Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-29

can help her"
She had hair like ravens wing.
Grecian nose and great big brown
eyes, oval face and olive complexion,
and long tapering f1ngers-a girl that
one would turn to look at a second
time-the prettiest girl that I ever saw,
except my wife.
found her on her knees crying and
/ said to her:
What is the matter?"
She said:
II love to do those things that you
preach against"
You don't mean adultery7"
%, no, no.
You don't drink whisky, do you?"
20, no.
What is the matter?"
WELL" she sighed and said, II love
to Dance
o. you poor little foolish Ounce.
Here you are. You have heard the
voice of Jesus and you feel yourself
drawn. and almost ready to throw
yourself into his arms and say, 81 sur
render ALL And just about that time
you hear the callef say, Get you part
ners for a quadrille" and you say,
"Good-bye, Jesus have got to go
dance this dance"
She got up, and, oh, but she was
offended. Her brown dress switched
around the door jam like fox's tail
around brush heap.
There was a little preacher there
that didn't believe in preaching against
amusements. He thought that that was
matter of conscience, a little two by
four, sawed-off preacherette, and he
talked to her
Her Ruin.
After a While we Went to Brooklyn,
and one morning l picked up the New
York World and saw picture of a
woman and read of a man who was
foreman in factory where she
worked. His wife had gone to Sala-
manac, n. Y, and while there their
two children had been taken with diph-
eheria. The factory employees were
getting up their annual ball and this
girl went to it with him. They We're
infatuated with each other, and they
made an agreement that she should go
home with him for the night.
He had gotten a gas stove and the
rubber hose was too short. and he had
tried to splice it with the garden hose
About o'clock in the morning he
Ewoke with a sitting feeling, and
rushed to the window and opened it,
and was hanging out when police
man went by. The officer burst open
the door, and rushed in. and found
the girl lying there partly nude He
dragged her TO the window They got
three doctors and worked over her for
CHI i,,c
sclous enough to look around and say:
My God, what have 1 done?" and
she fell back dead
That was the girl that I tried 70
convert in the Baptist church in Pas
sale, n. j.
No harm in it? She would not lis
ten TO me. L tried to help her for God
and Gods truth
Think what YOU are doing and what
you are coming to when You turn from
Jesus
Honeycombed With Rottenness.
L say that it is unspiritual. Many a
pastor is heart broken and is signing
FOR new fields because of the goddess
mob in the church. l had rather have
twelve women filled with the Holy
Ghost. than a hundred theater CAD
ding, wine guzzlers and frivolous dane
ers. What under Gods heaven do YOU
amount to? The church is honey
combed With the rottenness of soci-
ETY..
Somebody has got 10 come out and
run the risk of mourning your dis
pleasure.
Woman Would Dance.
One time out in Iowa a woman said
that she could not go TO the meetings
because she had young baby. Yes,
But she went three nights in one
week thru the mud and slush out to
little 2x4 tin horn literary society,
to read a paper on Ruskin and Emer-
son. But she could not come 10 the
revival meetings, and she hired g. girl
20 feed her baby on Mellens and Mes
ties food, and to feed it thru a rubber
nipple.
we shot it into that crowd and she
was red headed, and she didn't pro-
pose that any revivalist should come
to town and tell her what to do. They
were going to have their club dance
just the same.
Promises to Quit.
They drove around town one dav in
the slush and mud That woman never
won soul for Jesus Christ, but she
could run around and get up miser-
able good for nothing crowd for 2
dance
The team that she was driving had
not been out for week and was full
of life. Going down the street the
team began to run. and she sawed Of
the lines and tried to keep the horses
going straight, but they came to a cor.
ner, and around went the carriage or
two wheels. The occupants were
thrown out and struck the pavement
as if they had been shot out of 2
mortar
She struck the curbs.one and was
knocked senseless, and one young mar
was killed.
She was In comatose state TO,
-FOUR hours and three physician
worked over her. At last she opened
her eyes and said:
Ny God! Save me- for my baby;
sake, and I'll never dance again az
long as ! live"
Say. if God Almighty gives you a rar
on the back of the head, and shake
the shroud over your old carcass, ane
telephones for the undertaken to come
and measure you for your coffin, 70,
will begin to whine and sniffle.
Whine around, then, but you cam
work your shell games on God.
immoral.
1t is unspiritual and that is not all