The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-02
HIS QUEER SERMON
FORMER WICHITA PREACHER GRE.
ATES A SENSATION.
Makes the Organist do All the Pray
ing and Tells His Hearers That
the Vibrations of Yankee
Doodle Did up Those
Of Dixie-Notes.

You can always count on Wichita MAJ
| creating excitement when he gets abroad
The latest development in this lin'
! comes from the bosky businesses and yer
dant wildernesses of Arkansas.
/ Some years ago. or. to adopt loca
phrase, before the boom," one 7. j. Shell
ton fourished in Wichita. Shelton wa!
mentally keen, but his intellectually and
| its puDgent productions were OF an erratic
kind that sometimes reached a particular
ly splendid iridesceut point.
| Sometimes he was specifically scintil
lating and again was profound. In al
| instances he was original. He raj
a small daily paper here for some years
| occasionally punctuating his worldly
editorial existence by climbing into th'
pulpit and flashing sparks OF wonderful
religious sentiment,
Since then be- mas presumably drifted te
Arkansas, where he has taken up the
pulpit permanently.
At Little Rock. last Tuesday evening
he created great sensation in the church
of which he is pastor. In short, he intro
duced the religion Of music. He taugh,
his congregation the art of making the
oreanist do the praying and the principal
part of the preaching. His sensational
remarks have attracted attention all over
the country.
A large congregation turned out at night
to hear him preach ON THE Law Of Vibra-
tion." Miss Mona Wiedman, an accom-
plshed musician, presided at the organ.
DR.. Shelton read a part of the first chap
,ff he ~ T0h,, and them SaiH
while the organist plays let each one
of you do your own praying in your own
way"
This announcement caused considerable
astonishment, bnt as the organist began
playing the full power of prayer was
brought out, and every heart knew what
the preacher meant 1t was the 'voice of
the eternal song of the SOUL" as Mr.. Shell
ton expressed it.
"The law Of vibrations is universal
principle" said the speaker, "and all
movements are governed by it. In the
struggle of our fathers in the foundation
building of this republic they had to con-
tend against Great Britain and all her
mighty power of men and munitions of
war" The organist played "God Save the
&uccU. wan SUN vibAoOiOAS OuA
fathers had to meet, but now listen to
yankee Doodle" The organist played
that well-known air, aud the speaker went
ON until he came to ''Our late unpleasant
ness, and then called for Dixie"
AS the organ notes of this air vibrate d
through the hall everybody was delighted.
Dr. Shelton made stroke by throwing in
a discord, saying:
"The south was defeated because Yam
kee Doodle was Oh the other side" He
then called for another strain of Yankee
Doodle" and classed the two together and
said:
"'Yankee Doodle represented human
liberty and Dixie was the champion OF
human slavery" At this point several
men left the hall. one Of them remarking:
Lets not listen to any more of this
stuff"
The speaker smiled and said he was not
talking politics. but science, and had
proved his position that men are not gov
erned by reason, but by feeling. The or
ganist closed the exercises by performing
"Home Sweet Home"