Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-13

trough out Of Il. If they want 1t cleaned
let them clean II themselves.
"'oh, laugh and the world laughs witt
| you,
Weep and you weep alone;
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant
. When life goes along with song,
But the man worth whlle ls lne tuai
who can smile
When everything goes dead wrong
IT wish to God the Church were as
afraid of imperfeotlon as 1t is Of per
| fectlon.
THE FIRST CHAPTER
"Naaman dipped himself seven times In
the Jordan, and his flesh came again like
unto the flesh of little child, and he was
clean He offered Elisha Of the store
OF gold and other precious metals, but
the prophet would not take any of IT.
But Gehazi, servant to Elisha, coveted
the goods, and ran after Naaman say
Ing that Elisha had changed his mind.
Naaman dumped a pile of It on the
ground and mark this, the leprosy of
Naaman infected Gehnzi He was the first
CRATER mentioned in the Bible
~ saw woman that for % years had
been a madam, and I saw her come down
the aisle close her doors, turn them out
of her house and live for God. l saw
enough converted in one town where
there were four houses to close their
doors they were empty they had all fled
home to their mothers.
Listen to me and 1 am through. out
in Iowa a fellow came to me and spread
a napkin on the platform-a napkin as
big as n tablecloth. He said: L want
n lot of shavings and sawdust.' What
forT I'll tell you. I want enough to
make sofa pillow. Right here is where
knelt down and was converted, and my
wife and four children, and my neigh
bors. I would like to have enough to
make n sofa pillow to have something
in my home to help me think of God. L
don't want to forget God, or that I was
saved. Can you give me enough?" l said:
Yes, indeed, and II you want enough to
make n mattress, all right, take it; and
If you want enough of the tent q was
preaching in tent them to make n pair
of breeches for each of the boys, why
take your scissors and cut 1t right out
II It will help you to keep your mind on
Cod That is why like to have people
come down to the front and publicly ac-
God. like to have man
have a definite experience in religion.
to remember.
coNFoUNDING THE DEVIL
''I once read of wreacher who used to
quarrel with his wife. That was before
with his wife after he becomes a preacher.
Abe and his wife used to fight because
Abe was an Episcopalian and his wife
was a Methodist. Abe said to his wife:
See here, all they do down at your
church is read the prayers Abes wife
said: Tt isn't the church, it's the life
we lead And the devil said to Abe:
You run this ranch: give her a blowing
up: let her understand who runs this
Il TIM T0,tN fhn p,.I r.ntI Ea re
| preacher and your wife has more re-
igion in her little finger than you have
n your old carcass. You are a preacher.
Be n man. So he went out to the ash
hopper. Did you ever see one of those
1t is thing you build with
our sides, small at the bottom and with
IN angle of 40 degrees, and you will fill
t with hickory ashes and pour water on
he ashes and the water percolates
through the ashes and makes lye, and
hey make soap out of 1t. A lot of folks
,an make lie without ashes or SOAP
They used to make that kind of soap
when l was boy. So Abe went behind
he old ash-hopper and said: Eliza, for
rive me. You have more religion in your
title finger than l have in my whole
'ody.' He went back to the house and
hrew his arms around the old woman
nd kissed her. And when the devil
ONES around to Abe he says: 'Ash-hop-
er; ash-hopper! ash-hopper! On my
.nees behind the ash-hopper fought the
attle and beat the devil