The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-20

that they are to be temporary lapses, and that
some day he will make his way to his true des
tiny. They are to be practiced as temporary ex-
pedients to gain something that they think
necessary to their wants and desires. No man
has made up his mind to sin unto death and be
damned forever, You take irunkard, and tell
him what his drunkenness is doing for him, and
he will agree with YOU But he will tell you
that at some time he is going to check up and
stop. Take the man who stops at nothing in his
greed for money, and he has set his peg at a GER
tain place, and when he reaches it he will quit.
A man who has given himself to every lewd-
ness will tell you he is only doing this for the
present time and something is going to happen
in the future, when he will abandon his asso-
ciates and take up pure moral life.
Mr.. Small then talked Tor some time. with
great plainness, upon the shameful sin and dis
grace OF incontinence, and also spoke strongly
upon gambling blasphemy and drunkenness.
OF gambling, he said he did not believe there
was a single man who had practiced it who had
not come to the verge, if not gone to the extent
OF downright theft in pursuit OF IL. He held
there was no excuse for swearing. The most
confirmed blasphemer would not swear In the
presence of ladies.
He said: Take the worst old swearer to-day in
Indianapolis, introduce him to the President of
the United States and let him talk to him all the
morning and he won't swear, especially If he Is
looking for an Office. When man tells you he
can't quit swearing he Is not only swearer but
of the newspapers this afternoon says the state
ment that there are five thousand fallen women
in the city is what in the language Of
brother Jones. would be called "a he."
l don't know whether it is true or
not We got it from Indianapolis authority.
Those who look out at night upon the streets
and at the parks may think the figures are not
far wrong. No man ever went into house OF
ill-fame and came ont of it with his sef-respect
at the same gauge he went in. And his self
en- In OF
ward. No man that has not the instincts of a
dog or a hog but will sneak in and out of the
back doors OF these places OF shame. say 1t
with humiliation that know how much man
has to pay for that sort of alleged pleasure. l
know what it is to sneak out before daylight ard
to feel all the degradation and physical filth of
the damnable practice
mans sins will dishonor him. A man can
not live in sin long. and maintain his self-re
spect and be honored by his feliow-men. How
many men are there in this city who, few
years ago, were welcome guests in the best
houses in this city to whom those doors of good
society are now closed9 They are to night social
outlaws, and are passed by on the streets by
Many young man has thus lost his place in So
ciety. The young ladies will not look at him,
and he has no place to go, when he has leisure
hours, but to the bar-room or the house of pros
tituton. He has made his bed and must
lie in it, Some of these days he will
die, and go to hell and pay the penalty.
1t is sin that costs money and makes poverty.
There was q labor procession in Baltimore the
other day 5000 strong The men walked on
foot, many of them with their toes sticking out
through their shoes. They were for an eight
hour law. That procession was marshaled by
barkeepers who were riding on horses. Laugh
ter And the barkeepers were keeping their
places of business open twentyfour hours day.
There was a great procession up at Chicago.
Men trudged through the streets carrying ban
ner: "Our Children Cry for Bread What a
sad announcement TO make! 1--WE are out of
work, out of money, out of credit and our
children cry for bread" Those men
marched out to a park that day and
drank 400 kegs of beer.
Mr.. Jones-Their children were crying for
bread, you see. Stick knife into their faith
er's belly and three gallons OF beer would run
out. daughter.
Mr.. Small, continuing-Debt is part of the
rations chats the word for wages) a man gets
for serving the devil When l was converted
had no idea was so much in debt as l was.
had any bills against me to send them in. When
they came in thought they would bury me.
There are 60, 900 people in Atlanta and it looked
as if l owed every one of them.
Another thing a fellow gets is disease. His
liver is out of joint He doesn't know how it
from the bottle. He has lumbago and all sorts
of things. God never afflicted him; he did it
himself. He has had his fun with vengeance,
and has swallowed IS. S. S." and 'B. B. B. :"
and he can swallow the whole alphabet three
times over, and never get we'll then.
The matter of heredity in the transmission of
disease to the progeny Of those who have lived
vicious lives, especially lives of lewdness and
drunkenness, was portrayed in strong colors.
At the conclusion of the service eight men
came forward and expressed their intention of
starting upon the new life.