The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-15
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day / die, I'll never cease to praise
God for the men who believed in Jesus
Christ as the Son of God and thank
God before my eyes ever fell upon Bob
Ingersoll and l read everything he ever
wrote and I'd take it and lay it down
by the side of the Bible and said:
Either Bob perverted that through
ignorance or desire, but l couldn't con-
ceive of a man with the gigantic in
telligence he possessed being such a
fool"
| only wish to God ! had his brain
and ~eloquence with my disposition to
serve and do the will of God, but am
going the very limit of all my strength
and power to help.
You can argue against the Bible, but
you can't argue against sin. Sin is in
the world and all the damnation and
misery comes from sin. You can argue
against God, Jesus, eheaven, hell: you
can say that death is an eternal sleep;
you a argue against all that, but you
can't argue against sin. 1t is in the
world and all the misery, sorrow, an
guish, ~heartache, all the murder, out
rage and all the war, and all that
curses and ruins and damns and in
tests and blights like a pestilence, all
the insomnia-alI is caused by sin.
That is what damns the world.
We are only asking men and women
to flee from the thing that curses their
life. | think you forget all of it when
you refuse to be a Christian and live
for Jesus Christ and for His truth.
One day in Chicago l stood on the
corner of LaSalle and Washington
streets, in front of the Chamber of
! Commerce, talking with a man about
religion, when up from the east dashed
a patrol and they took out four men,
or the remnants of them, blear-eyed,
! bloated-faced, ragged, staggering,
drunken sots and | said: There it is
now, just what we are talking about
Can't Argue
Against Sin.
Sin-you can't argue against sin.
From the west dashed up another pa
troll opposite the city hall and they
dragged out three women, hair dis
heveled, eyes bloodshot, clothing hung
in rags and the worst vileness, pro-
ifanity, obscenity you ever heard pour
ing from their lips. / said: There it
is-sin. You can't argue against sin"
You a argue against God and
against Christ and the Bible and
against religion, but you can't argue
against sin.
Going to work one morning in Chi
cago I was walking east on Jackson
boulevard and / came to the Chicago
river, the bridge that spanned the
river. I saw about $50 men and WON.
en- on the eastern approach to the
bridge and on the eastern end of the
bridge and they were leaning over and
looking down into the river and ]
heard voices below.
My curiosity was excited likewise
and I looked over and saw a fIoater-
q dead body in the river. The police
were down there with their grab
hooks. They hooked it into the cloth.
ing of the dead man and dragged his
BODY to the bank.
The pockets were turned wrong side
out, two purple holes were in the tenn
pies where a 32-calibre bullet had
crashed in; a great rem in his shirt
front where they had tori out the dia
mond: his watch chain dangling where
they had torn the watch off and life
the chain dangling.
did not say democracy or repub.
Ilicanism.
Back of All
is Sin
I did not saw protective tariff O,
free trade; I did not say municipal
ownership; | did not say single tax
nor gold standard. I looked back o.
all labor, all difficulties between CAPT
tai and labor; / looked back of al
rational questions, all political, bach
of all national, back of all individual
and I saw one word-S-I-N!
Sin fired the pistol; sin flung the
club; sin ripped out the diamond;
sin dumped that man into the river
God pity you: you can't argue againsr
sin. You can argue against the Bi
BILE. Jesus Christ, and heaven and he'll
but YOU can't argue against sin.
When am in Chicago, which ISM
often, and when | am in there a
night, which is less, there is one pIac;
! always 90 TO: that is the old Pacific
Garden Mission, where so years ago
one dark, stormy night, | found Jesu.
Christ as my Saviour.
was there sometime ago; hac
spoken M | felt tired and weary, AM
turned to Nell and ! said: "NeIl
let's walk home; it won't take US long
end it will rest me to get out in tn,
air and keep away from the crowd.
. So we stepped out on Van Burel
and walked west to Clark. We turned
north on Clark street a block to Jack
son boulevard, and when we reaches
4 the foot of LaSalle street the clocI
in the tower struck 10. | said, Nell
it's 10 o'clock. Wouldn't you like t
90 to the Harrison police station
. They are rounding up the human dere
licts. They are just bringing them in
It's 10 O'Clock. The devil, like tn,
beasts of prey, stalks forth when tn
> sun goes down, when darkness set
ties owe this old earth"
Foul vermin in human form wrie
gle and crawl our streets. Midnigh
on the earth is midnoon in hell. Ney
York asleep, Chicago asleep, Pitts
burgh asleep, Cleveland asleep, Der
yer asleep, st. Louis, San Francisco
Los Angeles-all asleep.
Now the demons of the pits ar
/. holding high carnival. Debauchery i
awake, lust is awake, murder j
awake-oh, all the vileness that damn
b the world is awake! Now the bar
e quet of old Bacchus, now you ca,
S hear the click of the gamblers chips
r now champagne and wine sparkle; tn
0 beer foams W. the lip of the cup
now. oh, listen to that!-the voic
shrieks of loathsome blasphemy. OF
Jezebel spreads ner nets and old d.