The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-15
Thursday Nights Sermon

BILLY Sundays sermon Thursday
night In the Tabernacle Was his fam.
Gus address on The Home. He
said
IL am indebted 10 my friends for
part OF my sermon tonight. read
everything I can get hold of. and
my friends are constantly sending
me clippings. and don't know
whom to credit for them.
IL there Ia anything In my ser-
man that you can use do II. You
can take anything that would give
the devil run for his money.
Genesis Kill. 10: For know him
that he Will command his children
and his household after him
There was no higher compliment
that God could pay Abraham for
he will command his children and
his household after him God is
satisfied that was a good index to
the character OF Abraham
II would ike to throw myself to
night upon your prayerful sympathy
that I may arrest the attention OF
this audience and grip the hearts
TO 20 with mo 10 the most sacred
spot on this globe
THE spot around which clusters
more sweet associations and pre-.
cious memories than any other
place in all the world the home.
THE longer live and the more
I visit up and down this land and
see the Joys and sorrows, the sue
oesses and failures. OF men and
women, the more thoroly be
come impressed with the fact that
the greatest institution Of the Amer
lean people today IL the home, and
every home should he the center
OF all that Is elevating, inspiring
and uplifting and every home
should be dead TO anything that dis
graces and pollutes.
81 think the proper or improper
settlement OF the home question.
whether Il In house OF Joy or sor
row, veal or woe. is more with the
man or women than any other prob
lem.
You cuu build your palaces. yor
can amass your fortunes, you car
spread Persian rugs on your floors
you can sit beneath the fash OF
the candelabra; YOU can push n
button and have retinue OF ser.
wants doing marathon 70 see
which will be honored by waiting
on you: you can Toll upon silken
cushions, you can roll down the
street in the most magnificent and
faultless equipages, but ! say 10 you
nothing can make happy the father
and mother OF Goddess. drunken
ioafer OF boy. or a frivolous, CO
quettish, rirty. good-for-nothing,
empty-headed sort OF girl that
Esds tho street with every Tom.
Dick and Harry, and makes YOU
hand your head In shame and dis
grace that you ever gave her birth.
Defects In Home Cause Downfalls.
mot only peace and happiness
center about the home, hut all that
is moral and religious as well.
"T believe the downfall of most
men and women can be traced 10
some defect in the home.
every hlackleg gambler. every
drunkard rolling and staggering and
vomiting and spluttering and spew-
ing. every woman OF the red-light
district who IL selling her virtue,
was once pure as the morning dew.
No drunkard ever intended TO be
q drunkard.
The man who says 7 can drink
or let Il alone'--I notice they never
let n alone-the man who tells me
he can drink or let II alone, lies.
The drunkard begins with the mod
crate drinker. One OF the curses
OF the world today In the moderate
drinker, not the immoderate drink
OF.
You could ask 10 men for de-
nnition OF home, and they Will give
you 10 different definitions.
THE one will say II In the love
OF hearth; the next, plenty 10 eat
on the table, plenty to wear. work
and comfort: intelligence and dc
votion greeting with a kiss when
you come in: n regretable good
by when you leave.
To another want looks out from
home, saualor. vice, hunger and an
empty tray: tomb where the air
is rent with curses: no Bible, no
Sabbath day. children who are rob
beers and thieves, obscene songs
their lullaby: every face n picture
OF want. tho vestibule 10 the pit,
the door mat OF hell. a chain forg
Ing links TO bind them down to per
dition.
Listen 10 me. Nearly One-half
Of the inmates OF the rerormatory.
committed there for crimes. com
nit the crimes for which they are
sent there while In state OF vol
untary or involuntary vagrancy.
THE genesis OF vagrancy Is big
question to answer in one sermon,
but I am going TO say something
about that later.
"One-tenth Of them have lost their
parents, onc-half have lost either
father or mother. and SIS per cent
are from homes where the parents
have been divorced.
Broken homes and broken lives
seem 20 go hand In hand. they are in.
separately connected
MANY times sons and daughter
are brought no In idleness, unr"-
strained In he expenditure Of thor
money. rapidly acquiring ex'Ta'a.
giant habits. hey Hsurr IN escapad"s
that scandalize society. indulge "a