The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-29

Bell. The idea Of asking anybody to
give 100000 for that! Today we
! have got nearly forty million of them
and they are worth hundreds of mil
lions of dollars, and without the tel
ephone. l will tell you, our business
in this country would cease. They
laughed at him. but what would we
do without it today?
Samuel Morse offered to sell the
! telegraph for 100000. They said
You're crazyi It isn't worth Sc
You think you can sit down here and
i push a little instrument and make
/ thoughts go over the wire? It can't
| be done" What would we do today
without the telegraph?
Experience Is
Best Teacher.
/ Every good thing was foolishness
when 1t was proposed, so I am not
/ surprised to find you a fool and say
! ing, There is nothing in religion"
Your grandfathers didn't believe in
electric lights. Why, they didn't have
sense enough to.
Why, Thomas Edison - now you
will laugh at this-says the day will
come when we will not build houses
! out of wood Lumber is expensive.
it will burn, and you have to carry
/ insurance and you have to paint 1t.
/ It is getting scarce, takes so long
/ for tree to grow. 1t takes the
lifetime of man for a tree to get
4 large enough to make wood, except
the eucalyptus in California, which
! grows more rapidly than most any
kind known, and Is becoming very
valuable for that reason.
j That's all right we will build
them out Of cement You won't
! have to carry insurance. They will
be cool in the summer, warm in the
i winter. They will be easy to take
care Of. When you want to clean
them, remove the furniture, turn the
hose on in the garnet and run it down
in the cellar
i Years ago young fellow walked
into the office of old Cornelius Van.
and he said, 'T can stop trains with
air.
u Vanderbilt drove him out of his
said, "Get out of here with your non.
sense"
i He wanted him to take stock and
help finance 1t. The young fellow
name was George Westinghouse. Van
derbilt drove him out of the office.
Forced Vanderbilt
To Buy Airbrakes.
A few years later the Legislature
: of New York passed a bill making
Vanderbilt put Westinghouse air
i brakes on his trains What would
: we do without the Westinghouse air
:. brakes today? 1t wouldn't be possible
to go at the speed our trains do to
: day If it wasn't for them.
They sneered at Westinghouse wher
: he said he could stop a train with air
: pump the air out of tank and stoI
! the train. They said, sit can't be
, donei."
: 1.-THE preaching Of the cross is tt
| them that perish, foolishness." 81
! all these things were foolishness, ant
I am not surprised to find that peo
: pie think religion is foolish, too. The
: tabernacle is foolish, the churches are
foolish, the Y NJ G. A. and Y. w. c
) A. are foolish, the Bible schools are
foolish.
What was foolishness yesterday l:
power today. There 1t is: What wa:
, foolishness yesterday is power today
, Send cablegram to Europe. Wha
= was foolishness yesterday is power to
1 day
2 Talk to your wife over the te1e
: phone, 500 miles away. What wa
9 foolishness yesterday is power today
+ Get on railroad train here AM
D get off in San Francisco. What wa.
3 foolishness yesterday is power today
g | said the first wagonwheel wa
e all nonsense, but it became the pic
/ neer that made travelling a mile
minute possible.
S Steam Had Its
d Handicaps.
l. Steam was foolishness, but toda
l. steam is turning our wheels, drfvfn
/. our machinery, shooting our railroa
s trains over the country and our grea
? steamships over the sea.
J. Electricity was all foolishness, Blu
o today it Eliminates our homes, on
o-i public edifices, and we apply it i
Il our mechanical pursuits.
h And these and a thousand othe
things were foolishness, because w
;. were the fools, not the thing we cor
e demned, so don't think religion
o wrong because you condemn it. Yo
4 are the fool. Religion is all RICH
You are the fool.
d And all of these things became
e power to us when we had sens
# enough to take hold of them in a wa
s so that they could be a blessing I
k US. So it is with religion All thes
r, things were waiting to do US good i
d the world. There is only a step b.
II tween foolishness and power, and b.
t. cause you will not take that step in
way that can be convincing to you
I, you are missing that power.
eI Two young men, when they frs
d put the trolley cars out, were eros
ing a bridge underneath which "a
a an interurban line. One of the1
n said, They say there Is power enoug
e in that little corner wire to kill
e man If he takes hold of It,"
,e The other said, That's nonsense
He reached over and grabbed hol
of the wire, and fell corpse, to tn
road below.
y Text Like Words
d of Judgment.
ID My text comes like the word {
+. judgment, and divides the world int
d Just two classes. Oh, we divide ric
y and poor, black and white, learne
b, and illiterate, native and foreign-borl
q, but God divides the world into ju!
IS two classes-saved and lost. That
t all there is to the world so far 9
e. God Almighty looks upon it-savet
lost.
D What Is fooIIshness to an unsave
Id man Is power to a saved man. Ii