Hillary Clinton came to Chicago last weekend, and I wrote about it for Newcity.

While riding on the bus, I found this religious tract, and I liked it so much, I’ve reprinted it in part below. Note: Unlike almost everything else I publish here, I did not write this. It’s credited to someone named D.W. Matter. Just so you don’t think I write this badly, or, depending on what you think of this piece, this well.

See if you can find my favorite unintentional joke. Hint: it starts with a C.

“I Want to Go to Hell”

By D. W. Matter

“I want to go to hell!” stated a ten-year-old boy, “Because I want to be with my Dad; and so that I can go and get his cigarettes for him.” What an influence that father is having over his son! What a highway of influence that father is paving for his boy to travel!

There are thousands of parents spending their time drinking and dancing in taverns and coming home cursing, smoking and fighting. What an influence for a child! What conduct for any father or mother!

Why wonder at all the juvenile deliquency, when our teen-age boys and girls are following their parents’ example of crowding the beer taverns and flooding our streets with wrecked characters? Our prisons are filling with criminals and prostitutes from fourteen to twenty years of age.

Father! Mother! Are you setting the example that is leading our American youth down to the gutters of shame and debauchery? We have wholesale divorce, wrecked homes, and orphans all because of a generation of lust-craving, immoral, drunken, pleasure-mad parents who care nothing for the future of their children.

The harvest is great, and America shall reap what she is sowing: drunkards, criminals, unwed mothers, wrecked youths, infidelity, and communism.

If someone should step up to your child today and ask him to attend Sunday school next Sunday, would he answer, “No, I want to go to hell so I can be with my daddy or mother”? Friend, is that the kind of influence that your life is having upon your children? If it is, Jesus would like to change it for you if you will let Him.

Will you come to Him confessing your sins with a sorrow that will make you quit your wickedness and live for God? America’s only hope is in God and an old-fashioned turning to God. Will you, my friend, be one of the first?

If we confess our sins, he [Jesus] is faithful and just to forgive our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (I John 1:9).

“But except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3).