The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-03
Chickens Come Home
To Roost
(Sermon Delivered Sunday Afternoon, February
by Mr. Sunday

do you want to interfere with my
business ?"
II heard a man beating his wife
and heard her shrieks and the chill
dren's cries and my wife would tell me
to GO and see what was the matter and
went in and found a great bis.
broad -sh ouldered ~hixkey soaked. hog
jovied, ~easei-eyed. pug-nue dragging
q little woman around by the hair and
two children In the corner uncon.
, scious from HIS kicks and the othsrs
yelling In noJsct terror, and he said
what are you coming In to inter-
fers with my personal liberty forr
Isn't this my wife! Didn't I pay for
the license to wed her:
Aren't these my childreN- Didn't
I pay the doctor to bring them into
tho worid7
III want to beat them. Whist In that
your business: Aren't they mime
Would apologize. Never. rd
knock seven kinds OF pork out Of that
old hog.
Liberty Wet 1Iee~se.
Personal liberty ia not personal
| license.
dare not exercise personal liberty
| il Il infrinGes Oh liberty of others
Our forefashers did not night and die
| for personal license, bat for PERSONAL
liberty bounded by laws. Personal lib
| crty Is the liberty Of = red handed
anarchiss, Personal liberty ia tho lib
| erty of Il burglar. Of u seducer. or .
reaper. or a wolf that wants to re-
main In y shsspfoid. or the weasel in
| q hen roost
You have NO right to vote for An
Institution that 10 going to drag your
sons and daughters to hell
II you were the only citizen IA
Richmond you would have perfect
right to drive your horse down the
| street ut breakneck speed. You would
| have . right to make d race track cut
OF the ST -eets for your auto. you could
build n slaughter house In the public
square. you could build a glue factory
In the public square. but when tho
population increases above one you
can't do It. You say:
| why can't run my auto. own
II. why can't run my horsee !
own It. Why can't build the siaugh-
ter housef I own the lot" Yes, but
| ,ther people have rights
SO law stands between you and pef.
sonaf liberty. you miserable dog You
can't build . slaughter house In your
front yard. because the law says you
can't A. k... az ! am standing here
on this platform ] have personal lib.
erty. can swing my arms at will
| But the minute amy one eiAe steps on
tho platform my personal liberty
ceaaeA 1t stops just one inch from
1 the CVn6V IetfoWS nose. kiRnt tneFoy
Indicating point in the Air.1
! When persons acts affect only
himself they can be left to the con-
science Of the individual, but when
they AFFECT others the law steps In.
when child has diphthsria you are
not allowed personal liberty: you are
! quarantiped, because your personal
liberty would endanger others n exer-
cised. SO you haven't any right -
live in sin. You say ycu'n do II any
how. All right, you'll 20 TO hell. too
Adam and Eve said they would eat the
apple anyhow, and the world became .
! graveyard. and here's the result to
day.
+, 7 look out into the world and sec ,
man living in sin. I argued with him.
1 plead with him. cry out warming
words. brand that man with black
brand. whose inirnities are responsible
for the fall Of others
Year ain Hurts. Others.
No man lives to himself alsaA.
hurt - hslD others ~ NJ 49, 49,