Show THIS and THA T contributed boys listen in on this then do a little fl gurin the wise guys and smart aiels of the country have got it going the rounds that certain divers fanatics and sundry sorts of fools are dying out here are a few of the fools as they are denominated and here Is the rate at which they are dying out in 1906 the baptist fools numbered 5 in 1928 they numbered 8 in 1906 methodist fools numbered in 1926 presbyterian fools 1906 1 1926 2286 disciples of christ fools 1906 1926 congregational gat ional fools 1906 1926 protestant episcopal fools 1906 1926 having space only as we said for a few fools we have made the table simply representative senta tive other protestant tools are dying out at about the same rate the fools should worry aref now boys you might hark back to the time of paul the roost illustrious and hard boiled christian fool that ever lived come on down to your own day and time and consider the rank and file of this army of fools just single out a few of the most outstanding and influential of these fools hold them at arms length look them over compare them with the worlds wise guys and see what you think of the fools anyhow when you have thought of the struggles hardships and sacrifices of these fools that they might make the world a fit place for you and me to live in ie believe that you will conclude that the world was not worthy of them you would find too in the present day ranks of these fools leading scientists philosophers statesmen educators lawyers doctors editors farmers and business men of every calling in the century these tools planted here in our west churches at a cost of over not to say anything about the maintaining of these churches and not a word about their labor of love in the whole round world glorious yes boys as plain as a red nose on a drab countenance you can see that when these fools have passed entirely out we are going to have left one grand and glorious country your children will perhaps have grown up at about the time the wise guys would have the fools go out and you may be saying lord hasten the glad day I 1 that likely is your attitude it indeed it Is not your dally wish and fervent petition you perhaps love to think of that glorious day and the good times your children and your children s children are going to have when all the fools have passed out for in that great day and glad time the wise guys and smart alecks can sit unmolested by any fools quibbling about ness and rectitude about virtuous womanhood and virile manhood about sin and wrong doing heaven and hell and god and christ and home sit under their own vine and fig tree live and thrive under the benign influence of a moral and social condition that knows not love nor faith nor hope and revel with owls and bats in the glory of their comfortable philosophy wish oh my friends this writer wishes he could wish you into the sweet fellowship of his great friend the worlds great saviour could he do that you have to shoot the rapids all the year of 1928 in your hopeless quest of a little pleasure if he could wish you into a hopeful helpful faithful life your heart would pulsate with a new found joy that you never so much as dreamed possible to mortals hunting for tinsel pleasures scouting around day and night in quest of a little thrill you got it all right yes you got it red and swollen eyes a bloated countenance a bloomin headache a lost vitality a damaged conscience a ruined soul a life forfeited why not try with the fools the pleasure of pulling against the tides of drifting tendencies of climbing the rocky steeps of a steadfast and lofty purpose of putting over something worth while and really to you and the world of being an honest to goodness foursquare allaround all around christian man and woman |