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

last they 60 To n premature grave
and are remembered only for the
dissolute lives they led
silly Women and unholy Homes.
The women are silly, frivolous,
eNtravagant; they have thrown 10
the winds all 1modesty, prudence.
religion and the virtues that are so
attractive I'm women, and have al
lowed them 10 be nattered, cajoled
and bamboozled by a lot OF lifted
Jays with cracked characters. and
they turn their homes into a third
rate gambling den and booze joint.
They have vaudeville IN their
homes. they indulge I'm gambling,
and the average society woman to
day Is more familiar with the names
/ OF fancy wines and champagnes
than she lis with classic literature
or the word OF God.
THE prettiest picture that God
has ever painted or the world over
looked al is a father and a mother
that love Jesus Christ. and they
take hold OF the hand OF their old
est child and the next oldest child.
and the next child. down the line
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lily go shouting and singing into
glory.
The blacklist picture the world
may see is TO see father and
mother without Christ. mother
| without Christ and. locking arms,
taking hold OF the hands OF the
oldest child and the next, and the
next. and on down 10 the youngest,
and sec that whole family going on
TO hell
And want 10 tell YOU in De.
cases so close to hell you can smell
the sulphur fumes.
Listen 10 me- The normal way
10 get rid OF drunkards is 10 stop
raising drunkards.
you train up a child IN the way
il should 30, and when n Is old Il
will not depart from its training
believe that n a child Is properly
trained II will not often 60 astray.
The way TO get rid OF those
drunkards is 10 stop the reason a
drunkard makes me sick. II makes
me sick 10 see in q community like
this dirty, stinking hell holes OF
corruption, vomiting. spewing out
damnation There goes a man stag
gering down the street drunk--sce
the cop 20 up and pinch him
why not pinch the hell hole
that made him a drunkard? So tho
normal way 90 get rid OF criminals
Is 10 stop raising them
stop raising prostitutes. Don't
~ ha 10 ~ -
lid ~ what produces vice You
spend lot Of time and hot air sit
ting around talking. instead OF go
Ing 70 the fountain head, and fol
lowing the thins through
There are 1000 600 young men
in this country between the ages Of
Is and % who are homeless. There
are multitudes OF families who Just
live, and the rearing Of one or more
children means another boy for a
drunkard and another girl for a
prostitute.
There arc multitudes Of families
that are just living They have boy
drunkards and girl prostitutes. Just
multtudes of them.
Our national life will never rise
higher than the home life The home
life Will never rise higher than you
as individuals
Gladstone said enc day, talking
with Mr. TalmaEo a man can talk
about the questions OF The day. but
there Is but one question. settle that
and YOU will settle all others. and
that Is the question of religion in the
home
That is where 10 settle that cues.
ton. that Is where to settle every
financial, political. psychological
question that comes up. That's the
place.
Where Lycurgus sought 30 estab-
lish democratic Greece ne was told
Go. my friend, and try the expert
ment in thine own home. and then
tell me how II works.
Women Make Home Heaven or Hell.
when Napoleon Bonaparte was
asked: What do YOU regard as the
greatest need of France? he replied,
Mothers, mothers. mothers"
You women can make Il hell OF a
home or a heaven OF home.
Don't turn your old gatlinG gun
tongue loose and rip everybody up
and rip your husbands UP and send
| lHfIH Oui VI lHPlT HNUlfH.
IF | were going 10 investigate
your piety I would ask the girl who
works for YOU. If | were going to
find out what kind OF a business man
you are would ask the clerks who
stand behind your counter. wouldn't
go 10 the preacher. No.
This talk about the land OF the
free Is discounted when the children
look like a rummage sale in second
hand store-with uncombed hair, rip
ped pants, buttons off, stockings
hanging down--it doesn't take the
wisdom Of truth 10 see that mother
is too busy With her social duties.
clubs. etc, TO pay much attention to
the kids.
Henry W Grady-whose life was
too short--when he was young
man, left the south and went to New
York.
ON walking down the street one
day he noticed a crepe on n door
four doors away. He asked the land
lady II some one had died.
she said, oh, yes. heard there
was q woman over there sick and
| guess she's dead
Haven't you been over TO see
her.
mo. am too busy
Had she any Children
Yes, four or Ave
when is the funeral?'
This afternoon