Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-16
CONSCIENCEIS
DETECTIVE To
RUN DOWN SIN
Mr. Sunday in Sermon Last Even
ing Tells Of Evils That Result
From Breaking Gods Laws.
BY GOTTA BARTHOLOMEW.


evening at the tabernacle in
preaching one of the best sermons
he has so far given, taking as his
subject, Gods Detective" which
he based On the biblical text, BE
sure your sins will find you out"
"If I could only persuade people
that if they stop SHINING they would
suffer less pain and physical dis
ease, just think of the great hap
piness that would descend upon
the world" Going on in his talk,
he showed how sin works on the
physical body, the mind, causing
the innocent and the guilty alike
to suffer Sin finds nations out, ne
said and he pointed out that coun-
tries everywhere suffer because of
the sins of their people The Hindu
who drinks of the sacred waters of
the Gauges and die like flies in
the fall; the Eskimo who lives in
his filth and dies by the thousands
and others without number.
MANY of the trade diseases are
preventable and many of them to-
day were not in existence a few
years ago Think of the thousands
industry, where their bodies be-
come heavy by breathing where
they made white lead. That's been
changed by scientific research of our
day Think of the phosphorus vic
Tins where they make matches.
That's been changed. All that has
saved thousands of victims. They
have found something for anthrax.
hou To
recover who was stricken by an
thraX, a disease that comes on the
back of an animal, and if you get
little of that, it is absolute death.
But now where they have thous-
ands and millions Of sheep, they
make them swim through antisep-,
tic tanks and they make the whole
herd go through four times a year
to kill all the germs which other
wise used to kill people. So these
trade diseases are preventable.
That's why we are trying to pro-
tect people. Safety first stares
you in the face wherever you 60
We are trying to keep two legs on
you instead of one. We are trying
TO let you go home on two feet in
stead of being carried on a stretch
err
Conscience an Accuser.
Conscience is an accuser, and
man is so constituted that when
he has sinned he knows it and
suffers untold agonies as his con-
science flays and slashes him, fol-
lowing him wherever he goes, he
said, and gave illustration after ii.
lustration to show how conscience
has bounded down a man for his
sin. He pointed out the terrible
results that are visited upon the
children for the sins of their par
ents, and said that sinners are the
worst kind of slaves and the devil
the cruelest and hardest of task
masters.
Some of you" said Mr.. Sun
day, ARE contemplating sin. Take
advice from a friend and don't do
it. Don't you do 1t. 1t will find
you out 1t won't pay. But you
will have to pay in wrecked mind
or a wrecked body or a wrecked
character or a wrecked SOUL you
will have to pay some way.
Sins Will find you out in your
character. Every sin breeds a
moral as well as a physical ulcer
/ think a fostering body isn't half
as bad as a rotten soul or char
acter. Now, you can't lie without
having your moral blood poisoned
E 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 from 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
q for having done it, than he will
suffer in the amount Of money that |
you keep from him that justly be- |
4iongs to him. You are worse off |
for 1t than the man, and you can't |
wrong a man regarding his wife !
without a death-dealing canker |
striking you down. You can't |
read an impure book, you can't |
listen to an impure story that you |
don't suffer for it.
You can't visit a place where |
the vile and the lewd are pictured |
TO appeal to your passions and |
make its subtle appeal to the low |
sr, baser nature in you. Oh, It |
will breed a moral distemper in
your own nature"
Again the l. W. ".
Mr.. Sunday never misses an op- |
portuntty to lambast the I. w. VS. |
End their nefarious work, and he |
sure can rip them up the back. |
There is nothing makes him quite
10 mad, not even the doctrine OF
Evolution or spiritualism, etc.
He has infinite compassion for
he man or woman who is trying
o find the light and is blindly
cropping. why. If I knew that in
his audience tonight there sat
nan or woman-if I knew that
ere tonight there was a poor
rofigate and outcast-if 1 knew
here was one who is soaked and
aturated in sin, outcast from
ONE, whose friends have disowned
hem, I would say to you that this
PROCLAMATION I am giving you Is
pr you in spite OF your mistakes,
spite Of your blunders. There is
pardon, full. free, perfect and
ternal, through faith in Jesus
hrist. God never spurned a sin
er; there is room for all. There
MT room in this tabernacle for
in this citv but there is room
heaven for ali.
Il can name some rich men In
is city-if they'd walk down these
sizes l suppose this audience would
aeer and cheer and be thrilled.