The Washington herald., 1918-01-07

ws have one Of the most prolific
vf4tar. the world has ever known
who. after 50 years OF age discharged
that mountain OF debt that was hover
inx over him Ike clouds Of adamant
They say Of Lord Byron that his
mother was beautiful. naughty. intol- !
srsbly proud. and in Lord Byron We
have the very essence Of those char-
acteristics.
They say Of Napoleon that his
= mother was cold, self-centered, SELF
cornplaeent. and in Napoleon we have
the fnest exhibition Of those charac-
tsristics that the world has ever
known
Oh. what a crown awaits for the
mother OF the wesleysl I'd rather
be old Susanna Wesley, with Jonn
and Charles and that brood Of kids
than 10 have been Queen Victoria
with her Prince Of wales and the
crowned heads. I would!
IN. wife's Mother.
A friend Of mine riding on train
out IN Iowa-a fellow sitting right be-
hind him reached over and touched
him on the shoulder and said:
''say, pard, do you believe In wom-
ans love7"
Nv friend said. yes"
well, used to, but / changed my
rnind about all Of them but one" and
he put his hand IN his pocket. gull
ed out a piece Of paper. unroleo II
a photograph-and leaning over ne
showed Il in front Of my friend ana
he said. That's my mother
He said sI was married. Tne
,on1uea Of zossip started: they told
n,v wife was false-it was all ne.
she Believed them. got a divorce, mar
RED Home broken up" but ne salo,
ssThat wounan's mother. She Wouio
folIovU ma across the country ana IL
were condemned she would have the
rone nut around her neck or sit down /
in the electric chair. and die Tor me-
SIR"
In going to move the world! we
don't miss them until they are gone
many of them Like friend OF
mine out in Iowa-he was very
rich farmer and his little ooy.he
didn't pray, didn't think anything
ahout eIod-and his little boy was
very sick. He called his fatner 10
tba bedside one time and said:
"Pa- IL die, please don't let 'em
hurv me in the graveyard over on
The hiU. The weeds are so high and
the owls are over there and I'm
afraid. Pa, II 1 die, bury me down
in the pasture under the Dig elm !
tres- You do come down there
sometimes to see the hogs and cat
tie"
aI.et Him Hear Me Pray"
And Jim, the little fellow. died
and they didn't bury him in the
graveyard up on the hill where the
weeds grew SO high and the moot
owls lived. They buried him under
the spreading elm in the pasture.
They put a little picket renee
about IL.
Jim led me down one day. Lean |
ing over the fence he rained tears
down upon the violets and the daf-
fodils, and he said:
aPd give all the farm (and he
owned thousands of acres in the
black corn belt Of Iowa), he SAID
"BfI. I'd give it all il 1 could only
bring him back and let him hear
me pray"
You don't miss them until they
are gone. There are fifteen million
young men in this country between
the ages Of 16 and IS. Fourteen
million of them are not members
of any church. Seven million OF
them attend occasionally. Nine mil
lion never darken a church door.
Church memberships increased Ia
per cent last year. The population
Increased 9 per cent. Crime in
creased l9 per cent, and 20 per cent
Of our criminals are young men uh-
der 81 years Of age.
why call ye me Lord, Lord, and
do not the things I say?-" in your
home and in your family life and In
society? Il
Wait a minute! I have no quarrel
with society-only against the sinful |
usages of society. 1 believe In So
ciety with both hands up but I be- |
Heye the most God-forsaken, good /
for-nothing, useless woman on earth ,
ia an American society woman whose |
life Is frappe. and there Is nothing |
my friends, to her but frame upon !
witch to hang fashionable clothes. |
and a digestive apparatus to digest /
highly seasoned foods.
Dollar. and Standards.
There Is a great tendency to clas- |
sify social standings according TO dol
lars. nowadays. A lot Of people are
more anxious to get their names ON
the social lists than they would be
to get them on Bradstreets or R G. |
Dun, or heaven.
Oh, genius and talent are choked 1
by the insane desire to mould our
selves according to the social de-
lnands until we become Infamous non
entities in the world! And II you
only knew the inner life Of many Of /
the wealthier class you'd know how
unhappy and dissatisfied these So
cial butterflies are with their life
and with the emptiness of it all and
the way they live.
believe in parties. Jesus Christ
didn't say. when you have a party
simply invite in your friends" No;
He said. 60 get the poor. the rnaim-
ed. the halt. the blind. the lame; they
can't return the compliment, so
there'd be no recompense." You ap-
ply the gospel and it will abolish
the sins Of society; IL will drive them
out. We've got today the severest
retribution against the impurity that
turks in the alley and IN the cellar
and in the fan tan, the opium joints.
Aand the coke joints. my friends. and
all that-the stale beer joints-and l.
we cry against It; we hurl the in
Idignation Of the law against II, but
We become lenient as impurity arises
In affluence, high social standing, and
finally we are disposed to palliate
II not apologize for their cussedness.
Hags Of uncleanness today. they
walk our streets, they ride in their
limousines. sail In their private
yachts. they look from behind French
plate-glass and hide behind rich tap
estries, they walk over Persian rugs,
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