The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-17

tpOusduQ tndC would swat you, Out
suppose he would. Suppose he
knocked you down. suppose he loos-
ened a molar Jesus Christ could
have had twelve legions of angels to
come and fight for him but he didn't
call
I was preaching in town in Iowa
and was stopping at hotel, and the
phone rang, wanted me to come to the
phone. ! went and found a woman's
voice at the other end. She said,
"Mr. Sunday"
"Yes, NOM"
Twill you please come up to my
house? / want to see you
mo. MON. I'll not. I've been
preaching for twenty years and I've
never yet crossed the threshold of
any mans home alone
I'm not afraid of any skirt on
Gods dirt, or anybody else. No, sir!
But ] want to serve notice on you
and the dirty, sinking, black-hearted
degenerate. whiskey gang. if / don't
live what l preach I'll leave the plat
form and have never allowed wo-
man to come and see me alone.
A woman said, "Mr. Sunday, ]
want to see you alone"
81 don't see anybody but Mrs. Sun
day alone. If you've got anything
you want to talk to me about, sis.
you do it right out here"
I said, 81 will come up" she begged
so hard, "but l will bring somebody
with me-"
| turned to friend and said. Lets
go up, and see what's the matter"
So we went up and she had no
phone Her neighbor had a phone.
We went in and found a woman
bruised, mutilated, print Of a mans
hand upon her cheek, hair disheyeled,
clothing torn, and | said,
I Whats the trouble?"
She said, my husband did it,
| / said, What for?"
Because | went to church"
Say, you've got right to say how
much that wife will pay for that
dress if you earn the money, but you
have no right to tell her whether she
can go to church or pray. You keep
your hands off or God Almighty will
pump your old carcass full of en-
balming fluid Since when do you run
this world because you've got whis-
kers and breeches?
And she said to me, well, what
will l do VIII leave him."
1 said mo. You oughtn't to have
married the old hog in the first place. y
! 1 said, There's where you dropped
your candy"
And her little boy about two-oh,
| he wasn't quite two years old, came
bounding into the room with his cheek
all bruised and bloodshot, my friends,
where man had struck him. She
said, won't you go down and see
him."
l said, what for? I'd get into a
fight with him. If you were my
daughter, so help me God, Id lick
him"
He was working for the American
| Express company, so | went down to
Lsee him.
| strolled in with all my Chester
field impoliteness, with my suave man
nerism, and / said, as l leaned over
the counter.
How do you do?" and called him by
his given name. 1--WE just been up in
the neighborhood and seen your wife
Everybody's talking about what you
! did and they are thinking about hav
4 ing you pinched, but have been stall
ing them off" | said, "They asked me
I to come down and see you, so | did
You oughtn't to treat her that way
She wants to go to church; you ought
TO be encouraging her."
! And he ripped out string of right
angular, triangular, hair-splitting
blister-mouthed. blood-curdling oaths
He called me everything he could lay
: his vile tongue to, and if all the en-
nifty in his heart, ranking against
me and against religion had been in
jected into his stomach, he'd have
died of black vomit in three minutes
i | was graduated from five gymna
Sums; l can go so fast for five
rounds you can't see me for dust.
!, put my hand on the counter and
went over there like a shell out of {
mortar, and he jumped backward t.
grab 80 caliber gun that was lying
!, there. l jumped between him and the
, gun and said,
: Don't you move to touch that. l
[ you do they will take you up will
dust pan and whisk-broom.
He said to me, 'You have no bust
! ness behind the counter"
/ l said, you are right. Neithe
t have you any business to call me thu
; infamous names that you have, sir,
and l said, land you go ahead ant
, I'd advise you to get your photograph
: taken because your wife won't know
, you when you go home in the Re-
J Cross Ambulance" | said, 'You ge
| out from behind that counter and com
out here on the sidewalk and I'll SHOW
: you the finest demonstration of mu
: cular Christianity you ever looked at.
: And if that gink had come out II
t have backslid long anough to hav
:; licked him. But If l had, I'd hav
| gone up against that verse see
5 "Pray for them that despitefully US
| you and prosecute you"
4 It's hard dob. I'm trying my leve
, best
! Severe Trials Test
! Out Our Virtues.
ii Your virtues are best discerne
: when subjected to the severest tria
| The hammer displays the excellenc
: of the diamond and the furnace ascel
tains the purity of the gold Meek
! ness is a dormant quality until il
! juries call it out.
II You let your character be blasted
| you let your interests be ruined; the
it will appear how far these qualitie