Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-10

Will quit drinking ana VIII meet
you at the door OF heaven
And with his breath hot on my
face and with his words ringing in
my ears, I promised him And
many a time l cross the street TO
keep from going in front of a sa-
loon. Many a time when I find
myself nearing one l run 10 get by,
because l am afraid the fumes Will
draw me in. Many time I will go
a block around just to avoid go
ing in front of one. | am afraid il
l go in that ! would never meet
my boy; and don't you know. I can
feel his arms around my neck and
they are like a kite string Juggling
and pulling at my heart, and l
wouldn't disappoint him for all the
world, for l know there is one IN
heaven who is waiting for me-"
Friends here. friends yonder
want you to win. Anybody who
doesn't want you to be a Christian
IS dirty dog. Anybody who
doesn't want you to be for Jesus
Christ doesn't deserve your friend
ship. No. Friends here and friends
hereafter want you TO be a Chris
tian.
VIII to Do Right.
els Il well with you?" No. not
without Jesus Christ. Why are
you not as pure as a sunbeam, as
sweet as a dewdrop? Why are you
not as enchanting Is a spring
morning pulsing with the song Of
birds, when dappled fawns play
upon the banks OF violets? Why
are you not as lovely as the sun
kissed mountains?
l will tell you Listen. God
made those things, and God can
make you like those things If you
will yield to Him and give your
self to Him, and do It.
You say, Il had a bad start in
life" | am sorry.
You say, Il was born with the
devil in me" All right, you can
be born again with the devil out of
you in two minutes if you want to
be.
Ny friend Kaufman says, never
mind If the cards were stacked
against you at birth, you can tri-
umph over your ancestry. Oh, you
can turn your past into a dooTmat
and you can wipe the sin OF failure
off from your feet. Never mind a
bad start-ft doesn't count if you
end right. Never mind what kind
of a start you had, if you will only
end right, that's all
Now, don't blame your parents,
my friends. If you lived in pal
ace with a black heart. you would
turn It into a slum. You can't cure
smallpox by crawling in between
two clean sheets or passing resO-
lutions. That won't alter it, as sure
as you live. You turn pOlecat
loose in a DarI0r and you know
which will change first. the parlor
or the polecat. You take a man
with a rotten heart and he will
make anybody rotten who he asso-
ciated with. He will blight and
curse anything, no matter where
he is.
Sin didn't begin in a stale beer
joint or a grog shop-sin started
in the Garden OF Eden, surrounded
By every lnuucemenr ana influence
20 90 right.
Oh, yes. Don't blame society,
you are a part of it II society is
it is because the individuals
who make society up are rotten.
So it is the individual who makes
society, don't blame society. II it
isn't what It ought to be, perhaps
you are not what you ought 10 be,
so stop blaming society and trying
to square yourself that way.
Don't blame US. Great heavens.
We are only human. l am trying
to dc my best for God, don't blame
US. Don't blame the devil All the
devil can do is to tempt you
There are not devils enough in hell
to make you sin if you don't want
to sin. and there are not angels
enough in heaven to make you de-
cent if you don't want to be decent.
1 will tell you what TO do. Go
home, look into tho mirror and
say: God. there is the old lobster
In there that is to blame. There
IS the wop-that fellow right
therel"
rs it well with thee" 10. not
if you are without Jesus Christ l
trade places with you for
The world. Is It well with thy hus-
band. the man who sits by your
side, the man whose name you bear
he man to be true to whom and
20 keep the vows you made amidst
he perfume OF the wedding bios
sons, amidst the assembled COM
Dany. you said good-by TO more
happiness than you have ever seen
;ince-the man who is the father