The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-15

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him.
Writes Father
of Return
He told my friend his story. He adj
vised him to write home and tell his
father. He said, Don't ask the old
man for money-you don't deserve it.
If you'd ask for money he'd think you
were stringing him."
He wrote hime and said, Father,
I'm coming back soon and when do
you will be proud to meet me at the
depot with the family carriage. Sis
ter will be proud to drive me down
the street. You will be proud to in
troduce me to your new friends, for
l haven't tasted a drop of liquor and
God has saved my soul"
Just as fast as the mail could carry
it back came a letter with a sight
draft on the First National bank of
Chicago. 1t said, get you a suit of
clothes and buy a ticket and come
home. We are dying to see you, we
can't sleep until you come. Let me
know and l will be down at the depot
! with the carriage"
He pulled a letter out of his pocket.
He said, Some of my old side kicks
and pals say am getting paid for it,
that's the reason I do it."
He said, 81 am" He said, Boys,
1 staggered in here three weeks ago
with a suit of clothes on that wouldn't
have made leggings for a humming
bird. Do you see that I've got on a
suit? It's a hand-me-down, but it's
a suit"
Happy to
Return Home.
He said. THE devil drove me away
from home; Jesus Christ has taken
me back home. I came to Chicago in
a side-door Pullman rode the bump
ers. I'm going to hit the hay tonight
in a Pullman. There's my ticket. Do
you see that little red piece of card,
board? The Panhandle train on the
Pennsylvania leaves Chicago tonight
at 9:45 and your Uncle Fuller will be
on the train. I'm going home! I'm
going home! I'm getting paid, 1t pays
to serve Jesus Christ, any way you
look at it."
When Moody went to St. Louis
years ago, the st. Louis newspapers
said, eve are going to publish every
word that Moody utters from the time
he walks on the platform until he says
1COdAlSAI. anu MOOuy Sdlu, wen
I will put a good deal of the Bible in
my sermons and / will let the news
papers of St. Louis preach to the
sinners that won't come to heal me-
l can't find words sufficient to ex
press my appreciation and admiration
for the newspapers of this country fol-
the great work they are doing in help
ing spread the gospel in every nool
and corne in this city and to millions
of people that hear my sermons
So. Moody said. Il will put a lot O.
Scripture in" so the newspapers useC
to vie with each other for sensational
headlines. One night Moody preached
on the P%hillipian jailer. The mex
morning the st. Louis Globe Demo
crat had this headline-"How the Jail
er at Phillip Got Caught" and h,
z said, That's a town in Illinois.
cracked a safe there one night.
: never did like that guy, 1 wonder hoV
he got here"
5 He started to read and he found |
was a sermon. He said, what tn
helps the matter with the newspapers
: Gone craZy?"
, He threw the paper on the floor an
kicked it under his bunk, then he wen
olAo PulICu IL u 1IC lSdu SOll1Clulls
that made him madden than V 81
he threw it down and kicked it again
: He fell asleep, but awakened about
o'clock and got to thinking about wha
he had read, so he reached under tn,
; bunk and pulled it out and stood read
! ing the newspaper by the light hane
! ing out in the hall as it shone through
the door. And he read it through; h
z naf Iav-n ~ HE lyna1e orI
!, TO cry.
I The Waterman going his round
I heard him, thought he was sick, an,
looked in and said to him: Burke
, the fellow was named Valentin,
Burke-"Burke, are you sick?'
3 NO, I've been reading Moody's SCI
; mon, and I've made up my mind tina
) he's right and I'm wrong and I'm &c
ing to go out and live an honest man.
Sheriff Fears
q Ruse
The Waterman went and told tn,
sheriff, and the sheriff said, "Doubl
: the guard on him; he's stringing you.
When the trial took place Burke es
!, capped through a little technicality il
the law and he started out. He'd gon,
out and got a job, but every time b
!, got a job some Eek" would come alon;
!, and tip off his employer, or some oil,
r side-kfck or pal of his would tell tina
he was an Eek" and he'd have to &c
J. He kept shifting and couldn't hold
. job down very long until some Eek
would come along and tell his en-
ployer, and away he'd go.
He came back to ST. Louis about
year later, and the sheriff sem 70
. him. He said to himself, They hav
r found some old job that l haven't don
time for, but I'll go up, and if l an
guilty | will W it and take my med
s cine like a man"
: He went up, and the sheriff said
Hello, Burke, how are you gettin
along?"
y Fine"
D How about this religion business?
Still praying, sir"
, The sheriff said, Good
He said, 81 haven't stole a thing
= I've been on the square all the wa
/. through, but l never knew it was s
: hard to live down an old life. l.
get a job and somebody would ii
I them off, and I'd have to move on.
: The sheriff said, Where have yo
u been?"
s Gives Man
Important Job
He told him a few places he ha
been in. The sheriff reached up i
the pigeonhole and tool down a pape