Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-15

your personal conduct? 1 believe
the law Of Moses was the best Law
ever given. The law of Moses
said, An eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth; limb for limb
the man that sheds blood, by mar
shall his blood be shed"
Jesus Christ in his teachings did
not abrogate the law of Moses. He
said, Love your neighbor as your
SELF" and if you did there'd be nc
EYE for eye, tooth for tooth, OF
limb for limb"
If everybody loved God and
served him, what a happy place
this old world would be and il
everybody could do the will of God
Everybody, my friends, has some
verse in the bible that's hard for
you. Here's the hardest verse in
the bible for me to live up to
honest confession is good for the
| soul-"Resist not evil. If a man
snite thee on one cheek, turn to
| him the other also" l don't know
| whether l have gotten down to
that one cheek basis or not. If a
fellow would swat me on one
cheek, l think I'd clear for action
like battleship
Love your enemies. Bless them
that curse you and do gJcd to
them that hate you and pray fer
them that despitefu!ly use and
lpersecute YOU"
If you think that's easy Try it
out. I'm trying my level best to
| live up to it. I've got a com bat
i've nature. I've got a temper like
a sheet iron stove. a bunch OF
shavings and a hurdle Of paper
and a match will rake it red hot
| IL two minutes.
l want to think I'm making q
little Roadway. Ask Mrs. Sunday
she's lived with me nearly thirty
years, and see if I've changed. If
l should happen to get on a two
hundred and fifty pound pressure
/ ana head out of the yard without
/ orders and run by every danger
| signal and blow out a cylinder
head, break a side-rod and throw
a tire and go into the ditch I'd
! feel worse about IL than you do,
but if you think it's easy, you get
out and take and pray for some
old weasel-eyed, Ratchet ia ced ,
grim-visaged, cadaver DIS, lantern
jawed neighborhoOd gossiper that's
assassinating your character and
2cd6ling a lot of lies up and down
the neighborhood, get down on
your knees, and say-"Now
Lord"
Suppose you did turn the right
cheek. There isn't one fellow in
a thousand that would swat you,
bur suppose he would Suppose
he knocked you down. suppose ne
lousened a molar. Jesus Christ
could have had Il legions of an
gels to come and fight for him but
he didn't call.
Your virtues are hest discerred
when subjected to the severest
trial. The hammer displays the
excellence of the diamond and the
furnace ascertains the purity Of
the gold. Weakness is a dormant
Quality until injuries call it out.
You let your character be blasted;
you let your interests be ruined;
then it will appear how far these
qualities govern and control you.
Remember Christianity is a cross
as well as cT|wn. il IS martyr
com as well as a coronation; it
is exile as well as home; it is
Iears and partjngs as well as re-
UlIons.
"Why call We me Lord, Lord,
and do not the things say
my friends, in your home and in
your family life:
What motive animated your mar
rage? Was it the LASTS Of mutual
tina; girl? Because she was a good
Iaozer and could gea herself up
attractively?
Why did you marry that young
fellow? Because You thought that
wnen the oh mai kicks Off and
the will is proJatCf that hid set
something that lie hasn't the abil-
ity 20 earn? Why did YOU marry
hin?
Now, whenever a girl gets too
proud to marry a young fellow
with a $50 acres of lard and a |
hundred red hogs anC a lot OF
CONS, because he rgE': : tango |
from a load of hay say, You put |
it down, will you. as a lead-Fipe !
cinch that she'll either die an oiC !
maid or she'll marry some fellow |
on ten per with one pair Of Hole /!
proofs. |
Girls, if I wnre you I'd rather |
marry a man who is L N enough |
to wear a pair of accent overalls
than to hook up TO some Cuthbert |
who can play the toih. G. the
ukoiele and Su'oke Turkish cigar
cts and live of the old mans pen
sion. That's good dope.
II I had the power to enact my
into law, | would re-
Iulre and comyal that the prospcc-
i've husband be able TO show some
hing more than the mere price or
marriage license He'd have to
show an ability arI a disposition 10
maintain a hOUe he'd have to show
myself sound in mind, souLd in
body and sound IN morals.
l want TO tell you. generations
yet unborn have the 'shercnt right
@ he well-born. !,
There are mUititudes OF people
lot so much born into the world as
hey are damned INTO the world,
mi their fate is sealed a genera
joL before their mothers kiss them,
nd if their old grand daddy cr !
daddy had 8een hanged l
or stealing horses. he wouldn be {
II SingSing. il
The three plaques of modern
lines are tuberculosis. alcoholism ;
nd veaereal disease. The first is =
ubiect TO some sanitation = tubcr- :