,illustration3 ,,rev4 ,,wm4 ,a4 ,,sunday ,,mrs4 ,,sunday ,b4 ,d4 ,,ackley ,,homer ,a4 ,,rodeheaver ,,rev4 ,l4 ,k4 ,,peacock ,,pianist ,,and ,,private ,,secretary ,,choir ,,master ,,assistant ,burning ,truths from ,billy's ,bat ,a ,graphic ,description of the ,remarkable ,conversion of ,rev4 8,billy0 ,sunday 7,the ,world's ,famous ,evangelist7 ,embodying ,anecdotes1 ,terse ,sayings1 etc41 ,compiled from ,various ,sources ,illustration #aiad ,diamond ,publishing ,co41 ,philadelphia1 ,pa4 ,copyright1 #aiad1 ,by ,,joseph ,,pallen ,,contents ,,page ,mr4 ,sunday's ,early ,life #i ,conversion of 8,billy0 ,sunday #i ,beacon ,lights on ,billy's ,trail #af ,hard to ,keep ,good ,man ,down #ag ,honor ,your ,wife #ah ,two ,pictures of ,american ,homes #ah ,kind ,words to ,children #ai ,tribute to ,wife #bj ,scores ,smart ,set #bj ,father ,gives ,up1 but ,mother ,doesn't #bb ,bright ,word ,picture to ,mothers #bb ,bravest ,battle ,ever ,fought #bb ,one ,act1 ,one ,word ,will ,blight a ,child #bc ,touching ,tribute to ,mother's ,love #bd ,every ,child a ,trust to ,mother #be ,says ,men ,are ,what ,mothers ,make ,them #bf ,songs of ,mothers ,sweetest #bf ,gathering ,up the ,sunbeams #bh ,start ,children ,right #bh ,dancing ,worst of ,amusements #bi ,ballroom ,permits ,liberties #cj ,on ,motherhood #ca ,too ,many ,girls ,are ,not in ,love #cb ,high ,spots in ,sermon to ,women #cb ,picking a ,husband #cc ,thy ,kingdom ,come #cd ,hot ,shots on ,cards and ,gambling #cf ,taboo on ,theatre #ci ,taboo on ,wedding ,knots #dj ,every ,palace ,not a ,home #da ,drawing the ,line on ,christians #db ,the ,preachers and the ,laymen #dd ,belshazzar's ,feast #de ,a ,remarkable ,prayer #dg ,hitting the ,sawdust ,trail1 ,origin #di ,trying to ,serve ,god and the ,devil #ej ,inconsistent ,church ,members #ej ,christians ,can't ,live ,double ,lives #ea ,a ,high ,tribute to ,general ,lee #eb ,expose of ,graft ,stories #ec ,women ,have ,same ,right as ,men #ed ,backsliders ,like ,groundhogs #eg ,true to ,lodge1 ,false to ,christ #eg ,sunday to ,society ,women #eh ,consolation for ,old ,maids #ff ,girls ,who ,flirt #ff ,drinking and ,matrimony #fg ,says ,society's to ,blame #fh ,some ,extra ,shots #fh ,billy's ,sketch of ,leper ,bathing #fi ,snapshots from ,sermons #ga ,a ,trip ,through the ,bible #gb ,defends ,divine ,origin of the ,bible #gd ,spiritualism on the ,grill #ge ,straight ,shots from the ,shoulder #ge ,others ,suffer from ,your ,sins #gi ,lessons from ,story of ,pilate #hj ,moral ,truths #hj ,these ,three ,will ,ruin ,city #ha ,billy's ,key to ,success #hb ,a ,few ,bunts to ,live ,students #hd ,tribute to the ,holidays #he ,living ,up to ,one's ,profession #hi ,stray ,shots from the ,gallery #hi ,some ,hot ,ones1 ,fired at ,random #ij ,a ,characteristic ,prayer #ij ,sunday's ,bombshells #ib ,sundayisms #if ,sunday's ,prayer for ,strength #ih ,faith of ,great ,men #ii ,bible ,above ,all #ii ,some ,home ,runs #ajj ,up to ,mothers #ajj ,electric ,flashes #aja ,sunday on ,evolution #ajc ,rev4 ,william ,a4 ,sunday 7,the ,world's ,famous ,evangelist7 ,his ,early ,life1 a ,dramatic ,portrayal of ,his ,conversion1 and the ,disintegration of the ,old ,white ,stocking ,baseball ,team1 of ,which ,he was a ,member ,rev4 8,billy0 ,sunday 7as he is familiarly known7 was born in a log cabin in the backwoods of ,story ,county1 ,iowa1 ,november #ai1 #ahfb4 ,not long after his birth his father went to the ,civil ,war and never returned4 ,billy remained home until he was about fourteen years of age1 and as a hired hand later lived with ,colonel ,john ,scott1 former ,lieutenant ,governor of ,iowa1 and was enabled to acquire a high-school education4 ,he tried various lines of work1 from a hired hand at sixteen years old to a furniture polisher1 driver of a hearse1 member of a volunteer hose company1 railroad fireman1 ball player1 student and now evangelist4 ,,mr4 ,,sunday',s ,,remarkable ,,conversion4 8,twenty-seven years ago ,i walked down a street in ,chicago in company with some ball players who were famous in this world--some of them are dead now--and we went into a saloon4 ,it was ,sunday afternoon and we got tanked up and then went and sat down on a corner4 ,i never go by that street without thanking ,god for saving me4 ,it was a vacant lot at that time4 ,we sat down on a curbing4 ,across the street a company of men and women were playing on instruments--horns1 flutes and slide trombones--and the others were singing the gospel hymns that ,i used to hear my mother sing back in the log cabin in ,iowa and back in the old church where ,i used to go to ,sunday school4 8,and ,god painted on the canvas of my recollection and memory a vivid picture of the scenes of other days and other faces40 8,,won',t ,,you ,,come80 8,many have long since turned to dust4 ,i sobbed and sobbed and a young man stepped out and said3 #8,we are going down to the ,pacific ,garden mission4 ,won't you come down to the mission8 ,i am sure you will enjoy it4 ,you can hear drunkards tell how they have been saved and girls tell how they have been saved from the red light district4 ,i arose and said to the boys3 8,i'm through4 ,we've come to the parting of the ways10 and ,i turned my back on them4 ,some of them laughed and some of them mocked me2 one of them gave me encouragement2 others never said a word4 ,twenty-seven years ago ,i turned and left that little group on the corner of ,state and ,madison streets1 walked to the little mission1 fell on my knees and staggered out of sin and into the arms of the ,saviour4 ,i went over to the west side of ,chicago where ,i was keeping company with a girl now my wife1 ,nell4 ,i married ,nell4 ,she was a ,presbyterian1 so ,i am a ,presbyterian4 ,had she been a ,catholic1 ,i would have been a ,catholic--because ,i was hot on the trail of ,nell4 ,the next day ,i had to go out to the ball park and practice4 ,every morning at #aj o'clock we had to be out there and practice4 ,i never slept that night4 ,i was afraid of the horse-laugh that the gang would give me because ,i had taken my stand for ,jesus ,christ4 ,i walked down to the old ball grounds4 ,i will never forget it4 ,i slipped my key into the wicket gate and the first man to meet me after ,i got inside was ,mike ,kelley4 ,up came ,mike ,kelley4 ,he said3 8,bill ,i'm proud of you--religion is not my long suit1 but ,i'll help you all ,i can40 ,up came ,anson1 ,pfeffer1 ,clarkson1 ,flint1 ,mc,cormick1 ,burns1 ,williamson and ,dalrymple4 ,there wasn't a fellow in that gang who knocked1 every fellow had a word of encouragement for me4 ,that afternoon we played the old ,detroit club4 ,we were neck and neck for the championship4 ,that club had ,thompson1 ,richardson1 ,rowe1 ,dunlap1 ,hanlon and ,bennett1 and they could play ball4 ,i was playing right field and ,john ,g4 ,clarkson was pitching4 ,he was as fine pitcher as ever crawled into a uniform4 ,there are some pitchers today1 ,o',toole1 ,bender1 ,wood1 ,mathewson1 ,johnson1 ,marquard1 but ,i do not believe any one of them stood in the class with ,clarkson4 ,we had two men out and they had a man on second and one on third1 and ,bennett1 their old catcher was at the bat4 ,charley had three balls and two strikes on him4 ,charley couldn't hit a high ball4 ,i don't mean a ,scotch high-ball1 but he could kill them when they went about his knee4 ,i hollered to ,clarkson and said3 8,one more and we got 'em40 ,you know every pitcher digs a hole in the ground where he puts his foot when he is pitching4 ,john stuck his foot in the hole and he went clear to the ground4 ,oh1 he could make them dance4 ,he could throw over-handed1 and the ball would go down and up like that4 ,he is the only man on earth ,i have seen do that4 ,the ball would go by so fast that a thermometer would drop two degrees4 ,john went clear down1 and as he went to throw the ball his right foot slipped1 and the ball went low instead of high4 ,i saw ,charley swing hard and heard the bat hit the ball with a terrific blow4 ,bennett had smashed the ball on the nose4 ,i saw the ball rise in the air and knew it was going clear over my head4 ,i could judge within ten feet of where the ball would light4 ,i turned my back to the ball and ran4 ,the field was crowded with people and ,i yelled3 #8,stand back6' and the crowd opened like the ,red ,sea opened for the rod of ,moses4 ,i ran on1 and as ,i ran ,i made a prayer2 it wasn't theological1 either1 ,i tell you4 ,i said3 8,god1 if you ever helped mortal man1 help me to get that ball1 and you haven't got much time to make up your mind1 either40 ,i ran and jumped over the bench and stopped4 ,i thought ,i was close enough to catch it4 ,i looked back and saw it going over my head1 and ,i jumped and shoved my left hand out and the ball hit it and stuck4 ,at the rate ,i was going1 the momentum carried me on and ,i fell under the feet of a team of horses4 ,i jumped up with the ball in my hand4 ,up came ,tom ,johnson4 ,he was afterwards ,mayor of ,cleveland4 8,here is #aj4jj ,bill2 buy yourself the best hat in ,chicago4 ,that catch won me #a1ejj4 ,tomorrow go and buy yourself the best suit of clothes you can find in ,chicago40 ,an old ,methodist minister said to me a few years ago3 8,why1 ,william1 you didn't take the #aj4jj did you40 ,i said3 8,you bet ,i did40 ,listen6 ,mike ,kelley was sold to ,boston for #aj1jjj4 ,mike got half of the purchase price4 ,he came up to me and showed me a check for #e1jjj4 ,john ,l4 ,sullivan the champion fighter1 went around with a subscription paper and the boys raised over #ab1jjj to buy ,mike a house4 ,they gave ,mike a deed to the house and they had #a1ejj left and gave him a certificate of deposit for that4 ,his salary for playing with ,boston was #d1gjj a year4 ,at the end of that season ,mike had spent the #e1jjj purchase price and the #e1jjj he received as salary and the #a1ejj they gave him and had a mortgage on the house4 ,and when he died in ,pennsylvania they went around with a subscription to get money enough to put him in the ground4 ,mike sat there on the corner with me twenty-seven years ago1 when ,i said3 8,goodbye1 boys1 ,i'm through40 ,a4 ,g4 ,spalding signed up a team to go around the world4 ,i was the first man he asked to sign a contract and ,captain ,anson was the second4 ,i was sliding to second base one day4 ,i always slid head first1 and ,i hit a stone and cut a ligament loose in my knee4 ,i got a doctor and had my leg fixed up and he said to me3 8,william1 if you don't go on that trip ,i will give you a good leg40 ,i obeyed and ,i have as good a leg today as ,i ever had4 ,they offered to wait for me at ,honolulu and ,australia4 ,spalding said3 8,meet us in ,england1 and play with us through ,england1 ,scotland and ,wales40 ,i didn't go4 ,ed ,williamson1 our old short-stop1 was a fellow weighing #bbe pounds1 and a more active man you never saw4 ,he went with them1 and while they were on the ship crossing the ,english channel a storm arose4 ,the captain thought the ship would go down4 ,then he dropped on his knees and promised ,god to be true1 and ,god spoke and the waves were still4 ,they came back to the ,united ,states and ,ed4 came back to ,chicago and started a saloon on ,dearborn ,street4 ,i would go there and give tickets for the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 meetings and would talk with him1 and would cry like a baby1 ,i would get down and pray for him4 ,when he died they put him on the table and cut him open and took out his liver4 ,it was so big it would not go in a candy bucket4 ,ed ,williamson sat there on the street corner with me twenty-seven years ago when ,i said1 8,goodbye1 boys1 ,i'm through40 ,frank ,flint1 our old catcher1 who caught for nineteen years1 drew #c1bjj a year on an average4 ,he caught before they had chest protectors and masks and gloves4 ,he caught bare-handed4 ,every bone in the ball of his hand was broken4 ,you never saw a hand like ,frank had4 ,every bone in his face was broken and his nose and cheekbones1 and the shoulder and ribs had all been broken4 ,i've seen old ,frank ,flint sleeping on a table in a stale beer joint and ,i've turned my pockets inside out and said3 8,you're welcome to it1 old pal40 ,he drank on and on1 and one day in winter he staggered out of a stale beer joint and stood on a corner and was seized with a fit of coughing4 ,the blood streamed out of his nose1 his mouth and his eyes4 ,down the street came a woman4 ,she took one look and said3 8,my ,god1 is it you1 ,frank80 ,and the old love came back4 ,the wife called two policemen and a cab and started with him to her boarding house4 ,they broke all speed regulations4 ,she called five of the best physicians1 and they listened to the beating of his heart--eight1 nine1 ten1 eleven1 twelve1 thirteen1 fourteen--and the doctor said3 8,he will be dead in about four hours40 ,she said3 8,frank the end is near10 and he said3 8,send for ,bill40 ,they telephoned me and ,i came4 ,when ,i reached his bedside he said to me3 8,there's nothing in the life of years ago ,i care for now4 ,i can hear the grandstand hiss when ,i strike out4 ,i can hear the bleachers cheer when ,i make a hit that wins the game1 but there is nothing that can help me now1 and if the umpire calls me out now1 won't you say a few words over me1 ,bill80 ,he struggled as he had years ago on the diamond when he tried to reach home--but the great ,umpire of the universe yelled3 8,you're out40 ,and the great gladiator of the diamond was no more4 ,frank ,flint sat on the street corner drunk with me twenty-seven years ago in ,chicago when ,i said3 8,i'll bid you goodbye1 boys1 ,i'm going to ,jesus40 ,say men1 did ,i win the game of life1 or did they8 ,,beacon ,,lights ,,on ,,billy',s ,,trail4 ,i owe ,god everything4 ,i owe the devil nothing except the best fight ,i can put up against him4 ,the church needs more of ,god and less dress and strife over money4 ,judas bought a ticket to hell for thirty pieces of silver1 and it wasn't a round-trip ticket1 either4 ,every saloon gives the devil a better chance to land your boy in hell4 ,you breed more infidels with your 8divine philosophy0 than all the ,ingersols in the world4 ,the church doesn't need new members as much as she needs to have the old bunch made over4 ,a lot of people1 from the way they live1 make you think they've got a ticket to heaven on a ,pullman parlor car1 and have ordered the porter to wake 'em when they get there4 ,but they'll get side-tracked almost before they're started4 ,,hard ,,to ,,keep ,a ,,good ,,man ,,down4 8,somebody says3 #8,but you don't know my circumstances1 ,mr4 ,sunday4 ,i'm handicapped by my parents4 ,i'm handicapped by poverty4' ,listen6 ,go down tonight and get down your books and read of the men of history who have crept and crawled from the sewers of poverty and the quagmires of squalor4 ,obscurity never kept ,benjamin ,franklin walking the streets of ,philadelphia gnawing at his loaf4 ,obscurity didn't keep ,edison working as a telegraph operator at #fj4jj a month4 ,obscurity didn't keep ,david herding sheep4 ,if gold and diamonds weren't so hard to get they wouldn't be worth so much4 ,obscurity didn't keep ,grant in a tannery4 ,obscurity didn't keep ,garfield on the towpath of a canal4 ,if you've got it in you1 squalor and want can't keep you down40 8,if you are going to win out you must have grit4 ,that means you must be able to say 8no0 when asked to do wrong1 so loud it will stagger hell4 ,or 8yes0 so loud it will gladden the angels of ,god4 ,put up your dukes and fight the devil40 ,,honor ,,your ,,wife ,,before ,,she ,,dies4 8,don't wait until your wife dies before you brag on her4 ,tell her that coffee was fine4 ,tell her how you like those biscuits--not those big four-story ones1 but the little flat fellows with crust on both sides--that's the kind ,i like4 ,think of the days you bought her gumdrops and candy hearts with reading on them4 ,i wish ,i had all the money ,i've spent on candy hearts with reading on them4 ,you've bought 'em1 too1 you fellows1 haven't you8 ,ha1 ha6 ,thought so6 7,here ,mr4 ,sunday recited the poem1 8,kiss ,her407 ,some fellows pet dogs more than they pet their wives4 8,play with the children4 ,you say1 #8,bill1 ,i haven't any4' ,i say1 #8,then get some4'0 ,,two ,,pictures ,,of ,,american ,,homes4 ,i think one of the prettiest pictures ever looked upon is to see a father with the religion of ,jesus ,christ in his heart1 and a mother with the religion of ,jesus ,christ in her heart1 and to see them throw their arms about their eldest child1 and the oldest child throw his arms about their next oldest child1 and that child take the next oldest child by the hand1 and on until the youngest and all with happiness in their hearts and songs on their lips1 start for heaven4 ,and ,i think the blackest1 darkest picture ever looked upon is to see a father without the religion of ,jesus ,christ in his heart1 and a be-frizzled society woman without the religion of ,jesus ,christ in her heart1 and the next oldest child1 and on down until the baby in the cradle1 and to see that father and mother lock arms and all start to hell1 like many of them are doing today4 ,,kind ,,words ,,to ,,help ,,children4 ,there are fewer things more important in the home than conversation4 ,think of the good you can do in your home with your voice4 ,you use it to give pain1 but the conversation in your home ought to be loving4 ,in many homes they have no conversation4 ,there is no affectionate greeting in the morning when the children start for school1 no little kiss to linger on their lips1 and when they come home at noon1 hungry1 there is no kind greeting4 ,the old man never says a word unless he growls for you to pass something1 and so far as anyone would know1 you would be in a deaf and dumb asylum4 ,no fireside chats with the children4 ,you are down at some fool club1 some lodge2 you are off to some literary social1 beer and wine-drinking hell1 and you let your children go to the devil4 ,you turn them over to some nurse1 whose only interest in the child is so many dollars per week4 ,,evangelist ,,pays ,,tribute ,,to ,,wife4 ,sunday humorously complimented his wife at the tabernacle meeting ,thursday night4 ,he quoted 8,battling0 ,nelson's statement that ,mrs4 ,sunday was worth #aj1jjj1jjj4jj1 but said ,bat had the estimate too low4 ,sunday began by speaking of the traits of various nations4 8,scotch blood0 he said1 8stands for persistency1 stick-to-it-iveness1 faithfulness and bulldog tenacity4 ,i guess ,i ought to know1 for ,ma's full-blooded ,scotch1 and ,i don't know what ,i'd do without her40 ,,severely ,,scores 8,,smart ,,set0 ,,bunch4 ,and of the women in our 8smart set0 nowadays4 ,too much can not be said in condemnation of them4 ,too much time is spent by them outside of their homes4 ,they have thrown to the wind all womanly modesty and prudence4 ,they are flattered and cajoled1 and they look upon themselves as sort of an especial form upon which to hang the latest creation of a ,worth or a ,redfern4 ,they have digestive apparatus with which to digest highly seasoned foods which some rich husband can buy and cram into their gullets4 ,and they lend their presence to vaudeville1 and have vaudeville performances in their homes1 and their children are allowed to witness performances which border on the obscene4 ,and they indulge in gambling to such an extent1 poker1 roulette wheels1 champagne1 and all the whole long list1 my friends1 and they are more familiar with poker chips and gambling devices and frivolity than they are with their ,bible1 the ,english language or classic literature4 8,no man lives to himself alone4 ,when you go to hell you're going to drag someone else down with you1 and if you go to heaven you're going to take someone else with you4 ,you say you hate sin4 ,of course you do if you have respect4 ,you never saw anyone in this town who hates sin worse than ,i1 or loves a sinner more than ,i4 ,i'm fighting for the sinners4 ,i'm fighting to save your soul1 just as a doctor fights to save your life from a disease40 8,if there is a father that hits the booze1 he doesn't want his son to4 ,if he is keeping someone on the side1 he doesn't want his son to4 ,in other words1 you would not want your son to live like you if you are not living right40 8,look on the bright side4 ,every time you smile you put a crimp in the undertaker's business1 keep the hearse standing in the shed1 keep the embalming fluid out of your veins1 and keep the quartet from singing #8,lead1 ,kindly ,light4'0 ,,sunday',s ,,bright ,,word ,,pictures ,,in ,,his ,,sermon ,,to ,,mothers4 ,father ,gives up but ,mother ,doesn't4 8,fathers often give up4 ,the old man often goes to boozing1 becomes dissipated1 takes a dose of poison and commits suicide1 but the mother will stand by the home and keep the little band together if she has to manicure her fingernails over a washboard to do it4 ,if men had half as much grit as the women1 there would be different stories written about a good many homes4 ,look at her work6 ,it is the greatest in the world2 in its far-reaching importance it is transcendently above everything in the universe--her task in molding hearts and lives and shaping character4 ,if you want to find greatness1 don't go toward the throne2 go to the cradle1 and the nearer you get to the cradle1 the nearer to greatness4 ,the launching of a boy or girl to live for ,christ is greater work than to launch a battleship40 ,,bravest ,,battle ,,fought ,,in ,,world4 8,the bravest battle that ever was fought1 ,shall ,i tell you where and when8 ,on the maps of the world you'll find it not-- ',twas fought by the mothers of men4 8,nay1 not with cannon or battle shot4 ,with sword or nobler pen4 ,nay1 not with eloquent word or thought1 ,from mouths of wonderful men4 8,but deep in a walled up woman's heart-- ,of woman that would not yield1 ,but bravely1 silently bore her part-- ,lo1 there is the battlefield4 8,no marshaling troops1 no bivouac song1 ,no banner to gleam and wave2 ,but oh6 these battles1 they last so long-- ,from babyhood to the grave40 8,there is a mighty power in a mother's kiss--inspiration1 courage1 hope1 ambition4 ,one kiss made ,benjamin ,west a painter1 and the memory of it clung to him through life4 ,one kiss will drive away the fear in the dark and make the little one brave4 ,it will give strength where there is weakness40 ,,one ,,act1 ,,one ,,word ,,will ,,blight ,,child4 8,there is power enough in a word or act to blight a boy1 and through him1 curse a community4 ,there is power enough in a word or act to tincture the life of that child so it will become a power to lift the world to ,jesus ,christ4 ,the mothers will put in motion influences that will either touch heaven or hell4 ,talk about greatness6 ,oh1 you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity1 then read the mothers' names in ,god's hall of fame1 and see who they have been in this world4 ,i want to tell you women1 fooling away your time hugging and kissing a poodle dog1 caressing a ,spitz1 drinking a society bran mash and a cocktail1 and playing cards1 is mighty small business to moulding the life of a child40 8,when ,god gave the office of mother to women it was just like giving you his own right hand4 ,think of what importance is attached to it6 ,think of the mother's power6 ,there is more power in a mother's hand than in a king's scepter40 ,,touching ,,tribute ,,to ,,mother',s ,,love4 8,i once read the story of an angel who stole out of heaven and came to this world one bright sunshiny day2 roamed through the field1 forest1 city and hamlet1 and as the sun went down1 plumed his wings for the return flight4 ,the angel said3 #8,now that my visit is over1 before ,i return ,i must gather some mementoes of my trip4' ,he looked at the beautiful flowers in the garden and said1 #8,how lovely and fragrant1' and plucked the rarest roses1 made a bouquet1 and said1 #8,i see nothing more beautiful and fragrant than these flowers4' ,the angel looked further and saw a bright-eyed1 rosy-cheeked child1 and said1 #8,that baby is prettier than the flowers2 ,i will take that1 too2' and1 looking beyond to the cradle1 he saw a mother's love pouring out over her babe like a gushing spring1 and the angel said1 #8,the mother's love is the prettiest thing ,i have seen2 ,i will take that too4' ,and with these three treasures the heavenly messenger winged his flight to the pearly gates1 saying3 #8,before ,i go in ,i must examine the mementoes of my trip to the earth4' ,he looked at the flowers2 they had withered4 ,he looked at the baby's smile2 it had faded4 ,he looked at the mother's love2 it shone in all its pristine beauty4 ,then he threw away the withered flowers1 cast aside the faded smile1 and with the mother's love pressed to his breast1 swept through the gates into the city1 shouting that the only thing he had found that would retain its fragrance from earth to heaven is a mother's love40 ,,every ,,child ,,is ,a ,,trust ,,to ,,mother4 8,every child is put in a mother's arms as a trust from ,god1 and she has to answer to ,god for the way she deals with that child4 ,no mother on ,god's earth has any right to raise her children for pleasure4 ,she has no right to send them to dancing school and haunts of sin4 ,you have no right to do those things that will curse your children4 ,that babe is put in your arms to train for the ,lord4 ,no mother has any more right to raise her children for pleasure than ,i have to pick your pockets or throw red pepper in your eyes4 ,she has no more right to do that than a bank cashier has to rifle the vaults and take the savings of the people4 ,one of the worst sins you can commit is to be unfaithful to your trust40 8,the biggest place in the world is that which is being filled by the people who are in close touch with youth4 ,being a king1 an emperor or a president is mighty small business compared to being a mother1 or the teacher of children1 whether in a public school or in a ,sunday school1 and they fill places so great that there isn't an angel in heaven that wouldn't be glad to give a bushel of diamonds to boot to come down here and take their place4 ,commanding an army is little more than sweeping a street or pounding an anvil compared with the training of a boy or girl40 ,,says ,,men ,,are ,,what ,,mothers ,,make ,,them4 8,emerson said3 #8,men are what their mothers make them4' ,they are what their mothers make them1 and if the mothers of today were true to their trust1 then they could send their boys to college and need not be afraid of them coming back infidels1 like many of them do4 ,there is no power on earth that can lift to heaven or shove to hell like the touch of a mother's hand4 ,everywhere men have been brought back from the valley of the shadow of death simply by the touch of mother's hand40 ,,songs ,,of ,,mother ,,sweetest ,,to ,,hear4 8,there is power in a mother's song1 too4 ,it's the best music the world ever heard4 ,there is no brass band or pipe organ that can hold a candle to mother's song1 the kind she sings gets tangled up in your heart strings4 ,there would be a disappointment in the music of heaven to me if there were no mothers there to sing4 ,the song of an angel or a seraph would not have much charm for me4 ,what would you care for an angel's song if there is no mother's song8 ,the song of a mother is sweeter than that ever sung by minstrel or written by poet4 ,talk about sonnets6 ,you ought to hear the mother sing when her babe is on her breast1 when her heart is filled with emotion4 ,her voice may not please an artist1 but it will please any one who has a heart in him4 ,the songs that have moved the world are not the songs written by the great masters4 ,i think when we reach heaven it will be found that some of the best songs we will sing there will be those we learned at mother's knee40 8,there is power in a mother's love4 ,a mother's love must be like ,god's love4 ,how ,god could ever tell the world that ,he loved it without a mother's help has often puzzled me4 ,if the devils in hell ever turned pale1 it was the day when mother's love flamed up for the first time in a woman's heart4 ,if the devil ever got #8cold feet1' it was that day1 in my judgment40 8,to teach a child to love the truth and hate a lie1 to love purity and hate vice1 is greater than inventing a flying machine that will take you to the moon1 or to the ,north pole4 ,unconsciously1 you set in motion influences that will damn or bless the old universe and bring new worlds out of chaos and transform them for ,god40 ,,gathering ,,up ,,the ,,sunbeams4 8,if we knew the baby fingers pressed against the window pane1 ,would be cold and still tomorrow1 never trouble us again1 ,would the bright eyes of our darling catch the frown upon our brow8 ,would the prints of little fingers vex us then as they do now8 ,let us gather up the sunbeams lying all around our path1 ,let us keep the wheat and roses1 casting out the thorns and chaff6 ,we shall find our sweetest comforts in the blessings of today1 and ,with patient hand removing all the briers from our way40 ,,start ,,children ,,right1 ,,only ,,solution4 8,when ,god wants to throw a world out into space he is much concerned about it4 ,the first mile that world takes settles its course for eternity4 ,when ,god throws a child out into the world he is mighty anxious that it gets a right start4 ,the ,catholics are right when they say3 #8,give us the children until they are ten years old1 and we don't care who has them after that4' ,the ,catholics are not losing any sleep about losing men and women from their church membership4 ,it is the only church that has ever shown us the only sensible way to reach the masses--that is1 by getting hold of the children4 ,that's the only way on ,god's earth you will ever solve the problem of reaching the masses4 ,you get the boys and girls started right and the devil will hang crepe on his door1 bank his fires1 and hell will be 8for rent40 8,there is power in a mother's smile4 ,see the boy1 how he will outdo himself if he knows his mother is watching him1 and it makes the hard places easy and the dark places light4 ,a long face and a gloomy look are about the last things you ought to give to your children if you want to inspire and cheer them40 ,,dancing ,,worst ,,of ,,amusements4 ,the dance is the hotbed of iniquity1 and ,i denounce it as the rottenest1 most hellish1 vice-producing institution that ever wriggled from the depths of perdition4 ,the dance is simply a hugging match set to music4 ,dancing is not an innocent amusement4 ,it has caused the downfall of more girls than anything else4 ,three-fourths of the fallen women in big cities1 fell because of the dance4 ,you'd just as soon husk corn by moonlight as to dance with your own wife4 ,it's the other fellow's wife1 some other fellow's sister that you want to dance with4 ,a man will wallow and get so low he'll have to climb a hill to get into hell1 then make a bluff at reforming and society takes him in4 ,then at the dance he'll breathe promises into the ears of some innocent young girl1 gain her confidence and then ruin her4 ,you say you need exercise and that's why you dance4 ,all right1 then1 let women dance with women1 and men with men4 ,the dance brings vice and virtue into such close contact that virtue loses4 ,any church that encourages dancing is too low down to deserve the name of church4 ,if there are variations of hell1 the dancer will crack brimstone in the hottest spot4 ,if there was nothing but card players and dancers in the church1 how it would stink and rot6 ,,declares ,,ballroom ,,permits ,,liberties4 ,you grant men liberties on the ball room floor that if any man attempted in your home and your husband found you at it1 he would have no trouble in securing a divorce1 and if he shot the man1 no jury in the world would convict him for it4 ,if ,i found any man hugging ,mrs4 ,sunday as a man does in a dance1 ,i'd clear for action like a battleship1 and give him ,,his4 ,where do you find your most accomplished dancers8 ,in the brothels4 ,when a girl gets so low that she'll smoke and drink1 she is on the toboggan slide and going to hell fast4 ,and you fellows like to 8sit out0 a dance4 ,i always did think it was a foolish proposition to gallop a mile to get a hug4 ,the round and square dances look alike to me4 ,it doesn't take very long to cut the corners off4 ,there was a time in ,america when the stately cotillion seemed to satisfy1 but it is too slow now for the hot blood of the ,twentieth ,century4 ,the young people must have something that will chase hurdles through their veins4 ,,what ,,billy ,,said ,,on ,,motherhood4 8,i don't believe there is an angel in heaven that would not come to earth and be honored with motherhood if ,god would grant them that privilege4 ,like produces like in animals and in human beings4 ,blood will tell in horses1 sheep1 quadruped and in human beings4 ,a consumptive mother will produce a consumptive child1 and the same is true of its paternity4 ,it is time to lay aside mock modesty4 ,you can't trifle with ,god's rules4 ,society has just about put maternity out of fashion4 ,when you stop to consider the average society woman ,i do not think maternity has lost anything4 ,the child of affluence is turned over to nurses at birth and is fed on prepared foods and knows nothing of its mother4 ,the children of humbler homes are raised by their mothers1 instead of being turned over to governesses4 ,these mothers spend their time in bridge parties1 gadding1 and fondling pet dogs2 no wonder men go to the clubs4 ,no man wants to play second fiddle to a bow-legged bulldog4 ,i am sure ,i would not60 ,,too ,,many ,,girls ,,are ,,not ,,in ,,love4 8,there are too many girls marry for other causes than love4 ,i think ambition1 indolence1 avarice1 laziness and indifference lead more girls to the altar than love4 ,girls not actuated by the noblest of human feeling1 but simply willing to pay the price for a good time4 ,they are not moved by the nobler desires of manhood and womanhood4 ,maternity is the highest possible gift of ,god to woman4 ,the up-to-date women pride themselves on their criminal knowledge4 ,some girls marry for society1 some marry for home1 some marry for ease1 some marry to reform man2 he wouldn't marry you to reform you--you little fool4 ,it is no easier to make a kingly husband out of a beer-soaked1 cigaret-smoking specimen of a man than a prostitute can make a queenly wife40 ,,high ,,spots ,,in ,,billy',s ,,sermon ,,to ,,women4 ,up to ,women to ,save ,world4 8,woman lives on a higher plane morally than man4 ,no woman was ever ruined that some brute of a man did not take the initiative4 ,women have kept themselves purer than men4 ,i believe a good woman is the best thing this side of heaven1 and a bad woman the worst thing this side of hell4 ,i think they rise higher and sink lower than men4 ,i think she is the purest on earth or the most degraded on earth4 ,our homes are on the level with women4 ,towns are on the level with homes4 ,nations are on the level with towns4 ,what our women are1 the towns will be4 ,what the town is the men will be4 ,the devil and women can damn this world1 and ,jesus and women can save this world4 ,the womanhood of the world has to settle the destiny of the world4 ,i believe there is something unfinished in the makeup of a girl with the absence of religion4 ,the average girl of today no longer looks forward to motherhood as the crowning glory of womanhood40 ,,gives ,,advice ,,on ,,picking ,a ,,husband4 8,say1 girls1 don't simper and look silly when you speak about love4 ,there is nothing silly about it although some folks are silly because they are in love2 love is the noblest and purest gift to man and womanhood4 ,don't let your actions advertise 8,man ,wanted ,quick40 ,that is the surest way not to get a real one4 ,you might get something with pantaloons on1 but that is not a man4 ,some men should be arrested for going around and being disguised as men4 ,don't get excited and try to hurry things along4 ,if the man wants you he'll come around in his good time2 and don't try to do half the courting4 ,don't bestow the love that ,god gave you to bestow upon a baby on a poodle dog4 ,dogs are all right in their places1 but their place is out in the kennel40 ,,don',t ,,let ,,girls ,,marry ,,infidels4 8,don't teach your girls1--mothers1--that the only thing in the world is to marry4 ,a girl is a big fool to marry an infidel4 ,god says be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers4 ,if she does she will have a hard life as sure as she lives4 ,the offsprings of such marriages either follow in the footsteps of their father1 and go to hell1 or cling to their mother and are sneered at all their life by their father40 8,,thy ,,kingdom ,,come40 ,if you really pray 8,thy ,kingdom ,come0 you will pray with your hands1 feet and money as well as with your voice1 every day4 ,your religion should mean that you're going to bring about the conversion of the world before you sit down to breakfast4 ,the minister who prays with a true appreciation of 8,thy ,kingdom ,come0 don't cater to the small highbrow bunch of his church4 ,he puts the cookies on the bottom shelf4 ,the man who truly prays 8,thy ,kingdom ,come0 won't slip coppers in the collection plate and then go home with his head up singing 8,jesus ,paid ,it ,all40 ,when we really mean what we are praying1 the old devil won't own an inch of this world4 ,we won't need any penitentiary then1 or jails or have any murders1 or young girls robbed of their womanhood4 ,god never meant anybody to offer up a prayer that was measured in square miles4 ,some people here are so busy singing about the streets of glory that they forget to sweep the snow off their own streets4 ,talk about non-church goers--it makes me sick4 ,why don't you talk about the non-going church8 ,the proof of the pudding is not found in smelling the bag or chewing the strings4 ,there are lots of church members who only smell the bag and chew the rag4 ,christianity must be a good thing or why would they try to counterfeit it4 ,you never heard of a counterfeit infidel4 ,the man who refuses to be a ,christian because there are hypocrites in the church is a fool4 ,you can find about everything in the ordinary church from a humming bird to a turkey buzzard4 ,i could no more shock some of you fellows than ,i could pour something on a skunk and make him smell good4 ,the inconsistency you talk about is in your life1 not in the ,bible4 ,talk to people on business and they'll talk sense2 talk to them on religion and they'll talk nonsense4 ,christianity is the one thing that allows the angel to take hold of you and strangle the animal in you4 ,,hot ,,shots ,,on ,,cards ,,and ,,gambling4 ,if you have a deck of cards and a ,bible in your home1 throw the deck in the alley4 ,either throw the cards out and keep the ,bible1 or throw out the ,bible and keep the cards4 ,what's the difference between a game of cards and a game of checkers8 ,just as much difference as between heaven and hell4 ,it is said nine-tenths of the gamblers are taught in their homes by their mothers1 and #hj per cent by ,christian people4 ,i believe that cards and dancing are doing more to damn the spiritual life of the church than the grog-shops1 though you can't accuse me of being a friend of that stinking1 dirty1 rotten1 hell-soaked business4 ,i believe more people backslide on account of the social side than on account of the saloon4 ,lots of church members have cards on their tables as often as food4 ,a billiard table is the first cousin to a saloon4 ,the saloonkeepers and gamblers laugh every time they read the announcement of a euchre or card party in the newspapers1 for they know it will only be a question of time until they get the players4 ,you have no right to find fault with the city officials because they don't suppress gambling when it is carried on right in your home4 ,illustration3 ,,waiting ,,for ,,the ,,opening ,,of ,,the ,,tabernacle4 ,,evangelist ,,puts ,,taboo ,,on ,,theater4 ,the theater1 as conducted today1 is one of the rottenest institutions outside of hell4 ,it is upon the charred souls of women that most of the men who are a power in the theatrical world have climbed to their height4 ,the theater is corrupting1 educationally1 commercially and morally4 ,it is almost impossible to find in the theater decency and purity4 ,the church and the theater have nothing in common4 ,the only way to reform the theater is to turn it into something else4 ,the rogue and scoundrelism and man's infidelity form the groundwork of most plays4 ,the day is long past when any number of serious-minded citizens look to the theater for inspiration or instruction4 ,if it were not for the leg shows the theater would go bankrupt4 ,booth and ,garrick would not allow their own children to go to the theater4 ,smiling religion--that's what we want4 ,the devil can't laugh--poor devil4 ,god enjoys a little fun4 ,he made the parrot1 donkey1 monkey and some of you folks4 ,the ,lord wants the best2 why can't he have it8 ,some men are so rotten and vile they ought to be disinfected and take a bath in carbolic acid and formaldehyde every five minutes4 ,to see some people you would think that the essentials of ,christianity is to have a face so long you could eat oatmeal out of a gas pipe4 ,religion is not cramp colic4 ,i want to lift the burden tonight from the heads of unoffending womanhood and hurl it at the heads of offending manhood4 ,some people have just enough religion to give them goosepimples4 ,get in the game4 ,some of you have just enough religion to get to the edge of life but not faith enough to plunge in4 ,don't find fault with your physician until after you have tried his remedy2 don't find fault with ,god until you have tried him4 ,i know some fellows here who are afraid to come to the ,tabernacle and do one thing decent before going to ,hell4 ,i despise a religious coward4 ,society takes no notice of sin at first2 it waits for the mute evidences of that sin4 ,,billy ,,puts ,,taboo ,,on ,,wedding ,,knots4 ,although an ordained minister1 in all of his twenty-seven years' experience as an evangelist1 ,mr4 ,sunday has united but one couple in marriage4 ,and that1 he declares1 he did very reluctantly4 ,in nearly every city where ,billy has a campaign1 he is besieged by young men and young women who want him to marry them4 ,but ,billy states that there is absolutely nothing doing in that line4 ,he has performed his first and last marriage ceremony1 and says he will stick to plain evangelism1 and leave the marrying part to other ministers4 ,,every ,,palace ,,is ,,not ,a ,,home4 8,i have walked and ridden and driven over the hills and through the valleys and looked at your beautiful homes and your spacious lawns and your happy children2 you can build your palaces and amass your fortunes2 your sideboards can groan beneath the weight of gold and silver1 cut glass and hand-painted china2 and you can let your little ones play over your ,brussels carpet or your ,persian or ,axminster rugs2 and you can have a retinue of servants to wait upon you and do your bidding and satisfy your slightest desire2 and you can loll upon your oriental divans and breathe the perfumed air and watch the sparkling water as it spurts from fountains2 and you can look at your rare paintings and ransack ,europe in order to find the masterpieces2 and you can lie there with some one to fan you1 and take your afternoon siesta2 and you can sit and gormandize upon all the viands that the earth can produce2 and your chef may be a ,frenchman whose ability would command a princely fortune even in the homes of the crowned heads of ,europe4 8,but1 after all1 if you sit behind the tapestry and look out through the plate-glass and wait for the staggering reeking1 vomiting1 spewing1 drink-soaked1 drunken sot of a son1 or you wait for the coming of the steps of a girl who has lost her virtue1 ,i tell you1 all that wealth can bring you will fly and you will think you are sitting in a sepulchre and the rich furniture will simply become the bones of other days and other faces1 for nothing can make happy the father or the mother who has a drunken sot of a boy1 as many of them have today1 and nothing can make happy the father or the mother of a girl who has sold her womanhood for gain4 ,and ,i tell you1 not only should our homes be the center of all that is pure1 but all that is cheerful and bright40 ,,drawing ,,the ,,line ,,on ,,christians4 ,too many of you kneel at the communion table and then beat down the wages of your employes so their children go to bed hungry at night4 ,what ,god wants is workers and boosters2 not knockers and iconoclasts4 ,every time a lazy man looks towards heaven1 the angels close the door4 ,it would be a ,godsend if the church could smell a little gunpowder4 ,a little persecution would be a good thing to get rid of the parasites and driftwood in the churches4 ,enthusiasm for ,jesus ,christ is like the measles and diphtheria--it's catching4 ,you sing 8,calvary in ,heaven10 and yet you put the wrong figures on the ledger book2 you profess brotherly love1 and yet slander your neighbor4 ,there is no use trying to build a revival on a bottle of booze and on skullduggery and intrigue4 ,i'm just trying to clear away the debris now4 ,a lot of people will wear out ten pair of holdbacks and only one pair of tugs working for ,god4 ,too many churches are frauds1 four-flushers1 excess baggage and false alarms4 ,the dude who splutters and splurges and spends his daddy's dough1 is the missing link between man and the monkey4 ,you say religion causes insanity2 ,i say you're a liar6 ,you tell the doctor1 who says you need beer for your health that he's a liar4 ,knowledge is of no benefit unless you use it4 ,the world is being born into sin #bj to #a faster than into the spirit of ,god4 ,religion doesn't make anybody mad2 it's hell that makes men mad4 ,any fool can criticise2 it needs neither brains nor heart to find fault4 ,churches in ,new ,york ,city have #ej1jjj less members today than a year ago4 ,all denominations are failing to reach the multitude4 ,you're either a patriot or a traitor to ,god's cause in this revival4 ,the man with real red blood in his veins scorns the path of roses our modern churches have made to accept ,christ4 ,criticism is the scales on which you weigh yourself4 ,,the ,,preachers ,,and ,,the ,,laymen4 ,lots of churches will sidestep the man with two dollars1 but who ever heard of a man with five hundred thousands being turned out of church4 ,lots of sermons today are nothing but a book review with a little religion tacked on the end4 ,a poor sinner couldn't find ,jesus ,christ in some of the churches with a searchlight4 ,we've got too many preachers breaking their necks1 trying to please the worldly gang that is going to increase their salaries4 ,nobody nowadays is afraid of ,god2 the picture of ,jesus ,christ is fading from the world2 the word of ,god has been discarded as being too crude for this enlightened age4 ,many churches are nothing but social clearance houses4 ,there are lots of people in this city who would rather have their friends go to hell than be saved by my preaching4 ,the best ,christian will be the best citizen everywhere4 ,an employer is a thief if he takes advantage of his employe by not paying him for the honest work he does2 the employe is a thief who does not give honest toil for honest wages4 ,public opinion is not always competent to judge whether or not a man is worthy4 ,,belshazzar',s ,,feast4 ,what the ,bible says4 8,belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords and drank wine before the thousands4 8,belshazzar1 while he tasted the wine1 commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father ,nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in ,jerusalem2 that the king and his princes1 his wives and his concubines might drink therein4 8,they drank wine and praised the gods of gold1 and of silver1 of brass1 of iron1 of wood and of stone4 8,in the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace2 and the king saw part of the hand that wrote4 8,then the king's countenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him so that the joints of his loins were loosed and his knees smote one against another4 8,the king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers1 the ,chaldeans and the soothsayers4 8,then came the king's wise men2 but they could not read the writing nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof4 8,then was ,daniel brought before the king1 and the king said3 8,if thou canst read the writing thou shalt be clothed with scarlet and have a chain of gold about thy neck and shalt be third ruler of the kingdom40 8,then ,daniel answered and said before the king1 8,let thy gifts be to thyself and give thy rewards to another2 yet ,i will read the writing and make known unto the king the interpretation40 8,and this is the writing that was written3 ,,mene1 ,,mene1 ,,tekel1 ,,upharsin40 ,,belshazzar',s ,,feast4 8,billy0 ,sunday's ,version4 ,belshazzar's feast was no common beer1 pretzel and dill pickle blow-out1 but the real goods4 ,nude and lewd women wormed and wriggled their way through the banquet hall4 ,the bunch began to get soused and the revelry increased4 ,then came the obscene song1 the drunken hiccough1 the slavering lip1 and the guffaw of idiotic laugh bursting from the lips of princes1 flushed1 reeling and bloodshot1 while mingled with it all were the hurrahs for great ,belshazzar4 ,then from the atmosphere flashed an armless hand which wrote upon the frieze in words that blazed like fire and glistened like gold4 ,terror froze ,belshazzar to the very soul4 ,his countenance changed1 his thoughts troubled him so that the joints of his loins were loose and his knees smote together4 ,i tell you old 8,bel0 was about all in4 ,in a few moments he hoarsely cried3 8,bring in the astrologers1 the ,chaldeans and the soothsayers 7we'd call 'em mediums today74 ,and in came the ,magi and when they couldn't decipher the heiroglyphics1 ,belshazzar cried1 8,give 'em the hook40 ,then he sent for ,daniel on his mother's advice4 ,i can see him say3 8,put her there ,dan10 as he slapped his hand in ,daniel's1 and say1 8,my maw's be tellin' me about you4 ,this bunch has got on my nerves4 ,the four-flushers have been feedin' and fattenin' around here and can't read that writing4 ,if you'll do it ,i'll give you a chain and a ring of gold40 ,but ,daniel said3 8,nothin' doing on the chain and ring proposition1 ,bel40 ,then ,daniel read the writing4 8,,mene1 ,,mene1 ,,tekel1 ,,upharsin40 ,a ,,remarkable ,,prayer4 ,sunday says ,devil ,growls when #aj1jjj ,confess their ,wrongs4 8,oh1 ,jesus1 isn't this a great spectacle8 ,this must make you smile1 ,jesus4 ,i know it does me4 ,and devil1 this sight must make you growl4 ,i can hear you saying1 #8,what's ,bill ,sunday doing up there8 ,look at that crowd of #aj1jjj people standing because they're sorry they broke any of ,god's commandments4 ,we've got to get busy or we'll lose thousands4 ,come on all you devils1 get out of hell4 ,get out ,i say4' 8,and ,jesus1 ,i'll bet all those devils are trembling when they look up here1 and ,i'll bet all the angels in heaven are rejoicing and shouting with joy4 ,i can see mothers and fathers up there saying1 #8,get back1 ,moses1 get back ,solomon1 get back ,david1 you haven't got any children down there4 ,let me look and see if my boy or girl is in that audience4 ,yes1 there she is down in section #bg2 yes1 there is my boy over by post #ad2 thank ,god for that4' 8,and1 oh1 ,jesus1 if any preacher here tonight has got cold feet1 help him to stiffen up2 give him backbone so he can fight for you4 ,and1 ,jesus1 bless these preachers1 thank them for deepening the spirit here tonight4 ,bless all newspaper boys who are giving us such wonderful reports4 ,bless all in their offices that we met the other day--all of the clerks1 stenographers1 printers1 pressmen and from the men that own the papers down to the boys that sell the papers on the street4 8,and1 ,jesus1 bless this choir1 bless the ushers1 bless the ,chief1 the ,mayor1 the ,governor1 help the state officials1 ,jesus4 ,and bless this old state and this city and may we have a rousing time here4 ,guide us and keep us for your sake1 ,jesus1 amen1 amen1 amen and amen4 ,good night40 8,,hitting ,,the ,,sawdust ,,trail40 ,the meaning 8to hit the sawdust trail10 has a beautiful and appropriate meaning4 ,it was first used when ,sunday and his party were in the midst of a campaign among the lumbermen on ,puget ,sound4 ,at the tabernacle at ,bellingham1 ,washington4 ,the floor of the tabernacle was covered with the sawdust from the lumber camp and the lumbermen1 when any of their men went down front to speak to ,rev4 ,sunday1 called it 8,hitting the ,trail40 ,in the lumber camps in the mountains there is a trail that leads through the fastness of the wooded mountain side covered by wood chips1 so as to make it conspicuous by night as well as by day4 ,the woodsmen some time wander far away from camp and are lost in the primeval forest4 ,in their wanderings1 if they can 8hit the trail10 they are saved1 as it leads to the safety and shelter of the camp4 ,so on the pathway of life if you can1 8hit the trail10 of ,god's mercy through the ,lord ,jesus ,christ you are led to safety4 ,so these rude lumbermen called the giving up of self to ,god and going down the sawdust isle of the tabernacle--8,hitting the ,trail40 ,the phrase stuck to the ,sunday party ever since and it has a thrilling touch of the wildwood and a meaning that is very appropriate and beautiful when taken in the language of the backwoods4 ,,trying ,,to ,,serve ,,god ,,and ,,the ,,devil4 ,it would almost be a blessing if a wave of scarlet fever or small-pox could visit some city just after a revival and sweep into heaven thousands who had been converted before they were given a chance to backslide4 ,lots of people never get any place to backslide from4 ,the man who keeps his store open on ,sunday is an anarchist4 ,i don't mean the hotel man or the restaurant proprietor1 for some things are an absolute necessity4 ,you never saw a dancing1 card-playing and theatre-gadding church member that amounted to the snap of your finger4 ,belonging to a church won't save you4 ,a thief can be a church member4 ,there's too much playing tag with ,god1 and hide-and-seek with the devil nowadays4 ,there's too much joining the church today and too little joining ,jesus4 ,even preachers1 elders1 deacons and stewards may not be members of the body of ,christ1 but merely church members4 ,,inconsistent ,,church ,,members4 ,don't start a ,christian life and compromise on a pack of cards4 ,religion is not for time1 money1 applause or politics1 but for ,god first1 last and all the time4 ,there never was an honest draft from an honest heart that was refused at the bank window of heaven4 ,if you worked for ,god as hard as you do for the devil1 you wouldn't be up against it4 ,if you're a backslider1 you're a liar1 a perjurer and you've broken your marriage vows with ,god4 ,many men may be true to their business1 to their lodge and to their wives1 but dirty liars to ,god4 ,you can graduate from the best university on ,god's dirt and make a cold storage plant out of your brain1 but without ,jesus you aren't worth a cent4 ,there is as much connection between some church members and ,jesus as there is between a wooden leg and the man that wears it4 ,life is just chuck full of half-done things4 ,,christians ,,can',t ,,live ,,double ,,lives4 ,it don't make any difference with ,god whether the one who sins wears a coat or petticoat2 plug hat or a hairpin4 ,this double-standard business is the curse of humanity today4 ,god demands the same standard of purity in man as he does in woman4 ,there are a lot of lobsters here tonight who1 if their wives lived the lives they did1 would be down at the court house whining for divorces tomorrow morning4 ,you can't cut the week up into seven parts1 call six secular and one ,sunday when you go to church and listen to a little sermonette1 and expect to be saved4 ,you are a blackguard liar when you say every man and woman have a price4 ,most men are honest2 most women are virtuous4 ,it's the dishonest man and the woman with no virtue that are in the minority4 ,lots of people start on a royal race in life1 but compromise at the finish in a mouse hole4 ,a ,,high ,,tribute ,,to ,,the ,,christian ,,character ,,of ,,gen4 ,,lee4 ,billy ,sunday paid the following tribute to the ,christian character of ,general ,robert ,e4 ,lee1 commander of the ,confederate forces in the ,civil ,war3 8,there is no man ,i so delight to honor as the man who is true4 ,there is no woman ,i so delight to honor as the woman who is true4 ,there is no one ,i so abhor as a man or woman whose words are untruth and whose promises are as vapor4 ,i may differ from a man in politics or religion1 and if he is living up to his highest ideals1 even if ,i think those ideals wrong1 ,i respect him and ,i will do my best to clear up his errors and lead him to the sunlit hills of ,god's pardon4 8,at the beginning of the ,civil ,war ,general ,robert ,e4 ,lee said to ,general ,scott that he was a ,union man at heart1 but that his native state of ,virginia had seceded and that as a loyal son he felt he must cast his fortunes with the ,confederacy4 ,as the war proceeded1 ,lee saw the bright hopes of the ,confederacy fade1 saw its government overturned and broken at his feet4 ,when the end came he was a prematurely old man1 his health fled1 his fortune gone1 his property at ,arlington confiscated4 ,at that time of despair there came to him the officers of the ,louisiana ,lottery company1 offering to make him its president4 8#8,but1 gentlemen1' he said1 #8,i don't know anything about the lottery business4' 8#8,that makes no difference1' they said1 #8we do4 ,we want the use of your name1 and we will give you #aj1jjj a year4' 8,general ,lee buttoned his coat over his sunken breast1 brushed back his gray hair from his forehead1 and said3 #8,gentlemen1 my good name and my self respect are all that is saved from the wreck1 and they are not for sale4 ,you cannot buy ,robert ,e4 ,lee4' 8,my father was a ,union soldier4 ,i am a loyal ,american1 but ,i say that ,robert ,e4 ,lee was one of the noblest ,christian characters this country has ever produced1 and that ,stonewall ,jackson was another40 ,,exposes ,,falsehood ,,of 8,,graft0 ,,stories4 ,billy ,sunday takes frequent raps at those who knock him and accuse him of grafting4 ,wednesday night he became reminiscent for a few minutes and referred to his turning down big offers from baseball teams1 to become a ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 secretary4 8,when ,i turned down offers of #ejj4jj and even #a1jjj a month from ball teams1 to make #hc4jj as a ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 secretary1 they never called me a grafter1 and in those days we were up against hard times10 he said4 8,for six months ,i got no salary2 ,i went hungry at noon and walked to and from work to save car fare4 8,then there's another lie they tell about me and it is that ,i own a saloon in ,chicago4 ,i don't know what all they tell about me1 but ,i do not and never did own a single piece of property in ,chicago40 ,,women ,,have ,,the ,,same ,,rights ,,as ,,men4 8,god has marked out the same path for men and for women to follow4 ,away with the hellish doctrine of a double standard of living in this twentieth century4 ,it makes no difference whether the one who sins wears a plug hat or a petticoat4 ,young fellow1 your sister has as good a right to live as you do1 as you have4 ,she has as good a right to walk up street smoking a cigaret as you have4 ,your wife has as good a right to line up before a bar and put #aj beers under her belt as you have4 ,she has as good a right to go to the corner grocery in the evening and sit around and put her feet up on the stove and settle the questions of the day1 as you have4 ,she has as good a right as you have to walk down street with a half a plug of ,lorillard's sticking out of her mouth and spit enough to drown a jackrabbit as you have4 ,i wouldn't clean out your old spittoon for you4 ,i'd throw it at your old head4 ,yes1 sir4 ,mop up your own slop1 you old hog40 ,illustration3 ,,when ,,the ,,tabernacle ,,services ,,are ,,over4 ,,says ,,backsliders ,,like ,,groundhogs4 8,the invitation is never given at a revival but there are those who will respond to it and for a time will live as ,christians should4 ,then1 when the revival is over and the routine of everyday life begins1 they slip gradually back into their former ways4 ,they are like the groundhog4 ,when spring comes the groundhog awakes from his winter's sleep and emerges into the sunlight and lives an active life until the storms of winter come again4 ,then he crawls into his hole of hibernation and falls into a sleep of months4 ,oh1 it is easy to think of things divine when the revival is on and there is inspiration on every side and the bands are playing and the crowds are marching4 ,these groundhog people have family prayer then1 and they attend to their religious duties faithfully1 but when the revival is over they begin to relapse into their old ways40 ,,true ,,to ,,lodge2 ,,false ,,to ,,christ4 8,they tell me a lodge man will share his last dollar with a needy person1 die for the widow or the orphan1 put his head on the track ahead of the ,twentieth ,century ,limited or allow himself to be shot to pieces before he would be false to the vows he took amid the scent of the orange blossoms4 ,that sounds like a good man2 but there are lots of men who will be true in all these things1 and false to ,jesus ,christ4 ,they will go to church and partake of the communion1 then will go out and line up in front of some bar or tell smutty stories4 ,true in business1 true in society1 true in the home1 but a perjurer in the sight of ,god4 ,if you are such a man you are a backslider--a backslider1 sir1 and a liar40 8,girls1 you are a fool if you will walk along the street with a fellow who smokes a cigaret as he walks with you4 ,he wouldn't walk with you if you smoked one40 ,,sunday ,,advises ,,society ,,women ,,to ,,save ,,souls4 8,no doubt you women have a retinue of servants and haven't dirtied your hands in dishwater for so long that you have forgotten how it feels4 ,but you have souls to save1 and don't wait until just before the undertaker backs up to your door40 ,mr4 ,sunday took ,van ,dyke's sketch1 8,the ,lost ,word10 as a theme for his talk4 ,he related how ,hermas1 the pagan1 after accepting ,christianity for several years1 grew tired of it and sold the ,word of ,jesus for gold1 pleasure and worldly success4 ,he demonstrated to the club women that1 if they had ever known ,jesus1 they could read their heart's biography4 8,without that word you are nonentities60 said ,sunday1 8,without that word you are lost4 ,and you can't find it in society4 ,do as society wants you to do1 and you will not be doing as ,jesus wants you to do4 ,if ease1 comfort1 luxury and the chasing of the phantoms of pleasure have led you away from the old landmarks and moorings1 get back1 my friends1 get back40 ,the man that bucks the jackpot until #c o'clock in the morning is just as good as the church member that plays for a prize4 ,there's nothing too hard for ,god4 ,if your heart is full of sin you'll never be satisfied until you get others to sin likewise4 ,bad as is physical leprosy1 moral leprosy is ten thousand times worse4 ,suppose every young man in the city who is a moral leper were compelled and impelled by some uncontrollable impulse to make public the sins you've committed4 ,there's a day of judgment coming when ,god will peel off the bark and find many full of wormholes4 ,suppose all had glass doors in our hearts4 ,i think we would want stained glass windows1 heavy tapestry and thick curtains4 ,god never made ,hell for man4 ,god made ,hell for the devil4 ,if you follow the devil you must go to the abode of the devil4 ,you may live in the most beautiful house and the world passes by your door not knowing of the sadness and sorrow within4 ,but it will out4 ,if the world never finds it out1 it'll meet you at the throne of ,god4 ,it's the men of means1 wealth and leisure that support dens of vice4 ,the devil will let you have an easy time until ,god asks you to do personal work4 ,some people think it is beneath their dignity to do personal work for ,god4 ,if it is beneath your dignity to do personal work1 then you are above ,christ4 ,if you haven't got religion enough to smile1 there's a leak in your fountain4 ,i pity that boy or that girl who has no incentive from a father or mother to be a ,christian4 ,sissy1 that fellow wouldn't go with you to reform you4 ,those most likely to be affected by your sins are those nearest and dearest to you4 ,society needs a new division of anathemas4 ,stop hurling your anathemas at that girl and hurl them at that fellow4 ,if we only knew the secrets in the hearts and lives of a great many we envy1 we would be filled with sadness and sorrow4 ,i wish to ,god the church were as afraid of imperfection as it is of perfection4 ,if the saloon is no place for a boy it's no place for a man either4 ,you'll get what's coming to you1 too1 before ,i'm through if you stand with that damnable bunch4 ,i had to say no to fifteen or twenty cities to come here4 ,the curse of the church is not so much sins of commission as sins of omission4 ,two things ,i try to do--strengthen the faith and clarify the vision of those that believe2 help bring the unsaved to ,christ4 ,nobody begins to live until they become a ,christian4 ,you're not ready to die unless you're ready to live4 ,you can learn something from some politicians--energy and organization4 ,it won't be long until the entire ,state of ,iowa is cleared of the liquor traffic4 ,only twenty counties remain wet and these are going dry with a rapidity almost dazzling4 ,it's hard for you to teach the baby how to walk2 it's harder for the baby to learn how to walk4 ,i never saw a revival movement yet until ,god's people fell on their knees and renewed their vows of ,christianity4 ,personal work is a difficult form of work2 more difficult than preachings1 singing1 attending conventions4 ,some things must be faultless to be valuable4 ,love is the greatest thing in the world2 character the grandest4 ,you can bury a man1 but his character will beat the hearse back from the graveyard4 ,don't your hearts say1 you must forsake sin before you can expect pardon8 ,i will preach with all the power ,i have against sin1 but ,i will never 8bawl0 a man out4 ,god is doing ,his best to keep men out of hell2 men are doing their best to get into hell4 ,god cannot and will not put the good and bad in the same place4 ,what did ,jesus ever do that was not for the good of humanity8 ,jesus ,christ never preached a funeral sermon2 that was out of his line4 ,if you are in favor of something ,jesus is against1 then he does not want you4 ,jesus ,christ is against all wrong4 ,are you8 ,jesus stands for a square deal all around4 ,are you against the saloon8 ,jesus ,christ is4 ,jesus ,christ was the bravest man who ever lived4 ,i am tired of hearing him referred to as a dough-faced person4 ,something is expected of a ,godless person that is not of a sinner4 ,i do not care a rap for your claps or applause unless your acts take the form of living your ,christianity4 ,without faith there would not be a factory or a bank here4 ,nothing was ever accomplished without men first believing something4 ,the man who is a ,christian has life more abundantly than an infidel4 ,christ turned houses of mourning into houses of joy4 ,you act as though you had reached the apex and written 8finis0 after everything you do4 ,we haven't learned the a b c's of what is yet to come in this old world4 ,there's a law of gravitation in character as well as in matter4 ,a saloonkeeper does not enjoy a prayer meeting4 ,with everything wicked men can do today they try to check religion4 ,yet religion never will be stopped4 ,you might as well try to dam ,niagara ,falls with toothpicks4 ,for twenty-seven and a half years ,i have been a ,christian4 ,i defy the devil or anyone else on earth or in hell to prove that ,i don't live what ,i preach4 ,a motorman might as well try to run his car up yonder hill by blowing his breath against the front vestibule as to expect salvation without ,jesus ,christ4 ,you can't stop religion by making fun of it4 ,if it's wrong for me to hit the booze1 it's wrong for you4 ,god says1 if you give me a chance1 old man1 ,i can make you sober and keep you sober4 ,take out of this town what ,christianity has done for it and its real estate would not be worth ten cents by ,christmas4 ,do not be deluded to believing that all you need is sincerity of thought4 ,a man may believe he can handle nitro-glycerine with impunity1 but if he does he will be slivered into atoms4 ,i know ,jesus made good with me4 ,has he with you8 ,wherever ,jesus' teachings have gone joy has followed4 ,jesus ,christ has crowned womanhood and placed garlands on her head4 ,some men bequeath disease and cravings for drink to their children4 ,if ,paul and ,silas had looked as gloomy as some of you coming to the ,tabernacle that man in jail would not be liberated yet4 ,jesus bled and died to save you4 ,whosoever will4 ,i am traveling to heaven according to a time-card1 the gospel schedule4 ,illustration3 ,,billy ,,sunday ,,at ,,the ,,ages ,,of #ad ,,and #ah ,,years4 ,,consolation ,,for ,,the ,,old ,,maids4 8,take this from ,uncle ,fuller3 #8,don't worry if you don't marry1 there are worse things in the world than being an old maid1 and one of them is marrying the wrong man4 ,love is the divinest gift of ,god to man and woman4 ,some of the noblest women in the world have been old maids2 they are not old maids1 simply ladies-in-waiting1 but ,i tell you girls ,i would rather be an old maid1 with dogs1 cats1 furniture and bric-a-brac than to be yoked to a profane1 cigaret smoking1 cursing1 whisky-soaked1 jug-handle for a husband4'0 ,,takes ,,rap ,,at ,,girls ,,who ,,flirt4 8,i wish ,i could make a girl that flirts see herself as others see her4 ,if you make eyes at a man on the street he will pay you back4 ,it means that if you don't care any more than that for yourself why should he8 ,it takes a whole lot of nerve for a fellow to look a girl in the face and say3 #8,will you be my wife and partner and help me fight the battle during life8' ,but ,i think it means a whole lot more to the girl who has to answer and fight that question2 but the fool girl loafs around1 waits to be chosen and takes the first chance she gets and seems to think that if they get made one the laws of man can make them two again4 ,the divorce laws are damnable and pernicious40 ,,drinking ,,and ,,matrimony4 ,no man ever intended being a drunkard4 ,he started out a moderate drinker4 ,if any young buck would come and ask to take my daughter out on a midnight joy ride1 so help me ,god1 ,i certainly would land on him4 ,if these automobiles and carriages could talk1 there'd be something doing4 ,the reason we've got so many little whip-poor-will widows nowadays is that they married men to reform them4 ,girls1 you sell yourselves too cheap4 ,you'll keep company with some miserable young buck who'll dodge into a doorway so as not to be embarrassed by the look of recognition from some fallen woman on the street1 just to have 8steady0 company4 ,,says ,,society ,,to ,,blame ,,for ,,sinners4 ,i say1 you card playing women for little prizes such as a dinky cream pitcher or pair of silk hose 7maybe you've got 'em on now7 are responsible for many of the gamblers1 because you started 'em4 ,the purer life for men and women will never come till the girls raise the standard of their company4 ,then we'll clean up some of these young bucks around town4 ,i believe the man who will seduce an innocent young girl and sell her into a life of shame1 ought to be shot on the spot4 ,society takes no notice of an innocent flirtation4 ,it waits till the mute evidence of a girl's downfall cannot be concealed1 then gasps in horror and turns her out4 ,society is responsible for the sins of those you saw starting toward hell and didn't warn 'em4 ,society's to blame for many a blithering drunkard1 for starting him drinking at a fashionable party4 ,,some ,,extra ,,shots ,,to ,,the ,,outfield4 ,if ,i can send one girl from the red light back to home1 mother and ,god1 then ,i'll be repaid for having stood all your bitter raillery and your mockery4 ,mock you old devil1 mock4 ,gehazi was the first grafter mentioned in the ,bible4 ,if by some power ,i could yank a string and pull from you all the clothes you are wearing that are not paid for1 some of you would have left only a celluloid collar and pair of socks4 ,many a fool today1 when told what to do to keep out of hell1 gets mad at ,god4 ,some fellows are so rotten that they ought to be disinfected for two years and then given a bath in carbolic acid and formaldehyde before they should be allowed to speak to a decent woman4 ,christian ,scientists1 ,i notice1 always answer the call for dinner just as quick as ,i do4 ,don't condemn your doctor until you try his remedies4 ,the devil's no fool4 ,if you get to playing tag with him he'll touch you on the shoulder1 say 8tag1 you're it10 and get your goat4 ,he's never idle4 ,he never gets the rheumatiz1 peritonitis1 gout or appendicitis4 ,,billy',s ,,sketch ,,of ,,leper ,,bathing ,,in ,,jordan4 ,billy ,sunday's impersonation of the leper ,naaman1 entering the waters of the ,jordan river to dip seven times1 given ,thursday night in his sermon on 8,the ,moral ,leper10 in the language of the vaudeville press agent1 was a 8bell-ringer40 ,billy1 in the role of ,naaman1 made things so realistic that his vast audience could almost expand their imagination enough to see the muddy waters of the river1 the slippery bank and the frightened and shivering ,naaman1 endeavoring to bolster up enough courage to plunge in and take his seven dips to be cured of leprosy4 ,billy cautiously approached the water's edge1 stuck one toe in to ascertain the temperature of the water1 drew it back with a shiver and an 8,u-u-gh1 but that's cold60 ,then he stopped to explain that ,naaman was not accustomed to such surroundings1 but was used to a porcelain bath tub at home and to a 8crooked-handle dingaramus0 to rub his back with4 ,with this ,billy went through the contortions of a man trying to reach the hollow of his back with a brush or sponge4 ,,says ,,water ,,made ,,naaman ,,shiver4 ,he told of a big 8snake doctor0 stinging ,naaman on the shoulder1 emitting an unearthly screech and slapping one hand to the offended spot4 ,then he tried the water again4 ,he got part way in1 slipped1 stubbed his toe and went hobbling about on his left foot1 holding the other in both hands as his facial contortions told of ,naaman's pain after getting hurt4 ,he shivered again1 let his teeth chatter with a loud 8b-r-r-r10 as he again went into the water1 pinched his nose shut after taking a long breath1 squinted his eyes and 8ducked0 under the surface1 coming up spluttering1 spitting and choking4 ,then ,billy told of the spots of leprosy on ,naaman beginning to itch4 ,he nearly had every one in the tabernacle scratching arms and legs as he vigorously rubbed various spots on his body1 and scratched 'em4 ,then he resumed his ducking stunt4 ,after the seventh dip1 he told of ,naaman's flesh being covered with the delicate skin of a babe and of him emerging from the river no longer a leper4 ,here ,sunday ended his monologue with the exclamation1 8,gee1 wonder what ,mrs4 ,naaman and the kids will say when ,i come home and they see me cured40 ,,snapshots ,,from ,,sunday',s ,,sermons4 ,god never owned a slave4 ,all the service you render for ,god is or should be prompted by gratitude4 ,it's hell and damnation that put men and women in the asylums and jails4 ,if my vehemence and exertions amaze you1 your apathy and laziness stagger me4 ,if ,god could get possession of all the flesh and blood that belongs to ,him1 ,he could create a commotion in this city in #dh hours4 ,some people work only with their mouths4 ,but ,god wants that part of you that's on the ground as well as in the air4 ,christianity and red whiskey don't stay in the same hide together4 ,bill ,shakespeare was onto his job when he said 8,what fools these mortals be40 ,the ,lord's having just as bad a time today with the folks here as with the old ,jews out there in the wilderness4 ,it gives me prostration to see how some people do things in this world4 ,it's no wonder the devil's got a mortgage on the world and is about ready to foreclose it4 ,some churches have #ejj in the congregation and about #be turn out at prayer meeting4 ,where are the other #dge8 ,they have just as much right to be there as the #be4 ,faith is like a headlight on a train4 ,i don't believe one-half the people in the churches were ever converted or had an experience4 ,i believe in experimental religion4 ,faith is above all other graces2 it honors ,god and brings blessings to the individual4 ,the average preacher don't pray much more than five minutes each day2 the average churchgoer not more than three minutes4 ,if we got what was coming to us--it'd be ,hell for all of us4 ,a ,,trip ,,through ,,the ,,bible ,,with ,,billy ,,sunday4 ,an ,example of the ,evangelist's ,power in ,painting ,word ,pictures4 ,twenty-seven years ago with the ,holy ,spirit as my guide1 ,i entered at the portico of ,geneses and went into the art gallery of the ,old ,testament1 where1 on the wall1 hung pictures of ,enoch1 ,noah1 ,jacob1 ,abraham1 ,elijah1 ,david1 ,daniel and other famous prophets of old4 ,then ,i passed into the music room of the ,psalms1 where the spirit swept the keyboard of my nature and brought forth the dirge--like a wail of the weeping prophet1 ,jeremiah1 to the grand exultant strain of the #bdth ,psalm and where every reed and pipe in ,god's great organ of nature seemed to respond to the tuneful harp of ,david1 as he played for ,king ,saul in his melancholy moods4 ,next ,i passed into the business office of ,proverbs1 then into the chapel of ,ecclesiastes1 where the voice of the preacher was heard2 then over into the conservatory of the songs of ,solomon1 where the ,lily of the ,valley and the ,rose of ,sharon and sweet-scented spices perfumed my life4 ,then ,i stepped into the prophetic room and saw through telescopes various stars1 some pointing to far-off stars and others to nearby stars1 but all concentrated upon the bright and ,morning ,star which was to rise above the moon-lit hills of ,judea1 while shepherds guarded their flock by night4 ,from there ,i passed into the audience room and caught a vision of the ,king from the standpoint of ,matthew1 ,mark1 ,luke and ,john4 ,i then went into the ,acts of the ,apostles1 where the ,holy ,spirit was doing office work in the formation of the ,infant ,church4 ,from here ,i went to the correspondence room where ,matthew1 ,mark1 ,luke1 ,john1 ,paul1 ,peter1 ,james and ,judah sat at their desks1 penning their epistles to the church4 ,then ,i passed last of all into the throne room of ,revelations and the king sitting high upon his throne4 ,,defends ,,divine ,,origin ,,of ,,the ,,bible4 ,if the ,bible were the dreams of men1 it would have gone down long ago4 ,but it still stands like a light-house1 shining out into the darkness1 surrounded by thousands of dead birds1 which have battered their brains out1 knocking it4 ,the biggest fool today is the man who sneers at the word of ,god4 ,god's word can't be overthrown4 ,it is too hard for the tooth of time and will last forever4 ,god's plan in the beginning was that man should never die and that no man should ever work4 ,now1 because of sin1 white or black1 ,christian or skeptic1 civilized or savage1 it's work for you or over the hills to the poor house4 ,you can say1 if you want to1 that your great-great-great-great-grandfather was a monkey with a prehensile tail1 playing in the back alley1 all right1 but you can't connect me with your monkey ancestors4 ,why is it that corn that is fed to chickens makes feathers2 that fed to sheep makes wool2 that fed to the cow makes milk1 and that which you eat goes into brain8 ,the men who undertake to overthrow the ,bible will find the biggest job they ever had on their hands1 and a lot of these lobsters have already gone to the mat for the count4 ,don't you feel like brutes2 don't you feel lower than snakes when you raise you voice against the ,bible and this campaign1 which is working for the influence of ,christianity8 ,you can take all the books of all ages and nations1 and take out all that is good and noble in them1 and you can't produce a book which will touch the hem of the ,bible1 which1 is the word of ,god4 ,,spiritualism ,,on ,,the ,,grill4 ,spiritualism is of the devil1 pure and simple4 ,i have no quarrel with you if you're a spiritualist1 but ,i have with that damnable doctrine4 ,spiritualism is as old as the ,egyptian mummies or the sphinx4 ,it had long1 gray hair and walked on crutches of decrepitude before ,athens or ,rome had a single mud hut or ,romulus and ,remus had been nourished by the wolf4 ,it cannot work in the light1 but needs darkness1 because its deeds are evil4 ,i never knew a confirmed spiritualist who had a normal physical body4 ,their religion is unclean4 ,christian science is the worst tommyrot since the ,third ,century4 ,,straight ,,shots ,,from ,,the ,,shoulder4 ,bryan1 clean as a hound's tooth--he's a friend of mine1 too--isn't afraid to put a ,bible under his arm and preach the word of ,god4 ,the churches used to be daffy over high-critic preachers4 ,nowadays your high-critic preachers are wearing out shoe leather and going blind reading the want columns1 trying to find jobs4 ,down in ,georgia they were having a dress ball4 ,huh6 ,better call it an undress ball4 ,religion will do more for the world than it is now1 as soon as ,god gets more than dimes and nickles to work with4 ,some ministers are as crazy after sensation as the 8yellowest0 newspaper that ever came off the press4 ,some of you society women are so stuck-up with pride that you can't lie straight in bed at night4 ,these long-winded prayers will never get anything for ,christ4 ,in nearly every church there is a little bunch that prays and all the rest are going to the devil4 ,what ,shakespeare says is 8literatwah10 but what ,bill ,sunday says is 8vulgwah40 ,the worst thing that ever wriggled out of hell is a church scrap4 ,i believe that some time in the life of every man and woman there will come a time when they will pray4 8,i'd like to see the day10 said ,sunday1 8when there wouldn't be a store open on ,saturday night4 ,i can't see to save my gizzard why it's necessary4 ,people can do their shopping early4 ,if they'd close the stores ,saturday evening the same as on other days1 the church attendances would be doubled4 ,but of course1 when you do anything to help humanity1 some yellow dog has got to block it4 ,and you employers and proprietors sit around in the churches and wonder why the attendance is so small1 when you're to blame yourself by making your employes work themselves to death so that they are too tired to go to church40 ,illustration3 ,,billy ,,sunday ,,at ,,the ,,ages ,,of #bj ,,and #bb ,,years4 ,,others ,,suffer ,,from ,,your ,,sins4 8,when you come staggering home1 cussing right and left and spewing and spitting1 your wife suffers1 your children suffer1 you infernal old devil4 ,don't think that you are the only one that suffers4 ,you're placing a stain on your wife and your children4 ,if you're a dirty1 low-down1 filthy1 drunken1 whisky-soaked bum you'll affect all with whom you come in contact4 ,if you're a ,god-fearing man you will influence all with whom you come in contact4 ,you can't live by yourself4 8,personal liberty is not personal license4 ,our forefathers did not fight and die for personal license1 but for personal liberty bounded by laws4 ,personal license is the liberty of a red-handed anarchist4 ,personal license is the liberty of a burglar1 of a seducer1 of a raper1 of a wolf that wants to remain in a sheep fold1 or the fox in a henroost40 ,,lessons ,,from ,,story ,,of ,,pilate4 ,pilate was a pliable1 plastic1 rathole1 stand pat1 peanut1 lunch counter politician of his day4 ,pilate sent ,jesus to an innocent death to please the machine politicians4 ,away with your hell-born1 stinking lie of ,unitarianism that ,jesus was not a good man4 ,he was either the ,son of ,god or a fraud and liar1 and ,i believe ,him to be the ,son of ,god4 ,god keeps no half-way house4 ,it's either heaven or hell for everyone4 ,a millionaire will go to hell just as fast as a hobo counting the ties on a railroad1 if he doesn't live true to ,god4 ,i challenge all the infidels on the earth to find one flaw in the character of ,jesus ,christ4 ,even if ,jesus wasn't the ,son of ,god ,i would worship ,him anyway1 for he is my ideal4 ,i can't conceive a grander character4 ,,moral ,,truths ,,billy ,,gave ,,to ,,men4 ,lyman ,beecher was the father of more brain than any other man4 ,it's everybody's business how you live4 ,law stands between you and personal liberty4 ,i brand that man with a black brand whose iniquities are responsible for the fall of others4 ,no man lives to himself alone4 ,no man will argue that sin is a good thing4 ,it doesn't take boys long to get on the wrong track4 ,there are little frizzled top sissies who know more about vice than their gray-haired grandmothers4 ,as a rule a man wants something better for his children than he had himself4 ,you would not want your son to live like you1 if you are not living right4 ,a young buck that cusses will crush your daughter's honor like he would an eggshell4 ,if you never become religious1 men1 for ,god's sake stop your cussing4 ,like produces like in everything4444 ,blood will tell4 ,,says ,,these ,,three ,,will ,,ruin ,,city4 8,no man can be a good husband1 no man can be a good father1 no man can be a respectable citizen1 no man can be a gentleman1 and cuss4 ,you can hang out a sign of gentleman1 but when you cuss you might as well take it in4 8,there are three things which will ruin any town1 open license saloons1 open stores on the ,sabbath day and a dirty1 cussing1 swearing gang of blacklegs on the streets4 ,let a town be known for these three things1 and these alone1 and you could never start a boom half big enough to get one man there40 8,you can't go anywhere any more1 in a car1 a depot1 a restaurant1 but what you find some fiend with his foul-mouthed oaths ready to spew them out4 ,what an awful place hell will be when it gets all of that bunch down there40 8,say1 boys1 if ,i was on a jury and you could prove to me that a father had stolen a loaf of bread to keep his wife from starving1 you could keep me in the room until the ants took me out through the keyhole before ,i'd stick him4 ,that may not be law1 ,i don't know1 but you'll find there is a big streak of humanity in ,bill40 ,,do ,,god',s ,,will4 ,he told the women that it was not sufficient to be familiar with all the poets and the books of etiquette to get into heaven4 ,the one essential thing is the doing of the will of ,god1 he said4 ,mr4 ,sunday showed through the story of ,lady ,anne ,erskine of ,rome1 how the devil and ,christ are bidding for their souls--the devil offering beauty1 pleasure1 adulation and ease2 ,jesus promising peace1 joy and eternal happiness--and it was left to them to choose4 ,,billy',s ,,keys ,,to ,,success4 8,dig the foundation deep1 young man2 ,plant firm the outer wall4 ,build it well what ere you do2 ,build it straight and strong and true2 ,build it clean and high and broad1 ,build it for the eye of ,god40 ,have some definite aim in life4 ,don't drift 'round and 'round like a log in a whirlpool4 ,do the best you can and you will win2 ,god could not ask more than that4 ,not only aim high1 but muster up enough power to pierce the opposition and to ring the bell4 ,don't try to build character with a whisky bottle1 a pack of cards1 a libertine life and cigarets4 ,put the ,bible and ,jesus ,christ in your life instead4 ,be careful what you read4 ,don't read bad1 worthless books4 ,don't assassinate every noble desire that comes to you4 ,get a good introduction of yourself to yourself and find out how little you really know4 ,cut out the cigarets1 boys1 or they'll cut you out4 ,just take that from your ,uncle ,fuller4 ,have the grit of ,sampson in your system so that you won't tremble when the lions roar4 ,don't have your veins filled with ice water4 ,get some pepper1 ginger and tabasco sauce into them4 ,be a live wire4 ,be like the man with the itch2 make everybody scratch when they come near you4 ,remember1 you're not measured by your size1 but by what you are4 ,if your pockets are empty1 fill your heart with resolutions and get into the game4 ,don't sit on the bleachers and growl4 ,you can't determine success by the rattle of the cash register4 ,the limbs of the tree of knowledge hang so low that anybody with ambition can reach up and pluck the fruit4 ,cities are whirlpools that whirl you into the jaws of hell4 ,a ,,few ,,bunts ,,to ,,live ,,students4 ,it's a sad day for the young man when ,president ,taft's overcoat won't make him a vest1 he's so chesty4 ,education is knowing what you want1 knowing how to get it1 and knowing what to do with it after you get it4 ,if you find a fellow on the top of the hill1 he never 8lit0 there2 he climbed4 ,you can't measure manhood by a tape line around the waist4 ,parents1 don't try to make your boy another 8you40 ,if ,god had wanted another 8you10 he would have made you twins4 ,you can't always tell the size of a man by the fuss he makes4 ,a frog makes more noise than a whale4 ,we can build universities1 tax the people to support them and furnish the best curriculum on ,god's dirt1 but we can't make something out of a nonentity4 ,when a girl is seventeen and is introduced to a young man1 she asks1 8,who is he80 ,at twenty-two she asks1 8,what is he80 and at thirty-five she cries1 8,for ,god's sake1 where is he80 ,if ,i had lived in ,napoleon's day ,i would have followed his star for he could hit the ball4 ,you can hear more curbstone1 barbershop and livery stable theology in this city today than ever before4 ,all some men are fit for is to make one more when the census count is taken4 ,the man who has nothing but money is the poorest man on earth4 ,it's the false ideal that strews this world with wrecks4 ,,sunday',s ,,tribute ,,to ,,the ,,holidays4 8,i'm glad we celebrate the ,fourth of ,july1 when we can uncork our enthusiasm and shoot firecrackers and eat peanuts and drink red lemonade1 for it makes us realize that we are living in the greatest nation that man's eye ever saw or ,god's hand ever made4 ,i'm glad we have ,labor day1 when the man who toils can have a holiday of his own4 ,i'm glad we celebrate ,easter to commemorate the time when the ,son of ,man arose in conquering majesty4 ,i'm glad we celebrate ,thanksgiving1 when we sit at our sumptuously laden tables and recall that as a nation we have never gone to bed hungry and that our granaries have never been empty1 and reflect that we have one state that can raise corn enough to feed us all4 ,america can feed the world4 ,i pay tribute to the man with the dinner bucket1 with bundles of muscle that knot like steel4 ,all these days are days of precious memories1 days that make the nation strong and great1 days that make us better men and women40 8,if you are well prepared for life you'll never wear out shoe leather hunting for a job1 and you'll never become blind reading the #8,help wanted' ads40 8,what songs do the people go daffy over today8 ,listen and ,i'll tell you40 8,love your neighbor as yourself1 ,but let his wife alone2 ,for if you don't he'll soon get wise1 ,and then you'll lose your own40 ,and here ,sunday named some of the popular songs he said were causing divorces4 ,among them were3 8,my ,wife's ,gone to the ,country10 8,i ,love ,my ,wife1 ,but ,oh ,you ,kid10 and 8,i'll ,trust ,my ,wife ,with ,fifty ,men1 ,but ,with ,one8--,not ,on ,your ,life40 ,sunday pointed out five things which he stated he considered necessary qualifications to win in life3 ,blood1 environment1 grit1 education and religion4 ,he then added that the first four without the fifth meant nothing at all1 and pleaded with his youthful audience to trust in ,god4 8,it takes more than a mortarboard cap1 pipe1 peg-top trousers1 a cane and your #8rah1 rah1 rah1' to make a man out of you4 ,it takes character and determination4 ,it pays to feed the ,bible to the children10 ,sunday said4 ,illustration3 ,,billy ,,sunday ,,at ,,the ,,ages ,,of #bd ,,and #ej ,,years4 ,,living ,,up ,,to ,,one',s ,,profession4 ,you can summon all your card-playing1 theatre-going church members and they can't drive the devil out of a boy as big as a peanut4 ,if you want the world to be better after awhile1 then keep the devil out of your boys and girls now4 ,i am an 8amen0 ,christian1 but ,i don't shout it any louder than ,i live it4 ,you're killing religion with your dignity today4 ,lots of people would go to hell sure if they died out of ,lent season4 ,one-half the professing ,christians amount to little or nothing as a spiritual force4 ,,some ,,stray ,,shots ,,for ,,the ,,gallery4 ,i'm a graduate of the university of poverty and have taken several post-graduate courses there1 too4 ,some of you sing1 8,i'm standing on the solid rock10 through a set of false teeth that you haven't paid for yet4 ,nine-tenths of the church members are bench warmers4 8,not my will but0--it costs some of you too much to complete the other three words--8,thine be done40 ,that's why your spiritual batting average is only fifteen when it ought to be nine hundred4 ,i'd rather see a child in the mouth of a crocodile than to see it dragged down by some immoral influence4 ,go into the church and you'll find most of the bunch nearer the theatre and card party than to ,jesus4 ,the nearer to ,jesus the more elbow room there is2 the farther away you find the biggest crowd4 ,,some ,,hot ,,ones ,,shot ,,at ,,random4 ,you don't see the 8,s4 ,r4 ,o40 7standing room only7 signs in the churches2 you have to go to the theatre to see them4 ,show me a church where the minister hasn't any concern in a spiritual revival1 and ,i will show you a rich1 fashionable1 third-rate amusement bureau with religion left out4 ,you'll spend more time and money getting a steer ready for a business deal1 than you will to start your boys on a safe trip to heaven4 ,if you're afraid to take your stand for fear of being ridiculed by the miserable bunch that won't trot square1 you ought to be ashamed to call yourself a man4 ,if you are in a business that religion hurts1 you are a moral pauper and in a mighty dirty1 rotten1 stinking business4 ,the trouble with a great many men is they have got all their property and religion in their wives' name4 ,,one ,,of 8,,billy0 ,,sunday',s ,,characteristic ,,prayers4 8,well1 ,lord1 we pray ,thou will help us4 ,i'm glad1 ,jesus1 that ,i can stand here today and say that after all these years of trusting in ,thee1 ,thou hast helped me4 ,help them1 ,god4 ,we beseech ,thee to help us here today4 ,help us as we go along from day to day4 ,there'll be troubles1 the way will be dark and dreary sometimes4 ,the sun will not always shine1 there'll be rain and dark clouds1 but they'll soon clear away4 ,it is the work of the devil to make it hard for us4 ,it is the devil's work to make us weak physically1 so that it will be hard to bear the strain of ,god's work4 ,oh1 devil1 why do you strike us when we're down8 ,why do you prey upon our weaknesses8 ,why do you do it8 ,you know1 devil1 you and ,i are enemies4 ,we always have been4 8,there's no compromise between us4 ,you know1 devil1 ,i've never uttered a word1 preached a sermon or written a line that ,i didn't believe was right and that ,i'll not stand upon4 ,i wouldn't take back a single thing ,i ever said4 ,and say1 devil1 if there's anything in my sermons that doesn't hurt you1 tell me1 and ,i'll take it out1 and ,lord1 if there's anything in my sermons that doesn't help your work1 tell me1 and ,i'll take it out4 ,i've learned to love these people ,lord4 ,oh1 their friendship and generosity have been wonderful4 ,i never saw such love and kindness1 ,jesus4 ,i've been overwhelmed by it4 ,and now1 today1 there may still be some who have not yet taken their stand1 and who'll be the first to come down and take me by the hand40 ,,some ,,of ,,sunday',s ,,bombshells4 ,if ,i ever accepted the pastorate of a church ,i'd buy a round trip ticket4 ,but believe me1 ,i'd skin the bunch while ,i was on the job4 ,too many people desert the prayer meeting for a card party or a ,dutch lunch4 ,paul was an evangelist4 ,wherever he preached they had to call out the cops to protect him4 ,he always had a riot or a revival4 ,we need a revival because the churches are critical1 cold1 blown in the bottle1 stamped on the cork--petrified4 ,you can't scald a hog in ice-water4 ,the world would sink into hell before the ,fourth of ,july if it had to depend on 8ethical0 revivals4 ,if you want to see this city as ,god wants it to be you'll help4 ,if you want it to be as hell and the devil wants it1 then knock4 ,there are two gangs in every church--the rubs and the anti-rubs4 ,some people have sat in their pews so long that they are mildewed4 ,there are multitudes in heaven that have crept and crawled out of the quagmire of filth and the cesspools of iniquity and drunkenness4 ,it takes the combined efforts of the ,trinity to keep you out of hell4 ,i'll do anything on earth to help a sinner4 ,i'll do anything in the world to put the devil and all his cohorts in hell4 ,conversion must be effected by the influence of the truth on the mind4 ,truth resisted1 loses its power on the mind that resists and each resistance weakens the truth4 ,when ,god begins to show ,his power1 then the devil and all of the demons get busy4 ,religion makes its appeal to your sensibility1 not your intellect4 ,the way into the kingdom is heart first1 not head first4 ,god is not an explanation2 ,god is a revelation4 ,most people are converted at revival services4 ,if you are thirty and have not been converted1 the chances are that if you are not converted now1 you will never be converted4 ,if it weren't for revivals1 just think what hell would be like4 ,if you spurn ,jesus ,christ you are doing the same thing which the ,pharisees did4 ,some say a revival is only temporary2 so is a bath1 but it does you good4 ,trouble with some fellows is that they have their religion and property in their wives' names4 ,you've got to be something more than a brother-in-law to ,god4 ,if ,god had his way there'd be no saloons4 ,the history of the church is a history of revivals2 when any preacher talks against revivals1 he's a damn scoundrel4 ,what the ,church of ,god needs today is a baptism of horse sense4 ,some people never read the ,bible from week-end to week-end4 ,no wonder they are dried up like an ,egyptian mummy4 ,religion doesn't affect some poor old sinners any more than shooting peas at the ,rock of ,gibraltar with a pop gun4 ,if ,i can win a man over to ,christianity--to keep a drunkard sober1 even just for a year1 it's worth every dollar4 ,some of the worst knockers ,i have in this county are the preachers--sour grapes2 that's the only way ,i can see it4 ,you've been so dignified1 stiff and worldly until you've grieved the ,spirit of ,god4 ,give the ,lord a main line and see what he'll do these days4 ,never saw ,god bless a stingy gang yet4 ,i feel like a shouting ,methodist4 ,when you get a ,presbyterian shouting there's something doing4 ,i am pleading for the old-fashioned ,pentacostal revival4 ,my evangelism is #b1jjj years old2 as old as the nails in the cross4 ,if a city sags morally1 the reason is not with ,god1 but with her citizenship4 ,they'd rather have a dirty1 rotten town4 ,the biggest coward in ,america today1 the biggest coward we have in the profession of ,christian religion1 who is afraid to come out and declare himself in a campaign like this is the business man4 ,he is afraid of some saloon keeper1 some brewer1 some gambler and others of that kind--they're afraid they will lose their trade by it1 and by the eternal ,god they ought to be punished before the moon changes4 ,i believe you are getting ready to place this town on the map as a place where the name of ,god and decency are revered4 ,over your head1 the devil and the angels of ,god are locked in a struggle for your soul4 ,when you work for ,jesus you must expect to be abused4 ,heaven wants to save you1 earth to cheat you and hell to damn you4 ,you are just as good as you want to be and not a whit better4 ,you haven't got money enough in your bank vault to hire me to come here if ,i didn't care for the welfare of your souls4 ,if man wrote the ,bible we'd never been told that ,noah got drunk4 ,man would have left such things out1 but ,god didn't4 ,he put everything in whether pleasant or unpleasant4 ,when you swell up like a poisoned pup and think you are complimenting ,god by being present here tonight1 then ,god's got nothing for you4 ,some of the biggest heathens this side of hell are right here tonight4 8,no trade0 is the passport by which #ij per cent of the men are entering the prisons and penitentiaries4 ,you may be lower down in the sight of ,god than the one whom you condemn4 ,the devil believes in ,god and in hell4 ,he's more orthodox than some preachers ,i know who preach that there is no hell4 ,how can you pray when you look at the throne of ,god through the bottom of a beer glass4 ,some people pray as though they never expected anything and they're not disappointed4 ,how can you pray and say 8,thy will be done10 when you have the booze wagon drive up to your back gate twice every week4 ,,sundayisms4 ,i wish to ,god we all could see what a common sense proposition religion really is4 ,graft has a stranglehold on religion today4 ,a preacher told me that in a certain town an undertaker came to him and offered a rake-off if he'd throw the funerals his way4 ,the church member that rents his property for a saloon is as bad as the saloon keeper himself4 ,something has to be done to save this nation4 ,we are trying to apologize for man's condition today on an economic basis4 ,a free nation cannot endure if it is dominated by grafters1 special interests1 thieves and crooks4 ,the constitution was cradled in prayer4 ,you spend a whole lot of money for flowers at the funeral of your wife that you might have spent for a hired girl4 ,it's a good thing for you ,i'm not ,god for about fifteen minutes4 ,i'd keep the undertaker busy unless you squared up4 ,i could no more shock some of you folks than ,i could pour something on a skunk to make it smell sweet4 ,it makes no difference whether you kneel before ,god as a millionaire or a hobo--it's a case of sin and salvation4 ,i don't care whether you hot-footed it to the ,tabernacle tonight or rode in an auto4 ,god puts no premium on laziness4 ,you can bank on that--,jesus ,christ is the center1 circumference and nucleus of the ,old and ,new ,testament4 ,i believe that no man disbelieves in hell unless he finds himself on the straight road to hell4 ,i wonder ,god is doing as well as ,he is with the bunch ,he has to work with4 ,the new idea in religion says the world is getting better and better4 ,that's not true4 ,the world is getting worse and worse4 ,don't storm and fuss at ,god about the plans of redemption when you don't know beans about a housefly4 ,the greatest scientists1 the greatest painters1 the greatest inventors1 the greatest astronomers1 have all been ,christians4 ,if you are a member of a ,masonic lodge1 give me your hand or take off that badge4 ,especially do ,i challenge you if you are a ,knight ,templar1 with your sword drawn in defense of the gospel ,i am preaching4 ,,at ,a ,,prayer ,,meeting1 ,,mr4 ,,sunday ,,offered ,,the ,,following ,,prayer1 ,,pleading ,,to ,,god ,,to ,,give ,,him ,,strength ,,to ,,carry ,,on ,,his ,,work4 8,oh ,jesus1 we're not making an excuse4 ,we're not trying to offer an excuse for not doing things as perhaps we might have done4 ,but our voice is hoarse1 we feel the strain of his campaign1 our health is not the best1 and we pray to ,thee for more strength with which to battle down the forces of sin and hell4 ,but ,jesus1 we're willing to fight for you1 no matter how bad we feel4 ,we'll stick to it1 ,jesus as long as you will let us4 ,but1 ,jesus1 don't you think for a minute we're trying to give some excuse4 ,we're tired1 but on the job1 and we want to stick to it1 so help us all and give us strength for ,your sake4 ,amen40 ,,faith ,,of ,,great ,,men4 ,washington1 in the snow at ,valley ,forge1 knelt down and prayed for victory2 ,abraham ,lincoln got down on his knees at the ,white ,house and prayed to ,god2 ,burke1 ,bismarck1 ,gladstone1 ,garfield1 the immortal and martyred ,mc,kinley1 ,hays and ,roosevelt all had faith in ,god and have prayed to him in times of war or trouble4 ,cleveland1 ,harrison and ,woodrow ,wilson believe in the ,bible4 ,milton1 ,longfellow1 ,shakespeare and all other famous poets drew their inspirations from the ,bible2 famous artists dipped their brushes into the light of heaven and why can't we all have that same faith8 ,,bible ,,above ,,all4 ,man has assailed the ,bible for ages4 ,all who have undertaken the job have found it the biggest one they ever tackled and have been compelled to go to the mat and take the count4 ,but the ,bible has withstood the ravages of time1 and today it stands buttressed about with the demolished theories of speculators like the lonely light-house on the distant island1 the sands about her covered with the bodies of seabirds that have battered their lives out against her light windows4 ,the conflicts of the ages have swayed around this old book and the shores of time have been strewn with broken and demolished theories while the old ship ,zion speeds on her way as strong as ever with the banner floating from her mast4 ,,sunday ,,knocks ,,out ,,some 8,,home0 ,,runs4 ,on ,training ,children at ,home4 ,blood tells3 the time to start training the boy right is seventy-five years before he is born4 ,the reason there are so many nickel theatres and hell-holes in the wall is because the home is not made attractive enough to retain the boy and girl4 ,of all the devil-inspired sentences this is the limit3 8,children should be seen and not heard40 ,the biggest mistake we ever made was to take from the teachers the right to lick the kids4 ,i believe the downfall of most men and women can be traced to some defect in the home4 ,a home must be something more than four walls and a roof4 ,the biggest monstrosity ,god ever looked at is the mother with her children playing about her feet and they not getting an inspiration of ,jesus4 ,we're neglecting the home for the club1 the lodge1 the card party1 the literary society and the social function4 ,if a firm advertised for a bookkeeper it would expect something else than just a man on legs2 something else than just a slot machine to shove its salary into every ,saturday night4 ,,up ,,to ,,mothers4 ,god pity us4 ,if mothers had failed as fathers have1 ,god would have dumped you into hell long ago4 ,god bless the women4 ,i believe in women's rights4 ,if some of you women had to get to heaven on the testimony of your washerwomen1 would you make it8 ,if you see a kid with its stockings hanging down like the skin on a rhinoceros1 and a dirty nose1 it don't take a prophet to say1 8,ma's gone to the club40 ,outlawism is not settled by the street mob--it is settled in the home4 ,i haven't much faith in the woman who talks heaven and makes her home a hell4 ,don't tell the children what you don't mean4 ,don't talk about your neighbors or anybody else4 ,don't hurt your children's self-respect by punishing them in the presence of company4 ,wait until the company is gone1 then dust both hemispheres4 ,don't lie to your children1 and then wonder where they learned to lie4 ,don't be a fool1 and if you've got plenty of income1 overdress your children and send them to school to make the children of some poor1 conscientious man dissatisfied because their dad can't give them as nice clothes4 ,,electric ,,flashes4 ,the young man or woman who is ashamed of his or her father or mother1 is a fool and too low down for me to spit on4 ,to hear boys cuss you'd think cussing was a part of the school curriculum4 ,the woman who tries to rid herself of the responsibilities of maternity1 is as red-handed and black-hearted a murderess as she who chokes to death her #ab-months old babe4 ,of all the contemptable1 triple-extract of hell1 ,god-forsaken1 hell-born1 infamous1 vile1 stinking and damnable people1 the murderer who disguises under the title of doctor is the worst4 ,a gambler1 if he wins1 is a thief1 and if he loses1 he's a fool4 ,so he's both a thief and a fool1 no matter how you look at it4 ,if a church runs a lottery1 then it's a thief4 ,there are three ways of spreading news1 telephone1 telegraph and tell-a-woman4 ,but that's really an insult1 for some of these old he-gossipers have got the women backed off the boards4 ,i pity the woman who'll slap ,jesus in the face to please some miserable society gang4 ,the dance hall has proved to be the biggest graveyard this side of hell for young girls4 ,the fellow who lives purely for the gratification of his lust1 is so low down he'd have to take an airship to reach hell4 ,the most useless woman on ,god's dirt is the society woman4 ,it's a good thing to have money and all it will buy1 but it's a better thing to sit down and think whether you've got what money can't buy4 ,we're making money by the bucketfuls in this country1 and we're going to hell in carload lots and on excursion rates1 too4 ,citizens who will not live on a level with the ,ten ,commandments ought to be in the penitentiary4 ,public opinion does not always judge correctly4 ,,sunday ,,on ,,evolution4 8,the ,bible says3 #8,in the beginning ,g-,o-,d1 ,god6' ,i don't know when that beginning was1 but in the beginning ,god6 whether it was #f1jjj years ago or a hundred of millions of years ago1 as some cranks now claim1 created the heaven and the earth4 ,i don't believe the doctrine of evolution4 ,did this tabernacle evolute8 ,no3 common sense will tell you that4 ,did flowers evolute8 ,if things have evoluted1 why haven't they been improved upon during all these years8 ,flowers found today along the ,nile grew there in exactly the same form centuries ago4 ,have they evoluted8 ,you can put a gold belt around a hog1 tie his sides up with ribbons and he'll still squeal for slop4 ,he's the same old hog4 ,has he evoluted8 ,if you believe human beings evoluted from the ape1 all right4 ,if you believe that your great-great-great-great-grandfather was a monkey with a prehensile tail around the limb of a cocoanut tree1 all right2 but don't connect your monkey ancestors with me4 ,listen here1 ,i'm going to stick by that book--the ,bible if ,i die the very next instant40