St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
THoUsANDs HEAR HIM.
DIR. Munhan Gives a Plain Talk
to Men.

to Men.
Over 1000 males of all ages, from ten
to sixty, attended the Munhall meeting
at Market hall yesterday afternoon and
listened to a plain talk from the ener-
getic revivalist intended solely for Gien.
He took for his text EcclesiasteS XII, 9:
whatsoever We sow, that We will
reap,' quoted Dr.. Murhall; sand
whatever may be the course of your life
you will surely be brought to Judgment.
In the morning of life everything is
painted in rich colors. If we are eX-
pected to have good time in the world
we must have it in our youth.
What is the way Of your heart? Here
is young fellow bent on having good
time. It's queer notion of some as to
what constitutes good time. Some
ride about town all night and drink
tarantula juice, break their mothers
hearts, get their head split open and
say they are having a good time. l
don't see it.
Then, there's another class, content
to go to the theater, dance and play
cards. God is not going to stop you
from it. 70 are free moral agent, but
remember there's something better.
Go ahead, but remember the judgment.
If you go on filling yourself with intoxi-
cantS you will end with delirium
tremens. Don't look upon the wine
when it is red; turn away from it.
Thousands of our young men are going
to drunkard'S grave. | don't believe
you can drink a drop of pure whisky
in this city over any bar. In early times
our fathers kept their own stills
and made pure whisky, but afterward it
was found that if they put strychnine
into the whisky they could make it
cheaper. There never was case OF hog
cholera until they began to feed the
mash to the pigs. If you choose you
can drink with impunity that which
will give hog the cholera, but say
you haven't got good sense. never
heard of whisky doing man any good.
But we don't drink as much whisky in
this country now as we do beer-and
you can't drink glass of pure beer in
this country. In the nature of the case
it is impossible that three men-Ghe
brewer, the jobber and the saloon
keeper-can get rich, and yet. sell beer
for nickel a schooner" It's nothing
but SlOp.
The devil has thousand agencies at
work to produce unclean thoughts in
your mind. [ have seen young men
calling themselves gentlemen who
carried watch charm or a knife-handle
with lens in which, by holding be-
tween your eye and the light, you will
see things which no man can look upon
and turn around the next minute and
kiss his mother OF his sister without
bluShiDg to the roots of his hair. This
is my argument against the Police
Gazette and the modern theater. Down
in Texas, where every man is supposed
to carry revolver or bowie-knife in
Of os f tSe Police aa Gaze Gazette na it's G sas
being prohibited by law, and
the same law prevails in other states.
Its appeal is to the eye, and through the
eye to the passions. That's just my
argument against the modern theater.
Edwin Booth undertook to prove that
the modern drama could be sup
ported without the assistance of degrad-
ing accessories, but after spending
thousands of dollars ne found that that
which is decent and legitimate could not
be sustained. 1t is the deshabille and
the indecent that draws. 1t is not nee
essary to go to the theaters to see it;
you can see it on the bill boards, if the
bills do not lie, and the bill posters
should be arrested who exhibit such
nerariOus pictures to the public gaze.
We call Chicago bad, but they now
have law in Chicago prohibiting the
posting of lewd bills. At the theaters
where these indecent performances are
held we see number of young fellows
and a goodly sprinkling of bald-heads
in the front seats. The more filth
you get on the stage the better 1t draws.
Anthony COmstock has told me
some things that l never knew before.
He says that when he first began his
work as secretary of the society which
he represents there were $50 storekeep-
ers in New York who were selling OBJ
scene photographs. He had them ar
rested, and also confScated their books,
and in the latter he found the names of
the young men and women OF all
the educational institutions of the
United States and Canada, thus poison
Anthony ComStOck is giving his life to
stay the flood of bad which is pouring
into our bones, and still some men and
some of the newspapers abuse him, and
it is to their shame, He should receive
"God speed" and "GOd bless you"
from every Christian man and woman
in the country.
Here is young fellow who you say
is sowing his wild oats. He hires
room in some business block and keeps
a woman, or that he goes frequently to
the house of the prostitute. You say
he'll settle down after awhile
and mary. Will he? And it
will be all right. Will it?
You marry some pure young girl.
Do you think she would marry you if
she knew the kind of life you'd been
living. Have you ever stopped to think
how you'd feel if some man would take
the same advantage of your sister? The
fathers eat sour grapes and the
children'S teeth are set ON edge.
If you have children after leading
a licentious life before marriage, they
classes of society will receive young
man who is leading licentious life, but
will turn their backs on the same kind
of woman. l wouldn't wipe my feet
on that kind of society. l can see the
evidences of RIGHTEOUSNESS all about
me; loss of memory, nervousness, avoid
ance of society. ltsuperinduces mental
and physical decay. Licentiousness
was the cause of the decay and fall of
all the nations of antiquity. What is
the chief sin of America to-day? 1t is
RIGHTEOUSNESS. May God give every
one of us a conviction for purity, for
home. and for God"
At the evening meeting DR.. Munhall
preached from the text: "What is man
that thou should be so mindful of him,or
the son of man that thou visiteth him?"
At the conclusion of the services num-
Der of his hearers repaired to the inquiry
room and protested conversion.
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