The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-08
Be A man
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loos that every man and woman must
fight before they will ever have peace
and victory. So, if you would be mas
ter of yourself, learn to anticipate,
learn to prepare for conflicts. To be
ready is more than half success.
Let Your Life
Be Guided Right
Oil or no oil your lamp is the diff
ference between happiness and des-
pair. Let your life be directed by prin-
ciple and not by impulse. Don't be
like a politician l heard of making a
speech and he said, Ladies and gen.
tlemen, these are my sentiments and
if you don't like them, why, they can
be changed"
Oh l see, and if you are not willing
to deliberately run the risk of being
a good-for-nothing and winding up in
hell, then, my friends decide that you
will not yield to sin when temptation
beats against you. If you are not will
ling to become social outcast decide
like Joseph before you reach Poti-
phar's house, what you will do when
you are up against it. Don't wait
until that minute and then decide If
you do you are a dead one as sure as
you breathe. You've got to make your
decision beforehand and not decide it
at that time.
Now, and if you don't want to build
on the sand where it is only a ques-
ton of time as to when you will fall,
/ then decide you will never go in bad
company. Nothing has more to do
with our veal or our woe, or our sue
cess or our failure than our company.
If you allow the devil to choose your
company, then you will do just what
the devil wants you to do. Decide to
form good habits before the bad ones
get control of you.
! Athreat may be easily broken, but
a rope will strangle you to death, and
! before you enter upon a life of sin,
| please sit down and have a good heart
to heart talk with yourself and find
out whether you want to keep doing
| that all your life and take the reward
that goes with it.
Before you jump into the hopper,
| look at the grist that is coming out.
! Count the Cost
| Before You Act
! Before you run your hand into the
pocket of your employer, and steal
| his money, take a good look at the
4
! Before you sit down on the rail-
road track and go to sleep, you look
at the fellow that did it yesterday
! You will find him around the corner,
what there is of him.
| We want you 10 win, so that is why
we are here today, trying to help
you. If you break certain physical
laws your body will be punished. You
will have to suffer in strength and you
will have to suffer in beauty, too, of
countenance as we'll as character You
rarely see a handsome face in prison
! Vice defaces the physique and scars
that as we'll as your name. Now, it
plays havoc with your intellectual
powers, too.
AS Byron cried:
Fill again the golden goblet,
For / have drunk it dry.
| My youth is in the yellow leaf
The flower and fruit of life are gone
! The worm, the canker and the grief
Are mine alone"
The grander anything is, the more
! easily it may be spoiled.
| was down in Philadelphia years
ago preaching. I went out to the
/ home of my friend, Pete White. He's
got a private art gallery, the finest in
the world l saw a little painting in
there by Raphael 1t was nineteen
inches wide and twenty-six inches long
and Pete paid $750,O00 for it.
BehoIds Grand
Painting
Down at Philadelphia the other day
l went into my friend, Mr.. Wanamak
er's store. and he has Christ before
Plate, the original painting. 1t is
over thirty feet long, and my friend
paid $4,000 for it. | could walk in
and with my thumb nail l could make
nation poor. 1t is the only one il
the world. 1t is the original. The
grander anything is the more easily
it can be spoiled.
Therefore. remember, my friends
sin may consign you to an asylum
! Far worse sin will make an asylum
out of your mind, far worse out Of
your morals, far worse out of youl
physique Oh, God wake up there is
nothing in sin. It is your enemy,
don't care how you view it in the
world