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THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C.
TUESDAY, JAN. 29, 1924.
$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
TO MAKE WHIRLWIND DRIVE THROUGHOUT
COUNTY ON THURSDAY FOR COUNTY FAIR
Organizations at Shelby & Kings Mountain Will
Wage Campaign for Subscriptions to Stock,
Each Share to Have Par Value of $20. Names
of Committeemen Over County. Towns and
County to Have Drives Thursday.
A whirlwind campaign will be wait
ed Thursday afternoon of this week
throughout Cleveland county in an
effort to secure subscriptions to stock
in the Cleveland County Fair associa
tion which was launched some time
ago at a joint meeting of the Shelby
Kiwanis club and the Kings Mounta n
chamber of commerce. An effort will
be made to raise $20,000 which will be
spent in extending water mains to
the fair grounds of 40 acres on th'1
county home property on the main
highway between Shelby and Kings
Mountain, the erection of exhibit
buildings, the fencing in of the
grounds and the building of other
necessary, structures.
Canvass Thursday.
Konrescntative business men will go
to every nook and corner of Cleve
land Thursday afternoon where they
will be met by local committees who
will assist them in canvassing for the
stock. The fair project which was
started some weeks ago has met with
the hearty approval of the public gen
erally and it is felt sure that the ne
cessary stock can be secured to put
over one of the best fairs in the south.
The Thursday night meeting of the
Kiwanis club was_ devoted entirely to
the county fair w'ith Dr. J. S. Horton
in charge of the program. Dr. Dorton
thought the amount of $20,000 would
be little enough to insure a fair in
keeping with the county's agricultur
al and commercial progress, farm dem
onstrator, R. E. Lawrence having at
each plate a report showing that 12
ofthe county’s loading crops last year
reached the value of nine million dol
lars. The value of each share will be
$20, thuR placing the stock within the
reach of practically every farmer from
Ben’s Knob to Bttis’ Perry. While the
stock salesmen will not ronrcsent thet
the fair will pay dividends beymd
question, it has been learned that oth
er county and district fairs in the
Piedmont Carolinas have been more
than self supporting and it felt that
the Cleveland county fair under {food
management should be a money-mak
er.
The Names of Workers.
The men present at the Thursday
night meeting unanimously ejected the
following gentlemen as committeemen
in thyr respective communities to as
sist the representatives who will go
out from Shelby and Kings Mountain
in canvassing for stock:
Glover: Lester Herndon, D. J. Keef
er, Ernest Herndon, to be assisted by
H. A. Logan, Farris Ledford and H. F.
Young.
Patterson Springs and Earl: Billy
and Jesse Lowery. Havog Patterson.
Baxter Bettis, C. S. Rollins, Forrest
'Austell, Clarence Sarrat.t, to be as
sisted bv F. C. Griffin, John McKnight
and M. H. Austell.
Boiling Springs and No. 1 township
Chevous Bridges. A. I. Jnllev. Carl
Hamrick, J. D. Huggins, Card Ham
rick, Joe McCraw and M. B. Earl, t’>
he asisted bv C .C. Blanton, J. H.
Quinn, and Rush Hamrick.
Mooresboro: J. U. Rollins. Huron
Martin. V. Is McCardwell to be assist
ed bv S. S. Royster, J. F. Roberts and
Lee B. Weathers.
Lattimore and New House: L. V.
Lee. Carl Wilson, ^V. A. Crowder, J.
R. Lattimore, Fav Jenkins and W. T.
Calton to be assisted by Paul Webb,
Charlie Eskridge and Earl Hamrick.
polkville and Casar: Andrew Elliott,
A. B. C. Depriest, Frank Lee. A. A.
Warlick, Andy Brackett, Marvin Eak
cr t.o be assisted by E. B. Lattimore.
7. J. Thompson, Sam Lattimore, J. C.
Newton, R. E. Lawrence.
Lawndale and Double Shoals: Hal
Schenck, John B. Nolan, Arthur Park
er, Huss Cline, Lorin E. Hoyle and A.
J. R. Hoyle and Tom Cornwell
to be assisted by William
I.ineberger. A. V. Wray, Gene Schenck
Mai Spangler. .
Toluca and Belwood: Colin Edwards,
Marvin Luts. Julius Mode, J. H. Cost
ner. X. T. Mull, C. M. Hoyle and S.
T. Carpenter to be assisted by W. C.
Harris, J. J. Lattimore, Oliver An
thony, John P. Mull and . Frank L,
Hoyle.
Fallston and Waco: Dr. F. E. Lack
ey, Tom Stamey, Hoyle Lutz, Claude
Falls, W. A. Gantt, Shuford Beam
Miles Harrelson to be assisted by
Charlie Young, B. T. Falls, Dr. E. A
Houser, George Blantons and J. L
Lackey.
Camp Call and Cabaniss settlement:
Eldridgp Weathers, J. T. S. Maunev
Wilbur Simmons to be assisted by R
L. Weathers, Ed Campbell, J. P. Line
berger.
Kings Mountain Canvass.
E. W. Barnes who was appointee
some weeks ago as a representativi
from the Kings Mountain chamber oi
pommerce on the county fair projec
'•'"ns hero Thursday night with Presi
dent (). B. Carpeqter and Wiley Mc
Ginnis and says he will appoint an ef
fective committee to canvass N6. 4
township and feels that the response
will be generous in every sense.
O. M. Mull, C. R. Hoey and 0. M.
Gardner will go to Kings Mountain to
assist in the canvass there Thursday,
while Kings Mountain will send a del
egation to Shelby Thursday morning
to assist the Shelby people in the
canvass of the town. The towns of
Kings Mountain and Shelby will be
canvassed simultaneously Thursday
morning, so that by noon the solicitors
will be able to report to the rural sec
tions what has been done.
Mr. Moore a Feature.
One big feature of the Thursday
night meeting was address by Paul
V. Moore, secretary of the Spartan
burg County Fair association for the
past 1C years. Mr. Moore was accom
panied to Shelby by Dr. Baxter Hay.
nes and together they came over to
give valuable experience and inform
ation on fair management. Mr. Moore
said no petty jealousies or politics
should enter into the fair, but that a
good secretary should be secured and
paid for his services, that every ex
hibitor and concessioner should be
treated with the same fairness and
business integrity. He suggested that
the Cleveland count yfair should start
in a small way and add departments
and attractions year by year as the
men in charge gain experience at the
“game.” A large and cumbersome or
ganization will be a hurt rather than
a help. He praised C'eveland’s agricul
tural standard and declared that he
saw no reason why an institution of
this character should not be more than
air. moore IS a mri
farmer whose hobby is fair managw
mcnt. He offered to return and confer
with any committees in order that the
proposed Cleveland county fair might
be a success in every particular.
Prizes Awarded.
Quite a number of prizes were
awarded at this meeting, the prizes
going to visitors: J. B. Nolan was
awarded a sack of fertiliser gixen by
I. F. Jenkins of the Shelby Oil mill;
W. W. Washburn was awarded a pack
age of stock powders given by Paul
Webb; A. D. Spangler a spray giv
"n by Julius A. Suttle drug store; W.
A. Gantt a $2.50 shirt given by Efird’s
department store; E. M. Eaker a doz
en and a half salt brick and hog pow
ders given by Farmers Hardware Co.;
llayne Patterson a package of stock
nowder given by the Riviere Drug Co.
Dr. Ambs Duncan of Forest City a
year’s subscription to The Cleveland
Star given bv Lee B. Weathers; Flay
Weathers of Forest City, a spot light
given by Charles L. Eskridge; W. M.
Harris of Forest City an axminster
rug given by Faragon Furniture Co.;
F. I. Barber of Forest City a pocket
knife given by Shelby Hardware Co.;
Charlie Flack a bottle of snake oil
given by. Cleveland Drug Co.
Forest City Wants a Club.
Forest City, one ofthe fastest grow
ing towns in western North Carolina,
is anxious for a Kiwanis club and a
I dozen of her representaitve men came
down to the Thursday night meeting
: to look over the Shelby club and learn
something of its ideals and methods.
The visitors were impressed and made
a bid for a delegation from the Shelby
club to go to Forest City and assist
them in organizing a club there. Sec
retary C. A. Burrus went into the de
l tails of “Kiwanis” after the meeting
and it is likely the Shelby elub will
sponsor an organization at an early
date at Forest City.
Charged With Lveeny.
Will lluffstetler, 22, white, was
taken to the Cherokee County jail
Thursday by Sheriff J. G. Wright who
received the prisoner from Gastonia,
authorities after requisition papers
had been honored by Governor Cam
eron Morrison. Huffstetler is charged
with grand larceny, it being alleged
that he took $542.50 worth of goods
from Hughes Jackson, of Blacksburg,
sometime last December.
Attractive Visitor In Gaffney.
Gaffney Ledger.
Miss Millieent Blanton of Shelby,
N. C., i# an attractive vsitor at the
home of her grandfather, Mr. A. N.
Wood, on E. Frederick street.
And That’s That.
A white boy met a colored lad and
j asked him what he had such a short
i nose for.
i “I ’spects so it won’t poke into oth
er people’s business,” was the smart
; reply. _
William E. Tiddy. non of the Late
Squire J. F. Tlddy in Killed at
Red Springe, Saturday.
Will'am E. Tiddy, prominent farm
er of Red Snrings, this state, and na
fivo of Shelbv, beimr the son of the
late Squire John F. Tiddy was instant
ly killed Saturday morning while at
work at a lath mill of which he was
superintendent near his home, four
miles south of Red Springs.
News of his tragic death reached
Shelby Saturday in a telegram to his
sister. Miss Nancy Tiddy who left im
mediately for Red Springs to attend
the funeral. Accordine to information
r«'«fhin?' here, Mr. Tiddy was trying
to put a belt on a main shaft when
his coat caught in the shaftimr nnd
ho was hurled to death against the
r'^^hinerr.
Mr. Tiddy was about, 6fi .veers of
age and highly respected as a Mason
and an elder in the Philadelphia Pres
byterian church, where funral serv
ices were held Sunday morning at 11
o’clock, with Masonic honors.
Mr. Tiddv is suTrived hv three
brothers. Fs-'rlv Tiddv of Monroe.
Richard N. Tiddy of Abbeville, S. C.;
Mile Tiddy'of Monroe; Three sisters
Mra. E. P. Lylea of Lylesville, Misses
Margaret Tiddy of Gastonia and
Nancy Tiddy of Shelby.
Assault On School
Official Reported
Father of Popil Alleged to Have At
aeked Huperintendent Irvin of
Kings Mountain.
For an alleged assault Friday on
Mr. John Y. Irvin, superintendent of
the Kings Mountain schools and form
er county superintendent a Mr. Rey
. nolds of Kings Mountain is under
bond for Superior court with a
charge of secret assault preferred
against him.
According to reports reaching here
and information secured by the offi
oers concerning the incident the al
leged assault is said to have been the
result of a school controversy. It
seems that a son of Mr. Reynolds had
been giving some trouble at the
school and according to reports the
boy was told when leaving school one
day last week that he would either
have to remain at/home or take a
whipping when he returned to school.
Friday it is said Mr. Reyonlds met
superintendent Irvin on the street and
after having a few words with him is
alleged tohave struck’ the school of
ficial one or more blows, knocking him
down. Just what words wqre passed is
not known, but information reaching
here was that Superintendent Irvin
was not acquainted with Mr. Reynolds,
who is said to be a man of consider
able size, and did not know him when
he. met him on the street.
The hearing will in all likelihood be
in Superior court as the charge of se
cret assault is above the jurisdiction
of the recorder.
FORMER TEACHER OF THIS
COUNTY DIES IN S. CAROLINA
w. Bank* Move, secretary ot state
for South Carolina since 1916 and at
one time head at the Belwood insti
tute in this county, died at his home
in- Columbia Wednesday night at 11
o’clock following an illness that ha?
continued since last November. Mr,
Dovfi was a native of Fairfield county
where he was born on February 28,
1869. Mr. Dove went in the office of
the secretary of state in T908 under
the then secretary R. M. McCown. Be
sides his widow, Mr. Dove is survived
bv two sons, W. Banks Dove. ir.. and
Herbert Do^e, both of Columbia ! on*
daughter, Mrs. Beverly English ol
Bennettsville; one sister, Mrs. A. Q,
Flenniken of Chester, and four broth
ers, David B. Dove, of Ridgeway;
Charles W. Dove of Columbia, Fitz
hugh H. Dove, of Blackstock and John
L. Dove of Yanceville.
Some For Libraries.
Cherryville Eagle.
The Cleveland Star says, “If every
one of the 1,502 students in the Shel
by schools would each save 10 cents
per week the total savings of the
children in one year would be $7,
810.40." x
This makes us think how easy it
would be for every school in the
country to have a good library with
just a little effort.
Mrs. Bowman Falls.
Rutherford Sun.
Mrs. Nat Bowman fell last week
on the slick door step at her home and
sprained her back. She suffered severe
ly for some time, but is better now
we are glad to note.
That heavy kind of Galvanized roof'
ing at The Farmers Hardware Co.
IIIIE LIST IfEIB!
I corn FIB
INVENTORY OF PRODUCTS
Totkl Value A'rricuUur.il Pro
ducts For 192.1 Set At ?')
1 13.292.*
Itio total value of agricultural pro
ducts raised in Cleveland county dur
ing the year 192:; «•», ?i». 1 ac
cording to an estimate made by Coun
ty agent, R, E. Lawrence. This in near
; 'y two million more than the total
| hank resources of the county and
gives a well defined idea as to the
I agricultural progress made by the
| county in recent years,
i Although cotton is the major crop,
, three-fourths of the total crop value
l being from cotton and seed, the com
plete report shows a good diversifi
cation of crops. Tiie 1 ;>23 cotton crop
is valued at six and one-half millions.
Corn with a total value of a little ov
er one million dollars takes second
ioWe. Dairy products totalling over
I $500,000, is in third place, while the
pale of eggs and poultry during the
j year ranks fourth with total value of
,$300,000. The soy bean crop, estimate!
j at $6,280, stands at the bottom of the
| list, while just a notch higher is the
rye crop valued at $7,500.
i ne stride made by the county ir>
shown bv a comparison of the value
of the 1923 cotton crop and that of
1917. Fivo years 'ago the county gin- j
nod 17,173 bales of cotton, which 1
brought #2,273,807. In 1923, 39,190
bales of cotton and seed brought $6,
590.000, or an increase of over four
million dollars. The second item
worthv of note is in the poultry busi
ness. Farmers and farm wives of the
county have discarded the old hap
hazard method of a straggling flock
of chickens and a* occasional egg for
a systematic manner of poultry rais
ing. T&ree hundred thousand dollars
f#r the sale of eggs ami poultry in ore
ye«r is the reward.
Th» estimated business inventory
of Cleveland farms for 192.3 is:
39,19#"bales of cotton and
seed $6,500,00.00
1,086,168 bushels eorn at
$1.00 per bu. 1,056,168.00
Dairy products 582.400.00
i Eggs and poultry sold 300.000
j 7.156 hogs at 10c per lb. 153,120.00
113,876 bushels sweet pota-’
toes at $1.00 113,876.00
74,060 bushels wheat a t
$1.36 per bushel 100,721.00
4.902 tons hay at $18.20 89,216.00
36,290 bushels cow peas at
*2 per bushel .73,580.00
j 99.520 bushels oats at 67c 66,678.00
, 83,070 gal. molasses at
! 80c 66,456.00
27.297 bushels Irish pota
toes at $1 27.297.00
6,250 bushels rye, at $1.20 7.500.00
3,140 bu. soy beans @ $2 6,280.00
Total $3,113,297X0
THANKS FOR GOOD THINGS
GIVEN TO THE TATE FAMILY
We want to take this method of
publicly thanking our friends the la
dies of the Woman’s missionary so
ciety of Poplar Springs church and
other good friends of the community
for the many nice things in the way
of provisions, clothing, with some
money and other things which they
have presented us, during the month.
They have been wonderfully good and
kind to us for which we feel very
thankful to them and to our dear
Lord. May the Giver of the greatest
of all blessings, bless them all.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Tate.
Jan. 26, ’24.
DEMOCRATIC CONTRIBUTIONS '
ARE NOW DUE AND OWING
Cordell Hull, chairman of the Dem
ocratic National committee, has is
sued a statement calling attention to
the fact that the 1624 dues, amounting
to '$5.00, of the members of the Na
tional Democratic Victory clubs are
now due.
Checks may be mailed direct to Na
tional headquarters in Washington or
sent .to the local Club President, Mr.
J. Frank Roberts.
■ 'herryville Personal*.
Chcrryvi.de Eagle.
Mrs. W. H. Tlouscr and children
were in Shelby Sunday affrenoen to
see Mrs. Elizabeth Houser.
Mr. and Mrs. Sydnev Dellinger and
children and Miss Mamie Brown
spent Sunday afternoon in Shelby
with Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Spake.
Prayer Meeting at Central Church
There will be prayer meeting as us
ual Wednesday evening at 7:30 at
Central Methodist church.
McKay stalk cutters cheap at The
Farmers Hardware Co. Ad
CITIZEN IS DEAD
Enoch Parker, Who Died Thursday, !
Wa« Nearly 10.1 Years of Aage.
Kuried at Davids Chapel.
Enoch Parker, centenarian and be
lieved to he Cleveland county’s oldest
citizen, died laic Thursday evening at
his home five miles above Fallston
near the Lincoln county line. The fu
neral services were held Saturday
morniiflr at 11 o’clock at Davids Chap
el in the edge of Lincoln, conducted
by Rev. H. G. Stanley, who was as
sisted by Revs. J. M. Morgan and J.
B. Morris.
Mr. Parker was 102 years, nine
months and 15 days old. Having pass
ed the century mark nearly three
| years ago he was considered the old
est man in this county and possibly
in th's se-tion of the state. The cen
; tenarian vvn; not of abnormal build,
j but of medium size and his death was
attributed to infirmities of age. He
! had been in failing health for some
time but had not been Confined to
i his bed for any considerable period,
j Surviving are five sons: Messrs.
I). S. and J. E. Parker, of Lincoln
jecunty; George Parker of Georgia; J.
i M. Parker * f Virginia, and C. D. Par
ker, who lives at the old home place.
An unusually large number of grand
children and great-grandchildren also
' survive. Mr. Parker's wife died some
i 15 or more years ago, and nt the time
1 of her death was ripe in years.
Mere Publicity •
For This County
Mr. Idan, of Country Gentleman, Here
Securing Information on
Churches and Schools.
Cleveland county, already recognis
ed in North Carolina as a progres
sive unit in the state’s progress, is to
get more national publicity owing to
the hardy stock of settlers who first
inhabited the county and their de
scendants, generation after genera
tion, that have caught and blehded
into their work and lives the vision of
progress. The second representative of
the Country Gentleman, the world’s
leading farm periodical, in just as
many months is now in the county se
curing data and information for a
story in his paper on the religious and
educational life of North Carolina as
typified in Cleveland county.
Mr. J. B. Idan, who is a staff repre
sentative of the Country Gentleman,
arrived here, last week and has been
making a survey of the schools and
churches oft he epunty and their work.
Just how Mr. Idan’s article will- be
handled is not known, but after spend
ing Saturday in quest of general in
formation on his topic, he Sunday vis
ited the Double Springs Sunday
school, which probably outranks any
rural Sunday school in the country.
This trip which also included visits to
Boiling Springs and other county
churches was for the purpose of
glimpsing Cleveland church people in
action. This county has for years
ranking among the leading counties in
the state in religious and educational
work, it being believed that the county
has more young men and women in
college that any county of equal popu
lation in the south, and it is with
pleasure local people view theattract
inir of outside attention.
Article This Week.
People all over the county well re
member the visit here recently of Mr.
E. H. Taylor .associate editor of the
Country Gentleman, who was securing
information on the agricultural pro
gress of North Carolina and was sent
here because the county was consid
ered by state agricultural leaders as
the typical farm county of the state.
Mr. Taylor’s article, which is devoted
in general to North Carolina hut with
reference to the county will appear in
this week’s issue of the Country Gen
tleman, which comes out on Saturday,
February 2.
Mrs. Blanton Sells
$291 Worth Of Produce
Mrs. S. J. Blanton of Fallston is a
fine example of a thrifty Cleveland
county house wife. East year she kept
an accurate account of produce sold
and found at the end of the year that
it totalled $291.10. or nearly $25 a
month. Most of this was from chick
ens, huter and eggs. There was hard
ly a day during the year she did not
have something from her barnyard or
her garden to sell. She is not only a
thrifty housewife, but has adopted
the policy of keeping a record on her
sales. She sets a fine example for oth
er housewives in Cleveland.
Having to swallow insults is hard
on a man’s digestion.
Asphalt Shingles makes insurance
cheaper. Farmers Hardware Co. Adv
TL./Z
BILLY SUNDAY, NOTED EVANGELIST, IS
HEARD HERE MONDAY BY 3,000 PEOPLE
Many Turned Away. His Sermon is cn “Hope.”
Discusses the Ways of the Pleasure-Seekers and
Non-Christians. Fame, Wealth, Social Position,
Count for Naught if we Disbelieve. It’s Hell cr
Heaven. Rare V/it and Personality.
Between 2.600 and 3.000 peoplo
heard Billy Sunday, the world’s great
est evangelist at the First Baptist
church Monday morning at 10 o'clock
and hundreds were turned away for
lack of room. By 7:30 people began
arriving in cars and fully an hour be
fore the service started, the church
was filled to its seating capacity, but
hundreds more crowded the aisles,
windows and class rooms as Rev. R. L.
Lemons conducted the song service,
interspersed with prayers by local
ministers of all denominations on
whose invitation Mr. Sunday and his
nart” came. Shelby is the only town
Mr. Sunday's entire party has visit
ed during his meeting in Charlotte
The singing was entered into by th
"ho!r unto Mr. Jenkins, Billy Sunday's
musical director arrived with trom
bone under arm. His face was wreath
ed in smiles as he entered with tlm
first car full of the party and took
charge of the singing. In a few min
utes he had the whole congregation rf
3 non s'nvirg "I Love to Tell
the Story.” then he and Mrs. Ashe
sang a duet, “The Old Rugged Cross".
•>nd era verse of “In the Garden.” fol
lowed by a ouartet by the Billv Sun
day party, Mr. Jenkins looked far
back in the gallerv and asked the no'
ole in the “suburbs” to ioin in and I
they did. Then he asked ail wh" '
wanted a negro sniritual to sav “aye”
and a chorus of “aves” came from a'l
parts of the crowd, whereupon the"
rendered “Sing and Shout in Glory”
which brought forth hand-clapping.
His Wit and Personality.
When Mr. Sunday entered rapidly
from the rear of the pulpit, all recog
niged him. He look over the pulpit
chair and inquired “what kind of a
church is this?" He saw the baptistry
m which The Star reporter was sit
ting, this being the only available
snace left when the reporter reached
the scene of action and Mr. Sunda"
smiled hroadlv when he snw the pool,
an evidence ofa Baptist church.
His sermon was on “Hope" and it
was a characteristic Billy Sunday
sermon, full of pep, touched up here
and now with a touching story that
brought tears to the eyes of many in
the audience. He got in his spectacu
lar swing, jumping here and there,
hoisting his leg and pounding the pul
pit with his fist as he drove home
some point he was making. His voice
was a bit husky and he showed the
“irain of his vigorous campaign in
| Charlotte, but nevertheless he had the
' "sual punch and nep to what he said.
He quoted Ingersoll's famous discourse
on his dying bed and declared there is
only one hope that can cheer when
life’s hours are darkest, that can dis
pel that gloom that hovers over one,
and that lights the pathway of life.
The rich sigh as well as the poor, the
i hearse draws up to the mansion as
| surely as the door ofthe hovel and the
hoho dies as well as the Christian. He
j told the story of Senator Clark of
i Montana. A child had been bom to h's
daughter and he was proud to he a
grandfather. A check for a million
went to his son. but in a few days the
mother developed blood noison and
Senator Clark left Washington and
rushed across the country to her bed
side. The best physicians in the coun
trv were called. Life was ebbing away.
eH called the doctors and begged them
to save her. They were doing all in
thier power but she grew worse. He
offered to deed his copper mines if
they would only preserve her life, but
the power was not in their hands and
she passed away despite money and
human skill.
We are Never Satisfied.
They tell me this is the best agri
cultural county in the state, that you
have more and better . varieties of
crops. No people on God’s green earth
are more blessed by the Master than
the people of America, so don’t turn
and smite the hand that feeds you. If
there is anyone here who would help
I the devil and retard God’s work, I
don’t want to see him. Show me any
thing the devil has done for you and
I wil apologize. Show me anything
that God has not done that isn’t good.
Robert Burns said if a cannon were in
one end of this building and a barrel
of whiskey in the other and he were
told that the cannon would blow him
to atoms if he approached the whis
key, his appetite woud drive him to it
We are neevr satisfied with wealth
fame, and social position. If a fellow
is elected constable he wants to be
constable twice, if he is elected sena
tor he wants to be senator again, if
he is elected President, he seeks the
office again. God’s salvation is the
only thing that satisfies and the Bi
ble is the only place to find how to
get it.
Personal Charm.
Some folks think God wants them
to look like a hedge-hog or a rubbish
can. Nothing makes me sicker than t'
see a man wearing clothes that lock
like they were cut out by a crosseyed
man with a cross-cut saw or a warns
with her hair curled in paper wad"
wearing a k’mona t!ed In n>! ’ ~
like a feather-bed and having a tem
per like aqua-fortis. I believe Jn per
sonal charm. More people would '
heaven if they went to the fW'r*'
shop oftener. I like to sec peonh*1
neat. If a woman looks beter wit’
rouge, why rouge up, if she looks
ter by the Unstick, whv c“t n"<*
look like a humming-bird in a rain
storm. That isn’t religion; the* 4
cramp colic. You’ve got to ha”s
than personal eharm, fame, w-o'1
and education to get to heav™ f'
ahead, pile up your wealth, climb tb
*ocial ladder, get. your education ’
if you go on without Jesus yon "
not one inch nearer heaven. Who
vou fall along life’s wa?, who do 'r
go to? At his point Mr. Sunday w
the opinion of several illustrious me
onthe Bible, the greatest book in th
world.
pleasing localpeople view the attract
Cod Send* U» To Hell.
Here Mr. Sunday said our V
makers can make lrws which, if v
break makes us a criminal. They ca
make laws that send us to the g*llo"’r
or the electric chair, but God almighty
is the only one who made laws, whic
if we violate, sends us to hell. B
doesn’t even make us sinners. Th
devil makes us sinners, but if vt
choose God, He and He alone can w
and not only can he save but Her
us from the power of sin. 1 had rath
er be here this morning preaching th
unsearchable riches of Jesuit,, l had
rather make it easier to pray th*
curse, easier to stay sober than stay
drunk, easier to kiss your wife vrhe:
you go home than beat her up, than
wear the laurels of fame or sit on the
throne of a king.
Heaven Or Hell*.
If it isn’t Heaven for you, it is hell.
There is no half-way ground. Some of
you question the Bible because you
don’t understand everything in it. It
can’t figure out why some guys be
lieve a horse-jockey and disbelieve the
Bible. There is no one in this house
who can explain how the food that
we put in our mouths makes blood,
muscles, skin, cuticle, etc., but we
shove it down and trust God to look
after the rest.
God Gives All.
“You can’t buy your way to God;
the unsearchable riches of Jesus
Christ are of inestimable value and
are without comparison. You can’t
! set out to pursue earthly pleasures.
! without a regard for the things of
j find, and expect to find happiness,
i God doesn’t keep half-wuy house for
! any bunch of rough-necks. It’s heav
| en or hell; Jesus Christ, or nothing!
‘You are either a Christian, or you
are not one, no matter how you feel.
If somebody should ask you. ‘Are you
married’ would you say, ‘I hope so.
I’m trying to be?’ ‘Are you alive?’
would you have to sit on a tack to
find out?
“Don’t say, like some fools, ‘I hope
I am a Christian, I’m trying to be.'
Instead, be ready always to give an
answer.” ,
God States The Terms.
Solomon was a 32nd degree sport
but he was a “pippin.” He bad 5«'
more wives than old Brigham /otm
but because it is in the Bible doesr'
mean that God approved what Solo
mon did. The Lord is a good scout
too. If we go to the bank to borrow
money, the banker states the termr
*If we wStit salvation, God states t,h
terms. I am a happier man serving
God and you will be too, if you try t
You can never reach the highest B:.p
piness without God. If the woman who.
washes your clothes is n Christian up
you are not, she’s worth more to the
community vur. you. If the man wn
sweeps y,.nr bank is a Christian, and
you as the cashier or president art
not, Id ruluer be in thu sweeper’s
shoes than yoom.
Offered a Mi!!! n.
I was offtied a nfillio i dollars to go
in the m ivuv, but I suid God gave me
my reputation and I won’t have my
“mug” c ; nmerciali7ed in any such a
manner. I have a telegram in my
pocket offering me $10,000 for each
six minute talk on the stage, with all
expenses p'c.d for mysc’t and Mrs.
Sunday^ but I em happier preaching
Jesus Chnv; and the unseurckable
uches of G«d.
Advice to Young Women.
Near th, close cc his sermon, Mr
Sunday handed out i *K»e advice to
young wo men. Don’t ever marry a
man to reform him. Ife he drinks,
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