Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1905 — Big Money For Little Benefit [ARTICLE]

Big Money For Little Benefit

Rev.‘Billy” Sunday, the phenomenally successful evangelist takes no Btcck in the statement occstionally beard that we have no money for carrying the gospel to the heathen and that we can not add to our expenditures for missionary work. No greater mistake than th'B oould be imagined, accordirg to Mr. Sunday, for nineteen twentieths of all the wealth of the countiy controlled by church goirg pec p'e. Hesaysthatin the United Btatcs we spent last year $1,400,000,000 for strong drink and wasted grain enougn to pave a roadway 1,500 miles long and 200 feet wide with two-pounds loaves of bread. We spent $900,000,00 for lobacoo, SSOO, 000,000 fcr amusements, $200,000 000 for dogs. SIOO,COO,OCO fir lodge fee s, $79,000,000 for oandy and $22,000,000 fcr chewing gum, Our expenditure for ohewing gum exceeded the t mount spent by ail of the thorchee iu Amerios, Catholic and Protestant, for foreign and domes io mistiens.