The Washington herald., 1918-02-22
Billy Sunday in Sermon Exclusively for
Women Glori6es Motherhood as
Sublime Goal for Women, and As
serts That He Takes Roman Catholic
Point of View on Divorce Question.
EVENING SERMON
Is 1t Well with Thee?

God-I believe those children will no
more be lost than the Son Of God
will be lost.
rs 1t well with thee? Is it well
with your husband? The best man
in the world, ,'syour answer. Very well;
is 1t well with the child? 1 think its
responsibilities are equal, IL they don't
outweigh. its privileges. and when God
is in the heart OF the child, / don't
wonder that that home Is a heaven
of peace and rest.
Il have. no motive in preaching ex-
cept the interest l have in the moral
welfare OF the people. There Is not
money enough to hire me to preach.
tell you, ladies, we. have to do some-
thing more than wipe our eyes and
blow our noses and say Come to
Jesus Go out and shell the woods
and make them let you know why
they don't come to Jesus
II say It is a part Of the Gospel to
instruct. We take children and turn
them loose at school and they herd on
the campus and keep company and
there is some fellow there, loose in
his language around home, and he
sows the seed there and you want to
instruct the children right and you
can't begin it too young.
II believe the time will come when
sexual hygiene will form part OF the
high school curriculum. would rather
have my children taught sex hygiene
than Greek and Latin. A lot of the
high school curriculum Is mere fad,
think the time will come when our
girls will be taught in classes with
some graduated woman physician for
an instructor.
Women live on a higher plane
morally than men. No woman was ever
ruined that some brute of a man did
not take the initiative. Women have
kept themselves purer than men. I
believe a good woman Is the best
thing this side OF heaven and a bad
woman the worst thing this side of
hell. think they rise higher and
sink lower than men. I think she is
the most degraded on earth or the
purest on earth.
Gauge All Standards.
"JIr homes are on the level with
women. Towns are on the level with
homes. What women are our homes
will be; and what the town is, the
men will be, SO you hold the destiny
OF the nation.
Il believe there is something unfin-
ished in the makeup OF a girl with
the absence of religion. The average
girl today no longer looks forward
to motherhood as the crowning glory
Of vomanhood. She is turning her
! home into a gambling shop and a So
cial beer and champagne drinking
, joint and her society is made I'D of
poker players, champagne. wine and
beer drinkers grass widowers and
Tilted tades and slander mongers-that
comprises the society of the average
girl today. She is becoming a matt
nee-gadder and fudge-eater.
Il wish 1 could make a girl that
| fiirts see herself as others see her. l.
you make eyes at man on the street
he will pay you back. II doesn't mean
that you are pretty. 1t means that IL
you don't care any more for yourself
than that, why should he? The aver
| age man will take a girl at her per-
sonal estimate of herself.
1T takes a whole lot of nerve for a
! fellow to look girl in the face and
| say, Will you be my wife and partner,
and help me fight the battle during
| life? but I think it means a whole
lot more to the girl who has to answer
| and fight that question. But the fool
girl loafs around and waits to be
chosen and takes the first chance she
gets and seems to think that If they
are made one, the laws of man can
make them two again.
The divorce laws are damnabIe.
America is first in many things that
love, but there are many things that
are disgrace. We lead the world in
crime; lead the world in divorce-we
Of our culture.
Many a girl has found out after she
Is married that it would have been a
good deal easier to die an old maid
than to have said yes and become
the wife of some cigarette-smoking,
cussing, damnable libertine. They will
launch the matrimonial boat and put
the oars in and try it once for luck,
anyway. and so we have many women
praying for unconverted husbands.
Il preached like this in a town once
and the next day heard Of about five
engagements that were broken. I can
give you advice now, but il the knot
Is tied, the thing is done.
4 dlu a fNOIndn CdInOnc on divorce,
There are a whole lot of things worse
than living and dying an old maid and
one Of them Is marrying the wrong
man. So don't be one to do that The
trouble with the average American girl
Is she holds herself too cheap. She
Is Just scared to death of being what
the world irrelevantly calls an old
maid
Love NobIest Gift.
NOW girls, don't simhper and look
silly when you speak about love. There
is nothing silly about it, although
some folks are silly because they are
In love Love is the noblest and purest
gift Of God to man and wonanhood
Don't let your actions advertise Man
Wanted. Quick That is about the
surest way not to get a man. You
might get a thing with breeches on
but he Is no man.
Many woman is an old maid he.
cause she wanted to do her share OF
the counting. Don't get excited AND
want to hurry things along. II a man
begins to act as though he ia afte,
you, the surest way to get him is ius,
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