Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-20
EXCUSES"

fell from the lips OF Jesus OF which
we have record, to my mind, these are
among the saddest.
II have often wished could have
sat and looked into His face and heard
His voice. have often wished some
body had reproduced upon canvas the
sad expression Of His face; wish that
could have sat there and listened to
the coloquy that was wrung from His
lips in His address to the men that
tagged and dogged His footsteps.
From every evidence that God could
bring; raising the dead cleansing the
iepers and everything that He did, they
turned deaf ear and blind eve. They
made excuse why they did not accept
Him, and finally Jesus summed 1t up
"'Ye will not come unto Me that ye
might have life.
FOOL EXCUSES.
well. hope tonight with the help
Of God, to answer a few fool excuses
people offer. ] don't know whether God
himself would answer them all or would
try. but l will try to answer a few of
them.
There is many n man chooses larger
income and turns Jesus Christ down.
Many a man would have to give UP his
situation.
Suppose that you get $1,000 year and
live for 20 years. that would be $4,000,
and you would sell your soul to the
devil for $4,000.
"1f l should tell you you are not worth
that, you would be offended. yet you sell
your soul for less than that.
That is what is the matter with the
whisky business. / know of men that
have taken their stand for Jesus Christ
In this town, and the whisky gang-those
miserable. good-for-nothing, low-down,
scoundrels-have said that they won't buy
dollars worth from them. BY the
Eternal God, | am going to slap some
thing on them before leave here. II
don't make some CT those Cussed, old,
bull-necked degenerstes In this town siz-
zle, you don't know me.
~ will tell you | would rather walk to
heaven over rough and stony road with
bare and bleeding feet than ride to hell
on dirty money.
II said to two girls one night in West
Pullman:
why don't you Glvo your hearts to
Christi
"They said:
"'Mr. Sunday, we clerk in department
store, and on special days we are com
pelled to stand behind the counter and
misrepresent goods and we cannot do
that and be Christians
Say, God will damn in the hottest
fire any merchant that will make his
clerks lie to sell n few dirty goods from
his shelves. in order to put money in his
till. He Will damn you, whoever you
are.
There Is many a man grows rich by
overreaching his neghbor. He robs the
widow and the orphan. He does 1t by
legal means; he is too slick to get caught
in the meshes of the law. He lives In n
magnificent home, and he rolls down the
streets in faultless equipage. and some
old fellow with child stands on the
streets and says:
"'There goes Mr.. So-and-So! And his
name is known and honored. and it's only
necessary to attach his name to any prof.
ect to insure success. / wish you to do
nothing more than to grow to emulate
his example,
"By and by he dies and there is an up
roar and a fuss and n powwow over his
old carcass at the funeral, and they pass
resolutions as long as from here to the
back door, and send copy to his wife
and members of the club, and the lodges,
and all the other things he was member
of, stating whereases and whereases ana
resolves, etc, while the bones of his VIC
tins lie rotting yonder in the potters
field.
Tell me that there is no hell for q
scoundrel like that?
"Some man says:
"'You give me present possession: L
don't care anything about future hope
"Supposing tonight that you were worth
81, 900, 900 and had a beautiful home, ana
were surrounded with a retinue of serV-
ants, but knew that tomorrow morning
when the sun rose and the banks opened
and the court convened, that you would
be proved to be n defaulter and an en-
bezzler, and spend the rest or your Gays
in the penitentiary.
"Or suppose that tonight you are
hobo and a Weary Willie, and have not
enough clothes to flag an ice wagon, ana
haven't the price of n sinker, and have
to crawl into n hoglot or straw STACK
to sleep; but you knew that tomorrow
morning when the sun would rise and
the banks open and the courts convene
that you would be proved to be heir to
a million dollars.
CHOOSES
Would you rather have present happi-
ness or would you rather be the hoooT
Would you rather have present possess
sion and hell at the end or the other
way?
'The world can give you no hope. The
love of money is keeping many man
away from Jesus. l don't believe that
any man ever lost by being decent. II l
was in business and could not serve God
in II ! would get out OF IT. NOBODY ever
lost by being decent and by being man
nobody on Gods dirt.
again somebody says:
"I would, but want to have a good
time.
"Well, so do 1. God bless your heart.
YOU never looked into anybody's face
who had better time than do.
but I don't have to fill myself with
booze and go down the street whooping
like a Comanche Indian or maniac.
"Vhat do you think constitutes a good
time? Is It to crawl into the arms OF
some prostitute and cussing and damning
and swearing?
Now, supposing fellow is keeping
company with a girl, and she was one
Of those fool kind girls-lkind OF cold
storage propositions You can pick them
out-there is one less than so feet from
me now. Supposing he was keeping COM
pany with a girl like this. and she was
one that put on everything and overdid
everything, and she wore a great big
string OF doughbeads around her neck.
and brass earrings with glass in them
and thought that people imagined that
thew were diamonds and rubies, and she
nut on all the ribbons and filagree busi-
ness, and this young fellow was engaged
TO her,
10 a girl like that. But you can't tell
what a fellow would do. But suppose,
for the argument. that he was.
'sHe said 10 her: