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

cause your personal liberty would en-
danger others II exercised. So you
| haven't any right to live In sin. You say
| you'll do it anyhow. All right, you'll
| go to hell. too. Adam and Eve said they
| would eat the apple anyhow, and the
world became n graveyard, and here's
the result today.
81 look out into the world and see a
man living i'm sin. l argue with him. l
plead with him. 1 cry out warning words
| brand that man with n black brand,
whose iniquities are responsible for the
fall OF others.
mo man lives to himself alone. /
hurt or help others by my life. When
you go to hell you're going to drag some
| one else down with you and If you go
TO heaven you're going to take some
one else with you. You say you hate sim
OF course you do IL you have respect
But you never saw any one in this city
who hates sin worse than l do or loves
a sinner more than l.
"I'm lighting for the sinners. I'm fight
ing TO save your soul, Just as doc
tor fights to save your life from a dis
ease I'm your friend and you'll find
that I'll not compromise one bit with
sin. I'll do anything TO help you. No
man will argue that sin is a good thing.
Not a enc who does not believe that
the community would be better off II
there was no sin. 1 preach against vice
10 SNOW you Jn1t IL VIII 1ndhe YOUR Bli
an outcast and your boy drunkard,
I'm fighting everything that will lead to
this end and If ] have to be your enemy
to fight 1t, God pity you, for I'm going
to fight. People do not fight sin until 1t
becomes vice.
OUGHT TO FEAR SIN.
you say you're not afraid of sin. You
ought to be for your children. 1t doesn't
take boys long to get on the wrong track,
and while you are scratching gravel to
make one lap, your boy makes ten We've
got kids who have not yet sprouted long
breeches who know more about sin and
vice than Methuselah. There are little
frzzled-top sissies not yet sprouting long
dresses who know more about vice than
did their great -grandmothers when they
were 70 years OLD.
'The girl who drinks will abandon her
virtue. What did Mothuselah know
about smoking cigarettes? l know there
are some sissy fellows out there who
object to my talking plain and know you
shirk from talking plain.
"If any one ever tells you that you
can't be virtuous and enjoy good health,
1 brand him as a low, Infamous, black
hearted liar.
ASK any afflicted man you see on the
street. If you could only reveal the heart
of every one of them In most you
would find despair and disease.
Glow little he thinks when he is nurs-
ing that lust that he is nursing a demon
which, like vampire, will suck his
blood and wreck his life and blaclSen and
blight his existence And II any little
children are born to him they will be
weak anaemics without the proper blood
in their veins to support them. Our
young men ought to be taught that no
sum they can leave to a charitable in
stitution can blot out the deeds of an
ignomlnious life You don't have to look
far for the reason why so many young
men fail, Why they go through life weak,
ambiuonless useless.
BE MEN AND TALK SENSE"
. Lets be common folks together today.
Let's be men and talk sense.
"As q rule a man wants something bet
ter for his children than he has had for
himself. My father died before was born
and l lived with my grandfather. He |
smoked, but he didn't want me to. He |
chewed,, but he didn't want me to. |
He drank, but he didn't want me to, He |
cussed, but he didn't want me to. He made |
wine that would make a man fight his |
own mother after he had drunk 1t. re-
member how / used to find the bottles |
and suck the wine through a straw or an |
onion top.
zone day a neighbor was in and my |
grandfather asked him for a chew. He |
went to hand 1t back, and wanted some. |
He said 1 couldn't have 1t. 1 said 1 |
wanted it anyhow, and he picked me up |
and turned me across his knee and gave |
me crack that made me see stars as big |
as moons.
'If there is a father that hits the booze, |
he doesn't want his son to. If he is keep |
ing some one on the side, he doesn't want |
his son 10. In other words, you would not |
want your son to live like you II you are |
not living right.
IAN old general was at the bedside OF
his dying daughter. He didn't believe IN
the Bible, and his daughter said, WHAT |
shall! l do? You don't believe in the Bible |
Mamma does II / obey one I'm going |
a gaInst the other The old general put |
his arms around his daughter and said |
Follow your mothers way; It Is the
safest Man wants his children TO have
that which is sure.
THE PRoDIGAL SON.
1T have sometimes imagined that young |
fellow in Luke is. He came to his father
and said, Dig up I'm tired of this and
~
want TO see the world His father didn't |
know what he meant Come across with
the mazuma, come clean, divy, 1 want
the coin, seer Finally the father tum-
pled, and he said; I got you.' and he
divided up his share and gave 1t to the
Young man. Then he goes down to Baby
ION and starts out on a sporting life. He
meets the young blood and the gay |
lame can imagine that young fellow /
The first time he sWore, II his mother had /
been near he would have looked at her
and blushed rose red. But he thought ne /
had TO cuss 10 be a man.
mo man can be good husband no
man can be a good father no man can
be a respectable citizen, no man can be /
and swear. You can hang out /
! sign OF gentlemen, but when you euss
you might as wen take Il In.
There are three things which will ruin |
any town and give II a bad name. Open /
licensed saloons; a dirty, cussing swear
ing gang Of blaeklegs on the street, and |
vile story tellers Let a town be known |
for these three things, and these alone, |
and you could never start boom half bis |
enough to get one man there.
"Old men, young men, boys, swear.
What do you cuss fOrg IT doesn't do you |
any good, gains you nothing In business, /
society; II loses you the esteem OF men, /
God said more about cusaing than any
thing. God said, Thou shalt not kin 4
Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not 4