People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-09-12
The Camp Meeting.
THURSDAY.

the mixed meetings aud there We
scores and scores O. men sitting
around upen tie outside. There
must have been l2C0 men present, a
large nudber from the country. 1t
was e largest audicnceOf men We
have seen together ia yeaFS-the larg-
est audience Of men that ever assem-
bled III Wellington to hear preacher.
They were a little slow 10 getting in
and while waiting for them to get
settled the throDg joined in singing
GAL hail the power Of Jesus name"
Che evangelist commenced by de-
scribing the state Of society that ex-
listed in southern Illinois, Egypt the
place of his nativity, when he was a
bOy-when it was cOmmOn for people
to gather GA Sundays at race courses
and spend the day in revehy and ca
rousing-wben church gatherings
would sometimes be taken possession
of by marauderS and broken up
when the preachers saddle woulc be
adorned wTthcoUkie burrS underneath.
and his horses name and tail sheared,
PWhiIe the marauders we're lying in
ambush to see the results, and many
other eptdences of immortality eXhib-
tied. Although such illustriOus men
as John A. Logan and Joshua Allen
were reared in such society and were
partakers insuch unholy pleasures, it
would be impossible for the young
man of today to start out in such rev.
elry and attain to any prominence,
because the standard of morality had
changed to such an extent that they
would no longer De tolerated.
He then talked along the line of
prohibition, denounCing state prOhi-
bition farce and a failuTe-althOugh
an improvement over the license SyS-
ten which makes the state or govern
ment a partaker in the iriQuity-and
deClaredin favor Of the prohibition
of the manufacture and sale of liquor
by the general government, and the
adjustment Of all internal reye-
nue. laws.
He then led Off into lengthy trea.
tise on sexual reforms, and opened the
eyes Of his hearers to some plain facts
that many in this busy, buStling
world had never stopped to think
about. He said he wanted them
to look upon him now as man-nOt d
preacher. He related bow it used to
be that the woman who violated tine
laws Ofvirtue would be consigned to
+; eternal darkneSS-hOw all the old
"SisSes" would roll the gossip about
her under their tongues as sweet
mOrsel and condemn her to the iSOla-
tiOn of a leper-and how the young
man in the case could come to the
= mourrer's bench or the baptiStry and
be welcomed and forgiven and con-
graduated. He showed how utterly
mean was this thing,& stealing the
virtueOf a wOman:thatby high author.
ity SO per cent of women would never
part with their spurity but for the
wileS and Establishments of men
Should such villain enter his home
he would feel like taking his life-but
if the second thought couldreach hin
befops he committed the act he would
modify the act to that Of rendering
him incapable of committing Sucl
depredatiOns again. He was in favor
of a law creating eunuchS out of Sucf
villains but feared that fully one
fourth of the en,Of Kansas would
fall victims. (Greatapplause.) SOci
ETY. would be benefited by such &C
tiOn and maybe the victims wOulC
slide along peaceably through thi'
world and possibly their little drieC
up souls would finally creep through
the pearly gates. He opposed tt
capital punishment and favored a re
sort to more methods Of this sort.
He teen went after the married
men for unfaithfulneSS to and abuse
of their wives. He was plain spoken
and severe. He showed how men are
careful about the minutest details Of
breeding hogs, dogs, horses, cattle
etc., and how utterly careless they are
of the human race. He showed how
rigid God was about such things il
the only government he ever run OF
Garth 1.-THE Jewish government( how
! men were killed for stealing, for kill
ing, for drunkenness, etc, rather thar
have such tendencies handed down t
future generations through the blood
He was in favor of a law requiring
people who wanted to get married tt
furnish a satisfactory pedigree before
they were issued a license. The only
question now propounded by father,
and mothers to the young man wh(
sues for the daughters hand, is liT
action if not in words what is the
size of your pocket bOok?" They
dent ask how pure or how putrid i:
your body. He denounced with terri