Show i SERMON ON BULLDOZERS REV JOEL A SMITH TALKS OF THEIR TRAITS L I I What Men of Bulldozing Proclivities Proclivi-ties Do In the Fields of Politics and Religion I HOT Joel A Smith preached a sermon ser-mon at the lllff M E church last evening I even-ing on Bulldozers Mr Smith said I in part Bulldozers The world is and has been cursed with the chronic bulldozer He Is omnipresent Go where you will you will find him there lie Is the unchangeable In one sense the same yesterday today and tomorrow I In politics you will find him at the primary and at the convention Tie never lacks for argument of his kind His influence has been keenly felt In this and all other cities When God said Let us make man In our Image he had another image Ho has metamorphosed things his way as far ns possible Ho has carried all his points with a penalty attachment Ills name Is legion but ho has never been drowned In the depths of the sea because bulldozcrd arc indestruct able fllydrahouded cut off his head and IB a politician ho Instantly has nine more Nothing save the fires to come will end the career of the bulldozer I bull-dozer But when he Is banished there will be no walling or gnashing of teeth for I all will be glad when he Is I gone The bulldozer In religion Is n pantheist for he has always boon in the world He was with Adam in the garden lie will be here when the sun goes out over the l last mans head that last man will he the chronic bulldozer bull-dozer 1oelHis Ills political l home Is In Calamity Hollow or hollir From this abode sometimes ho Pops up lie was bon In fools paradise therefore believes tn no God and doosnt propose that anybody else shall He cares more about parley than principle Ho can shout Great Is Diana whether Dlnna has lived or not Ho will cat only his political crow even though It produce logical hysteria and gives him the philosophy of the jlm Jams He can do more prophesying of the I downfall of Babylon than any prophet or fecr ever did All countries are alike Babylon to him All conditions are babel TC any trouble comes he promptly calls attention at-tention to the fact that 1 told you so1 Why not he prophesies the downfall of everything hence anything that falls or falls It is as he expected In the church affairs he prophesied then would be a time when churches would cease to be uiit A neat little poem was sent to this modern bulldozer from the secretary of the board of church extension commencing We arc building four a da dear Tom Any great occasion calls out the modern bulldozer First patriotic occasions oc-casions usually rullle him He has little lit-tle sympathy with a nations past und can see nothing in Its present nor future fu-ture either unless you come his way He Is unAmerican He doesnt want you to call anew the roll of the honored dead He wants no tribute of love and gratitude levied on acts of devotion de-votion He sees no eloquence In flags with no stripe erased and with no stars obscured ob-scured He cares little for times when history poetry and eloquence speak The religious bulldozer Is very set In his ODlnlon He H law on the dress I question The cut of your coat may determine your future destiny I If he subscribe to any particular no j t lion regarding the Sabbath day these the-se n coming of Christ any question 1 of water baptism he would give you to 1 know there Is salvation along no other line DIabolos was the father of bull dqzers in that he was the traducer the accuser the slanderer He Is mentioned men-tioned by that name thirtyeight times in the New Testament He began his work with Jesus In the wilderness His temptations were tho most perfect I specimens of genuine bulldozing Satan like the modern bulldozer transformed himself Into an angel 1 of light He began be-gan his career In this way and ever he will be found with the ability to change himself to suit the occasion But whether In church or state whether social or political life it behooves us to beware of bulldozers |