The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-25
The Timid Woman
Semon Delivered by Rev Billy Sunday at City Auditorium
Night of January 24)

Doesn't 1t give employment to multi
tudes? Don't lawyers. and sherifrs,
and jailkcepers, and pen!tcntiary
keepers. and contractors who supply
the jails and the penitentiaries. and
the insane asylums. and the homes for
/ feebte-ininpad, and all the institutions
OF that dirty business kept packed
fuil OF the wrecks OF humanity
don't they get rich living from the
stream OF dollars that the devii pours
INTO their pockets oh, doesn't II
make times good Doesn't il bring
trade? Doesn't it promote social
bility" Doesn't il. my friend. and
don't we have good feeling? Don't
they shake hands more In the saloons
than they do in the church. and don't
we need the license to do that?
saloons Ifll Jails
on. yes you need the saloons TO
| keep the jails full. You need saloons
10 keep the electric chairs and scat
folds going. You need the saloons in
order to keep the houses of iilfame
filled. We need the saloons to keep
our insane asylums and homes for
feeble minded and our hospitals fuli.
We need II to keep the land filled with
the werckage, with the jetsame OF the
folks who have gone under In that
Infamous business.
Oh, you might have heard big line
of talk like that over in Gadara "a
delegation after delegation came rush
ing up to Jesus. pale faced. and
begged him to Get out OF hero with
your disciples; 20 down to the sea
and get in your boat and leave here
as quickly as you can. because every
minute you tarry our business is going
to ruin"
Or, 1t makes a lot OF difference
whether you look Mt things from the
hog standpoint or from the stand
point OF manhood and womanhood
and childhood, The man who thinks
more OF his hogs then he does of his
wife and chiIdren--he is the devils
idea of what a husband ought to be.
And 1t is as easy TO bring heaven
and hell together as 1t is to bring
Jesus and whiskey together. HOLDING
dollar in front OF some fellows eyes
makes them blind to everything that
is decent; and when the Gadarenes
told Jesus that they preferred their
hogs TO him he took them at their
word. lie left and he's never been
back from that day till this-~~neyer.
never
Take You at Your Word.
An right. II you prefer society
with its sins to Jesus Christ he VIII,
take you at your word. II YOU prefer
profanity to Jesus Christ he will take
you at your word and leave yau
alone. II you prefer vice to Jesus
Christ, II you think more OF a whlskey
bottle than Jesus Christ; If. you'd
rather lie than pray; If YOU ID rather
steal than be honest; IL you'd rather
be deceptive and doubIe-dyea
treacherous, yillianous devi1 than to
be honest and pure. Jesus says Take
it and go with 1t and tho reward will
come"
And Jesus said to the man out Of
whom He had cast out the devil:
Now, they have driven me out. I'd
like to stay here and tell them a little
bit more. but they don't want me
around. SO you go back hon1e and
tell them what great things the Lord
hath done for you and. how He had
mercy on your soul"
And he didn't say to this fellow,
BE good
How could he be good with The
devil In him +? Oh. hear 80 much AZ
that tommyrot Be good! How can
they We good with the devil in themf
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