The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-06

tail that is here in Pensacola right
now. These little two by four brain
ed busy body reforms that hold their
secret conferences and stand on street
corners whispering together amuse
me. They are such kids. Why don't
they come out above board and take
up reform for their life work and not
be like some fool women who take
up every thing that comes along for
a fad and then drop it the moment
it has passed the zenith of popularity.
Shocked at Preaching on immortality
A lot of men and women will
cackle at a lewd joke, or crowd The
box office of a movie that is adver-
tised as being shady, will frame
dirty pictures, and talk dirty talk,
and yet when some preacher stand
ing up for the right of God dares to
hint at immortality, stick their fingers
in their ears and wall like a rusty
beer sign swinging in a hurricane.
And their criticisms of the preacher
sounds like the voice of many thun-
ders. Some of these people need
shocking. That is the only way to
wake up a sleeping man or woman.
What God directs for you to hear
from a pulpit will never hurt you, or
contaminate you. That will do you
good. The trouble is that the preach
ers have preached too much on heav-
emily bliss and love and theology and
not enough upon sin. Sin, hell and
the devil are three neglected topics
in the modern pulpit.
Segregation.
I have been asked many times if
| am in favor of segregation |
want to here make my unqualified
reply: 81 am" But wait a minute
| am in favor of segregating the men
and not the women. | can trust an
| immoral woman farther than l can
an immoral man, And our districts
should include every man of immoral
character. And in this district l
would do still further segregation.
would build good big pest house and
put in it every man that had a
venereal disease and place around the
whole thing a squad of soldiers with
machine guns to NOW down any man
that left the district to go out and
mingle in decent society. If we did
that, we would have to wait for the
next generation to give US a full crop
of men to carry on our businesses.
! Segregate them, yes. But who ever
invented the idea of segregating the
victims and turning loose the vul-
lures, did the devil a good days
work. Pen up or drive out the dirty
old filthy libertine and take unto our
hearts the bruised flower of woman
hood that has been his pawn! Segre--
gate the dog, not the bit child! What
fools we mortals be!
The fate of the church and the ma
ton and all society is bound up in
the preservation of the family anC
its purity. Destroy this, weaken il
with divorce, blight it with vice, and
another nation falls pell NELL into de-
struction. Righteousness cxalteth q
nation but sin is a reproach to any
people. We have got to rid our ma
ton of sin then, and not simply scat
ter it, and make spasmodic attempts
at newspaper reform, Lets be clear
men and clean women, fearing God
and faithful unto Jesus Christ as our
personal Saviour, then the great
problem of purity will dispel as the
mist before the rising sun The home
will be assured of permanency, the ma
ton of continued life and activity
and civilization will reflect the glory
of as we'll as honor God the Father
and His Son, Jesus Christ the Prince
of Purity