Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-13

ering them.
Some men ought to be hurled out
of society: they ought to be kicked out
Of churches. and out of politics, and
every other place where decent men live
or associate. And | want TO lift the
burden tonight from the heads Of the
unoffending womanhood and hurl 1t or
the heads of offending manhood. So
cety needs new division Of anathe-
mas You hurl the burden on the head
of the girl. and the dOuble-dyed. licen-
tious scoundrel that caused her ruin is
received i'm society with open arms
while the girl is left to hang her head
and spend her life in shame.
Here is A man who wants to he a
Christian What will he do? Will he
go ask some of these old brewers? VIII
he ask some of the fellows of the town:
Where will he go? To the preacher. OF
course. He is the man to go 70 when
Won want to be a Christian. Go to a
doctor when you are sick. to a black
smith when your horse is to be shod
but 60 to a preacher when YOU want
your heart fixed.
$50 Naamau goes into the muddy Wa
for and the water begins to lubricate
those old sores and it begins to itch
and he says. Gee Whiz,' like many a
Young fellow today who goes to church
and Just gets religion enough 10 make
hin, miserable Like an old fellow in
iowa came to me and said. Bill have
been to. hear you every night and YOU
have done me a lot of good. used to
cuss my old woman every day, and
amt cussed her for a week L am get
ting a little better.
THE trouble with many men is that
they have just got enough religion 10
make them miserable. If there is nc
JOY in religion, you have got leak an
your religion. SomS haven't religion
enough to pay their debts. Would that
I might have q hook and for every debt
that you left unpaid 1 might jerk off a
piece of clothing. If I did. some of you
fellows would not have anything on but
a celluloid collar and a pair of socks.
"Some of you have not got religion
enough to have a family prayer. Some
of you people haven't got religion
enough to take the beer bottles out OF
your cellar and throw them in the al
ley. The trouble with won is that you
are so taken up with business, with poll
tics. with making money, with your
lodges, and each and every one is so
dependent on the other. that you are
scared to death to come out and live
clean cut for God Almighty. You have
not fully surrendered yourself to God.
"The mater with a lot of you people
is that your religion is not complete.
You have not yielded yourself to God
and gone out for God and Gods truth.
Why. ] am almost afraid to make some
folks laugh for fear that l will be ar
rested for breaking a costly piece of an
tique bric-a-brac. You would think that
if some people laughed it would break
their faces. To see some you would
think the essential of orthodox Chris
tianity is to have a face so long you
could eat oatmeal out of the end of a
gaspipe. Sister, that is not religion; [
want to tell you that the happy, smil-
ing. sunny-faced religion will win more
people to Jesus Christ than the miser-
able, old grim-faced kind will in ten
years. I pity any one that can't laugh.
There must be something wrong with
their religion or their liver. The devil
can't laugh
"Oh, laugh and the world laughs with
you.
Weep and you weep alone;
IT'S easy enough to be pleasant }
When life goes along with a song,
But the man worth while is the man
who can smile
When everything goes dead wrong"
II wish to God the church we're as
afraid of imperfection as it is of per-
lection.
"Naaman dipped himself seven times
in the Jordan, and his flesh came again