The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-21

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Yes
fou ara regular Sherlock
Holmes for DISCUSSES, aren't your"
Have you got any special grudre
against the tabernacle and revival 20
Yes IT Is putting me out of
ousanness we have to close mp the
saloons and diatillerpes, and the
places where we lure young men and
women to ruin and drag them away
from God"
oh" says the Judge OF the Uni
verse, Billy. you are acquitted The
| oniy witness against you is an old
wniskey- soaked, good for nothing,
hddlinG, carousing, old devil. He
mas done nothing but curse and damn
1his old world. You can go to heaven,
Billy. You can so TO heaven
Like little boy said. PA, is the
devil big?~
Yes"
| Yes"
| Is he bigger than Jesusf.'
No. my boy"
Then l am not afraid OF him :"
Neither are you.
Some preachers IL they were as
true and preached to the old Shy
locks on their board as they ought
! to. they'd be turned out to graye
but they'd be turned into heaven.
| Z know preachers and perhaps you
do. who would have been 60 non
9mmittai in their preaching that
| the leacherous, old king would have
been shouting happy every time he
heard them. They would have even
catered to his vanity In their pray
ers. thanking God that He had placed
over them such virtuous king, one
who knew the true religion and had
a double portion of IT, There were
plenty OF Pharisees who would have
rubbed the fur the right way to Sc
/ cure the compliments every time
! thay opsrted the sacred parchment.
my friends
! fellow said 60 me. "Bn. you
rub the fur the wrong way
J l satd. I don't Let the cat turn
around"
| When John the Baptist, saw that
chariot drawing up with old Ierod
in II and that sinful woman. he said,
lord. help me to hit that old sinner
square between the eyes"
| No Misunderstanding.
And to make sure there was no
misunderstanding of his me ssage and
what he was preaching about. he
pointed to the sinful woman that
was lolling on the purple cushion in
the char'ot and with words that drew
blood liAe Damascus sword. he
said, TT isn't lawful for you to have
/ her, you bring forth meat for re-
pentance by putting her away"
| Oh, long step has been taken In
maintaining a high standard Of in
divtdua' and public morals when sins
are called by their right names:
srossness. vileness. rottenness. drunk
enness.
| Most people take poison through
Misunderstanding II every bottle
containing poison would be marked
wouldn't be 50 en&ny that would take
| It
1 have read in the papers within
| tho last few naonths where twenty
odd reonle have taken bichioride OF
mercury thinking It was a sort OF .
headache dope. Bichloride Of mer-
, curry will paralyIe your kidneys. IL
will take from ten to twenty days
10 do 1t. There Is absolutely nothing
can cure you when you take dose
Of bichlor,de Of mercury. Absolute
iy moth Ing! You might Just as we'll
make your win and sit down and
wait for them to phone fer the un-
dertaker. for II will be fifteen to
twenty days and he will come.
So. the devil appears IA en- angel
Of light and In that disguise he does
his most effective work. A plain
devil In sight wouldn't tempt any
decent man or woman, or anybody
that wants to be respectable at all
If the devil could come up here
where you would look at him. you'd
hate yourself to think you were ever
fool enough to do anything that the
devil wanted you to do. to thinA
that you were associated with q lob
ster like that.
! Now I don't believe Il n . good
thing to have synonyms, my friends,
for sin. for lying. stealing and adul-
| terry.
Anybody who takes what doesn't
belong TO him fs a thief. You can
, cali him a kieptomaniac. but that
coesnt cnange the fact that he b q
thief
The man who deceivss his neigh
h0r l. a liar. II doesn't make any
difference what other name you put
II under.
Adultery - adultery. You can
call Il afAnity n you want to. Thou
shalt not commit alnnity.s
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