The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-26
SATURDAY.

pent Of his sins if he had ten thousand
years in which to do it. The ante
diluvians lived from seven to ten
times the length of the ordinary life
today. Where we live seventy, they
lived seven hundred years.
Methuselah lived nine hundred sixty
nine years. So the lives of the ante
diluvians were seven to ten times the
length of'the life of the men and wom-
en- today. But long life in their case
instead of correspondingly raising their
morals, lowered them and they got so
vile and rotten that God Almighty had
to drown the world and he soaked and
scrubbed it and anchored it out of sight
for forty days.
Old Father Time is often pictured
with a scythe but never with medi-
cine chest. Seven-eighths of the
Christians in the world became Chris
tians before they were fifteen years
old. The devil would rather see five
hundred old men and women walk
into this tabernacle than one boy or
girl because that boy might be a
Moody, that boy might be Gypsy
Smith, he might be a Martin Luther,
but you old sinner, the devil knows he
has got you over on the other side of
| the line.
! Believes In Child
Conversion
! And whenever you hear anybody
! talking that they don't believe in the
conversion Of children, they are mouth
pieces of the devil l don't care wheth-
er he is preacher or who he is. You
can tell them said so if that will help
you out
! Seven-eighths of the Christians, I
repeat, in the world became Christians
/ before they were fifteen. That means
if you are not Christian and you are
over fifteen that there is only one
chance in eight that you ever will be
a Christian.
And the older you grow, the less
and less your chances become. You
take the expectation of life in the life
insurance companies. The older you
become the more of a risk you are
and the higher rate of premium for
you to be insured.
Now. and if during this life with
every advancing year the possibilities
Of your becoming a Christian grow
less and less, by what logic and com
mon sense do you figure out that il
the chances were extende dthrough
eternity that this law would be re
versed in the next world? See? The
older you are and the longer you live
the less your chance becomes. Their
by what grounds do you figure thai
after death it will be reversed and
the more you live and the more chance
that you would go back. Poppy-cock.
The law that works here works ovel
yonder too. You wait.
He'll Is Place
of Remorse
Now, hell is a place Of remorse
Abraham said to the rich man, RE
member, remember" The rich mar
didn't take too much to hell with him,
he took his memory. Everybody viii
take that, whether you are rich o.
! whether you are poor, and if you arr
: rich and people are poor because YOU
! become rich, you will remember every
: body that you made poor in order t
accumulate your wealth. You will re
member, many of you, that you livet
? ST apply for the almighty dollar. Tn,
ffmbler will remember those that h
= 'obbed and sent to suicides grave
The seducer will remember all who's
{ virtut he wrecked and assassinated
The adulterer will remember all wit
) whom he sinned or she sinned. TIL
4 drunkard will remember the life h
: lived. The murderer will remembe
e the man whose blood he shed. TIL
S Christ rejecter will remember the Of
[ fers of mercy that he spurned with
d sheer and leer on his lip as he sd
), listening through his prejudice to tn
J.! preacher who was his friend and rus
o ing him to forsake his sins and yiel
J. to Jesus Christ.
e There is no torment like an accu,
n ing memory. Men go insane becaus
of accusing memory. | have seen me
and women turn ghastIy and ghostl
pale because Of an accusing nemor,
When Prof Webster was lying i
e jail out in Cambridge waiting to b
q executed for the murder of DR.. Parl
l. man, he explained to the sheriff tina
II the prisoners, in the cells, were noel
l. ing him and he requested that they b
Y, removed There wasn't another pri
oner in the Jail but Prof. Webster
i was his memory.
d PIutarch
y Plutarch in his Delayed Vengeance
. tells of young fellow that was caugf
wringing the necks of young birds ali
> f1edglings from their nests. When as
ed why he did it he said, 1T was the
q fault, they would screech and or
n Parasite, parasite" 1t was his mer
e Dry 1t was his memory.
a Out! Out! Lady Macbeth erie
n as she lifted her lily-white hand. "Wi
u not all great Neptune's seas wash tn
i blood away?"
e, There was no blood there 1t VIZ
1t the blood Of murdered Duncan on h,
miserable, guilty soul Conscience a
o. through. Memory like fanged hour
It of hell strikes its fangs and injec
Ir its venom He'll is the insane asylu
n
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