The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-27

Many Persons
Lost Faith.
There are multitudes Of people
started on a royal run and they have
compromised on a rat; started for
heaven, compromised on a bottle Of
beer; started for glory. compromised
on some trifling institution that
caused you to lose your vision Of
God and of his truth.
-Four things man must learn to do.
If he would make his record true,
First. to think without confusion,
clearly,
To love his fellow man sincerely,
To act from honest motive purely,
To trust In God, and heaven surely.
II a man finds himself falling In
one line of business he will be wise
if he quits it and goes into another
that he can make a success of.
Religion is not for time, not for
money, 1t Is not for business, it is
not for society, II is not for politics.
II is for God, it Is for life and death,
for better or for worse; to be care
fully considered before you can take
step and set your face like film.
and never deviate from the path that
God lays down for you to walk in.
II will end in apostasy If you don't
return.
Peter denied Jesus: he returned
with tears of repentance. Old Judas
denied him and he went out and com
mitted suicide, and he died an apos
ate. They both denied Jesus but one
came back and the other didn't.
Down in North Carolina sometime
ago an old fellow went out and
caught seventeen fine brook trout
He brought them home and cleaned
! them and his wife said:
you'd better take them up to town
to the preacher, he's got some friends
visiting him and he's got big family
/ himself
So they put a little salt on them
and wrapped them all up, put them
, in a basket and he started to town
to give them to the preacher. On the
way he stopped at a little country
. gracery store to buy some groceries
and a little country blacksmith shor
to get his old mare shod and was
telling about it, And the grocer's
| trout out of the basket and put them
in the ice box. and he wrapped up 4
piece of rotten Goldfish and put thai
in the basket. The fellow ordered
some groceries and drove on and
when he got to the preachers house
he got out and got his basket, walked
in and said:
Gives Gift
To Poster.
81 went out and caught seventeen
of the finest speckled trout | ever
! cleaned. l heard you were having
some company so / brought them il
to you"
! Then he took the fish out of the
basket, and when the women got {
whiff of it they grabbed their noses
j and beat it for the door, and he said:
! Marie is losing her mind. She pu
| that Goldfish in there instead of the
| fish"
| And so he took them, put them II
| the basket and started back. Oh
his way back he stopped at the gro
Gerry store in order to get the grocer
! les he had ordered on the way up.
The fellow noticed something wa:
wrong and said, What is the mat
! ter. Jack?"
ooh! Maria is losing her mind,
tell you she is going crazy"
He told them about the codfisl
and the boy went out and got tn
Goldfish and threw it out Of the has
ket and put the speckled trout bacl
in and the old fellow drove home AM
his wife came out to meet him.
III hot hn
say?"
/ talk to me, you're losin' your mind!
: he said, What made you put thos
: rotten Goldfish in there?"
: Losing my mind ] am not"
: Eyes you are5"
'No I'm mott"
Eyes you are!'
. And they had one of those domesti
explosions whose names are legior
He went and got the package out o
1.-The basket She unrolled it, an
: reached down and picked up specl
led trout by the tail.
7 There! Who is losing their mind
Is them speckled trout or rotten coo
/ fish,"
The old fellow looked at ther
; pulled his whiskers and said, "Wel
r you may be speckled in the countr!
: but you are rotten Goldfish in town.
. Some People Are
Rotten Goldfish.
, Some of you folks did amount t
, something before you came to tow
but now you are nothing but rotte
Goldfish. All right come on back t
God and be some of the Lord
t speckled trout and not the DEVILS COZ
i fish
Il What do you say? The devil ha
t no happy old men or women. l hay
t never tabooed but two towns that
t ever preached in. One was a littl
: jay town in a western state and
l tell you they had $50 charter men
. bers in an infidel club in that littl
: town. ] stopped at the best hot,
/ and / was afraid of my life. The
r could have started founding asylum
r in that town. There were only tw
men there they called Christians an
/ they put a question mark after the
/ names.
: Somebody asked me, why is 1t S
? heinous to sin?'
2 | will tell you. 1t is to be untru
. There is no man or woman that l s
delight to honor as true man or
/ true woman; there is no one l S
despise and abhor as a contemptibl
f snake in the grass, an untrue ma
: or an untrue woman. o, one who's
: word is as weak as a rope of san
= and whose honor is as unendurin