The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-23

u and fingered II lovingly and remark
ed several times that Dad had written
70 him, but never even opened Il.
4 Wouldn't that be queer. And yet peo-
! PIE treat the bible that way. You're
drifting away tonight. You dust the
Bibie-oh yes but where are the tear
stains and the thumbed pages? Bur.
glars go to the Bible first thing for
I money. They know where the valua-
bles are hid. You keep your recipes
there-all your treasured poems and
LOCKS Of hair. But you never open it
and read.
You're tied to public opinion and
you'll lose your soul through cowardice
IL you don't watch out because SO
many are doing Just what you are.
People are growing cynical. They
can't find good In anything any more.
They run down the city government.
They run down everything and criti-
1 else everybody. Nobody is any good.
Nobody Is honest. II you'd take them
to great art gallery and show them
wonderful picture they'd say, "But
/ just look at the fly specks on the
} Crane" II you point out beautiful
character they say, "oh, he's all right
but" and you go on butting that
man down! It's the same with WON
an. You'll admire her-all butt There's
always but somewhere.
One of the main reasons why a man
backslides Is because he fails to hand
In his letter when he moves from one
city to another. He says he Just won't
do it because he needs little rest
land has been Sunday school teacher or
OTTER leader until he's tired. After
a while he never goes back to the
church and I've known men to go from
indifference to bad and worse because
OF this. Sometimes he even goes down
to degradation because he's not square
with God.
Many people hold to the form of re.
ltgion but never know the real mean.
ing of the word. They call them.
selves children OF God but have no real
spiritual understanding. They are fol.
lowing the shadow only. A man once
swore of from booze and for years
did not touch 1t but one day some
friends OF his took him of up tho
mountains where there thrived a still.
After the first drink was down the rest
was easy and before long the man was
drunk. He tried to sleep it of and
after sometime he decided he could go
back down the mountain to his wife
and home. He got along all right until
he came to stream of water which
I he could cross in no other way than
over o foot log. He eyed the log<and
he said to himself never in the
| world can make it. I'm sill too drunk.
III have to coon" it. So he got down
and he cooned it, crawling over on
hands and knees? When he got homs
he was dripping wet and his wife want
ed to know why he was in that condi.
ton. After telling her a number of
falsehoods he finally broke down and
confessed. By that time he had so
bered up enough to know that instead
OF the log he had cooned the shadow
OF that log and as consequence was
thoroughly drenched.
A man was taken from the train
drunk and officers were removing him
to place of safety. The man broke
away while going along road and
ran all around in a circle and up
against a fence. Are you keepin'
up?" he shouted to his escort. That's
the way with some people. They think
they are going some when all the time
they're going around in circle and
they want to know II others are keep.
ing up. They go to church and say a
little testimony and think they're all
right. It's like piano man exam.
ined once to find the cause of an awful
discord. After long search he discov.
cred tall beer bottle leaning UP
against the sound board at the back
OF the piano where he hadn't thought
to look. Some people have beer bot
ties up against their sound boards and
don't know it today.
And this is prohibition town.
Billy LaMance gave short act from
play OF his own last night when hs
used a red hymn book and called 1t a
mans bosom sin while he illustrated
aptly how he chung to 1t in the face OF
everything. He put the book on the
floor and he picked it up again and he
went through agonized attempts to
give up that small to no avail. FL
nally he showed how a man carried
that sin into the church and pretended
he was just as good as anyone and
that 1t didn't matter anyway. He COM
promised with the devil The Lord
had no faith in such q man and no
such excuses would go on the final
judgment day.
Last nights service was filled with
good things and ended shortly after
nine. LaMance promised 1t should
end even earlier tonight and asked for
a large congregation at all services
one to be held every night. He said
he was disappointed to see so few OF
his advertising cards In the windows
about the city-he asked that people
put them out and SO help in the cam.
paign.
A song service conducted by Mrs.
LaMance at the start of the meeting
was well taken part in.
Rev. Eddy conducted opening
prayers. His voice has been especially
enriched through recent suffering
while his words were appropriate and
sincere. DR.. Goodwin sang a solo much
enjoyed. A committee OF nine was
named last night to take charge OF the
finances Of the campaign. These men
consisted Of the following: For the
First Methodist Episcopal church are
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