The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-04-15


greedy, selfish ends. II Jesus Christ
were admitted into many OF the POI
Ilttical systems and halls In your own
state, he would drive out a lot OF
INSCRIPTIONS, selfish and untrue men
from Your halls or liberty. Nothing
can give our state and national life
security. bur the presence or Jesus
! Christ in politics The best citizen OF
this country and the one who is all
ways loyal 70 our homes, our flag and
our land, is that citizen who f. most
loyal to Jesus Christ
When was addressing. d great
mass meeting OF men and urging
their duty as citizens to their home,
children. city and state. man shout
cd to me, Keep out OF politics. Il
SAID. Sir. that has been the cry OF.
certain politicians as yourself for.
many eyars. They have not wanted
good Inen3stc get into politics. There
1 issa certain kind of politics I would
n not:Wanf TO get into, unless I had on
very high boots and a lot OF disinfect-
/ ant On my nose The man who cries
lto the church OF God to keep out or
lpol1tics. is man who convicts him
\ sell shat his hands are stained with
icofruptlon and graft The church or
1od the Bride of Christ. is here to lift
i poiltlcs up out OF the slime and filthy
ooze into which she has fallen. until
We can rend over the door Of every
tcoEntil chamber court house state
capitol and national, Jesus Christ
IS welcome here
We need TO make room for Jesus.
IN our business life. Over every brew
iery and distillery, saloon, blind tiger
and grog shop We read $40 room here
Tor Jesus Over the Office door OF
many a lawyer and doctor, we read.
NO room here for Jesus Over the
entrance OF the theaters. dance halls.
and many a police department. We
read, " Jesus is not wanted here" or
er many q factory and place of BUSH
uess, We readt.No room here for Jes-
us" Many d man agrees perfectly
with the old cblnred man, when ask.
ca 70 pay his debts, because he made
I q loud profession of religion said, Il
want you to know 'ligion is ,lision
an dbusiness IS business and / don't
pose to mix 'en1.
We need to make room for Jesus
lin our social life There Is much Of.
our social life today that will not
make room for Jesus Christ. an
very fond of society. but my society
must he Christian. There is many a
club in our country that will not adj
| nit Jesus Christ am not saying all.
tclubs. but many clubs Over many.
q club entrance. we read Jesus is
mot wanted here Unless mothers
who have suffered the loss Of sons
dragged down before their eyes. I'M
less wives who have suffered the loss
OF husbands. ruined by the clubs. have
| deceived me, there are clubs and club
houses that are thieves and robbers
of homes.
| Many man has started the way OF
the gambler in our fashionable clubs.
Many a man is going down to drunk
ards hell, started in certain clubs.
Many a club room is the scene Of
gambling, drunkenness and dehauch-
iery- woman in tears said to me,
scarcely see my husband any more,
since he Joined the club. He spends
lall of his spare time there and he
docs not care for ME and the chill.
! dren.' Another man said to me, III
see a great change in my boy since
he joined the club He has lost inter-
lest in the Sunday school. He cares
nothing for home or anything that is
sacred now.
Any institution that will steal away
the heart from home. church and God
as IN enemy and corrupter OF the
home. Whatever stands between fatil-l
Ct, mother and home happiness and
lowers the standard Of the home, is
not a Christian institution iii !.
We spent last year $4,000, OcO for
nearly $500 1000, Goo for jewelry; So
I 500 GOO for fancy dogs; nearly a bill
lion dollars for tobacco and sixteen
billions for drink. II know there are
many good men who use tobacco but
II believe that every good man who
did would he a better man If he did
not '55 7
/ IF We We're 10 put the cigarets
! that We're smoked last year in this
country end to end they would reach
from New York to San Francisco more
1 than 400 times. lt would take q ditch
ten feet deep. twenty feet wide and
Thirty miles long to hold the strong
drink consumed in this country last
IEear. 5a ss
We need to make room, for Jesus in.
our home life. over the doors OF
\ thousands OF. homes In our country
we read no room iii this house for
Jesus. The most sacred relation that
can exist between two persons is the
marriage relation Marriage is holy.
land honorable We are living in an
lage when the marriage vow is laugh
led at and the sacredness of wedlock
has become a mere joke with many
One OF the most appalling enemies
OF the home is the divorce court.
| There never was a time when such
lbrazen and heartless assaults We're
made on the sacredness Of the home.
land the pledge or the marriage con.
tract. The easy method Of divorce
lis striking a fatal blow at this jrepub-
lie When our nation becomes one OF
Isbroken homes. we will have a broken
and a shattered republic. Christ said, ,
IF the good man OF the house had
known in what watch the thief would
come, he would not have suffered his
house TO be broken up Many are
building tlreir homes too low. Be-
cause OF the recklessness5 or our horrn
making, they are inviting an attack
ion the home. The broken homes. the