Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-09-30


in my home and run to leg shows as you
have, but l would be as low down as
you are, If did. The next time you
start to theatre or a ball room push
your preacher in fifteen minutes
thead of you and see how he looks
before you enter. Before you put
beer in your ice box or the eucher
deck in your parlor. put them in the
preachers homeand see how he looks
mixed up with the DEVILS side dishes.
God expects every man to be as good
as he wants his preacher to be. II
these preachers run to everything
that some church members do. you
wouldn't keep them twenty-three
days. People flock to the theatre to
see some actress perform who hasn't
enough clothes to dress a ten pound
baby and call it High Art" | call
that low, well. you will not find
what | would call it in the Sunday
school paper. My conception of Art
is something different than going to
the theatre and looking through a
pair of opera glasses at the form of
some degenerate.
see some of you are getting q
little uneasy. You will go out and
say, IL don't like his plain speech. /"
Alright. l don't like your plain sim
ming You remind me of the follow
ing incident. A dentist said to his
patient, I'VE must kill the nerve in
that TOOTH" The patient replied,
Then | will go out in the next room.
I'm too tcnder-hearted to witness
the operation" Be it remembered
l am here to kill the nerve in that
tooth and if some of you delicate
people are too chicken-hearted to wit
ness the operation you will just have
to stay at home and nurse the tooth
ache One seldom has the toothache
without letting 1t be known. If you
throw bone among pack of hounds
you can tell which one you hit when
you hear him yelp. A sound horse
will always stand currying, but If he
have the spawn, he will stamp and
kick and bite. / am here to arouse
the backslidden church member and
get him back into favor with God.
A lady once said to me "Mr. Newlin,
am bringing my husband to the
tabernacle with me tonight to hear
you preach and / wish you would
preach nice pleasing sermon He
has not been to church for six years
because the last time he went the
preacher said something that hurt
his feelings, he has never consented
to go again until tonight and am so
afraid he will get his feelings hurt
again." l said, SISTER. tell him to
leave his feelings at home" God pity
the man who has his feelings stuck
out like the porcupine's quilts. What
are some of you old hypocrits going
to do with your feelings when you
get to hell. You howl like q hit pup
when preach the truth, that is how
l can tell when l call your number.
Some one says, "Of course, Mr.. New.
lin, we want you to preach the trnth
but can't you put on the soft pedals,
so IL won't hurt so much?' That is
the trouble now. too many have gone
into the soft pedal business when
they go out to fight the devil. When
go out to clean up the devil and his
crowd / am like the man who went
at bull dog with pitch fork. The
dogs owner insisted that he should
have come at the dog with the other
end of the fork IL he must use that
kind of a weapon. The man said,
II will use the other end of the fork
when he comes at me with the other
end"
For evidence that a lot of church
members and some preachers includ-
ed. do not measure up to Gods stand
ard of Christian by shutting their
eyes from seeing evil. we only need
turn to the Iroquois Theatre fire in
Shlcaso, ohurcn nenpers nu
nuhdreds were witnessihs Una, pay
anu almost tne wnoie meniue sp y.
one onioaso enulon m' us ,,an 10 80
hre trap because .neiI ey w. ~
en- 10 erh' he seene noe 49, o ~
wnen tne Ire pesah w%s enous "
MAKE d mario. o,ush. ne aa.o,', .,' !
menus Oh tha' play ls ,. s om ,m9
DliI poarus Vi .ne Si.! nor s 500 ~ y
Gays anu tne pictureu play snomeu =
group oi my W nuu,eu .sa
nearly hude. WIN eyes open " .ne
seeing o. eVii SIN nunu,eu ss'
among tnem many cnurcn ieu s,.'
ana lew pastors went in,o es.y
anu venture SOME IN .mrs a au. nv.
nave your Eyes open " e.uo mo- ,s. soe
woulu no' wan. 10 pe oausn. m.ness,
ing wheh 1aDriei COMES W sunh'ho"'
you u nhee' "ou'
can no more think of spiritually
minded person running to cheap OPP
eras and other gaudy exhibitions than
| can think of the prodigal son ask
ing for a dish OF husks from the
swine trough at his fathers banquet.
II l had blackboard here and were
to draw upon 1t large cross and
were to write upon the left OF that
cross the things that belong to the
unregenerate life and upon the right