The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-22

mountains, and twisted them as you
would string.
On it rushed in it's mad, wild dash
to death and destruction and it seized
the beautiful city of Johnstown and
hurled that against the bridge. It
never moved stone out of that
bridge She stood there like thing
of life and the waters striking I the
bridge shot back.
Oh, it wrought destruction and the
waters piled higher and higher and
by and. by it shot over the top of
that bridge but never moved stone.
1t struck the Cambria Iron works and
Ieveled them. They took twenty
three hundred and eighty bodies out
OF the wreck.
They had heard the sound of the
trumpet, but they took not the warn
ing and on the hill at Johnstown to-
night in unknown graves by the side
of which l have stood with uncover.
ed head, sleep eight hundred and
twenty unknown dead. They heard the
sound of the trumpet.
Some Of the greatest caIamities the
world has ever registered have come
through neglect. No wonder men ne
elect salvation and it causes the ruin
No wonder God is desperately in earn
est to try and get US to flee from the
wrath to come. 1t is a great salvation
for three reasons. First, because it is
the only salvation. And the reason men
are not saved is not because of Gods
desire to punish them and the bitter
est drug you will ever find in the cup
will be that you have nobody to
blame but yourself.
Got Caught
In Current
Years ago four men up at Niagara
rented boat, hired fishing tackle
and bought bait. They went to fish
and had several quarts of whiskey
with them They rowed over to the
Canadian side and drank whiskey.
Lying down in the boat they fell
asleep and in some unaccountable
way the rope became united and the
boat started down until it was caught
in the water where she runs twenty
miles an hour and over the falls three
OF them shot on the American side.
One of them, man named Avery
seized rock some fifty feet above
the yawning abyss on the Americai
| side. Soon the word spread: Man
on the rock" and in a little while ten
| thousand men and women and child
rem lined the banks, eyes wet with
tears, and some of his friends, looking
through telescope, discovered who
/ he was and they raised it up and said
Cheer up, Avery, we will save
you"
| But they never fulfilled that prom
ise. For twenty-six hours Avery
chung to that rock, when by and by
weakened by long exposure, an extra
large wave struck the rock and evi
IDENTIFY strangled him. He threw his
hands to his head and with shrek:
of agony, heard above the roar anC
plunge of the cataract, he shot oveI
the falls to death.
! Poor Avery was not in one mil
lionth part the danger you are, will
hell yawning just in front of you ant
nothing but the power of God that cal
ever pull you back away from it, ant
yet men sit.
How shall we escape If W,
neglect so great salvation?" and it il
a great salvation because God saves
US from great SIN.
All Sins
Are Great
All sins are great / don't car,
how little your sin, it will keep yol
out of heaven If you don't repent
They don't go to hell because the,
are sinners but because they won
accept of salvation. 1t isn't a ques
ton with God of what you have been
the question is, are you sorry that 20,
have been what you are? If so, sal
walton is yours. God offers salvation
for your soul if you will do His will
} Using the worst terms, what for
Just to show what men and womel
do for other things. What God di
for one, God will do for ALL For Co
is no respecter of person.
Years ago a young fellow lived i
Boston. This is one of the saddles
stories that has come under my OF
! servation. He lived in Boston. Hi
father died and the will was probateG
each received their portion He too
, his and started off on a wild de
bauchery.
He reached Denver and his none
, was gone. When his mother, throug
, some friends, learned of his where
abouts, she would write him an
, when he saw his mothers writin
he'd throw the letters into the fire
One day, he, opened the letter, a
though he knew it was from hi
mother. 1t said something like this
Dear Son Frank: You must nee
mothers aid and advice and l ar
just dying to see you or hear fror
you. If you don't answer this in
reasonable time, l am coming t
Denver to see you. l can't stand it.
And he said to me: What do 20
think / did? / should have answere
it but threw it in the firebox. Abou
two weeks later l looked down tn
(, railroad track. l saw a woman an
said to the engineer: That look
like my mother She came neare
and said, Yes, that is mother %
He said, That's what should hav
done, but l didn't do it." He saiC
"She followed me up and down tn
switchyards the rest of the day; sh
followed me to the boarding house a
: night. came down and she sait
: Frank, stay and talk with me- Nv
) come all the way from Boston"
Decides
| To Leave
t And he said, do you know,
2 pushed by her and went out an
' spent the night in sin, came bacl
) changed my clothes and went to worl
: She followed me down to the switcl
, yards for three days. 1 wouldn
! speak to her either there or at m
, boarding house She said to m,