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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-17
Republicans, Democrats,
Prohibitionists Match
Wits at Sunday Session

Politics doomed up, amusingly, Sun
day afternoon when Billy, after speak
ing of his old friend John Hay, said,
II don't know what your politics are,
but Pm Republican"
Applause and laughter greeted Thu
announcement, but the audience wen
into roar of mirth when Mayor Hand
ley, in his Introductory remarks, ad-
dressed the Rev. r. W. Stoakes as
"Mr. Chairman" The air was filled
with political haze for a moment
and Mr.. Handley explained:
II know I'm not to make political
speech. but Mr.. Stoakes IS chairman
of this meeting. I'll get back at Mr..
Sunday by saying that am a Demo
GRAFT"
Rev. E. Howard Brown, in making
his collection talk, opened with the
sturdy defiance, 81 am a Prohibition
ist." Hearty laughter and applause
greeted his statement.
Despite Billy's and the Mayors po-
litical differences, Mr.. Sunday said af-
ter Mr.. Handley's opening remarks.
81 don't care IL you are a Democrat
l would vote for you if 1 lived here
because like you"
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Betty, Eloise, Hamilton
First Children Tagge1

Betty Hamilton, three year oil
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. Glcn
Hamilton, 81 Southwest A street, was
the first child to be registered in thu
nursery department conducted in con-
nection with the Sunday tabernacle
meeting, Sunday afternoon. Her sis
ter. Eloise. five years old, was the
second to be tagged"
Mrs. Hamilton checked" her two
little girls at 1.20 o'clock Sunday aft.
ernoon, and when the two were found
by the reporter about l minute later
they were having the time Of their
lives romping about the nursery.
They were not alone. however, when
discovered, for mothers began coming
early, and their children were soon
busy investigating the uses of the
many fascinating attractions appeal
ing alike to all children.
Mrs H. R. Mcqueen was responsible
for the children. She directed and su-
pervised the indoor recreation and at
the close of the meeting every mother
got her own little baby returned and
mother ard child was hanny.
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GOODS GOT A HARD JOB ON Ills HANDSW
BUT NO FORCE ON EARTH OR IN HE'LL
CAN CHECK 0NW Ard MARCH OF CHURCH

wouldn't keep somebody on the side,
who wouldn't stagger and. reel home
into the arms of his wife, but he
will stoop to do the mean, contempt
ible. dirty. scurrilous, derogatory,
underhanded, villifying, little things
and not by the Spirit, although he
may have been baptized, sprinkled
and immersed every fifteen minutes,
knows the catechism from A to z,
and has been confirmed every half
hour! There are multitudes of them!
Grieve Not The
Spirit of God.
There is no fog or mist over the
eyes and the mind of the Holy Spirit.
my friends, about eternal damnation
for the impenitent if he does not turn
from his sin and yield to Jesus
Christ. And this sensitiveness pre-
sents to me the Father and his love.
too. 1t is analogous to the feelings of a
mother whose heart because her how
by some act, has put stain upon the
family escutcheon that nothing can
ever erase-because that girl. by her
good-for-nothing coquettish WAYS. and
her goddess, hayward life, and the
miserable bunch she goes with. sho
VIII soon, sir, present to the world the
mute evidence of illicit affection, and
by her you help to feed the red light
or some great city. Or the man who
swore to be true to you as long as
the sky and waves were blue and
has turned from that marriage vow
and broken it as if it were made of
spider webs, until he has made the
name synonymous, with everything
that is low down, grovelling and in
famous in the world. "Grieve not
the Spirit of God"
So it is my purpose this afternoon
to briefly show what the Holy Spirit
wants to do with us-in the first
place, he will come to reveal God
by the physical touch of man
through creation It's not difficult
for you ard l to imagine, we who
believe in Jesus Christ as an issue.
| do not believe in your doctrine of
the universal fatherhood of God and
| the universal brotherhood of man.
unless he has been born again by
faith in Jesus Christi is an infer
nal lie.
You are a creature of God: so is
COW eating grass in pasture; you
are creature of God-you are not
child of God unless you've been
born again in repentance and faith
in Jesus Christ. | don't believe in
your doctrine of the fatherhood of
God and the brotherhood of man un-
; less you are a Christian,-don't be-
lieve in it. | believe a man is born
not by good works or philanthropy
or charity, but by faith and repent
ance, faith in Jesus Christ, and if he
isn't, he will go to hell whether he
lives in a mansion or in stale beer
joint
When God wanted to build the uni
verse what did he do? Oh, he spake
( and the Holy Spirit carried out his
! plans, the Holy Spirit separated the
land from the sea and he put the
mountains out on the frontiers of the
universe until they looked like senti-
nels on picket duty, tossing their old
snow-covered heads $4,000 feet in the
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man who has ever been used of God
to light up the dark, rotten, Tester
ing spots of this breaking,
whisky soaked, gambling cursed
old world that's going to hell so fast
she's breaking the speed limit.
We've got our churches, we've got
our preachers. Why, at Pentecost
one sermon brought 5000 to their
knees, now it takes about 5000 of the
average sermons to bring one old
weazel-eyed, red-nosed, whiskey-soak-
ed, blasphemer to his knees. Some
sermons wouldn't have found Jesus
Christ with a search warrant.
Now, we've got our churches; we've
got our lighthouses; we've got our
tabernacles. Oh, we've got the wis
dom of the Orientals; we've got the
vim, vigor, tobasco sauce and pep
perino, and the push, and the go,
and the wealth of the twentieth CEN
fury. l tell you, l believe no people
on earth are better paid, are better
fed, are better clothed, are better
housed, are more happy and pros
porous than those that live beneath
the Stars and Stripes in America.
A lady came in from Iowa. She
reached her eyebrows and drew in
her diaphraghm, (she was kind of
a cold storage proposition)
She said, "What the church needs
is organization" said, "Foreet it.
We are organized to death. We've
got so much machinery in the aver
age church you can hear it squeak
when you start in. We haven't got
oil enough for the Holy Ghost to
grease one axle of Gods chariot -
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that in this city? Oh nothing, we
are just dead--that's all: we're just
dead. We don't need an evangelist
so much as we need an undertaken.
Just dead!
oh, life will give organization, but
organization won't give life. That's
what I'm talking about. Then the
Holp Spirit is needed to bring God
in spiritual touch with man, to make
man feel that he needs a Savior.
How do you feel that you need a
doctor when you are sick-the fire
man when there's fire in your
house?
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that's what's the matter with US TO-
day, we've got the Y. M. c. A., and
we've got the Y. w. c. A., we've GOT
the Y. p. S. c. E., we've got the 3.
Y. p. w., we've got the c. e, we've
got the w. F. NJ. H., we've GOT the
J. E. L. and the j. e. |. l. y. s. 1t
gets man bughouse.
Drop into an average young peo.
pies meeting and the leader says in
a weak, negative, falsetto, apologize,
sissified sort of mannerism, This is
splendid topic this evening. l have
been so busy l haven't had time for
preparation" It's superfluous to say
that it wouldn't take the bunch long
to find he's all in. 81 hope you will
feel free to take part" Somebody
gets up and reads a poem from the
Christian Endeavor Herald and then
along comes someone and says, Let's
sing No. 49," and they sing, ooh, to
be Nothing, Nothing; Only to Sit at
His feet"
Two-thirds of them are like in
Algebra. Someone says, Lets sins
No. 81" They all get up and sing
Throw Out the Life Line, Throw Out
Tie LIE Lille, WHEN tHey maven
got strength enough to put up a
clothes line. Then a long pause and
l hear the organ pealing that prelude
and then, Let us arise and repeat
our benediction and be adjourned
"The Lord watch between me and
thee when we are absent, one from
another"
Yes, and Gods got hard job on
his hand!
Did YOU ever hear ANYTHING like
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-17
why Call Ye Me Lord Lord9' Theme of Powerful Elk

A friend Of mine riding on a train
out in Iowa-a fellow sitting right be-
hind him reached over and touched
him on the shoulder and said,
Say. pard. do you believe in Il
woman's love?"
My friend said. Eyes"
well, l used to but l changed my
mind about all of them but one" and
ed out a piece of paper, unrolled it
showed it in front of my friend and
he said. That's my mother"
He said, 81 was married. The
tongues of gossip started; they told
my wife | was false-it was all a lie
She believed them, got a divorce, mar
ried. Home broken up" but he said,
THAT womans mother. She would
follow me across the country and if
were condemned she would have the
rope put around her neck or sit down
in the electric chair, and die for me,
SIR
Young Men Needed
In Anne rican Church.
You don't miss them until they are
gone. There are fifteen million
young men in this country between
the ages of sixteen and thirty-five.
Fourteen million of them are not
members of any church. Seven mil
Nine million never darken a church
door. Church memberships increased
one and one-half percent last year.
The population increased three per
cent. Crime increased nineteen per-
cent and seventy percent of our Grim
I inals are young men under twenty
one years of age.
! why call we me Lord, Lord, and
| do not the things ! say?-" in your
home and in your family life and in
society?
Wait a minute! | have no quarrel
with society-only against the sinful
usages of society. | believe in so
ciety with both hands up but l be-
/ lieve the most God-forsaken, good.
| for-nothing, useless women on earth
! in an American societyswoman whose
/ life is frappes and there is nothing,
my friends, to her but a frame upon
which to hang fashionable clothes,
and a digestive apparatus to digest
/ highly seasoned foods.
/ oh, genius and talent are choked
by the insane desire to mould our
selves according to the social demands
until we become Infamous nonentities
in the world! And if you only knew
the inner life of many of the wealth
Ter class you'd know how unhappy and
dissatisfied these social butterflies
are with their life and with the emp
tiness of it all and the way they live
Right Kind of
Society is Approved.
i | believe in parties. Jesus Christ
didn't say, when you have a part,
simply invite in your friends" No
He said. go get the poor. the MAIN
ed, the halt, the blind, the lame; they
can't return the compliment, Sc
, there'd be no recompense." You apply
the gospel and it will abolish the sin:
of society; it will drive them out
!, We've got today the severest retri
!, button against the impurity that Turk.
in the alley and in the cellar and il
the fan tan, the opium joints and the
: coke joints, my friends, and all thai
the stale beer joints-and we cry
o~ain~t II. hrrl tho indignation n
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will is probated that he'd get some
thing that he hasn't the ability to
earn? Why did you marry him?
Now, whenever a girl gets too proud
TO marry young fellow with a hun
dred and sixty acres of land and u
hundred red hogs and a lot of cows,
because he can't tell tango from a
load of hay-say, you put it down,
will you. as a lead-pipe cinch that
she'll either die an old maid or she'll
marry some fellow on ten per with
one pair of Holeproofs.
Girls, if / were you I'd rather mar
ry a man who is man enough to wear
pair of forty-nine cent overalls than
to hook up to some Cuthbert who can
play the mandolin or the ukelele and
smoke Turkish cigarettes and live off
the old mans pension. That's good
dope.
Moral Requisites
Needed for Marriage.
If had the power to enact my con-
victions into law, | would require and
compel that the prospective husband
be able to show something more than
the mere price of a marriage license.
He'd have to show an ability and a
disposition to maintain a home; he'd
have to show himself sound in mind,
sound in body and sound in morals.
want to tell you, generations yet
unborn have the inherent right to be
well-born.
The three plaques of modern times
are tuberculosis. alcoholism and ven.
ereal diseases. The first is subject to
some on-tuberculosis. The
second, the saloon, alcoholism, is sup
posed to be restricted by the law
while the third has no control other
than the whims and the fancies, the
dictations and the passions and the
lusts of lustful men and of women.
Like produces like-in horses hogs
cats, dogs, canary birds and human
beings. These are days when the
farmers of this country are spend
ing millions of dollars to develop the
highest. purest strain of blood in an
imals all over our land. They have
learned my friend, that blood tells
Blood tells.
Somebody has said the hand thai
rocks the cradle moves the world. Tht
child gets his notion of God or the
devil largely from his mother. anC
the devil finds no fault with the mo
Their who sends her children to play
in the street for fear they will veal
out the carpet if they stay in tn,
house. and by trying to shine in so
cety she has no light for her owl
home. and by spinning society yarns
many a mother helps to make the ropt
that hangs her own boy.
Mothers Influence
On Child Noticed.
They say that Phidias. erecting
statue of Minerva, so inwrought hi
image in her shield that it was foreve
impossible to remove the image with
out effacing the statue,-so the moth
er ineffacibly imprints her character
istics upon her child.
They say of Lord Byron that hi
mother was beautiful, naughty. into
erably proud, and in Lord Byron W
have the very essence Of those charae
teristics.
Oh what crown awaits for tn
mother of the Wesleys! Id rather b
old Susanna Wesley, with John an
Charles and that brood of kids thai
10 have been Queen Victoria with he
Prince of Wales and the crowne'
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full Elaboration to Quit Doube Standard and Lead Consistent

sing for the entertainment of visiting
royalty one Sabbath. She refused to
go, saying, 81 can not"
And when the king commanded her
presence, she refused.
He jumped into the carriage of
state and was driven to her home,
and as her liege Lord, commanded
her to come and entertain the visit
ing royalty. She arose and said:
81 owe my loyalty and my alleg-
lance to a greater and higher and
mightier monarch than thou-Jesus
Christ-and l will not CO.
BIuntIy put, my friends, think
this: The trouble with America is
the lack of moral principle. New
moral statues may be needed but
statutes cannot put morals where
morals do not exist.
l tell you men Of Richmond to-
night, the thoughtful business men
all over this land are awakening to
the perils that threaten our cities and
our civilization in the widespread
disregard for the old-time principles
of integrity, honesty and manhood
and business men everywhere are
recognizing as never before that If
civic righteousness prevails, If graft
in high places is overthrow, If the
great avalanche of vice that threat
ems our nation is stopped, If the tidal
wave of intemperance and dissipa-
ton that threatens the young man.
hood of our land and imperils our
destiny as a nation = if these evil
forces are going to be defeated it
will be done by and through the re-
ligion of Jesus Christ. That's the
only religion.
"Why call We me Lord Lord, and
do not the things | say" in poll
tics?
l am not a partisan. I believe in
the man instead of the party. AL
though | am a Republican, anti-sa-
loon Republican, l vote for a Demo
crat if he is better man than the
Republican. l didn't vote for Wilson,
but I'll back him to the last ditch,
/ because he's a great man.
| why call We me Lord, Lord, and
do not the things | say" in politics
/ The trouble is, my friend, that the
Lincoln, the Clay, the Webster, the
| Sumner, the Calhoun and the Doug
| las type of American statesman have
| been supplanted by the good-forno
thing, God-forsaken, rat-hole, tin
horn, weasel-eyed, peanut grating
politicians of our day and yet the day
of politicians of that kind and of tina:
brand is over with; they are through
with that type of politicians in Ameri
ca. We are getting through with
| that class of fellows.
The trouble is we have no God in
American politics; we've got gang
! of devils. We've got the devil of of
fice-seeking, we've got the devil oil
(! fraud, we've got the devil of graf:
we've got the devil in justice, we've
got the devil of wastefulness; we've
got no God; we've got plenty of rum
We've got plenty of rye, we've go,
plenty of beer, we've got plenty Of
pork barrels, we've got plenty o.
city, plenty of state, plenty of nat
ional frauds-no God
! l do not believe in the union O.
church and of state. No, sir! AND
you never can unite, sir, and dictate
and run this government by any &c
I clesiastical power on God Almighty.
dirt Never! Never
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We will swim our horses, nv
friends, in blood to their brides first
| don't believe in the union Of church,
and of state, but I'd like to see kas
party recognize open and above
board, without disguise, without can:
the God in whose name Columbus
discovered America, the God in whose
name George Washington and the
Continental Army won our victory in
the dark days of rs.
I'd like to see them come out open
ly and acknowledge the God who pro-
tected our armies of '76, Of 1872, OF
1S4S, of 1861, of 1898. and the God
who lowered over the Stars and
Stripes in the conflict of the world
the God of our happy homes. the
God of our virtuous men and the God
of our virtuous women, the God of
our little children and the God OF
our bountiful harvests, the God Of
our prosperous nation.
God to be Recognized
In All Walks Of Life.
"Oh," said fellow to me IN nli-
nois. "Bill, 1t wouldn't be fair toeput,
! in the plank Of a political partyethe
recognition of a God when we've got.
a lot Of people in this country that
don't believe in God"
Oh, we've got lot of NUTS that
don't believe in virtue; we've got,
people that don't believe in the sane
tity of the marriage ties; we've got
people who don't believe in property
rights; we've got people who want
to rob, who want to steal; we've got
people that want to rape: we've got
panderers, white slavers that want to
seduce and sell the flower of our
girlhood into slavery; we've got men
| that want to burn; we've got me
that want to kill: we've got men tina.
want to stick a gun under your nose.
| Would you refuse to make laws;
against the criminal element because
! we have got an element that don't
/ believe in God, don't believe in de-
cency, don't believe in Jesus Christ?
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little sage in it would disappear down
his old esophagus like flies down the
throat of an alligator. One day he
undertook the contract of disposing
of large slice of old-fashioned, hick-
ory-curved ham and it scraped its re-
bellious way down his esophagus for
about two inches and it lodged as
tight as bullet in rusty gun and
he hove and hove, like ship in a
storm but it wouldn't move. His old
/, eyes rolled like two buckeyes in a
bowl of clabber but it didn't move,
and his old trombone neck heightened
and shortened in turn but it didnt
, bulge.
He got up careened across the
floor like horse with the blind stag
gers, but it didn't bulge, sir, and then
his host said to him,
/ bill, yon get down on all fours''
| and he went out and got a clapboard
(they used to shingle houses with
them when l was boy) about that
wide and about that long made out
/; of hickory or oak. They'd stay on
| for twenty or thirty years and so he
went out and got an old-fashioned
hickory clapboard.
you get down on all fours and
when l hit, you swaller."
j And he wound himself up like a
Golf -i--o- a,d he Swn-~ ~ound and
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Use of Third Glass
By Gods Spirit.

the law against it but we become
lenient as impurity arises in afflu-
ence. high social standing, and finally
we are disposed to palliate if not apol-
ogize for their cussedness.
Hays of uncleanness today, they
walk our streets, they ride in their
limousines, sail in their private yachts,
they look from behind French plate
glass and hide behind rich tapestries,
they walk over Persian rugs, sit be-
meath the flash of the candelabra of
wealth and they quaff their wine from
gold or silver tankard and they eat
from Havi,and or hand-painted china.
And society today is fast hasten
ing to the Judgment that overlook
Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Sodom
and Gomorrah, when God Almighty
made old Mount Vesuvius vomit and
puke in a hemorrhage of lava until
he buried Pompeii fifty feet deep be-
meath the red-hot cinders and ashes
where their vileness was sculptured
on the wall and on the pillars of their
temples.
l don't know, people of Richmond, 1
don't know how God Almighty will pur-
ify, whether he will start with fire or
with a flood or with a famine Or with
a pestilence or with war, but he will
do something. You can't defy God
all your days and lift your puny, in
finitesimal, mediocre, pigmy selves up
in defiance of the omnipotent and ON
| nipresent God. No! No!
Here is a bunch, my friends, of
/ high rollers, down in some palatial
/ home; all of them dressed decollete
waist) and there they have retinue
of servants to wait on them and they
are hitting the booze. They are
playing bridge to see who will lug
| home the cream pitcher. my friends,
or the diamond or a pair of dancing
pumps or silk hose.
] "Why call we me Lord, Lord? p
i There seems to be no occasion of
brains in many of our society women
!. Oh, If you can join gracefully in the
| inaneties of a dinner you will pass
muster but if you happen to be fam
iliar with anything that the real men
in this country are doing, and happen
to show familiarity with it, you will
be looked upon as a frightful bore;
they will wish that you were out
Oh, some of our women are selfish
they are piggish, they are content
with comfortable living quarters, Z
good dinner, polo, bridge, auto. fine
clothes, box at the opera. They will
play bridge all night and all morn
ing; they will go to matinee in the
afternoon; they will hire a taxi Il
take them home and then borrow
twenty-five cents from the hired CIR
to start the gas meter.
i Oh, many of them are empty shells
they are meaningless, accomplish
nothing. The horizon of their live:
seems to be bounded by visions ans
dreams of booze and of flesh-pots.
This Man Did Not
Know When to Quit.
Like a fellow out in Iowa. He wa!
1.-The champion hot biscuit and buck
wheat pancake eater in the countr,
; hot flapiaclSe and sausage with