The Washington herald., 1918-02-11
Billy Tells Big Tabernacle Audience We Need
Hands that Are Willing, Souls that Are
Pure, Lives that Are Clean and Inspiring,
With Lofty and Enduring Ambitions.
EVENING SERMON

IOllONlnB seEHlOns
Tonight in the First Book Of Sam
uel the 10th chapter and the I'd
verse: Behold. he hath hid himself
among the stuff
It's with a great deal of reluctance
that I speak tonight about how
man fails. I would rather talk to
you on some signal life success. But
sometimes the study OF failure Is
more fruitful than the study of con-
quest.
So, I am speaking to you tonight
with the hope that where Saul went
wrong, you may go Alright. Where
he struck out. you may put the ball
over the FENCE.
Can't Excuse Big Men.
It arouses ones Just scorn and con-
tempt to see a big man, born to and
capable Of big, noble. inspiring things,
stooping to do mean, contemplate
scurriIOus, little things. Oh, there are
things that we can excuse in q little
man that are, an objectionable sin for
a big man. We can forgive Zaccheus
for climbing the tree. but We can't
forgive Saul for crawling into the hole
and pulling the camp luggase in after
him
the stuff
Here's a young scion Of respectable
ity. staggering along the street with
his boisterOus mates blowing whiffs
OF foul cigarette smoke into the faces
Of decency. Somewhere there is a
mothers heart breaking, somewhere
there's a fathers hair whitening with
grief over a wayWard son, but he
has had a taste of helrs poison and
his blood is tinsling with the virus
OF damnatiOn with which he has be-
. come inOculated. down in the cesspools
of vice.
There goes a fallen angel. She was
once the pure, beloved idol of a happy
home. but out Of her eyes have van
ished that gentle modesty which was
once her sweetest and most attrac-
tive charm, and in its place has come
that bold intensity and the glitterinS
glare which resembles the deadly
gleam in the eyes Of a sinuOus snake
as It coils itself to strike its fangs
and inject its venom. beneath whose
blight virtue will become a corpse and
die
She loved too well and not wisely.
And cIinE.ns hands couldn't stop her
H. h.r md, determined flight down
She has thrown away all that is dear
To T. cm-u-Purity and ambition-and
the vo ID only knows her as one to
shUn l..-c YOU would a pestilence.
Nouid Spare Parents
Ecs c.l%T.ty pulls its garments
ID. gf folds t'om tightly about its
on trr.l 1t she passes by. They are
G-F L.. . vii become inOCulated
WI a- s.rus That cortaminatcs her.
. s-r Ans In- Gaudy raimeHt and Sc
da--t.n -it.-rs trap none but the de-
. i~ 8 auI dcprryed.
NJ bore and prayer is that some
fathe-= and mothers may never live
long c-0-gh to see the black head
i.-@T in tire newspapers which will
tel o. the shame and the wrcCkage
Of their children whose bodies they
have nlrTished but whose souls they
staTve because they never darkened
a ChG-ch door nor tried to help others
do it.
Nov. what Is needed in this world.
I ln!uE. iglEE. is not more money
hut more love. Not more money but
more devotion, more kindness, more
s..-ies. more honor, more virtue, more
I.J.., - ned hearts that are loyal.
We need lips that are cautious. We
Ned hands that are willing. We need
souls trat are pure. We need lives
that are clean. ambitions that are
lofty and enduring
On. all the gold I'm t.. world can
not buy a smile Of lOsr us wipe away
stain Of sin. IL every raindrop on
earth Uas a diamond and II every
sand on the seasEore was a pearl and
IL these all belonged to you, they
could not purcna se purity of heart, or
peace OF mind.
Wants Courageous Men.
And we want young men who will
be COURAGEOUS, who will be chivalrouS
who will be manly, who will be
thoughtful, who can say: NO" 50
loud they will stagger hell, when
tempted to do wrong. Yes" so loud
that the ANGELS will lean over the bat
Elements and cheer them, when they
are asked to stand pat for Jesus Christ
and virtue and truth; who respect
womanhoOd and hate vice in any form;
who love a fixed purpose and who
will not do mean, contemplate thing
who think more Of their mother than
they do OF their money; who think
more Of their fathers than Of folly;
who think more Of their sisters than
they do OF themselves: who will think
more Of heaven than they do of hell;
who love TO work, more than they
love wine: who love character more
than they love cigarettes; who love the
Bible more than they love billiards;
who love virtue more than they love
vice Oh. don't hide, let me help you
Zig out.
And we want girls who will form
Lee
world and who are willing to accept
and follow the advice Of a good
mother or friend; who think more
VI decency than they do of dress;
who think more of gentleness than
hey do Of Erossncss; who think more
Df hrmness than they do of folly;
Who think more OF cradles than they
10 Of cards; who will grow up to be
good women. loyal wives and fond
mothers in this world; who do not
iespise the kitchen; who can wash
- fishes just as well as they can play
he piano; who can make bread as
we'll as they can make fudge, we
want girls like that in the world.
OId-fashIoned Mothers.
Behold. he hath hid himself among
he STUFF
And the world wants mothers who
now where their sons and daughters
re OF nights; who prefer the simple
lfe TO social distinction: who have
nore love for babies than they have
or a ballroom; and who can make
heir homes a heaven of peace> for
. hose that they love; where the demon
4 distrust and jealousy and hate never
Eriggles its Shiny carcass across the
ntels Of the door. No. No! Don't