The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-12

jury, and they convicted those men
to be hung in Moundsville peniten-
tiary. and they died on the scaffold.
Oh, be sure your signs will find you
out! Ultimately something will hap
pen. You can find the record Of that
my friends, In West Virginia, 49,712
! You lawyers know what that Is.
Man Plans to
Commit Crime.
Now, in the preparation of all
crime, the criminal agent with in.
credible egotism is preparing to match
his brain and his cunning against
that of destiny and how strikingly do
such incidents show the utter futility
of trying to get away.
A man prepares to commit crime.
He lays his plans and he takes his
precautions and he goes to work and
yet destiny idly, casually and con-
temptuously, without making any at
tempt TO lay counter plan, trips him
up by some trifling incident He over
i looked the two hicks in the knife. He
overlooked the log chain, with the mi
tlal on 1t. Something will bring them
10 judgment later on. And your sins
VIII IND you out in your own bodies.
i Ihere,s not man that doesn't pay.
Many man will not paw at human
courts but he will pay at a court
which he cannot bride or browbeat.
and that's the court of physical retri-
button for your transgressions and
your moral offenses. Certain disease
| follows certain sins.
| III man has certain disease we
all know that he had to commit a
certain sin or he wouldn't have had
| mat disease and we all know that
some relative had to commit a GER
tam sin or he wouldn't have had
IT, Tor God visits the iniquities of
the parents unto the third and fourth
generations of them that hate Him.
! we all know that certain diseases
only come by certain sins and if YOU
olont commit a certain sin you
wouldn't have that disease, for that's
the only way it comes to ANYBODY.
and although they NAV not see Won
commit the sin, they know you did
it or you wouldn't have had that dis
ease.
/ immoral Life
Brings Disgrace.
80 there it finds you out and pub.
| Ilcly stamps you as having commit
ted that sin, although no eve perhaps
might have seen you do that. There
is an Intimate connection between
morality and health A moral life
is conducive to health; an immoral
life is conducive to disease. A moral
life eliminates disease; and an i'm
moral life breeds disease. A moral
life lengthens your life; an immoral
life shortens it.
The wicked shall not live out half
their days." and men and women if
you looked at it purely from the
standpoint of living in this world
and being happy, you ought to be a
CHRISTIAN and serve Jesus Christ.
II there were no incentive or reward
Tor you to be Christian in the world
TO come, If only what God Almighty
VIII do for you in the matter of
character, in the matter of respec-
taplIlty and the matter of health
here on the face of this old earth.
you ought to stand for Jesus Christ
therefore, morality means right re-
lauonship, always, to Gods will. rec
ognized human beings.
l recognize that when l act in har.
mony with Gods will, 1 am a betteri
man than if act contrary to God'sj
VIII. | am more resp ectable and
i've longer, and l am better man. |
Morals are the basis of all law. |
Morals are derived from God. Morals
came from heaven, they didn't come
from hell. Morals came from God
not from infidelity. So, morals, nv
friends, are the basis of all law. and !
morals are derived only from God.
All sins have physical consequent
ces. Oh, the sufferings when some
men and women commit some sins
may not be immediate. You may COM
NIT a sin and you may not inmedi-
ately suffer for that sin. There are
other sins, that if you commit, you will
nave to suffer for Immediately. You
may wait for weeks, or months, and
possibly years before the SUFFERING
Will come to you physically for HAVING
violated moral law and trampIed
Gods law beneath your feet.
scarcely day goes by that some
body doesn't come to me, suffering
the physical torments of hell because
or the result of their own sin and
they viii tell me with the tears
streaming down their cheeks. When
you see others suffering the terrible
consequences of their transgression
OF Gods law, why, in Gods name,
will you go on committing the same
sin that you know they committed to
bring the suffering that they are hay
ing now.
Moral Stamina
II the man or woman living in that
suffering because of their sins, should
ask you, How much will YOU give
me to take away my suffering and
my disease that I have brought on
myself because of the transgres-
slon?" you haven't got enough money
to do that, you wouldn't give it, and
yet you will go ahead and commit
the same sin that you know brought
that suffering to them knowing it
will bring it to you just the same as
1t did to them. You will go right
ahead and do the very same thing
Notwithstanding all the preacher can
say or all anybody can do to warn
you. Persons will see a man steal
and know it will land him in prison
and then go right out and steal.
When man sees a man staggering
down the street he will go and do
the same thing that made that. It
will make him drunkard When n
man has delirium tremens he knows
what brought it to him, and yet he