The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-23

n MY Sundays sermon Friday
|21C6t was on the topic, -The Timid
NWemsn." Tsxt; Mark v, ASA HI
I'D:
sThe scene OF this story IL. In Ca
Dosuaum. Our Lord has but recent.
~ returned from the country OF the
y 0AdArenes, on the other side Of the
Oea OF Galiles, On the way over
Ne had stilled the tempest. and
while there He had healed the Wild
man who was filled with legion OF
I, lemons, and the people there hfd
fDesought Him 20 leave the country
ins quick az He could. for In saving
man 1000 hogs had been lost. and
they didn't want any more work
done for them nj that price.
II can see some OF those old hog
raisers. wringing their hands and
declaring that the whole country is
going 20 ruined. unless the Man
who sent their swine galioping
hcadlong into the sea can be per
shaded 90 depart from their coast
and not cast out any more devils
IN their .worshiplrg land
what did It matter IL homes
Z were unhappy. IL women and chill
dren were having 10 live in want,
fear and wretchedness?
"what did IL matter II men were
!. being robbed or their manhood by
1.-THE demons that possessed them
and made like wild beasts so saw
age that they would break their
Echains, and ragged and WOUNDED
! and bloody. would become terror
10 all who came near them In the
r place of the dead?
h sWhat did II matter II people
we're sometimes killed, and houses
were sometimes burned down and
much property destroyed by these
Wild men?
What did n matter II taxes were
made higher nv the ravages caused
them. Hogs had been raised In
untold numbers. Their madness
had never done the hog business
any harm and the swine trade was
3 great thing among the Gadarenes.
~Didnt II give employment 20 4
lot of men who looked after them
and fed them. and took better care
Of them than they did OF their own
wives and children?
"Destroy this blessed hog bust
ness and down goes everything,
they said.
$50 they wiped their eyes on
'tAeir pigskin coat sleeves. threw up
their hands imploringly. and be
sought Jesus 10 turn His back on
Them as quick as possible, for ev-
cry minute lie tarried more and
more hogs were rushed into the
oea-
just Like Whisky Business
isn't that Just like the whisky
business at this time7
ssOh, Il r. a blessed business,
Don't Il give employment to a null
t1tude OF folks? Don't lawyers and
GherifYs. and Jail keepers and con
tractors who supply penitentiaries
Get a rich living from the stream
q dollars II turns their way?
'sDon't II bring men TO town to
trade?
Don't Il promote sociability and
GOOD feeling among the people?
Don't they shake hands more in
he saloons than they do in the
churches?
Don't the license fees pave the
streets and make lot OF public i'm
provements,
you might have heard a good
deal OF that same kind OF talk about
the untold benefits OF the hog bus
iness that day In Gadara. "a delega-
lion after delegation came up 70
Jesus and besought Him TO depart
out Of their coasts
1T makes a lot OF difference in
this world as 20 whether we look at
things from a hog standpoint or
from manhood or womanhood
and childhood basis.
THE man who thinks more OF his
pigs than he does OF his wife and
babies is the DEVILS idea OF what
husband and father should be.
you can bring hesTen and hell
together when you can bring vhis-
Ky and Jesus Christ together. Hold
Ing dollar within an inch Of
mans nose will make him stone
blind TO everything that Is good.
so when the Gadarenes declared