The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-22

you know, or would you rather have
no standing IN the estimation Of the
people that know you? Would you
rather stand AAG on Gods books
| and have the devil taboo you, or
would You rather have an honorary
position In the DEVILS books and
have God blot your name ont? You
say, as any decent man or woman
| would.
Never Mind The .DcvfA
~e.~s Asts.d ~7s..ss -ak.s-Hg-,. -1,y..-,
say. LEVITT ,ssanT with God Aifnfghty
II 1t takes every drop of blood in my
| body. ! viii live for Him"
] go to man and say: How do
you do" Ia he a member OF a lodge :?
Yes. A Mason? Yes. Been raised
from q dead level TO a living perpen-
| dicular. Yes
Oh! know every one Of you Ma
, sons have prayed at least once In
your life. When you walked up to
the altar and the supreme ruler pray
ed and you repeated after him what
he told you. You prayed once
level. didn't you
How do you DO" Is he an ODD
Fellow. Yes Does he know the les
son, Of David and Jonathan and the
Good Samaritan! Yen.
Is he Knight Of Pythiaa? Yes.
Can he jump? I DON'T know. He is
true to his lodge. He wfll give q
brother his hand and shars his lard
err with him. Good!
hike to zee a man true in bust
ness. I lille to sec a man true to
married? Yes. True to his wife ?
Yes. sir. He'd stand up and let .
regiment fire at him. every man arm
ed with a machine gun, he'd put his
head on tho railroad track and let the
Twentieth Century Limited pound 1t
into jelly before he'd be false to his
marriage vows.
I will not ask you whether he is
Catholic or Protestant, whether he Is
to: ~IS he true to his wife,- Yes
true to a lodge? Yes. True in bust
ness. Yes
Oh! True to evury emanation Of
truth and yet untrue to Jesus Christ,
the source Of truth.
Tell me why a man will be true to
business. true to the lodge. true to
his wife and yet he will be false to
Jesus Christ?
Some P1aan FAc<a
Come on. am asking you for IN
formation. get up II you've got II.
want to know why"
Oh, There 10 about as much con-
nectfon between some men and Jesus
Christ n there n between . man with
wooden leg and The rest Of the body
Of q fellow.
And you've got 10 have more claims
on heaven than the fact that your
mother b Mp there You 20 to =
man and say to him.
They tell me You are N old liar
and they won't believe you in a court
room on stack Of Bibles. II that
SOL .-.>--. -4-.4-
7 suppc7e SO, Mr. Sunday, I'm Just
human. Don't put the standard too
high for poor weak. struggling hu-
mainly"
go to a man and say to him:
They tell me you are an old thief
and they have to watch you all the
time and keep everything out of your
way. Is that So
Il suppose 80. but don't put the
standard too high and expect too
ity.. e:,,
l GO to . man ana say: They tell
me you are An old adultercr. and you
look upon every woman as q sort Of
divine preroxative with whom to graf
ify our desires. In that so3''
Il suppose SO. but don't put the
standard too high. Mr.. Sunday Don't
expect too much from poor strugE-
ling humanity"
Is that the way good men talk when
you go to them with charges deroga-
tory to their manhood
Mo- Up Et1ea hin Al0od and his
'fasts Aoes amA he 4sAsxt - Miu allow
no man TO SANDER and a1sAssinAte my
character and I demand an apology
OF you"--that 70 the way men talk.
II I go to a man and say: They
tell me you are an old Episcopaiian
or an old Methodist. n backslidcr.
IL that sol"
Don't Ovc<tAx Humanity.
Wen. I suppose 80 but don't ex-
poet too much from poor. struggling
humanity"
And one time he used TO pray. Un-
true my friends. to Jesus Christ. the
source Of truth and yet true to the
emanations Of truth. Is that IT:
o. I tell you the men and women
In the church that win not sell out,
will move for Jesus Christ az sure
as you're living. Tennyson said: 20,
for a man to arise In me. that the
man l am might cease 70 b."
Emerson said: What must do
concerns me. not what people think"
n friend. who never made . foe
Burke said: you must either be
an anvil or q hAmmer-one Of the
two"
MAKE up your mind and go to
tight your way through this old world
and live A. God tells you.
What about q woman? God AL
mighty marked out the same path for
men? and women. Sin h sexless.
What - wrong for q woman to do h
wrong for a man to do. and the cry
ing need of American today h thu sin
gle standard for men and women. A
fallen man Ia as truly an adulteress.
as . fallen woman u an Adulteress.
1t makes no difference to God
whether the one that sins wears a
plug hat or hair pima, = coat or =
petticoat. Sin n aaxIese
There u many = man that stoops
and does the thing that he Wouldn't
want his wife to do. No. And he
Gays -She IL my wife, or she IA my
sister. or she u my sweetheart. or she
IL going to be my wife"
And yet your wife has just an good
a right to walk down and sit around
with . gang and NIL her hide up with
booze ~ you have, and then staSger
home vomiting and spewing as you