Evening star., 1918-01-25


Every brewer and every dtstiller and
his gang. and the politicians who are
holding Offices because Of the vote Of
that dirty. sinking bunch. will all jump
on your back.
you assault anything that is cursing
this old world, and they willsbe after
you.
illustrates by Comparisons.
CDR Jenner said that SO people out
Of 100 used to die from smallpox. I'd
rather have smallpox than typhoid
fever or pneumonia. You give small
pox another name and it won't bother
people He reduced the mortality. so
that only out of 100 die today. Yet
they expelled him from society. Who
was right? Public opinion that con-
demned him or DR.. Jenner?
Bacon could look down and see laws
that would take the place of laws that
were then operating. He had to spend
ten years In prison. Who was right?
Bacon was right
"Galileo said. The world moves" On
his knees he was compelled to retract
his statement. and. as he arose, he said,
1T moves. notwithstanding it Who
was right-Galileo or public opinion
that condemned him?
christopher Columbus said, L can
sail west and get east
They said. You are nuts: you are
dippy.' and if Ferdinand and Isabella
hadn't hooked their jewels to get money
enough to send him. it probab
was right-old Columbus or public
opinion that condemned him?
Some people set great store by their
morality. their culture and their re-
fnement. Well. if you only knew how
don't bring you salvation.
Somebody asks. Can we tell? Surely
we can. Yes sir. 1 am going to take the
ten ten commandments. the moral law. as
lieve that God Almighty wrote the ten
ommandments on tablets of stone and
handed the stones to Moses. ! don't be-
neve that Moses wrote them, l believe that
God wrote them and gave them to Moses
Ten Commandments as Model.
There Is no good citizenship where the
ten commandments are not kept: no safe
political movements, no social reforms
that are abiding that are not modelled on
the ten commandments. l take nv stand
on the ten commandments and when this
old world is burned up. will have a
foundation as enduring as God Almighty
Himself. for 1. believe God wrote them on
ten tablets of stone. Any man who
doesn't live in harmony with the ten COM
mandments deserves to be in the peni-
tentiary.
before
me. A mans god is the thing that he
thinks more of than he does of God. II
may be money. Money is the god of
many. Many fellow sacrifices his con-
science. his morality, his virtue, and his
obedience to God for that Money is as
truly a god for some people as if they
prayed for ten-dollar gold pieces.
Oh' We are making money in Amer
ica by bucketfuls. but we are going to
neli IN CARROTS on excursion rates. oh,
n n
money! Oh. the counting of money.
Oh, the boarding of money, Oh. the
envy of money. Oh. the jealousy Of
money, Oh. the lying for money! Oh.
the stealing for money. Oh, the con,
sions for money. Oh, the murder for
money! The adultery for money! The
gambling for money. Selfishness for
money! Oh. the loneliness of the man
th that has lost all but his money, Oh,
ing out money! The fellow that has no
money is poor; the fellow that has
nothing but money is poorer still.
Recommends Checking Up."
1T is good thing to have money.
and the things that money will huy
but it is good thing to sit down once
IN while and check up and take an
inventory and be dead sure you haven't
lost the things that money can't buy.
Check up on it!
SO. money is the god of some folks.
Mieh M, some Of the people it is society
mands it. and if they didn't they'd lose
their social cast and position. Society
Is your god ana you have to do it. II
you don't believe it, you just try it. nv
friends, and see what will happen You
go contrary to social usages, and see
how quick you will be ostracized'