The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-07-24

make that dance blessing and sanctyng influence over
your life?" And she began to laugh
The Tobacco Habit a Horrible Curse
The Bible tells us that to do all things heartily
unto the Lord; and has right to do anything
which he cannot pray and ask Gods bessng and neither
has Bring to who will take his dirty,
sinking filthy old ppe and open the Bible and put it
the chair and then get down upon his knees and pray
Lord am Methodist do love this pipe and ask You
to help fill up this pipe times day with tobacco
and to smoke to the honor and glory of Thy Name and
for the extension of THY and for the good OF the
health of my wife and my children. Amen" GaughterD
You can take an old tobacco-soak (This done in
certain institution in Austraa) and roll him up in blank
ct and soak him. and then after take him out put
raesnake in the blanket and the nicotine soaked from that
and left in the blanket will kill the rattlesnake
l. Think of sweet little baby being carried in the arms
of twolegged ching that calls himself and
husband and father and yet right over that dear little
babys face he smokes that dirty sinking old pipe that
could be smeed mile calm day; and that sweet
baby with it's little tiny lungs and bronchial tubes has to
breathe that dirty sinking filth from the very time it is
born then the next thing they know that little baby SICK
and they call in DOCTOR who comes and looks at the baby
and appears to be very ws but he has not enough
honest enoughto say to that father John
you dirty dog! you killing that child with that dirty old
piper Instead Of that he tells them that the baby has
something else the matter with -yes anything else but
the truth and then the little baby dies and they have
funeral service and that dirty hog of father sits down and
sves and sheds crocodile tears and the preacher delivers
beautiful the departure of little Sally Little
Sally whom God gave into this garden and just she
budding and to be flower the Lord fit to stretch
forth His Hand and to take her away, mtating) Laugh
er Yes that the kind of you find when the preach
ought to have stood there that little form and have
said to that father You hog you murdered your child with
that horrible nicotine!"
All think of bedroom wherein sleeps a who is
sunk in tobacco from morning till night and think of
in and with
little baby being compelled to sleep in the and
the bed omes with that hog and to breathe that
sinking tobacco, when few drops out of pipestem
blown silk handkerchief is sufficient to kill dog!
And where is the voice to cry out against it?
Why when I in the City of Melbourne, at
tain Church of England church Clifton Hill the preacher
announced smoking contest and asked all the husbands
and the to bring their pipes and package of tobacco
that they would meet in the churchroom and that prize
would be given to the who could keep his pipe lighted
for the longest time there they all with the Canon
they have the of cannon when they not
and there they sat and smoked and stunk And
when Voliva distributed hundred and seventyfive
thousand handb and ripped their coats of sham profess
sion up the back and called them 'ot of dirty devis
then they ready to mob me- and for six weeks had
to have police guards and did not dare to out in the
streets of Melbourne except covered carriage with
police protection. In St. Kida suburb of Melbourne
where had my home the ladies of the ST. Kda Church
of England when calling around at the homes, called at
our home = they went twoand-two and they said We
extend hearty invitation to all the of the house to
attend smokenght social to be held in Church And
when Vova says that the churches have to the devil
then someone says Why, Vova is critczng the church
es" (Imitatng Gaughter) Well, say it is about time
that somebody criticized them yes, it is
Gods "Repent" the so-caled Churches
Now it doesn't matter what anybody thinks says here
is Gods Word and want to tell you this afternoon that
the first Chicago is not to be delivered in the
RedIght District in the streets and in the lanes;
but the first message to be delivered Chicago is to these
Internal churches (AmensD There is the first message
and the hypocrites ought to be dashed out of the syna
gogue but there are yet lot of lovely people in theyes
there are thousands of them and they do not know
BETTER they sit there under the preaching of those false
preachers and goodness! what sermons Bless your le
what does stir up in Chicago with his service every
Sunday morning? why, would not know that he was
in the State of Illinois, just let him preach straight
Repentance to that fashionable congregation
Let him give ME just two hours with that congregation
next Lords day morning and will guarantee to make the
eur fly There will not be any molasses any "soft
talk about it, and will find out what they doing
for humanity yes, spending nnetynne dollars them
selves for every single dollar that they give to help human
ty, and ye within the very sound of their church
bells there poor little children starving for food and
still they call them "Christan churches"
! Fashio Churches God