The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-24

eJ is poor; the fellow that has MOTH
ing but money is poorer still.
A friend OF mine, a preacher had a
friend who had been poor in his youth.
He worked hard, listened to the Jingle
OF money, resolved to have more, en-
tered the Unsuitable scramble for
wealth. He became rich; he cut on
! God, he cut on his family comforts.
cut on the Sabbath for rest, he worked
seven days.
/ Suspicious Of Everybody
But Doctor.
| He broke down with the dew of
! youth yet en- his brow He became I'M
easy about his money. He was afraid
OF his bank, wouldn't trust it. He was
afraid OF his boys and his wife. and his
pastor, so he kept his money in a big
oaken chest He grew sick He was
suspicious of everybody but the doc
! tor.
! The doctor came to see him one day,
and he handed him a key and said,
/ Doctor. take the key and open nv
chest, and pile up everything that is
| in there. Go get my double-barrel
gun
His purple-lipped jaw fell. This
man of means, this coiner of cash and
! THIS musician of the mint, this minion
of Moloch, this master of misfits and
&, this misfit of the money mill, this
rasping, grasping, skinflint of miser
raised his shotgun and said to the
! doctor, You leave this room"
The doctor said, Don't shoot. |
don't want your money or stocks and
bonds. Hold on, jim; don't shoot,
don't shoot"
So he took his watch in his hand
and backed out of the door and closed
1t. The doctor stood there holding his
| watch in his hand, and in Is minutes
he walked in. There the man sat, with
his gold and stocks and bonds piled
! around him, his double-barrel shotgun
in his hand, and he was gone He
hadn't taken one blank check with him
to check back on his earthly account
1t is good thing to have money,
and the things that money will buy;
but it is a good thing to sit down once
in a while and check up and take an
inventory and be dead sure you have
not lost the things that money can't
buy. Check up on it!
So, money is the god of some folks
With some of the people it is society
They do nice things because society
demands it; and if they didn't they'd
lose their social caste and position
Society is your god and you have to
do it. If you don't believe it. you just
try it, my friends, and see what will
happen. You go contrary TO social
usages, and see how quick you will be
ostraciZed
"Put Booze On Coffin
For Sermon"
There are men here today. if you die
they wouldn't need to preach your fu.
neral sermon. Just put a whisky bot
tie on your coffin. Oh, that is the
story of your life. Booze has been
your god.
There are other men, if you die they
wouldn't need to preach a funeral ser
mon. Get your stocks and bonds and
pile them on your coffin. That is the
whole story Of your life. There are
others, if you die you wouldn't need tC
preach the funeral sermon. Go down
and get some red and white chips and
put them On their coffin. That's the
story of their life. All it is is to get
something from the other fellow with
out giving an equivalent in money Oh
! work.
There are others, if they die put
their body in their coffin, lead in the
victims of their past and you will see
their god. Sir, all they have lived fol
is the qualification of their desires.
There are some women, if you'd die
today, go to your home. get your jewels
and fine clothes, get all you have;