The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-03


God Is still on tho throne and he
has said: The sins Of the father shall
be visited upon the third and fourth
generations OF them that are evil.'
Down to the third and fourth. There
is no fifth for the fourth win be a
lunatic.
PUT ANY TOWN ON BLINK.
There are three things which will
ruin any town and give 1t a bad
name. Open license saloons, open
stores on the Sabhath"--and here
Sunday lit into those who are cir
culating and signing the petition ask
ing city authorities to be lenient in
enforcing the Sunday closing law
land dirty. GUESSING. swearing gang
of hlacklegs on the streets. Let a
town be known for these three things
and these alone. and you could never
start boom half big enough to get
ono man there
No man can be good husband,
no man can be n good father. no man
can be respectable citizen. no man
can be a gentleman, and swear. You
can hang out sign of gentleman, but
when you cuss you might as well take
1t in
odd men, young men. boys swear.
What do you cuss for? 1t doesn't do
any good, gains you nothing In bust
ness. society: 1t loses you the esteem
of men. God said more about swear
ing than anything else. God said
Thou shalt not KILL and he stopped
He said. Thou shalt not steal and
He stopped, He said, Thou shalt not
bear false Witness and He stopped.
but God said more about GUESSING than
them all, and they are still cussing.
He said, Thou shalt not take the
name of the Lord thy God In vain.
for the Lord will not hold him guilt
less who taketh His name in vain
NO EXCUSE FOR CUSSING.
Il can see how man could be
placed in such u position that he
would Kill and be exonerated by the
law OF God and man, Ii he killed to
protect his life or the life OF another:
can see how man could be forced
TO steal. IL he stole to keep his wife
and children from starving: but can
not see how you can possibly set any
thing out of cussing."
The speaker had some pertinent
things to say about personal liberty.
Personal liberty" he said. us not
personal license. 1 dare not exercise
personal liberty If 1t infringes on the
iApVAt y VI oeAfSto OQE ula
not fight and die for personal license,
but for personal liberty, bounded by
laws. Personal liberty Is the liberty
or red-handed anarchist Personal
liberty Is the liberty OF a burglar. or
wolf that wants TO remain in the
sheepfold. or the weasel In a hen
roost. And many of us are human
wolves and weasels.'
He never loses an opportunity to
pay his respects to the whiskey traffic
You have no right to vote for an in
stitution that is going to drag your
sons and daughters to hell" he said
with his characteristic vchemence
No. sir!" bringing his fist down on
the pulpit stand.
Where Personal Liberty Stops.
AS long as / am standing hero OF
this platform. / have personal liberty
/ can swing my arms at will {And no
does.) But the minute that any one
else steps on the platform. my per-
sonal liberty ceases I, stops just one
inch from the other fellows nose.
Right there. Indicating point tn
the air.)
You haven't any right to live in
sin. You say youth do it anyway.
All right: you'll go to he'll, too. Adam
and Eve said they would eat the apple
ohSAo"' anu Tic Woilu became u
graveyard.
NO man lives to himself alone.
When You go TO hell you're going to
drag some one else down with you,
and if you go to heaven. you're going
to take some one else with YOU"
The preacher had several things to
say about vice. III any one ever tells
you that you can't be virtuous and en-
JOY good health, brand him as a low.
infamous. biack-hearted liar. No
sum that man may leave to a char
table institution can blot out the
deeds OF an ignominious life.
Il sometimes hear a man say, 'Its
nobodys business how I live Then
say he is the most dirty, low-down,
sinking, whiskey soaked, beer-gu1-
cling, bull-neckcd, foul-mouthed hypo.
critic that ever had brain rotten
enough to conceive such statement
and lips vile enough to utter 1t.
Others Suffer, Too.
when you come staggering home,
cussing right and left and spewing
and splitting, your wife suffers, your
children suffer. A man that goes to
the DSnltenttarY makes his wife and
children suffer Just as much as he
does. You're placing stain on your
wife and children. II vOu,re n dirtv