Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-18

men whose honor hangs like mea
in a butcher shop and you can blu!
it for so much a pound. so much ;
head is the characteristic wa,
that Billy Sunday defined the mar
that is untrue, in his sermon OF
'Backsliders," delivered last even
ing at the tabernacle. Continuing
he said in part:
When you leave the world, yor
leave something more than ar
epnaph on a tombstone. You leave
regrets in the hearts of people
whom you have lifted toward Goo
because you, yourself had known
something of the Lord.
| 1t is one thing to be a member Of
a church, another to be a member
of the body of Jesus Christ; al
though they ought to be synony,
nous, but they are not There are
thousands of members of the Wis.
/ ible church-the Methodist, Luth.
eran, Presbyterian, Congregational
ist-they are members of the Wis
ible church but not members OF
the body of Jesus Christ for they
| have never been born again. There
will be lots of church members in
hell. Lots of Protestants in hell
lots of Catholics in hell-they never
were converted, they never had a
| change of life, never were born
| again.
You can't beat the devil sister
| he has been preying on this old
world for 5000 years, he never has
rheumatism or appendicitis or peri
! tonitis. If you get to playing tag
with the devil in his door yard he
will hit you on the back and say
tag, you are it," You can't put it
over on him.
Some church members have the
hoof and mouth disease, they run
around the neighborhood and wind
jam about their neighbors and talk
about them.
preach against certain amuse-
ments, you will be aware of this
fact before l leave this city. !
don't do it to arouse your antagon-
ism, am not a crank. You can
come here and sit and listen to me,
and l am not a crank about any
thing, and my warfare is for the
interest and virtue and morals of
men and women. 1 don't care
three whoops who I have to antag-
onize or what institution or corpora
ton have to fight to make it cas-
Ter for men to get to heaven and
harder for men to get to hell!
1 find more people in the church
that are kept out from communion
/ with God. and more people kept
outside than. are coming in. If you
live wrong you can't die right so
make up your mind what you want
to do.
Religion is not for time, not for
money, it is not for business, it is
not for society, it is not for poll
tics. 1t is for God, it is for life
and death, for better or for worse /;
to be carefully considered before
you can take a step and set your
face like a flint and never deviate
from the path that God lays down
for you to walk in. 1t will end in
apostasy if you don't return.
Some of you folks did amount to
something before you came to town
but now you are nothing but rotten
Goldfish. All right, come on back TO
God and be some of the Lord
speckled trout and not the devils
Goldfish.
In business life there are unfore-
seen hard times, the war has got
ten all business out of joint, many
a man has found it had work TO
weather the blast There are I'M
forseen hard times. You may be
able to overdraw your account at
the bank. You may not. The
banks may know you too we'll.
But no draft has ever been made
from an honest heart on the bank
window of heaven that God AL
mighty ever refused to honor and
I don't care who you are or what
your condition is now, if, out of
sinners heart you ask God for
Christ's sake to forgive and forget
the past, God Almighty will blot
it out as a cloud, and if you will
shove in at the bank window Of
heaven a confession of the fact that
you are a sinner, God will pass you
back salvation in exchange for
your sins In other words, he will
give you good money for counter
felt Come on!
You may differ from me in poll
tics. in business, you may differ
from me in religion. if l know that
your ideals are wrong, will work
hard to convince you of. your err
rors, clarity your vision, let you
catch a glimpse of Jesus Christ,
but all the time l will admire you
and respect you if you are living
up to your highest ideal of what
you believe to be true. But if !
know what you believe to be true
is erroneous l will work hard to
lead you into the light but all the
time l am doing i'll say 1 will ad-
mire you although I may differ
from you, if you are living up to
your highest ideal.
You admire a true man, a true
woman, although you may differ
from them. Sir, all men will not
sell out. Oh, butt am ashamed and
Inundated to say that with some
men it is merely matter of price.
Some men you can buy to vote
on election day for a few beers;
some men will sell their franchise
and their honor. There are men you
can buy; there are men that are
subsidized through fear; there are
men that are afraid to open their
shops to let speakers in because
the whisky gang have given them
notice not to do it. I despise a
dirty dog like that! That is my
answer to you, you dirty, bull neck
ed imps, the whisky bunch, you
wait till l get at youi You know
what is coming!
| am ashamed to say there are