Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-09
IF ANY MAN WuLETH HE SHALL KNOW
IF SPEAK OF MYSELF OR FOR THE LORD

sense. But talk religion and they
will talk nonsense
Character Is Will.
"If any man will do his will he
shall know" And therefore our
character is IN our Will. What we
Will. We are. You will to be a
drunkard or you will to be a Chris
tian. You will to be q prostitute.
Every man that walks the streets
of heaven, he willed he would and
; that Is why he is there.
Every>man that is in hell, lie will
ed. and that Is why he is there.
A fellow came UP to me one time
and asked me-and seldom preach
a meeting that some mutt does not
ask me this same question: want
to ask you a question"
! said, sail In"
! He said, Where did Cain get his
wife?"
father-in-law."
Well" he said. "the Bible says
he got her in the land OF Nod" and
when an inndel starts in to quote
! scripture. he is all in.
The bible says nothing OF the
kind. The bible says that Cain
knew his wife in the land of Nod
and she conceived and bore a child.
It always looks sort of suspicious
TO me to see a man so much inter
ested in some other fellows wife.
l don't think it is Gains wife that
bothers some Of you old Holsters
half as much as il is the wife OF
your neighbor.
! Adam and Eve had other children
beside Cain and Abel. no matter
whether the first pair came by
generation. creation or evolution
| or by accident. They were pro-
| duced by a protoplasm.
You are trying to pin your hope
OF heaven on where Cain got his
| wife. That cuts no ice with me at
all. Why do you ask that silly, ri
diculous question? Is it because
you are trying to take a side
against the bible-discredi the
bible7 Is it because you are try
ing to find some excuse that will
justify you IN being a devil and re-
jecting Jesus Christ and living in
sin?
So, therefore, listen! Darwin,
the inddel, quotes Matthew, who
in turn quotes Euhier, the infidel.
in which he says that population
will double in rs years. If you
studied your scripturaI chronology
carefully you will find that when
Cain went out to court his wife ha
was lusty youth 128 years old.
Josephus says that Nod" means
'yagabond" and "vagabondage7
means the ground that God had
cursed and the curse CT God on
the ground today is because a man
sinned and that is why we have
briars and thorns and thistles and !
deserts. The curse of God is the |
effect of mans sin on the ground. |
When Adam and Eve ate the for |
hidden fruit, God drove them from |
the garden of Eden and said. The |
ground is cursed because Of your |
sin"
Cain 12S Years Old.
We say that Cain was 1913 years
OF age when he met her and court
ed her. Now, then. old Euhler, the ,
statistician, says that population /
will double in % years. Allowing
that there were seven pairs on
earth at the end of the first II
years, and that the population will
double in IS years under favorable
circumstances, and Cain was 12S
years old when he knew his wife
in the land OF Nod, that would have
made the population of the world
then, 1870 Allowing that half
were female, which proportion
holds good in every land on the
globe, that would have made $685.
buxom damFels from which Old
Cain could have selected a wife
good enough to satisfy the most
fastidious devotee with mstrimo
NAL inclinations buzzing in his
belfry Yet a lot of fellows are
going to hell tonight because they
wonder where Cain got his wife,
The inconsistency is not in the
bible, but in your rotten life.
. I preached in a town one time ia
Iowa and said TO a barkeeper.
What are you in this dirty busi
ness for"
be said, We'll, Bill, l couldn't be
church members voting for me-"
II there is anything that makes !
ne feel like woman that swal- {
ows a fy-she feels like expector- I
is to have some peanut
Drained wise guy, some old whis
Sy-soaked rummy telling me that i
T it wasn't for the votes of people {
who stand on the church rec
1rds-" I tell you I would rather S
De a devil in hell than endorse !
lnything like that. G
The bible says, Woe unto him 4
hat putteth a bottle to his neigh $
,ors' lips" r
Somebody says. The bible said y
hat? Huh! Perhaps you can tell i
ne why God made a woman out OF
he rib of Adam. Why didn't He q
make hsr out of the dust of the :
,arth like He did man."
Now what are you going to say 4,
o a fool like that? In the first :,
lace, l wasn't there. IN the sec !,
md place, have never asked God :
nd in the third place. it is none ;.
4 my business. You might as well -
SIX me why. when a woman has a
oaf Of bread and she wants to
cake a sandwich, she doesn't II
make another loaf. Why. It is
asier to cut 1t OF from the loaf .
lready made. U
So there are people who lose q
light of all these beautiful truths Y
1hich II put into practice would u