Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-26
SUNDAYS SERMON TODAY

Il wish I could mako girl that fiirts
see herself as others see her. II you
make eyes at man on the street he will
pay you back. II doesn't mean that you
are pretty. It means that IL you don't
care any more for yourself than that,
why should he7 The average man will
herself.
1T takes a whole lot OF nerve for a
tellow to look q girl In the face and
say, VIII you be my wife and partner,
ana help me fight the battle during lifeT
put think II means n whole lot more
20 the girl who has to answer and fight
that question. But the fool girl loafs
around and waits to be chosen and takes
the hrst chance she gets and seems to
think that II they are made one, the laws
OF man can make them two again.
The divorce laws are damnable Amer
lea is first In many things that I love,
put there are many things that are a
| disgrace. We lead the world in crime;
lead the world in dvorce-we of our
| culture.
MANY a girl has found out after she
is married that 1t would have been
| good deal easier to die an old maid
than to have said yes and become
the wife of some cigarette smoking cuss-
Ing, damnable libertine. They will
| launch the matrimonial boat and put
the oars in and try It once for luck,
| anyway. and so we have many women
| praying for unconverted husbands.
preached like this In a town once
and the next day heard of about FIVE
engagements that were broken. l can
give you advice now, but II the knot is
tied, the thing is DONE
II am a Roman Catholic on divorce
There are whole lot of things worse
than living and dying an old maid and
one of them Is marrying the wrong
man. So don't be one to do that The
trouble with the average American girl
is she holds herself ino cheap. She
is Just scared to death of being what
the world irrelevantly calls an old
maid
LOVE NoBLEST GIFT
Now, girls, don't simper and look silly
when you speak about love. There is
nothing silly about it, although some
folks are silly because they are in love.
Love Is the noblest and purest gift of
God to man and womanknd. Don't let
your actions advertise Man Wanted,
Quick That is about the surest way
not to get man. You might get a thing
with breeches on, but he is no man.
Many a woman is an old maid be-
cause she wanted to do her share of
the counting. Don't get excited and
want to hurry things along II a man
begins to act as though he Is after you,
the surest way to get him Is Just to
make him feel you don't want him, un-
less you drive him off by appearing too
Indifferent.
And. girls, don't worry If you think
you are not going to get a chance to
marry. Some of the noblest men in the
world have been bachelors and some of
the noblest women old maids. And wom-
an, for Gods sake. when you do get
married don't transfer the love God gave
you to bestow on a little child onto
Spitz dog or brindle pup.
"All great women are satisfied with
their common sphere in life and thinks to
fill the spot God gives them in this world
as it should be filled as a wife and
mother. I tell you the devil and women
can damn this world and Jesus and
women can save this old world. 1t re-
mains with womanhood today to lift our
social life to a higher plane.
Mothers, be more careful of your boys |
and girls, Explain these evils that con-
taminate our social life today. 1 have
had women say to me, Mr.. Sunday, |
don't you think there is danger of talk |
ing too much to them when they are |
30 young?' Not much; just. as soon as
a girl Is able to know the pure from
the impure she should be taught. oh, |
mothers, mothers, you don't know what |
your girl is being led to by this false |
and mock modesty.
Just think what grand thing 1t must |
be-, mothers, to look back on clean, |
godly life and to have good. upright. |
godly children. 1 wish my daughter |
Helen was here. I have sat and preached |
this sermon with her sitting on the front |
seat. I would thank anybody that would
tell her these things.
There are a lot of you women sitting
right out there whose temperature has
run UP seven degrees just since nave
been preaching.
MARRIAGE NOT THE ONLY THING.
rIo NbaA he
thing in the world is to marry. Why,
some girls marry inidels because they
were not taught to say 4 would not do
it. A girl is a big fool to marry an in
fidel. God says, BE ye not unequally
yoked with unbeiievers'
'It has simply come to this-that some
body has to preach plainly, and that
somebody seems to be me.
"Since the world began woman Is the
one that man sought after. He will work
for you, labor-he will die for you; but,
girls, when you come down from the ped
estal and make yourself easy of conquest,
I don't blame the average man.
"I believe there is a race yet to ap-
pear which will be as far superior In
morals to us as we are superior to the
morals in the days of julius Caesar. but
that race viii never appear until God
fearing young men marry God-fearing
girls and the offspring are God-feartng.
Couture viii never save the world, II
these miserable human vampires VIII. feed
and fatten upon the virtue Of womAplood
can get off with impunity; nay, more, to
be feasted and petted and coddled by So
clety. we might as we'll back-pedal out
and sink in shame. for We can never see
to the heights nor command the respect
Of the great and good.
What paved the way for the downfall
Of the mightiest dynasty-proud and
doughty GTeece-and imperial Rome? The
downfall of their womanhood. The virtue
Of womanhood is the rampant wall of
American civilization. Break that down
and with the stones thereof you can pave
your way to the hottest hell and reeking
vice and corruption. 1 tell you society
that makes distinction between the man
who does wrong and the girl when she
does wrong is beneath my notice. would
not spit on 1t. You know there are a
multitude OF places right here In this
that are vile.