Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-22
LIFE is EMPTY
BUBBLE IF GOD
is FORGOTTEN
Fellow Gets Nothing Under Sun Ii
He Lives for World Alone, Says
Sunday In Sermon.
By GOTTA BARTHOLOMEW.

0I OOIIA bA hIHULUMEN
Life isn't worth the gaff if there
IS no reward awaiting It's accom-
plishment, said Sunday last even
ing in speaking on the subject, "A
Lesson from Solomon" in which
he gave a mastery address. found
ing his wonderful flow of elo-
quence and wisdom on the scrip
tural text, What profit nath a man
of all his labor which he taketh
under the SUM-"
What does a fellow get out of
life If he only lives for the world?
We've just begun to know a little
bit when we discover that moth
ing under the sun satisfies our
SOUL" he continued. The man who
has greed for honor, there is moth
ing that the world can give him
that satisfies it, without God,
nothing on earth will satisfy. and
you can have the best. You de-
stroy the bible, destroy faith in
God, you might as well eat, curse.
drink, damn and lie Nothing will
satisfy until it lifts you above the
sun
Continuing, he said. At some
time in our lives we have all en-
Wed great scholarships and great
ability, and we have all thought II
would be a foretaste Of heaven if
we only had the opportunity to
learn all we'd like to know. and
we believe that the greatest joy
was the Joy of knowing all you'd
like to know or possessing all
you'd like to own.
And Solomon drank the foun-
tain of knowledge dry. and he said,
GO to, now, and | will see what
/ can get out of pleasure and
mirth.' and he cut loose on that
line and carried on in such a way
that it would make a baseball fan
at the worlds series look like a
wooden dummy in a clothing store.
He climbed into his golden
coach with its diamond set wheels
and he went round the track so
fast that II would make Barney
OIdfield look like a piker. Why,
he set the bleaChers crazy. and he
brought the grandstand to its feet
shrieking and screaming out, sir,
and with breakneck speed he
swung in high gear down the rose
lined avenues OF sensual pleasures
that opened up in front Of him in
every direction. Just as though
they led straight into paradise in
stead of straight into the pit OF
hell.
BY and by his shining chariot
of pleasure lost a wheel and ne
was down in the mud and the
slough OF despOnd crying out to
she fOur-fiushers and the pikers
that are trying to follow his lead.
Go back. you fools. go back,
There is nothing in it; it is all
vanity; it is nothing but a lemon.
Go back! Go back
Then he took to hitting the
booze.
He had a molten sea that con-
tanned 22.21O gallons of wine. and
this molten sea rested upon the
backs of u golden oxen, three
standing with their faces to the
north. three to the south, three TO
the east and three to the west.
And he loved strange women
There is where he struck out They
soon had him hanging over the
ropes. with his tongue out. He
had seven hundred wives and three
hundred conCubines. WHY, he made
old Brigham Young look like a
bushwhack er And be laid hold on
folly with both hands. and he found
that only an empty bubble. and he
said. 1t is all vanity and yeXatiOn
of SPIRIT"
Send New Daddy Home.
Mr.. Sunday told at some length
Of instances where he had sent
fathers. reformed and regenerated,
home to their families, and he
said:
And If I can send a new daddy
home, you know, l don't give three
whoops this side of hell for all of
that black hearted. degenerated
gang Of imps-well, you know
that bawl and spew out about me.
I've sent hundreds OF thousands of
daddies home to their little ones.
Won't you please take new daddy
home tonight Wont you please
take him and introduce him TO the
children? Take a new husband
home tonight and introduce him to
that wife of yours. Try 1t and see
the blessing that will come to you.
Some big fools are content to
let others feed and fatten and gor-
mandize on the blood and bone and
brawn Of their wife and children. |
If I could have my way, every drop !
of alcohol would be in hell before