Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24


accounted for in the fact that law
is sometimes slow in its workings. Men
think because there is no penalty IN some
instances following instantly the Viola
ton of law that therefore there IS no dan
| ger and they violate law with inpun.ty
Every law of the universe points TO the
| fact that we are surrounded by ana
! governed by law and that we will be held
! accountable for our sins here. But men
are always inyenting excuses for their sins
/ and preparing way out of them. They
go on in sin and die in their sins, and
then in order to save themselves
| they invent probation after this
! life. You retain in each of you allthe pen
alties of previous violation Of natural laws.
Some of these penalties are greater some
| less. You go out and engage in midnight
/ revelry and come home drunk. and yoji
have the headache and the stomachache,
and you think that dom amount TO much.
| You seem to be all right in few days
Rut are you? You young man viii per-
haps learn some of the results OF your mid
night revelries when your own son is car
RED home to your door drunk. You viii
then say, ''why, wife, what is the matter
with our .Johns / don't see for the life of
| me what makes him act so. / have tried
to raise him up respectable. All, no, you
can't see; of course hot. 1t is an awful
thing to contemplate that nine-tenths OF
the imbecility and disease in the world is
due TO the intemperance and lust of the
fathers. Lust and appetite, more than
anything else. Is running the race today.
You are called upon to attend your wife
in that first interesting condition
when everything appeals to your
better manhood. You feel a certain
joy and pride in your new position. a child
is born TO you and you are full of JOY. But
all, horrors of horrors, it turns out TO he an
idiot. You wonder why this thing is
brought upon you. You begin to doubt
the justice OF God That is bat "a law of
nature, you had weakened and destroyed
Your own nervous powers by using tobacco
and your child suffers for your sins.
Another has daughter and she grows
up to womanhood, and the father says my
daughter has a natural inclination to evil.
l will not be able to keep her in the paths
of rectitude. That which every
other good woman values above her life
does not seem to concern her. How is this,
the mother of that young lady is a pure
good woman, "a Christian woman Oh, il
that father would only tell of his revelries
and the life he has lived we might get an
answer. The gospel of Christ is the only
thing that will elevate the race What
are we doing for the gospel of Christ?
There is England shipping opium and rum
into heather countries Christ died to save.
Oh, how many nations are dying for want
of righteousness, potential righteous
ness. Other nations have been great.
Greece was great in art. Rome in
military power but they are dead now.
They died because woman was lost sight
of and became mere instruments of lust.
We today are the only nation on earth hav-
ing the real Christian home. That is so
because Christ has taught us TO make lust
subject to right. Yes, the best govern
ment and we will all stand by the old flag.
CHEERS. What a man sows that be will
reap. Abraham belonged to a race of
renowned men, A clase who have never
lost their distinction. Bnt there was a
famine in the land where Abraham
lived, and he went down into
Egypt. So he said. Now Sarah
you are very pretty, and for fear the Egyp-
tians may want you and kill me, you just
tell them you are my sisters. That was a
lie Qaughter) a white lie for she was his
half sister. The Lord, however, knew how
to take care of Sarah if Abraham did not
\ great many years after this there was
famine in the land where Abrahams son
Isaac lived, and he went into foreign
land. He said now Rebecca you are very
fair. and these Philistians will want You
These old Jews, like a good many other
people, always thought their wives
were pretty. laughter Issac
said now Rebecca you tell
them you are my sister. That was lie
0aughter) Abraham sowed the seed down
in Egypt Isaac reapt what he had sown
when Rebecca taught Jacob to lie to his
father Isaac said this is the hand of
Esau but the voice of Jacob. They kept
on reaping Jacob fooled his father-in-
law and then his own sons lied to him
about the death of his darling son Joseph.
1t is said the Jews will even now lie to
make good trade 0aughter) and some Of
You do that too You mark the cost of
your goods with a private mark and
then stand and tell what they
cost, when every body knows
you are lying. laughter Now, don't
want to hurt any of you people here. An
old minister went into the city to preach.
and the minister in whose pulpit he was
pulled his coat and said, do not say any
thing about liquor; there are several whole
sale liquor men here" And directly he
made the same request about tobacco and
divorces We'll" said the old brother.
what shall | preach about, anyhow
''Just give it to the Mormons: there aren't
any of them present" TCheers
BY a universal low if you educate your
self in error, your child will be a liar or
thief. God bless the young man who is
honorable and retains his virtue. How
many of you are willing to marry women
no better than yourself in this respect.
fCheeys) Boys and girls do not loose their
virtue at the prayer meetings | wish the
newspapers would warn young people
against those hard places. l am praying
for public sentiment that will not com
pei every little paper to abuse every good
thing in order to make their little ten
csnts. Cheers That don't apply TO the
EAGLE. tChees
Mr. Wilson spoke at some length showing
the evil effects Of tobacco and whisky. He
said: When Mr.. Hays was president his
good wife banished these things from the
white house President Arthur brought
them back. and ! believe that Is the reason
the Republican party was defeated. God
said thou art weighed in the balance and
found wanting. lCheers.i But the Re-
publicans will adopt prohibition or pro-
hibition party viii arise and take the gov
eminent from the Democrats. Now cheer,
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