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THEATRES, CARDS AND DANCE ENSNARE SfilllS AMI TRIP TUCU IHTP-PERMTinN

wwwa.w niiu I llll I 1 1 SAYS SUNDAY IN The Text "Be not deceived; God is not mocked; fop whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Galatians 6th chapter, 7th verse. In his sermon on "Amusements" at the tabernacle Saturday night, Rev. W. A. Sunday said: The devil has a great many ways of leading people away from God, not alone by drunkenness or theft or lying, but by Innumerable ways, and I am not here to presume to tell you what you shall do:- I am going Eive you the proposition as I see it, and you can do as you please. You do It anyway, so I might as well tell you before I get through. I know of no more suitable text for the subject I have in mind. By the expression on your faces, you don't expect much from me in the way of indorsement, and yet, if there is no harm in this proposition, why do I speak against the class or classes that you champion and indorse If the Ingenious skill of the devil Is to be defeated, there are but one or two alternatives left open to the man who wants to assault it. First, he can spend his strength and time talking about a thousand minor usages, and tell you of the possible Indulgences. Or, he can assault the thing fair and square, and tell you what it really is, and by so doing run the risk of incurring the enmity and displeasure and ill will of the people. I have wilfully and deliberately chosen the latter course, and I have no apologies to make either now or after I am through. But I will challenge anybody who can successfully contradict what I have to say, for 'what I have to say has been forged on the anvil of observation, communication and investigation up and down the land. I am not giving you my opinions or theories; I have none. I have a message that's burned its way to my soul and burned into my heart with conviction and blood-red, but please remember that with the cry of lost souls singing in my ears, I can't do anything less than cry out. It seems to me that if I'd stop and refuse, the rocks would cry out and protest. Judged at the court of public opinion, I might be denounced by some. Judged by the court of human desires. I would be denounced by all that want to feed and fatten and gormandize. Judged at the court of conscience and purity. I'd receive a universal "thank you" for it. Condemns Rotten Things. Now, I do not condemn the theater as an institution. I never have condemned the theater as an institution. I did condemn the saloon as an insti-t,tti-.n I coir it has rirt l-io-Vit tn OVIST on earth. I never condemned good things. I only condemn what even the people who are respectable in the theatrical ranks condemn themselves. I condemn rottenness in the church and on everywhere It Is. It makes no difference ' whether It's in the pew or pulpit or behind the footlight, the parquet or boxes. We associate certain amusements the theater, cards and the dance. wnne some wouia conaemn onetmng, ;. mucin nuutu muumu ou.rimui, clc . find vice versa. Yet the theaters are the most condemned. To most people, things that are forbidden, amuse, and there is a reason back of all this. People are not simply crazy and frantic, there is a reason back of It. The theater had its beginning In the

church, and in the first place, it was : where I came from. "Then," he said intended for a handmaiden of relig-.jf that doesn't satisfy vou, just take ion. But from the very beginning it a little stroll up Broadway for a couwas a source of worry and of harm.lpie of weeks and look into the faces and little by little, they were forced ;0f about 10,000 actors and actresses to denounce it, and at last for their j looking for engagements that most of own protection, to repudiate it. them never get. And you follow that Spasmodic Efforts procession as they go from one manTo Reform. . ager's office to another, startine out

Spasmodic efforts have been and still are being made, and I presume will be made to reform it, by those who want to see it a handmaiden, of something that would be a benefit to i the people. But it seems to have ever gravitated downward, and the so-called advanced school of drama in our day, seems to have deluged the United States with the obscene drama that scoffs at merit and demonetized the truth. The fight against impurity goes on today just the same as it did a thousand years ago, and without religion the most enlightened nation on the face of this earth would drop into chaos and ruin. There Is a class in every community that hate the sight of a church. There is a class in every community that hate the sound of a c hurch bell. They despise a preacher. They despise towers that point to the only source of consolation and of hope. Now, there are shows going on today to which no right minded man would take a decent woman, and the manager is not to blame. He will tell you that if he puts a good show on the road, he will starve to death. The public must want these things, my friends, or they wouldn't battle around the doors to get in. So, I think the public is as much to blame as the manager, for if you didn't want it, we wouldn't have it. Therefore, your: laste must be on a mighty low level. You can't denounce the other fellow, you've got to take your medicine with him, so that's why I am here tonight. It isn't , all on his side, don't forget that! Take your part of it with him. When the press declares that a certain show is filthy and lewd, .the manager pats himself on the back, because he knows that's about the best advertisement that he can get Teaches No Lesson. The theater is not educational. It doesn't teach a lesson. It doesn't preach a sermon. Its mission is one of entertainment, pure and simple, my friends, and when it presents a story of a harlot, V.iy, that story is told to entertain the people that are in the audience, and not to elevate the souls of the people that are there. It Is not to point out the pit for tha unwary feet which they might fall into. Many a time a play tells a story of a woman and the traffic in her lovers. Who goes to see the play? It isn't the men and women who go to seek and gain a lesson, men and women who read a sermon from its lines. No, you see girls who haven't sprouted long skirts,' yet press around the door to get it. They giggle and act silly when they get out and they weren't elevated

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morally at all by what they saw or heard. Tamous aciress i wm ni a"" you the name, although I have it here said: "I must express the utmost disdain for many of the plays today." She said: "The lecture room, and not the theater is the place where such topics should be discussed." j As a manager why he produces' them, and he will tell you that as long as the public wants them he will produce them. So it is your fault, as a part of the public, and 1 take supreme delight in telling you so. Therefore, when the Iroquois theater burned in Chicago some year3 ago the theaters around were closed for a month. A famous actor who washere at that time with his company said that if the theaters remained closed any length of time there would be an excessive amount of drinking and dissipation and perhaps suicide, for the theater was a sort of safety valve for the fellow who lives in high gear he goes down to relax. Public Finds Amusement. At the close of the month one of the Chicago papers, in writing an editorial, made the comment: "Happily, no such dreadful things have come to pass as were predicted by the, famous actor one month ago. The public has shown a capacity for amusing and entertaining itself in other ways, and It was only a question of amusement, and that seemingly the most trivial kind, for the day has long since gone by in which any considerable portion of the public look to the theater for instruction or inspiration." Crude melodrama and comedies and sentimental and literary claptrap, extravaganzas that are nothing more or less than the old-fashioned burlesque they are the offerings from the average stage of today. You know it is the spectacular that seems to attract. You take the leg shows off and most of them will go into bankruptcy. That sems to be the thing that attracts all over. Another famous actress said: "Conditions of the theatrical world today are such that I wouldn't advise any girl to go upon the stage. It Is dan.rous. Young women should shufflthe stage as they would the bu bonic plague. The conditions behind the footlights, especially for chorus girls and show girls, is something horrible." Most musical plays employ girls who are at the mercy of men, and half a dozen theaters, she said, that she could name offhand, were managed by millionaires, and their friends have the . privilege of staying there during the rehearsals of the performances and their object is obvious. A girl with a pretty face is soon at their mercy. And these rich men go into the business for that purpose. In a play with an actress formerly a star, she was asked if she would allow her daughter to become an actress. She is reported to have said: "I'd rather see her dead." Famous Producer ' Gives Advice. "Now, if you are determined to be an actress," said a famous proiducer, "and no persuasion can cause you to stop my advice to you would De lo KO jq iew lorn ana siod at a boarding house where you can secure room and board for about $7 per, and stay there for two weeks, and then you will know what to expect in the way of grub when you get out on the one-night stands hitting these little hotels ?n tne circuit out in Town" ; in the early morning, full of hone and expectation, ana returning home at night with their hearts sad, and you will witness a's awful scene." Ninety out of 100 who go to New York to go on the stage fail. Some of them go back home, some of them go in other lines, and some of them become human derelicts and driftwood, all your years of work and your denial of your home, wearing yourself out in one night stands, traveling up and down the land, away from home and children? Oh, you will get merely a passing notice in a newspaper, In some obscure corner, and it will say you died in the actors' home such and such a time and that you were once a famous actor or actress and that's your obituary for hard work. Now, keep in mind two things, will you? Character in the theatrical people and character In theatrical plays. Oh, that there are noble men and women on the stage everybody will admit Just as noble as you can find anywtiere. You couldn't find anybody more high-class than Booth or JoeJefferson or Tom Keene, Fanny Davenport or Maud Adams or Maxine El - noii. or uinie uurKe ana a ioi or tnem, and Dave Warfield and Sarah Bern hardt, Rose Stahl, J. K. Hackett and a multitude of them. They reflect great credit to manhood, womanhood and to their profession, and you can't find a higher type of manhood or womanhood anywhere on earth they are just as fine as you find anywhere on earth. They are noble people, everybody will admit that. You can't beat them. I say they reflect great honor upon manhood and womanhood and their profession as well. Gives His Own Opinion. Now, the character of the plays that they are in is clean and elevating everybody will admit that. Somebody said to me: "What is the last play you say you used to like?" Oh, I used to like to see "Rip Van Winkle" and Denman Thompson in "The Old Homestead." Those were my plays "Rip Van Winkle" and "Old Homestead." Somebody says: "What is the difference between a pack of cards and a pack of authors, between checkers and chess?" Ai iut as much as there is between heaven and hell. Many a boy has been inveigled into a gambling den and there listens to the roulette wheel, the faro bank3, and listens to the ribaldry and the jest and the blasphemy and i3 reminded of his home. Isn't it a wonderful heritage to bequeath to a child to have him go to

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a place like that and be reminded of his home? Nine-tenths of the gamblers of this country today were taught to play in their own home and eight out of 10 were 'taught to play in the homes of professing Christian people. Be not deceived, God is not mocked." In one year, from reports from a newspaper, 108 people were! shot; 76 attempted suicide, and 34 committed suicide; 60 were murdercu, & were amen insane; 60 were ruined and the crimes committed to get money were 8. There were 23 forgeries and 32 cases where people holding positions of honor and trust absconded with $2,500,000 with which to gamble. A fellow will do anything to get money to gamble, but not to buy bread with. Boys flop pennies on the street and the police will "pinch" them, but they have got to keep out of these private reserves that we call our homes, where they sit around, my friends, and gamble. Cards are one of society's contributions that is dragging people down to perdition. I think cards . and the dance are greater enemies to the spiritual life of the church, my friends, than the saloon was. I believe that cards and the dance are greater enemies to the spiritual life of the church than the saloon was! You don't imagine for a minute that I was in favor of the saloon. I hope I think the church loses 10 times more members that backslide through the dance than through the saloon. It is time that good citizenship and good morals begin to cry out against som

of these evils that are1 getting hold ofi?,arents on,y k,new the dangers that

our homes and wives and children until our women are beginning to be a lot of whisky-soaked, low-downs where they go to smoke cigarettes and hit the booze. When a woman will do that, that's all I care to know don't tell me any more. God knows I pity them from the depths of my soul. I am not here to condemn; I am here to try and help you, and I will fight with all the power that God gives me to try and free you from these curses. Oh, gambling may be carried on without cards. You can gamble on billiards, pool; you can gamble with the roulette wheel, wheel of fortune, horse racing, baseball, football, stocks, etc., but nine-tenths of all the gambling is done with a pack of cards. As far a3 that goes, you can gamble on anything. I know who is going to win out you bet your life I do! Gambling Is Expensive. It is estimated statistics are hard' . . oa AAA AAA i . to get that S80.000.000 changes nanas a day in gambling, $125,300.-! nnfl nnf a voar! Tt indiiKtrv? The fellow that can win $500 or . a thousand a night, he won't work; he will spend his time hanging around saloons and drinking ind spending his time in absolute idleness. It dulls the saw, stops the engine, puts out the fires in the hold of the ship and in the furnace of the great big factories, and. all over and away it is drifting on. There Is nothing so tame as to ask anybody to play a game of cards for fun that's learned to play with the sky limit, or even penny ante. You couldn't hold .them. So they had to have their progressive euchre and whist and all these things. Why, some church members have cards on their tables as often as food oh, sure! The dance had its origin among the ancient Egyptians let me give you some history. That's as far as we know anything about It and it was described as an invention of their God. Plato tells us that dancing was never used by the Egyptians as a social amusement! The sexes never mingled together never! It was a religious ceremony to their Gods. Men and women danced to their Gods as religious exercises never, never, did the sexes mingle together. In the days of Roman luxury and licentiousness, the dance degenerated into a social amusement. In India, Rome, Egypt, girls danced on public occasions. But it was always taken for granted that they were disreputable and they were prostitutes or they wouldn't do it. No respectable woman ever danced in public. A Latin inscription on a monument which stands today, says: "It is dis-j graceful to dance or tor a virgin to enter a ball room." Early People Condemned Dance. I'm showing you how they looked on it way back there even in the beginning and I think it's now a twentieth century condemnation see how things were away back at the start, at the kick-off, away back there; oh. the stately cotillion. I'll tell you that's too slow for the hot blood of the twentieth century. The minuet of the colonial times has been relegated to the rear, and in its place came the various waltzes; oh, and the ragtime and Cubanola glide and Mobile buck. Wow! Wait a minute. Such dances were not sensual enough, seemingly, to satisfy these panderers that have no regard fnr virtue and would not hesitate to. come into your homefold and carry) away the choice lamo from your family flock, and they win seeic an; Introduction to your daughter while J she is a rose in her girlhood, and they, will lead her down to the booze roomi 'an(i contaminate her into a blood-red, i roE!e Df iust with the contaminating influences of those that she meets, Not everybody that plays cards will! be a gambler, but every gammer plays will be a prostitute, but three-fourths! of all the fallen women fell as a result) of the dance. Not everybody that dances does so from a bad motive, not everybody that dances will be bad no, certainly not But every man and woman carries in his or her breast passions the same as bad men and women carry, and thus your breast becomes a tinder box. and you ought to be careful where you go and what you do lest you ignite it and an explosion be caused that will wreck your purity and manhood and womanhood. Dance Is Dry-Rot Of Society. Oh. in my opinion, the dance is the dry-rot of society. In the ballroom liberties are taken that you dare not take anywhere else and under any other circumstances or conditions; if you did they would be sufficient grounds for divorce. The swinging of the corners and the square dances bring the position of the bodies in such attitude that it isn't tolerated in decent society. Are you a married man? You don't dance, but your vwife does. You may have won her from a ballroom, and you acompany her and you see. her folded in the embrace of some man that used to be her lover, and you see her glide over the smooth floor

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beneath the lights and the fantastic f music, talking about something, you don't know and you stand there and say you don't see any harm in it! I I want to see the color of some buck's hair that can wrap his arms around my wife and dance with her! I am going to monopolize that hugging myself take it from me! I A friend of mine talked to 200; fallen women and here's what he' tabulated in the way of results: One hundred and sixty-three of ; them fell as the result of the dance; i 20 of them from drink; 10 of them! from wilful choice; seven of them attributed it to poverty, and down they went Where Best Dances Are Found. Where do you find the most accomplished dancers. Down around the brothels. Many of them my friends, were taught to dance in danc ing schools. That's why, if I had my way and could do it, I'd make a law that no boy or girl over 12 years of age should ever be allowed to attend dancing school, and I'd make a law that no dancing should ever be allowed to anybody over 12 ye-ars of age until they were married. That's the kind of a law I'd put into effect if I had a right to do it. That's what I'd do." Now, regarding the public dance hear me! to the public dances can be traced the downfall of most girls. The probation officers around the country tell me that there is, where I the majority of them start. And if they are exposing their daughters to by allowing them to dance, they'd keep them away from these dances where they mingle with older and more experienced girls whose way3 they try to imitate. And there they meet young fellows and they drink and when the girl awakens in the morning she finds herself possessed of secrets that no girl ought ever to know outside of legal marriage. Oh. they go away from God, and yet they think because I stand up to defend the virtue of the girl from the subtle influence of the dance that I am vulgar. Oh, there are a lot of people, you turn them loose and they will do anything; when they stop doing that, then I'll stop preaching about these things take it from me. That's my mission in life. That'3 what I am trying to do with all the power that I have In the world. Cannot Approve Of Dancing. If I should ask them to give a iruouu VVllJ 1 L 19 ail 1 IKUb IU UdUUO, i? , ' - Christianity, keeps you away from Jesus Christ. Anything that keeps you away from from Jesus is harmful, whether it's something that I name or not. Anything that will keep God out of your heart, it may be your love for money or pride. I don't know what it may be, but it doesn't make any difference so far as that is concerned, so long as it keeps God out of your heart it Is harmful. But there are more avenues for young boys or girls to go crooked in today than ever before, and if you will listen to me I think I can help you. The church ef God forbids dancing. The greatest and the most spiritual churches forbid it and are against it, all denominations, Catholic, Presbyterian, Congregational. The Methodist church was raised up by God for the very purpose of counteratcing dancing. God called Wesley to purify the Episcopal church, and the movement which crystalized into the Methodist church was the rebuke which God gave through Wesley. They started out with no intention of starting a new church, but with the intention of purifying their own denomination and driving the evils out of it. That's all I'm trying to do. I wouldn't start another denomination if I could. I have had people offer me all kinds of money if I'd only start a new church. I had one woman worth millions of dollars say: "If you will start a church in New York I'll give you $25,000 a year." I said: "1 don't want your money. No, thank you; I don't want it." ' What His Mission Is. I am going to try and purify the ones that are already established: that's my mission on earth. And if you'd give me $10,000,000 a year, I wouldn't start a new denomination, but I'd try and drive the devil out of the ones we have already got. Oh. no, I don't want anything of that kind not at all. I am trying my level best to show you what God wants you to do and how He would have us live in the universe. And another thing Bishop Hopkins oh, he was the senior bishop of Vermont, one of the noblest men. that ever lived in the Episcopal church said: "Dancing is a terrilMe waste of time and of study and of premature incitement of passion." Why, it is incompatible with strict Christianity and irreconcilable with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Oh. the church loves Its young peopie and ood is indulgent wun tnem. it aoesn i want to see mem .uiiil j upon tne nign seas oi iuis oiu wunu u. ia unspiruuai Dancing seams to be a hugging matcn to music, is bdoui tne omy way I can figure it out, and when LI Hung Chang, the great Chinaman, came this country ana was in mew Torn, they tooK him arouna xo let mm see a dance. He looked at it ana n- saia to one or nis Tnenas. wny aani incy, That's a good one! any use in all that That seemed to be al He couldn't see i just for a hug. ! he could figure i OUX OT II, ini intiiu Now, Its a crusade for all not simply some of you old rheumatics that couldn't dance if you wanted to. Many a preacher is seeking new field3 to conquer. Why? Because his church is backsliding. The church i3 honeycombed by the great flood tide that seems to have swept through it. Reasons For Opposing Dance. A young lady in the west gave me TABERNACLE STATISTICS . Saturday Afternoon. Attendance 1.700 Saturday Evening. Attendance 5-00 Trail hitters (Invitation not given). Sunday Morning. Attendance 4-500 Collection $456.19 Trail hitters 82 Sunday Afternoon. Attendance 6.000 Collection $289.07 Trail hitters 101 Sunday Evening, Attendance 5.000 Collection $278.22 Day's total $1,008.48 J

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Sunday Revival Program MONDAY Rest day for the Sunday party. TUESDAY 10:00-10:30 a. m. Neighborhood prayer meetings. 12:15 p. m. Girls' meeting, Starr Piano company; Mrs. Asher, leader. v 12:30 p. m. Business men's noon meeting, Y. M. C. A. 2:30 p. m. Bible study class; Miss Kinney, leader. Subject, "Christian Science and the Bible." 3:30 p. m. Song sendee and sermon. 4:00 p. m. High school girls, Grace M. E. church; Miss Kinney, leader. 7:30 p.m. Song service and sermon. West Side night.

ten reasons why she didn't dance.. I have never found ten better, if you can give me any that are as good or better, I will be thankful to you. bne said: "Dancing would lead me into crowded ballrooms and late hours which are injurious to health and usefulness. "Dancing would lead me into close contact with pernicious company that would corrupt good morals and manners. "Dancing would require me to permit the freedom cf the other sex which I should be ashamed of and which I believe to be wrong. "Ministers and good people In general are opposed to dancing, and I don't think it is safe to set myself up in opposition to them. If there is any doubt, I want to be on the safe side. "Dancing has a bad name, and I mean to study the things that are lovely, pure and good reputation. "Dancing is usually accompanied by drinking, and drinking produces a great deal of4evil. " "I am told that dancing is a great temptation to young men, and I don't want to do anything to lead them astray. "Dancing would unfit" the mind for serious reflection and prayer, and I will do nothing that will estrange me from my God and Savior. There are plenty of graceful exercises and amusements which have none of the objections which are found in dancing and as everything a Christian does should be done unto the Lord. I feel that dancing would be an insult to God rather than an honor, and therefore I shall refrain from dancing. I can't find ten more common sense, better scriptural reasons than those right here. PLAN HEAVY PROGRAM FOR PRESENT WEEK Everv week is a full week to the members of the Sunday party. It is merely a matter of a change in some of the places where meetings are to be held, that makes any difference in weeks. The program for the women members of the party for the coming week runs for the present as follows: Tuesday, Miss Kinney gives her talk on "Christian Science" at 2:30 o'clock, before the regular sermon instead of after. At 4 o'clock she meets the girls of the high school at the Grace M. E. church. In New Paris.' Wednesday finds her in New Paris, j w.ith perhaps three addresses. The high school girls will be met at 9 o'clock a. m., while there will be a community meeting at 10:15 a. m. A possible meeting is bobked for 1 o'clock. Then at 4 o'clock in Richmond she meets the Parent-Teachers' associations at the First English Lutheran church. . Thursday at 12:13 noon, Miss Kinney meets with the Earlham college students. The same afternoon at 4:30, in a place not yet determined, with the children of the West Side schools. Besides the regular meetings, Mrs. Asher will conduct a meeting for girls at the Starr Piano company's plant at Tuesday noon at 12:15. On Thursday at 4:30 o'clock she will conduct a meeting at the Richmond Business college. VISITS TABERNACLE Rev. Dr. James S. Martin of Pittsburgh, general superintendent of the National Reform association, visited the tabernacle Saturday night on his i way to Wheeling, W. Va. Mr. Martin was in Indiana for the World's Christian Citizenship conference to be held at Winona Lake next year. The N. R. A. is the largest reform organization in America. Dr. Martin said as he left the tabernacle, "Sunday gets better every year." GIVES THEM HINT When a minister gets to praying too long for Billy Sunday's patience he keeps whispering "Amen, Amen," until the minister stops. Most of them take the hint. AN INVITATION

Rev. Sunday suggests that everyone!?"1' wnicn ibm, were is ne piace

, Dring their copy of -science and Health" when they listen to Miss Kinney give her talk on "Christian Sci ence," Tuesday afternoon, at the time ior tne sermon ordinarily to commeilce- The sermon is to "be later in tothe afternoon. i FOR TABERNACLE A total cf joos.48 was secured for tabernacle at Winona Lake in the 1 three collections made Sunday. LUTHERNS TO COME The Lutherans are to be out in force that kind of a night, the other denominations need not stay away, Rodeheaver said, as they will want to see what the Lutherans did. STARR PIANO GROUP The Starr Piano company are to be out in force on Thursday night, according to present arrangements. WEST SIDE MEETING Tiipsdair nilit . tn ho Wont 3Ma

night. Most of the center section has DUrgn asl?ep, Lieveiana asieep, uenbeen reserved for people who live on ver as,eeP. st- Louis, San Francisco, the West Side, but admission is to be Los Angeles all asleep.

by ticket only, so that only West Sid ers will be admitted to the section. Charles Woodman of the West Richmond Friends' meeting, and Rev. G. Raymond Isley of tehe Second English Lutheran church are in charge of the arrangements. "The man who works in town and then has to go home for his supper and then cleans up has no chance of getting to the tabernacle in fime to get good seats." Charles Woodman said in announcing the special night, "so by having a special night we can hold the seats longer and give them a chance to get to the meeting and still get good seats."

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Continued From Page 1 of Supplement j day I die, I'll never cease to praise God for the men who believed in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and thank God before my eyes ever fell upon Bob Ingersoll and I read everything he ever wrote and I d take it and lay it down by the side of the Bible and said: "Either Bob perverted that through ignorance or desire, but I couldn't conceive of a man with the gigantic intelligence he possessed being such a fool." I only wish to God I had his brain and eloquence with my disposition to serve and do the will of God, but I am going the very limit of all my strengtn and power to help. You can argue against the Bible, but you can't argue against sin. Sin is in the world and all the damnation and misery comes from sin. You can argue against God, Jesus, heaven, hell; you can say that death is an eternal sleep; you can argue against all that, but you can't argue against sin. It is in the world and all the misery, sorrow, anguish, heartache, all the murder, outrage and all the war, and all that curses and ruins and damns and infests and blights like a pestilence, all the insomnia all is caused by sin. That is what damns the world. We are only asking men and women to flee from the thing that curses their life. I think you forget all of it when you refuse to be a Christian and live for Jesus Christ and for His truth. One day in Chicago I stood on the corner of LaSalle and W ashington streets, in front of the Chamber of! Commerce, talking with a man about religion, when up from the east dashed a patrol and they took out four men, or the remnants of them, blear-eyed, bloated-faced, ragged, staggering, drunken sots and I said: "There it is now, just what we are talking about." Can't Argue Againsf Sin. Sin you can't argue against, sin. From the west dashed up another patrol 'onnosite the citv hall and thev dragged out three women, hair dis heveled, eyes bloodshot, clothing hung in rags and the worst vileness, profanity, obscenity you ever heard pouring from their lips. I said: "There it is sin. You can't argue against sin." You can argue against God and against Christ and the Bible and against religion, but you can't argue against sin. Going to work one morning in Chicago I was walking east on Jackson boulevard and I came to the Chicago river, the bridge that spanned the river. I saw about 150 men and women on the eastern approach to the bridge and on the eastern end of the bridge and they were leaning over and looking down into the river and I heard voices below. My curiosity was excited likewise and I looked over and saw a floater a dead body in the river. The police were down there with their grabhooks. They hooked it Into the clothing of the dead man and dragged his bodv to the bank. The pockets were turned wrong side out, two purple holes were in the temples where a 32-calibre bullet had crashed in; a great rent in his shirt front where thev had torn out the diamond: his watch chain dangling where they had torn the watch off and life the chain dangling. I did not say democracy or republicanism. Back cf All is Sin I did not sav protective tariff or free trade; I did not say municipal ownership; I did not say sinele tax nor gold standard. I looked back of all labor, all difficulties between capital and labor; I looked back of all rational questions, all political, back of all national, back of all individual, and I saw one word S-I-N! Sin fired the pistol; sin flung the club; sin ripped out the diamond: sin dumped that man into the river. God pity you; you can't argue against sin. You can argue against the Bible. Jesus Christ, and heaven and hell but you crn't argue against sin. When I am in Chicago, which isn't I often, and when I am in there at -:.Li ti - i i . Garden Mission, where SO years ago. one dark, stormy night, I found Jesus Christ as my Saviour. I was there sometime ago; I had spoken and I felt tired and weary, and I turned to Nell and I said: "Nell, let's walk home; it won't take us long, snd it will rest me to get out in the air and keep away from the crowd. So we stepped out on Van Buren and walked west to Clark. We turned north on Clark street a block to Jack, son boulevard, and when we reached the foot of LaSalle street the clock m the tower struck 10. I said. "Nell u's ?'clockT Wouldn't you like to go to the Harrison police station? They are rounding up the human derelicts. They are just bringing them in. It's 10 o'clock. The devil, like the beasts of prey, stalks forth when the sun goes down, when darkness settles over this old earth." Foul vermin in human form wriggle and crawl our streets. Midnight on the earth is midnoon in hell. New York asleep, Chicago asleep, Pitts- - ! Now the demons of the pits are holding high carnival. Debauchery i3 awake, lust is awake, murder is awake oh, all the vileness that damns the world is awake! Now the banquet of old Bacchus, now you can hear the click of the gambler's chips; now champagne and wine sparkle; the beer foams over the lip of the cupnow, oh, listen to that! the voice shrieks of loathsome blasphemy. Old Jezebel spreads her nets and old Delilah shears the lock3 of the young Samsons who like fools rest their beards in her lap. Music is in full blast around the

LITTLE THINGS HAY KEEP PERSONS FROM ACCEPTING SALVATION "Little things count for big results," declared Billy Sunday in his Sunday

j morning sermon. i Describing the effect of small mlIcrobes on larger creatures, of the yel,low fever germ that had defeated the : French nation in its attempt to build me i-anama canal; of the single piece of steel that had kept the engine from turning all of the machinery in the Philadelphia centennial exhibit; of the ten penny nail with which he could put the largest locomotive out of commissipn, Sunday declared that It was the little thlne-s In life that had (kept men from being real -Christians. inis neing Mother's day, Rev. Sunday asked all of those who had mothers In Heaven to nut their handker chief over their left hand and raise it aDove their heads, while he offered a short prayer for mothers. , Many Answered The white covered hands were so numerous that from the front the audience seemed covered ( with white cloth. Mr. Rodeheaver asked the audience for songs that mothers ted loved, and In reDonse to Tequests single verses were sung of "Jesus Lover of My Soul" and "Jesus Keen Me Near the Cross." When Mr. Rodeheaver suggested the old song, "There Is a Spot To Me More Dear," only one voice followed him, a clear sweet voice from the chorus. A white haired lady was the only one that had remembered the song. Calls For Converts Ending his sermon with a fervent prayer for the salvation and the confession of faith of the people of Richmond, Billy Sunday called for "trail hitters." "I hadn't expected to call for them." he said, "and the time Is short 60 I won't keeD you long." In the few minutes that remained. 82 persons came forward and took Sunday by the hand, pledging themselves to Christ. The opening nrayer was offered bv Rev. H. J. Sarkiss. of the Second Presbyterian church, and the closing nrayer by Charles - Woodman, of tho jWest Richmond Friends church. hotels, around the theatres, around the restaurants, around the cabaret? . around the fan-tan dives and around the opium joints; stale beer joints; both sexes that hibernate and congregate in the cessnools of iniquity and quagmires of filth and damnation. "It is 10 o'clock, Nell. It," Is in o'clock. Wouldn't you like to go to the Harrison street police station?" "It's 10 o'clock. Yes." We went back and I said to my friend, Ted Larkin. the desk sergeant. fHe used to give me passes to the ball game). "Ted, the Misses and I would like to go below.' He called a plainclothesman and said: "Jack, stay here a little while" We went down and there were 1" or 20 men piled up on the stone floor, nothing but newspapers for a bed, and I said: "There it is sin. Sin." We walked on and stopped in front of a cell and there stood a man nud'1 to ihe waist His body was covered with great carbuncles of black and purple and green and yellow. His hai.was matted and his eyes blodshot, and vermin was wiggling over him. And I said. "Ted, is he nuts and . bughouse?" Dope Fiend in Despair He said. "No, he is a coke fiend. It is dope." My God. it is almost hopeiess when dope sinks its fangs into you. A follow will break awav from the booze I game and win out and if he is a thief he will become square, but there ar mighty few of them ever fret awav from the grip of dope. I said, "Will you give him dope?" He said, "We will have to or he will die." And the doctor came with the hypodermic syringe and shot it into his arms, and he cooed like a baby tugging at its mother's breast. I said: "There it is, now. Sin. You can't argue against sin." , We went on. There was a cell about as long as my platform but a little wider. In it were 14 girls with the dew of youth on their brows. Some of them didn't have clothes enough on them to make a pad for a crutch. They were so beastly drunk they could not stand, and one of them feaped to her feet, seized what had been the remnants of a silk waist and bought with the price of her shame and stood tearing it to pieces, uttering the worst I ever head. I have heard men curse and damn, but I sure think when these girls were blaspheming and sneering all the devils in the pit of hell stopped their ears and cried, "Enough! Enough! Enough!" I said: "There it is: Sin! Sin!" You can't argue against sin. It's In the world: you can't get away from It. "Hello!" , . . .... , "Good morning, sir." "How do you do?" "What Is your name? I am glad to meet you." A letter to the Y. M. C. A. secretary of Chicago: "This will introduce James O'Toole, who is coming to America and Chicago to win fame and fortune. We'd be glad if you could give him a little protection and advice in a strange country and city." And signed by the secretary of the Y. M. I C. A. fn Belfast, Ireland. l said: "Jim, my name is Bill. . He said: "Have you got any good boarding house?" -Claims Body cf Man I said: "Yes." So I gave him th? numbers, and I said: "Jim, let me know which one you select." j So he notified me he had selected one on LaSalle street on the north side. I was sending out a letter Inviting the homeless young men to come to our annual banquet. Jim had received my letter and had gone with gome men to bathe in Lake Michigan, and in diving from the pier his head struck the bottom of the lake and he broke his neck. They dragged his body to the shore and summoned the police, and the police found my letter and they notified me to go to the Cook county morgue and claim the body. So I hurried to the Western Unon, sent a cablegram to his mother in Belfast, jumped on the -street car and hurried to the morgue. I put a claim in for his body. They said : "We will keep the body for two months, and if that isn't enough Just let me know and we" will stretch it for another month." ,