The Detroit times., 1916-09-18

defy God and blaSphCmc his name
! Viii read II for YOU Meme, Meme
T"hcl UpLarSin This is the inter
probation OF tho thing Meme, God
hath numbered thy kingdom and
finished II. Tekcl, thou art weighed
in the balance and found wanting.
Peres, thy kingdom Is divided and
given 10 the Modes and Persians "
"Oh. Is that ALL" said Bel. "Only
losing a kingdom That's nothing
Let the music and the dancing pro
coed Let iov be unconincd"
Suddenly there was the sound as
OF the trampiug OF feet The Modes
and Persians. while the Bahylonians
were In the midst OF their drunken
reyelry. had dug a little ditch and
built n dixie The Babylonians had
left the water gates aiar and the
invaders cut a sloping pa,h dow
fo the waters edge and came
through the water gates and IN
into the palace The banquet hall
WIS turned into slaughter hcuso
and blood flowed instead of vine
That night was 2 laha7zar. tho
king of the Cnaldeans. slain lie
vas weighed in The balance and
found wanting You have been
weighed in the balance and found
wanting. Yes. you are going 10 be
weighed the same way as BelShaZ.
Ear. God will not spring new
hook on you by which 10 Judge you
II Will be the same old book | en-
reading from now God will Judge
you. II Il be 10000, 900 years from
now, by the same old book by
that We shall he iulged Not by
our own estimation OF your worth
In that YOU are heavyweight
Nor by public opinion, not on your
life.
You may be n great man. but YOU
might not be q leading citizen OF
Detroit. but public opinion IS not
competent To Judge You may not
meet with the sanction Of public
opinion. and what public opinion
would sanction God would damn.
There IS no criterion to go by, not
on your life. You assault any old
and long-indulged evil that IL re.
munerative TO tho clique who start.
cd IL and Won make yourself tho
object OF falsehood, maledictions
and their lies and they will assault
and assassinate your character n
thcv cannot debauch e.
That's why that dirty. low.down.
contemplate. sneering, smiling.
black.legged whisky gang IL after
me. expect the enmity OF that
rotten, hell-born gang They'll as
- ne tho pha thaxr 49,
debauch I'm going 10 f1cht tho
sinking bunch "a long as I live. I
don't want any quarter from them.
and I'm not going 20 give any.
'If all the world said God was
wrong. you're n liar II YOU say Je.
sus Christ Is not tho Son OF God,
you're liar, n makes no differ
ence n you are highbrow. you'll
20 10 hell Just the same az the low
brOws
Thou shalt have no other Gods
before mo am going 10 take the
moral law for my sermon and the
Ten Commandments rs a basis
largely for what have to say, And
let mo say that stand her" and
ready 20 believe Cod Almighty
wrote the Ten commandments, You
can say that Moses wrote them. as
the lnfldcl can say that Hume wrote
them Hut. hold on there don't
care a rap who wrote the Ten Com
mandments Hut any citizen I'm this
audience or In this city or In This
state that IL not ready 20 live by
them ought TO be I'm the penitcn-
tlary. That n the place for him.
Commandments Basis for All o9od
There can be- no good citizenship
where the Ten Commandments are
broken or lnfracted Nothina OF po.
! litical reform, no movements in 20