Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-18
Afternoon and Evening
SUBJECT: "cHICKENs
COME HOME TO RoosTn

| SUBJECT: "CHICKENS
COME HOME TO RooST'
| "The 10th Psalm, the 35th verse: Let
the sinner be consumed out of the earth
and let the wicked be no more
This always seemed to me to be a
queer verse Of scripture. 1t is a verse
more often misunderstood than any other
and read by many to justify their living
in sin. 1t contains a thought which
don't find so we'll expressed in any other
verse, not on account of It's peculiarity'
but because It is used by men to justify
their living in sin.
There Is much unjust criticism of
David, who lived a virtuous and upright
life. He said: Let wickedness of the
wicked come to an end 1t showed
David's sympathy toward his fellow men
when he wept when he heard of others
SHINING. But they would not be saved.
Some kept on SHINING and living in sin.
He saw what was the need of the COM
munity and the nation, and said: % God'
II men won't stop SHINING, notwithstand-
Ing your commands, then let them be
consumed out of the earth When he
said this he offered the prayer, por-
L
IT sometimes find people who talk
lightly of sin. 1 say he has lost all OF
his respect for right, all of his respect
for virtue, decency, all OF his respect
for everything or he wouldn't say It, II
only the men who say 1t were aitecteu
by their sins, 1t would be hard enough.
1 would work just as hard as do. But
we never live to ourselves. There are
more affected by your sins than your
self, although l would work just as hard
IL you were the only one.
MAKES OTHERS SUFFER.
when you come staggering home, cuss-
ing right and left and spewing and spit
ting, your wife suffers. your children
suffer. Don't think that you are the
only one that suffers A man that goes
to the penitentiary makes his wife and
children suffer just as much as he does.
You're placing a shame on your wife and
children. If you're a dirty, lowdown,
filthy, drunken, whisky-soaked bum, you'll
affect all with whom you come in con-
tact II you're a God-fearlng man you
will influence all with whom you come
in contact. You can't live by yourself.
Lyman Beecher was a godly man.
and he was the father of more brains
than any other man.
II occasionally hear a man say, It's
nobody's business how l i've Then
saw he Is the most dirty, lOw-down
whisky-soaked, beer-guzzling, bull-necked,
foul-mouthed hypocrite. that ever had
brain rotten enough to conceive such
statement and lips vile enough to utter
it. You say, If 1 am satisfied with my
life why do you want to interfere with
my business?
''If / heard man beating his wife and
heard her shrieks and the children's
cries and my wife would tell me TO go
and see what was the matter, and
went in and found a great, big, broad
shouldered whisky-soaked hog-jowled,
weasel-eyed, pug-gut dragging a little
woman around by the hair and two
children in the corner unconscious from
hts kicks and the others yelling in abb
jeet terror, and he said:
- What are you coming In TO interfere
with my personal liberty for? Isn't this
my wife. didn't pay for the license to
wed her?' You ought. or you're a
bigamist Aren't these my children;
didn't l pay the doctor TO bring them
into the world?' You ought 10 or you're
a thief. If l want to beat them, what
is that your business, aren't they miner
Would / apologize? Never! I'd knock
seven kinds OF pork out of that old hog.
LIBERTY NOT LICENSE.
personal liberty is not personal license
1 dare not exercise personal liberty, II It
infringes on liberty Of others. Our fore
fathers did not fight and die for personal
license, but for personal liberty bounded
by laws. Personal liberty Is the liberty
OF a burglar, OF u seduceF, or a raper. or
wolf that wants TO remain In a sheep
fold, or the weasel in a hen TOost You
have no right 10 vote for an institution
that Is going 20 drag your sons and
daughters TO he'll.
III you were the only citizens you
would have a perfect right 10 drive your
horse down the street at breakneck speed;
you would have a right to make race
track out OF the streets for your auto;
you could build slaughter house in the
public square; you could build a glue fac
tory IN the public square. But when the
population increases you can't do II. You
sayi Why can't run my autol I own
Il. Why can't / run my horsel own Il
Why can't / build the slaughter house2 I
own the lot Yes. but other people have
rights
$50 law stands between you and per-
sonal liberty, you miserable dog, You
can't build a slaughter house In your
'front.' yard. because the law says you
can't AS long as ] am standing here on
this platform / have personal liberty.
can swing my arms at Will But the
minute any one else steps On the platform
my personal liberty ceases Il stops just
one inch from the other fellows nose.
Right therel dndieating . point 10 the
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FIGHTING FOR SINNERS
''When = persons acts affect only hini-
SELF tAes can Be len % the consclenee of
the insiauai. but nhea fhsy aaect