The Washington herald., 1918-01-16

character and demand an apology
OF you"-that Is the way men talk.
II go to a man and say: They
tell me you are an old Episcopalian
or an old Methodist. a backslider.
Is that so?"
We'll. 1 suppose so. but don't ex-
pect too much from poor, struggling
And one time he used TO pray! Un-
true my friends, to Jesus Christ, the
source Of truth and yet true TO the
emanations Of truth. Is that it?"
o, tell you the men and women
In the church that will not sell out,
will move for Jesus Christ as sure
as you're living. Tennyson said:
20, for a man to rise in me,
That the man I am might cease to
be-"
Emerson said: What I must do
concerns me. not what people
think"
Tennyson said: You never made
a friend. who never made a foe"
Burke said: You must either be
an anvil or a hammer-one OF the
two"
Make up your mind and go to
fight your way through this old
world and live as God tells you.
Sin Is sexIess.
What about a woman? God Al.
marked out the same path
for men and women. Sin is sexless
What is wrong for a woman to dc
is wrong for a man to do, and the
crying need of America today IL
the single standard for men and
women. A fallen man is as truly
an adulterer as a fallen woman &;
an adultress. 1t makes no differ.
ence to God whether the one that
sins wears a plug hat or ,hairpins
a coat or q petticoat Sin is sex
less.
There is many a man that stoop.
and does the thing that he wouldn't
want his wife to do. No. And ht
says, She is my wife. or she is my
sister, or she is my sweetheart, oil
she is going to be my wife"
And yet your wife has Just a.
good a right to walk down and sit
around with q gang and fill hel
hide up with booze as you have
and then stagger home vomiting
and spewing as you have.
Just as good a right to sit arounC
and spit out oaths as you have
just as good a right to walk dowr
the street squirting tobacco juic,
on the sidewalk as you have. And
do You know some such dialog a.
this has been going on between tn,
sexes for ages until Jesus Christ
came into the world and changed
it.
Man Cuts Lower Niche.
Even now We seem to have got.
ten far from il. Man demands of {
woman that she retain her origina
place of purity where God put her
but he has cut out for himself q
niche away below where God AL,
placed him, and she lean.
over the balusters and battlement!
or her alabaster purity and says 4
her liege and lord:
where are you goingy"
None Of your darn business"
Cant / go with your"
NO"
We'll, what is sauce for the goos,
is sauce for the gander. Why mott
Because il you do they will
trample you beneath their feet"
When do you think you will b,
back?"
None Of your business, I'll com,
back when I get ready"
o, a fountain of purity for WON.
en-. a hog wallow for men; spring,
OF purity for women, a mud puddl,
Ior men. No. sir. Such a doctrin,
cra~led out Of the pit of hell. Goo
demands the same standard of liv
ing for both men and women.
Some women will go to church
kneel at communion, plight theil
eternal allegiance to Jesus Chris
and kneel with the unseen arm O.
Christ about them and say:
MY liege, my lord. 1 renounce tn,
world. the flesh and the devil fol
thee
Squeezed by n Lizard.
And within forty-eight hours the,
are down on some ball room floor
or in some cabaret with some liz
ard, with his arms around her
squeezing the life literally anC
spiritually out of them. l am ask
ing for information; I want t,
know.
Untrue to the emanations o
truth, untrue to Jesus Christ, tn,
source of all truth.
o, 1 can imagine a man being un
true in business. can imagine Will
a vast stretch of imagination, a maj
untrue In politics. And 1 can imagin,
oy a vast. vast stretch of imagina
uon, unthinkable as it is and ought {,
be, L can imagine a man being untru
10 his marriage vow. can, as un
thinkaole as it is. I can imagine 1
because 1t is so.
But be true TO God and He will b,
true to you Untrue to God, He vii
turn His back on you. True to God
he viii stand by you through life an,
death.
I pray God my words may ring tru
on your ears and you-that may b
standing upon the very brink of tn,
precipice, about to say goodbye t
God-may return with all your hear
and all your soul to do the will of tn,
Lord.
Scene on the Farm.
1t was Christmas Eve in the coun
try. A farmer had piled the straw
around the horses, the cattle and tn,
sheep. All had been generously fed
he came to the house and knocked
the snow from his heavy boats, tool
his muller. from around his neck
took his coonskin cap of, hung /
upon the rack behind the door; haC
supper. sat in front of the fireplace
and the dog came and begged fo
recognition. The wife sat knitting
when the o'clock on the mantle strucl
.. She stopped her knitting. put hel
specs on top of her head and said t.
him:
Husband, have you forgotten thii
is her anniversary and it has been si'
years since she went away?"
The old man stopped caressing thu
dog buried his face in his hands and