Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-17
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and he will say, Il demand that you
bring your proof. I don't allow any
man to tell me i am a libertine. Come
on and prove It," i go to man and
say, you are an old Methodist back
slider, an old Lutheran backslider, an
Episcopalian, Disciple, a United
Presbyterian backslider. You haven't
been to confessional in fifteen years,
and have been going to the devil as
fast as You can go. Is that so?" They
will say, q suppose So" Go up and
tell him. Go to confession and tell
the priest what you are. Tell him you
are going to live right.
Know, therefore, that it is an evil
thing and bitter, that thou hast for
saken the Lord thy God, and that my
fear is not in thee, saith the Lord
God of hosts.
Now listen! What about the wom
en-? God Almighty mapped out the
same path for BOTH don't forget that.
But man is cutting out for himself
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him. want to tell you that your wife
has just as good a right to go down
the street with a load of booze or
smoking pipe or with northwest
piece of Battle AK plug in her mouth
as YOU have. She has just as good a
right to go into a pool room or sit
around and cuss as YOU have, and if
she does those things she is not bit
worse than you are. Does God AL
mighty give you these privileges and
not give them to your wife? You
would not live fifteen minutes with a
cussing woman. Then why expect her
to live with you? A lot of you fell
lows, if your wives lived like you do.
would go whining and shifting
around to the court house looking for
a divorce. You say you feel disgraced
Some of you low good for nothing
fellows, when the devil meets you he
crosses the street or ducks into an alley
to get away from you. 1 say God
mapped out the same life for both men
and women. 1t makes no difference to
God whether one has on a coat or
petticoat. 1t is the same thing. God
hasn't one standard for you and an
other for your wife. God mapped out
the same life for both of You.
Some such dialogue as this has been
going on between the sects for ages,
until Jesus came into the world and
changed Ii. God created man and wo-
man and put them away up there, but
man found it wasn't conducive to the
indulgence of his rotten filth, so he
insists that his mother and his sisters
and his wife stay there. He insists
that the girl he is going to marry and
become the mother of his children shall
stay up there While he stays down. So
she leans over her battlements of ala
baster purity and looks down on her
liege lord and says, Where are you
going, dear?" None OF your blankety
blank business. am a man, you are
a woman" Can't go with you?
Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gan
der" NO. you can't go with me. If
you did, women would trample you
beneath their feet" How long do
you think you will be gone, hubby?"
None Of your blankety, blank bust
ness" Some such dialogue has
been going on between the sexes
for years. A white life for your wife
and hog wallow for you. A foun-
tain of purity for your wife and
booze joint for you. Show me, in the
word of God, where God gives you
any more privilege to do that than he
gives Your wife, just because you wear
whiskers.
Break Faith With God.
But what about the same women?
They will come into the church and
they will plight their eternal allie
glance to Christ, and kneel at the com
munion table with the unseen arm of
Jesus about them. They renounce
the world, the flesh and the devil and
say, L will follow Thee They will
partake of the bread, symbolic of his
body broken for the remission of our
sins and will drink of the wine, en-
blematic of his blood. and within for
ty-eight hours after that she is down in
some ball room floor with some
SPIDER legged dude with his arms
wrapped around her. squeezing the
gizzard and the life out of her know,
therefore, that it is an evil thing, and
bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord
thy God. and that my fear is not in
thee, saith the Lord God of hosts"
True, women!
Listen to me. Do you want to know
the solution of the problem of the
twentieth century? The problem of
the twentieth century was the prob
lem of the first century How will we
cleanse the world for Jesus? I will tell
you. Did you ever hear the story of
Panthea? Panthea was a woman
famed for her symmetry of form and
beauty of face and winning manner
isms, and King Cyrus desired her for
his harem, and altho the price offered
was fabulous she spurned it. King
Cyrus sent again and added to the al
ready fabulous sum, and the second
time she repulsed their advances, and
the third time King Cyrus sent his
emissary, each time adding to the all
ready fabulous sum, and at each re-
guest received refusal. Then cha
grined and disappointed, Cyrus ap-
peared in person, and he added to the
sum which had already been offered by
the emissaries that had visited her
three times before, but Panthea spurned
his overtures, and in his despair he
looked at her in the height of anger
and said, 'Panthea, tell me, where
dWellest thou?" And she replied, I'm
the arms and upon the bosom of my
husband, sire" King Cyrus said, Lead
her away, she is of no value to me.
Lead her away"
And they led her away, and he
placed her husband in charge of the
chariots, knowing he would fall wound
ed IT not slain. Panthea fingered near
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