The Washington herald., 1918-01-17

trying to get her into the church, and
I'm afaid IL you talk on those SUBJ
jects you will offend her. She has
dances and has a ballroom in her
home and she has all these accessories
of society and" he said, "her boy died
of delirium tremens and / am sfried
IL you speak of those subjects, you
will offend her and drive her away"
My friend got up, announced his
text, flew off on a tangent and for
forty-five minutes he shelled the
woods. When he got warmed up to
his subject, this old dame begun to
fidget as though she sat on tacks.
she leaned forward and spoke to two
girls that sat in front of her, who
proved to be her daughters, tried TO
induce them to go out with her. They
would not go, they forgot their social
poise and their looks and grabbed the
seat in front of them and were drink
ing in every word my friend said.
This woman got up and went to the
door, then she came back and sat
down again bye and bye. and sat
there and gritted her teeth and she
took it. And when my friend got
through preaching. he turned to the
minister and he was whittier than the
neck tie he had on. The minister
blindly staggered to the pulpit and
| said:
A Horrifed sReverend.-
I'VE will dispense with the usual
closing hymn. Arise and receive the
benediction," and he mumbled through
it and no sooner dHd he say Amen"
| than this woman bounded out in the
aisle and headed for the front. Ny
friend saw her coming. and while he
put on his rubbers and overcoat be
heard the conversation.
The woman said to the preacher,
I"Who in heavens name Is that young
man and where did you ever find
him?"
oh" said the minister, Sister, /
would have given one hundred dollars
il he had not been here tonight 1
was chagrinned from the time he
1 hope you are not offended, those
are simply his views
Listen! Her black eyes blazed and
the tears rolled down her cheeks
like rivers of water. She said:
81 don't know who he is, I don't
know where he has come from. but
his views are the right views and
if my poor boy had heard preaching
like that, he would not be sleeping
under the snow out in the ceme-
terry. I think you ought to talk to
us like that and tell us what we
fought to do and how we ought to
| live"
We admire whoever tells US the
truth and tries to help US live for
Christ. The hour has come for
plainness OF speech, the hour has
come to believe in revivals. Some
people don't; some preachers don't
neither does the devil, SO they are
like their daddy. Put me down in
favor of everything the devils
against, put me down against
Everything the DEVILS in favor of.
Put me down against everything
the devil gets most OF his recruits
out of, put me down against it with
every brain cell, molecule, artery.
joint, marrow, cuticle and corpus
Gle! No, sir! o, know there are
some stiff-necked, twentieth-cen-
tury. theological, homiletical, high
browed, exegetical. bell wethers
for the devil, hypocrites that don't
believe in a revival. They say, 20,
well. We don't approve of your
methods"
Unapproved Methods.
| Old Nebuchadnezzar did not ap-
prove of the methods of the three
Jews that would not bow down and
worship the idols of gold until he
threw them into the furnace heated
seven times over.
He didn't approve because he
could not dictate to Shadrach and
Meshach and Abednego.
| o, the political grafters. they did
not approve of Daniels methods
that kept their hands out of the
public crib and kept them from
filching from the public treasury,
for that brave, God-fearing, loyal
Jew stood firm and as immovable
as Gibraltar. o, the traitrous.
ltreacherous. Absalom didn't approve
of the way his father David was
running the kingdom and so he
framed It up to kill his father and
Iput the crown on his own head
and sit down on the throne.
o, the Pharisees, didn't approve
of the methods of Jesus Christ
when he drove the soalpel of Gods
eternal truth into their rotten
sinking. purifying abcesses. that
bored their way to their. yitals, and
they nailed him on the cross and
they spit in hfs face-yes, spit ir
his face as they walked down the
street. - ','-N' - ',' -"
But God Almighty raised him from
the dead. put him at the right hand
Of God, the Father.
Oh! the ecclesiastical crooks did not
agree with Savonarola and Martin
Luther and they fncinerated savon'
arola to ashes They'd have put Il
over on Martin Luther II they could
They didn't agree with himi Oh! yor
don't agree. The drunkards that have
been made sober from the atlantic u
the Pacific they agree and the wivei
who are happy now, they agree. Th'
little children who have plenty to ea
and plenty to wear, they agree.
Some time ago when Daddy cams
home,
Us kids would run and hide,
For he was full of dirty booze
IArH hn uras had fnsidsL