Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-18
BILLY" SUNDAYS SERMONS

there was a double curve and the fire.
man said afterward: The blankety
blank fool Just pulled her out three more
notches.' The fireman began to pray al
though he was not a praying man. But
she stuck to the track and when he pulled
into his last stop he was Just two min
utes ahead of time and the c., B. and @.
is carrying the mail today.
"1f you're going 100 miles an hour for
God some one will follow you, and II you're
going to hell at the rate OF 50 miles per
hour, some one will follow you
''There was wreck UP in New York.
The engineer was pinned down under
meath the wreckage and would soon be
scaded to death, but he yelled: For Gods
sake, boys, flag the second sectionp The
| fagrnan ran back, put torpedoes on the
| track The train hit them n bang bang,
| bang The engineer set the brakes. He
| hattened every wheel on the train, but
he brought the nose Of his pilot to a stop
six feet from the rear car of the wrecked
| train.
"Some OF you out there are like the en-
| glneer too far gone to do you any good,
but am pleading for the second section,
the coming generation. If can only flag
the second generation and bring them to
q stop and not let them rush pellmell to
hell!
CoAxING A BOY TO DRINK.
Here is q man who was a drunkard
and a boy who doesn't drink. The man
urges him to take a drink. NO. WON'T
Aha ProhibItonlst, eh?' SCOTS tho man.
me to- Finally he coaxed the boy into
taking a drink. All of his dormant pas
sion for liquor arises and he is in flames.
His grandfather and father were both
moderate drinkers and now he was all
ahame. Before he was q he was a
wreck.
Now you can understand what David
meant. If such man is to tempt your
boy to take a drink which will lead to
his ruin he should be consumed out of
the earth.
Like produces like in everything.
These are the days when we are striving
to produce the pure strain of blood in
stock And yet you'll let that little
cigarette-smoking libertlne marry your
daughter. What kind of offspring do you
think will come from a buckwart propo,
slton like that? If you are consump-
tive nine chances out of ten your chill
dren will be consumptives."
(Ir Sunday here gives statistics taken
from s14 persons in 2l5 families to show
how bad traits are inherted)
God is still on the throne, gentlemen
and He has said, The sins of the fathers
shall be visited upon the third and fourth
90, araf f{p,,, Nf Ahat, hot or NOV
to the third and fourth. There is fifth,
for the fourth will be a lunatic, and
lunatic, born that way, either male or
female, Is sterile. If they could bear
children the offspring would be idiots, so
you see how God protects you.
81 never used to know, when I was q
kid, what they meant when they said
Chickens come home to roost,' but l
know now. 1t means If you are drunk
ard your children will be dTunkards. II
you are a llbertine, your children win be
libertines. In other words, your children
will return to disgrace you or bless you.
STORY OF A GAMBLER.
when 1 was in the Y. NJ. C. A. work
I knew a gambler who was converted
He was making $500 year and he was
going up and down the country showing
that you can't beat a gambler at his own
game. He tells the story of game
which was on and one man was accused
Of ringing in a cold deck. The lie was
passed and man shot another dead.
HE was sentenced to die and as he
was being prepared on the scaffold, his
little 4-year-old son toddled up the steps
and said, Come home papa The Sheriff
was kind man and he unbuckled his
III
up. He told his son lie couldn't come
home and for him to go away now and
the Sheriff would take care of him. Then
he turned to the crowd and cried: For
Gods sake. boys, don't let my son be
what have BEEN. The trap fell and he
shot into eternity.
"a collection was taken for that child
among the crowd and he was placed in
a Christian home. When he was 21 they
gave him his money with accumulated in
terest. He started out on a career of
crime. He got down SO low that they
wouldn't let him sleep in the police sta
tions. He tried TO get enough, and would
clean cuspldors In dirty, filthy saloons
to get enough to live.
"Oh. men, blood will tell. I'm pleading
with you that you yield to Christ so that
your children's lives will not be blighted.
Men, there's three things you should
always remember where your wives are
concerned. First, show deep personal
interest in her. She's entitled to 1t and
she'll love you the ] tt,r for 1t. Second,
treat her as a companion. She Is your
life companion and you should treat her
as such, Third, show her the affection
every woman's heart Is craving for II
you don't. you shouldn't wonder IL some
day another fellow appears on the scene
and gives her all those little attentions
she is craving for and that you have
neglected to give her."
CLOSES WITH PRAYER.
"Billy' closed the afternoon and eve
ming services with a prayer OF thanks
for the men and women he had won for
Christ.
"oh, Godw he shouted. Thanks be to |