Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-17

some good points"
but she is fiat failure In her head.
So If you can fix up her heels and
6aeksIide in Voting Whisky Ticket.
Pretty soon one fellow arose and
said: We'll, think backslid when
voted the whisky ticket" You bet
you did. You backslid before you
voted for that gang. If I stood for
that dirty rotten business would take
my name off the church record No
man can stand for that cussed business
and you know that the reason it exists
is because of the vote of church mem
bers, and that is one of the sins of the
church today.
Lincoln said "If slavery Is not wrong
nothing is wrong" And 1 say if the
open license grog shop Is not wrong
then there is nothing this side of hell
that is wrong. The saloon, with its
great train Of lust and disease and
crime. If all the rivers of the universe
were turned thru them they could not
wash out the stink. If all the breezes
of the universe We're blown thru them
they could not drive away the breath of
the filth. wish to God 1 could arouse
every man and woman in and out of
the church against the most sinking,
mildewing, infamous, infesting pesti-
lence on the face of the earth There
is no place outside of brothel where
the atmosphere is so saturated with
filth and no place you can go where
you will meet more filthy characters
than in the saloon.
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, And you do it when YOU
stand up for that business. No Won
der the church is losing her power
today. Somebody says: "Why is 1t
so great sin for man, if he finds
himself falling in the Christian life,
to quit; why so great a SIM" I will
tell you. Christianity is not for time,
nor for money, nor for pleasure; it is
for God, first. last and all the time-a
step to be carefully considered before
you take 1T, and never deviate a hairs
breadth from what God puts down for
you to live.
Now, I have never tabooed but two
towns ever preached in One is in
Iowa and the other is in Minnesota.
I preached in a little good for nothing
town in Iowa at one time. They had
1,20O people in the town when ]
preached there fifteen years ago, and
they had $50 charter members in an
1nfidel club, led by a fellow who used
to be class leader in the Methodist
church. He ran a one horse grocery
store about as big as box stall, and |
have counted as many as forty-two
men loafng around there at one time,
and whenever a new preacher would
come to town he would give the mem
bers of the infidel club permission to
go and hear him. One old fellow used
to come and hear me preach. His old
whiskers were long and had a yellow
streak down the middle where the to-
bacco juice had run for sixty wears
That old fellow could spit thirty feet
and hit a fly. He just squirted It out
thru his teeth like hose. His old hal,
and whiskers were knotted and twist.
ed and looked like cows tail full OF
cookie burs. He never wore a coat
nor a vest. nor galluses, just had a
rope tied around his waist, and he
would come into the meeting with one
pant leg in his boot and the other
pant leg hanging down He looked
as tho he never had but one bath II,
his life and that was the day he was
born. He would sit and cuss everybody
for being christian, and yet here was
fellow who used to be a class leader
in the Methodist church. He was 8
backslider.
There is no good reason why a man
| should remain in backslidden state
In business life there are crises and
hard times. He may be able to over
draw his account in the bank or he
may not. The banker may know him
loo we'll. But I don't care who YOU
are, If you will call on God He will
hear your prayer and grant your petit
ton. You may be impure in your life
or be booze fighter, but If you will cry
TO God with an honest heart he will
hear your prayers. There is no rea-
son a man should live in that condi--
ton.
There is no man so love, admire
and delight to honor as / do true
man or a true woman, and there is
nobody I so abhor and despise as !
do an untrue man or an untrue won
an-one whose word is as weak as rome
OF sand and whose honor is as unendur-
ing as cloud Of smoke; but adj
mfre a true man or a true woman al
tho they may differ from me in bust
ness, politics or religion (and the
greatest difference exists in matters OF
religion because the greater interests
are at stake), but If that man or that
woman is living up to his or her ideal
OF honesty and right will admire
them and respect them; and IL 1 know
their ideals of right are wrong, then j
Will endeavor to lead them into the
right If they are living UP to their
Ideals, and IL know that their high
est ideals are wrong, ] will still re-
spect them while they are living up ia
their ideals which they think are right
and which know are wrong, and all
the time I will admire them altho
they may differ from me in business
politics or religion.
Lees Manhood.
AT the beginning Of the war Gen
Robert e. Lee Zone of the greatest
commanders and best men who eve,