The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-01

about me doing it. l am trying tc
protect you against the enemy of your
SOUL
say don't you allow those libertines
| to DO it. Don't you laugh at that story
with double meaning when the bows
told 1t, to simply find out if they
could get an entry into your mind and
see If they could disarm your preju
dice.
Years ago, Henry Clay was a pub
Usher. and don't know of any better
periodical publisher, He told that
| when he was in London he went to a
| theater to see an exhibition of ami
mails and everybody was astounded by
the marvellous power that the man
mad over them. They went through
! their various performances and there
was one animal in the crowd that he
never took his eyes from and it is one
species OF animal that has never been
known to submit to man either through
brutality or kindness-that is the
black panther
And the most difficult horse of all
upon earth to tame is the black stall.
lion and the one snake that has new
er been tanned is the black cobra.
The black horse has never submitted
70 the authority of a human being.
WHITE mice are trained. White mice
VIII do wonderful performances. The
Dlack panther has never been tanned
by man, although it will go through
performances. The trainer will never
take his eye off the panther. He will
turn his back upon the tiger lion
nyena and never take his eyes aWay
from the black panther. They went
through these various performances
and it concluded when a boa con
strlctor was introduced and tEev nut
a wire screen in front of the staHe.
Then the curtain arose and the weird
strains of an Oriental band of music
stole meath the underbrush and the
snake came from the opposite side
OF the stage and the eyes of the man
and the eyes of the snake met. and
the serpent quailed.
The man was master. II went
through the various performances and
tnen ne stepped to the front of the
stage and the huge reptile wriggled
ltseif around the man until man and
snake seemed blended into one and
hlsh ABOVE the head of the man, in
cessantly moved the head of the SER
pent. The tongue of the sernent
struck out and the man threw hack
his head.
The audience burst forth and the
man gave call and thinking that an
added part of the performance. thew
burst forth again until the yocifera
ton rolled down the street like a
SIMEON of the desert, when that hor-
rlfled audience sat there and heard
bone after bone of that man break
untll the monster had killed him.
Small Habits Can
Be Crushed.
AT first it was small and then it
was large, at first it was weak and
then 1t was strong. So. with vour
habits. At first you may crush
them. Oh! There are men and WON
en- that are held by the enslayinp
power of appetite in bonds stronger
than steel and more enduring. There
was time when you could have de-
1eated that, now you are perfectly
helpless in its grip. So with sin. and
to save my life, l can't make a lot of
people see it.
All the panorama of the ages and
all the spectacles painted and all the
lur1d colors of sin and of shame and
OF damnation may be flashed upon the
canvas of their memory and vet thew
VIII bind their eyes and stop their ears
and rush pellmell to hell. You can
not describe or explain it upon any
given note or suggestion or hypothesis
other than a personal devil in the
world, and it blinds the eyes of men
and women lest they might see and be
saved.
Young woman. are you keeping CON-
pany with young man that is
moral leper? In Gods name take nv
advice and quit instantly. Stop where
You are! Husband, if you go back
home, does your conscience lash Won
because Of guilt? And, young man.
when you stand at the marriage altar
with a pure girl, if your character is
reprobate and your life is debaucbed. |
before God Almighty, charge that YOU
ought to be compelled to cry out:
'Unclean! Unclean! Uncleani"
When Jesus died on the cross He
paid the penalty for the sins of the
human race. Now, listenl Adam and
Eve were created, male and female. |
All the human race are the Offspring
from Adam and Eve. So when Jesus |
came into the world he took our ma
ture, hence the plan of redemption
only extends to the human race. The /
devils were once bright, shining an
gels, but the devil is the leader and
they were all once bright, shining an
gels.
They rebelled against God and they