The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-30

Her young men are fallen in the
streets. Uer. 1926. Young women
too had fallen in her Streets
Only last Thursday evening | saw
we'll dressed good looking woman
who had fallen on the street within
100 feet Of this church, and she was
so intoxicated that policemen had to
come and take her away.
Traps are so thickly set in the
streets Of our cities, and SO adroitly,
that it is almost impossible for unpro
tected young men to escape.
Isaiah said: There is crying for
wine in the streets" Us. PAID.
Today the wine cries for men, and
men are organized to make the cry
as loud as possiDlr "According to the
number Of the streets Of Jerusalem
have they set up affairs to that shame
full thing, even affairs to burn incense
unto Baal." (Jer. 11:13).
A dep sea diver laid his hand on
something soft, and, curious to know
what it was, he took hold to examine
it, Fatal curiosity, The long tenta-
cles of an octopus reached out and
grasped him in its dead embrace. His
friends above, feeling the struggle,
drew him to the surface to find only
a corpse still in the clutches Of the
monster.
Many a young man has gone from
his pure home to the great city and
tempted by the signs on the streets
and by curiosity. has entered one Of
the houses Of the devil-fsh, soon to
find himself in its fatal and deadly
embrace.
For the Display of Character.
The street is a field for the display
Of character.
Jeremiah lamented that the Nazar-
ties were not known in the streets.
Liam. 4:SD
The NaZarites were supposed to be
the most COnsecTated people in the
land If they were not known in the
streets it was because their influence
was not felt as far as it ought to have
been
For Christian men not to be known
on the streets as men Of honor and
men of God is a misfortune. Religion
not home made religion, but the
Christianity Of Cnrist-is not like our
Sunday clothes. simply for Sunday.
Ii our religion does not wear well
on thes treets, it is because it is not
made of the right stuff. A change
should be made. 1t is not too late TO
change for the better.
The streets are good for work
work for God and men.
When the Lord of the feast had in
yited the well-tO-dO to the supper and
| had been refused, he said to his Ser
wants, Go out quickly into the
streets and lanes Of the city and bring
in the the poor and the
manned and the halt and the blind
Luke 14:21.
Many of the poor are on the streets
they are TOO poor to trade in oxen
or lands and too poor to get married.
But they have souls worth as much
as the souls Of those who claim their
millions They need sympathy and
, love.
They need to be told of a home in
| the skies-a house not made with
/ hands-and how they can get it.
Some on the streets are not so poor
and any of us might think that they
were worth saving.
John B. Gough-a word on the
streets saved him, Jerry McAuley-a
word on the streets brought him tC
Jesus Christ, and gave to New York
one of it's most useful men.
Ezra, in his day, led a great street
revival tNeh. SD.
And all the pople gathered togeth-
er as one man in the streets" And
Ezra preached and the power of Goo
moved upon them.
Jesus was an open air preacher
His voice was not heard On the streets