Arizona republican., 1917-01-15

Continued rom Page one) look over the footlights at a Inrid melodrama or at something that Is vile and lewd. I admit that the worll has misiudged us in a lot of thinss but we must stop. take in- ventoty of ourselves. and see if some of the charges are true We are lax in our living. We are lax in our devotions
 "I would rather breach to a ceme- , ;ery than to some churches l have ' been in. I could preach an day in a cemetery. and nobody would kick. ! You say that l should preach tc peo- ! ple whC kick. for the kicking shows there is still life. and that where there Is life there Is hope. but when . g man kicks, you can look for the ' long ears. there is mulishness some where, and il mule. when it kicks. | wants tO go backward.
 | our churches have become hos E 1 pitals rather than tarrackS We | cannot raise our voices to rebuke 7 sin. We cannot c-v out against the l internal enemy which is making in- roads or our homes and lands. Are We rrproving sin today Co tO the : churches. and you will find that few | Of them reprpve sin. You think what is going on Tn Europe but the sir Questicn-how about that? h. stead of rehuking sin. we apologize 7 for sin We talk about poor heritages | and poor environments. We are ! huggng nursing, encouaeinc sin instead of saying that sin ls tho ! poison which poliutes, hlotchcs and [ damns everything
 The reason the world is going to the devil Is because the church is ! going to the devil The reason the world doesn't join the church is be- cause the church has joined the world. We have reached the stage where we apologlze for sinful life
 We have made sin a kind of brag- gar:. Every church must fight sin fair and square if i, Is to win for 1 God. We have gone to sleep on tho entrance after shaking hands with the fellow in the vestibule If tho church of Jesus Christ stands fau and square ngainst sin, then We will
 sec the downfall of our dancc halls card games and opera houses. which damn the souls of our toYs ana girls, However. We graft and cover | sin. we make sin fashionable N,
 make it hold. we make it aggressive
 The devil has turned the biggest ar
 tillery In hell on America.
 "I didn't come here to preach to
 you about Gods love [ will have
 something to say about love. but first want to use the surgeons knife which must find it's way t' the ulcerating, fostering sore to hf
 cut out. The trouble with some ol
 our ministers is that they nreaci
 religion as if It Is fiction. while tho actor breaches fiction as if 1t is real What effect it has on trc pewsI N
 wonder they arc cold, fornuai. dead
 Some of our churches would rather 2 child went to hell before it broi. it's Conservative fornality. . Did yo,
 ever get hold of cold society hand.
 shake2 She holds her hand above
 her head and lets you wait a littl, bit I always think Of holding |
 snakes tail.
 AS Elijah said to Ahab and his
 gang. as David said to Goliath, as Jesus Christ said to the hyDocritica
 professor in the ternnie. so I say ts
 vou--we come 10 fight the evils tha'
 have devastated your city too long
 and we fling out the gauntlet to tn
 whole infidel bunch gcrapplng fol
 personal III erty. who wo1ld rob tn,
 home of it's sacredness. I say. you
 foul robber infidel bunch. with vou,
 society clrhs and your tridge whis
 affairs. anG your social dances, como
 on--come on. vou foul imps of i'm
 purity who would wreck 6 girls If,
 for one hour of unhridled lust--comt
 on, say, you gang of gambler.
 under overcome on, I say, vol
 miserable gang of damnation wht i sell poison that destroys the mind
 debauches the body and rots the soul. To- the American saloon N'
 shall issue n death blow in q short time. and we defy you tonIeht oul
 God is absolute. We believe tn,
 fight Will be terrific. hut tho victors will he plnriniso