as hard as the rocks, while the gras
grew around the churches knee higl
/ and the churches looked like IL
of little chicken coops sitting aroun
on the street corners with no coat {
paint And there was a woman,
member of the church, for her hu
band was an elder, and she couldn
see that that God-forsaken, rotte
community wasn't about to sprout i
wings and fly away to the empyrea
of God above.
II q can't understand" Geel
II l tell you, the Lord is having
hard time. Jump in and make
easy for God-what do you say? Lii
| yourself up with the Lord, not Il
devils gangl
y Then criticize, Oh, mercy ha'