Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-21

was flushed with IT, then he danced,
o'clock the next morning man with
linen duster over his other clothes walke
back upon a railroad station platform
waiting for a train for the North and a
he walked he would exclaIm. oh COD
and would pull a pint flask from N, NJ
pocket and drink MY Cod he woui'
! say, what will mother say2, Fou
months later in his home IN Vermont
with his weeping parents by MN am
| with four strong men to hold MIN doWh
he died Of dellrium tremens.
BAPTIZED HIS PoCKETBooK
THE Epworth Leagues motto Is: Lool
UP. lift up but you'll never lift mucf
up unless God has hold OF your hands
Unless He has, you will never put your
hands deep In your pocket up to the ell
bow and bring them up full OF money fol
His cause. A man who was about to be
baptized took out his watch and laid II
aside, then he took out his knife and
handbook and laid them aside. Bet
ter give me your pocketbook to put aside
for YOU said the minister. NO. said
the man, I want IL to be baptized, too.
"a man said to his wife that he had
heard the preacher say that religion is
worth 1uBL what ID COblSg anu NidN he
had determined to give more for re-
llglon, and to deny himself as well.
what will you give up?' she asked. He
said that he would give UP coffee, for
he dearly loved cOffee-used to drink sew
eral cups at every meal, the very best.
she said that she would give up some
thing, too-that she would give up tea.
Then their daughter said she would give
up some of her little pleasures and the
father turned to his son Tom, who was
shoveling mashed potatoes, covered with
chicken gravy, into his mouth and he
said I'll give UP salt mackerel l never
did like the darned stuff anyway
"There are too many salt mackerel peo-
ple like that in the pews of our churches
today They will take something that
thev don't like and that nobody else will
have and give It to the Lord. That isn't
enough for God. He wants the best we
have.
Two little girls were playing Noah's
ark in the bath tub, and after they had
become tired of the game one of them
pulled out the plug and said: Floods
over Noah had a sacrifice. The other
one said: Let's have a sacrifice So they
took the soap dish and placed a piece of
paper on 1t, and put broken sheep from
Noahs ark on top of that ana set fire to
1t. God wants your body with blood in It,
Gains altar was bigger than Abel's, but
II had nothing valuable on it. while
Abel's had real blood God rejected
Gains and accepted Abels. God turns
down the man who merely lives moral
life and does not accept the religion Of
Jesus Christ. You must come with Jesus
blood. If a man gives his wife a ten
cent pin cushion at Christmas to show
how much he loves her, he's a geezer
the devils stuck on. How thankful you
are depends on how much you are willing
to sacrifice.
WILL MEN ROB GOD?
IF when you make present you do
not mean to give it outright you are not
honest. Will man rob God? You bet
le villa heap quicker than he will rob
any one else.
Your body. that takes the head as we'll
Is hands. God wants brains as we'll as
zones and muscle. We ought to do best
linking for God. God is in the greatest
BUSINESS there is, and He wants the best
lelp He can get Some of you old dea-
.ons and elders make me sick. II you
lsed such methods in business as you do
n the work Of the church the Sherlff's
ale flag would soon be hanging outside
our door. / don't ask any of you busi-
less men to curtail any of your business
more Of your energy to the things of re-
ision You want to use good business
Methods In religion. The Republicans and
he Democrats and the Socialists use
'ood business methods in politics. The
armer who hasn't any sense is still
flowing with forked stick The farmer
Who has sense uses chilled plow. Use
ommon sense.
What face your face will be when
iod puts His shine on it. If you are
me of these long-faCed brand of Chris
ians, get rid of 1t. God never put such |
| face on you. That's the kind of a
ace the PharIsees wore, and Jesus said |
they heightened their faces to make be-
ieve they had religion When a man |
ries to make himself without asking |
fod to help him, he will make a face |
IS long as a smokestack. l tell you, |
he devil will bank his fires and go to |
hurch to hear man like that give tes- |
imony. God doesn't want you to look |
nd act as II religion affected you like |
toothache, or corn. If 1t does, it |
sn't Gods kind.
"If God Almighty only had possession |
Il your mouths. He'd stop your lying. |
( He had your mouths He'd stop your
If He had your mouths He'd
top your misrepresentation. If He had
our mouths He'd stop your swearing.
He had your mouths He'd stop your
ackbiting, If He had your mouths He'd
top your ISLANDERS. There would be no
rlticising, no social lies. no talking
ehind backs.
"If God had your mouths SO much
loney wouldn't go up in tobacco smoke
r out in tobacco spit. II God had your
1ouths there would be no thousands of
ollars year spent for whisky, beer
nd wine. You wouldn't give so much
D the devil and you would give more
D the church. Many of you church
liars wouldn't be so noisy in politics
nd so quiet in religion. So many of
ou fellows wouldn't yell like Comanche
adams at a ratification meeting and sit
ke bump on log in prayer meeting
FEEL AsHAMEDT"
"It God had our eyes we'd bring the
Iillennium. His eyes run to and fro
trough the world seeking for men to
,rve Him. and II He had our eyes, how
lr eyes would run 10 and fro looking for
ays TO help bring men TO Christ How
ard It would be for sinners to get away.
10 would be looking for drunkards ana
10 prostitutes and doWn-and-outs, to lift
nd save them. How many sorrowful
carts We would md and soothe, how
amy griefs We would allevlatel Great
cd how little YOU are dOingl Donit ,yo,,