Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 94, 20 April 1922 — Page 7

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IVorld Full of Windjammers; Billy Condemns Self-satisfied

Pharisees Infesting Churches i Sham Religion Menace to Church, Declares Evangelist Pharisees Spread Their Views Everywhere Man's Duty Is to Help Downfallen Regardless of Cause of Fall Lord Approves Work of Righteous and Humble Men. "Pharisee and Publican" was the Hike that and get anything from God t,:ii c... at you have my best wishes, but if I

the tabernacle Thursday afternoon. The full text of the sermon follows: In. the eighteenth chapter of Luke I am not going to take my strength and your time to read you the story of the Pharisee and the publican for it is a very familiar portion of the Word of God. But I wani to talk a little while this afteri . a i j : ami ti nt aroui a enam suusiuuie. There are people with whom I yormality seems to make up for a - lack of spirituality. The Pharisees were the most religious outwardly and . the least religious inwardly of any class of people that ever lived, and they have been propogating ineir species wnn nmruims ',u ' in an communities max i uaic .ci visited or that I have ever heard any Ihing about. They were very diltgeni Qor the outward observances for the FTI-OTa tti -Kuala an iha cprpmnnies. ! thing about. They were very duigeni Worms, the rituals and the ceremonies. They useB to stoop to tie the herbs hat grew by the wayside and yet they neglected the weightier matters of the laws of equity, love, Justice, mer cy, truth, love your neighbor as yourself, and yet they were just as far from the kingdom of God as If they had been openly profane. We hear expressions of regret tnat religion is so generally neglected Dy the majority of mankind and no reas onable man or woman can reflect upon that truth without a great deal of: much or wnai we renarr uu unci n God as service is simply formal and! . . i j A,rn. i luiiuai ouui void of spiritual power, and reduced; to an ethical code. Perhaps tnat is one reason why so many do neglect it. because so much that we offer u of the head and not of the heart. What World Wants Is Religion of Deeds. Abrham Lincoln said, at the ded-

iratorv service at Gettysburg, "The;wav vou ouant to know the content

world will little note nor long remem-jof ber what wo say here, but it will never forget what they did here." And what the world wants Is a re-

ligion of deeds not talk. Talks cheap! Lots of people are expen windjammers, but to get out and deliver the goods is what the world la looking for. Now, it was to convince such that Jesus Christ spake this parable, and he had two purposes in view, which you keep in mind or you will lose the benefit of the message this afternoon. First, he wanted to show some people who think they are righteous that they are not. Second, why the prayers of some are answered and rthers are not. CfJ He had those two purposes in view I 'whwi he snake this little parable of i the Pharisee and the puDiican nrsi, to show some who think they are righteous that they are not; second, to show why the prayers of some are answered and others are not. He spake this parable what is a hi A Darable i3 a picture or of two beings of di-; rprtlv oDDOSite character flashed on

the canvas so that at a glance voUjtake tne Bjde of the Pharisees against;

might contrast the difference and take vntii1 nhniCP I hold up my thumb. You say, "I see the location, and size." t hold ud my little finger. You car "I see the location and size." I hold un my thumb and little ger and in a glance you see that's a, parable. See? They are opposites. Now some things that were in mon to these two men two men went. to the temple, ana iney wem ior same purpose. Both received whai they went for. Two men went to the temple to pray. One man received nothing. He expected nothing, so he wasn't disappointed. You will always get what you are looking for in the world. The bee looks for flowers no matter where he flies: he aets honey. And the spider gets poison. So you willi always get what you are looking for In, the world. I Two men went to the temple to prav. Some things were peculiar to each of these two men. Notice first this Pharisee; notice his attitude while praying nice, pretty, smooth. jecorus, as much as to .say, u you Vvlsh to know how to do it. ask me, and after I tell you. write 'Finis.'" Cites Example Of What He Means. "See Naples and die!" And so his attitude was pretty. A preacher in Chicago was a real good. Godly man, a good friend of mine. He came to me one d;iy and said to me. J William, I have listened to you pi?ach and pra and if ycu will pernit me to offer a few suggestions yhich if you would follow, I think t would increase and improve your Effectiveness." I I thanked him for the information and said, "I am anxious and ready to receive any information and do any- ' thing in my power if by doing it I know that it will help the cause of God and lead more people to God." He said. "Now when you pray.' make an acrostic on the word act. Let the letter 'a' stand for 'adoration.: " Well." 1 agreed with him, "you can't adore God too much." C, I think he said was : "confess- j ion," I agreed with him. We ought to be specific and not try . and job lot it when we confess. T, I think he said was "theology." I told him that there we parted company, for I knew no more about theology than a jackrabit did about pingpong or golf, and he said to me. "Now, whenever I pray, I always eormulate that acrostic in my mind -a for adoration, c for confession, t 'for theology." I said, "Wen, the uora Diess you, Doctor, if .you can tomow a Tormuia, - . . ,

I'd feel like David'

when he went out to fight old King' Saul with his armor on. He felt like' a fellow with a hand-me-down suit, four sizes too big, but when he took It off and walked down to the brook, picked up five stones, he made the giant of Gath bite the dust, so you fight the devil with your mannerisms, I I will fight him the best I know how J with mine and we will both unite and. give him the best run for his money we know how." A preacher out in Iowa, he came to me and .said, "Bill, why don't you i do the way I do?" . i I said. "If I did I wouldn't be worth' any more than you are." ! Now notice what he said, "I thank thee. God, I am not as other men are. Consistent Christian. Gratitude tn God is never rminled with a defamation of his creatures. You can't thank God with one breath and turn around and assassinate vour neighbor with the next; You can't I

thank God with one breath and lie j traditions and so they were teaching about somebody the next; you can't i traditions instead of commandments put that over on God no sir! Grati-jand made the commandments of God tude to God is never coupled with aj0f non-effect because of their tradi-

aeramauon 01 nis creatures. lie minus ne is ngnieous. tie puis; himself in a class here, puts all the. rest in a class by themselves, and!

says, "i thank you, God. I am not asjgion didn't consist in doing a lot of;Dack home on a postcard.

Now he lied at the' very beginf nis r,,.avr.r Mind vnn .Tpsim . . nurses in view: First, to ghow gome whQ think th are ri h. teous that they are not; second, to show why the prayers of some are answered and others are not. This man- lied at the beginning of hi3 prayer. If you will read the first seventeen cnapiers 01 LiUKe. ay xne , tne first seventeen chapters before ; you attempt to find out what's in th-5 eighteenth that's the way you do witn a nove, suppose, but that's the way you don.t d0 wjtn tne Bible and if you read the novel in the same slip shod, happy-go-lucky, good-lord-good-devil, milk, cider, chalk and vinegar way you do the Bible, you'd know no more about the novel than you do about the Bible. So if you will read the first seventeen chapters of Luke you will find that the Pharisees hated everybody. Oh, they despised the Greeks; they hated the Romans; they despised John the Baptist; and above every body they despised Jesus Christ. He told that bunch of ecclesiastical crooks where to head in. Jesus Christ proved nlms(1f an inconoclast. A man said to me, "Weren t the Pharisees zealous for the law?" "Yes." Didn't they stone offenders against the moral law?" "Yes." "Well why was Jesus at such cross ! purposes with the Pharisees until in ri some, neoDle eo so far as to Jesug in the quarrPi? Pharisees Taught Jewish Tradition. Why did they? I will tell you. Jesus said to them. "Look here' j You. are teaching these people tradi-fin-.tjons Instead nf commandments." And wnen Jesus came into the worid, he did not fulfill their tradi-com-,tions; ne did fulfill the commandments of God And therefore, they Foremost Song Leader Homer Mr. Rodeheaver. SOntr leader and l . ' Sunday party. He is rated one of the

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TODAY'S BEST STORY IN BILLY'S SERMON

When I first started out to preach, I diagnosed the difficulty up In the gray matter.. I said. "Lord, the bunch is all from Missouri. They are wanting to be shown and I guess. it's up to me." So I got a sermon. I got out the Encyclopedia Britannica, and Webster's Unabridged. Oh, I had some sentences in it that long it would make the jaw of a Greek professor squeak a week trying to pronounce the wcrds. You have seen a kid at the Fourth of July break a firecracker in the'middle and then light a match. Why, it would zt-zt-zzt. Well, that was the way with that sermon it never delivered the goods. . One day I said, "Well, God, I've got it doped out wrong. There's nothing the matter with anybody but they've got the devil in them. With some it is the devil of pride, with some the devil of lust, with some the devil of money, with some the devil of a bad temper, with some it is the devil of a long tongue." And I loaded my old gospel gun up with rough-on-rats, buttermilk, epicac, dynamite, rock salt and barbed wire and I screwed the butt end up and I yanked the trigger and the feathers have been flying and the gang's been hunting their holy ever since. You've got to adapt' your ammunition to the kind of game you are after. It doesn't do any good to go to war on a skunk with cologne J water. weren't expecting him to fulfill their (tions, and Jesus had a quarrel with

mem uctaus-e urey aw a- upaituie. gome men never hint that they love from their daily, civic, and social life, j their wife until they are a, hundred He went on to show them that reli-;mi,s awav an(1 th ih' KAtlJ u

special thing3, although branded as religion, but religion consisted in doing everything that God wanted done. So he had a quarrel with tiem. Jesus was a pious patriot; they were pious churchmen. They locked horns right from the beginning and that was the crowd that killed him. There were about 7,000 Pharisees in round numbers. They were the ecclesiastical power; they ran things; they dedicated the policies. If a man didn't preach the way they wanted him to, they put him out of business.: That was the crowd that stirred up! the Romans, stirred up Pilate; that was the crowd Jesus Christ was crucified by the church of his day whose sins he rebuked. Paul was one of ; them. He wasn't one of the Phari-i sees that killed him but he said "I am ! a Pharisee of Pharisees," so thero, were about 7,000 of them. They were the church crowd. Ev-' ery church that I have ever had anything to do with or known anything about is cursed with a few men and women who want to run the whole ; thing a little bunch of Pharisees. We j call them by a different name, but, they are the same old bunch. j So he put himself in a class there. put all the rest of the world in a class . by themselves. Now he lied at thej eginning oi nis yi ayti . j He said "I thank thee, God I am j not as other men are plunderers, , murucra, auunei ei a, ui even i.ma yuulican." John the Baptist was not an adult-, erer; Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ was not an adulteress; Anna, the prophetess, was not an adulteress oh, there were multitudes that were

, v " " . "to ooasi aDOUt. He practiced his 1 they were, so he lied j duty as he went to the synagogue but ;inning of his prayer. jtne practicing of those duties simply pride. He was so full afforded him the chance to publicly

not as ne said they were, so ne iiea:,,,. o hD

at the very beg He came by I of his virtues that he forgot all about his wants. Listen to his prayer one continued eulogy of himself. "I thank thee, God, I am not as other men are, I fast twice a week. I give tithes of i all I possess.' in the United States Rodeheaver fromhnnp nlavor has ioinpd the -- greatest song leaders in the country.!

"0-h-! Religious Sensation

You cannot thank God with one breath and assassinate your neighbor with the next; you cannot thank God with one breath and lie about somebody the next. Gratitude to God Is never coupled with defamation of his creatures. Jesus was a pious patriot; they were pious churchmen. They locked horns right from the beginning, and that was the crowd that killed him. The Pharisses was so full of his virtues that he forgot about his wants. A lot of people go to church and do no more than gratify their vanity, to show off their hats and their clothes. They join the church with no higher motive than a yegg cracks a safe. You get down on your knees and tell God you are s.n old sinner bound for hell and you ought to go to hell land if you get what's your due, you will get hell. O h ! Religious sensation Is better than putrid damnation any time. If you humble yourself in the sight ! of the Lord, he will lift you up. When you come to the tabernacle or go to church, don't sing. Just look like a barnacle, my friends, on the hull of a ship. Let the pastor do all the work. See that his salary is always behind time. He can work down here and board in heaven. The church hires him just to look nice and amuse you. He hasn't anything special to do. This government is run on the majority rule but in the church, the tail wags the dog. All some men marry for is to get somebody to cook for them, patch their clothes and darn their socks. It would spoil a mu:e to be treated When some men pray to God they look like a jack-rabbit eating alfalfa. I loaded my old Gospel gun up with rough-on-rats. buttermilk, epicac, dynamite, rock salt and barbed wire, and I screwed the butt end up, and I yanked the trigger, and the feathers have been flying and the gang's been hunting their hole ever since. 6:00 p. church. , 7:00 p. night. m. m. Song service

FRIDAY 9:00 a. m. Sunday and party at the High School. 10 to 10:30 a. m. Neighborhood prayer meetings. 12:00 noonShop meeting at Elliott and Reid plant, West Side. 2:30 p. m. Song service and sermon. 3:30 p. m. Bible study, Miss Kinney. 7:00 p. m. Song service and sermon; "Bring Something Special."

A sort of nominative I; posgessive, mine; objeclive me. Acknowledgment Was ! Uprp r.nmnltmn4 i.iton tr. thi ton ? His acknow- . wepmpn, nf r.n(1 " nthir, j nor iess tnan a mere compliment. His : frpp,inm frrl ,in wqc nothing n,-in ! lo boast about. He oracticed his i gratify his vanity, not to get on his knees and be decent, and serve God. And so a lot of people go to church and do no more tha lan gratify their vanity, to show off their hats and their clothes. Thev don't oo to hear anv. thing to make them decent and if they did, they wouldn't be any dif - ferent from what they are so they join the church with no higher moflu. fhn ua.M ..f. He talked about his good deeds, He said, "I fast twice a week." Ha, Ha! Gosh! He was a better man than the Lord wanted him to be. Ii you will read the sixteenth chapter of Leviticus, if you "will read the fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth chapters of Isaiah, you will find that God asked the Jew to fast once a year that was on the great day of atonement, com - jmemorating the passing over of the destroying angel throughout the land of Egypt when God sat them free from i ine slavery ana f eriaom or oia Fnaraoh where they used to bare theirs .backs and make bricks without, straw.:

land for four hundred and thirty years j m the world, if you come too closely j the Jew was the nisal ticket for the'n contact with the unfortunate you t Egyptian. jwill have transmitted to you the vir -

The Egyptian was lazy, lustful, in-, dolent. He didn't want to have a j Jew any of those things. God sent, Moses to deliver them from the bond-i age where they'd been ever since! iucji u sum duaeim miu uuuuage uown v,.n xt .-ii j Lnri t. . u w . ii yuu win rtfau. you will find that God only asks the Jew to fast once -a year. Thi3 fellow came around and blew. He said. "I fast twice a week." Well, there are fifty-two weeks in the year; twice fifty-two is a hundred and four, so God owed him for a hundred and three fasts. So, it makes all the difference in the world whether .you feel you owe God somethirtg or whether you feel God is in your debt. All the difference in the world. This Man Poured Contempt on Others He was uncharitable. He poured contempt upon others. He said. "God, I thank you that I am not as other men are." Now, suppose what he said wa3 true, that other men. and women were murderers, adulterers, thieves; suppose what he said about himself was true, that he was all right. Then instead of blowing for their misery

(it seemed to be a source of gratifi-1 There's the other fellow the publication to him) he didn't lift his fin-1 can. Notice his attitude while prayger to try and make the drunkard ! ing. He stood afar off. which 1m-

t sober, to try and lift the woman from.Dlips the other fellow pnt in th Hmo.

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Is Better Than Putrid Damnation Any Time!" Billy

unday Revival Program THURSDAY Council Girls' meeting, First Presbyterian

and sermon ; Presbyterian fication to him that he wasn't In the nnae-mire nf filth nnrl nf H oo-ra flat inn a. , . . .... wun me unioriunates or ine uay. He folded his old arms and never lifted a finger to try and help them. Now, then, if what he said was true mind vou. he is an old liar if what h naM I was true, if men and women were irue, u men ana women were ! plunderers, murderers, and adulterers, j and if he was what he said hs was. sail right, then hewould havo gone to ninnH j them and in the name of God he j would have used his influence and i power to help them get out of where they were into that what they ought to be ! And if I find a man that's drunk, ! it's none of my business whether it! ; was hereditary, whether it was the reI suit of his environment, whether it i w&s the result of his being a fool; it's TriV nilKinPKC: tn li.'l n mate him ulioi- , my business to help make him sober, And if I find a girl selling her wo-j manhood, merchandising her virtue ! for gain, it's none of my business , whether that's the result cf deception or misplaced love or of lust, it's your! j business to help set her free and send ; her home with the tears of repentence coursing down her cheeks. Perhaps if you'd been up against j what she was up against you'd be what she is, so don't fold your skirts ! of selfrighteousness about your old j carcass and thank God you are not as uiutr ueuuie are. t H . . . jjoni imagine tnat mere is an inevitable law of absorntion eoine alone

us of the sin that contaminates and i climDcd on my ap and sne said. infests and blights and infects them j "paDa iot-s KO to bed and you tell like a pestilence and a mildew. 1 Tories " 1 He asked no help from God; he got!" i sajd "Well I wish I could Helen"! no more than he asked. He had no! she saM why can't you?"

, l "a umi aumij. wii, i uts- . Tico , c v.r- i I y' occ mc;c ijijn- ug aiL as thnueh there wprp snmpthinn- inherent . v, i v, i ...u . . i i i . wiimu iut.uw., uu:u, oy cunure you can develop to such a stage of perfection that God Almighty will grant you salvation as a reward of merit. No! You get down on your knees and tell God you are an old sinner bound for hell and you ought to go to hell and if you get what's your due, you will get hell. You don't deserve salvation. Nobody deserves it! Don't act as if God Almighty owes it to you: He doesn't.: He owes you a chance to accept it but he isn t giving it to you because you deserve it. If you got what you deserve, you'd get hell, every one of you! So don't act as though the Lord was simply paying you what he owes you he doesn't. The Story Of The . v Other Man, Now we'll let this old lobster alono for a little while the Pharisee. li;ht xJa n.miln't i:A v: UAUl. A A-, T I. 111L tl II IJIS V , " -I iunto heaven: he smote unnn his

y breast, saying: "God be merciful to

me, a sinner." He knew where he was wrong in here; not up here. i i.eep your nean wun an ain-j ' gence for out it are the issues of I life." . " j "Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders,, fornication and adultery- The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately i wicked." "Blessed are the pure in heart, for . they shall see God." j "Thou hast- neither- part nor lot; m this matter, for your heart is not ! right in the sight of God." j The trouble, my friends, is in the i heart; that's what's the matter with the people and this fellow knew , where the trouble was. "Gcd be mer1 ciful to me a sinner." He kept on smiling. I One man said, "God, I'm all right." j The other man said, "Well, God, ! I'm a'l WTOng." One man talked about his good deeds; the other man made no reference to his good deeds. One man talked about his superoritv over his neiehbor: the other - man made no reference to his neieh- , bors. One man talked about his viruors. ume man ia.ih.tu auuui ma vir - ! tues; the other man talked abou his j vices. ' j One man said, "Lord, I don't need ; your help." j The other man said. "Well. God. ' If you don't help me, I'll be in hell ; befo i before midnight." One man said, "I thank you that I am not 'as other men are." This man made no reference to

j his fellow creatures, neither their 'were a duet by Rodeheaver and Mrs. vices nor their virtues. He said.'Asher, '01d Rugged Cross," and a

j "God, I want to get square right away." . That's a good thing! You'll be surprised how many defects.it takes Ou-of other people when you get; straight. . ' . I -and. he mprciful to me. a sinner." i

' Recites Personal , (attendance and collection. The choir ; incident. I is singing from the heart and getting it j just pardon a little il'uatrationi across to the audience. Now I am ' f r0m home. I have the honor to bejonly talking from comparison, but the father of three boys and one! Richmond is not doing as well as some

gjri Helen is married. By the wav.! ner husband is a newspaper editor" out ln Michigan. That's why I'veJ enf a warm snot in mv hpart tor t5"V . t' - J the newr.tianer hunch. He is the p i ' i,t,i mu.i.iv i tnere j n- wnen Helen was a little girl ; in' rhiMn nnft nirht she came and T .t hiv-o tn t-n nwav ' 1 Balu 1 nave 6She said. "Are you going very far i away . j w y j. jn tQ TJrbana, Ohio." She said, "Are you coming home I said. 'No, I'm going to Troy, N. Y." She said "Are you coming home then?" 1 I said, "No, I'm going to Evanston,' Indiana." j "Are you coming home then?" j "No, I'm going to Richmond. Indi-, i .f ' Comine home then?" "No, I'm going to Indianapolis, Indiana," I said, "I gues3 I'll have you and mother and George come! down to Indianapolis." . i She threw her arms around my neck and commenced to cry, and said, "Papa, please don't you go away. You're the best friend I've got Don't you go away." ; "Well," I said, "Helen, I have to go and preach to get something to pay house rent, put coal under the; sidewalk." I said, "I have "to go." I And she cried and I said, "Now,

CHURCH LETS IVORLD GO TO HELL -SUNDAY

Wake Up for God's Sake, . Church, or Quit," Pleads Evangelist as He Demands Action. BREAKS FIRST CHAIR "The churches look as if, they ate too much and slept too Well over the way the world is going to hell," ' shouted Billy Sunday at the Wednesday evening meeting. ; Grabbing a chair from the platform and swinging it around his head, he roared, "The world since the war has realized the need of Christ," and , then swinging it with a crash to the floor, he leaned over the edge of the platform, his face perspiring and dripping from his exertion, he shook his fist at the audience. "Wake up for God's sake, church, or quit.!" "I have never yet seen a city that " would not EO for God if the church" j would come out and stand for God," he aeciarea. . . Jacob :s Theme Preaching on the character "Jacob", Billy Sunday opened with a tribute to the Jew and to the things that the world owed to him. "Don't forget that it was a Jew that raised the money for Washington at the time of the Revolution, and made it possible for us to sing 'My Country Tis of Thee," instead of 'God Save the King "Don't forget that it was a Jew that loaned the money to discover America, and that it was a Jew in Columbu's party that was the first to set foot on American soil." The first appearance of i Homer Rodeheaver was a signal for a dem onstration from the chorus, the audience meanwhile looking somewhat bewildered until the song leader appeared beside the piano, and took off his grey felt hat. Then the audience broke into applause. Billy Sunday appeared on the platform in a few minutes and was warmly received. Introduces Bodeheaver In introducing Mr. Rodeheaver Rev. R. w. stoakes said: "This afternoon I introduce Rody's trombone to the audience, but tonigh I am introducing Rodeheaver himself." Almost the first song sung wa? . "Brighten the Corner Where You Are," which was demanded by a member ot" the florists' delegation, the first local delegation to visit the meetings. The announcement of the famou? number, brought a round of applause, and Mr. Rodheaver assisted with trombone accompaniment. With the advent of Mr. Rodeheaver everything seemed to start off with added enthusiasm. Mr. Matthews at the piano added any number of extra thrills and fancy chords, until it sounded like a whole battery of pianos following the song. $100 Offering Reading a letter attached to a $100 billl found in the afternoon collection. Sunday demanded of the audience howmany would promise to bring $1.00 on the following night. Nearly half of the audience stood. i "-v. i The letter stated that the se ! was not a Christian, but could 'see a good thing passed up. The letter stated that the sender not and wanted to help. It was unsigned. "A man like that would not join a church that coiild not put across such a project at this, because he would think that the church wa3 a bunch of tightwads," declared Rev. Sunday. The musical numbers of the evening number by the chorus. ! The collection for the day, it was announced after the meeting, totaled $498.35. 1 . Our Weak Spots "The only fault I have to find with Richmond." said Mr. Sunday, "is in the other towns smaller than her have done in collection and attendance." Sunday closed his sermon, with (Continued on Next Page) LOVE, WHAT IS IT? HERE'S BILLY'S REPLY If I had never loved, I would want an undertaker to embalm me and put me under the ground. What is the use of taking up room in the world if your heart is incapable of loving? Marriage may not always result in the Heaven you had hoped it would, and maybe half of it is your fault, for all I know. Love is something you can't quarantine; you can't vaccinate; you can't warn; you can't reason with. It is a good deal like lightning. You can't tell when or where cr whom it will hit. Some young people were discussing love. They were going to decide how old a person should be before they could fall in love, and they left it to the grandmother, and they said, "Granny, how old should a person be before they fall In love?" She said, "You'll have to ask somebody older than me." Somebody said to an old maid, sixty-five years old, "Are you mar. ried?" She said, "Not yet.w Make your wife happy. She will never grow old. You can make her happy with religion. I plead for a happy religion. Happiness is the best preventive for gray hairs and a wrinkled brow. It beats a powderrag, my friends, or hair dye. And the wife who hi worth her salt Is worth praising.

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