Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-13
ROAD To HE'LL PAVED
WITH JOY RIDES AND
DANCES. SAYS BILLY
He Advises Girls to Keep Away
From CabaretS and to Cut
Out the Street FIirtatiOnS,
BiIIy'S Sermon in Full

DIlll , OCllllOil III ! VII
Billy Sunday preached Sunday night
on The Moral Leper." taking as his
text. But the Man Was a T.eper." The
evangelist said:
I have sometimes tried TO imagine
myself in Damascus on review day, and
have seen a man riding on a horse rich
" caparisoned with trappings OF gold
and silver, and he himself clothed in
garments Of the finest fabrics and the
most costly. but with face so sad
and melancholy that Il would cause
the beholder 10 turn and look a second
and third time. And a man unaccus-
toned to such scenes might have been
heard 10 make a remark like this:
How unequally God seems to divide His
favoTsi There Is a man who rides and
others walk: he is clothed I'm costly
garments; they are almost naked. while
he is well fed. and they contrast the
difference between the man on the horse
and the others. If we only knew the
breaking hearts of the people we envy
we would pity them from the bottom OF
OUR souls.
'I was being driven through r suburb
OF Chicago by a real estate man who
ing 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.
So-and-So. He Is one of our multi
miIlisnaires and he and his wife have
been known to live i'm that house for
months and never speak to each other
They each have separate apartments
each has a separate retinue OF servants.
each a dining room and sleeping apart
ments. and months come and go by and
they never speak to one another NY
thoughts hurried back TO the little flat
in chicago that we called our home and
where we have lived for Il years. l
had paid rent enough TO pay Tor IL
There wasn't much I'm It; | could load II
in two furniture vans. maybe three
counting the piano, but ] would not trade
the happiness and the joy and the love
of that little fiat for that palatial nome
and the sorrow and the things that
went with il.
Gas YOU are driving along the street
and a man who was intimately acquaint-
Cd with the skeletons that are in every
family should tell you the secrets OF
,hay, all Of that boy who has broken
his fathers heart by being drunkard'
nep-Ieg gambler, and that girl VINO
h.s cone astray. and that wife VINO Is
q common drunkard, made so by society
and the father himself, who was also
a sinner. NV. a,.o,so
"rut he was leper." That disease
macmillan TO the orient, is eXceeolhsly
e. tbsome and as L study its PATHOLOGY
= -, nj surprised that God used 1t as
: 80 of sin. A man who is able TO
understand this disease, its beginning
md its progress might be approached
~ man who was thus afflicted ana
might saw to him. Hurry! Hurry! snow
Yourself to the priest for the cleahslns
bv the Mosaic law. why says the
nan thus addressed, what is the trou-
tl.7- The other man would say, DO
won see the spot on your handE hurry
and show yourself to the priest. buI
the man says, That is only lesIeF'
only a water blister; only pihpie'
nothing more. There is no occasion TO
- aI,r,,ed You are unduly excited and
a gitated for nv welfare Those sores
ere only a few now. but IL spreads and
n is FIRST upon the hand. then upon the
arm and from the arm il goes on uhtll
II laws hold of every nerve, artery VEN,
with its Shiny coil and continues until
-ba rotten disintegratiOn of the parts
takes Mace and they drop off, and then
II is too late. But me man who wa6
concerned saw the beginning of that not
only the end. but the beginning. lie
looked wonder and saw the END. TOO.
That is the reason why you hurry
when YOU get evidence of the disease.
So I saw to you, young man. don't you
60 with that Goddess. good-for-nothing
gang. that blaspheme and sneer at re-
Iipion. that bunch of character assas-
sins. they will make of your body
doormat to wipe their feet upon. Don't
90 with that bunch: / heard you swear.
I heard you sneer at religion; stop, or
you will become a staggering, mutterlng'
hIear-eved. foul-mouthed. down-and-out-
or. on your way to hell. ] say to you,
stop, or you will go Keeling down to
hell. breaking your wife's heart and
wrecking your children's lives. And
what have you 60 show for it? What
have you got. TO show for II?
Don't you 90, my boy: don't YOU
laugh at that smutty story with
double meaning. Don't go with that
gang. But you say to me, Mr.. Sum
day, you are unduly excited for my well
fare I know you smell liquor on my
breath, but ] never expect to become
drunkard. I never expect TO become an
Well, you are a fool. No man
ever intended TO become drunkard.
Every drunkard started out to be sim
ply a moderate drinker The fellow
that tells me he can leave it alone when
ne wants TO lies. If you can, why don't
you leave II alone? You will never let
II alone. II you could. you would. M2
boy. hear me. / have walked along the
shores Of time and have seen them
strewn with the wrecks of those who
have drifted i'm from the seas of lust
and passion, and are fit only for danger
signals 10 warn the coming race. You
can't leave II alone. or II you can, the
time will come when a. will get you.
Take il from me.
Don't go TO that dance Don't Won
know that "a IL the most damnable low
down institution on the face OF Gods
earth that IL causes more ruin than
anything this side OF hell? Don't you
go with that young man: don't you go
10 that dance"
THAT is why We have so many whip
DOorwilI widows around the country:
they married some OF these NUTS TO re-
form them. and instead OF doing that
the undertaken got them. 7 say. young
girl don't go 10 that dance: IL has prov
en- 20 ne The moral graveyard that
caused more ruination than anything
that was ever spewed out OF the mouth
Of hell Don't 20 with that young fell
low for q joyride at midnight. II
vouu. fcllo wcame up and asked nv