Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-13
"LiE," is SUNDAYS
REPLY TO EXCUSE

hate most-the booze" business.
You tell me you do not expect TO be-
come drunkard, that you never intend
10 drink so much that you will become
an outcast to your friends and your
home. We'll, again say you are fool.
NO man ever intended to become drunk
ard. Every drunkard started out to be
simply moderate drinker The fellow
VINO tells me he can leave It alone when
he wants to, lies. II is lie. II you can,
why don't you leave it alone?
MY boy, hear me, have walked along
tne shores of time and have seen them
strewn with the wrecks of those who
have drifted in from the seas of lust and
passion, and are ft only for danger
signals to warn the coming race.
WARNS YOUNG GIRLS. TOO.
His eyes flaming, perspiration pouring
from his head. face and body, his arms
| whlrllng In the air, jumping back and
forth across the PLATFORM pounding the
pulpit until the force of his blows could
be heard In the rear Of the tabernacle,
Billy" hit at every form Of moral evil
And he did not forget to warn the young
girls to beware of any young man who
could not prove that he never drank and
never went with company that he would
not want his mother to know he was
with.
Young girl" he called, "dsn't you 20
with that Goddess, God-forsaken, sneering
young man that walks the streets smok-
ing cigarettes. He would not walk the
streets with you II YOU smoked cigar
cites. But you say you will marry him
and reform him; he would not marry you
to reform you. Don't 20 to that dance
Don't you know that 1t is the most damn
able, low-down institution on the face Of
Gods earth. that 1t causes more ruin
than anything this side of hell? Don't
you go with that young man; don't you
go to that dance.
That Is why we have so many whip
poorwill widows around the country; they
married some of these NUTS to reform
them, and instead OF doing that the un-
dertaker got them. Don't go with that
young fellow for a Joy ride at midnight
II young fellow came up and asked
my girl to take her Joyriding at mid
night, I would knock him off the face
of the Garth. I tell you, II automobiles
and carriages could talk, there would be
something doing.
THREE VITAL QUESTIONS.
"Girls, when some young fellow comes
UP to YOU and asks you the greatest
question that you will ever be asked or
called upon to answer, next to the saliva
tlon OF your own soul, what will you
say? oh, this Is 80 sudden That is all
a bluff; you have been waiting for 1t all
the time.
But. girls, never mind now, get down
to facts. When he asks you that great
est question, the most important one that
any girl Is ever asked, next to the sal.
walton of her SOUL just say: Sit down
and let me ask you three questions.
want to ask you these three questions
and If I am satisfied with your answers
it will determine my answer to your
question. Did you believe me to be vir-
tuous when you came here to ask me to
be your wife,? oh, yes. 1 believed you
to be virtuous That's the reason 1 came
here. Violets dipped in dew would be
as COW fodder compared to you The
second question: Have you as young
man lived as you demand of me, as
GIRL that should have lived?' The third
question: IF /, as girl, had lived and
done as you, as a young man, and you
knew it, would you ask me to marry
you?
"They will line up. and nine times out
of 10 theY-owill take the count. You
can line them up, and I know what 1
am talking about, and 1 defy any man
on Gods earth to successfully contradict
me. l have the goods. The average
young man Is more particular about the
company he keeps lIlhil liiS dNCidSC 6hiI
I'll tell you If he meets somebody on
the street whom he doesn't want to meet
he will duck into the first open door
way and avoid the publicity of meeting
her, for fear she might smile or give
an indication that she had seen him some
where and sometime before that. Yet
our so-called best girls keep company
with young men whose character would
make a black mark on piece of
anthracite.
SCORES LIQUOR IN THE HOME.
$50 with the boy. He will sit at your
table and drink beer, and I want to tell
you If you are low down enough to serve
beer and wine In your home, when you
serve it you are as low down as the
saloonkeeper, and 1 don't care whether
you do itl for society or for anything else.
If you serve liquor or drink you are as
low down as the saloonkeeper in my
opinion. So the boy who had not grit
enough to turn down his glass at the
banquet and refuse to drink is now
blear-eyed, staggering, vermin-covered
drunkard, reeling to hell. He couldn't
stand the sneers of the crowd; many a
fellow started out to play cards for beans
and tonight he would stake his soul for
a showdown.
1.-THE hole in the gambling table is not
very big; 1t Is about big enough to shove
dollar through, but 1t is big enough to
shove your wife through; big enough to
shove your happiness through; your home
through; your salary, your character;
Just big enough to shove everything that
is dear to you in this world through the
little solid top of the table.
Listen to me. Bad as It Is to be af-
fiicted with physical leprosy. moral lep-
rosy is 10000 times worse 1 don't care
II you are the richest man in the town,
the biggest taxpayer In Philadelphia
County. the biggest politician in the con-
gressional district or In the State.
don't care rap II you carry the political
vote, and II you can change the vote from
Democratic to Republican in the conven-
tion-if after your worldly career is closed
my text would make you fitting epitaph
for your tombstone and obituary notice
in the papers, then what difference would
It make what you had done-He was
Ieper.' He was great polltician-but he
was a leper' What difference would 1t
maker"
ia HIT TRAIL LAST NIGHT.
Again last night Sunday asked men and
women to turn from their lives of sin
and wiekedness. In response 1I4 persons
marched forward through the sawdust
trails In the big tabernacle at 18th and
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