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

ASHt you are EOinE 10 ne
weighed the same way as Belshazzar; God
VIII not spring a new book on YOU by
which TO Judge you; II will be the same
OLD book ! am reading from now; God
VIII Judge YOU, II II be 100000 years from
now, by the same old book BY that We
shall be judged. Not by your own esti-
nation OF your worth. In that you are
heavyweight Nor by public opinion,
not on your life
PUBLIC OPINION INCOMPETENT.
You may be a great man, but you
might not be a leading citizen Of Phlla-
delphia, but public opinion is not com
petent to judge. You may not meet with
the sanction Of public opinion, and what
public opinion would sanction God would
damn. There is no criterion to 70 by,
not on your life. You assault any old
and long-indulged evil that is remunera-
tive TO the clique who started It and you
make yourself the object of falsehood
maledlctlons and their lies, and they will
assault and assasalnate your character
II they cannot debauch IT,
That's why that dirty, low-down con-
temptlble, sneerlng, sniffllng,. black leg
ged whisky gang is after me.
There is nothing they will not stoop
to do. Doctor Jenner said: I have dis
covered that by vaccination / can reduce
the mortality In smallpox Nlnety-elght
out OF 100 were dying of smallpox, while
today only four die. I would rather have
smallpox, hundred to one, than / would
typhoid fever or pneumonia. Take n bath
once In a while and smallpox won't bother
you.
Doctor Jenner said can reduce IL,
and they sneered and laughed at him
demncd IT, He was right.
Some people swell UP over their cul-
ture and refinement If they only knew
how little they weigh In salvation. You
can't hire substitute in religion. Moth
Ing takes the place of the necessity OF
faith and public Acknowledgement of
Jesus as your saviour. Take tho Ten
Commandments.
MORAL LAW OF SERMON.
Thou shalt have no other gods
before Me- I am going to take the
moral law for my sermon tonight and
the Ten Commandments as a basis
largely for what I have to say. An let
me say that stand here and ready to
believe God Almighty wrote the Ten
Commandments. You can say that Moses
wrote them. as the infidel can say that
Hume wrote them. But hold on there. I
don't care n rap who wrote tho Ten
Commandments. But any citizen in this
audience or in this city or In this State
that iB not ready to live by them ought
to be In the penitentiary. That is the
place for him. The transgression of law.
Ihere can be no good citizenship where
the Ten Commandments are broken or
inIracted. Nothing of political reform,
no movements in social reform that are
not built upon the Ten Commandments
and when / say to you that stand firm
and square on the Ten Commandments
and when this old world is burned to
ashes, L will have foundation as sure
and enduring as the God upon whose
law l stand tonight. If you don't obey
them, you'll be damned Just as sure aa
you live and breathe.
What Is mans god? Anything thar
ne thinks more OF than he does of God
with some people II is money. They
worship money. Money is Just as truly
their god as II they would hang a fifty
or hundred dollar bill framed on the
wall and pray to II before they get into
bed. They do things in business be-
cause there ls money in 1t and they don't
care whether they break the law OF God
or man to make money. Many a man
VIII sell his conscience and sacrifice his
honor to put a few dirty hundred dollars
or more In the bank In a year than he
possibly could put in II he had obeyed
the laws OF God and man. Other people
are worshiping society. They do things
In their social life, in their dress and go
to places because society demands It,
and II they didn't they would lose their
standing You put society first III you
put God at all, he has to come tagging
along after some beer, wine or cham
pasne-soaked society leader and God has
to play second fiddler and be a trailer
to every Jack-rabbit proposition that
comes along.
Were making money by the buckets
full In this country, but we're going to
hell In carload lots. freight prepaid. It's
good thing to have money and the
things 1t can buy, but IT'S also a good
thing to sit down once in awhile and
money can't buy.
WHISKY AS A MANS GOD.
whisky Is many mans god. He
thinks more OF a whisky bottle, a keg
OF beer or a case of wine than he does
about GOD. oh. there are men hero to-
night who. II they were to die you would
not need to preach their funeral sermon.
Embalm them. put them in a coffin. carry
them here, then go down TO the booze
Joint and get = bottle of whisky sr
champagne and put II in their comm That
is the story OF their life. All they have
lived for Ia to booze There are men here
tonight II they would die you would not
need to preach their funeral sermon Put
them In their CONN. carry them In here,
buy pack OF cards and a faro bank
and some red and white and blue chips.
put them in the comm, and they will tell
the story OF their lives That's all they
have lived for. tho dirty. black-legged
gamblsrsl That Is the story OF your life,
you blaekleg.
There are others where bag OF gold
or a bundle OF bills put in their ooffin
with their mortsagsa, stocks and bonds
would be the sermon. There are others
who need no funeral sermon. Put their
carcass In the CONN and hunt up the
girls and women with whom they have
pronigated and look upon IL as amuss-
ment for their passion and lust, and lead
in the girls whose lives are broken and
whose honors have been torn to shreds.
and let them stand here and rain down
their tears. That is the story OF good
for-nothing libsrtinss life. He has just
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