Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-06

out in Iowa. fellow sitting right be-
hind him reached over and touched him
on the shoulder and said,
Say. pard. do you believe in a wom-
ans love?"
My friend said, Yes"
We'll, l used to but 1 changed my
mind about all of them but one" and
he put his hand in his pocket, pulled
out a piece of paper unrolled ia pho
lograp h--and leaning over he showed it
in front of my friend and he said,
That's my mother"
He said, 81 was married. The tongues
of gossip started; they told my wife l
was false-it was all a lie. She be-
lieved them, got a divorce, married.
Home broken up" but he said. THAT
woman's mother She would follow me
across the country and If I were con-
demned she would have the rope put
around her neck or sit down in the cleo
trio chair, and die for me, sir
THE LITTLE BOY WHO
DIED OUT IN IOWA.
oh, the principle of love is what is
going to move the world! We don't
miss them until they are gone-many
of them. Like friend of mine out in
iowa-he was a very rich farmer and
his little boy-he didn't pray. didn't
think anything about God--and his lit
tie boy was very sick. He called his
father to the bedside one time and said,
I PA, If 1 de, please don't let 'em bury
me in the graveyard over on the hill.
The weeds are so high and the owls
are over there and I'm, afraid. Pa, II
1 die. bury me down in the pasture I'M
der the big elm tree. You do come
down there sometimes to see the hogs
and cattle"
And Jim, the little fellow, died and
they didn't bury him in the graveyard
up on the hill where the weeds grew 81
high and the boot owls lived. They
buried him under the spreading elm
in the pasture. They put a little pick
ct fence about II.
Jim led me down one day Leaning
over the fence he rained tears down
upon the violets and the darfodils, and
he said,
"rd give all the farm" (and he
owned thousands of acres in the black
corn belt of Iowa)-he said, BILL, I'd
give it all If 1 could only bring him
back and let him hear me pray"
You don't miss them until they are
gone. There are fifteen million young
men in this country between the ages
of sixteen and thirty-five. Fourteen
million of them are not members of any
church. Seven million of them attend
occasionally. Nine million never dark
en- a church door. Church memberships
increased one and one-half per cent last
year. The population. increased three
per cent. Crime increased nineteen per
cent and seventy per cent of our GRIM
inals are young men under twenty-one
years of age.
why call we me Lord, Lord, and do
not the things 1 say?-" in your home
and in your family life and in society?
| Walt a minute! 1 have no quarrel
with society-only against the sinful
usages of society. 1 believe in society
with both hands up, but 1 believe the
most God-forsaken. good-for-nothing,
useless woman on earth is an American
society woman whose life is frappes
and there Is nothing, my friends, to hef
but a frame upon which to hang fash
ionable clothes, and a digestive appa-
ratus to digest highly seasoned foods.
There is a great tendency to classify
social standings according to dollars,
nowadays. A lot of people are more
anxious to get their names on the social
lists than they would be to get them
on Bradstreets or r. G.. Dunn, or
! heaven.
Oh, genius and talent are choked by
the insane desire to mould ourselves
according to the social demands until
we become Infamous nonentities in the
world And If you only knew the inner
life of many of the weather. class
you'd know how unhappy. and dissatis-
fled these social butterflies are with
their life and with the emptiness of it
all and the way they live.
GOSPEL WILL ABOLISH
THE SINS OF SOCIETY
believe in parties Jesus Christ
didn't say, when you have a party
simply invite in your friends" No! He
said, go get the poor, the manned, the
halt, the blind, the lame; they can't re-
turn the compliment, so there'd be no
recompense." You apply the gospel and
it will abolish the sins of society; it
will drive them out. We've got today
the severest retribution against the inn
purity that turks in the alley and in
! the cellar and in the fan TAM the opium
joints and the coke joints, my friends,
and all that--the stale beer joints-and
we cry against 1t; we hurl the indig-
nation of the law against it but we
become lenient as impurity arises in af-
fluence, high social standing. and fin
ally we are disposed to palliate If not
apologize for their cussedness.
Hays of uncleanress today, they
walk our streets, they ride in their
imousines, sail in their private yachts,
hey look from behind French plate
glass and hide beneath rich tapestries,
hey walk over Persian rugs, sit be-
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wealth and they quaff their wine from
gold or silver tankard and they eat
rom Haviland or hand-painted china.
And society today is fast Fastening
to the judgment that overlook Pompeii,
Herculaneum, and Sodom and Gomor-
ran when God Almighty made old
Mount Vesuvius vomit and puke in a
hemorrhage of lava until he buried
Pompeii fifty feet deep beneath the red
hot cinders and ashes where their vile
ness was sculptured on the walls and
on the pillars of their temples
l don't know, people of I don't
know how God Almighty will purify,
whether he will start with a fire or
with a flood or with a famine or with
a pestilence or with a war, but he will
10 something. You can't defy God all
your days and lift your puny, inf
Intestinal, mediocre, pigmy selves up in
defiance of the omnipotent and omni-
present God. No! No!
BILLY PICTURES HIGH
AND LOWEST SINNERS.
Come with me. Here Is a bunch Of
blear-eyed, bloated-faced, ragged, filthy,
vermin-covered old loafers in a stale
beer-joint or fan tan dive, with bugs