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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-18

I not only the end. but the begin
ming. He looked yonder and saw
the cpd. too.
THAT Is the reason why you
hurry when you get evidence OF the
disease So I say 70 you. young
man. don't YOU go with that Goddess.
good-for-nothing gang that bias
| pheme and sheer az religion, that
| bunch OF character assassins; they
will make OF your body doormat
10 wipe their feet upon. Don't go
with that bunch. heard you
swear. heard you sneer al relig
ion. Stop. or you will become a
staggering. muttering. bleary-eyed.
foul-mouthed. down-and-outer on
your way TO hell say 10 you.
stop, or you will 20 Keeling down
TO hell. breaking your wite's heart
and wrecking your children's lives
And what have YOU got 20 show
for it, What have you got 70 show
for IT,
A Warning 90 the Young
Don't you go. my boy: don't
you laugh NJ that smutty story
with a double meaning Don't 60
with that gang But you say 20 ne,
Mr.. Sunday. you are unduly eX
cited for my welfare know you
smell liquor on my breath. but
never expect 10 become a drunkart.
never expect 20 become an out
cast Well. you are a fool You
are a fool. No man ever intended 70
become a drunkard Every drunk
ard started out 10 be simply a mod
crate drinker The fellow that tells
me that ne can leave IL alone when
he wants 20 lies. II is a lie. II
you can. why don't you leave II
| slone9 You will never let n alone.
II you could, you would. Ny boy.
| hear me have walked along the
shores OF time and have seen them
strewn with the wrecks OF those
who have drif,ed in from the seas
OF lust and passion, and are az only
! for danger signals 10 warn the com
Ing race. You can't leave IL alone.
or II you can. the time will come
when IL will get you. Take II from
me.
Don't 20 20 that dance. Don't
Won know that II IL the most damn.
able. lovdown institution on the
face OF Gods earth. that IL causes
more ruin than anything this side
OF hell7 Don't you go with that
young man; don't you 20 10 that
dance
THAT is why we have so many
whippoorwill widows around the
country: they married some OF
these NUTS 10 reform them. and
instead OF doing that the under
taker got them. | say. young girl.
don't you 60 10 that dance; II has
proven 20 be the moral graveyard
that caused more ruination than
anything that was ever spewed out
OF the mouth OF hell. Don't go
with that young fellow FOR a Joy
ride nj midnight II young fellow
her joy-riding OF midnight. ! would
knock him of the face OF the earth
/ tell you IL automobiles and car
riages could talk there would be
something doing.
Girls, when some young fellow
comes up 10 you and asks you the
greatest question that you will ever
be asked or called upon 10 answer
next TO the salvation OF your own
soul. what would you say oh. this
is so sudden That Is all a bluff
you have been waiting for il all the
time
But girls. never mind now. get
down 10 facts. When he asks you
that greatest question. the most
important one that any girl n ever
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sunday Morning Sermon.

On the Sabbath morning Mr. Sun
day took as his text II Timothy ii.
IT,
STUDY 10 show, myself approved
unto God. workman that needeth
not to be ashamed. rightly dividing
the word OF truth"
He said
I'VE seem to be living In a new
era. A great political. moral, social,
economical era. Whether we have
been separated OF combined In our
advancement ] am not going TO dis
cuss In detail. but think IL behooves
! the church Of God workmen not 10
forget that we are facing the powers
OF darkness and opposition as never
before I'm the history of Christianity
There never has been a time when
the people were more self-satisned
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asked, next 10 the salvation or your
soul. just say sit down and let mt
ask you three question | want e
ask you these three questions anc
II / am satisfied With your answer
IL will determine my answer 70
your question.
Did you believe me 20 be vir
tuous when you came here 10 ash
He 10 De your vile oh. yes.
believe you 90 De yirtuous. That's
the reason / came here Niolets
dipped In dew would De rs COW
fodder compared 20 yor The sec
ond question Have Won az a
young man lived as you demand oi
me as a girl. that should have
livede" The third question II l.
az girl had lived ard done as you,
as a young man. and you knew II
would you ask me 20 marry you 90
viii Take the Count
They will lue mp and nine times
on, OF ten they will take the count
You can line them up, and know
what am talking about and I DEFY
any man on Gods earth 20 success
fully contradict me. have The
goods. The average young man Is
more particular about the company
he keeps than the average girl III
tell you. II he meets somebody on
the street whom ne doesn want 70
meet he VIII duck into the 1rst
OMEN doorway and avoid The pub
llcity Of meeting her. FOR fear she
might smile or give an indication
that she had seen him somewhere
and sometime before that Yet our
so-called best girls keep company
with young men whose character
would make a black mark on a
piece OF anthracite Their charac-
tiers are foul and rotten and damna
Bile. Ike 20 see girl who has a
good head 70 choose right because
Il Is right, never mintiug the CRIT
icism Choose the good and % care
ful OF har conduct. careful or good
company and good conduct, and
keep company with a good young
fellow Don: 90 with fellow
whose reputation is bad Every
body knows Il is bad and Il you are
seen with him you will lose your
reputation as we'll although your
virtue is intact. and they might as
well take you 20 the graveyard and
bury you when your reputation r.
gone II man like that asks you
10 60 with him. say 20 him II h.
will live the way you want him IN
you viii go with him. II you would
take a stand like that there would
nj be so many wrecks II our wo.
men and girls would take higher
stands and say. No, no. We will not
keep company with YOU unless vor
live the way We want you 20 there
would be better men.
"Leprosy is an infectious disease
like typhoid fever. smallpox or
diphtheria. and goes through a
community like an epidemic. And
so IL is with sin. Sin begins IN SO
called innocent Irritation The old
God-forsaken scoundrel OF a lihcr-
tine who looks upon every woman
"a legitimate prey FOR his lust viii
contaminate community; one
drunkard staggering and maunder-
ing and muttering HE way down 70
perdition will debauch a town.
so with the boy He will sir
AZ your table and drink beer. and I
want 70 tell you II you are low
down enough 10 serve beer and
wine In your home. when Won
serve il you are az low down as
tbn u.fcnrNanrnr a~d I drrfs ra-n
whether YOU do Il for society or
FOR anything else II you serve
liquor or drink you are az low
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Hearts Had Windows Some of Us Would Want to Use Stained Glass %

. little child. and he WAS clean.
He offered Elisha OF the store or
gold and other precious metals
but the prophet would not take
any OF IL. But Gehazi. servant 10
Elisha. counted the goods. and ran
after NSaman. saving that Elisha
had changed his mind. Naaman
dumped a pile OF II on the ground,
and mark this. the leprosy OF Naa-
man infected Gehazi He was the
first CRATER mentioned In the Bible.
II saw n woman that for -
years had been madam. and
saw her come down the aisle. close
her doors aud turn them out of her
house and i've FOR God saw
enough converted In one town where
there were four houses TO close
their doors. they were empty: they
had all fed home tn their mothers.
Listen to me and | am through.
Out In Iowa fellow came 10 me
and spread a napkin on the plat
torm--a napkin as big as a table
cloth. He said I want lot or
shavings and snwdust' what
for" I'll tell you: want enough
10 make soft pillow TO have
something IN my home 10 help me
think OF God. don't want 10 for.
get God. or that was saved Can
you give me enough I said Yes,
indeed. and n you want enough TO
make n mattress. all right take IL:
and II you want enough ~ the tent
II was preaching =, tent them 10
make pair OF breeze hes for each
OF the boys. why take your scissors
and cut II right out II II will help
YOU 10 keep your mind on God
That Is why like to have people
come down TO the front and publicly
acknowledge God like 10 have a
man have a definite experience IN
religion. Something 10 remember.
confoundlna the Devil
y once read OF preacher WHO
used 10 quarrel with his wife. That
was before he became a preacher,
no man cal quarrel With his VITO
after ne hecorlVs preacher Are
and his wife used 20 fight because
Abe was an Episcopalian and his
wife was n Methodist Abe said 10
his wife: See here. all they do
down at your church Is read the
prayers Abe's wife said n isn't
the church. rs the life we lead
And the devil said 20 Abe; You nun
this ranch. give her a blowing up;
let her understand who runs this
thing But the Lord aid. Abe, you
are preacher and your wife has
more religion In her little Anger
In old r
You are preacher Re man
go he went out 10 the ashhop-
pers. Did you ever sec one OF those
ashhoppers? n ~ a thing Won build
with four sides. small at the bot
| tom and with an angle Of 10 do
grees. and you will ell II with hick-
DRY ashes and pour water on tho
ashes and the water percolates
/ through The ashes and makes lye.
and .hey make soap out ~ II
| lot OF lolks can make lie without
ashes or soap They used 10 make
! that kind % soap when | was
bow. SO Abe went behind the old
ashhopper and said Eliza. forgive
me. You have more religion In
your little finger than ! have in
nv whole body He went back 10
the house and threw bis arms
around the old woman and kissed
her. And when the devil comes
around 20 Abe he says; "Ash-hop-
per, ash-hopper' ash-hopper' On
my knees behind the ash hopper |
fought the battle and beat the
DEVIL"
Copyright. william A. Sunday
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Hanged II didn't tight shy OF
you feilows-but I'll tell you Sat
here and listened TO you for an hour
and you monkeyed less with religion
than any fellow I ever heard In my
life
The world IL looking for some
Moses 10 lead II out OF bondage.
want to tell you that tho biggest mis-.
takes | have ever made was when
l temporized with the devil.
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glass and heavy tapestry 70 cover
/ them.
suppose could put a screen
| behind me. pull string or push "A
/ button and produce on that screen
view OF the hearts OF the people.
| would say. Here Is Mr. and Mrs.
/ AS life as II is and here as the peo-
! pie think IL Is. Here Is what he
really Is Here Is what he has
been. Here is how much booze he
| drinks. Here is how much he lost
last year at horse races But these
are the things that society does
not take note OF. Society takes no
note OF Irritation on the street. II
waits until the girl has lost her
virtue and then slams the door I'm
her face. II takes no note OF that
young man drinking at banquet
table; II waits until he becomes q
blearyryed drunkard and then II
VIII slam the door In his face. II
takes no note OF card playing for
some dinky little cream pitcher or
pair OF silk hose: II waits until
you become gambler and then II
slams the door In your face. God
says. Look out In the beginning for
that thing Society takes no note
OF the beginning n waits until X
becomes vice and then II organizes
civic righteousness clubs Get hack
10 the beginning and DO your work
there.
Nasman and the Prophet
The servant OF Naaman en-
tered the hut OF the Prophet
Elisha and found him sitting on
high stool writing with n quill
on papyrus. The servant bowed
low and said The great and
mighty NaRman. captain OF the
hosts OF the king OF Syria. awaits
thee Unfortunately he is leper
and cannot enter your august pres
ence. He has heard OF the miracu
lous cures that YOU have wrought
and he hopes 10 become the recip.
lent OF your power
Tell him 10 dip seven times IN
the Jordan--beat II. beat e. The
servant came out 10 Naaman. who
was sitting on his horse.
We'll. Is he AZ home"
Hes NJ home. but he's a queer
duck
"NaAman thought that Elisha
would come out and pat the sores
and say incantations. like an In
dian medicine man. and say: Mat
ter Ia nonexistent. Il Is an Illusion
OF your mind. my dear fellow Why
didn't you phone me from Damas-
Gus and I would have given you alb
sent treatment. Poor old cuss sit.
ting away-matter nonexistent--you
Just imagine you have leprosy'
"Naaman was wroth. like many
fellow today. God reveals TO
me sinner The plan Of salvation
and instead Of thanking God for
salvation and doing what God
wants them 10 do. they damn God
and every body else for bothering
them.
Some men ought n be hurlee
out % society; they ought 20 be
kicked out OF churches. and out OF
politics. and every other place
where decent mon live or associate
And want 20 m the burden to
night from the heads OF the unof
Tending womanhood and hurl II on
the heads Of unoffending manhood
Society needs a new division % an.
athemas. You hurl the burden or
the head ~ tho girl. and the double
dyed licentious scoundrel tha,
caused her ruin IN received IN so.
ciety with open arms. while the girl
Is left 20 hang her head and spend
her lie In shame
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Billy Sunday WaIopS Cults and SmS in the Churches in Sabbath Morning

when I have been firm and true
TO God and refused 10 bow and
scrapc and truck with the world
when have hurled anathemas OF
God against ranks OF sin: when
refused 10 subsidlze my fcar
OF criticism; when stood four.
square 70 the wind. have been
blessed,
When have bowed and ducked
and trucked. when have played to
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DlIly Sunday preached Saturday
u1ght on Tho moral ieper.' taking
- HE tsxt, But the man wasN q
B 1opsr." The evangelist said;
II have sometimes tried 10 mag
ne nyseif In Damascus on review
~, and have seen fBaH riding on
horse richly caparisoned with
tgnppings OF gold and silver. and he
b1mself clothed in garments OF the
1no1t fabrics and the most costly,
bat with face so sad and melan-
Gholy that II would cause the be-
Z holder to turn and look a second and
third time. And a man unaccustom-
K "a To such scenes might have been
heard to make q remark like this
How unequally God seems 10 di-
vide His favors, There II man
who rides and others walk he is
clothed In costly garments: they
are almost naked. while he is well
fad and they contrast the differ
renee between the man on the
horse and the others. II we only
knew the breaking hearts or the
I people we envy we would pity them
from the bottom OF our souls
II was being driven through q
suburb OF Chicago by real estate
man who wanted 10 sell me lot.
He was telling me who lived here
and who lived there. and what an
honor Il would be for me and my
children TO possess home there.
We were driving past a home that
must have cost 100000. and he
said: That house Is owned by Mr.
9o-and.so. He Ia one OF our multi
miliionaires and he and his wife
have been known 10 live IN that
house for months and never speak
20 each other. They each have
separate apartments, each has a
separate retinue OF servants. each
3 dining-room and sleeping apart
ments, and months come and 60
By and they never speak 10 one
another. Ny thoughts hurried
back to the little fiat In Chicago
that we called our home and
where we lived for IL years. had
paid rent enough 10 pay for It.
There wasn't much In Il; ! could
load II in two furniture vans. may
BE- three. counting the piano. but |
would not trade the happiness and
the Joy and the love OF that little
Dat for that palatial home and the
eoTrow and the things that went
With II.
lsprosy and Sin
sDut he was q leper" That dis
onoo. peculiar to the Orient. Is ex
eeedingly loathsome. and as study
IT. pathology am not surprised
that God used II as Q type OF sin.
4 man who n able 20 understand
this disease, its beginning and It's
progross, might be approached by
. man who was thus afflicted and
0dght say TO him. Hurry! Hurry.
SHOW yourself to the priest for the
eleansing BY the Mosaic law"
Why" says the man thus ad
oressed, what IL the trouble7" The
ether man would say. do you see
the spot on your hand, Hurry and
show yourself TO the priest" But
the man says, "That r. only fes-
Ter, only q water blister; only a
p1mple. nothing more. There IS no
occasion 10 be alarmed You are
unduly excited and agitated for my
welfare" Those sores are only a
few now, but the disease spreads
and It II FIRST upon the hand. then
upon the arm. and from the arm II
goes on until II lays hold OF every
nerve. artery. vein with its Shiny
coil. But the man who was con-
cerned saw the beginning OF that.
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mere II man WIN NahNH w w
a Christian. What will he do? VIII
he go ask some OF these old brew
ers? VIII he ask some OF the fell
lows OF the town. Where will he
go? To the preacher, OF course. He
Is the man 10 60 To when you want
TO be a Christian Go To n doctor
when you are sick, 20 "A blacksmith
when your horse II 20 be shod but
20 10 preacher when you want
your heart liked.
Get Too Little Religion
so Naaman goes into the muddy
water and the water begins 10 lu'
bricate those old sores and II be
gins 10 Itch. and he says, Gee
whix.' like many young fellow to
day who goes 10 church and Just
gets religion enough TO make him
miserable. Like an old fellow in
Iowa came TO me and said. 'Bill, |
have been 10 hear you every night
and you have done me lot OF good
I used 10 cuss my old woman every
day. and Amt cussed her for =
week am getting a little better
The trouble with many men in
that they have Just got enough re
ligton 20 make them miseFahle II
there is no Joy In religion. you have
got a leak In your religion Som"
haven't religion enough 10 pay their
debts. Would that might have n
hook and for every debt that YOU
LEFT unpaid might Jerk on a piece
of clothing " ! did. some OF you
fellows would not have anything or
but celluloid collar and a pair OF
socks.
liEion enough 20 have family
prayer. Some OF you people haven't
got religion enough 20 take the
beer bottles out OF your cellar and
throw them In the alley The trou-
bic with you IL that you are so
taken up with business. with poll
tics. with making money, with your
lodges. ard each and everyone Is
40 dependent on the other. that you
are scared 20 death 10 come out and
live clean cut for God Almighty.
You have not fully surrendered
yourself 10 Goc.
Tho matter with LOT OF you
people is that your religion is not
romplete You have not yielded
yourself 70 God and gone out for
God and Gods truth Why. I am
almost afraid 70 make some folks
laugh for fear that will be ar
rested for breaking costly piece
81 antique bric-a.brac You would
think that II some people laughed
II would break their faces To see
some yon would think the essen
tial OF orthodox Christianity n 10
have face so long you could eat
oatmeal on; OF the end OF gas
pipe sister. that 10 not religion. I
want 20 tell you that the happy.
smiling. sunpyfaced religion Will
win more people 70 Jesus Christ
than the miserable. old grim-faced
kind will In 10 years pity anyone
that can't laugh There must be
something wrong with their rellg.
ION or their liver The devil can't
laugh
"oh. laugh ana the worid laughs
with ypu,
Weep and You weep sione;
It's Easy enough 20 be pleasant
when lfe goes along with~a song.
Put the man worth while IL the man
who can smile
when everything goes dead wrong
Il wish 20 Cod the church were
"a afraid OF imperfection az Il Is
of perfection.
The First CRATER
"NaAman dipped himself seven
times in the Jordan. and his nesh
came again Ike unto the flesh of
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the grandstand. when ! have sub.
sidlzed my fear Of criticism. have
miserably failed.
There are lot OF fools that think
that success can only be gained by
moral placidity; by compromise on
all moral. religious. political and
ethical questions. instead OF hurting
Gods anathemas into the ranks Ut
their opponents"
copyright. william A. Sunday
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down as the saloonkeeper IN my
| opinion. So the boy who had not
| erit enough "a turn down his glass
at the banquet and refuse TO drink
is now a hlear eyed. staggering. YER
uncovered drunkard. Keeling 20
hell. He couldn't stand the sneers
or the crowd Many a fellow start
ed out TO play cards for beans. and
tonight he would stake his soul for
show down. The hole in the
gambling table Is not very big II
is about big enough 20 shove a dol.
lar through. bu, Il is big enough 10
shove your wife through: big
enough 10 shove your happiness
through: your home through: your
salary. your character. just big
enough 10 shove everything that is
dear 20 you IN this world through.
The little solid top OF the table.
TWO Kinds o. leprosy
listen 10 me. BAD as II r. TO
Ne afflicted with physical leprosy,
moral leprosy Is 10000 times worse.
don't care II you are the richest
man IN the town, the bigges. poll.
uciAn IN the congressional district
ar n the state don't care rap
n you carry the political vote. and
n you can change the vote conveu-
tion--if after your worldly career
Is closed my text would make YOU
fitting epitaph for your tomb
stone and obituary notice In the pa.
pers. then what difference would II
10. - 10
leper' He was great politi
cian-hut. He was a leper.' What
difference would Il mRke7
81 tell you. WAS never more In
terested In nv life than In reading
the story Of an old Confederate
colonel who was a stickler for mar
ttal discipline One day he had
tr'Aing case Of INSTRUMENTATION.
He ordered his men 20 halt. and he
had The offender shot They dug
the grave and Ia gave the command
70 march, and they had stopped
inst three minutes by the clock
AZ the close of the war they made
him chief OF police OF Southern
city. and he was 40 vile and corrup-
tihle that The people sroee and ord
cred his dismissal. Then a grea'
earthquake swept over the city and
the people rushed from their homes
and thousands Of people crowded
The streets and there was great ex-
element.
When Authority" Failed
Some asked. Where IL the col
ouel1' and they said. You will ind
atm IN one OF two or three places.
SO they searched and found him
IN a den OF infamy He was so
drunk that be didn't realize the
danger be was In. They led him
out, then put him on a snew-white
horse, put HIS spurs on his boots
and his reEinentals on: the mayor
pinned star on his breast and put
. cockade on his head. and said.
70 him Colonel. command you
as mayor % the city 20 quell the
+ riot You have supreme authority
He rode out among the people
20 Quell them. squirting the white
side OF The horse until the crimson
sowed out. and be rode in and out
among the surging mass OF humani-
ty
He rode ont among hte people
with command here torrents OF
obscenity there, and in % minutes
stiffness OF death reigned In CITY
Square. so greatly did they fear
him, so wonderful his power Over
men. He Their rode out: d,smount
ed took OF his cOckade, tore the
star from hts breast. and threw ~
down threw OF his regimentals.