The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-26

lack of definite systematic work. No
political battle is won on the stump.
1t is not the spell-binders from the
rear end of a special train that turns
the vote Sometimes a blear-eyed,
bloated faced, bull-necked, whiskey
soaked, tin-horn politician will win
more votes than the most silver ton
gued spell-binder that ever spouted
the principles from the rear of spe-
cial train,-put more into it.
How They Work
1t In Politics.
Now, to give you an illustration.
New York State used to be the pivot
state in the presidential election. It
isn't any more. They don't care how
New York goes any more But it
used to be "as goes New York"
Everybody knows that the state of
New York is Republican Every
body knows that the city of New York
is Democratic. And in the state the
Republican party figures that they
must have about hundred and TWEEN
ty-five thousand or a hundred and
fifty thousand majority to overcome
the Democratic majority in New York.
So when Ben Harrison and Grover
Cleveland ran for President in 1888,
they went to work and they took the
city and divided it and sub-divided it
until they got it down into blocks.
They had a man over every section
and every subdivision and they had
the leading business men of the city
in those places.
Those men used to meet every day.
! They used to pound this Into them:
You are not responsible for who Is
elected; you are not responsible for
who goes to Washington;
! or Cleveland. You are not RESPONSE
BILE who carries this state, this city:
you are responsible to know every
man in your block and to know how
! he votes and If he votes" and they
kept pounding that one thing into the
men-"know the Block! Know the
BIockl"
!. And they watched the town and
/ when the votes were counted Ben
/: Harrison went 10 Washington in
! stead of Grover Cleveland. And that
was the way they put 1t over.
Work Harder In Politics
Than In Religion.
Now that's what Jesus Christ said.
In other words, men will work harder
to win in business and politics than
| the church will In religion / am
| disguised with them all! You think
+! you can just open your church door
and ring bell and you expect peo-
! pie to come. That's been going on
/ long enough. The church has got to
wake up and do something.
You just simply think that because
the calendar announces that it's the
/ Sabbath Day that that's all you have
to do, and that if you put on little
better dress and look a little more
+, pious that that's serving the Lord,
and you go to the devil six days In
the week?"
/ l know of a varnish Company in
this country that pays a man ten
thousand dollars a year just to look
nice. He's a good dresser; he's u
good mixer. He's got a smile that
don't come off. He never tries to
sell varnish but he paves the way for
the fellow who comes from the firm
to sell the varnish to the big rail
roads and the big institutions that
buy It. So all he does is just sim.
) ply sort Of win their friendship and
make 1t easy for the guy that does
sell the varnish. And they pay him
! ten thousand dollars a year just for
that that's all! Just to look nice
That's the way people do in order
to succeed In business. What's the
church doing to win people for Christi
bet lot of you people right to this
day don't know the people righ'
around In your neighborhood-w
err they are Christians or not. We
never do anything - no wonder the
world is going to the devil!
Years ago a man went into boot
and shoe store in Boston and found
young fellow selling shoes ans
boots. He talked to him about Jesus
!. Christ and won him for Christ. The
name of that little boy was Dwight L
Moody. Do you know the name o.
the man that won Moody for Christi
| don't suppose there are five people
in this audience that do. His name
was Kimball and so God used Kimbal
to win Moody. but he used Moody tt
win the multitude.
Have Sat So Long
, They're Widowed.
Andrew didn't have sense enough
, to win the multitude but Peter did
That's the way God works. Oh,
: get so sick of people being dead =
you've sat around so long you've
: widowed.
: The Earl of SALISBURY, who gave
i sixty-five years of his life workini
: among the costermongers and the
: fallen and the submerged and mud
: stills of London, was won to jesus
, Christ by a servant girl in their home
t He was wavering, going down thu
:, line with the gang of young bloods
: and his father died. This servan
girl, a cody girl, said, You inheri
: all the honor and all the wealth tina
e goes with the name of SALISBURY
g and are you going to go to a prema
2 ture grave the way you're going, tn
e life you are living, and bring disgrace
, upon your fathers memory and you
e mother's?"
Y The Earl of SALISBURY, whel
: eighteen years of age, fell on hi
: knees and gave his heart to Jesu
: Christ and when he died, his funera
, was the greatest ever held in Eng
t land except when a king or a queer
had died.
f See what she did? She won hin
. to the Lord and then the Lord tool
him and used him to win the multi
! tudes
!, Charles G. Finney, after learning
n ifhn Of in