The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-29
EUGENIC PRINCIPLES
RIDICULED BY SUNDAY
IN TALK ON MOTHERS

Declaring that a real mother has
her name on Gods payroll, Rev. Billy
Sunday preached on the duties and
blessings of motherhood to his largest
afternoon week day audience at the
tabernacle Friday afternoon.
God pays mother as no other one
in the world" he declared, but If the
mothers of the land fail u.s."
"If every cradle was rocked by a
good mother the devil would go out of
business" he said. Then turning sud
denly at his audience, he exclaimed,
Put that in your empty heads"
AS is usual at the afternoon ser
mons, Mr.. Sunday was in jovil mood
more often than in fighting one.
Wonders About 1t.
''Nuts," he declared to his audience.
as he told of the man who spent two
years engraving the 10 commandments
on a dime, What good did it do him"
AS the audience Uttered, he added,
81 think Shakespeare was thinking of
this generation, when he said what
he did about fools"
Again he described the mother who
tried to rear her children along eu-
genie principles, and had set feeding
, times, and followed fads, and faneies.
He told flippently of the ttwo-min-
utes past-three feeding hour, and then
no more attention until five-six" and
as he beamed and laughed at his own
story, the audience chuckled.
Mothers Music Sweet.
At another time, in telling of the
power and sweetness OF a mothers
smile, he initiated in shrill falseto, the
thrill of an opera singer, and his au-
dience laughed heartily.
! Patti, Geraldine Farrar, all of
them" he declared suddenly serious,
| cannot equal the music of the real
mothers heart, when she sings to her
| child"
Then leaning over the edge of the
! platform, and stamping his foot, as he
/ Numbered out the words, he shouted.
! is that there will be no mothers love
! there, only ate-hate-hate-"
Turning his attention to the people
| that follow the isms and cisms" of
religion, Mr.. Sunday started marching
around the platform whistling and
Shaping his fingers, in imitation Of a
man calling a dog.
| RidicuIes Some.
That" he declared, lis the way
with most people, like the puppy,
| they follow any one who whistles and
Shapes their fingers"
Sunday denounced the mother who
did not teach her children in the
home, so that when it was grown, ii
would follow in the way of the Lord
i He denounced the father that by his
example set at nought the teachings
that the mother was trying to instill
in the child. and he paid high trib
ute to the mother who brought up hel
child, in the way he should go.
There is more power in a mother:
hand than in a rulers sceptre," he de
clared.
Baby Disturbs.
Once during the sermon Mr.. Sunday
was disturbed by baby crying. A:
the mother was leaving the tabeT
nacle, Mr.. Sunday said: Il can't under
stand the mental process. We have I
nursery for them where they will BIZ
taken care of. They can't enjoy the
sermon. and they spoil it for the moth
er. We cannot have them in tht
meeting"
: On request Mr.. Rodeheaver and Mrs
. Asher again sang the "Old Rugged
= Cross" and the audience Joined in tbs
| singing of abide wNl1 Me-" and How
Firm a Foundation" Which had beer
asked for by different persons.