The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-27
NIR. EDMOND'S STRONG SERMON
 ON SEVENTH COMMANDMENT
In His Pulpit at the First Presbyterian Church He Called the Violation of That Command
 ment tsthe Worlds Greatest Peril.

a4I the strength of ten because my heart is pure. and the time win come at some climax of the years that your hand will be. palsied and your lance unavailing, and you will go screaming from the lists because your heart Is not pure.
 Mental Fibre.
 And what. shall we say of the mind? Of the intellect made. fIabby; gof the brain rendered incapable of grappiing with It's problems. If you win make men pure you can burn down your in- sane asylums,'' some man has said. I do not know whether that Is liter ally true or not, but have this from a practicing physician of experience and reputation: Tn practically all mental and nervous diseases, the most prominently named cause Is one of the diseases springing from ifnpuFity /"
 Bodiiy Fibre.
 But now we come to the place where the plague spot shows itself in tam gible form. The sins will destroy your bodily fibre. God, has put on the trail of those who sin. a system Of the most malignant diseases which afiict the. human race. Most formid- able foe man has to fear. one physi- clan says.
 1t has been said that the history of
 
 of God and the Bible. It is not more so than the history of this command ments and it's punishment in the bodies Of men. For note-~the animals of the e fieid do not suffer. the pure ambng men do not suffer, except indirectly; but the impure feel the barb. and drink the bitterness to the dreKs. God was in earnest when He said: Thou shalt not My experience is short, but have known two young men, college men, athletes both, over whose cham Der door this raven sat and crooked, with his beak in their hearts, until they drew their pistols and ended #. It would explain Fnany of our present. day seif-infiicted deaths.
 Hamlet. I could tale unfold that would harrow up thy soul and freeze physician was travelling in this coun- try. iectuving' on this suhject. and ln connection with his lecture. he exhib- tied life sIxe portraits to illustrate the effects of vice on the human body. II was not unusual for men to faint and be carried from the building
 Tuberculosis is the great white plague; 1t has slain It's thousands Whlskey iss the great red plague; 1t has slain it's tens of thousaRds. Im- purity is the great black plague:- 1t has slain It's millions. i,s Men who go to. Het Springs, Ark. and see all, tdere is to see, come back with tales which would add new depth to any horror that Dante ever dreamed. @ cod was in earnest
 The Geheznl Ppblic.
 The man who chooses to disobeJ | Gods ''Taou shalt net's becomes a dan. | gerous animal zEa threatens not oEll, | hfu eNn health of the community at large. IT l the little town of ------- Alabama, young man of promise got on a Pull. man and rubbed 6 towel across ilil l eyes. One of them Is gone and; ths other is going ,sEn 1898 youthful sol ! dfer cama back 70 Aoulsvii1e. Ky. from Cuba with his gray and gold. At hll sweetlieart's home her little brothel | was rolled into the room In his car riage. The soldier boy Kissed the iit | tie pink bahy. There was q sore oi i the one lip and a slight abrasion of | the other lip. The baby is In his car riage yet; Hes there a huddling iumI | of sores. memorial to the courage o an American soldier, who. in far-awa, I Cuba, slipped the leash of cIeanness. I Do you realize that the, germ o death may turk in a telephone receiv CT, a public cup pencila The tim, l flne Ieprosy, yellow. fever smaIIpox bubonfc plague, and also the morl dangerous and l6afhsonae forms O contagion.
 Tnn0cent Wonaen -,, ;. The public generally. however, mar i rows down to a nearer thing. A creai ture of light and air wooed by dozens l the toast of all the eountry-sfde; thei | comes the Prince with the magic kiss and leads her away Into that new | world which is the old. Bells, wells
 orange b1ossonGs. That is Act |. Nov
 kollews Act IT. The operating room 1 the damp hanging hair; the whit, | face, with blue-veined lids closed ovei l the eyes; ttie pathetic moans which es