Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-08

~ sermon. Deviations-and they
u n,cturesaue and characteristic
~. ,,,,-are to be found in the gen
-, n what took place yesterday
!. tabernacle.
ne -. text last evening was in Gen
~ aFor know him that he will
b,s children and his household
- MI as no higher compliment thai
t,s thels nav Abraham than by saying
~ cou'v brahen. for he will command
tnos - ana his household after him.
cn satisfied that was a good index
Nsssraoter Of Abraham.
tps IA like to throw myself tonight
VIZ Aprayerful sympathy that I may
~ ~ attention OF this audience and
Noarts to go with me to the most
~ lot 'J ON this globe-the spot around
I,i,ster sps more sweet associations and
n 1, o,norIes than any other place In
.vu..orid--the home. The longer live
3 W ,,ore visit up and down this land
~ ,hs lows and sorrows, the success
4 S.,sos ~ M men and women, the more
i"siy 7 become impressed with the
.sst md greatest institution of the
u nedpie today is the home, and
horoe should be the centre of all
n, aIevatlng, inspiring and uplifting,
-, home should be dead to any
eSat disgraces and pollutes. l think
As anar .n or improper settlement of the
cnestIon, whether It is a house OF
- sorrow veal or woe, Is more with
nan or woman than any other prob
4 Won can build your palaces you can
=. vour fortunes; you can spread PERI
r,ss on your floors; you can sit be-
IN the fash of the candelabra; you
a,sh n button and have retinue of
.ar,s doing a marathon to see which
4 ~ bonored by waiting on you; you
ali down the street in the most mag
I'm, and faultless equipages, but 1
~ a. you nothing can make happy the
y and mother of Goddess, drunken
- N a hoy. or a frivolous, coquettish,
y, good-for-nothing, empty-headed
- q girl that gads the street with
', rom Dick and Harry, and makes
I. song YOUR head with shame and dis
~ that YOU ever gave her birth.
nrTEcTs CAUSE DowNFALLs.
got only peace and happiness centre
In the home, but all that is moral and
au,ops as we'll. I believe the downfall
most men and women can be trcaed
some defect in the home. Every
,ckleg gambler every drunkard roll
and staggering and vomiting and
utterlng and spewlng, every woman
mo red-light district who is selling
virtue. was once pure as the MORN
daw. No drunkard ever intended to
/. dr,,nkard. The man who says 1 can
~ or let il alone-I notice they never
4 alone-the man who tells me he
, drink or let it alone lies. The
,nkard begins with the moderate
nker. One of the curses of the world
Iay is the moderate drinker, not the
drinkers.
'ou could ask 10 men for a definition
home, and they will give you 10 differ
definitions. The one will say it is the
Z OF hearth; the next, plenty to eat
the table, plenty to wear: work and
Mort; intelligence and devotion;
citing with a kiss when you come in;
regrettable goodbye when you leave.
another want looks out from home,
alor, vice, hunger and an empty tray;
omb where the air is rent with curses,
Bible, no Sabbath day, children who
robbers and thieves, obscene songs
II lullaby; every face a picture of
Mt; the vestibule TO the pit. the door
/ Of hell. chain forging links to bind
m down to perdition.
listen to me- Nearly one-half of the
lates Of the reformatory, committed
re for crimes, commit the crimes for
lch they are sent there while in a state
voluntary or involuntary Vagrancy.
0 genesis of vagrancy: it is a big
istion to answer In one sermon, but
m going to say something about that
r. one-tenth of them have lost their
snts; one-half lost either father or
her, and 60 per cent. are from homes
re the parents have been divorced.
ken homes and broken lives seem to
hand In hand they are inseparably
lected Many times sons and daughters
brought up In idleness; unrestrained
ne expenditure of their money, rapid
acquiring extravagant habits, they
re In escapades that scandalize So
y, indulge in fast horses, gambling,
and women, and in the diversions of
idle-racing, lust and passlons-and |
lst they go to a premature grave and |
remembered only for the dissolute |
! they led.
le women are silly, frivolous. extrav-
~ they have thrown to the winds all |
esty prudence, religion, and the vir-
mat are so attractive in women. and |
allowed them to be fiattered, cajoled |
pamboozled by a lot of Tilted jays
cracked characters, and they turn |
homes into third-rate gambling |
ana booze joints. They have Vaude-
m their homes, they indulge in |
Dnng' and the average society woman |
Is more familiar with the names of !
vines and champagnes than she is
classic literature or the word of
ne prettiest picture that God has ever
ed' or the world ever looked at, is a
y and a mother that love Jesus
y and they take hold of the hand of
Oldest child, and the next Oldest
: and the next child, down the line
y Youngest, and the whole family go
ung and singing into glory. The
'est picture the world may see is to
iather and mother, without Christ,
.'oeking arms. taking hold of the
: q the Oldest child and the next and
n1At ana on down to the youngest
and see that whole family going to
ana want to tell you in Philadel-
you have got too many such so
I" heh you can smell the sulphur
You train UP a child in the way
ollq go, and when 1t is old 1t will
,spAft from its training. I believe
= =, { child is properly trained 1t will
.,en 80 astray. Listen to me. The
= way to get rid of drunkards is
'p raising drunkards.
ANTILLES WHO JUST LIVE"
way 70 get rid of drunkards is to
vne reason. A drunkard makes me
4 makes me sick to see In COM
y IKE this, dirty. sinking hell holes
lFupuon. vomiting. pulfing. spewing
liphauon. There goes a man stag
uown the street drunk-see the cop
ana pinch him. Why not pinch the
we that made him drunkard? SO
sllnal way to get rid OF criminals is