The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-01-02

much rit'aaiistic. ethical. and that
sort Of rot.
Religion has Joy In 1t. 1t Is not
these iong-faced. Prince Albert coat
ed. collar button -in-the back sort Of
people.
IL sonrs preachers would stop
preaching Shakespeare, they would
see more results from their sweat.
There are lot of things we do
not understand. You don't know how
food 10 asafmiiated and makes tissue,
cuticie. blood corpuscles, nerves.
homes and sinew. All you have to do.
10 to shovel In the grub. Nature will
do the rest.
Usually the man who says he
can't understand the Bible. IL not liv-
ing np to what he can understand.
Ny preaching doesn't look right. to
a fellow who In looking through the
devais goggles.
would hate to advertise that
had rather do wrong. than right. That
In what you are doing when you live
In sin.
II what 4 know. would meet what ]
don't know; what I know would feel
very much embarrassed.
There are lots OF people. instead
Of making their boast Of and putting
their trust In their own goodness. they
make q boast OF and put their trust
In other peoples badness.
You get the cobwsbs OF your own
window. and you will not see spiders
on the other fellows.
A blind tiger has just about as
much conscience a. a fox in a hen
roost. .l
Have something more In your re-
iision. than the ritual and ordin-
ances Of your church.
Take a man or woman that has sin
ned away their day OF grace. and
there u nobody In town that will lie
more bitter against these meetings
than they; and they will make you
believe Il In what preach. or som.-
hing like that. No. poor. miserable.
0od-forsaken wretchss! The holy
spirit has left them: and they are to
be pitied.
A Lot OF churches haven't got
enough religion to cast devil as big
a. q peanut. out Of boy.
Some Of these little girls get up In
choir ioft on Sunday morning. and
they semi-demi-h and rat
tlesnake note. and do little diaph-
ram wisEle and make a noise like a
horse neighIng; and not . half dog
On people In the congregation under
stand what they are trying to say.
s-ve-, ,..I-.~- '" t.. t"
Many preacher wants to win souls
to .sSss Christ; but IL handicapped
and his hsrds are tied by a goddess,
card-piayins misunderstanding. show
going. poodIe-loving. dancing, wine-
susziing crowd.
Your prayers are worth no more
than you are willing to redeem in
work.
God doesn't care a zap about your
lip service and wind jami,ing. 1t is
the service OF your heart and hands
that He wants.
God Almighty never made you
Girls. to gailop up and down a ball
room moor In the arms of some bull
lst-headed. spindle-lesged. cigarette
sucking. mu,t; while he squeezed the
life out Of you, physically ana spirit
ually: and I started to say mentally,
but j don't suppose you are bother
cd along thas line.
I have no sympathy with you ossi
ned. pstrinec. mildewed people who
cannot say q word for Christ.
One half Of the church members
OF Sumter could die: and tho town
would not lose anything in spiritual
force.
The devil Is working just as hard
to damn Sumter as Jesus Christ Is to
save Il.
III nsne-tenths Of you were as weak
physically as you are spiritually. you
would be In cofin looking out
through q glass.
Some so-called church people In
sumter. would be just as helpless in
revival meeting as a politician would
be In the hands OF his friends.
Some wsll-meaning. good-for- moth
Ing. lap-sided. tender r-footed church
members of Sumter. have uninten-
tionaily formed an alliance with the
blind tigers. the plug t..lies and the