Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-30

I6Oe!naCle last night Defor0 8 large
audience. The sermon printed below il
from the manuscript copy Copy
rlghted) During Its delivery he
changed the sermon some, but in Its
entirety 1t was materially as follows:
Copyrighted by W. A. Sunday,)
Genesis 1s:19-'For know Him.
and He will command His Household
after Him."
! am going to throw myself to-
night upon the sympathy of this vast
audience, and I should know nothing
(, OF compliment If were not aware of
the high honor your presence throws
upon the Gospel Of the Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ and your desire
to hear 1t as I, In my weak and STAN
anering way, preach 1t. And if you are
9 father. or q mother, or son, or
9 daughter. ! am sure that what I
have to say will grip your heart and
I your attention and your interest, If you
are interested in the betterment Of this
life, of this nation in which we live.
am going to ask you to take trip
with me to the most sacred spot in
this world, a spot which knows more
OF sweet association and pleasant
memories than any other place in the
world-the home. The more Z travel
up and down this old world-the more
I see Of success and failure-the mare
U see OF drunkenness and sobriety-the
more see Of vice and virtue-the
more see of religion and infidelity,
the more become convinced of the
fact that Il B home is the greatest
problem with which we have to con-
tend today, and I want you to give
me your attention SO that you can
help me in solving the problem and
thus make a greater and a better
nation in which we can live and spend
our days.
What Homo Should Be.
Our homes are streams which are
constantly pouring forth their current
and they should be the center Of all
that is noble, Cody, inspiring and
great.
I have walked and ridden and driven
over the hills and thru the valleys
and looked at your beautiful homes
and your spacious lawns and your
happy children; you can build your
palaces and amass your fortunes; your
sideboards can groan beneath the
weight Of gold and silver cut glass
and hand-painted china; and you can
let your little ones play over your
Brussels carpet or your Persian or
Administer rugs; and you can have a
retinue of servants to wait upon you
and do your bidding and satisfy your
slightest desire; and you can loll upon
your oriental divans and breathe the
perfumed air and watch the sparkling
water as it spurts from fountains; and
you can look at your rare paintings
and ransack Europe in order to find
the masterpieces; and you can lie
there with some one to fan you, and
take your afternoon siesta; and you
can sit and gormandise upon all the
viands that the earth can produce;
and your chef may be Frenchman
whose ability would command a
princeiy fortune even in the homes of
the crowned heads Of Europe. But,
after all, If you sit behind the tapestry
and look out thru the plate glass
and wait for the staggering, reeking
1rink-soaked, drunken sot Of a son, or
! pu wait for the coming of the steps
( OF q girl who has lost her virtue, ]
tell you, all that wealth can bring you
will fly and you will think you are
sitting In a sepulchre and the rich
furniture will simply become che bones
of other days and other faces, for
nothing can make happy the father
or the mother who has drunken sot
for a boy, as many Of them have to-
day, and nothing can make happy the
father or the mother of a girl who
has sold her womanhood for gain. And
tell you, not only should our homes
be the center of all that is pure, but all
that is cheerful and bright.
Home Starting Point.
Every gambler who leans over q
greasy card table and stakes his last
sou on the next "show down." every
staggering sot that reels to the pit OF
hell; every woman in a red-light dis.
trict; every one Of these depraved
characters at one time sat at some
mothers knee and learned from her
the mother tongue and by her to walk
In the tottering steps.
L think the downfall Of most every
man or woman can be traced to some
defect in the home. You know there
are multitudes of families to whom the
rearing of one or more boys or girls
simply means another boy for the
penitentiary or another girl for the
house Of prostitution.
There are over three million men in
the United States who are homeless
In Chicago we have nearly 100000
homeless young men. and say that II
God arranged so that we could not
take our children to heaven with U.S.
we would be miserable. think one
Of the prettiest pictures over looked
upon is to see father with the religion
of Jesus Christ in his heart, and a
mother with the religion Of Jesus
Christ in her heart, and to see them
throw their arms about their eldest
child, and the oldest child throw his
arms about the next Oldest child end
that child take the next oldest child
by the hand, and so on until the
youngest, and all with happiness in
their hearts and songs on their lips
! start for heaven. And ]. think the
blacklist, darkest picture ever looked
upon is to see father without the
religion of Jesus Christ In his heart
and befrizzled society woman with
out the religion Of Jesus Christ in her
heart. and the oldest child without the
religion Of Jesus Christ in its heart
and the next oldest child, and on down
until the baby in the cradle, and to see
that father and mother lock arms and
all start to hell. like many Of them
are doing today.
e Facing a Condition.