The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-19
'igion Is BuZwark of Nation
When Euery Other Institution
Totters and Proues Insecure
Wall of Christianity Gives Power and Security to
ton-Other Institutions Cannot be Trusted IN Hours
Peril. Says Billy Sunday-Believes Religion Should
Basis of Whole Structure.


But in civilization, we have laws by
which we regulate our lives. One OF
the things that distinguishes civiliza- !
ton from anarchy is that we have re-
spect for law. Anarchy is nothing but
al black-hearted proposition.
Education Organized society has
seen that ignorance is soil in which |
the seeds of badness seem to grow
with alarming rapidly, and so they
have set about to erect an inner wall
about the Individual in education.
We have developed our superb ed |
ucation from the little red school |
house on the hill to the universities
in the great cities, and we are max
ing an honest effort to put an edu-
cation within the reach of every boy
or girl that has ambition to know
something and not go through this
world a NUT and be absolutely ignor-
ant
All things being equal, an educated
man ought to be better able to pro-
tect himself than an uneducated man.
I've been told that certain foods were
not good, or certain germs were in
furious, or certain conditions, so if
| have been previously posted,
ought to be able to take care of my
self. So, we have found out great
many diseases from which people die
today is because they don't clean their
teeth, so the germs accumulate and
go down into the stomach and cause
many a disease. So, it pays for peo-
pie to go to the dentist and keep their
teeth clean and their mouth clean.
Poison generates from all of these
things. They are unnecessary and
the body and the mind and soul and
the individual are much safer if they
are surrounded by the wall of edu-
cation.
Business Not
Always Dependable.
Business = organized society has
seen that an idle mind is the devils
Workshop and when mans with
out a job, many of the baser elements
come to the surface. Sons and daugh-
tiers brought up in ignorance rapidly
acquire profligate habits and figure
in the disgraceful escapades that
scandalize society. They spend their
time with fast women, wine, cham
payne, and the great long list of diver
sions of the ignorant and of the lazy
people, who only live for the gratifi-
that qualification wrecks their man
hood and womanhood and puts them
in the grave ten years sooner than
they need to go, and it also curses the
lives of other people.
So it is a good thing when they
carve their epitaph on their tomb
stone because they never intended to
be decent while they are on earth,
and | don't see any reason why they
ought to stay any longer.
Organized society has as its ideal
an economic order in which every
able-bodied man or woman should
| have a Job. Gosh, there are many
able-bodied men and women too darn
ed lazy to work if they had job. A
lot of hobos won't work if they get a
! chance.
/ ldealism
| NO Safe Guide.
So much of our dope nowadays is
| idealism. Your idealism will never
materialize You are nutty over
idealism, it will never be. I don't
blame them for their ideals, that is
/ all right, and l believe the nearer
society reaches that ideal the less IN
rest and trouble there will be.
| The busy, prosperous man, al
things else being equal, should be E
better man than the idle man. Botf
society and business is better for the
wall of business.
Then there is the home. Organized
society has seen that the influence
of wife and children is one of thu
most wholesome influences upon thu
life of community that there is. Thu
stability of society and the virtue o
womanhood, and the honor of man
hood depends upon the development
of a good home life, there is no ques
ton about it!
The fact is that the love of a good
pure woman handouts the baser ele
ments in a man and calls into beini
many of the nobler qualities which
until then are asleep. The love of ;
good, pure man handouts the base
elements in many a woman and call
into existence many noble qualitie
in that woman which never woul
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the love of a good, pure man.
You Cannot
Pervert Gods Plan.
God knew what He was about whel
He created man and woman and said
} Multiply and replenish the earth,
when He said that man should hav
: a wife and leave all and cling to hel
Whenever you try to pervert Cod
plan, you are a big fool. 1t doesn
make any difference who you are. S
there is no question but that societ
} and the individual and the world /
better off because of the home life
You know that wall that is bull
; around us to protect and keep up.
There is patriotism. Organized 81
. eiety has seen that the love of one
: country has a wholesome influenc
upon the life of the individual
" History is full of stories of me
: and women who have risen to th
heights of supreme heroism. promp
r ed by the love of their country. Gu
nation has always been noted for tn
patriotism of its citizens. and tn
2 man who loves his country can't pc:
f sibly be as bad as the man VIII
, doesn't love his country, no matte
2 who he may be. We have all see
: that patriotism has a great influenc
r in the development of character.
: Love OF Country
: Has Influence.
Z A great love of ones country ha
/ a wholesome influence upon the i
/ dividual there is no argument Their,
< , l yield TO no man or woman on cart
in my gratitude to organized societ
t for having built the outer walls aboJ
: the individual, and it is easier for m
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