Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-30
7oodmen, R. n. A, Young & McCombs Crowds Brave Rain

prove to me that there is no diff
ference between a serpent and a
dove, between the devil and an an
! gel, between darkness and light;
between bitterness and sweetness,
and pain, then you can make me
believe that there is no difference
between sin and salvation, heaven
and hell, Christ and the devil!
God so loved the. world, that He
gave His only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in Him should
not perish, but have everlasting
life"
You run against sin every time
you move. You have business re-
lations with some man. He makes
statement TO you that you know
to be an infamous, wilful, malici-
Gus, unmitigated, premediated lie.
II lying is not a sin, then, sir, tell
ing the truth is not a virtue.
Walking the street, you see
drunken men staggering. reeliug,
vomiting, spewing and muttering
and maudling. If drunkenness is
not as in, sobriety is not a vir-
tue!
Turning the street corner, you
hear a company of rogues and of
jimmy-toughs pouring out torrents
of profanity, vomiting and spewing
out their triangular oaths. II pro-
family is not a sin, then prayer is
not a virtue.
Listening to the gossip of the
street or of the crowd, you hear of
some fellow who has run away
with somebody's wife, or who is
keeping somebody on the side, and
the fool is selling her virtue, or
looking for easy money, as she
calls it.
Is assassinating your conscience
easy money? Is being able to eat
food that you could not eat if you
were virtuous, easy money? Is
wearing clothes you could not
wear If you were decent, easy
money?
And there are thorns on your
pillow that make you roll and tum-
BILE, and you have to take dope in
order to deaden your sensibilities.
Is that easy money? Don't you let
all the devils In hell try to push
that dirty business down your
throats!
And if adultery is not sin, then!
I say chastity is not a virtue.
And some one coveting your
money, coveting your jewelry, en-
tiers your home to steal and he has
to kill in order to get 1t. If muir
der is not a sin, mercy is not a
virtue.
World Full of Sin.
And the world for thousands of
years has been full of lying and
drunkenness and adultery and pro-
family and murder. Therefore we
say the world is full Of SHIT is
full Of sin! Prove to US that these
things do not exist, then 1 will be-
lieve that there is no sin.
And yet, God loved this old, sin
cursed world enough to give Jesus
Christ and the plan OF salvation to
save it. That's why God did it all
for US in the world.
This world Is blighted. this
world is stained; this world is
cursed; damned, ruined by sin! Sin |
is the cause of disappointment! |
Sin is the cause OF pain! Sin is the /!
cause Of shame, degradation and /
sorrow. With that one word
SIM can spell all the misery, all !
the heartaches, all the worry, all |
The murder, all the theft, all the |
adultery, all the pandering, all the /
lust, all that curses and mars and /
olights this old world. SIN-that's |
he cause of it all,
And l am asking you, my friends, |
70 enlist against the biggest enemy /
If the human rRce-sin and the 1
ievil-your enemy and mine
Therefore, sin is Gods enemy
and sin is the enemy OF the human
'ace. Yet, God so loved the world