He was an evangelist, and it was his concern for souls that led him to be concerned for the physical needs of men. He believed that all men were infected with sin and were condemned to a fiery Hell without the salvation provided by Jesus Christ. Further, he believed that the saved person would act saved. I don't care what the scientists call it, or what some of the pulpits are calling it. I know what it is.
Sin is devilish.
It is sin and sin only which prevents the world from being happy. Go into the slums of the great cities, pick up little girls six years of age, sold into infamy by their parents. Look at the drunken mother murdering her own child. Look at the father, strapping his crippled boy. He served as Dean of the Yale Divinity School.