The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-04-01
SOWING WILD OATS.
A Characteristic Talk to Men
From Rev. Mr.. Yatman.
THE EvANoELisT's GOOD WORK
Great Interest Centerfnx I'm All His
Meetings Efforts to Get Him to
Remain Longer.

Rev. C. H Yatnlan. the great New
ioFK evangelist. who has been leading
the ~or1 IN the special revival services
a. me FIRST Methodist Episcopal church
~ TINS city since March r. Will deliver
.a4S last sermon tomorrow night. when
ne VII. preach a. the First Methodist
kplscopal church on Heaven
Yesterday Mr.. Ya,man held nine ser
vices. and one day last week he held IN
the aeighborhood OF iiffesn Rev. ". A.
shanAiiE, the pastor OF tne FIRST MeTho-
uist Episcopal church sad Yesterday that
d. would ne almost impossible 70 give an
esAhate o. the great and wonderful work
.hat DIR. fstman had accomplished since
ne came 20 this city. II eau be sad.
no"eFeF' tnat more than l.eso people who
nave listened TO him have openly mani
Tested a desire 10 live Christian lives
one Of the largest attended services yet
Aeaa oy the evangelist came of In the Sc
~tde thssteF yesterday afternoon which
was attended by al least loo men. 1t
was advertised as a Mems mass meet
ing ana the address delivered by Mr.
aatfnan on Sowing Wild Oats" was well
received and heartily appreciated by the
btg crowd present. As the Chautaaauan
says. the evangelist is magnetic. enthu-
slastic. eloquent and impressive" He
pieases MS listeners from the start and
never allows them to get weary by deliv-
ering too long a sermon or permitting
the meetings over which he presides 10
drag He is specially adapted 10 evan
gehstie work and many thousands OF
souls have been saved through his instru-
mentality.
Yesterday afternoons meeting was call
ed for o'clock but at that
hour the evangelist was in the midst
OF women's mass meeting at the First
Methodist Episcopal church and he did
"a arNs4a .
the meantime the crowd had assembled.
and at the suggestion OF Rev. DR. Taylor.
a short song service was held. The ser
vice opened by the choir and congrega-
ton singing "Al Hail the Power of Jesus
Name" Rev. DIR. Taylor offered up a
prayer. and Rev. Mr.. ShankIin having
come in from the womens meeting to
take charge of the service. announced
the hymn. Christ Receiveth Sinful
Men" When Mr. Yatman arrived the
congregation. at his request. stood up and
sang several verses OF Nearer Ny God
10 Thee" The hymn Rock of Ages" was
sung. and then Mr.. Yatman remarked:
There are some men standing back
there and don't want TO see them stand.
Come down and take these boxes on
either side of me-.
We are having theater meeting like
this Rev. Yatman said. because every
bad man can become good and every man
who Is good can become better. One
night little fellow fell out of the bed
and the following morning when his
mother told him that his fall was the
result of getting too near where he fell
out. ths little fellow CREW: That's not
IT. It's because / got too near where /
got In II was just so with good many
people" the speaker said. they are too
near TO where they got In
Rev. Yatman said he intended 10 pro-
coed on the theory advanced by ST.
Louis youngster who was a member of
the Rag fraternity. He went to free
dinner and several Kind ladies came up
To him In turn and gave him something
to eat. At last he was pretty we'll filled
up, but when another kind hearted lady
came along and asked him II he wouldn't
have little something more, he said:
'Yes'm. I can chew yet IL ! can't swat
low" Rev. Yatman said that the con-
gregation might have had a great deal of
religion preached to them. bat he intend
ed 10 preach more. and II his listeners
couldn't swallow II they could chew IL.
IF a man sows good" the speaker
said, ''he shall reap good and II he sows
bad he must expect to reap bad. The
question is: What shall the harvest be?
On the old farm we never soWed rye and
gathered wheat: we never sowed potatoes
and reaped corn. One can't SOW thistle
and gather grapes"
'Ninevah sowed and she reaped what
she sowed. Where is she today? Moth
Ing remaimns OF her but ruins II was
cursed with the curse of God Babvlon
sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind
and where Is she today?
Take Asia; She sinned and after
wards In that land of sunshine the land
or fertility, the cradle OF the human race.
the people starved by the thousands and
the hundreds of thousands
Egypt committed crime until God said
that another prince should never come
out OF Egypt, and lie made good His saw
ing. for from that day until this a prince
never has come out OF Egypt. A man
can sow in day what will take him a
year to reap. In Joliet peuitentiary is
man" the speaker said. known TO him.
who In less than two minutes sowed
seed which viii take him the remainder
OF his life 10 reap. In a AZ Of passion
he struck a blow which caused him TO
be sentenced 10 wear a convicts garb for
seventeen long years"
The harvest OF drink. he said. was an
awful one. The people before him
wouldn't think that a man had led a
bride To the altar. that later drink had
turned him 10 fiend and that In a
drunken frenzy he had seized her and
tossed her on a red-hot stove But II
was true. as shown by the court rec
ords- They wouldn't think that a man
would marry a bright. fair girl and that
a harvest Of drink would cause him 10
tear out one Of her eyes with his fingers.
and yet II was true. as shown by the
court records.
"You can laugh about t." the evan
gellst said: you can smile about II. buf
time will come when you won't laugh.
when you won't smile the harvest Will
be an awful one"
II man IS hound 10 drink. Rev Mr.
Yatman suggested that he buy a gallon
and let his wife deal n out It's cheap
err and one would get better stun.
lie said that it he couldn't induce the
men before him TO stop drinking. then
he wanted them 20 promise that they
would stop treating" That was a curse
and the harvest reaped was q terrible
one.
There was another kind 81 curse. and
that was ".he curse OF cuTsing." The
man that will swear is not gentleman.
Put your hat or a peg and think that
over The man who SwearS has come 80
close 20 the line OF hlackg0ardlsm that
he has crossed over,
The curse Of swearing had troubled him
IN his early life. but with Gods assist
ance be had checked a.
The worst kind q curse was thar
which flooded our great cities with
fallen women There are Sas0 81 them
IN New York today" the speaker re-
marked and woman never falls
alone II there Is one place 10 he'll which
"a hotter than another a place that is
hotter than pictured by the Oh book.
the man who Is the cause ~ a wonan's
downfall vii go there. and Coils awful
vsurraucs will De upon him "
The speaker closed by referring 20 the