The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-17

knockout in a 10-round bout with Kid
Evil, at the big tabernacle Wednes-
day afternoon. The text of the SER
mon, which Mr. Sunday calls Fifty
Fifty is with what measure you
mete, it shall be measured to you
again.
Richmond fans" characterize the
"F'ifty-Fifty" sermon as one of Billy's
best efforts. 1t deals with the neces-
sity for charity in passing judgment
upon sinners-but he handled it Wig
orously.
Now, don't get me wrong, folks"
he warned. I'm not justifying sin.
It's never right to do wrong. East
is east and west is west, and right is
right and wrong is wrong. But in
judging others, you must take into
consideration the pressure of circum
stances. l believe there are degrees
of culpability
IF we were to take vote here to
see who is the meanest man in Rich
mond you'd all get votes. I'd get a
lot of them myself. And some of you
would deserve them"
With that as a starter, Billy covered
wide range of discussion, some of it
related to his subject and some of it
far afield. He walked and ran and
crawled and jumped and pounded and
use all the other tricks and gestures
that are characteristic to hi spulpit
work. He stood on one leg, he played
imaginary baseball, he limped, he sat
down in an imaginary electric chair.
he wept and laughed, he initiated
saints and sinners, and he did every
thing else that a crowd has come to
expect from Sunday.
Sermon Full of
Phrases.
All through his sermon were scat
tered the poppy ,punchy phrases and
paragraphs that catch the attention of
an audience. Here are few of them:
1T don't matter what you call
things. Strychnine in a salt cellar will
kill you just as quick as anywhere
else.
Some people are only good for max
ing up crowds or giving the census
taker an excuse for putting down one
more name.
Some people are born yeggs or
thieves or murderers. They can't help
it.
THE Declaration of independence
says all men are born equal That's
not so. They are not mentally nor
morally nor physically equal
I'VE recognize the difference in
blood in hogs and cattle and sheep;
why not in human beings?
BE a son of God-not a son of a
gun.
IF you were well born, with ten
dency to sobriety and decency and
straight living, it's no credit to you to
be good
Not All Crooks Are
In Jail
Don't sit around with your lip
curled in scorn and an assumed air of
innocence that you don't posses
All some people live for is to jim
my something out of somebody else.
The worst of ages is the age in which
we live; We are money drunk
Judge Ebert Gary is one of the
q finest men in America
There are fallen men and women
who, before they went over the edge.
resisted more temptation than we ever
resisted.
Some of you would turn up your
noses at a lot of better people than
you are if God hadn't saved you the
trouble by making your proboscis
that way
Some of the sinners who resisted
so long have got you skinned a block
they've got you hanging over the
ropes. gasping for air.
''If ! were a Judge | would never
put boy or girl behind prison bars
for first offense.
Attacks Women's
Dress
IF Almighty God treated US as we
treat some people we would all have
been in hell long ago.
You hang up before me the fash
ion plates of any age and I'll tell you
what the morals of that age were
Its damnable insult-some of the
rigs lot of fool women are wearine
up and down our streets No man with
good rich. red blood in his veins car
look at them with prayer meeting
thoughts.
Most people want to be good. bu
they don't know how.
THE reason some guys don't stea
100000 is because they don't get
chance
Many people who sin are captured
by ambuscade, where they would sue
cessfully resist a frontal attack il
force.
in making up your dish of criticism
for others, use a little more sweet OF
and less cayenne pepper and tabasct
O. sauce.
Condemn Less
Pray More
gu uOu l nave 10 CTOdh 10 go
your deal from the Lord you get
right here in this whisky-soaked
money-crazed old earth that is rushin,
to hell so fast it is breaking the spec,
limit
The symbol of goodness in tn
Bible is dove-not a porcupine.
1T don't make any difference Of
Judgment day whether you drive
Pierce-Arrow or a tin Lizzie; whethe
you get tailor to make your clothe
or buy them from Sears, Roebuck.
Let's all resolve to condemn les
and pray more"
A substantial digest, of the sermo
follows:
There is great deal of unfairnes
in the criticism of human conduct
forming judgment on the misbehavio
of others we are prone to forget tn
pressure of circumstances. II neve
is right to do wrong, but there are d,
grees of culpability. When men @
women misbehave, or commit som
atrocious wickedness, we are dispose
to Unfortunately push them dow
the bank into the river of condemn:
ton. Suffer they ought and suffe
they must, but there should be a di