Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 108, 6 May 1922 — Page 9
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World Will Always Judge One By His Companions, His Deeds, And Big Services He Performs Character of Samson Reveals Weaknesses Which Lead to Ruin and Shame, Says Rev. W. A. Sunday in Sermon Pointing Out the Pitfalls of Life as Well as the Straight Path Leading to Glory.
Speaking on "Samson" at the tabernacle Rev. W. A. Sunday said Friday night: , Anybody Btarting out with the intention of making a success in life and I should hope there i3 none that don't want to, I believe everybody wants to succeed, whether you are going to be a lawyer, whether you are going to be a doctor or a merchant, whatever your calling may be In life, nobody wants to be a third-rater, we always want to live under that banner that Bays "Success" upon it in my opinion, you can do nothing better than to study the character and
the career of Samson. It is so full of
the warnings of the things which must be avoided if the building of a noble character is the object desired. The dangers which beset and "finally overwhelmed Samson were real dangers and they are common to all and they are sure to come upon all who follow a similar course and career. The story of his life shows the
pcks upon which you may wreck.
haps the only child, for no other is mentioned. Hia parents seem to have been devoutly religious, but they appear to have made a hundred mistakes in the raising of this boy. He was endowed with phenomenal physical strength and correspondingly strong passions, which he was never taught to control, and his parents seem to have been a sort of wishywashy, easy-going kind of folks that allowed him to do as he pleased. Had rigid discipline been exercised, I might have a different story to tell you tonight. Boys Must Be Trained Right. Letting a boy do as he pleases is
Just the same as letting him go to the devil, and it won't be long until he
will be to the devil if he is allowed to
do as he pleases
Probably he had learned to boss his parents before he was very old.
and if he wanted anything, he learn
i I Spend Less Than You Earn, Billy Sunday's Advice to Young Men , ; , , ; li
"I didn't think," is an expression unworthy of a wise young man. That was only intended for fools. ... Wrong deceives, cheats, beguiles, misleads, tickles, lies. Right is honest, truthful, manly, womanly. Vice is deadly, no matter how harmless it may appear.
Down at Timnath he fell in love
with a Philistine girl. That was an
other cause of his downfall, not because he fell in love with a girl, but he fell in love with the wrong girl and the wrong kind of one. Love is
a divinely planted instinct, but he fell in love with the wrong one, and he
wanted that girl, and when his parents tried to reason with him, he put
his hands over his heart and he said,
"Get her, for she pleaseth me well
You might as well try to reason
with a prairie fire or with a bull dog with a bone as to reason with a young man in love, and yet when a young man seeks a wife, he steps' on mighty
holy ground. The greatest bliss that
falls from heaven blesses the man
who brings pure love to meet equally pure love at the marriage altar.
There are millions and millions or
young men whose weal or whose woe is going to be sealed by the marriage vow. A good woman with an un
worthy husband is to be pitied, and a good man with an unworthy wife is to be pitied. The man who marries
a good wife doesn't have to work half
Letting a boy do as he pleases is
just he same as letting him go to the devil, and won't be long until he will be to the devil if he is allowed to do as he pleases. Bad company will draw you to the devil whether you want to go or not. No matter how many prayers hover over you, if you are in a bad crowd, then they will drag you to the devil, .irrespective of your mother's appeals and her tears and pleadings. A stray dog will follow anybody, but a trained one, his master. My whole conflict against the devil is because he undermines and makes us unfit for husbands, sons, mothers, daughters and citizens. I say morals have become an econo-
as hard to get to heaven as the fel- mic question, and every young man . ' . 1 - 1 - J1 1 J .3
low wno marries a Daa one aoes to keep out of hell. Blinds Samson To Reason. And the pretty face of that Philistine srfrl made him blind to the voice
of reason, and the Philistines would !
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You might as well try to reason with a prairie fire or with a bulldog with a bone as to reason with a young
man in love, and yet when a young man seeks a wife he steps on holy ground. The man who marries a good wife doesn't have to work half as hard to go to Heaven as the fellow who marries a bad one does to keep out of hell. If you think you can keep on doing anything to beat the devil, you are mistaken.
Not to make a start for Heaven is if there was no card playing done
who forsakes a high noral standard. to more than hait decide that you will in the homes, there wouldn't be a iS5nSBB"lKttfhS go to helL I hope you will not lose out. gamDling hell on earth today. And of that maDy a church pillar is only the devil's , , The man who continues to go with gtool pJge011can.t Bee any harm. j Remember, please, boys and girls, v,a rnmnanv without reeard to con-
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So the devil wouldn't land a lot of people if they hadn't been fools and made the mistake of listening to him. Samson is wearing out shoe leather courting this girl and on one of his trips down there, a lion came out and roared against him without the slightest suspicion that he was committing suicide when he did it. When he saw Samson, no doubt he said, "Here's my nice little man for a breakfast," and he began to lick
his chops like a gresn goods man
ea tnat au ne naa to ao was 10 bul,w, h. Eps n.h. hut h nnn
on the floor and stiffen his spine and! found out tnat ne had no m0Pe busi.
yen use a LomaacuB laumu. aim iiiness tnePe than a preacher has In a nrnli 1 14 at 1 .......
"uu'u "- , convention or brewers and Oh, what a pity It was that he So he killed that 2ion a wasn't given a brisk massage treat-hl3 carcass to one side.
ment witn a wnue oa anmgio aDomICTen BtOD to sk:m t
A sound apple in a barrel of rotten have him play on his side
from me, have the nerve to wear patch- the rest of them. You go with a bad . Tne 'UES man who doesn t aeciae es rather than to wear togs owned by crowd, it won't be long until you wm important matters for himself lets tue j
the tailor. Patches are more honor- be as good for nothing as the crod uevu uecme iu , vZaZIJ
able than pawn tickets. A hand-me- you are with. 3 wV'""v"h down if it is paid for is better than ls to keeP your 60ul free from 1 a tailor-made with a 'collector after The world will always form an idea, power of the devil. you and a just one, too, of your character by your associates. Those who are The tracks made by the cloven hoofs The moment a young man makes a constant companions are always of the devil are covered up with the bet, the devil has got a rope around drawn together by some similitude of fair flowers of promise that turns his neck. He is gone. manner. to cactus later on.
f TODAY'S BEST STORY
IN BILLY'S SERMON William H. Milburn, who was for years the "Blind Chaplain" of the United States senate, was told by aome friends of an eminent occulist in London who had done wonders, and he Journeyed across th seas, and when he arrived there he found there was a convention of occulista being held In Paris. He went to the continent to see this London specialist. He met him and he said. "Well, I am glad you came. 'I hope you will receive a benefit, but," he said, "there is an occulist who lives In Berlin he Is not here attending this conference that we consider the greatest of all. I'd advise you to go and see him." So he journeyed to Berlin, consuited the famous occulist, and he examined him and said, "I think with one or two operations you will be able to see, but It would be six months before I would attempt the first one, and if you are willing to wait and go through the treatment I will try it." t He did, and the operation was performed, and he said to Dr. Mil. burn, "One year should elapse before I attempt a 6econd operation. You can spend that here or anywhere,or return home. All I ask is that you will follow Implicitly the Instructions I will give, and at the end of it, if you will return, the operation will be performed with
every hope, Judging by the success of this, that you will be able to realize your desire to see." Dr. Milburn returned to the United States. He religiously followed his Instructions for a year. He purchased his passage on a steamer and went on board In New York. They were going through, ringing the bell, crying, "All ashore that's going ashcre," when someone dashed up the gangplank with a cablegram and called "Dr. Milburn!" and they paged him and gave him the cablegram, and his attendant read it. .It said: "We are sorry to inform you. but you need not return to Berlin. The doctor died last night." And every hope that he would see vanished, and they led him sorrowfully down the gangplank
and he never saw the sunlight.
and he took the warpath, and he smote the Philistines hip and thigh with great slaughter. Then he strolled over to the rock
convention of brewers and distillers. iEtam, sat down and composed him-
tossea ( self and reviewed wnat he had been
le didn't
that time! Solomon said, "He that spareth the rod, spoileth the child." In my opinion, one occasion of his failure was that he was the son of a
man who had no backbone, and he was over-indulged and allowed to have his own way and soon he was going to the wrong places and going with the wrong people. He went down to Timnath and associated with the enemies of God.
Circumstantial evidence ls mighty strong that he wore out a good many
pairs of sandals journeying back and
rortn Deiore ne could get Her consent to the wedding, because the carcass of that lion had dried sufficiently to enable the bees to turn it into a hive and fill it with honey before she said "Yes" to his proposition. Wait a minute. His moral train-
,H-rong company will make every-w t10 feu nesieu
Ajiing wrong and everybody wrong .hat mixes with it Bad company will draw you to go or not No matter how many prayers hover over you. if you are in a bad crowd, then they will drag you to the devil, irrespective of your mother's appeals and her
tears and her pleadings.
of his own- manufacture, suggested to him by the carcass of that lion and the bees' making a hive out of it, and he bet thirty changes of raiment against the field that nobody
WroTg panders to appetites andjuld guess his riddle during the
passions. R.ght demands se.ron-j w juries Secret tr01- !rrnm U,.ck-
Wrona is satisfied with extrava-s- -
gance and indolence. Right demands
doing. But the Philistines were a hardy bunch. They weren't discouraged, and they came and pitched their tents in Lehi and Judah, and the men of Judah came up to Samson, quaking, three thousand of them, , with their teeth chattering like castanets and rattling as if they had the argue, and they said, "Look-a-here. Samson, don't you know that the Philistines are our masters and we are their servants,
because he got drunk, and fell to 1 and what in the world are you doing,
gambling on his wedding day. Amidst sticking splinters in them? Don't you the hilarity he propounded a riddle know that this warfare will go on all
industry and economy.
Wrong is pleased with Ignorance. Right demands knowledge. Wrong thrives upon weakness. Right lives upon strength. Wrong deceives, cheats, beguiles, misleads, tickles, lies. Right Is honest, truthful, manly, womanly. Wrong is reached by a thousand paths, right by only one, and that is the Christian path. No Young Man Starts Bad Purposely. No young man, I think, deliberately starts out with a set purpose and
The young fellows went to his
wife and they bribed her to worm the
answer from Samson, which I am sorry to say she did and proved her treachery, and now it was up to Samson to produce the dry goods to pay the bet They had no clothing stores down there at Timnath upon which he could make a raid, so he went over to a town named Ascalon and he knocked thirty of the young blades over the head, he stripped them of their raiment, he brought their clothes back and paid his debt He found the air wa3 getting
TABERNACLE STATISTICS Friday Afternoon Attendance 700 Collection 38.96 Friday Evening Attendance 3,000 Collection $172.06 Trail hitters ; 134
intention of living a wicked life. .No-.y fro.t, . so , he fought he would
l'?.J!l W5SL S badn't been down tome" lonT' until
fell in love with him the first time they heard about him or met him; and when a young man goes to a saloon with a crowd, when others drink, he may have bad no intentions of doing anything wrong other than going with the company.
There are legions of young people
braved the dangers of the Philistines and the enemies he had made, to go back and see -his wife, but instead of finding that she had put on widow's weeds and mourned his long absence as an indication that he was dead, she got tired of waiting for his return and went out and married another
fellow.
who eo wrong simply because it is soi - g-.I XrJl ,iinoH was thJ This act so wrought upon the sen-
-!V f" -wl v.... p. "Hive nature of Samson that he went
summer?"
And Samson sat there composedly
and combed his whiskers with his fin
gers and said, "I am just simply, fulfilling the Mosaic law, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. They have been giving it to me in the neck and I have been paying them baefk in their own coin." They said, "Xow look-a-here, Samson, if you don't surrender to us, this
war will go on and on. "Well," Samson said, "I'll tell you what I will do. If you will promise me that you . won't turn me over to the Philistines, why, I will give up to you." Tie Him With Strong Ropes.
Well, they were as glad to do that
as a weak-kneed voter is to get his name off a whiskey petition, and so they tied Samson with new ropes, and
when his enemies saw them doing that, with a great shout of triumph
they rushed forward to seize their en
emy. But their triumph was premature. Samson was playing 'possum, anl with no more effort that it takes for a man to say "No" to his wife when she asks him for money, he swelled up his chest and broke those thongs as if they were made of spider webs, and he seized the jawbone of an ass that some good Samaritan had left lying nearby, and he piled the dead
around him thicker then they were j
at the
Crimean
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character bv your associates. Tnoso r j Ti . , T ruirat-ixi u. i 'burned his wifes father and his wife,
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tude of manner. There 13 something about that young fellow you like, or that girl that you like, that he or sho becomes your companion. There are things about other people you don't like, and that is the reason you don't associate with them. So, therefore, they will always form a correct idea of your character by your companions, because you are drawn together by a similitude of likes and of dislikes. I read a fable where a stork had
the misfortune to be taken in a net that was spread for geese and for cranes. And the stork's plea for herself was her simplicity and her piety, the love she bore to mankind, and the duty shown toward her parents, and the service she rendered mankind by picking up venomous creatures. And the farmer said, "Now, that may all be very true, but since you were taken in bad company, you will have to suffer the consequences," and off went her head. (You Can't Blame Any One But Self. And so, therefore, you haven't anybody to blame if they judge your character by the people you go with.
no doubt that Samson was a widower.
Keeps Up His Spirit Of Revenge. But wait a minute. They weren't well acquainted with Samson if they thought that he would let the matter rest there. Oh, his blood was up to fever heat. He rolled up his sleeves
thousand
to be
called the
roll and counted their dead
Now wait. Let's see about Samson. We will see how he comes out on this deal and where he will head in about it The next insane folly we read about him Is this : He goes down to Gaz to court another girl down there; and the fellow that sticks his head in the lion's mouth regardless of consequences, sooner or later will find his breathing pipes interfered with, don't you forget it It you think you can keep on do-
Sunday Revival Program SATURDAY 7:30 p. m. Song service and sermon, "The Second Coming of Christ." SUNDAY (Special delegations from Charleston, W. Va., Columbus, Cincinnati, and other points during the day) . 10:30 a.m. Song service and sermon. 2 :30 p. m. Song service and sermons. Men only, by Mr. Sunday; women only, by Mrs. Sunday, East' Main Street Friends Meeting house. Overflow meeting for women, if necessary, in First Methodist church; Miss Kinney, leader. 7:30 p. m. Song service and sermon. MONDAY Rest day for the Sunday party.
ing anything to beat the devil, you are a big fool. He went down to Gaza to court another Philistine girl, and the blockhead didn't seem to be able to learn that it was safer to stay home and fall in love with a girl of his own tribe. The men of Gaza had their pickets out that night, and it soon became Imown that a certain girl had a young Jew for a beau, so they put the lid on tight and double locked the gates, then they went to bed,
thinking they had Samson as secure as a rat in a trap and that they could get up in the morning and kill him at leisure. That shows they weren't onto all of Samson's curves, for while they were hitting the hay, Samson got up, ho pulled the gates of Gaza up by the roots, put them on his back, carried
them across the valley and climbed up on the mountain and left them where it would cost more to bring them back than they were worth. He next comes on the carpet as the lover of another Philistine girl, Delilah. She was the queen Jezebel of the bunch. She was the lightning express that swept him to his ruin. The Philistines had learned to suffer a great deal from Sampson's
strength and they saw they had to destroy it if they ever won out, and so they bribed Delilah, his wife, to find out where lay the secret of his strength. She turned her dove-like eyes on him, with that soft, liquid, gazelle-like expression, and she spoke to him just as if she had just happened to think of it, and it was all a frame-up. and she said to him, "Samson, will you tell me where your strength lies?" Samson Able
i To Tell Lies
Now Samson could lie as easy as
and you
will bind me with seven green withes,
I will be as helpless as a candidate, in the hands of his friends." So she lost no time. She tied him with the seven green withes, then she bent over him and said, "Samson, the Philistines be upon thee," and she gave them a high-sign. They were waiting outside and they rushed in to seize their enemy, but all that rushed in didn't go out. The undertaker got nine-tenths of them. Samson leaped up and slew them right and left. Now he fooled her twice and then she sniveled and cried and got on his nerve. She had her heart set on getting that dirty money, and she was willing to sell him to get it. There are lots of people today that will turn themselves or their friends
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rush in. He has no power of resistance. Oh, how pitiable! I cry nearly every time I read it. They have no
mercy on Samson.,. They take red-
hot pokers and they burn out his
eyes and laugh at his screams, and they took him back to Gaza and they made him grind their corn while the gang sneered and damned at his God. Oh, they had respect for his God as long as Samson lived right for God's power was manifested through him, but when he sinned they sneered at him and his God.
If you stand firm, people will respect God because it is God that keeps you, and when you lower your standards, they will sneer at God and mock at your religion. Oh, the mocking Irony of being compelled to grind in the town where a few days before, he so triumphantly carried off the gates on his back. Great Change Overcomes Him See the change that came to this fellow. One more scene and the curtain falls forever. They had a great mass meeting and they sacrificed to their god, Dagon. Somebody proposed that it would be great sport to bring this fellow out.
Samson, and have him grind, and the three thousand worshippers of old Dagon, the idol, had assembled to sneer and mock and say, "Aha! Dagon, our god, is better than your God, Samson, for we have got you." Yes. and if Samson had stood fair to God, there weren't gods enough on earth to have cut his hair. But wait he lost out.
So as they went around, they hol-
leredi and sneered and mocked and
him thicker then they were ; V""1" " aa c.ascharge of Balaklava in the cou.ld .hft a thousand pounds a Ww, and with a sort of S?il5d blan,?iy aBd Eaid' " ' XT" 1 1 hinri wi e with c-rttrnn o-iAm -nrir
all gone, but the rabbits and the turtle doves are here yet. The man who carries a chip on his shoulder will probably never die in bed with his boots off. The young man who drinks has absolutely no
chance to win in this world. It's just so much poison that he is taking into his system.. Moderate drinking is almost impossible you will not win. Drinking is one of the greatest curses, one of the greatest causes for disaster. Ninety-five per cent of the desertions and acts of lawlessness in the army is due to drink. If I could offer my body as a sacrifice to rid America of the curse pf
drink, I would put it on the altar tomorrow morning with a smile. And, sir, if I had the appointive power, no man who get3 drunk would ever hold office under me. And young men overwhelmingly compose the drinking class. In a city of 32.000, 600 young men entered
five saloons In one hour. In another
city of 11,000, 725 entered thirtyfour Faloons in one hour. In a city of 130,000, 5,000 young men entered the saloons on a Saturday night. In a city of 30,000, 1,045 young men entered the seven saloons on a Saturday night, and on Sunday morning, only seventy-five young men were in the twelve churches in that city. I stood in front of one saloon in Chicago and held the watch, and in sixty-two minutes, 1,004 young men entered that one saloon, in sixtytwo minutes. Women Fear ' " ' ' 1 To Marry. A famous writer recently eaid, "Young men do not earn enough to support their wives, and there is such a craze for dissipation that women would rather go work In a store for almost nothing than risk their future
in the bonds of marriage, to become the wife of a drunken sot, and then
derided Jehovah, and Samson groned
lars that supported the buflding. Then hav to 0Xl and earn the living
l have no doubt he reviewed his life
"Oh; God. what a fool I was. When I had Your power on me, they couldn't stand. Now, because I have been fooled enough to lower my standard, they mock and sneer. Say, Lord, will you forgive me and let it come back just once more?" And God heard the prayer of the blind, pitiable man, and Samson rose up, and he strained and pulled down the pillars, and' down toppled the building, and he slew more in his death than he had in his life. Oh, his death was as foolhardy as his life had been. Now, he lived without a friend, he died without a mourner. His strength was the cause of his destruction. It made him foolhardy. The meek, the meek shall inherit the earth, not the bull dogs nor the prizefighters. And so, the wild-cats and the panthers are
134 STUDENTS LED TO FRONT DY YOUNG LAD Boy in Blue Knee Knickers Starts High School Boys and Girls to Hitting Sawdust Pathway. HITS NAGGING WIVES
Led out by a boy in blue knickers, 134 high school students "hit the sawdust trail," and signed pledges giving themselves to Christ, at the close of Billy Sunday's sermon on "Samson," at the tabernacle Friday night. It was high school night and a delegation of 250 youngsters held the front seats directly before Mr. Sunday, making up the most colorful part of an audience of 3,000. r The sermon which Mr. Sunday preached was directed straight at the students, when he used Samson as an example of a young man with excellent prospects who had wasted his youth, and had ended his life in blindness. "Samson wa3 the Tatty Arbucklc?
lof the Old Testament," Mr. Sunday
declared. Describing him as a wilful boy who had been brought up by indulgent parents that did not have the backbone to give him a spanking when he needed it, Sunday declared that he made his first mistake when he chose his wife. Mistaken In Wives "That is the fault with so many of. us, we make a mistake in our wives, he said. "A man married to a nagging woman has far less chances of going good than a bad one married to a good wife." " Telling in Slangy sentences the story of the life of Samson. Sunday told how Samson had fallen for a "Jane" among the Philistines. Of the way that he had "fallen" for other women after he had lost his first wife, and finally of Delilah, whom he called "The Queen Jezebel of the bunch." "Delilah," Sunday said, "lip-stickea
her lips, puffed her hair, rcuged her cheeks and powdered her nose. She was a stepper who rolled, her stockings and rolled her own." Vamped Samson "Then she tried to vamp Samson, and get him to tell her the secret of his strength." Billy Sunday turned his face towards the ceiling, smoked an imaginary cigaret which he held between two stiff fingers, and between puffs, in counterpart of a fadist who drops her r's and drawls her words. Sunday said, "Honey dear, can't you reveal to me the secret of your power?" (puff puff). "You know dear, I have, been giving it a great deal of thought." Two grey haired women in the au-
dience punched each other and burst
into niiarious laugnter, ana Mr. bunday paused for a time for the audience to compose itself. End cf Sampson "That was the end of Samson," declared Sunday, "snd my advice to Dempsey Is to take the first boat home, and not fool around with Peggy or it will be his end." Suddenly shifting from the humorous to the serious, Sunday roared out a challenge'Oh, does the devil show you any mercy when he gets you where he wants you?" "No! No!" Sunday shouted as he pounded the pulpit with hi3 heavy fist. "When the power of God was gone from him the Philistines damned God. Oh it is a woeful thing when things like that happen." Turning to the question of the unmarried youth, Sunday declared that it was because the women were earning as much as the men, and preferred to be single and earn their wages, rather than have homes where they could raise families on the wages of the men. Talk Is the Bunk
This talk of two being able to
for herself and the brute.'
You are up against some things. Another said one reason why there
are so few marriages is because so live as cheap as one is all bunk I
many young men are in the jails and
penitentiaries. They are tramps. They loaf on the street corners. They spend their money in saloons and houses of shame, and they waste the flower of young manhood. Oh, the devil has a way of making all the approaches to a life of sin look beautiful. Vice is deadly, no matter how harmless it may appear. Many saloons are palaces of art and on the walls are paintings that come from the easels and the hearts of some of the skilled masters of the world. Such places are the most deadly hell-holes of all combined, and if liquor was only sold in stale beer joints, in a back alley, there wouldn't bs as many drunkards as there are today. If it wasn't for these alluring (Continued on Next Page)
over to the devil for some little Influence of money-or society or some position. She was perfectly willing to do it in order that she might have that money In her grip. At last he told her, "If you cut my locks off. my power will leave." Quickly Puts Samson to Sleep I don't know whether they had
knock-out drops in Philistine or notj but she soon had him sleeping like a; babe upon her knee, and a barber J rushed in and cut off his locks, and ! when that was done, he couldn't pull j
down a building any easier than any other bald-headed man. His power was gone ; his power was gone. Oh, you wait! This Is a pitiable story, yet I am giving It to you in a sort of modern slang.
Now he is in their power. They J
150 Automobiles Wanted! Indianapolis. Cincinnati, Greenville, Columbus, Ohio, and Charleston, W. Va., will send large delegations to hear Billy Sunday at the tabernacle on Sunday. Other cities also will send special delegations. Civic duty suggests that the visitors be shown every courtesy possible. The committee in charge requests 150 cars and drivers for Sunday to meet the delegations coming from Columbus and Charleston Sunday morning. The committee also wants 150 cars Sunday afternoou at 4 o'clock at North A, between Fourteenth and Sixteenth streets, ready to take the visitors over Richmond and show them the sights. PHONE NOW TO ONE OF THE COMMITTEE
Phone E. J. Treffinger 1777 Elmer Eggemeyer 1198 W. D. Scoble 1459 Rev. R. W. Stoakes 1487 Dr. E. E. Holland 2054 Clarence Kramer 3111 Robert Huen 2551 Harry Chenoweth 1925 Thomas Tarkleson 3209 Charles Webb 1616
' Phone Fred Borton 1678 Frank Stray er 1628 Fred Bethard 1041 Frank Holland 1699 Emmett Bartel 1803 Frank McFail 2310 Roy Taylor 1412 John H. Johnson 1735 Joseph H. Hill 4635 Roland Nusbaum 1024
know because I have tried it."
Again he said, "The women are getting to be better workers, more steady, are more honest, and don't gamble and smoke and drink like tho men." "Oh, I tell you the men have got to stir themselves or they will find that the women have taken their places. "It's a disgrace to manhood that women are keeping the church going, and furnishing the moral background of the world, when morals are becoming more and more an . economic necessity." Using as an illustration, the traveling man, Sunday declared that the traveling man who drank, and told smutty stories, was being pushed to the background, because the buyers were buying of men whose manner suggested that they were representing better and moral houses. Taking an example from Richmond. Sunday turned suddenly toward the ministers' section. "There's my friend, Timothy Nicholson," he said, "You can bet that when he was young he didn't spend his years in riotious living if he did he wouldn't be here. And
now he is here over 90 years old." "The devil's first move Is to get the young man in debt," Sunday continued. "The devil would rather get a ycung man in debt than to get an old man to crack a safe. There is more that he can lead the young mas into from that." , Preaching a tirade against the sins of over-dressing, of trying to do things that were beyond the means of the young fellow's pocketbook, Sunday suddenly switched to the other extreme. "But that does not mean that you have any virtue 1f you go about in clothes that, look as though they had been cut out with a cross cut saw by a cross-eyed tailor, and shot on to
you out of a cannon," her shouted. (Continued on Next Page)