Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-12-16
.LOWRYISMS

"We work because we are saved and
not to be saved"
"The dance is simply hugging set to
music.'
"You are what you are because you
want to be-no better or no worse"
MANY in this town are anxious just
ow to get rid of their alarms, but not
their SINS"
IL am not an infidel because l am
not fool-'The fool hath said in his
heart there is no Cod"
| "You put off salvation until the Holy
Spirit ceases to strive with you-then
you cant repent il you would"
'Oh, what time some of the devils
of this town would have ii they could
just convince themselves that there is
| no hell"
| "Some OF you would rather walk up
| to the meat block and have your right
arm chopped off than for your past
sins to be made public"
ITO hear many men and boys talk,
you would think they had been to hell
| for their education and had the devil
for their teacher"
"You say it makes one graceful TO
dance-well, | would rather my daugh
ters get grace in their hearts than in
their heels"
God says there Is hell for every
Christless soul. II He didn't mean
what He said, why didn't He say what
He meant?'
Parents wonder why their children
turn out bad. They forget that they
have been born but once and turn as
NATURAL to sin as duck to water"
THE most despicable sight that we
are called upon to witness is to see q
cigarette going down the street with
fire on one END and fool on the other"
you say you haven't go. time to be
Christian. Yes, but men, you will
never get so busy but what you will
take time to attend you own funeral
services"
TOO many girls have no higher
ambition than to become society
belle-and you know what it takes TO
make bell, don't you?-simply a
tongue and little brass, that is all"
lone of the hardest things TO do is
to try to live the Christian life with
out being born again. You might as
we'll try to lift yourself over the fence
by your bootstraps."
Il have very little faith in death bed
conversions. Such thing is not i'm
poss' BILE, but II is improbable. | have
never yet Witnessed death-bed con-
version that thought was really SIM
cere."
cit is not feeling that saves US; it is
faith. You can't trust your feelings,
for many people feel that they are 60
ing TO heaven but their lives show that
they are going straight to hell"
Every man that sits down at
gambling table and wins another mans
his money over cards is a fool-sO
every gambler is either thief or a
fool"
Hear me, fathers and mothers,-I
would rather see my daughters in their
collins than to see them in the en-
brace of one of these vile hearted dane
ing masters.
'"Thackery says the man who dances
is an ass. Now l didn't say that
Thackery sid it, have too much re-
spect for the long -eared donkey"
Some wives say, We'll, play cards
with my husband to keep him from 90
ing to thu saloons or gambling rooms.
Well, all have to say is, What did
you marry the old hog for, anyway
"Oh, a husband may dance with his
wife the first round to take the curse
off, then he turns her over to some one
else. Why man would just as soon
saw wood all night in the moonlight
as to dance an evening with his wife. -
"a dead fish can drift with the cur
rent, but it takes a live one to 90
against it. Any ole can drift with the
current of things, but it takes man or
woman with courage or back bone to
live for God In this sinful and adulter-
/ Gus age"
"You say l let my children play
cards at home SO that they will not
play elsewhere. Well 1 had Just as
soon send my boy to the saloon to
teach him sobriety, or my girl to the
brothel to teach her purity as TO teach