The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-05-05
JOHNSON GOES AFTER
WEAK CHURCH MEMBERS

Back-BoneIess PIiable Men And
Women In Churches Today, In
Spite OF Church restrictions They
Play Cards, Dance And Indulge In
Worldly Pleasures While Claim
ing To Be Pillars OF The Church.
If Evangelist JohnsOn's sermon on
Backbone" didn't wake up the peo-
pie of Cambridge. it certainly gave
them good shaking up. There was
wonderful representation of all the
churches of Cambridge and the en-
tire county. No night is too bad for
Bob Johnson's crowd, and he has
no trouble holding them after get
ting them. Mr.. Johnson selected
his text from l Joshua, 67-9; and
II Kings 81. After reading his
text as foundation, he elaborated
Speaking of the subject of Back
bone Mr.. Johnson said; l am sure
it is an interesting one to all of us.
There is something about a brave
man that holds our attention and
compels respect. A woman may be
so afraid of a mouse that she will
scream at sight of one; and she may
be so timid that she will look under
her bed every night for burglars;
but in her heart, she is not afraid OF
q bold bad man, one who will fight
We've had our w. c. T. US and
thank God for them, but do you
know I've always had a great deal OF
respect for carrie Nation. Whenever
she entered a town or city with her
little Ratchet, she always delivered
the goods express repaid" and the
saloon keepers were always sorry to
see her come and glad to see her go.
Physical courage without moral
courage to back it up is worth
nothing. l believe a brave man can
do almost anything there is to be
done, and 1 think 1 have more real
respect for a brave bad man, than l
have for milk and water ''goody-
goody" We need brave men in our
homes in our churches, in politics, in
fact everywhere and l thank God
for the ministers 1 have found in
Cambridge and Dorchester County.
God says, Resist the devil, and
he will fee from you, but you just
let the devil know you are afraid OF
him and he will give you the chase
of your life. Call your ministers
"Molly-Coddles' if you like, but l
don't believe that we would be en-
joying the peace of prohibition, II
the ministers all over this land had /!
not been brave enough to stand and
fight the devil to the very jaws OF
hell They had grit and the grace
of God in their hearts to fight and
fight hard"
Here Mr.. Johnson diverted few
moments, to politics.
Il don't like to see a mayor who
takes no interest in the welfare OF
his people. When you do have
good mayor, thank the Lord and
stand by the mayor. It's very hard
for an officer of town to enforce the
laws of a city, unless they have the
citizens of that city standing by
them. These officers with their blue
uniforms and brass buttons need
your support Give it to them.
We have so many weakened
plastic, back-boneless pliable men in
the church today that we tremble
for the young peoples safety. There
is not much to any mother or father
who would let their children go
straight to hell, because they fear
they will hurt someone's feelings.
I'm not preaching about money, the
league of nations, or the tariff issue,
but I'm in a fight with the devil for
God. Home and Native Land, and
God knows I'm going to fight to the
last ounce of strength. You know,
as we'll as 1 that there are people
talking about the failure of these
meetings, and they are staying away,
because 1.-The meetings are not at t
l. iuh or tho last 6Qvi 0f |
the campaign these same people VIII |
grab the tail-feathers of success
and say, ''look what we did! When |
it comes to the cyclorama of the bat
Tie of old Cambridge, I'm very sure
that we will miss a great many vet
Grams because they will not have |
been there. /
Decide things on what is right and
what is wrong, and not by what your
neighbors say. If you let your girls
go about with some scoundrel VINO is
going wrong, then it won't be every
long before you will be seeing tfou-
Bile of your own. Were l young
lady. | would demand that candi- |
date for marriage have sound BODY
sound mind, and sound morals. II
were the mother of girl and When
twelve o'clock came and she was not
home, then when twelve o'clock the
next night came, I'd know where she
was. and she would know where
had been in between the two nights. !
Old Maids? Why l would rather be
cross-eyed, bow legged, pigeon-toed,
dried up old maid, than be married
to a bleary-eyed red-nosed puffed-up
old whisky soak. Thank God the
time 1 have hoped for, PRAYED for
and longed for has come. The day
of the woman voter. People nave
said they woDI1 make mess OF
things. but they have done
pretty goC what makes me
50 dead t suffrage is right,
is that every time you mentioned
it to saloon keeper, he'd turn pale
and anything the saloon keeper is
against, you may be sure It's all
right.
We visited your public schools TO-
day. and we were never before treat
ed any better by school officials. DO
you ever pray for your school teach
ers? Don't send your children TO
teacher who has thirty or forty OF
the same brand, and expect yours to
come home "sprouting wings" Pray
for your teachers"
Evangelist Johnson and party
were royalty received at the Hlgh
School yesterday morning. Ihey
desire to publicly express tnelr
thanks to the members of the scnool
board and to the school officials ana
teachers for thei1 cooperation.
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HOUSE-KEEPERS!