The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1920-01-17

chase the cigarette with it's filthy pictures,
with its splrlt-damning pollution, with the
unclean suggestion of an itnmodest, impure
and nude production, such as these internal
makers of cigarettes delight to create, to
get the nickels Of millions Of children.
And many of them do not grow up, but
wither and die in thousands and in tens of
thousands, and think in hundreds of
thousands, before they reach the age of man
hood. But if they do pass into manhood,
in most cases, by the hellish passions of
these combinations, they are victims of self
abuse self-pollution and impurity, so that
when they should be men they are worn out
debauchees, unfit to enter into manhood and
its responsibilities
Figure that out Figure the death of
thousands and tens of thousands on the way,
and figure out the losses to the nation of an
emasculated youth entering in upon the dut-
les of manhood as husband, as father, as
citizen, with withered and destroyed power
that makes him the contempt of the woman
who has to suffer from life long legal
| bond a chain that attaches her to the with
ering, diseased and rotten carcase of man
| who lost all his manhood before he offered
her marriage.
Figure that out Think what that means.
Think what it means in the offspring that
are born of such. Think what it means
1t means this: That large numbers of
these young men stand back from their re-
sponsibilities as men, and plunge into the
depths of hell and become debauchees, de-
stroyers of women. They are afraid to
stand before the world as men, They know
that the offspring that would come from
them would be branded with the brand of
their sin, and they plunge into the depths
of hell and hellish passion to avoid the
responsibilities of manhood that which
every man ought to be delighted to assume
The responsibilities which God and nature
impose upon man to be man, husband,
a father and a citizen, training up men and
women who shall be blessing to untold
ages, they are untitled for.
These withered, emasculated wretches,
dare not to assume these duties, but they
dress up in paper collars, (laughter) and in
paste diamonds, and they affect the air of
the society dude, (laughter) and go march
ing down the street as if they contained the
sun, moon and the planets in their waist
coat pockets Humbugs! Fools Liars
Cheats! Debauchees, dastardly as hell
B1ots upon the face of nature The only
encouraging feature is that they perish
early unless they repent and turn to God
and even then they are for the most part
! not much use. It takes years, and years to
get the poison out of their blood, and enable
them to stand emancipated before the world.
But thank God, there are those who have
! escaped, (Amen) but it is as if by fire they
have escaped from damnation. The stink
of the smoke and birthstone of hell hangs
around them, and it takes years to take the
| lines out of their faces. But thanks be to
God, when He takes the sin out of their
hearts, He can wipe the lines out of their
faces. Only Divine Healing can come in
| there.
Try to figure that out in money. You
can not even from an economic point Of
view figure it out.
But friends figure too the broken hearts
of good Christian mothers and good Chris
tian fathers who presented to the world pure
babies, and strong youths, whom the ac-
cursed poison cup and the accursed incense
to Bacchus have made wrecks today, living
the lives I have described Too often all
that the father and mother have to look at
for all the labor of their lives, is a dishonor
ed grave where the polluted boy or girl lies
in their dishonored dust.
"Would God he had died when he was
babyW O how many mother has cried out
that when she has looked at her dead son.
Robbed, wounded, not half dead but wholly
dead, for the robbers and the processing
Christians have been selling the internal fire,
smoke and birthstone and sitting in the
Church of God with the profits in their
pockets and posing as the children of God,
when they are the very ministers of that
Abaddon, the King from the deepest depths
of hell.
claim that I should be far short of it, if
I added ten hundred millions more; but |
will only add seven hundred millions more,
making fourteen hundred millions Of dollars
Isl 400, 100000 yearly as the direct and in
direct cost of Tobacco yearly in the United
States Take these two figures and put
them together, and I have four thousand
millon-four billions of dollars every year.
Intoxicating liquors ..9A,oOO'OOO'oooOOO OoOO
Tobacco l,Too'ooo'ooo
$4,OOOOOoooO
Not one year and then it stops, but every
wear an economic loss to this nation OF the