The Washington herald., 1918-02-11

and peace reigns in that place, I tell
| you. No sirens voice Is there to lure
| you on the rocks. The arms Of tender
ness and the eyes of gladness, and
the hearts of pure, sweet love wait
| to embrace you.
And when I see men called to high
duty and royal service on the side of
| God Almighty, can't bear to see
them hide among the stun, forego a
chance to wear a crown and rule over
kingdom and become chained. to
some habit or influence. Oh, there are
poor women chained to some brutal
! husband, arms chuck full OF helpless
/ children, lives are crowded with care
i and toll and pain, oh, they have tasks
as pidless. 1t seems to me, and un-
ending as the galley slaves in Siberia
and they drag their tortured, aching,
suffering bodies along, day after day.
until death touches down their CULVER
| ing eyelids and they embrace the long.
sweet sleep that knows no waking till
the trumpet Of Gabriel sounds the rev.
ellie on the resurrection morn.
Oh, there are slaves to fashion.
Others are chained to mammon.
| Men and women whose only ideal
and only god is gold! oh, they are
| miserable and unhappy.
I'd like to put it in front Of every
homo Of shame. Keep away. my
boys, they will shear your locks"
I'd like to put it in front OF every
saloon. I'd like to see IT up in some
institutions of learning, In some uni
versities and some seminaries. keep
out Of there, they will shear your
| locks"
Come Away from Sin.
Dig out. Come on! I've come here
tonight to help you II 1 can. The
| outward things for which men and
women struggle, they are only stuff
in the great emergencies and the great
exigencies of life. They will not see
you through, sir. these great things
that We battle and fight for. never!
Now, God wants to give you a
| kingdom, so don't let the stuff keep
| you away, will you?
Young women, wait a minute. Girls,
| appeal to you. Oh! We hear so
much about the daughters of the poor.
| Why, We have been given to under
| stand that these are the ones that
! make up largely the population In the
/ dens OF vice, who f1aunt their gar
ments OF shame in the public face,
who entice young men from paths
| of virtue.
We've been led to infer, from what
we read and what we hear. that it's
| the daughters Of the poor who fill the
| columns Of the newspapers with motor
| iOus stories of low intrigues, and dis
! graceful amours who turn out to be
J faithless wives and heartless mothers,
| who invade happy homes aid seduCe
| by their amorous smiles, the careless,
! the weakened husband from the arms
of his wife and from the children.
Criticized wealthy Sinners.
! Oh, listen to me. Don't you know
that some of the most offensive social
J careers, some of the most notorious
3 wretches have been reared in the lap
of luxury where they had everything
they wanted. Some Of the most dam
7 gerOus sirens that ever polluted the
world; some of the most dangerous
7 adventuresses have been chadled in
; aristoCraCy and ease.
J Some of the most unfaithful wives.
some OF the most brazen defllers of
morals and social decency have been
unmasEed in mansions where they had
Persian rugs instead of rag carpets.
/ And in their homes of grandeur and
! of splendor. they forgot the laws Of
/ God and decent rules or society, and
| their little children tug and pull at
milkless breasts, longing for the en-
7 brace and the CaTess of love, and their
I homes are nothing but ghastly, hid
: den skeletons Of wrecked opportuni
/ tiles and virtue. Their hearts are
/ chuck full of bitterness and hate to-
! ward the men that their children call
/ father.
That's one OF the devils strongest
| holds to lure them away. Why, We
! are told that innocent girls. enticed
! into the dance halls by damnable,
! vile, unprincipled, designing compan-
| ions, when they left home they were
| free from sin and from guile or
! thought OF inquity, but when morn
| ing's dawn came it found those poor
! girls possessed of secrets that no girl
! should know outside of legal sanction
at the marriage altar.
Dance Hall Menace.
Oh! They've found them lying like
! broken flowers on the couch, found
I them withered buds, sir. cast away,
/ OStracized, stigmatized. You know the
rest don't you? Well, it's too bad.
/ You'll find these girls thronging dance
| halls. They talk the loudest, they
paint the thichest. they dress the least
| and they dance the most lasCiviously.
/ Get out of the rubbish, get out from
| beneath the pots and kettles and let
| God put a crown on your head. Sit
down on a throne instead of crawling
| into a hole with the camp luggage.
\ Saul knew his duty. Saul knew his
| destiny, So do you. and want you
| to rise to your opportunity and to your
| privilege, sir. It's important. Take the
crown that God offers you. viii you?
Be a king. Take yours, will you,
my girl? Be a queen. Take yours
and don't shirk and hide meath the
stuff. beg of you. God has given
no uncertain sound, sir. 1 beg of you,
don't allow the tinsel of selfish pur-
poses to blind you to the pure twenty
four carat gold Of righteousness.
Win Your Crown.
| Only the men or women who pay
attention to their duty, regardless of
all else. will find your crown and your
kingdom and when you leave the
world. you will leave 1t poorer be-
cause you left II, so my appeal to
you is. my urgency with every ounce
| of strength I've got left, my appeal
! to you is, take your stand for Christ.
I Live a Christian life, children will love
| you, men will respect you and women
( Will admire you, and God will crown
| your life with success. And when
/ the twilight OF your life mingles with
the purpose dawn of eternity, men will
| speak your name once and they will
baptize your grave with tears, when
the Lord attunes for you the evening
] chimes OF life. Do you get It?
| Come on out. Behold, he hath hid
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