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

Anybody starting out with the in |
tention of making a success in life Il
and | should hope there is none that
don't want to, l believe everybody /
wants to succeed, whether you are
going to be a lawyer, whether you are
going to be doctor or a merchant, I!
whatever your calling may be In life,
nobody wants to be third-rater, we
always want to live under that ban
ner that says Success" upon it-in
my opinion, you can do nothing bet
ter than to study the character and
the career of Samson. It is so full of
the warnings of the things which
must be avoided if the building of a
noble character is the object desired.
The dangers which beset and fin
ally overwhelmed Samson were real
dangers and they are common to all
and they are sure to come upon all
who follow a similar course and car
eer. The story of his life shows the
Necks upon which you may wreck.
Samson was the first-born and per-
haps the only child, for no other is
mentioned. His parents seem to have
been deyoutly religious, but they ap.
pear to have made a hundred mis-
takes in the raising of this boy. He
was endowed with phenomenal ply
steal strength and correspondingly
strong passions, which he was never
taught to control, and his parents
seem to have been a sort of wishy'
washy, easY-going kind of folks that
allowed him to do as he pleased.
Had rigid discipline been exercised,
I might have a different story to tell
you tonight.
Boys Must Be
Trained Right.
Letting a boy do as he pleases is
just the same IS letting him go to the
devil, and it won't be long until he
will be to the devil If he is allowed to
do as he pleases.
Probably he had learned to boss
his parents before he was very old,
and if he wanted anything. he learn
ed that all he had to do was to fall
on the floor and stiffen his spine and
yell like a Comanche Indian, and he
would get it
oh, what pity It was that he
wasn't given a brisk massage treat
ment with a white oak shingIe about
that timeI Solomon said, "He that
spareth the rod, spoieth the child"
In my opinion, one occasion or his
failure was that he was the son of
was over-indulged and allowed to
have his own way and soon he was
going to the wrong places and going
with the wrong people.
He went down to Timnath and as
ISOLATED with the enemies of God.
Wrong company will make every
aiming wrong and everybody wrong
that mixes with it. Bad company
will draw you to go or not. No matter
how many prayers hover over you,
if you are in a bad crowd. then they
will drag you to the devil, irrespec-
tive of your mothers appeals and her
tears and her pleadings.
Wrong panders to appetites and
passions. Right demands self-con-
troll.
Wrong is satisfied with extrava
aance and Incidence. Right demands
industry and economy.
Wrong is pleased with Ignorance
Right demands knowledge.
Wrong thrives upon weakness
Right lives upon strength.
Wrong deceives, cheats, beguiles
misleads, tickIes, lies. Right is hon
est, truthful, manly, womanly.
Wrong is reached by thousane
paths, right by only one, and that i:
the Christian path.
No Young Man
Starts Bad Purposely.
No young man, | think, deliberate
" starts out with a set purpose anC
intention of living a wicked life. No
body wants to go to hell when the!
first hear about the place. The dev
IFS army is not made of those whit
fell in love with him the first time
they heard about him or met him
and when a young man goes to sa
loon with crowd, when others drink
he may have had no intentions Of dc
ing anything wrong other than golni
with the company.
There are Iegions of young peopl
who go wrong simply because 1t is s.
= asy, and they are ruined because tn
"a Dad to ruin is so short. Vices ar
too strong to be broken before the
are plain enough to be seen, the
they hold you in bands stronge
than steel and more enduring; tina
of enslaving, brutalzing, demorali1
ing, Supplying appetites. and habit;
The world will always form a
idea, and just one too, OF you
character by your associates. Thos
who are constant companions are a
ways drawn together by some s1mil
tuQe OF manner. mere ID oOLlSluAll
about that young fellow you like, G
that girl that you like, that he or sh
becomes your companion. There ar
things about other people you don
like. and that is the reason you don
associate with them.
So, therefore, they will alWay
form a correct idea of your characte
by your companions, because you ar
drawn together by a smilitude {
likes and of dislikes.
| read a fable where a stork ha
the misfortune to be taken in nj
that was spread for geese and fl
cranes. And the stork's plea for he
self was her simplicity and her piet
the love she bore to mankind, and ii
duty shown toward her parents, an
the service she rendered mankind
picking up venomous creatures. Ar
the farmer said, Nov, that may a
be very true, but since you wei
taken in bad company, you will ha1
to suffer the consequences" and o
went her head.
n Nou Can't Blame
- Any One But Self.
And so, therefore, you haven
ANYBODY to blame if they judge yol
character by the people you go wit