The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-25

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He said. Don't you go back with
out seeing them"
He took out an affidavit which a
man had made after he had meas
ured one of those big trees and the
tree was los feet in circumference
and 35 feet in diameter and near
ly 400 feet high.
Those trees stood there before
Bethlehem.
Perhaps" he said. you would
like to see the seed, from which
these huge monsters of the Pacific
grow"
He thought he would have the fell
low wheel in on a cart, seed as big
as 14-inch shell. Mccormick
reached up into the pigeon hole of his
desk, he took out an envelope and
dumped out some seeds no larger
than lettuce seeds. He dumped them
out and said,
There. that is the seed from which
those monsters grow"
You take the first drink. You see
that bleary eyed fellow-he started
with that. You see that girl selling
her womanhood-it started with that
innocent filtration which she is feed
ing with her womanhood and her vir-
tue.
How You Can
Be Led On.
There are thousands and tens of
thousands of people in this old world
that have lost their grip and there
are thousands of them that are grad
ually slipping toward He'll. By asso-
ciating with the vile, by consorting
with drunkards, you become drunk
ards; by delighting to accompany the
vile, you become vile.
In the days of the Spanish Inquisi-
ton they had in their underground
prisons an instrument of torture
which they sneeringly called the "Vir-
gin" There stood the semblance of
beautiful woman dressed in the
richest robes with an inviting seduct-
i've smile on her lips, waiting to re-
ceive with outstretched arms who
ever might be pushed toward her. The
victim of religious hate was pushed
forward to kiss this virgin and as he
did, suddenly moved by a secret
spring, she would throw her arms
about him, and he would be pierced
with one hundred razor-like blades
all through the body and impale him,
as his life blood oozed away.
Sin is like that. Sin can put up a
cracker jack of an exterior and smil-
ingly invite you to take her arm and
walk along the deadly paths of world
ly delight.
| Oh, oh, Oh, Oh, hear me, certain
death awaits any man or woman that
dare kiss her treacherous lips. Yet
God so loved the world that he gave
his only begotten son, that whose
ever believeth in Him should not per-
ish, but have everlasting life" That
is what God did.
Sin Is
Deadly Enemy.
Sin is deadly. The same as one
hole will sink the biggest ship that
ever floated; so one stab in the heart
with pen-knife will kill you just
the same as if you were hit with a
fourteen inch shell; or drop of poi
son will cause instant death
Out in the state of Nevada when
man is convicted of murder and
sentenced to be executed, they let
him choose the mode. He can either
be hanged, shot or poisoned, and he
can choose which method. If he Sc
lects to be poisoned, one half hour
before the hour, the doctor walks into
his cell, mixes the deadly poison,
| cyanide of potassium, or something
like it that will kill him instantly;
puts the glass in there and says to
him: You have half an hour to
make up your mind whether you will
drink the poison"
If he does not drink 1t, the poison
is thrown out and they take him out
and hang him.
When the state exercises sover-
eighty they say Hang him" They
have those three methods. Take poi
son, be shot, or hang, and he can Sc
4 lect
One drop of that poison on his lips
and he will fall dead instantly, he is
gone.
Now, the sin you might commit to-
day may sting you years and years
later. Like the wound inflicted by
mad dog may heal, months pass
but the virus is still there and you
begin to froth at the mouth, howl and
| bark and you have hydrophobia. So
with Sin.
] Yet, God so loved the world, that
he gave his only begotten Son. that
whosoever believeth in him should
not perish, but have everlasting life"
Sin Can Mar
Any Life.
Sin can mar the fairest face in the
world. No incident that l have ever
remembered in history better illus
/ trates than the one you may have
heard, but it is absolutely true, the
one in connection with De Vinci, who
painted the famous picture of THE
Last Supper
Long the artist. sought for a model
! for his Christ. for he said he must
| find some young man with a pure
! life to get the expression of the face !;
and his attention was called by a
| friend of his to a young fellow named
Pedro Bandineln, who sang in a
church choir, and when he saw him,
he cried out, 81 have found the face
\ for the Christ" and he painted him
and the years passed by and 1.-THE
Last Supper" was not finished.
The eleven apostles had been
| sketched. all but the model of Judas
He said, 81 must find the face hard
ened and stained by the sin of wick.
ed living"
And one day he was walking In the
streets of Rome and he started back
as he saw the most hideous, repulsive
features ever, and he induced the
man to go and sit for his model for