The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-03-18

ed 10 shiftlessness and lack OF fore
sight and reaped $40 paupers who
were shiftless or helpless, and who
spent more years in poor-houses
than have interviewed between the
birth OF Christ and the present
timel
Whatsoever a man soweth, that
shall he also reap"
You young men can easily repeat
the history OF Max Jukes. Do you
want TO do it9 n you do, go ahead,
and drink and you'll reap diseased
bodies. Sow your wild oats while
YOU are young men, and when you
become fathers you'll reap blind ba-
bies. Dissipate your virtue, your
strength and your manhood by al
cohol and frequent visits TO the
red-light houses. but remember
don't fail TO remember-that when
Won become the father OF children
you'll reap a child afflicted with in
durable epilepsy; you'll reap an
other child with a feeble mind whose
idiot eyes will stare you into re-
morse over the drinks you had
when Won were a gay young-blood
and will keep ever before you the
terrible memory Of how you wasted
your manhood in filings with a vi
cious girl. You'll reap other chill
dren. perhaps, whose tender bodies
are so wrecked that they have no
fighting chance in life. They can
never make good because you rob
bed them OF their vitality before
they were born. You wasted be-
fore they were begotten the strength
and energy and manhood. the moral
stamina and fine mental qualities
that should have gone into the bod
les and minds and character OF
those children. Young men, you
who are still in the flush OF youth
get what I am saying. Don't muir
der your children wasting your
manhood in riotous living. II you
ever marry and become the fathers
OF children, give them a fighting
chance 10 become strong men and
beautiful women by living a clean
manly life while you are young.
Whatsoever a man soweth, that
shall he also reap"
II sin has its punishment virtue
and godliness have their reward
7 have shown you from the history
of the Jukes family the terrible con.
sequences OF sin in the life-and
such histories are being made TO-
day IL you would only search them
out-and now I purpose 10 tell you
what a blessing a clean, godly life
brings to the world. am going tc
speak OF the descendants OF iona
than Edwards, the great New Eng
land preacher who was born IN
1920.
He was a good clean man. physic'
ally and morally, and his wife wa;
a pure, undetermined woman. Both
had good ancestry and inherited
great strength OF mind, body and
character. Both took care OF them
selves. lived simple lives, worship
ed God and did much TO elevate
their fellow men. Edwards was
pastor Of churches at Boston, North
Hampton and elsewhere. Last sum-
mer | visited the house in North
Hampton, Mass, where he lived fol
a time and labored for the good Of
humanity.
or this strong, vigorous man and
his capable, virtuous wife, 1894 de
fscendants have been traced and
studied. Among these were thir'
teen university presidents; 1923 col
lege and university professors; g
eminent authors; ninety-six ply
sicians, some OF whom were dis
tinguished; over 200 ministers, zoe
successful business men; one Vice
President, mayors Of cities, Con-
gressmen, US. Senators, men who
represented this government in for
eign countries.
Think what a blessing this great
family has been TO the world. The
family started right, the member:
lived right, and the result has beer
strong, manly and womanly OIL
springs.
I Whatsoever a man soweth, thai
shall he also reap" Edwards SOW
ed TO the righteous life and the
world reaped a great blessing in his
descendants. He sowed TO learning
and reaped thirteen university pres
idents; he sowed TO higher ideal;
and reaped 1913 college and univer-
sity professors; he sowed TO medita-
ton and appreciation Of the beauti-
full and reaped thirty-two eminent
authors who have revealed TO Their
fellow men great thoughts and hid
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