The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-22
npeS Bly SUNDAY Tells His Hearers What God Demands Of the Christian

I be all sticks. bur now he can write
ll25 words a minute. Let God have
your hands and lie viii make them
90 things that vCIli make The an
gels wonder and applaud
Dancing and Wine
"A young man went down 20
! ThomAsyille ia. and while there
was invited 90 q dress ball or rsih.
er an uudress bail y youag LADY -
a young lads With eyes Ike a dove
and with beautiful ursSes Same W
10 him and said Won you pledge a
glass OF champagne with me- TIE
young man thanked her, bur said
No. I don't drink Not With me-
she said. and smiled And again he
answered: No Then she said
IL I had thought you would refuse
me I would not have asked YOU and
exposed myself TO the embarrassment
OF a refusal
a little later she came back 70
him and repeated he- invitation
Again be said No Others came up
and laughed He took l- and hest.
lated She smiled az him and DE gave
; IN and drank the champagne, then
drank another glass and another. IN
I III he was flushed With n. then he
danced. A. > o'clock the next morn
I ing man with a linen duster over
l his outer clothes walked neryousy
on a railroad station platform walt
/ Ing for a train for the North, and as
ne walked he would eNc!aim Oh.
/ God and would pull q pink flask
from his pocket and drink Ny God
he would say. what viii mother
say9' Four months later In his home
In Vermont. with his weeping par
ents by him. and with four strong
men. 10 hola him down, he died Of
delirium tremens.
The Epworth Leagues motto IS
Look up. III up but yoUA never
lift much UP Unless God has hold OF
your hands Unless He has You VIII
never put your hand deep In sour
pocket. up 20 the elbow. and bring H
up full OF money for His cause.
About the first thing religion does
is 10 cut the strings around The
rocket book
4 man who was about 10 30 1ap
tized took out his watch and Laid II
aside. then be took out his knife and
bank book and laid them aside Ret
ter give me your pocketoook 20 put
aside FOR you. said the minister No,
said the man, I want il 70 50 under
with me
There's no such thing az q bar
gain counter religion Pure and uu-
dehled religion will DO more when
God had something besides pennies
10 work with God doesnt run any
excursions 20 Heaven You must
pay the full fare Your religion Is
worth Just what II costs YOU u Won
get religion and then lie down and
90 70 sleep your Joints vii. set s,iff
as Rip Van Wrinkles did, and
you'll never win the religious mara
thon.
a man said 70 his wife that he
had heard the preacher say that re-
iigion - worth 'usf what u costs.
and that he had determined 20 give
more for religion and 20 deny him
self a. vel. What viii YOU give up
she asked. He said that he would
give up coffee-f0r he dearly loved
coffee-used 20 drink several Guns
az every meal. the very best. She
said that she would give no some
thing. too-tha' she would giye up
. tea. Then their daughter said she
would give M some ~ her little
/ pleasures. and the father turned %
/ HE son Tom who was shoveling
mashed potatoes. covered with chick.
: en- gravy. into his mouth. said, III
! give up salt frackeraL never did
/ like the darned stuS. anyway.
There are too many salt mack
erel people like that in the pews in
our churches today They will take
something that they don't Ike. and
that nobody else will have. and give
n 10 the Lord That isn't enough
FOR God He wants the best We
have.
Must Make Real Sacrifice
Two little girls were playing
Noah's ark in ne ba'h'ub, and after
they had become tired % the game
one OF them pulled out the plug and
said Flood over Noah had sac-
rifce. The other one said Let's
have a sacrifice 50 she took the
soap dish and placed a piece u pa.
per on II and put broken sheep
from the Noah's ark on top u that