Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-15


SITTER had preached, a woman came
down the aisle. 1 heard the rustic Of her
six skirts when she was 20 feet away
fEhe sHs dressed IN the height Of fashion
. nealslstn coat hung TO her ankles. IL
~as trimmed with Russian sable, In her
sers.and at her throat, diamonds. Around
Der neck a rope Of pearls, ON her fingers
eara diamonds. rubisa and emeratds. Her
hair was as black as ravens wing, her
eyea dark and Intelligent, her teeth IKE
pearl behind lps or coral Great scald-
srR tears were rolling down her cheeks
Hike rivers Of water and she looked at me
ard said: Nr. Sunday did YOU announce
shat YOU we're going to preach to man
euly Sunday afternoon Yes. ma am
DO YOU. In your sermons to men, ever
nay anything about husbands being un-
true to their wlves7' Yes, ma am, l make
. few remarks on the subject She said
do YOU expect TO tomorrow" Yes.
mn am DO you make II plain7' ffesi
yon don't need to appoint a committees
sfter I'm through She said Z wish
.yau would make II plain tomorrow
Afternoon about husbsnds being untrue
to their wivesr / said5 Give me your
hand The Lord hleas YOU; ! pity You
said: 1 am goinE 70 start 70. preach
Tomorrow afternoon about 2;g0. You go
down ON your KNEES and stay there until
about o'clock. and you pray while
knock down, skin and drag OUT And iS
God Almighty ever gave delivery ID
mortal man ne gain Il 10 me IL said
everything but cuss L tell you those
Aag.
Thou shalt not kill rhere are
other WAYS of killing, I say. besides
THAT There are other ways of killing he-
slides shooting or breaking Nour wife 8
heart. How am | going to describe it?
Language fails me. L mean the woman
who reddens her hands with fhe blood OF 4
her unborn offspring to defeat the ends Of
conception, so as TO relieve her from the
cares of motherhood, so that she can firt
In goddess whisky. wine, champagne.
aard-playing Sabbath breaking society I
mean that sort of wretch, and / mean.
too, the miserable. Rood-for=nothtng, old
plack-hearted uRlpractitpuer who win
disgrace his manhood and the high calling
OF the medical profession. M. ID. they call
them. ID. NJ. they ought to call them
da1nnable murderers. They ought to
string from the end of a rope. the same
as any other red handed murderer
Thou shalt not KILL You are weighed
and found wanting. God looks into your
iife and finds that you are doing things
SOU should not do.
NJ btOhE BlIIGHTING SIN.
Thou shalt not commit adultery I
am not going to talk very much on that
portion of 1t tonight, for the reason that
this isn't the place, and l haven't the
tirns. although I have the disposition
But want to tell you that there is no |
rails against, as He does the sin Of adul-
aFFr fa cit.
more damning and blighting. Because of |
that God drowned the world with a food |
IN the davs of Noah. Because of that |
He rained fire and birthstone onGSodom
and Goinorrah. | tell you there is no |
shorter, quicker route to hell than by
the road of lust. Many a man. for the
erntle of a vile woman, will trample the
love Of his wife beneath his feet 7 have |
never found a man harder to reach than |
the adulterer. 1t is not so hard to win
the thief, or the drunkard, but nv
friends the hbertine God knows is ada
fnanti and It seems impossible to touch |
him with Gods loce Are you guilty?
100 pity Won. Many husband untrue
70 his wife-manS a wife untrue to her
husband; and you would give your right
arm, You would so to the butcher and
let MIN chop il off with q cleaver or
goaEe your eye out before you would let
become public the sins you have COM
nitted. lust one instance, WasaIsFeach--
ing. IN a town in Iowa and a fellow there. !
one OF the merchants, cussed me up and
down the street, called me everything he
could lay his tongue to. He was furious
N his denunciation. No decent man or |
woman would go TO hear Sunday preach.
somebody said to him: Have YOU been
up to hear Sunday preach?' Nor and
ne ripped out oaths. No, He wouldn't
lower his mahhood, his dignity, by sit
tins and listening to such bfIIingsgate.
NO, not L..
ALL SORTS OF THIEVES.
Thou shalt not steal.' Listen a min
nts- A man is a thief when he takes
that for which he does not give adequate
return, either in property, work or money
man is a thief when he makes false
representation. A man Is a thief when
be says: This is all wool, and IL is
naif eottnR A. man is a thief when he
says; That is imported when it was
made IN Pittsburgh or Philadelphia. A
man As q thief when he says; This is a
pure article when It is adulterated. II
ae SHOWS It,. understand. he Is a thief.
YEARS ago, in Idnddi, a hoy elarked IN 4 |
Try goods store and a lady came to buv
'ome hannel. He measured il and said
% the pT1pFietoF: why, IL is two inches
Ihert IN its width Oh the other said.
Just stretch 1t. 1t will stretch two inches.
The boy said, as he dropped IL: But INV
onseienee won't stretch two inches. sir
mat boy was George Williams, the
onnaer or .the Young MEMS Christian As
oeia*isn Thou shalt not steal BRYAN
as clean-.as q hounds tooth, and is
ne OF my best friends. Bryan said In
n address: AS a rule, the man who ]
teais million dollars has better
hanes TO keep out OF the penitentiarv
nan the man who steals $1,000. So true
as TINS become that it has been sug-
ezted not to steal en a small scale
here Is lots Of truth in that. 1
Listen The man who stands nv ths
fay7lde ana holds revolver under yol,r
osh aklds demands YOUR money f,r1So,,s 1
fe. measured by every moral standpoint. I
40 more thief than the monopolist or
he trusts that viii get control OF s ma.
oa's Insl er oil. or bread supply ana tbep
iske the poor man pay their price ana
ne MIN the alternative OF paving thst
rice or starving eF freezing 10 deafb :
Le = lust as big a thief. don't care n
assa u eauldron OF industry. The mo-
eeoix Or the trust that viii corner tn
3 mons tnet supply o. OIL or bread s,tnnl,,-l
any 9thef commodity which We nnns+ +
ste 2 order 10 live, and then raah..s ~
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