The San Francisco call., 1895-12-02
DR. CASE ON THE CHUTES,
The Divine Dreams of an Inter
view With Coils P.
Huntington.
He Believes Theodore Durrant Would
Be Lynched Before Noon if
Released.

The large auditorium of Howard street
Methodist Church was flied to overflow
ing last evening by men and women,
drawn there by the announcement that
DR.. Westwood W. Case would give his
opinion of Shooting the Chutes on the
Lords Day and Other Abominations.
"This subject" said DR.. Case, ''came to
me in dream, and it came so forcibly
that | believed it came from the Lord. |
met c. ?. Huntington in my dream and
told him what l thought of the practice.
He admitted it was all wrong, but said he
had not the courage to stop it. l awoke.
1t was dream, yet it was terrible
reality.
Capitalists may not shirk the RESPONSE
bilities of the consequences of their money
making investments. A Crocker, a Stan
ford, Huntington, is no more in the sight
of God than is the poorest among US.
When they appear before the mighty
judgment seat their souls Will be as naked
as those of the pauper.
'There has been altogether too much of
sweetness and light in religious teaching
the past few years. The time has come for
an outcry against the denominations of this
City and coast, and it must come from the
pulpit 1t is time our volces be lifted up
against sin, if we are called narrow and
bigoted in consequence"
DIR. Case made an impassioned protest
against saloons and drugstores being open
on Sunday. He characterized the man
who would have dental work done on
Sunday as of the same class as the mer-
chant who displayed his wares on the
Sabbath.
'If the laboring people, who say they
must employ the hours of the Sabbath in
necessary work and recreation," said he,
'would demand other time for those pur-
poses they would get it. But they are not
willing to do it. They are servile, cring-
ing serfs."
Fruit-stands should be closed on Sunday,
so should photograph galleries. according
to the, reverend gentleman. He pro-
nounced it sin that overland trains
should bear excutsionists on Sunday.
He believed there was too much thought
OF the mercy instead of the justice of God.
"Ask Mr.. and Mrs. Durrant what they
want to do with the boy in yonder prison?
him free Ask the jury of twelve men
who weighed the evidence of the late trial.
They will say the murderer'-I do not say
Durrant but the murderer-'should expiate
his sins on the gallows,' So says the Judge
VINO ruled fairly at that trial.
"lt the Cove rnor should pardon the
young man rece ntly condemned-if he
had the power-sho ould give him his free
dom, public sentiment is such that Dur
rant would be lynched before noon. Gods
law would be executed
Referring to Judge Wallace's applauded
sentences of criminals to thirty-tive years
at the penitentiary, he pronounced it in
line with the Delty's course of retributive
justice.
He reiterated his statement made in
recent sermon, that the person who rides
a bicycle on Sunday for amusement is on
the way to hell.
The divine said, in conclusion, that
shooting the chutes is a harmless diver
sion in which he had INDUCED himself,
but that distinction should be made be-
tween the pursuit of amusement on the
first and the other six days of the week.
Beware, young people," he said, i'm
pressively, ''lest the lake prove lake of
fire l''