Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-19
Rev. j. w. McGarvey reads
from the Blue Grass Blade
to an Audience Of more
than n Thousand men
i'm q Lexington
Pulpit.

| On Sunday evening, Nov. 2!
at the new Broadway Christia
church in this city, Rev j. W
McGarvey, President of the theo
logical department of the Univer
sity of Kentucky in this city
preached to an audience of NOR
than a thousand, all men, a ser
mon that was probably the mos
startling ever delivered in thi
city. His remarks were fire
quently interrupted by cheers,
demonstration until that time un
known in any Lexington church
on the occasion of a Sunday ser
mon.
Rev. McGarvey is perhaps th'
most learned theolOgian In the
West, and is the peer of any il
America.
He was selected by the "Arena,'
the ablest magazine in America
to contribute an article ON the
Evidences OF Christianity.
l publish the outline OF his ser
mon that was given by the Ken
lucky Leader of this city, though
the sermon being solely to men,
and part of it about lewdness,
some Of it has been thought i'm
proper for publication.
He had in his hand a copy OF
the Blue Grass Blade of Nov. 2Sth.
lie held it up and said, "Have
you read the last number of the
Blue Grass Blade? Charley
Moore has said some very hard
things, but 1 have never yet
him in a lie."
When he said this the audience
cheered him.
lie then read from the Blade of
Nov. %, an extract from what L
had written with reference to a
body of thirty men lately elected
as officers of this city.
1t was as follows.
There are on that Democratic
thirty men. OF these there
are five that do not know, or know
much about. Of the thirty there are
only four have the entree into what is
truly our best society in the town.
Of that four one is intellectually
pretty weak. Every man on that
ticket will take drink of whisky.
Twenty-one of them will go into a
saloon and get drink of whisky,
Twelve are drinking men," six are
drunkards, five are saloon-keepers,
three are ex-saloon-keepers, nineteen
can not speak the English language
dramatically, or approximately SO.
Only three are members of any
learned profession, and one of those
never was a student at any college.
Nine of them are Catholics who be-
lieve that st. Patrick drove the
snakes out of Ireland. Only four of
5hem-so far as know-are members
Of any Protestant church, and one is a
lew. Four are race horse men, two
ar9 dead beats, who are not good for
their debts, twelve of them 1 would
not lend $4,000 on his own name, if 1
we're banker.
There is not man in the whole lot
who has distinguished himself as a
public benefactor. There is one of
Them who ought to be in the peniten-
liary. There are only three men in
the lot who are even first-elass
smart" men, and there are only two
men of first-class brains in the whole
gang.
Prof. McGarvey is a true blue
third party Prohibitionist, and
always votes with us; but l think
at the last election here his vote
was recorded as having been cast
for Sullivan, the saloon keeper
who was elected, as was the vote
Of Rev. r. L. Mathews, known by
everybody to be thorough Pro-
hibitiOnist, and that if w. Z.
Hibler who had but lately been
Chairman of the Prohibition
State Executive Committee. The
men who falsely recorded these
votes and the details of the cir
under which they did
SO, are all familiarly known to
thousands of people in Lexington
to day and have been ever since
that election; and yet they are
not only not in the penitentiary,
but are leaders in Lexington De
politics, and would be
voted for tomorrow by leading
men from every church in the
city, if they should run for office.
The Indignation against the
Democrats for that ticket they
have nominated, l think has never
been equaled here before, and /
think it is among all proper kind
of people, regardless of political
1t is interesting to note that
Duncan, the editor of the Press,
who was defeated in his desire to
head that ticket as the nominee for
Mayor, now joins in the expires
sion of opposition to them.
Rev. McGarvey said, in his SER
mon that he would stump the
city if the people would nominate
the right kind of candidates.
/ have very little experience in
oratory outside of theology, but if
onvhNdv wants NV Oratori ao