The Detroit times., 1916-09-18
Get CheSy With C0 M Show You l Says Billy Commandment Sermon

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! viii stai ga ia. y,u. Meme, M5ae
Tolei r-ht..iu This Us the inter
prot. i,r 30 g. flUc 'Ncn-. Cod
ualh aao..-'j 'hy 1t -!7@ AMI
an!sHcl T6%ol thou -rj o,igroI
.u i1o HrioV.a and found wanting.
Poros, ih. kingdom Is divided and
given 10 TIVE Neics and Pcrsians 80
"Oh, is that all said Rel. "O0ly
losing n kingdom That's nothing.
I.ot The unsit and the dancing pro.
coed Let ioy be unconhncd."
Suddenly there was the sound "a
OF The tramping OF feet The Medes
and Pcrairus while tho Eahyloniqnr
were in tho ."ids' OF their drurkrn
revoIry. had dug n little ditch and
built ciao Tho Babylon ans had
left tho WTtor gates "j'" nd thc
invaders cur slorire p"a Cow
90 iha watnr's edge and c2'qc
through m" water gates md ur
into the r4''." The banqlet hail
Nas tJrr' u.a q sl1ugN'n~ house
and blood flowed instead o. VT.
That nigI was DeisAazzsr. a.
kiEG of tho Chaldeans. slain Ho
was weighed n 'ho balance asd
found wanting You have been
weighed nv The balance and found
wanting Yes. Won are going 10 be
weighed the same way "a BelshaZ.
zar. God viii not spring new
hook on YOU ly which 10 Judge you
II will b. the same old book I eu
reading from now God will judge
you, II IL be $4,000. 600 years from
now. by the same old book BY
that ve shall he iulged Not by
our own estimation OF your worth
In that YOU are heavyweight
Nor by public opinion, not on you-
life.
You NAV he q great man, but YOU
might not be a 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 eanction God would damn
There Is no criterion 70 20 by not
on your life You assault any old
and lonE-indulg"d evil that IL re
munerative 10 tho clique who start.
cd II and Won make yourself tho
object of fslsehood. malediCtions
and their lies and they will assault
and assassinato your character II
they cannot dcbauch Il.
That's why that dirty, low down.
contemplate, sneering. smiling,
black.legred whisky gang is after
me. expect the enmitv ~ that
rotten, hell-horn gang. They'll as
saSsinato tho character they cant
debauch I'm going 10 fght tho
stinking bunch as long as live |
don't want any quarter from them,
and I'm not going 20 give any
"If all tho world said God was
wrong. you're liar n you say Ie-
you're q liar, II makes no differ
ence II you ore y highbrow. youll
60 to hell Just the same az the low.
broVs
Thou shalt have no other Gods
before mo am golnE 10 take tho
moral law for my sermon and The
Ten Commandments ne basis
largely for what ! have 70 say And
let mo say that stand hero and
ready 90 bcliCve God Almighty
wrote the Ter commandments. You
can say that Moses wrote them. 8s
tho lnhde can SOY that Humo wrote
tbem. Rut. hold ON there don't
care rap who wrote me Ten Com
mnndmen's pUt any citizen in this
audience or iu this city or i'm fhis
state that Is not ready 10 I've by
them ought 10 be IN tho pcniten.
tiary That 3, the place for hln,,
Commandments Basis for All o7oo
There can he no good citizenship
where The Ten Commandment are
broken nr mfraCted Nothing OF po.
litiCal reform. no movements in so