The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-15

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of a church, and l tell you men l think
I'd rather lose my eyesight and grope
my way through darkness to the
grave; think I'd rather lose my mind
and be unable to recognize my loved
ones or friends; / think I'd rather beg
my bread from door to door; l think I'd
rather have disease lay hold upon me
and rot me from head to foot; l think
/ rather have the worst that can come
tooa man in this life and be able to say
with Job, Il know that my Redeemer
liveth and he shall stand in the later
days upon the earth'-I'd rather have
the worst that can come to a man in
this life and have Jesus Christ than to
have the best that can come to US and
not have hope in Jesus.
I'd rather have standing room in
Heaven when | am through down here
than to w the world and go to hell.
And when come to leave the world l
want something better than that which
can come to me by rejecting on the
fact that l may have been a great bust
ness man.
Serves God
His Way.
| look at a man with brains
to run a great institution that l don't
look upon him with a degree OF envy.
l have no business ability. All the
ability that l have l have developed
doing this n thing-preaching,-and
| don't know how to do anything else.
If I'd break down and couldn't
preach, ! don't know anything that |
could turn my hand to to earn my liv-
Ing. | don't know anything | could do,
and so if have any ability in business
it is lying dormant. But | have bent
every effort and every energy and ev-
erything I possess in order to ad-
vance Gods cause in the world.
Other men do it to advance bust
ness, some to advance politics. These
things are commendable. You to your
calling, l to mine, and all that in the
world.
When I come to leave the world l
want something better than what
could come to me by reflecting on the
fact that l might have been the rich
est man in Manhattan for that will be
of little or no value when you come to
die.
They say that John Ross could build
ships that would plow their way
through the Atlantic, laugh at every
disaster, and yet he knew he couldn't
build a ship that would carry him into
GODS harbor, SO he sent for a minis
ter, was baptised and received into the
church just a few months before he
passed away and left this old world.
oh, | want something better when
| go, and l am a Christian today for
the blessings that come to mel If
there were no future I'd still keep on
living for Jesus here in this old world
I'D do it and God would bless me won,
derfully for it.
Young Man
Rises to Feet.
Years ago Colonel Clark started the
old Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago
, At a meeting one night he said, 81
want the young man who thinks Gods
done more for him than anybody else
to stand up"
A young fellow jumped up. He
might have been twenty-five or thirty
years of age and you could tell by his
looks that he'd gone down the line.
{ We'll sir" he said, Il am a grad
uate of Harvard College. | went home
a drunken, bloated loafer." He said
MY sins and my sinful companions
broke my mothers heart and sent hel
r TO the grave.
, One day his father met him on the
) street and he chided that boy as he
f came staggering down the street hol
! lering and yelling, and the boy doub
7 led his fist and would have felled hi:
! father to the ground. Wait! A mar
+ grabbed him and he turned around
{ and spit in his face.
His father left him and went HON,
The boy clapped his hands to his head
uttered shrieks of agony that startled
+ the n~eighborhood. The father wen
home, sat down on the veranda and sa
j. there sobbing. When bye and bye the
boy came staggering and reeling III
q the walk to the steps IN the veranda
the father heard him, brushed the
Z tears from his eyes and looking up ht
;. jumped to his feet, ran and met the
turned him around and said to him
! Ordered Away
From Home
: 81 want you to do two things, ant
do them now. | want you to leave
. home, and change your name. The
: family name has never been disgraced
but the way o are living you vii
7 put a stain upon the escutcheon tina
nothing can eradicate. Leave home
/, Change your name!. Out of my heart
!. out of my memory! You've sent you
mother to her grave and you've got me-
! so | am all ready to stumble into mine
! You won't listen to anything l say
Col"
The boy started and reeled dow
: the walk. His sister was up stairs
and heard their loud voices as the!
: quarreled. She came running dow
? and ran out the walk and overlook he
, brother just as he opened the gate
!. He shut the gate between them. Sh'
y reached over the fence, put her arm!
around him and kissed him and said
Edward, God pity you! God he'll
you! Every night as long as | live
and unless / heal you are dead, ever.
d night at eight o'clock l am going t
/ be on my knees praying for you"
J He staggered away with the tear
trickling down his cheeks. He wen
: up and down the land. he went from
I bad to worse, and from worse he wen
r to Chicago. He got sc low down tina
they used to tell him not to come t
those barrel houses down on Soutl
Clark street below the police dead lin
n to sleep. Why, he got so low dow
he couldn't get money to buy food
and he made up his mind he'd end hi
life.
Saved BY
Rescue Band
l. He started to walk to Lake Mich.