Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-25
Billy" Sundays Sermons

gives every man square deal
WOULD ASK QUESTIONS.
'If man stood up and told me he was
going to preach on the things am this
afternoon I'd want him to answer me
several questions, and Y he could do that
ia tell him to 10 ahead.
"Flrst--Are you kindly disposed toward
me?
Second you doing this to help me7
"Third-Do you know what you're talk
ina about2
"Fourth-Do you practice what you
preach7
"Thars fair. Well for the first God
knows am kindly disposed toward you.
Second. God knows I would do anything
In my power 10 help you be better man.
! want to make II easier for you to be
square and harder for you TO 20 to hell.
Third, know what I'm talking about,
for have the Bible to back me up in
parts and the statements Of eminent
physicians In other paris. And fourth,
DO I practice what ! preach| I will
defy and challenge any man or woman
on EARTH and G'll look any man In the
eye and challenge him, In the "a years
have been protesting Christian to show
anything against me. II don't live what
! preach, gentlemen, I'll leave the pulpit
and never walk back here again.
CHRISTIANITY CAPITAL.
"ChHstlanity is the capital on which
you build your character Don't you let
the devil fool you. You never become
man until you become Christian.
Christianity is the capital on which you
do business, IT'S your character that
gets you anything, Your reputation is
what people say about you, but your
character is what God and your wife
ana the angels know about you, and know
you to be- Many have regulations OF good
being, but their characters would make
black mark on piece Of coal or tarred
paper.
What are some people going to do
about the judgment? Some are Just in life
for the money they get out of It. They
Will toll you north lis south II they think
they can get dollar by II. They float
Ret-rlch-quick schemes and anything for
money, ] haven't a. word to say about
n man who has earned his money honest
~ and ls using It 10 provide for his fam
lily and spending the surplus for good
You know there Is bunch Of NUTS that
sit around on stools and whittle and spit
and cuss and damn and say that every
man who has an honest dollar ought to
divide 1t with them, while others get out
and get busy and work and sweat and toll
and prepare to leave something for their
wives and families when they die, and
spend the rest for good.
DON'T LIVE FOR BOOZE.
NAKED you came into this world and .
naked you will crawl out Of IT, You .
brought nothing into the world and you .
Will take nothing out and II you have |
put the pack screws on the poor and .
piled up a pile Of gold as big as this .
tabernacle you can't take it with you. It .
wouldn't do you any good II you could, .
because II would melt.
Some just live for booze Some say:
= need II. II Keeps me warm in winter
Another says: 1t keeps me cool in sum
mer Well II II Keeps you warm in
winter ard cool I'm summer why Is it that
out Of those who freeze to death and are
sunstruck the greater part Of them are
boozc-hoisters? Every one takes 1t for
the alcohol there is In 1t Take that out
and you would as soon drink dlshwater.
Every man has blood cOrpusces, and
their object is to take the impurities out
of your system. PerspiratInn Is for the
same thing, Every time you work or I
preach the impurities come out Every
time you sweat there is destroying
power going on inside. The blood goes
through the heart every II seconds. o,
we have marvellous system. In
some spots there are 1000 pores to the
square inch, and a grain Of sand will
cover you with shellac, and youIl be
dead In 4S hours Oh, we are fearfully
and wonderfully made!
"Alcohol knocks the blood corpuscles out
of business, so that It takes eight to ten
TO do what one ought TO do There's a
nan who drinks. Here's fellow who
irives n beer wagon. Look how pussy he
Is. Hos full OF rotten tissue. He says
le's healthy Smell his breath YOU
punch your finger In that healthy flesh he
talks about and the dent will be there "A
lalf an hour afterward You look like
,ou don't believe II. Try It when you 20
o bed tonight Pneumonia mas a first
on q boOze-hister.
Take q fellow with good healthy mus
les. and you punch them and they bound
'ut like a rubber baud. The first thing |
bout crushed strawberry stomach Is |
crushed strawberry nose. Nature let's
he public on the outside know what Is
soing on inside. lf could just take the
tomach Of a moderate drnker and turn
I wrong side out for you II would be all
he temperance lecture you would need Z
You know what alcohol does 10 the white
II an egg. 1t will cook il in a few min
ties, Well alcohol does the same thing J
o the nerves as to the white OF an egg ]
That's why some men can't walk. They /
tagger because their nerves are partly
SHOULD FIGHT SALOONS.
That's what booze Is doing for you
sn't II time you went red hot after the
.nemy? I'm trying 70 help you. I'm try
ng to put a carpet on your floor, pull
he pillows out OF the window, give you /,
nd your children and wife good clothes !
m trying 10 get you TO save your money =
1stead Of buying a machine for the sa-
while you have 10 hot-foot II.
by the grace OF God / have strength ,
nouGh 10 pass the open saloon, but some :
+ you can't 80 1 owe II to you TO help :
0u.
THE open saloon Is the hotbed OF an
Tchy. II Is the incubator Of poverty and ,
rme and vice, IL is the spawning place
I degeneraCy, When We get the preach .
rs 70 do this and quit talking about new
get the Presbyterian to preach
bout this instead OF preferment, when
lot Of them haven't anything 10 prefer,
nj the Baptlsts quit yelling Water, (
'ater. water, waterH and two-thirds OF !
leir bunch going where you can't get 4
roD wen clean up this saloon-hlled, !
reWeTy-controlled community for Christ.
IA going 10 skin EN-.
You say you can't prohibit men from =
rinking Why II Jesus Christ was hsra
'day some OF you would keep on In sin i,
ist the same. But the law can be en- =
'rced against whisky just the same as Il =
an be enforced AGAINST augthiuR else IL