The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-31

the only clean ones and we are the
| cleanest on earth. The diseases that
are epidemic that are raging in
Heather lands almost without excep-
ton come from filth. They are caused
| by the louise. or the fee. or the rat.
Look at the Hindu at Benares
| You listen to me and / will give
you something tonight you never
thouht of. / have read every book
you can ever mention on the sub
ject. l am giving you Just the culied
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Come on. from anybody that's an
authority. / don't pay any atten-
ton to auacks. II ever I quote a.
doctor. he is a topnotcher alonE
his line.
Now. go to the Hindu at Ben
ares where they will come on their
long Journeys to battle in the sacred
Ganges, thousands upon thousands of
them. When they die the body is
partly cremated than they throw the
filth and ashes into the river and
stoop down and drink it. Why, they
die there like flies in the fall.
Look at the Eskimo in his ill-ven-
t1lated igloo where consumption
holds him down because of the germs
produced by his Nth. Look al typhoid
ed water, or milk. Some one may
throw some fifth into an afley. A
fly may light upon the filth. fly away
into your home and light on the but
ter, or drop into the milk and you
may eat it. He WIFI leave germ there
that viii put your baby in the grave.
It comes from filth. so your child has
to die because somebody a half a
milo away was fool and didn't live
the way she should.
Look at typhus fever. ship fever,
crison fever, they come from the
louise, and it has killed thousands,
unknown millions. And the plaques
OF cholera and the Bubonic plague
which have slain unknown millions.
all comes from the flea and the rat.
these diseases come from filth. Oh.
disease today comes because a man
is filthy in his life and doesn't live
the way God Almighty want him to
do and his sins find him out in a
wrecked body and a wrecked mind
and curses him.
Many Of the trade diseases are
preventable and many Of them to-
day were not in existence few years
ago Think of the thousands upon
thousands that died in the lead in
dustry where their bodies became
heavy ty breathing where they made
white lead. That's been saved by
scientific research of our day. Think
of the phosphorus victims where they
make matches. That's been chang
ed. All that has saved thousands of
victims They have found some
thing for anthrax Nobody has ever
been know to recover who was
stricken by anthrax. a disease that
comes on the back of an animal and
II you get little of that. IL is alb
have thousands and millions OF sheep.
they make them swim through anti
septic tanks and they make the whole
herd go through four times a year
to Kill all the germs which otherwise
used to Kill people. SO, these trade
disease are prrventable. That's
why we are trying to protect people,
safety first" stares you in the face
wherever YOU go. We are trying to
keep two legs on you instead OF one.
We are trying to let you go home on
two feet instead of being carried on
the stretcher.
Enemy Of Sin.
You never had better friend
come TO your city than / am. DO
you think I am your enemy to try
and help you to get high plane
and live for Jesus Christ? ! am
the enemy of SIN. And It is amaz-
some intricate: some direct, some In
direct: in which our sins hunt us
out. find US. and bring us to account
and make us pay.
Some of you are contemplating
sin Take advice from a friend and
don't you do it. Don't you do it. 1t
will find you out 1t won't pay. But
you will have to pay in a wrecked
mind or wrecked body or wreck
mi
will have to pay some way
They will find you out in your
character. Every sin breeds a moral
as well as a physical ulcer. ! think
fostering body isn't half as
bad as a rotten soul or character.
Now, you can't lie without having
your moral blood poisoned by the
transaction. You can't cheat man
In business and not suffer more in
character than he suffers from the
loss Of the money. You stole rom
him. but you will suffer more than
that in the world. You can't wrong
a man In his wages and not suffer
more in reputation for having done
il, than he will suffer in the amount
of money that you keep from him.
that justly belonged 20 him. You
are worse off for 1t than the man
and you Can't wrong a man regard
ing his wife without q death dealing
cankcr striking you down Tou
can't read an impure book. you can't
listen to an impure story that you
don't suffer for 1t.
You can't visit a place whore the
vile and the lewd are pictured to
appeal to your passions and make its
subtle appeal to the lower. baser ma
ture in you. Oh. it will breed moral
distsmper in your own nature.
Out In a Western city lived
friend. He was what We called a
high flyer. He spent hts money on
fast horses, and wine, and women.
and ne wen. down the line. The
poor people dumped their money in
his bank by the millions
One day they found out that he
had Quilted the bank and there was
nothing there but shell They be-
gan to search and they looked every
where. They tracked him across
the Atlantic ocean. they tracked him
into Africa, into Algiers. to Morocco
where he'd hired or purchased camels.
He'd laden them with provisions and
with utensils for . home. He was
getting ready to make q Journey of
200 miles out in the desert to an oasis.
there to bury himself and live upon
his iIl-gotten gains.
When they nut their hands upon