Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-26
FROM STAGE TO PULPIT.
DIR. AIUNHALL PREACHEs TWO
POINTED SERMONS.

in the AfternOon-WOrds of Wisdom
and Warning to the NVayward-The
Services at the Independents Presby-
terrain Church Last Night.
II stranger had been picked up 1000
miles from Georgia and bhndt0lded and
suddenly transported to savannah and
dropped into the theatre at 8 O'Clock
yesterday afternoon be would have
thought he was in Chicago or New Or
leans At a Sunday mstinee. The stage
was set with the sylvan scene that was
used when "rhe Professor was put on
There has been NO traction tfl5 season
that drew ANYTHING like TIE crowd. TWO
or three hundred people were turned away.
A few minutes after the doors were
closed and all who could gets seats were
seated Dr. Munhall and some other cler
gYmen appeared GA the stage. Tho 8u-
dleuce was entirely OF mgles. The adj
mission tickets read that no persons un-
der IA 9r owe 80 would he admitted, but
1he small boy was there, as he usually Is.
There was such crush at the door that
despite Che pOiCeMaufs W6tchfulness the
youngsters slipped in.
After 81 prayer and a hymn, Or. Mum
hall stepped down to the front OF the
stage and begsn 10 talk. Back Of him
were seated several preachers and young
Consumed cOrvphees had pr0uetted and
tried to Kick the dust of the ratters. II
was understood that the sermon was
especially for young men. and the evan
gelist stated at The outset that be wished
20 make some plain remarks that were
better said in an unmiXed assemblage.
He also thanked The manager OF the
theatre for giving the building free for the
services.
"Rejoioe, o Young man, in thy youth;
and let Thy heart cheer thee in he days OF
thy youth. and walk in the ways of thy
heart and IN the sight Of thine eyes, but
know thou that for all these things God
will bring thee into judgment" This
passage from Eco. xii, H. was taken as
The text.
"It is heambition OF some young men," I
said the preacher, "to get rich, and they |
strive in every way TO accumulate money. /
Honestly il they can, but dishonesty If |
necessary. All right. 60 ahead. God
says walk in the ways of thy heart, do as |
YOU please, but remember He will |
bring you into judgment. In my |
opinion a stingy man is meaner |
than thief ne Gods eyesight. |
In the DAYS Of our fathers it was enough |
10 make $4,000 in a lifetime. Now man
wants TO make $1,000, 900, and wear dia-
monds rs big as hickory nuts, in year. |
That Is what some people think 1s
HAVING GOOD TINE.
'Then there are these young fellows who |
get full of rum, and 80 around town all |
uight on a big racket. and get their heads |
punched, and their eyes gOuged. and their |
noses broke, and think they are having !
good time. Right here let /
me say that / don't believe you can |
get a drop Of pure whisky in any Of the |
800 saloons in Savannah. 1t used to DO /
al a fa.t a Upr "a nd gHa a
but in their haste TO get rich the manu-
facturers found they could make more |
money by putting strychnine and other
stuff in the whisky. Hog cholera was
not known in this country before they /
began putting strychnine in the |
whisky. And beer is just as impure !
rs whisky. Last year there was enough /
beer drank m this country TO fill a canal \
four ieet deem and eight feet wide from |
Philadelphia 60 New York, and there was /
not hops enough grown IN the whole /
United States TO make the beer that was I
consumed in Georgia.
In commenting further upon mans /
RVarice, DR.. Munhall spoke Of money got I
dishonesty by gambling and dealing in /
options. "What good Will it do them
when they dief" he asked. sThey can't
take it with them, and, if they could. it
would melt" Ballots and spectacular
plays were dressed down, and the usual
occupants of the front seats in the par
quet at such performances were referred
10 as "bald-headed whelps." "NOt that
there is any disgrace in being bald,' said
The speaker, "but when man gets that
old he ought to have more sense or be
ashamed to 60"
The latter part Of the sermon was upon
the vice of lascyiOusness which, the
speaker declared, is far more prevalent
and dangerous than iutemperance. This
part Of the discourse was very plain, and
evidently what the most Of the crowd
went to her. Flashly literature of the
Police Gdzstte type was denounced as an
agent Of the devil.
THE NIGHT SERVICE.
The Independent Presbyterian church |
was crowded last night as few churches
are ever crowded at a religious service.
It was we'll filed by O'Clock, and people /
kept pouring in until long after the meet
ing began. The main door and galleries I
were Gro wded. The aisles were filed with /
chairs and settees, and these were quickly /
occupied. The space around the pulpit |
platform was density packed, and hun |
dreds stood up wherever they could find a |
place 10 stand,
After the opening hymn and a short /
prayer by Rev. IL. p Myers OF the New
Houston Street Methodist church, DR.. |
Munhall told the vast audience what he |
believed God IS going 20 do for Savannah. |
Fully LOO men at the theatre yesterday |
afternoon, be said, asked the prayers OF a |
Christian people TO save them from sin. /
II wonder II you Christians are up to |
this thing" he asked. st is going to \
sweep through the whole city, and il YOU
can't come up 20 the help OF the Lord and /
aid US in this work OF saving precious /
souls, why 60 over TO Charleston or some |
where-anywhere out Of the city. We |
don't want you"
Something in the singing led the rever- I
end doctor TO speak OF choirs. IL the 1
heart and soul is not in the song, he SAID, /
there is no music there, and it is nothing /
more than lot o. nails in a rusty old /
oyster can.
Ia a town where hc was holding meet /
ings up In Indiana be had a good deal OF |
dihculty IN getting "a choir. There were
plenty OF singers, 1870 Of them or more In I
the place, and cut OF that number he /
managed 10 get Eve who were
willing 70 give their services 10
the church. About the same time a"Pin. /
0fOre" company was organized and there
was a call for singers. There was no I
trouble IN getting them for that, and the
other l45 Of the 100, among whom there
were i've who were willing to sing for the 1
church, reported at once, aud the mana
ger OF the show got all he wanted. They
were ready enough 20 sing for the devil, |
but they couldn't be talked into singing