The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-03-16

sincere preaching truth 10 you as | SCI it
from my standpoint
"Es.aqo for your life" If there is any
thing we love it is life; if there is nything
We dread it Is death. The million, spent in
physicians, patent medicines and mineral
springs demonstrates how dearly man loves
life | dou't know of but one thing in this
vast uniyor- that will harm a man, and that
is sin As / walk the streets OF tnis city by
day aud Ly night | SEQ the staggering
drunken man AMI The pale faced outcast
whispering these words: "Sin is killing mo
for time and eternity" Every cannon in
this muory holding up the Bible is turned
loose on one thing Sin is the beet
i've point toward viii h all tn guns of
h avcu are directed And this brings me to
the ten commandments the best moral code
! know Of. You may say that Hume wrote
them, or that Noltaire Is their author |
don't care if you say that Josh Billings
wrote them Laughter. But | do say
that II You don't live up to those command
mcnts YOU ought to 60 to the penitentiary
OF Illinois. Applause III be practical
and .tant sIuarcly on the ten command
meuts IN hest man in this world to-day
is the man who has attained his heart to that
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an the uiatr,rtn. VITA, hil4i shirts and Whit,
tie, know Tint Won are going to STAY in the
round-hou.e rlumultuous applause The
miners have criticised me heraIl,a came tn
Won with my vest uutnttnued Why God
lii ,,or rn,v h,y5 tn take my, coat Off
hefor. TINS thin i, over ICbeers and an
ulauseI [ wish the preachers in this town
would q It enough bri.u, tone in their religion
to briny out a good sweat on them. TTum
| uItuous chs ering
The next sin wi ii 10 call your attention
| to is Sabbath breakinr. SHOW me- the man
who desecrates the sabbath, aud. will show
Won a man who win d ,secrat, every day in
| the week The Christian who will mt his
| foot into 4 thaatr. that runs spvon NIGHTS n
wee, il a byDocritn rArpIaus.1 10 Won
hear that sab, ath breaking, But that is
not the only mona e t. CHICAGO. Did you
ever SEQ the crowds that gather on tn, stems
of vour court house every Sundav1 Have
/ YOU stopped AMI listened TO their obscene
| talk, There are 500 such crowd, IN ChicarO
| to-day. | imagin. that if an ald bulyard
| wingiug his way across the heavens were to
sec one Of these crowds he would wheel
around ~ ms hight nnd sream TIM MIN
| w-h-e-w. LI.oud laughter and cheering
They 'hout the oni' ca caSSes III this universe
| that bu'zard won't tackle lhenewed
| laughter and Cheering Cock lights and
base ball on Sunday God bless YOU, a cock
| fight is better than game OF base ball
! daughter. But base ball When man
can get more money pitching ball for one
season than yon turning to the minister's
| can get for arhinS the 90 pei Tor year
there l. something rotten III Denmark.
| Laughter
The next sin is licentiousness. OF all the
sin' thai curSa humanity the sin of licen-
tiousness is the mot degrading Hear me
have heard that some doctors tell young
men they cannot be healthy and he virtuous.
If there IS one OF that kind Of doctors here
today ] will tell him that he is an Internal
old liar, sir wild cheeringl The dirtiest
dog that walks this earth is "a dirty doctor.
| Applause What does the doctor say to
you old married rips' Laughter Hear
/ There i not n he'll deem pupupN hot