Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-22
Dazzle of the World Cannot
Substitute for Love of God

won't you please give your poor
soul one chance on earth? Won't
you give up the things that are
robbing YOU of your manhood and
womanhood, won't you let God
speak TO you and won't you turn
and listen? Won't you turn from
the things that are degenera'ing
you?
Soul Starvation.
To find starvation Of soul NJ the
most awful kind you don't neces-
sarily need to go down to the slums
no, Oh! You are apt to think
that the rich have no sleeptess
nights nor troubled insomnia. that
they never have TO wipe the tears
from their eyes. They have heart
aches as well as the poor, they have
troubled minds and hearts as we'll
as those who haven't the money
Andrew Carnegie said: There
are no happy millionalreS. And
he ought to know for Andy's got
the dough.
So you needn't go and look
around among the poor 10 find
sleepless nights. Come back TO
Solomon's dOleful cry for just a
minute. What does he mean? Was
Solomon a dyspeptc? Is there no
good in anything that employs our
time? Is going 10 school no better
than loafng on the street? Is be-
ing sober no better than being
drunk? Is there no benefit in mu-
sic or in art or In home? Does ap-
probation of the beautiful bring
nothing with it but misery and sOr-
row? Oh, is there nothing but evil
in wealth and in education?
You take away God, you take
away fear of God and fear Of sin.
you've removed the greatest safe
guard for virtue there is on earth.
You create distrust and doubt I'm
the word of God and In Jesus
Christ and the result will be moral
wreck, and by the eternal God I
hate and despise with every drop
of blood in my body, every mole
Guile, brain and cOrpuscle. I despise
the pup-who creates distrust in
the bible as the word OF God. who
creates doubt in God Almighty. who
creates doubt in the shed blood Of
Jesus Christ as the only hope for
mans salvation I despite that pup
with every drop OF blood in my
veins
All Dies With Hope Gone.
Now. you take away inspiration.
you take away revelation. and all
hope OF the life in a world to come
a II hnva Of a accommodations
nothing in its place, but sin and
despair and you've got nothing left
to live for The life of the best is
no better than the worst, the life
of the saint is no better than the
sinner, the life of the wisest IS no
better than the fool. the life of the
prostitute is no better than the vir-
tuous, life is not worth the gan il
there is no incentive and reward
beyond for me TO live for here. She
isn't worth the gan, absolutely she
is not
Now, sir, you Danish hope of
heaven and man is in hell. You
destroy hope in the future and you
will turn this old world into a hell.
You just destroy tie hope and see
what she will be. You blot out
everything except what we may
know through the senses, you keep
from US all knowledge from
source beyond this world and the
best that life can give, my friends,
worse than nothing.
You destroy in every man and
woman that which tells him that
there is a Cod that there is bnav-
en-. that there is a life beyond and
every grave will hold a suicide l.
Is said that within a week after
Bob Ingersoll delivered his ia
nous lecture on Suicide" inwhich
he endorsed men and women who
are suicides and encouraged them,
said that the discouragements Of
life are sufficient TO warrant our
wanting to shuttle off the mortal
coil, over a hundred suicides were
directly traceable to the influence