The Washington herald., 1918-01-07

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They will show their clanking chains
and say:
Damn you'll You forged them,
SIR"
And then with their fendish groans
shifting your ears. and with the hands
out of which you picked the nickels
and the dimes and the hard-earned
money. they will push you to the
verge Of the yawning abyss Of hell,
while rolling up from the inferno of
eternal damnation their shrieks and
screams will break among the crags
and the peaks of death and they will
cry. Woe unto him that putteth the
bottle to his neighbor's lip"
Last year we spent s., 200, 10000 for
tobacco. / am not q crank about to-
bacco. A man said to me:
"Bill, can't a man be q Christian
and use tobacco
I said, Eyes. but he'd be a good
deal better one II he didn't. think.
and you have more respect for a man
that doesn't"
You have more respect for my
preaching because you know I don't
than you would have II I'd come here
with a briarwood. or come in, my
friends. with the northwest corner of
plug OF Lorillard's Climax in my
cheek and then spit It out and take
a drink of water. You'd say:
IF the Holy Spirits got to roost
around in q man like that, I don't
care to hear him."
I'm not a crank about it-no no!
But here Cigarettes that are con-
sumed in this country, II laid end TO
end. they'd circle this globe ~ times
around; they'd reach 3,0eO. 40 miles:
there are about 6o,ooo. .OoO, 900 consumed
annually. Thirty million men and
boys smoke. Allowing 1t takes ten
minutes to consume a cigarette. II
would take an army OF 100000 men,
smoking ten hours a day to consume
the annual output Of the United
States.
CONN Nail Fumes.
I have heard keen. shrewd men say
that they would about as soon their
boy would drink as smoke cigarettes.
oh, IL you keep. on smoking cigarettes
the way you are doing you'll wake up
some morning when your brain has
run out on the pillow.
It's almost certain to lead to drink.
| they say. 1t grinds a mans will into
powder, racks his nerves. ruins his
heart, deadens his sensibilities. You
see him. going up the street with a
hacking cough, a pale face. yellow
fingered, anaemic. It's getting to be
one Of the greatst obstacles and bar
riers to getting job nowadays. Every
young man applying in the great in
stitutions in Chicago-Marshall Fields,
Cudahy, Swifts, Nelson & Morris, the
International Harvester Company and
other institutions-is asked three qu:s-
tions:
Do you drink! Do you smoke cigar
cites? Do you gamble?
Therefore a fellows got to be pass
ably decent 10 hold a good Sob down,
There was a time when the travelling
, man that could put away the most
booze and had the biggest stock OF
| dirty. smutty stories could get the
biggest orders. Today that fellow is
wearing out shoe leather looking for a
Job. / haven't seen a travelling man
drunk in ten years
Last year we spent ssoo.ooe,ooo for
! amusements. Well, we all enjoy a
good laugh. You can't go around with
a gloomy face all the time. Il am just
showing you the wealth we've got. my
friends.)
Likes to See Jewelry.
Last ysar we spent 5000. 900. .ooC
| for dogs. Well, like a good dog
My favorite is an Airedale. But
don't like to see a fool woman hug
gInG and kissing a pug-nosed dog
A woman must love something but
I don't call a pug dog something
| Perhaps that's one reason why your
husband isn't more affectionate
Any man with good rich. red blood
| in his veins don't care to play sec
ond fiddle to a bow-legged bull dog
Last year we spent $500. 100000
for jewelry. All right! 1 love tC
| see nice jewelry IL you can afford
1t. love to see 1t.
Last year we spent $500, ,00o, ,00C
for autos. I wish everybody cou;d
afford an auto. I think it Is one
of the greatest inventions for the
comfort, the happiness. of the
American people. 1t makes a man
forget. He spins out in the country
in the motor and forgets his cares
wish we all could afford 1t.
We spent 500, ZOO last year fol-
candy; s36,000,000 for soda-water
100000 for chewing gum; we
spent more money for gum than we
give for missions OF all churches OF
all denominations. Why? why
call We me Lord, Lord, and do not
the things I say?"
So we have the money. Nineteen
s~Al
United States is in the hands OF
protesting Christians, Catholic and
Protestant That ought to meeu
that God has It, that it's at the dis
posal of Gods cause and Gods
! kingdom.
why call ye me Lord, Lord, and
| do not the things I say" in your
personal conduct? I believe the law
of Moses was the best law ever
given. The law of Moses said, "Ar
eye for an eye and a tooth for q
tooth; limb for limb; the man that
sheds blood, by man shall his blood
| be shed"
Jesus Christ In his teachings did
not abrogate the law of Moses. He
said, Love your neighbor as your
SELF" and IL you did there'd be nc
"eye for eye. tooth for tooth, OF
limb for limb"
In Gsd's Service.
II everybody loved God and served
Him, what a happy place this old
world would be, and IL everybody
could do the will of God! Every
body. my friends. has some verse
in the Bible that's hard for you.
Here's the hardest verse in the Bible
for me to live up to-honest confess