The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-08

Merl Lancaster also sang
Defines Bible Schools
c. w. Brubaker, of Dayton. head OF
the Sunday school work in Ohio, de
fined Sunday schools as of four kinds
Standpatters. Impetuous, Contentious,
and Progressive.
Rev. w. G. Sanders, of Green's
Fork, offered prayer.
What shall the end be of them that
obey not the gospel of God?
And you are going to live on until
the consultations of the heavens are
snuffed out. You are going to live on
until the rocks crumble into dust. You
are going 10 live on until the noun
tain peaks are incinerated into ashes
and God blows them to the four corn.
ers of infinitude by the breath of
heaven
Thinks of Example
of Governor.
| used to live in Pennsylvania and
one of the grandest examples of guber
material piety that ev a vat in the man.
sion at Harrisburg was old Governor
Pollock You pull some money out OF
your pocket. and you will find on the
coins-''In God We Trust" Governor
Pollock of Pennsylvania put that or
the money of the United States-Gov-
ernor Pollock of Pennsylvania, he was
the man. And | never pull piece OF
money from my pocket and look at il
that | don't think of Governor Pollock
and his face comes before me and
think of the wonderful example he was
as a governor
While he was governor, a young fell
low in drunken brawl over some trif-
ling, insignificant affair. shot a man
He was arrested, tried, convicted, SEN
fenced to be executed, and the people
all over the state, by tens of thous-
ands, signed a petition. Among the
committee that presented it to Govern
or Pollock was personal friend of
| Governor Pollock. He listened to their
! pleadings. They read the names on
/ the list, and they argued and said
! Governor, can't you commute the sen
tence to life Imprisonment?
Governor Pollock said. Gentlemen.
| it was against the Commonwealth Of
the State Of Pennsylvania and the dig
nifty and the majesty of the law, and I
can't commute the sentence"
Then the ministers-Catholic and
Protestant-signed a petition, and
among the comittee that presented
1t to Governor Pollock. was his own
pastor. He put his hands upon his
shoulders, he begged, he even dropped
on his knees and prayed that God
would give Governor Pollock wisdom
to commute the sentence 10 life i'm
prisonment
Governor Pollock listend to their
pleadings, wiped the tears from his
eyes, and said, Gentleman, can't
do it; I can't do it
Mother of Boy
Arrives
Then the boys mother came. As
last resort she pleaded as only
mother can plead. Her eyes were
bloodshot, her lips ashen, her face
anemic, her hair disheveled her
clothes unkempt. her frame weak and
+! tottering from loss of sleep and food
and her ceaseless vigil and efforts to
bring Influence to bear that the Gov
ernor would commute the sentence.
She approached the governor She
put her arms about his neck. She
cried, "Oh, governor. let me go on
the scaffold; give me my boy; don't
take my baby; governor. put me be-
hind the bars, and I will stay there
all my life if you will let him go; don't
hang him."
He took her arms from around his
nee kand held her at arms length.
He looked into her face and the tears
rolled down his cheeks like a river Of
water He said to her, Mother, l
can't do it,
She screamed and fell at his feet
They bore her out. He turned and
said TO his secretary, John, if can't
pardon him or comute the sentence.
there is one thing, thank God, can do
can tell him how to die"
He went TO the prison where the
boy was, and he asked to be alone.
The death watch left He sat down
and talked and he prayed with him,
and the young man prayed. The gov
ernor left the cell and the death
watch returned. The young man said.
who was that man that came in and
talked with me?''
The watch said, Didn't you know
He said, No
The watch said. Great God. that
was Governor Pollock
He stood minute. He thrust his
hands to his head He pulled his hair
out by the handful He grasped hold
of the bars. He said. my God. WHY
didn't you tell me that was the gov
ernor and / would have thrown nv
arms around him and would have
driven my fingers into his flesh and
would have said to him. Governor. |
will not let you go unless you pardon
me, or give me my life and let me go
behind the bars. .
A few days later when he stood on
the scaffold with the shroud on. the
moose about his neck and the black
cap on. hands and feet tied the last
words he said were, My God. The
governor there and" and he shot
down through the trap: in II minutes
the doctor said he was dead.
You can't stand before God and say.
Jesus Christ was down there at the
tabernacle and didn't know iti''
Behold a man greater than Gov
ernor Pollock is here-Jesus Christ.
the son of God, and he waits to be
gracious to all that will accept Of the
salvation which he purchased on the
cross
What shall be the end of them that
obey not the gospel of God?"