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

81 met a good many people who
seem to think that to be Christian
means to be a sort of a dishraS
kind of a fellow, a wishy-washy
milksop. 1 want to tell you you
never made a bigger blunder in
your life.
Not Slowed Up.
Before / was converted I could
put on a pair of running shoes and
hit the dirt 100 yards in 10 seconds
from the crack of the pistol. l
could circle the diamond in IA sec
onds from a starting start. And l
was handy with my dukes, too.
Il could run just as fast after l
was decent as l could before I was
decent, and l could circle the bases
just as fast after l prayed as I
could before 1 prayed. l can still
handle my dukes pretty good. l
can go so fast for five rounds you
! can't see me. I meet a lot of peo-
pie that seem to think that a mys-
terry. They don't know that
Christianity was intended to in
crease the highest possible degree
of happiness, and the man that flies
in the face of God is a fool.
! But what are some fellows do
I ing to get ready for the Judgment!
| Well, I find there are some who are
! living only for money. Oh, there
are fellows whose entire idea of
( life is one long-continued, busy tan
gle from morning till night! The
rambler sells his soul for money,
the saloon keeper sells his soul for
money-oh, the girl will sell her
virtue for money, and the burglar
will. crack your safe to steal what
he didn't have the manhood or the
grit or ambition to earn, and the
get-rich-quick fellow will float fake
mining stock to pick your pockets
of money because the dirty Dog
could not earn it himself; or some
fellow will forge note to draw
money out of the bank because he
can't make good under his own
name. And so a girl, say, win
sell her womanhood and try ana
justify her sins on the grounds of
her needs.
do you mean to say that any
mans needs are tantamount with
any of those things? Do you mean
to say the qualification of his de-
sires are tantamount to the moral
law? Do you mean to say that be-
cause he wants a suit of clothes
that that's tantamount 10 sticking a
gun under your nose?
1.-THE bible hasn't one word to
say against success. The bible APP
plauds success. The bible has no
quarrel with success. The bible
SAYS that the man that doesn't pro-
vide for his family is worse than
an infidel. There is nothing against
success at all in the bible-not
word.
According to our standard of
gold and silver, as 1 told you, Abb
raham was worth a billion and
half dollars; and David was worth
nearly three billions, and Solomon
was worth over five billions of dol
lars, almost the amount that we
raised for the war loan that was
subscribed.
And, therefore, if you want to
live in order to give of your sur
plus of accumulations to make the |
world better and help good, worthy |
institutions and organizations, / |
hope to God that you will all die
worth a million apiece.
But if you want to live to get all |
you can and can all you get, and /
never mind how you get it, hope |
to God you will die in the poor |
house.
I'VE have got a lot of guys in
this country that stand around on |
corners and loaf around stale beer |
joints and cuss and damn and whit /
tie and spit and condemn every
body that's got dollar. whether |
scaliawag or not: and l notice that |
all these guys that knock the fell
low that's got the money would |
take every cent the fellows got If |
he'll give it to them,
do you think that that fellow IS
going out and work and sweat and !
toll and labor and then hand his
money over to you? You lazy loon,
not on your tfn-type! Not on your
tin-typeI Not on your life!
And so we live for money, and
yet II you owned the world you'd
be mighty glad If you could only
have standing room in heaven
when you die. l.
No Pockets In Shroud.
$50 don't worry about your
There will be no pockets
In your Bhroud. Your arms will be
SO still you couldn't get them in
there anyway, So don't worry
about thati Don't stop for any
thing l say today. If your idea is
TO accumulate money, and IL you
are going to lie or steal or cheat
OF uBs crooked methods to get If
II you are not willing. my friends. f
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