The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-04-18
Invcctive Was
Used BY Billy Sunday
to Portray Backslider

sir. If you go to a man and say these
things to him and 1t arouses his blood
and he viii say:
"1 demand that you bring your
proof. / don't allow any mar to talk
that way to me. Come on and prove
it,
"Now listeni What about the wo-
men? God Almighty marked out the
same path for both, don't forget that.
But ma Is cutting out for himself a.
niche away below where God placed
him. ] want to tell o that your
wife has just as much a right to go
down the street with a load of booze
smoking a pipe OF with a north
west 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
as you have, and if she does those
things she is not a bit worse than you
are. Does God Almighty give you
these privileges and not give them to
your wife? You. would not live fifteen
minutes with a cussing oman Then
why expect her to live with you? A
lot of you fellows, # your wives lived
like you do. you would go whining and
shifting around to the courthouse
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. II
makes no difference to God whether
one has on a coat or a petticoat. 1t
is the same thing.
God hasn't one standard for you
and another for your wife.
God mapped out the same life for
both of you.
Some such dialogue as this has
been going OF between the sexes for
ages until Jesus came into the world
and changed it:
God created man and woman and
put them away up there; man found
1t wasn't conductive 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 alabastar
purity and looks down on her liege
lord and says:
Where are you going dear?"
None of your business. I am a
man, you r a woman
Cant I go with you? Sauce for
the goose, sauce for the gander.'
"FNo, you can't go with me. II you
did men and women would trampIe you
beneath their feet
How long do you think you will
be gone, hubby?'
None of your business
Where Does Man Get Privileses2
SHOW me, in the word of God
where God gives you any more privi-
lege to do that than he gives your
wife, just because you wear whiskers?
But what about these same women?
They will come into the church and
they will plight their esternaI alleg-
lance to Christ, and kneel at the com
munion table, with the unseen arm of
Jesus about them. They the
world, the flesh and the devil and say:
" I 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, emblematic Of his blood. ard
within forty 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 life literally and spiritually out of
her.
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 True
Listen!
1T was Christmas eve on the farm,
the old farmer had piled the straw
thick beneath the horses and the cat
tie and half fed them. He had come
into the house and had pounded the
snow from his boots. Took off his
muffler and his coat and hung them on
the accustomed peg behind the door.
Ate his supper, and sat down in front
of the fire. The wife, after having
washed the dishes, took up her knit
ting. The old dog came up to the
farmer, laid his head on his lap and
begged for recognition. He was pat
ting him and calling him endearing
names and complimenting him for his
good work when suddenly the wife
stopped knitting.
she put her specks on the top Of her
head, dropped her hands in her lap,
looked over and sail. as the tears fell:
Husband, have you forgotten? This
is her anniversary night
THE old man bit his lip. His eyes
dropped to the floor and the tears
rolled down his weather. beaten face.
He brushed them away, got up. put
his hands in his trouser pockets, went
up to the window framed his sad face
in the window pane, looked out into the
cold night and wept.
Christmas Eve in a Great City.
'.Tt was Christmas eve in a great
city. The church was thronged with
worshippers. They had come to re-
ceive their gifts and hear the message
of Him who died and opened His veins
with the instrument OF the cross and
bathed the world in blood and tears 10
keep us out Of hell. The light streamed
through the windows OF the church
and fell upon'the cold white snow and
the creaking Of the wheels as the car
riages rolled down the street told how
cold it was.
THE sermon had just begun. The
minister took as his text:
"rEe was wounded for our trans
gressions,' when the door opened and
a poor, wretched outcast drifted IN
from the storm, She huddled up close
to a radiator and she shivered and her
teeth chartered as she folded her rags
about her and fell asleep during the
dicro,7Trn n was coranIntad rift.