The Washington herald., 1918-02-24

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evanSelist's invectives.
ment, for all Of these don't crafty.
for God never made a heart SO small
and weazened as to be satisfied with
the greatest that the world could give.
God made for Himself a place in
your heart and all the gold and all
the silver and all the honor and
glory and all the pleasures and list
and all the qualification never will
satisfy a human heart il God AL
mighty isn't in It.
stin Cropping.
Old Solomon went down the line.
If there was anything he wanted, he
got it and when he got through he
says, 1T is all vanity. 1t is all a
puff of wind, a bubble for a moment"
What profit hath a man of all his
labors which he taketh under the
sum-
So this wise and honorable and
great king, he drinks from one gold
en- cup after another and dashes them
all away, not one satisfies MIN.
Every man and woman wants to
be satisfied Every man or woman
is more or less hungry for something
the world cannot give. Every man
and woman is cropping after some
thing they don't possess. but which
their nature Graves and calls after.
There are men mere tonight, I'll bet
my life, who have been doing that
all their days. They have tried every
thing, there is nothing they haven't
gone to, for they have climbed the
heights and they have fathomed the
nP {Ttuan-
ton, and of Indulgence; they have
climbed high in glory, in honor and
fame and they have dived low; they
have passed every extreme point and
danger that could be suggested or
imagined to the mind.
And so you are on the verge OF the
grave. All of it has only brought
You lust that much nearer the coffin
All your past is a memory, all your
future is unknown. If you are hon
est, I don't care who you are; II you
are honest although your hair Is
gray; if you are honest, although your
face is pimpled; If you are honest, al
though your eyes are dim; If you are
honest, although you're hobbling on
the crutches of decrepitude, your body
is worn out, you've spent yourself
for nought, sold out, body. mind and
soul. oh! what a folly, what a trag-
edy, what failure, what a fool!
To give up and sell out for the
world!
II YOU had the moral manhood and
the moral womanhood you'd stagger
out OF the hell of your transgressions
and your wasted and misspent life
and you'd join with old Solomon In
saying, "It's all vanity, it's only
bubble, nothing to it! Nothing to 1t!
To He'll with Alcohol
Now Solomon tried 1t, so why play
the fool, I'd like to know? Why not
straighten yourself and walk like one
who bears the marks of the crimson
cross of Jesus Christ? I tell you, you
were made for greater heights than
some of you have ever climbed. You
were never made for the dust and the
mire and the filth and the slums and
the quagmires of degeneration and
infamy. Why lie there and let hell
thing. a football for the devils and for
fends, I want to know, when you can
| be a son of God or a daughter OF God
and face the morning?
why spend your money for that
which is not bread and labor for
that which satisfieth not? Any
bread in the rum2 Go down and
ask the poor devils that have been
feeding on it, ask the rum-hounds
of the Bowery, ask the rummies,
my friends, of all over, ask your
own self as you sit there and listen
| to me tonight.
You haven't got so far down but
that you can wear a decent suit
yet, but ask yourself, ANY food in
! the booze?'
Bread for the saloon keeper. for
! the brewer, and the distiller, but
none for you.
Some big fools are content to let
/ others feed and fatten and german
die on the blood and bone and
| Drawn of their wife and children.
If could have my way; every drop
of alcohol would be in he'll before
midnight. I'd put it in hell for you
who are alive, I'd put it in hell for
the sake of the generations that
are going to be born, for that
damnable stun will damn If it re-
mains on earth.
Wanted to XIII.
A specialist was called to see a
child Z years of age that tried to
kill it's little sister. They said,
HE is constantly trying to kill
somebody"
He said, "Yes, / want to kill
somebody"
why do you want to do it?"
The doctor turned to the father
and said, do you drink?'
Il am not total abstainer."
DO you drink?"
We'll, I don't get drunk"
DO you drink?"
Il am always able to go to
work"
DO you drink?"
Not to excess
do you drink!"