The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-06

when they need it most, is the time
they are least able to earn it.
So lay up something. Get good
Christian character in you, then when
you need it to stand against tempta-
ton, you will be fortified to win a
victory. Don't wait to have it decided
by the street mob and the crowd. That
is too late, my friends You will lose
out.
Angels Weep when
Young Man Falls
believe that the angels weep the
and spends more than he earns, and
one of the first covenants to make if
you want to win is that you will never
run in debt.
Before the devil can persuade you
to steal, he has first got to convince
| you that you need what you are go
! ing to steal, and the best plan the
devil ever hit upon is to get people
! In debt. believe the devil will work
harder to get a young man in debt
than he will to persuade an old man
to rob bank.
There are gamblers graves that
wouldn't be there tonight if they hadn't
I.
gamblers to get the money to get out
of debt. There are men in prison who
wouldn't have been there if they had
never got in debt, for once getting
in debt, they went and stole money to
get out of debt, and they were put
behind prison bars.
| Let's be sensible and see what God
wants US to do, and all that is going
to help us.
/ 1t is gratifying to be we'll dressed
oh, my!-but when your clothes are
bought on credit they cost you too
much. Dress as we'll as you can, but
/ take it from me, have the nerve to
/ wear patches rather than to wear togs
owned by the tailor Patches are more
honorable than pawn tickets. A hand
me-down, if it is paid for, is better
than a tailor-made with a collector
after you. Yes sir.
! tell you, Delmonicos, the st. Regis,
! Sherry's, the Plaza, the Savoy, the
| Netherland, the Astor, or the Wander
bilt-that is all right if you can afford
the price, but there is more salts
/ faction in a bowl of bean soup and
sinker if it is in keeping with your
pile. Don't try to work the Percy and
| Ferd gag on them.
Be Thrifty
But Not Stingy
Some people think the more they
can look like a scarecrow, the more
pious they are; like an old farmer
out in Iowa l heard Of He went to
a barber shop to get haircut and his
| Whlskers trimmed, and they found a
scythe stone hanging behind his ear
that he had lost last summer.
So wear the best clothes you can,
, and pay for them, that is ALL Don't
wear suit that looks as though it
: had been cut out by a cross-eyed
man with a cross-cut saw and shot out
of howitzer.
If the truth were only known, a
good share of the professional gamb-
| ginning an extravagant life, and if
you will find out, good many of the
downfalls of virtue were caused by the
fact that they wanted to wear better
clothes than they could buy on their
wages.
! 1t is a safe guide, my friend, against
a thousand unknowndangers. Let me
warn you as afriend to keep out of
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come, you have made a start towards
affluence If you spend less than you
earn.
There is just five cents difference
! between a capitalist and spend
thrift. If man earns a dollar day
and spends a dollar a day, he is a
spendthrift. If he earns a dollar a
day and he spends ninety-five, he is a
capitalist
! Thrift Habit
Leads to Riches
4 That habit made Gould, Vanderbilt,
Rockefeller, George Perkins, Judge
Gary. Armour, Swift, Cudahy, Mar
shall Ffeld-men that have succeeded
and started out and they had some
principles to go by in order to win out
in this life.
Oh, it is long step toward heaven,
will tell you, when the devil hasn't
got his clutches on you
3! know young people. have help
ed you. have been through the
game and know all about it, am
trying to talk to you tonight, to warn
you, for ! want you to win out and
want you to succeed.
And l want to say, above all things,
young people, you must be a Chris
tian. Of all subjects that you will
ever be called upon to consider. reli-
gion is first; and young men and
women the biggest asset that you will
have when you go out into the world
to earn your bread will be Christian
character, the biggest asset that any
young man ever had.
There never was a time in the his
tory of America when men and women
put a greater value upon religion than
) they do today. never in the world, and
} the young man or the young woman
! who doesn't build his or her life on
religion-you are lost, you are lost:
and if you have gone wrong, you will
never had a better chance to go right
Incentives for
God Are Here
! You never had more incentives and
more encouragements. You have nev.
er had it easier in your life, and had
more inducements to stand for God
and never has there been a time in
your life and in the history of this
country when your influence for God
: will count more.
, Never was there such a time when
|, we ought TO get ready to live and to
die as there is today in our land. We
don't realize the peril of the position