Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-29

! then you ought to be in the peni-
Tertiary. You can't do as you
please in the indulgence of your
desires, then you become a moral
anarchist. You can't do it. God
has laws you've got to line up to
as well as the state of Illinois and
as we'll as the government of the
United States.
Oh! to see people that would
| die before they ever dipped their
colors to the devil of any of his
emissaries or cohorts. I tell you
| today, the church does not seem to
be much more than a social organ
ization. They spend more time de-
veloping along social lines than
along spiritual lines And they
spend more time on the folderols,
and if you ask them to do some
thing, they've got to whine and
grumble about how much time
they have given for Gods cause.
And OH. And God provided saliva
ton for them, opened the doors of
heaven and made streets of gold
for them to walk on when they get
to heaven. oh what a good-for-
nothing wretch 1 was to growl
about what God Almighty wanted
{ me to do in the old world for
Him"
And the business men, infuen-
tial church members, don't do their
duty. They are wrapped up in
their own affairs. and busy with
the pursuits and frivolities Of the
time, and lose track of the way
The old time fire and old time
spirit is lacking today. What can
be expected of a social club other
than a leading away from God.
and the church wants more of
God, less of dress, less striving aft
er money, less striving after So
cial position.
The most glorious exploits don't
always furnish us with the best
index into the vice or the virtue of
man or d woman. Sometimes a
look or word, a gesture, an act,
your absence, your presence will
give me clearer insight into your
manhood and into your woman
hood than some deed Of bravery or
act of prowess.
DeFu CauScS IFOuble.
I wonder if there is a father
here that never had any trouble
with his boys. This father was
weighed down with trouble and all
because of the devil. The devil is
the cause of shame; he is the
cause Of trouble; he is the cause of
theft; he is the cause of adultery,
Of h. &c &c
cry saloon and yet some people
think / am throwing rocks at them
when l talk against the devil, and
they are greatly disturbed and feel
horribly shocked.
They say: well, the old devil
pays real well. Let him stay"
oh! look at the moral wreclage
because a lot of good-for-nothing
God-for-saken, whisky-soaked pol
iticians let him stay.
Look at the wreckage it leaves,
look at the murders, the moral as
sassins. Look at the red light
field, with the flower of young
manhood and young womanhood
today. Look at them down in the
haunts of sin, women that have not
clothes enough on them to make
a tail for a kite, or a flag for a
hand car, appealing to the lustful
desires of the men. l want to tell
you, the masculine degeneration
will never stop until the women of
America reform their dress. A
man can't go and sit and look at
you with a rig like that on and
have prayer meeting thoughts very
long. Not on you life.
Every saloon gives the devil a
better chance to get your boy into
hell. and if you want all the world
to be better after a while, keep the
devil away from the boys and girls
now. And if you want to drive the
devil out of the world, hit him /
with a cradle instead of a crutch, ,
then you will do something.
Certainly this card-playing, |
beer-drinking, champion-cocktaiI, :
sort of a crowd
could not cast the devil out of a
boy as big as a peanut Now as (
a principle increases in its mean
ings, it decreases in its numbers, |
that is a shame. Sup
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