The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-23
gddsx Nlshrs Sermon.

Duly Sundays sermon Friday
01eht Was on the topic. The Timid
oman-" Text: Mark v: 1884. He
nil:
SIhe scene Of this story II In Ca.
/ DQgnaum. Our Lord has but recent.
~ returned from the country OF the
I 000ar6ncs. on the other side OF the
- of 0alilee. On the way over
& 10 had stillcd the tempest. and
Z Nib thcre He had healed the Wild
- who was filled with a legion OF
q n0na, and the people there had
ooought Him to leave the country
~ quick a. He could. for In saving
IT, man 1000 hCgs had been lost. and
10y didn't want any more work
UCno for them nj that price.
~ can see some OF those old hog
loleerr. wringing their hands and
1oc1arfng that the whole country r.
<oO1ng TO ruined. unless the Man
4 Who sent their swine galloping
!, Geadlong into the sea can be per
ouaded 10 pert from their coast,
sand not cast out any more devils
~ their pig-WorshIping land.
s'What did II matter IL homes
Ivere unhappy. II women and chill
t4ren were having 10 live in want
lar and wrctchedness7
ssWhaf did II matter II men were
being robbed Of their manhood by
Inc demons .Isat- res%eS&aa them
ma made like wild beasts so saw
!4Ge that they would break their
Iohains. and ragged and wounded
md bloody. would become a terror
10 all who came near them In the
D3ace OF the dead?
what did IL matter n people
Were sometimes killed. and houses
HBere sometimes burned down and
much property destroyed by these
Wild men?
What did II matter n taxes were
1nade higher by the ravages caused
l6em? Hogs had been raised in
untold numbers. Their madness
1ad never done the hog business
my harm and the swine trade was
y great thing among the Gadarenes.
Didn't II give employment TO
~ Of men who looked after them
md fed them. and took better care
~ them than they did of their own
wives and children?
Destroy this blessed hog bust.
1Qess and down goes everything.
4Aey said.
sSo they wiped their eyes on
heir pigskin coat sleeves. threw up
1elr hands imploringly, and be-
mUught Jesus to turn His back on
mem as quick as possible, for ev-
~ minute He tarried more and
nore hogs were rushed into the
just Like Whisky Business
isn't that Just like the whisky
0Dsiness at this time?
~Oh, II Is a blessed business,
oon't II give employment TO a null
Nude OF folks! Don't lawyers and
u1eriffs, and jail keepers and con
G1Actors who supply penitentiaries |
~ 3 rich living from the stream
1I dollars II turns their way,
Don't II bring men to town 10 |
DN6e?
Don't II promote sociability and
D6 feeling among the people?
Don't they shake hands more in
90 saloons than they do in the
CHnyches7
Don't the license fees pave the
Uefoets and make a lot OF public i'm
rlpvements?
*You might have heard good |
4onl Of that same kind OF talk about |
~ untold benefits of the hog bus
)noss that day in Gadara, as delega- |
HIM after delegation came up 10 |
J4sus and besought Him 10 depart !
ont Of their coasts.
Iii makes lot OF difference IN /
1h1s world as to whether we look at |
{hings from hog standpoint or
from manhood or womanhood |
md childhood basis.
The man who thinks more OF bis !
D@Gs than he does OF his wife and |
bnbies is the devils idea OF what |
= husband and father should be.
You can bring heaven and hell !
together when you can bring wills
nv and Jesus Christ together. Hold. |
1ng dollar within an inch OF a
mans nose will make him stone |
blind 10 everything that is good.
so when the Gadarenes declared |