The Detroit times., 1916-09-20


thought that ! was doomed 10 death
IN the stomach of a whale almost
sent me crazy. 80 las | lost mo
reason
James BSrkley was known to be
one Of the most hardy sailors. and
yet his experience Was 50 terrible
that be was obliged 10 undergo
treatment IN a hospital in London.
Nevertheless. his general health Was
rof Affected and the only effect that
could be noticed was that his skin
was tanned by The peculiar action
ot the gastric juices OF the whales
stomach upon g.
SO N1u don't need 10 go bacK
,u 'Nr days of Jonah 10 md whales
THAT swallow men.
"IF y0U would leave tha, mans
VIE alone maybe you would believe
g. K yoI would pay your debts
usvne you would believe il.
AS iO The Greek science that
loaded !be world on the shoulders
% ar old gee1er called Atlas-who
ever saw Old Ailass Greek Science,
My Ny
"v'ho ever saw old Atlas holding
up me V0rldf And on what did ne
stand while he was doing IL And
where did hc eat and sleep while
be was on the job
The old ship Zion goes cruising
or her way while from her mast
head Hies a banner bearing the IN
scr,pt'or. in Hoe Signo Vinces
stood enc lay beside a hlacksmith's
And heard The anvil ring and the
resp-~ rr .rUr-
LcekIrg 'n saw Gron the aoor
C.t hammers worn out with beat
INK years and years OF time.
"Hav many AuvNs have you had"
To vear ara latter AL these ham
"Jsst en-. ssli Re. then said with
ta.rlfl0g eye.
The anvil wears the hammers
ou- yol know"
-. merh1gsht the anvil OF Gods
o.: Jesss. saerl lece--hsve been beat
.prr and fought
The nrtsa u falling blows was
The aTsl Is unharmed--the ham
ueys are all gone.
But the Anvil Still Remains
Julian the apostate was ham
mer Gone Vo.ta!re. q Albert, ham
mers. Gone
In Germany Goethe, Holbein.
: Fa-ff-- = i+--f n H+-F-F0fie
In Enc.and Boingbroke. Mill.
Hume. Hobbies Darwin. Huxley and
Speneer-Jhe anvil remains the
hammer ;s gone
I'm America, Thomas Paine. Park
er IEgersoll-gOue; the anvil re-
Iua.H-
Listen In France hundred
years ago or more they were print.
lng and circulating inadel literature
az the expense OF 100000 pounds
sterling year
What vas the result? God was
denied. the Bible sneered az and
ridiculed. and between 1892 and
1875 le2o.95l people were brought
20 death The word OF God stood
mistaken amidst it all
Josh Billings said 7 would rather
be an IDIOT than an inhdel. because
n l am an inhdel ] made myself 50.
but II I am an idiot somebody else
did &C.
20 the wrecker's lights on the
dangerous coasts that Try 10 allure
and drag Us away from God. have
all gone out, but Gods words shine
on
,"You know nothing about the
beauty OF this world until you ge'
down into old mother earth. Bur
the trouble is you swear and damn
and h.s sptame and live 20 CRAFTY
your lust.
"Yog have no use for God for the
priest for the preacher. foi the
church. y0u do not want 10 see any
I beauty In the works OF God. disbe.
lieye in the Bible
= do not believe that any man
dis eAeyes unless he has quarrel
with God and wants 10 live a bad
life Why in the name Of God does
any man want 20 BE- a doubter and
live without the word Of God
The inddel Is always asking
where DO / come from? want 70
know where I ana going to, old man
that Is what il puzzling me.
They take me 20 graveyard
/ and dig a grave. two and one-haif
feet vide. FIVE feet deep and six feet
long They say this iF whore YOU
90 TO-
Il don't Ike that don't believe
vas made 20 die I don't believe
that death rs all. 7 hope FOR immor.
taIfy.
The Instinct of Immortality ls iu
my haar' and want 20 tell yoI ms
friends that you cannot End an in.
stance where instinct ever led an
animal wrong
so I arm instinct with imnortal
ity
y want 10 live beyond tho grave
is 'lf hope. that instinct going "a
be appointed In me- Is that in
. fIrlt going 10 be disappointed ir
me whom .-g'.ac' IA not disappointed
iH bird rhe bee, the fish or rh'
reptile
"If that hope IL 70 be dlsappo.nt
ID then mar Is tho only being s..
tho universe that Is failure
AS he 81 failure n Lar ls true
and instead a. being he master
piece ~ God he s. Gods failure
Here 70 Preach Word
More iutdr4s a. q class comwi'
suicide than any 0the- people m
Code earth. n their theory is right
then DOM. blame them.
"if death Us an eternal sleep ID
fhars ls mo- damnation 70 save mcr
from. Why have we churches Why
do ve build 2 tabernacle
~ fhr H no lrl rn save Uru
Iiam H'i IGit preaching EiI
nor cr short my lifo by twenty
year If there o. no he'll 20 save men