The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-26
ODD FELLOWS
ENTERTAINED
in TABERNACLE
900 Members of Local Order
Attend = Seating Capacity
Of Temple Taxed by $500
Worshippers.
1888 ACCEPT SAVIOUR


night at the tabernacle. and over 500
members of the lodge with their wives
occupied the central section. and
swelled the total trail hitters.
The audience was just little too
large for the tabernacle, the attend
ance being $500. while 1SS men and
women took Billy Sundays hand, and
signed cards indicating their faith in
Jesus Christ as a personal saviour
The Odd Fellows, with their flags
and red neck pieces, furnished the on
ly color in the audience, the section
where they were sitting forming a bril-
nant foreground for the rest of the
tabernacle
Sing Gospel Song
In the absence of Mrs Asher, Mrs.
Harter sang "The Old Rugged Cross"
with Mr.. Rodeheaver Calling Mrs.
him. Mr.. Rodeheaver said, you will
make a good substitute for Mrs.
Asher, just come right along
Three delegations were present at
the tabernacle. The Odd Fellows. the
Good Cheer class of the First NJ. f.
church, with an attendance of 35 and
the Winiska Bible class of the L. B.
church of Eldorado, Ohio, which num-
bered so.
The Good Cheer class asked for a
plantation song. but the absence of
Mrs. Asher prevented the trio from
singing. Requests for plantation songs
are getting to be almost as numerous
as calls for THE Old Rugged Cross"
Offers Opening Prayer
Charles Woodmon poe+or ~ Tho
West Richmond Friends meeting, Of
fered the opening prayer, while DR.
]. j. Rae, pastor of the First Pres
byterian church, offered the closing
prayer for the trail hitters.
In giving the collection talk, Ed
Haas declared that Mr.. Rapp must
have had it in for him. because he
said, "Rapp insisted that l take the
| job Of chief usher where l am losing
all my friends, and now he has given
me this job without warning"
Amen" came Rapp's heavy voice
from the back of the platform
The gifts for the closing day that
have come in so far" Mr. Haas said,
have not been at all up to the stand
ard that 1t was hoped they would be.
Should Repay Billy
I'VE have prevailed upon Mr.. Sun
day to come, and we should now re-
pay him for the good that he has done
for u.s."
1T is Mr.. Sunday that stands all of
the chances in this collection" M.
F! Rodeheaver said. MIR. Sunday has
! guaranteed US the third Of the sal
airy that he has to pay so the other
members of the party have nothing to
lose. it is all Mr.. Sundays gain or
loss"
Preaching on Heaven, Mr.. Sunday
told at length of his meeting there
with his family. IF l die first" he
said, "as soon as | am through shak-
ing hands with Jesus, and thanking
him for letting me preach his gospel
and for saving me, / shall ask him if
can't go down to the gate and wait
there for Ma Sunday and the children
when they come through"
And Jesus will say, That's right
/ Bill, just take this chair" and SUNDAY
moved his up near to the front of the
platform, and sat down and folded his
arms to wait
Wife Will Wait
/, And If Nell goes there first" Mr.
Sunday continued, "Why she will be
waiting there at the gate for me. The
children may be running or PLAYING
J some place, but she will be there wait
, ing, and then we shall talk it over, and
} we will ask about the people that we
know that have come to Heaven"
Then describing the row Of man
: sions that would be there waiting FOL
, the people to come, Sunday declared
| that he would see ITO Let" signs or
some of them.
What are those signs Lord?" Sun
day said he would ask.
why that sign is for a Richmond
!. bank president that did not accep
Christ" would come the reply, Sunda,
said. and the audience gasped Blu
as Sunday continued with other pla
ces, which represented man of tn,
5 Starr Piano company. an employee II
the Pennsy shops, and other indus
3 tries in the city, the gasp changed I,
: laughter.
!, Attacks School Practice
: DEPRESSING for time on the SUI
! ject Of the schools, Sunday declare
: that they were too "faddy"
!. When they come to putting dane
4 ing in the school program, and {
; turning them into movie theatre:
/ then it is time to call a halt"
Then when You want to put In r,
) ligion they whine" Sunday suddenl
e shouted, dashed up to the front of tn
L platform, and grabbing on to the pu
S pit, "A bunch of foreigners that hav
their own parochial schools and the
e want to tell US how to run our publ
e schools, have no right to be heard .
u Telling of his own school days, SUI
9 day gave an exhibition of the wa
u that he used to speak pieces in coul
E. try school. 81 could remember thos
r pieces by reading them over thre
e times, but when l came to speak the
n | would forget every word.
% I'VE used to get certificates Gale
e Reward for Good Merit at school, an
r you can bet that | was one boy thu
did not break his back carrying the
re home to mother.
"a real American school boy dot
not get those things in school, he hs
too much else to do"
I'd In his prayer at the close of his sc
IS mon, Sunday declared that if an ang
Id was asked TO land on the most bea