The Washington herald., 1918-03-02


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Tonight will be one of the
: biggest Of the campaign. The
Marine Band will be on the job
are weaklings, They are the strong
man and woman that are coming
don to take their stand for Jesus
/ Christ.
Many q fellow is a booze-fighter
tonight because he attended a ban
quet and didn't have the grit to
turn down his glass for fear he
might offend the hostess.
Many a fellow Is a black-legged
gambler because when he was ask
ed to play bridge he didn't have
the nerve to refuse.
Many a girl is selling her woman
hood in the red light district be-
cause she didn't have the grit to
say NO" And she is helping by her
body to feed the lusts of man.
Oh! men will wrangle for relig-
ion, they win fight for it, and they
will die for it, but there is many a
fellow who hasn't the courage to
live for it. Any old coward but a
religious coward!
know of nothing so contempti-
BILE as the man-fearing spirit. Many
a fellow crouches and grovels in the
dust for fear he will lose the favor
| Of men and he laughs at men that
do that. He laughs at them. Such
Q man is like the chameleon. He is
ready to change his coIors accord
ing to the views of the people who
are with him. tWheus he is with a,
Republican, he Is Republican,. When
he Is with a Democrat, he is Demo-
cratic. When he is with a Socialist,
he is a Socialist. despise such
, people.
Don't Fear Men.
1t takes the highest type of manhood
and womanhood to live for Jesus
Christ in this old God-hating, whisky
| soaked, materialistic world that is 60
ing to hell so fast that she Is breaking
\ all speed limits It takes grit.
Here Is a man that is good and gen.
erous to everybody, but he treats Je-
sus Christ like brute. Don't you talk
to me about that fellow being a good
| citizen. 1 don't want to hear a word
about him. Treat Jesus Christ like
brute-and think you are decent? No,
| sir.
These people are hypocrites.' There
are hypocrites in the church. and II
you wait until there are none in the
church before you are willing to be
convinced you will never be.
You say you belong to a lodge. There
are hypocrites in lodges. You don't
say that you will not belong to your
lodge because there are hypocrites in
it. There are hypocrites there.
| wouldn't have anything to do with
lodge, IL were you.
So there are hypocrites everywhere.
But that does not hurt religion any.
There are hypocrites in business, pol
i itics, in sin and so don't you offer the
excuse that you win not be convinced
until all the hypocrites are gotten out
Of the church. Would you refuse to
be loyal to the government because
| you found some fellow who would not
register?
Are you going to be false to your
wife just because somebody else Is
false? The best people in the world
are In the church, although all that
are in the church are not the best
Hypeerites nm Excuse.
For every ninety-nine good honest
Christians. there is just one bypc-
critic And leave it to you. You
would get your eye OF the ninety
nine and get your eye on the, one.-
1t is because you are a hypocrite
yourself, and you cannot imagine
anyone else being different from what
| you are.
Then there is the excuse that you
| are Waffino for dnpaaho.lu alQa The
wife Is waiting for the husband, the
husband waiting for the wife. The
young man is waiting for the other
| young men. ! believe that is all
true. We are all tied together like
cars Of a train. We all rub elbows
| with our neighbors. It is like a lot
of sleighbells. You hit one and they
all ring. d.
You take your stand for Jesus Christ
| and lead them into the church and
| II they think as much of you as you
do Of them, you will lead them into
the church and heaven. So you lead
the way to God. Let them be the
trailers, instead of you. Just reverse
| the proposition and they will follow
you.
Some people do not believe In
| devil. I am sorry for them. do.
First, because the word OF God says
there is a devil. Second, because my
personal experience was with the
devil and because of the works l
have seen Of the devil
know there Is q God. see HIS
footprints in virtuous rpen and wom-
en-. happy homes. Y, N. c. AS and
institutions. I know there h a God.
Years ago there was a revival IN
Yale College and Horace Bushnell,
one Of the professors and very
bright fellow, and he stood, across
from the revival. Hundreds OF the
boys who admired him 30 much wait
ed to see what he would do.
Finally a voice said to him. 'Hor-
ace Bushnell, what do you believer
He was in the quiet Of his room,
! taking an inventory of himself.
Take stock Of yourself. Maybe
you are nearer. than you think" !"
And the voice startled him.
why. 1 believe there Is an eter-
nal difference between right and
wrong" = -
And the voice seemed to say to