The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-09-29
REV. R. FOSTER BRADLEY, OF TROY,
DELIVERS A TIMELY SERMON
DISTINGUISHED DIVINE VIEWS WITH ALARM DEPARTURE
FROM TEACHINGS OF BIBLE.-CALLs ON WOMEN TO LIVE
ACCORDING TO LAW THE WORK RATHER Than
FOLLOW ROTTEN POLITICIANS AND WOMEN
AGITATORS.

to it's people and the people have
fallen before the temptation. This
government has tempted its people
to profane the Sabbath day by al
lowing trains to run shrleklng
through the land on the Sab
bath and by distributing mail on
that holy day. And forty-six states
in the union have tempted the peo-
pie in those states by giving them
unscriptual divorce. And now the
nation has tempted all of its people
by giving the suffragettes the legal
right to vote. No state has the right
to lead it's people to break the Sab
bath day; no state has the right to
give unscriptual divorce to its peo-
pie and no state has the right to
give suffrage to women. In all these
things the state is temptation and a
snare to the people committing lnl-
ouity by law and tempting the
people to break the law of the Lord,
and in a case of that kind we are
not to obey the state but to obey the
law of the Lord. When the Jewish
Sanhedrium commanded Peter and
John, not to speak nor to teach in
the name of Jesus, they answered
whether it is right in the sight of
God to bear Ken unto you more
the unto God judge ye.
Some women say they do not es-
pecially care for the vote 'but as it
has been brought to them they will
use it. But who brought it to them?
Satan brought the apple to Eve, and
l suspect Satan has brought the
vote to the women and he said to
Eve We shall not surely die, and NO
doubt he is saying to the daughters
of Eve you surely shall not do any
harm with the vote when God had
| said have nothing to do with the
apple nor with the vote. Satan lied
unto Eve and no doubt he is lying
unto the daughters of Eve. Eve did
die and the daughters of Eve died
and now the willy tempter has
brought them the suffrage and they
have accepted it and the lying SER
pent has seen his second great tri-
umph over women. Ask yourself
where your right to vote came from.
It came from women like Susan B.
Anthony and Anna Shaw, one of
whom wanted free love with her
vote and it came from politicians
who hope to profit by it and back of
them, I think it came from Satan
for the church did not authorize it
and the Bible did not approve of it.
If Eve had needed the word of the
Lord she would not have fallen. She
was told plainly not to eat of the
fruit of the tree on pain of death
and the suffragette is told just as
plainly not to cast vote in North
America or any where else in the
world and now if thou be wise thou
thou shalt be wise for thy
self, but if thou scornest thou alone
shall bear it.
The whole theocratic govern
ment of the world is carride on by
three officers, the civil. magistrate,
the husband and the parent and the
man who disobeys the civil magis-
trate and the wife who disobeys her
husband and the child who disobeys
It's parents all commit the same SIN
and they not only sin against
mar, but sin against God
to execute his law in the world: The
wife must obey her husband then
not for wrath, out for conscience
sake, not because she is afraid Of
! her husband, but because she is
afraid OF the Lord whom her hus-
band represents. Sanctify the Lord
of host and make him your fear and
your dread.
! The race did not fall when Eve
ate the forbidden fruit and it never
would have fallen if Adam had not
eaten it because Adam was the head
of the race and responsible for it.
Eve would have been punished for
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