The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-06
1874 STUDENTS
LED TO FRONT
BY YOUNG LAD
Boy In Blue Knee Knockers
Starts High School Boys
and Girls to Hitting Saw
dust Pathway.
HITS NAGGING WIVES

Led out by a boy in blue Knockers,
1S4 high school students hit the saw
dust trail" and signed pledges giving
themselves to Christ, at the close OF
Billy Sundays sermon on Samson"
at the tabernacle Friday night
1t was high school night and dele
cation of $50 youngsters held the
front seats directly before Mr.. Sun
day, making up the most colorful part
of an audience of 5000
The sermon which Mr. Sunday
preached was directed straight at the
students, when he used Samson as
an example Of a young man with eZ-
cellent prospects who had wasted his
youth, and had ended his life in blind
ness.
Samson was the Fatty Arbuckle
Of the Old Testament" Mr. Sunday
declared. Describing him as viii
full boy who had been brought up by
indulgent parents that did not have
the backbone to give him a spanking
when he needed it, Sunday declared
that he made his first mistake when
he chose his wife.
Mistaken In Wives
THAT is the fault with so many OF
US, we make mistake in our wives,
he said. "A man married TO a nag
ging woman has far less chances Of
going good than bad one married
to a good wife,
Telling in Slangy sentences the sto-
ry of the life of Samson, Sunday told
how Samson had fallen for a Jane"
among the Philistines OF the way
that he had fallen" for other women
after he had lost his first wife, and
finally of Delilah whom he called
1.-THE Queen Jezebel of the bunch"
"Delilah," Sunday said, .'lip-stickea
her lips, puffed her hair. rouged her
cheeks and powdered her nose. She
was a stopper who rolled her stock
| ings and rolled her own"
| VamPed Samson
| "Then she tried to vamp Samson.
and get him TO tell her the secret of
| his strength
Billy Sunday turned his face to-
wards the ceiling. smoked an imagin-
airy cigaret which he held between
! two stiff fingers, and between puffs,
! in counterpart of a fadist who drops
4 her RS and drawls her words. Sunday
said, Honey dear, can't you reveal
/ to me the secret Of your power?''
/ lpul1 pun.
You know dear, l have. been giving
it great deal of thought"
Two grey haired women in the au-
! dience punched each other and burst
/ into hilarious laughter, and Mr.. Sun
1 day paused for time for the audience
1 to compose itself.
End of Sampson
"That was the end of Samson" de-
clared Sunday. "and my advice to
Dempsey is to take the first boat
home, and not fool around with Peg
! gy or it will be his end"
Suddenly shifting from the humor-
Gus to the serious, Sunday roared out
a challenge "Oh, does the devil show
you any mercy when he gets you
/ where he wants you?"
mo! Mo-" Sunday shouted as he
pounded the pulpit with his heavy
fist when the power of God was
gone from him the Philistines damned
God. Oh it is a woeful thing when
things like that happen"
Turning to the question of the I'M
married youth, Sunday declared that
I it was because the women were earn
ing as much as the men, and preferred
to be single and earn their wages,
rather than have homes where they
could raise families on the wages Of
the men.
Talk Is the Bunk
This talk of two being able to
} live as cheap as one is all bunk
know because l have tried it."
Again he said, "The women are get.
: ting to be better workers, more
steady, are more honest, and don't
, gamble and smoke and drink like the
men,"
ooh, I tell you the men have got
to stir themselves or they will find
, that the women have taken their
places.
Its disgrace to manhood that wo,
. men are keeping the church going
2 and furnishing the moral background
, of the world, when morals are becom-
! ing more and more an economic ne
! cessity."
Using as an illustration, the travel
/ ing man, Sunday declared that the ira
. yelling man who drank, and told smut
ty stories, was being pushed 10 the
, background, because the buyers were
buying of men whose manner suggest
ed that they were representing better
I and moral houses.
/ Taking an example from Richmond
1 Sunday turned suddenly toward the
ministers section. There's my friend
/ Timothy Nicholson" he said, "You car
! bet that when he was young he didn't
| spend his years in riotious living-i
/ he did he wouldn't be here And
| now he is here over 80 years old"
/ THE devils first move is to get
| the young man in debt Sunday con
tinued. "The devil would rather ge
a young man in debt than to get al
old man TO crack a safe. There /.
more that he can lead the young MAJ
into from that"
II Preaching TRADE against the sin.
of over-dressing of trying to do thing.
that were beyond the means Of thS
young fellows pocketbook, Sunda,
suddenly switched to the other ex
\ IRENE.
H But that does not mean that vol
have any virtue If you go about il
clothes that look as though they haC
been cut out with cross cut saw b,
| y