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

/ thought / would run the risk of in
curing your displeasure and having
you think me bold and forward, by
speaking to you. Not one glass?"
mo thank you"
81 can not understand you"
And he backed off, but dude came
up and the same thing went one be-
tween the monkey and the man. He
said, Come on, be game sport. Come
on"
And others nagged him to despera-
tion and finally he said We'll ! could
drink just one glass"
And he reached out his hand and
took it and he looked at 1t minute
and he drank it down. Another, and
another, another He became glib
full tongued and they pushed him out
on the ballroom floor and he became
so drunk that the girls had to hold
him up to keep him from falling.
Now, they were happy because they
could not bear to see anyone on the
square. The dirty bunch had gotten
him to He'll and they seemed to be
able to go to bed happy, now.
They danced on and drank and drank
until midnight. At two o'clock a man
could be seen walking up and down
in the shade of the depot platform
and he would pull pint flask from
his pocket and drink it down and say,
"Ohi God, what will mother say
Then he would stagger into the dark
ness and take another drink.and when
he had emptied the bottle he hurled
| it out on the rail and when the head
light of the midnight express on the
Shore Line was coming for New York,
he staggered aboard and went back
to his home in Vermont, where two
months later he died of deIirum ire
mems. He shook his fist and shot it
into the face of Ms father until the
blood spurted from his nose
/ Oh if you could have seen the let
ter that mother wrote back to THAT
society belle. If so, you would say with
Lady Macbeth of old, will not all
Neptune's seas wash this blood away?'
! Use Your Hands
/ To Help Others.
4 Oh use your hands to pull people
out of the mire and not to shove them
hellward.
"By the mercies of God" give it tc
the world
! Make this world better by the in
fluences you possess.
! The Epworth League motto Ii
Look up and lift up. oh, you will
not do very much lifting up unless
God Almighty has hold of your hands
!, to help you to do something. Ant
if God will get hold of your hands
you will stick them down in you
pockets and you will take them ou
full of dough and you will pay God;
expenses quick and get them out o.
the way.
About the first thing he does il
cut the purse strings around you
pocket-books.
A fellow l heard of was baptized
by immersion. He joined the church
and he took out his note book ant
the preacher said, "Give me you
pocketbook.'
mot on your life. I want that t.
go under with me-"
l tell you pure religion will d.
; more for the world when God ha
something more than nickles AM
pennies to work with. Some peoplt
have a sort of a skim-milk religion
There is no such thing as bargain
counter proposition with God A.
! mighty.
If it does not cost you much it i
worth more than it costs you and
you get it and lie down and take
Rip Van Wrinkle sleep, your oil
joints will stiffen and you will ney
, er win Gods marathon.
Use New Methods
To Help God.
, Oh, if there is better way of cal
rying on Gods work than we hav
now, let's do it.
: We found out that electricity wa
better to light with than a tallow diI
, | We found out that a battleship wit
: men enough and powder enough t
! wreck kingdom was better than tn
|, old wooden sailing vessel. We foun
out that the trolley-cars were bette
: than horse-cars.
Now, if there is a better way of d.
Z ing Gods work, let's do it. This ide
of ringing the bell on Sunday morI
|, ing to get people to come to church
I past, it has gone on long enough.
' In business, machines that will nc
4 produce results,-we get rid of. An
if you have machine installed an
e some fellow comes in with somethin
il that will increase the output and d,
4 crease the cost of production, you wi
+ rip out the old machine and throw
in the scrap heap. You want up-tt
p date methods in business.
: In religion we keep on shooting wit
p the same old fIint-Iock, smootF-bor
muzzIe loader. We keep lighting wit
the same old taIIow dips. We kee
4 travelling over the same old cours
\ We keep rolling our eyes up to til
!, ceiling like a dying calf and sa
, "Surely it Is not the Lords set tim
:, to work."
Il God Almighty's time is any tin
= and all the time.
= 1t was always Gods time to give l
: machinery. Always Gods time to civ
i us steam. 1t was Gods time to civ
= US electricity long before Benjami
Franklin flew his kite. It has alway
been Gods time to give US labor-sa
!, ing machinery.
- Give God your brains and then @
y them up and he will dig out a thou
u and things that you never knew wei
there. That is what he did for null
= tudes and there is no reason why /
. can not do the same thing for you.
y Give God your faces, shine up fl
y Jesus Christ. And when a feIIo
~ starts out to make man of himse
II without any help from God about Il
y !, first thing he does is to get fax
IL long enough to make fire-escape OF
Of Il.
'e And lots of people have been clair