The Washington herald., 1918-01-28

thy youth, and let thy heart cheer
thee In the days of thy youth, and
walk In the ways of thine heart,
and In the sight of thine eyes, but
know thou. that for all these things
God VIII bring thee into Judgment
EeelesIastes II; ..
@Be not deceived; God Is not
moeked, for whatever n man soweth
that shall he also reap.--Gala-
lions s. :.
In other words. do just as you
please: lie if you want to. steal IL
YOU want to; God won't stop you.
but he will hold you responsible in
the end. Do. just as you please un=
til the end comes. and then you
are all in.
No one is living in ignorance of
what will become of him il he does
not go right and trot square. He
knows there is a heaven for the
saved and a hell for the damned,
and that's all there is to it.
Many men start out on a life OF
pleasures. Tlease remember two
things: First. pleasures soon have
an end. and second, there is a day
of judgment coming and you'll get
what's coming to you. God gives
every man a square deal.
II a man stood up and told me he
was going to preach on the things
/ am this afternoon, I'd want him
10 answer me several questions. and
II he could do that I'd tell him to
go ahead
First-Are you kindly disposed
toward me?
second-Are you doing this to
help me?
Third-Do you know what you
are taxing about?
Fourth-Do you practice what
you preach?
fair Well for the first.
God knows 1 am kindly disposed
toward, you. Second. God knows
would do anything in my power to
help you to be a better man. 1
want to make it easier for you to
be square; and harder for you to go
to hell Third, 1 know what 1 am
talking about, for 1 have the Bible
to back me up in parts and the
statements of eminent physicians in
other parts.
No One Can show Anything Against
Him.
And fourth. DO I practice what
preach%' / will defy and challenge
any man or woman on earth. and
I'll look any man in the eye and
ehallenRe him. in the twenty-seven
years I have been a protesting
Christian, to show anything against
me.
III don't live what preach, gen
tlemen, I1I leave the pulpit and
never walk back here again. 4 live
as I preach and I defy the dirty
dogs who have insuIted me and my
s wife and spread bIaek-hearted lies
and yiIIifeatIOns.
i was born and bred on a farm
and at the age of IL 1 held my place
with men in the harvest field. When
I was only years old 1 milked ten
cows every morning.
1 know what hard knocks are. ]
have seen the seamy side of life. 1
have erlwled out of the squalor and
want. I'have struggled ever since
was 6 years old, an orphan son of
a dead soldier, up to the pulpit
this afternoon.
1 know what it is to go to bed
with an honest dollar in my over
alls pocket. when the Goddess of
the eagle on the other side became
a nightingale and they'd sing a
poor. homeless orphan boy to sleep.
Pm not here to explode hot air and
theories to you.
Some men here in town, If their
wives asked them if they were COM
ing down here would say: "Oh no,
i don't want to go anywhere can't
take you. dear"
The dirty old dogs; they've been
many a place they wouldn't take
their wife and they wouldn't even
let her know they were there.
II sin weren't SO deeeItful 1t would
not be SO attractive. The effects get
stronger while you get weaker and
weaker all the time and there In
less chance of breaking away.
Many think a Christian has to be
a sort of dishrag proposition. a
wishy-washy. sissified sort of a ga
loot that let's everybody make a
doormat out Of him. Let me tell
you the manifest man is the man
who will acknowledge Jesus Christ.
Before I was converted 1 could
go five rounds so fast that you
!. couldn't see me for the dust, and
I'm still pretty handy with my
dukes and I can still deliver the
goods with all express charges pre-
paid
Before, was converted I could
run 100 yards in ten seconds, and
circle the bases in fourteen sec
onds. and I could run just as fast
after 1 was converted. So you don't
have to be a dishrag proposition
after all.
1 remember when I was secretary
OF the Y. VI. c. A. in Chicago had
the saloon route. I had to go
men to come to the Y. NJ. C. A
services.
And one day 1 was told to count
the men going into a certain sa-
loon Not the ones already in but
Just those going in. In 81 minutes
could count just 1,004 men going
IN there.
story of q Friend whs Became q
DFunkard.
went in then and met q fellow
who used to be my sidekicker out
IN Iowa. and he threw down a mint
5ulep while stood there, and I
asked him what he was doing.
30 Just came down to the thea
ter" he said. "and came over for a
drink between acts"
why, you are three sheets In the
wind now" I said. and then an old
drunken bum. with q little thread
bare coat. q straw hat, no vest,
pants torn, toes sticking out
through his torn shoes, and several
L.,Feeks' growth OF beard on his face,
kne in and said to the bartender:
For Gods sake, can't you. give
an old bum drink of whisky to
warm up on?"
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