The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-13

reputation and perhaps achieved it.
The path seemed to be all right,
but it proved to be all wrong. He ran
hard. He ran fast. He spent good
deal of time in running to reach his
goal but night overlook him, and he
tripped and fell. He sought to catch
himself, but he couldn't do it and he
plunged over the precipice into an I'M
seen abyss. 1t was Deaths Canyon,
| and his body lies bleeding and mangl-
| ed, crushed, in Dead Mans Gulch.
His bones are bleaching there, and the
| jackals and hyenas and the coyotes
are bowling about it.
He would not forsake his way Let
| him return unto the Lord" He will
| have mercy. You will be filled with
joy, and there is no joy like the joy
| that comes from knowing that your
| sins are forgiven and that God will
| blot them out.
Seek After
Ambitious Goal
Another thing that people seek after
! is the qualification of their ambition.
| You let a man become ambitions for
the accomplishment of anything in the
world, and he is spoiled for everything
commendable.
! What won't men do for political rec
! ognition today? They will pour out
their money like water and turn night
into day They will toll for years to
reach excellence and education in
science, captains of industry, all things
which are comendable.
]! Look at Columbus. He became am.
1 bilious to discover a new world. Not
exactly that, but when he started he
said, Il can sail west and return east
They said, You're crazy"
He was ambitious. He went from
place to place, from city to city, only
to meet with rebuff, until at last Ferd
inand and Isabella put up their jewels
and furnished the money He sailed
and discovered a new world
Audubon became ambitious to sue
coed. He took his gun, he took his
pencils, his pads of paper, and bade
goodbye to civilization. He went
through the forests and studied the
habits and customs of birds and theil
colorings. He classified them, studied
the food they ate, the things they did
and recorded them.
With the result of years of worl
, he came back. He put the record il
an oaken chest, and the rats gnaweC
hole through it and they made nest:
, of his labors. When Audubon opened
, the chest, he found it all in wreckage
l Continues
, His Work
Not discouraged, he put his gun OF
his shoulder and with his pencils anC
pads of paper he babe goodbye to civ
ilization. He plunged into the forest
Listen to me, if you want to know any
thing about birds, ask Audubon! HI
is the last word. He was ambitious
. and the qualification of that ambition
brought it to us today.
A man watched woman thread /;
needle He said, There is an easie
: way to do it than that" He toiled ant
/ if friends hadn't furnished the none.
to keep his children from starving t,
|, death he'd have had to go to the poor
! house. He finished and we owe
debt of gratitude to Howe for the sew
ing machine and all the marvels it ha
brought to the world. Ambition is eel
. tainly valuable whether that ambition
| is commendable or not
Listen, that's what they do. Lool
9 at Napoleon. He became ambitionu
. to conquer, and all Europe couldn'
:. afford pillow large enough for him t
, rest his head. And sir, they pushe,
! him out upon st. Helena's barren rock
! where he frowned from the pinnacl
] of the worlds hate. Tonight in tina
, monument on the bank of the Sein
. he sleeps with his marshals about him
/. Succeeds and
:. Forgets God
s A man becomes ambitions. He sue
6 ceeds in politics, in war, he succeed
s in science, in discovery. 1t is all CON
/ mendable, certainly / applaud ma
r who is ambitious. but Great God! VIII