The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-27
PACKED TO THE DOOR
The Auditorium Was Full of People
Who Heard DR.. Brown.
ATTACKING THE SALOONS
He says There Are 81 of Those
Places In Anaconda-The Bad
Lands Referred To-The
City's Dark Side Exposed.

The Auditorium was packed to the
doors last night to hear Evangelist
Brown on The Trinity of Evils" The
preacher held the attention of the audi
ence through the entire sermon. The
silence OF the congregation was actu-
ally painful at times. Mr.. Brown spoke
in no uncertain sound against the
saloon. the gambling dens and the
houses Of prostitution.
The text IL found in Ezekiel H.. 8:
IL. Is, and reads as follows: Son of
Man. I have made thee q Waterman
unto the house Of Israel; therefore.
hear the word at My mouth and give
them warning from Me. When / say
unto the wicked thou shalt surely die,
and thou givest him not warning nor
speakest to warn the wicked from his
wicked way, to save his life, the same
wicked man shall die In his iniquity,
but his blood will I require at thine
hands. Yet IL thou warn the wicked,
and he turn not from his wickedness
nor from his wicked way he shall die
in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered
thy soul"
The speaker nrst called the attention
OF the audience to the relation the
preacher holds to the world. He is rep
resented In the Bible as a Waterman
upon the tower Of q walled city. When
the enemy approaches he was to tell
the people so they might prepare for
attack. So the preacher and Christian
must warn the people of the impending
dangers. He spoke Of the crime of
silence. Men have been condemned to
death because certain persons who
knew the facts kept silent and women
have been driven to the mad house be-
cause OF the tongue and SANDER when
word from the right persons would
have saved them. -.'
THE devil and his co-workers in all
ages have cried out against exposing
sin. They have tried to cover up the
facts. On the other hand God has al
ways exposed the sins Of the people
Men must learn to do as God does and
do what he wants them to do. He
wants the sins exposed. I purpose to
expose the sins of this city"
The preacher took first the saloons.
He showed that In many Of the eastern
cities ninety per cent. of the crime and
poverty was caused through the saloon
and the reason why Christian people
all over the world are opposed to the
saloon 10 because the saloon is opposed
to purity. virtue. the home, the church
and the country. He made a tender
appeal for the poor down-trodden wives
are 81 saloons In this city," said he,
"robbing the working man of his hard
earned money and children of the
proper clothes and food"
He then spoke of gambling. He said
that Steve Holkum of Louisville, KY,
a noted reformed gambler, who gam
oled for 80 years. said publicly that
every gambler In the United States
would steal When a young man be-
comes infatuated with gambling he
will resort to any means to get money
with which to gamble. He will lie.
cheat and steal. Tens OF thousands of
men In this country commit suicide be-
cause Of financial losses. He de-
nounced gambling In every shape, form
and place. whether on Wall street on
the board Of trade, In q private parlor
or at church fair. Hayward, the
murderer. said that he learned to gam
bic at church fair and Ii led him to
commit five murders in order to get
money to gamble. The speaker spoke
of many young men whose gambling
began at the home. This iniquity has
usually with cards. The speaker saw
a pack of cards in the British museum
which had been buried 1000 years in
Egypt
The preacher referred last To the
bad lands" He said that there are at
least rs poor down trodden women in
this city who live life of shame and
pay their fines every month. Some
times a much larger number are here
and rent private rooms to carry on
this awful life. Dancing Is usually
connected with these houses of shame.
over $4,000 of these poor girls die an
nually In this country. Their average
life Is five years. 1t requires 100 600
pure innocent girls to supply the de-
mand. Agents are employed all over
the country to lure poor girls into sin.
Most OF them are living this life, not
from choice, but because they fell
Ignorance and through the
dance. Mr.. Brown hates the dance be-
cause thousands of young Innocent
girls fall through the dance. When
saloonkeepers. gamblers
and lewd men defend the dance 1t is
time that Christian people took
stand against II. .a
The speaker spoke Of the famous
Bluebird. who was rescued by a promi-
nent Christian woman In New York.
Bluebird became a Christian and her
coffin was placed for a half day in a
low saloon in that city and over 100
people were converted while passing by
the corpse. The preacher made a
strong plea for those poor girls and
called upon every well meaning man
and woman to protect youth and pur-
fty and virtue.
In closing he quoted two verses which
were found in the bosom OF a girl OF
New York. The entire audience were
in tears when the preacher closed his
sermon.
The verses are as follows:
Once I was pure as the snow. but fell,
Fell like the snowfiakes from heaven to
hell;
Fell. TO be trampled as filth In the
street,
Fell TO be scored. to be spit on and
beat
Pleading-cursing-d to die,
Selling my soul to whoever would buy:
Dealing in shame for a morsel of bread.
Hating the living and fearing the dead.
Merciful God. have fallen so low?
And yet / was once like the beautiful |
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NEVER SPOKE TO WOMEN.
George Barnes, n Hermit, Had Many Pc |
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