The Washington herald., 1918-01-07

He said. ct have . license here
from the county clerk"
| said, "Some things that are le-
gally right are morally rotten. That's
one OF them"
IT said, Perhaps the fellow that
engineers the brick-cheese box around
the corner will tie you up for a ten
| spot, but not your Uncle Fuller"
| A man comes to me and says. 81
have been married and divorced-liv-
ing unhappily-what will do?''
| said, T would go home and get
down on my knees and say, Look
here, Lord, I've sinned against You.
transgressed Your laws, forgive me-
Get up and trot square and go decent.
That's the best advice can give you
under the, circumstances"
Now, listen! "Why call ye me Lord,
Lord. and do not the things say"
Science and Charity.
In the works Of benevolence? How
much do you give away? don't
want to do anything to despise scien-
tiic charity, don't care to do any
thing OF that sort, but listen! That
doesn't mean that IL a fellow meets
you on the street and asks you for
your clothes that you've got to yank
them OF and give them to him and go
home clothed in sunshine.
That doesn't mean IL some lazy wop
that never worked in his life asks you
to get out OF your automobile that
you climb out and let him get in and
drive away and you hot-hoof 1t.
That doesn't mean IL you work and
save your money and build your home
that you've got to move and give 1t to
somebody-no! Listen!
A Jew wouldn't speak to a Samar-
itan, a Samitan wouldn't speak to
a Jew; a Jew wouldn't loan to a Sa-
maritan, neither would a Samaritan
loan to a Jew. Not at all! Jesus
Christ went into Samaria. There He
sat on the well-curb-hungry. dust
covered. Out came that woman and
He asked her for a drink Of water
She said,
Not on your life. you're a Jew.
I'm a Samaritan. We have no deal
ings one with the other"
Now" Jesus said. look here; II
you become my disciple you've got
to loan to a Samaritan IL he asks
you, the same as a Jew. Give to
him that asketh of you and him
that would borrow Of you turn not
away"
II a Samaritan came to borrow
from Jew. he gave him the coH
shoulder, and vice-versa but Jesus
said,
Here. II you become my disciple
you've got to give to him that asks
you. whether he's q Jew or a Gen.
tile."
1t doesn't make any difference in
the world. That's what Jesus was
trying to show-the spirit they should
manifest. and live.
Better Than None.
Now I don't want to say anything
to despise scientific charity-its bet
ter than none-but what do you do
for a fellow when you take down
the color of his hair and of his
eyes and the number Of his teeth,
and you give him the price of a sand
wich and you keep the breath of
life In him. but you don't save him;
you send him out out to shovel snow
on your sidewalk when you own a
corner lot, and you give him a cup
of coffee and a sinker.
III tell you, you don't Try to save
him. Love will save him. I,ote Is
the divine philosophy. Some people
are so darned stingy that they never
give away ten cents that they don't
sing, God be with you till we meet
again"
have met people so contemptibIy
stingy that they talked through their
nose TO keep from wearing their false
.eetn OUT. They'd steal fly from a
blind spider.
Hear me! Last year we spent IN
this country $3.50, oOo,O 900 for drink:
we wasted grain enough in America
!ast year to make whisky that sent
6OO,OOO men staggering and reelinR and
screaming into drunkard's graves and
drunkard's hell; IL made into loayes
Oh bread 1t would pave a street 200 900
miles long. 100 feet wide, with every
loaf weighing two pounds. We wasted
grain enough in the breweriesl and
disdlleries, my friends, to have fed
this country as much grain as we used
FOR bread. We wasted grain enough,
my friends, to make whisky, to have
ted England or France in the war.
This government is formed by States
to insure the domestic tranquility
and to provide for the public safety,
and the security OF blessings to in
dividuals, and today the saloon stands
with Its foot upon the neck of the
American people and says to the gov
ernment:
wait. don't disturb me. The wage
Garner has g, $50, 900 in his pocket. You
wait until I get the swag and I'll d.
vide 1t with you. I will give you 10
per cent"
And this government Of ours, my
friends, receives about one-third of
Its revenue from a system that bar
ters and sells away the well-being and
the happiness of the American people
the grog shops:
In the Grog Shops.
In my opinion it's against the Con-
sutution Of the United States, and
they have no right to let IL exist and
damn and curse this old land In which
we live. But the liquor traffic is law
defying, rebellious, anarchistic. and
in Its schoolhouses Of infamy, IL is
educating the people in disrespect of
law. and it gathers around it as its
allies in crime the gambling dens. the
prothels and wherever men meet to
plan crime. Here the yegg comes to
divide his swag after he has crack
ed the safe, and the liquor traffic
is political and II is a commercial
machine.-colossal, sagacious. rich.
powerful beyond any personal en-
treaty or rebuke, or ostracism. and II
has dropped into the Federal and in
municipal and the church plate hum
dreds of millions of dollars. but the
liquor traffic, thank God! is folding
its tents and preparing to Green into
hell out Of which it wrisgled its car
cass.
By the grace of God I'm going to
live long enough to preach its funeral
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