The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-17

switch open, somebody was careless
and negligent.
Some one didn't guard a small fire
that they had kindled. A bucket of
water would have put it out, but the
wind famed it and caught the pine
cones and dry shrubbery AMI de-
stroyed standing timber worth thir-
teen millions of dollars in Idaho and
Montana and burned five hundred
people to death.
Somebody started a small fire up
in northern Minnesota years ago
and didn't throw a little water on it,
The wind famed it and it ran and
burned the town of Hickey, Mimi,
and six other towns; destroyed prop
erty worth thirty-five millions of dol
lars, left thousands of people home
less, and burned five hundred to
death. Somebody didn't think, some.
body was careless.
Last year, one hundred seventy-siy
thousand letters went to the dead let
ter office in Washington every week
because somebody didn't think tc
lick postage stamp or put the righl
address on the envelope.
Oh, you needn't laugh. 1t cosl
CHCl6 odIu Injurious vi IuOuSdIluS Vi
dollars for clerk hire, and he had tc
pay it. Somebody had to pay fol
your carelessness; you didn't Some
body had to do it.
Book Made
/ Impression On Him.
Whatsoever things are true, think
on these things" Now. a wealthy
( store-keeper out in Indiana went or
long trip on a train. To while
away the time, he bought a book ani
started to read it. He was STRUCK
with a passage in this book, which
said eff man were falling from
tall building, he would be as mucl
/ lost after he had fallen the first foo
as when he struck the ground
l He said, THAT is true. l am low
er this year than last. I am losin.
/ self-control l am losing self-re
spect A woman will come into m!
store to trade with me, and l vii
/ let her go across the street, just be
cause l want to take a drink of Ii
quor. / have fumes of whiskey OF
my breath when l wait on her, al
| though | knew that that will drov,
! her to some other store. | am dea
to the pleadings of my wife and m.
friends"
He cried unto the Lord, was con
verted and sent his name ringini
throughout that part of the state be
cause of his deeds of philanthropy ant
kindness and work for the salvation
of men. He took time to think of tn
Goddess way that he was living, an,
he turned his feet to the Lord.
| want you to think on a few thing
that are true. They have to do wit
your eternal salvation, just as eel
tainly as the points of the compass
have TO do with the steering O
the ship. The Bible, the Word @
God, is true. Whatsoever things ar
true, think of these things, and NJ
thing is more firmly established tina
that truth, and God has blessed ever
people and every nation that has hol
ored and obeyed it as his word.
has stood the test of time as no OIL
er book ever has or ever will stanC
No other book has ever had such s.
, we're critics as the Bible. Every ma
whose life was wrong or who wante
/ to live a wrong life has been agains
the Bible. He thought because h
said he didn't believe it that thu
made him immune from any punisl
ment. Why the man who thinks thu
is as big an idiot as one who in
AGNES that by shutting his eyes b
can turn the course of bullet.
Hatred Against
| Bible Is Old.
1t don't make any differenc
whether you believe it or not yo
big goose!-it is true anyway Don
be an idiot and sit out there an sa
81 don't believe it." You will go |
hell whether you believe it or not
| Everybody whose life was nj
right did everything they could /
destroy the influence of the Bibl
The hatred against the Bible has bee
| persistent, it has been determine
it has been relentlessly bitter
Everything that philosophy an
that science and that reason and GU
ming and brutality could do has bee
done, but it has stood, because it
the word of God. 1t has been d
| stroyed and burned in untold nur
bers, and yet it has the greatest eli
culation of any book the world hs
| ever known or ever will.