St. Paul daily globe., 1890-06-23
AFTER DR. TALMkCE.
Rev. G. L. Morrill, Gives an
Account Of His Summing
Tour.
A Train on the 500 Road
Ditched--One Man
Hurt.
w. G. La Grave Will Probably
Recover From His
Wound.
A Symposium of Sunday Ser
mons--The Danz SYM
phony Concert.

Rev. G. L. Morrill,, at Calvary Baptist
church, had the largest audience yes
terday morning that has assembled to
hear him for long time. The people
crowded the body of the church. hung
Oh to the edge of the pulpit, overfiowed
and filled up the stairs, front and back.
The reason there was such crowd was
because the young pastor was going to
speak on the wickedneSs of the city, ne
having personally investigated the
evils. He had his audience with him
from the start, and whenever he would
make telling shot they clapped their
hands. stamped their feet and ratified
canes and umbrellas, something which
never before occurred in Calvary
church.
The preacher took his text from Jere-
miah, III, 'Seest thou not what they
do in the cities of Judah and the streets
of jerusalem" and said:
Accommodating the inquiry to later
times, we find the city has been the
cradle of religion, art, liberty, science
and philanthropy, and also the cess
pool of vice through which much of hu-
man life has flowed with disease and
depravity. Back of the glory and show
of Babylon and Rome was woe of sin
and shame. Back of much of our
boasted beauty is a closet with skele-
ton which rises and mOckS and points
its bony fingers to pleasures OF sin
whose wages is DEATH"
He then went on to say that Mime
apolis is worse than the other large
cities, and brought smile to the faces
of all by mentioning the census war
and the wickedness of st. Paul. The
saloons were next attacked and hauled
over the Goals. The preacher said that
saloons are nominally closed at mid
night, but that people are still within
them drinking. He had asked a police
man why this is so and had been told,
"We don't get any ORDERS" Of the
liquor traffic this was said:
Rum and republicanism cannot ex-
ist together. The liquor interest must be
fore the led cap of the socialist. The
thing to do with the saloonis to do away
with it by abstinence for self, moral
suasion for the drinker, law for the dis
tiller and confiscation of property for
the saloonkeeper. In answer to the
judgment of our best citizens, to the
prayers of hroken-heal ted wives, lonely
mothers, hungry, half-clad and ignorant
children, let the present law be en-
forced, new and more stringent ones be
enacted as soon as possible, which shall
wink at no violation. Do this, and
where sorrow, shame, sin and crime now
abound and disgrace certain portions of
our city, there joy, virtue and security
will prevail"
Mr. Morrill, next went after the gamb-
lers, and went after them hard. He de-
clared the gambler to be the brother of
the burglar, and the gambling house the
school of the embezzler. Ha referred
to gambling in clubs and out of clubs,
and told how business men, men with
families, patronize faro, stud-poker and
roulette. Prostitution came next, and
the people who rent property to persons
who use it for immoral purposes came
in for an especial hard roast. OF these
people he said that they would start a
hell in their front parlors if the devil
would carry ice-water fast enough to
keep the money cool, and continued:
''Be the cause of her fall what itmay,
the world which is merclleSs to the
Magdalen should make the libertine
bear as much or more Of the shame.
People who do not believe in necessary
eviP have their opinion of law which
inspects vice and labels it safe, there
by removing dread and putting pre-
MUM upon bestiality; while, for mu-
nicipal code which permits by nomi-
nal fine these crater-mouths of passion
ale hells to pour out brazen and blight
ing influence, words in any language,
living OF dead, cannot express our deteS-
tation."
The reference to marking ''neces-
sary evil" safe was for Kilvington's
benefit, and the inspection system was
hit hard. Low theaters, especially the
Comique and its proprietor, although
he was not mentioned by name. were
scored numerically. OF dives he said:
"These dives comes as Faust to Mar
garet. Here is the pit and portal to i'm
pure imagination which drapes beastli-
ness with beauty; which suggests Illicit
indulgences beneath which flows the
poison of asps, and which writes biog-
raphy in letters red with the flush of
shame. History calls the theater a
dirty thing at best. At its worst, 1t is
the hub of hell, yet runs at full blast"
AS remedies for these evils the
preacher thought that the right sort of
work at the polls and, afterward the
enforcement of the laws, would do much.
Special stress was laid upon the value
of Christian education and city mission
ary work. The aim of Mr.. Morrill's
sermon was to secure aid for support
ing city missionary, and it worked.
He collected $500 for that purpose.