The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-10
FAMILY GROUP
LEADS 1903 TO
SIGN PLEDGES
Father, Mother And Son
Lead Trail Filters Sun
day Takes Up Arguments
Made Against Christianity
ROTARY GIVES FLOWERS

Led by family group, a father,
a mother and son. 103 trail hitters
shook Billy Sundays hand Tuesday
night and signed pledges to live a
Christian life.
Preaching on IF Any Man .Shonld
Do My WILL" Rev. Sunday took up in
turn many of the arguments that are
made against the Christian religion.
Where did Cain get his WIFE" he
demanded How should know or
| care. Cain was 125 years old when
he met his wife, and according to
scientists, man doubles in population
In % years. That being the case
Cain had 5000 damsels to choose
from" sr7
Begin At Beginning
Begin at the beginning when you
study religion" he said, "just as Won
begin at the beginning in the study
of law or medicine or business"
IF more people made practice OF
starting at the beginning there would
MT be so many of these fool questions
, asked. And most of them are asked
as an excuse because the practice OF
the Christian religion would keep
them from something that they want
to do"
1t was a special Methodist night and
they turned out $50 strong In spite OF
the rainy night s. -l.f1s5l
"The sprinkling wouldn't keep a
Methodist in" declared Homer Rode
heaver, for if it did they wouldn't
be Methodists."
Rotary Represented
The Rotary club was represented by
90 persons. When asked for g song.
several voices shouted go" while the
rest of the club laughed, because Rode
, HEAVIER had been teaching the Rotari.
ans that song at their noon time lunch
con. rs-- 1.sEFr..- &.
As the club was introduced. Miss
Katherine Baird, 229 North Seventeen
street, brought TO the platform a bass
ket OF roses, snap-dragons and lilies,
which she placed before Mr.. Sunday
disappearing from the platform before
/ Mr.. Sunday had a chance to greet her.
! Did you see that little girl come
up here, and make her getaway" de
manded Sunday of Rodeheaver as he
grlnned at the path the girl had taken
Rotarians Sing
On the request of the Rotary club
Rodeheaver had the audience sing.
Brighten the Corner Where You
Are" and on the chorus had the Re-
| tary club sing the last phrase alone.
Mrs. Asher and Mr. Rodeheaver
sang Who Gould 1t Be But Jesus"
! by request. Prayer was given BY
Evangelist G. R. Powell. of Hartford.
City, when it was suggested that there
were other delegations present.
Seventeen of the Spanish-Amerieann
! war veterans were present Lewis
vile was represented by As persons.
and 20 members of the Ladies Aid
society of the East Main Street
Friends church were present
When the call for trail hitters"
came the the Ladies Aid and the del.
egation from Lewisville responded al
most in body =--ra5s
Rody Gives Introducttons
At the opening Of the program Rode
HEAVIER had introduced to the audi
ence, Ruth Rodeheaver,a his sister,
Mrs. Rodeheaver, not his wife, Erode
HEAVIER says he is interested in meet
ing that Mrs. Rodeheaver) and Mrs.
Fred Rapp. and her daughter Virgin
ia.
Come up after the meeting and
shake hands with them" he said.
When Mr. Sunday came on to the
platform he said that he had some
friendsl that he wanted to introduce
and called to the platform Mr.. w. c.
Higgenbottom, of the Panhandle"
and William NJ. Wardrop, general SUI
perintendent of the Michigan division
of the G. r. & l. s+#
Il have been up since o'clock this
morning" said Mr.. Sunday in opening
his sermon. 81 feed the birds at Wi
mona Lake. and they come around at $
o'clock to gets their feed, and they
make SO much noise that it is imposa. 5
BILE to Sleep stsa + Tscsz
Mr. Sunday reeled off the names of
a dozen or more kinds of birds that 2
come to his place to feed They
all come there" he said. -
Hits BootIeegers zf
Turning from the logical develop
ment Of his sermon for moment. Billy =.
Sunday paid his respects to the boot
logger" and the person that would buv
from him. ~ SIC
Il have more respect for the old Z
saloon keeper, thanI have for the
modern bootlegger." he shouted, gestl
uring with vehemence, and darling
from one side of the pulpit to another
And have just as little use for the
person who buys his stuff of that
bootlegger. You know that you areC
u doiAe Win d lldf, a low 5Q0Wn black
guard, or he wouldn't be in that busi.,G
ness" k1I =s e
Some people have said to me-" he2q
continued, that ! ought to go slow /
on that as there might be people In
the audience that have liquor in their z
house, Tcf
We'll if they have" roared Mr. Sum &
day his voice husky from exertions
and strain, then l have no use for
them 20 Tl.76
Hits Modern Novels led ass
Turning his attention to the novels
of the day, Sunday declared for a re
vival literature. 'If some people threw :
out of their houses all that was not
good" he said. they wouldn't have &
enough paper IN the house to start a
fire with or make a hair curler" - =
Describing the house where the
Bible was not opened from one month
to the next. Sunday said, 1T is only
opened when some one dies, or is 4
married, or some baby is born, and
tsssd lxsN no psnunuo0) us