Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 12, 1915, Page 6

% r ! 'HE OMAHA SUNDAY !KI-IF'J: SCPTEMBER 12, 19 The Moral Leper is Grilled by Sunday at the Big Tabernacle Saturday Evening “Oh, this is so sudden.’ 3 WAt 18 | home of Infamy, where three months at Moral Sin is Just the "’ ThE. 1 8 - " . h all & bluff; you have been waiting for it | later he died, away from bis wife, away Same as a Man Who is Btricken | ;i 1ne time. from virtue, away from morality, his with Leprosy. | Some Pointed Questions. name synonymous with all that is vile Y [ But giris, never mind now, get down | What ditference did it make that he had GIVES WARNING TO THE you’ng‘w facts. When he asks you that great- | POWer over men when you might sum s, |est question, the most important one | UP his life in my text. “But he was a “Billy” Sunday preached last night on | that any giri is ever asked, next to the 1.:”‘ What difference did it make “The Moral Leper,” taking s his text, | Slvation of her soul, just say: “Sit down | ! /Y ”'v;' boy or girl from the depth “But the Man Was a Leper” The evan- |&nd let me ask you three questions. 1,00 ¥ #0ul who If you ask, aro you @elist said: | Want to ask you these three questions | ng to be a Christian, will answer | 4 Mr. Bunday, 1 wouid Iike to be, but if 1 have sometimes tried to imagine my- | and If I am satisfisd with your answer |, g | {1 tell that at home my father will abuse selt in Damascus on review day, and [t will determine my answer to your | R R IECEEE T e 1 Bave seen & man riding on a horse richly | question. ‘Did you belleve me to be VIr- | .o | woulg have no ence uragement to caparisoned with trappings of gold and | tuous when you came here to ek me 10 4.0 und fight the battle.” I pity from #liver, and he himself clothed iIn gar. | be your wife? ™ “Oh, yes, 1 belleve you |y, gepthe of my soul that boy or that Hhenta of the finest fabrics and the moat |to be virtuous. That's the reason I g that has a mother like that. With costly, but with & face o sad and mel- | came here, Violets dipped in dew would |y woman like that in & home a step- ancaoly that it would cause the beholder | be as cow fodder compared to you." The to turn and ook a second and third time. |second question: “Have you as a young And a man unaccustomed to such scenes might have been heard to make a re- | Eirl, that I should have lived?' The man lved as vou demand of me as a | {mother would be a God-send if she had religion. The Unclean Life. o Unclean! Suppose every young man mark like this: “How unequally God | third question: “If I, as a girl, had lved |, (maha who 18 & moral leper was im- seems to divide his favors! There fs a |and done as you, as & young man, and peiled and compelled by some uncon- man who rides und others walk; he |s | ¥ou knew it, would you ask me to MAITY | troliable fmpulse over which he had no clothed in costly garments; they are al- | you?' most naked while hoe is well fed,” ana | Wil Take the Count, #sin! Down the street he comes in his they contrast the dlfference botween the | They will line up and nine times out of auto and you speak to him from the man on the borse and the others. If we | ten they will take the count You can curbstone and he will say “Unclean! | only knew ihe breaking hearts of the line them up, and I know what I am Unclean!” Yonder he comes Inlkln(‘ poople we envy we would pity them from | (alking about and I defy any man on Gown the street. Suppose that to every the bottom of our souls. | God's earth to successtully contradict | Man anq woman he meets he is impelled 1 was being driven through a suburb 'mc I have tho goods The average '#nd compelled to make pubilc re of Chicago by a real estate man who young man is more particular about the |tlons of the fact that he is a le | wanted to sell me a lot, He was telling | company he keeps :nan the average girl, | SUDDose every young woman is impelled | me ‘who lived here and who lived there, | I'll tell you. If he mcets somebody on |“nd compolled to make public revelations and what an honor It would be for me |the street whom he doesn't want to 'Of the fact that she s living a life of and my children to possess a home there. | mect he will duck into the first open | *in. Somebody clse pays for her clothes Wo were driving past a home that must |doorway and avold the publicity of m 804 ber bogrd have cost $100,000 and he sald: ‘““That [ing her, for fear she might smile or give | SuPpose that some young man who houso is owned by Mr. So-and-so. He is |an Indication that she had seen him ! !IV®# & §ood life calls upon her and rings one of our multi-millionaires, and ke and | somewhere and sometime before that, | th® doorhell and she comes down and his wife have been known to live In that | Yet our so-called best girls keep com. "¥®: "Unclean! Unclean! Keep away; Nouse for months and mever speak to |pany wilh young men whose character 00 POt come near lest you be con- each other, They cach have separate |would make a black mark on a plece of _ninated” There are lots of moral apartments, each has a ssparats retinue 'Anthracite. Thelr charncters are foul lcP¢™® that are apparently clean. Oh, of servants, each @ dining room and |and rotten and damnable,~ I like to mes | oY liVe in the best homes and sleeping apartments, and monthe come |n girl who has & good head choose right ) Of S0-called best girls receive them and go by and they never speak to one another.” My thoughts hurried back to |because it is right, never minding the eriticlsm. Choose the good and be care- power to make public revelations of his and keep company with them. They open the door to the moral leper and he comes the little flat in Chicago that we called our home and where we have lived for seventeen yenrs. 1 had pair rent enough to pay for it. There wasn't much in it; 1 could load It in two furniture vans, marhe threo, counting the piano, but 1 would not trade the happiness and the joy and the love of that little flat for that palatial home and the sorrow and the things that went with it. ful of her conduct, careful of good com- pany and good conduct and keep com- pany with ‘a good young fellow. Don't &0 wtih a fellow whose reputation s bad | Everybody knows it is bad, and if you are seen with him you will lore your reputation as well, although your virtue fs Intact, and they might as well take ¥ou to the graveyard and bury you when your_ reputation is gone. If a man like ‘pecular to the orlent, As you are driving along the street and a man who was intimately acqua!nted with the skeletons that are in every fam- fly should tell you the secrets of them all, of that boy who has broken his father's heart by being a drunkard, a peg-leg gambler, and that girl who has Kone astray, and that wife who Is a com- mon drunkard, made so by soclely, and the father himself, who was also a sinner. |be better men. Leprosy and Sin, Infections Disease. “But he was a leper.” That diseass, | Leprosy is an infectious disease like in exceedingly | typhold fever, smallpox or diphtheria, loathsome and as I study its pathology [and goes through a community Hke an | ¥ am not surprised that God used it as|epidemic; when one leper comes in con- | & type of sin. A man who is able to|eact with the clean, he becomes infected, understand this disease, its beginning and | And #o it Is with sin. Sin begins in so- ita progress, might be approached by a |called fnnocent flirtation. The old, God- man who was thus afflicted and might |forsaken scoundrel of a libertine, who sy to bim, Hurry! Hurry! Show your-|looks.upon woman as legitimate | proy | afi?fi. will contaminate a drunkard staggering and thus addressed, “what (s the trouble?|ma: and muttering his way down perdition ‘The other man would say, “Do you see|to will debauch a town, the spot .on our hand? Hurry and show| o with the boy. He will sit at your yourself to the priest” But the man|table and drink beer, and I want to tell | says, “That is only a fester, only & water|you If you are low down enough to serve blister; only a pimple, nothing more. | beer and wine in your home, when youw There is no occasion to be alarmed. You|serve it you are as low down as the are unduly agitated and excited for my | saloon keeper, and I don't care whether welfare. Those sores are only few now, | you do it for soclety or for anything else. but it epreads and it is first upon the|If you serve’ liquor or drink you are as that asks you to go with him, say to him it he will live the way you want him to you will go with bim. 1If you , would take a stand like that there | wouldn't be so many wrecks. It our | women and girls would take higher ' stands and say, keep company with you unless you live | the way wo want you to,” there would | the father and sits with your daughter, and many of you know that they are moral lepers. And many a fool girl will marry a biped like that. | nowadays—that so-called “Modesty.” Leprosy in an infectious disease; it is the germ of sin, If there is evil in you the evil will dwell in others. When wo do wrong we inspire others-and your lives mcatter disease when you come in contact with others. It there s sin in there will be sin In the boy; if there Is sin in the mother, there will be sin In the daughter; if there is ein in | the sister, thers will be sin in the sis- | ter; by your Influence you will spread it. “No, 1o, we will not |If you live the wrong way you will| drag somebody else to perdition with you as vou go, and kindred ties will fa- cllitate 1t Street Flirtations. Supposing all your hearts were open. Supposing we had glass doors to our hearts, and we could walk down the street and look in and see where you have been, and with whom you have been and what you have been doing. A great many of you would want staimed glass and heavy tapestry to oover them. Buppose I could put a screen behind me, pull a string or push & button and | | produce on that screen a view of the religion; I want to tell you that the hearts of the people. I would say, ‘‘Here o Mr, and Mra. A's lifo as it is and here as the people think it fs. Here is what he really is. Here is where he has been. Here 1s how much booze he drinks. Here is how much he lost last year at horse races.”” But these are the thinge that soclety does not take note of. Soclety takes no note of flirtation on the street. It waits until the girl has lost her vir- , then upon the arm, and from the i i ] i untll the rotten disintegra- parts takes place and they then it is too late. But be- §35t £ £z " i i ¢ 1 i i zi" %135 i i | ef §1E 3 ¢ 555: i % T | g i E i i 53l don't you leave it alone you could, you 1 aoe. one, or if you can, hen 1t will get you, You will | low down as the saloonkeeper in my on until it lays hold of every| opinion. 8o the boy who had not grit| , vein, with its slimy cofl,| enough to turn down his glass at the| banquet and refuse to drink Is now a blear-eyed, staggering, drunkard, recling to hell. He couldn't stand the sneers of the crowd; many & fellow started out to play cards for beans and tonight he would stake his for a shaw down. The hole in the s not very bix; it s about enough to shove a dollar through, to shove your wife £51 : i § i through; your home through; your i i § everything that rough, is dear to you the lttle solld 35 15 i 3 ; iy £is a political vote, and change the vote convention— your worldly career is closed ‘would make you a fitting epitaph tombstone and obituary notice n the papers, then what difference would i ] g5 i £ i 6 was a great politiclan—but was a leper” What difference would it make? you, I was never more inter- my life than in reading the story old confederate colonel who was z £ & trifling case of Insubordina- He ordered his men to halt, and he had the offender shot, They dug the |grave and he gave the command march, and they had stopped just threc i the war they made him chief of polico Then a great | earthquake swept over the city and the | people rushed from thelr homes and thousands of people crowded the streets and there was great excitement, When “Arthority” Fatled, Some asked, “Where 18 the colonel? and they sald, “You will find him in one of two or three places.” 8o they searched |and found him in & den of iafamy. He was so drunk that he didn't realise the danger he was in. They led him out. | then put him on a snow-white horse, put his spurs on his boots and his regtmentals on; the mayor pinned & star on his breast and put & cockade on his head and sald to him: *Colonel, I command you as He rode out among the people to quell them, spurring the white side of the horse until the crimson flowed out, and he rode in and out among the surging mess of here, . torrents of obsconity In twenty-five minutes stillness relgned In ity Square, ®o they fear him, so wonderful er over men. He then rvode out, took off his cockade, tore the from ‘his bresst snd threw it down, u's regimentals, took off his word, thn he staggered pack to the character; just blg enough | sticker for martial discipline. One day | minutes by the cloock. At the close of | tue and then slams the door in her face. It takes no mote of that young man | arinking at o banquet table; it waits |until he becomes a bleary-eyed drunk- {kard and then jt will slam the door in 'his face. It takes no note of card-play- \ing for some dinky little cream pitcher, | or a pair of silk hose; it waits umtil you become a gambler and then it slams \'the door In your face, God says, ‘‘Look ut in the beginning for that thing.' Soclety takes no note of the beginning. It waits until it becomes vice, and then it organizes clvic righteousness clubs. to shove your haP-) ot back to the beginning and do your | work there. Naaman and the Prophet. l The servant of Naaman entered the | ADVANCE AGENT FOR “BILLY"! | SUNDAY LEAVES TODAY. | | at your church is read the prayerr.” |among the three rural schooi districts Abe's wife sald: “It isn't the church, 'i's sending In the largest delegation in pro- F. C. Crocker, a stock ralser of Filley, the life we lead.” And the devil mall o |portion to the school population. Any | Friday purchased one of the Duroc-Jer- Abe blowing up. | | let her understand wne runs I this thing." | But the Lord said ‘“‘Abe, yo around the old woman and Kilsed her. | | And when the devil comes around to | Abe he says: “Ash-hopper! ash-hopper! | ash-nopper! On my knees behind th | | ash-hopper 1 fought the battle and bea | the devil.” (Copyright, Willlam A. Sunday.) {BIG DEMAND FOR EXHIBIT SPACE AT MADISON FAIf | 1 MADISON, Neb., Sept. 1L—(Special.)— |A large force of men and teams have | been busy all week putting the finishing | | touches on the race track and buildings | | for the county fair, which opens next ( Tueeday. There s every indication of | fellow today goes to church and able. to me and sald, " ‘Bill,’ I have been tc | hear you every night and you have done I used to cuss my old | woman every day, and I ain't cussed her | me a lot of good | for a week. I am getting a little better.’ | The trouble with many men make them miserable. your religion. Some haven't 1 might have a hook and for every debt that you left unpald I might jerk off If 1 did, wome of ! fThese are the things we are up against | You fellows would not have anything on | & plece of clothing. | but a cellulofd collar and & pair of socks. teams in this section of the state. Dr, | We will demonstrate this ma- | early Fall and you will want | Bome of you have not got religlon. Condra of the Nebraska State university | chine in your own home and | your stove in a hurry. Better enough to have a family prayer. Some || exhibit his moving plctures. The if you are not convinced that it make arrangements for it now. {of 'you people haven't got religion Maqigon Comunercial Club band, led by | 18 the best on the market we just | We will deliver it when you are enough to take the beer bottles out of | your cellar and throw them in the alley. {The trouble with vou is that you are |80 taken up with business, with politics, with making money, with your lodges, and each and every one is so dependent |on the other, that you are scared to death to come out and live clean cut for God Almighty. You have not fully surrendered yourself to God The matter with a lot of you people is that your religion is not complete. You have not ylelded yourself to Godl and gone out for God and God's truth. Why, I am almost afraid to make some folks laugh for fear that 1 will be ar- reated for breaking a costly plece of antique bric-a-brac. You would think that if some people laughed it would break thelr faces To see some you would think that the essential of ortho- dox Christianity is to have a faoce so long you could eat oatmeal out of the end of & gas pipe. Sister, that 18 not happy, smiling, sunny-faced religlon will win more people to Jesus Christ than the miserable, old grim-faced kind will in ten years. I pity anyone that can't leugh. There must be something wrong with their religlon or their liver. The devil can't laugh. Oh, laugh and the world laughs with you d you weep alone: a'ong W & song. Bt "the man werth: while {8 the man who can smile When everything goes dead wrong. I wish to God the church were as afrald of imperfection as it is of per- fection. The First Grafter, Naaman dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, “and his flesh came again like unto th jesh of a little child, and he was clean.” He offered Elisha of the store of gold and other preclous metals, but the prophet would not taxe any of ft. But Gehasi, servant to FEllisha, counted the goods, and ran after Naa- man, saying that Elisha had changed his mind. Naaman dumped a pile of it on the ground, and mark this, the lep- | hut of the prophet Elisha and found him i 0 "l s gy infected Gehasl. He was | witting on w high stool writing with a | quill on papyrus. The servant bowed low | and said, “The great and mighty Naa- man, captain of the hosts of the king of Syria, awaits thee. Unfortunately he is| ‘& leper and cannot enter your august; presence. He has heard of the miracu- Jous cures that you have wrought and he hopes to become the reciplent of your| | power.” The old prophet of God tells him! | ‘el him to dip seven times in the | Jordan—beat it, beat iL* The servant| { came out to Naaman, who was sitting on his horse, “Well, s he at home?" “He's at home, but he's a queer duck.” | Naaman thought that | come out and pat the sores and say In- cantations, like an Indian medicine man, | and say Matter is nonexistent; it Il‘ an {llusion of your mind, my dear fellow. | cus and 1 would have given you absent | treatment.” Poor old cuss sitting away— | “matter nonexistent—you just imagine you have leprosy.” | Naaman was wroth, like many a fellow today. God reveals to the sinner the plan of salvation and instead of thank- | ing God for salvation and doing what | God wants them to do, they damn God and everybody else for bothering them. The s of Soclety, Some men ought to be hurled out of | soclety; they ought to be kicked out of | churches, and out of politics, and every other place where decent men live or | mssoctate. And I want to lift the burden tonight from the heads of the unoffend- ing womanhood and hurl it on the heads of unoffending manhood, So- clety needs a new division of an- athemas. You hurl the burden on the head of the girl, and the double- dyed, licentious scoundrel that caused her ruin is received In soclety Wwith open arms, while the girl is left to hang her head and spend her lifo in shame. Here is & man who wants to be a Chris- | tlan. What will he do? Will he go ask some old saloon keeper? WIIl he go ask some of these old brewers? Will he ask some of the fellows of the town? Where will Be go? To the preacher, of course, out among the people with ' 1o 18 the man to go to whea you want to be a Christian. Go to a doctor when you are sick, to a blarksmith when your horse is to be shod, but go to u preacher when you want your heart fixed. Gets Too Littie Religlon. So Naaman goes Into the muddy water and ‘water begins to lubricate those old sores and it beging to itch, and he says, “Gee, whiz' Ilke many & young Elisha would | Why didn't you 'phone me from Damas-| the first grafter mentioned in the Bible. I saw & woman that for twenty-seven years had been a madam, and I saw her ecome down the alsle, close her doors turn them out of her house and live for God. I saw enough converted in one town where there were four houses to close their doors; they were empty; they had all fled home to thelr mothers. Listen to me and I am through. Out in Iowa a fellow came to me and spread & napkin on the platform—a napkin as big as a tablecloth. He sald: want a lot of shavings and sawdust.”” “What for?™ “T'll tell you; I want enough to make & soft plllow to have something in my home to help me think of God. I don't want to forget God, or that I was saved. Can you give me enough?' I sald: “Yes, indeed, and if you want enough to make & mattress, all right; { take It; and if you want enough of the tent (I was preaching in a tent them), to make a pair of breeches for each of the boys, why take your scissors and cut it right out If it will help you to keep your mind on God.” That is why I llke to have people come down to the front and publicly acknowledge God. I MNke to have a man have a definite experience in religion. Something to remember, Contounding the D I once read of & preacher.who used to quarrel with his wife. That was before he became a preacher; no one can quar- rel with his wife after he becomes a preacher. Abe and his wife used to fight | because Abe was an Eplscopalian and | his wife was & Methodist. Abe said to his wife: “See here, all they do down ’ Duffys Pure i Malt Whiskey A Medicing far all Mankind Just, gets religion enough to make him miser- like an old fellow in Iowa came is that {they have just got enough religion to It there is no {Joy In religion, you have got a leak In religion enough to pay their debts. Would that | the biggest falr in the history of the as- soclation. Requests from horse, cattle | and hog breeders are so numerous that the regular stable room is now entirely | exhausted and additional room s being | provided. Show stuff will be given the | preference and sale animals will take The poultry, tarm produce, culinary, fancy work, art and school departments promise to sur- | pass former vears, and superintendents > " the temporary quarters. for display purposes. Running races and motorcycle races will be a special fea- “You run this ranch; give oer alone residing in the district ls eligible to are a preacher and your wife has|divided as follows: First prize, $12; sec more religion in her little finger than | ond prize, $5; third prise, 8. issulng about 50 distress warrants to en you have in your old carcass. You are - m— torce the payment of delinquent personal a preacher. Be a man.” 8o he went out Notea from Heatrice. taxes. | to the ashhoppers. Did you ever sec one | BEATRICE, Neb., Sept. 11.—~Special)~| B4 C. Wille, a farmer living six miler | of those ashhoppers? It is a thing you | The Nebraska Gas and Electric company | north of Beatrice, was called to Nortk build with four sides, small at the bottom | will begin rebuilding and extending its | Bend, Ind., today by the death of hit and with an angle of forty-five degrees, | lines in Glenover, West and South Beat- | mother, Mrs. Minnie Wille, a ploneer of {and you will fill It with hickory ashes,|rice and North Ninth street in a few | that state. She was 72 years of age. ‘And pour water on the ashes and the | days. | The body of Mrs. John Osbaugh, & for | water percolates through the ashes and | Miss Laura Mayer, who was appointed | mer Beatrice resident, who dled Septem: | makes lye, and they make soap out of | stenographer for the Supreme Court com | ber 6 at Billings, Mont., was brought heru [it A lot of folks can make “le” with-| mission at Lincoln, Friday, is a daughter | Friday for interment. Mra. Osbaugh re. oue ushes or goap. They used to make | of Mayor and Mrs, J. W. Mayer of this | sided in this city until 185, when she lo j that kind of soap when I was a boy. | city. cated at Billings with her husband. { 80 Abe went behind the old ashhopper| Frank Bartos, sr., father of former AR | and said: ‘ Eliza, forgive me. You have | Benator Frank Bartos of Saline county,' MBee Want Ads Produce Results | more religion in your little finger than I have In my whole body.” He went —— ——— — m— ——— back to the house and threw his arms | | died at his home at Wiiber, aged §1 yeare sey prize male hogs at the state fair for his herd. The animal is 2 years old and welighs 1,00 pounds. County Treasurer Andrew Andersen is be counted and credited to the district in which they live. The money will be ILTON OGERS & SONS CO. 1615 HARNEY Quick Meal Ranges When buying a range you might just as well buy a standard make. The Quick Meal has been sold by us more than 15 years and has always given satisfaction. Today they are better than ever and they do not cost any more than you pay for some other cheaper make. Prices as low as $42.00, Sold on payments if de- sired. Radiant Home ”uw""vu ] 1 flm‘ [ i i@ e i o —— 5.!},;,';“""‘@11" s APEX ELECTRIC WASHING MACHINES ture. A fast game of ball will be played each day, Battle Creek, Newman Grove, These Base Burners Look out! | | | | 4‘ in charge have requested additional room | | Madison and Cornlea contesting. | | We may have an toams are among the strongest amateur Rev. Father Muenich, will provide music, | haul it back. ready for it. A special prize of £6 will be divided o | The Benson & Thorne Co. The whole of next week, (From Monday at 8 a. m. until Saturday at 9 p. m.) will be devoted to the Exhibition at ‘ of New Fall and Winter Styles EVERY clerk understands; every stock is to be shown; Style tendencies will be explained; Mirror fittings and other aids will be gladly accorded every guest. E realize that women want to look and study the details of their ward- robe before making purchases—a very necessary thing this year in view of the great variety of sty'es—and we trust that this opportunity will afford them ‘that convenience. BISER & TaoRNE @ : 1516-18-20 Farnam Street. Chambers’ Dancing Academy 25th and Farnam Streets. The Home of “*The Dance™ Opens Monday, September 20. Ak-Sar-Ben Dances T'o those who are desirous of learning the new || “dances for the Ak-Sar-Ren Ball, Mr. Chambers wishes to announce that he will give instructions at the academy at any time before the opening of the acadewy, which is on Mondey, September 20th. Call Douglas 1871 for appointment. Among the new dances to be taught by Mr. | Chambers are three standardized dances, viz.: the National One-Step. the Waltz Walk and the A. N. A. Fox Trot. Among the new novelty dances to be given are the Jitney Jog, the Du Surka and the El-Camino. Private clusses can be arranged at the academy, in homes and out of the city. Spe- cial classes arranged for ladies, gentleme and children. | W. E. CHAMBEKS " Enroll Now—Phone Doug. 1871 e