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self to unboly living. He wants you
to live an empty, Goddess life and In.
dulgc in those things that will de.
grade you before God and man. He
wants you to debauch yourself and
swing out into the life Of O lecherous
libertine.
He wants you to soak yourself with
booze and line up with the God-forsak-
en- gang that pours moral filth and rot
| into the community Hear me! lie
wants you to do that which means hell
to you here and eternal damnation to
you hereafter.
How many today there are who
could testify to the fact that that is
the dirty, disreputable work that the
devil gave them to do. Hear me! The
devil never gave man clean job
The devil Is liar and deceiver.
There are men here today who have
been deceived by the DEVILS nefarious
lies. Do you know that 5000 years
ago the devil first got his hold upon
this world through lie, and he has
been deceiving men ever since,
Hear me, men! The devils method
is the method of a deceiver, and there
isn't a lost soul in hell today who is
not there. because of the devils lies.
There came a time when he professed
you liberty, but it has only been H.
cense. And today you are slave to
your lust. You are in bondage
bondage to your carnal nature, evil
habits, unworthy living, false pur.
poses, unrestrained appetites.
Hear me, men! If this town sows
whiskey it will reap drunkards. Hear
ME, fathers! If you signed the license
and protect the hellish traffic you hurl
your boys out to be drunkards.
Sow cards and you reap gamblers.
| Sow the dance, and you reap the
harlot l consider the dance the most
rotten, producing, God-defying in
stitution of modern society. Listen!
I am opposed to the Christless. God
less dance having place in the high
schools of this country.
Sow your dancing class and hurl
your young people into dance halls,
and you will reap it in the harvest of
the red light.
am talking today about the devils
dust. Whatsoever a man soweth, that
he must reap, for the wages Of sin is
death. Hear me. men! You know
| what am telling you is true. Some
of you have sinned, and today you are
bound by an appetite and cursed by a
passion 1t is the devils pay. The
devil is kicking his dust in your face.
You can't see God-heaven. Your
ears are stopped and you can't hear
the voice of God through your moth
er's prayers. Death is on your trail,
and Christless eternity is waiting
for you. Every demon of hell is reach.
ing out after you, and if you insist on
defying God and living for your appe-
tites and passions, your craven soul
will stand before God condemned.
Hear me, men! The "wages of sin is
death"
Sin begins in a small way The aver.
age man doesn't mean to go wrong.
The average woman doesn't mean to
fall. The man who was at first dis.
honest today is thief
You took an occasional glass-today
you're drunkard. You sowed mod
crate drinking and you reaped the
habit. Continue to SOW the drunken
spree and you will reap the delirium
tremens. You looked with eyes of
lust on a woman, and today you are
lecherou. Listen! Jesus said, "If you
look on a woman to lust after her, you
have already committed adultery with
her in your heart" Some men never
look at a woman except from her
waist down. Lust! Lust! It's the
devils pay.
Hear me, men, your sin will come
back to you. You have a boy You
live lecherously; you lift the glass to
your lips you sign a license; you de-
fly God Beware! Beware!
Listen! Many father can point to
the wrecked life of son with his
bleared eyes and bloated face, and
say THAT is my pay for serving the
devil" Hear me, men, If you follow
the devil you will get his dust in your
eyes You can't escape it. He'll to-
day is the harvest of mans own sin.
You may think you are shrewd-~you
may believe you are exempt. But.
hear me today, il you follow the devil
You will eat his dust in some way or
another.
Now you know today the sin that
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