The Washington herald., 1918-02-04

! to her waist and the vilest profanity
and obscenity that I ever heard.
have heard men curse and damn bu,
l think when those girls were bias
pheming and sneering, all the devil
in the pit of hell stopped their ears
and cried, Enough! Enough!
Enough"
said. There 1t is, Sin! Sin" You
! can't argue against sin. It's in the
world. you can't get away from It.
Hello"
Good morning. SIR"
How do you do?''
What is your name? / am glad
to meet you"
A letter to the Y. NJ. g. A. secretary
or Chicago: This will introduce
James O'Toole who is coming to Amer
lea and Chicago to win fame and
fortune. Wed be glad II you could
give him a little protection and ad-
vice in strange country and city"
and signed by the secretary Of the Y.
NJ. c. A. in Belfast, Ireland.
/ said. Jim. my name is Bill"
He said. Have you got any good
boarding house?''
l said, Yes" So gave him the
anu Sdlus JIM, let me
know which one you select"
Took n Bath.
So he notified me he had selected
one on LaSaIle street on the North
side. l was sending out a letter in
viting the homeless young men to
come to our annual banquet Jim
Rad received my letter and had gone
with some men to oathe in Lake
Michigan. and in diving from the pier
his head struck the bottom Of the
lake and he broke his neck. They
dragged his body onto the shore and
summoned the police and the police
found my letter and they notified me
to go to the Cook County Inorgue and
claim his body. So 1 hurried to the
Western Union, sent a cablegram to
his mother in Belfast. jumped on the
street car and hurried to the morgue.
l put a claim in for his body. They
said. I'VE will keep the body for two
months and If that isn't enough just
let me know and we will stretch II
for another month"
was getting ready to turn away.
thinking of that broken-hearted
mother across the seas, when up
dashed the patrol and took out a
body of woman. Her hair was like
a ravens wing. large. lustrous.
brown eyes. her lips, looked like
coral and her teeth like lodges of
pearl and snow-drifts of the Arctic.
her symmetry of form was attrac-
tive. 1 looked at her fingers and
they were long and the finger nails
were manicured. looked at her
fingers and they were covered with
jewels. I looked at her garment
and 1t was the finest of texture and
1 looked and I staggered back as
1 recognized the mute evidence of
Illicit affection. Going to be the
mother of an illegitimate child, she
had ended it and they had fished
her body out Of the river
As Hesaw Her.
As I stood and looked upon her
as they laid her on the marble slab
and the water, dripped. dripped,
dripped into her face, oh! it seemed
to me from every broken home,
from every blighted life, from
every, haunt of sin, from every
wrecked virtue, from every stale
beer Joint. from every prison cell,
from every death house, from every
home of squalor and of want, from
all of the scourges of humanity
cursed by sin there arose up to
heaven one endless protest, How
long?" o God, how long shall hell
curse and crush and trample hu-
manity and damn the lives of men?
Oh, you old reprobate, you can't
argue against sin. You can argue
against the Bible, you can argue
against Jesus Christ and against
heaven, but you can't argue against
sin. 1t is In the world and the only
power that will set you free from
its curse is faith in Jesus Christ,
that's your only hope.
You can take this black humanity,
cursed and damned by sin. faith in
Jesus Christ will make It as white as
snow. So the only power to cleanse
is through faith In Jesus. You who
reject Jesus, what are your building
your hope on? 1t will go down. He
that despised Moses law died without
mercy. What are you going to do If
you despise the blood Of Christ?
Tonight Jesus Christ stands between
God Almighty and the human race
our mediator. With one hand he holds
the sword of infiexible justice in the
scabbard. He has held It there for
nineteen hundred and seventeen years.
With the other He offers gifts Of sal
walton. full, free, perfect and eternal
to all who will accept OF His sacrifice
and the sword. At last He will with
draw that offer, when I don't know,
but folks. 1t Is still being held out
and in the name of Christianity
do 1t.
Some day He will withdraw that
offer Of mercy, He will unsheath the
sword. He will make His way to this
world, God pity you IL you are not
under the blood and there is no other
way whereby we can be saved. We
are not redeemed with corruptible
things such as silver and gold, but
by the precious blood of Jesus Christ,
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