The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-26
Hot Shot From Evangelist French
Earl Oliver.
ENCOURAGE LAWLESSNESS
PAYS his RESPECTS TO SALT
LAKE NEWSPAPER.
Startling Charges Are Made Against
the Wine Rooms Which He De-
clares BE Will NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Force, Mayor and City Council Re-
ceive Rap.

The audience at last nights meeting
was the largest that has greeted Mr..
French Earl Oliver on week night
since he came to Salt Lake. There
were but few vacant seats in the large
auditorium. and at the Nclose of the
meeting large part of the congrega-
ton arose when the evangelist asked
how many were concerned in the work
that is beng zone. Twenty converts
were made and both Mr.. Oliver and
Mr.. Smith expressed themselves as
much encouraged.
This church won't be half big enough
to hold the crowd when the revival has
been going two weeks longer" said
Mr.. Oliver. THE revival is two weeks
ahead of itself, and 1 never before have
seen such good results in SO short a
time.
Trouble With Backsliders.
THE greatest trouble we have had
is with Dacksliders. They have turned
their backs on the fountain of life. and
are wanderers from God. There are
also many men who say that they
don't nave to join the church because
tnere are too many hypocrites in it
You may as well argue, Don't deposit
money in a bank, there are men in the
banking business who have embezzled'
Ihese same men go to the devil
and say they want the old reprobate to
show them Christian. The devil
points out to them the scrubbiest. rum
soaked, red-nosed old jay in the church
ana says, There is a Christian He
points out the card-playiEg, theatre
going gang and says, They are Chris
tians.'
The DEVILS Parade.
But let them ask the devil to point
out one Of his own flock, and he'll
show them a moral man, who pays his
debts and lives uprightly, but who
has never professed Christ. He doesn't
show the harlot walking along the
street with black heart and a ruined
life; he doesn't show the gamblers
with their black legs that infest- Com
mercial street
For the past two Mondays 1 have
picked up the Tribune and seen stories
that give an appearance of condoning
gambling and advocating it. If the
Tribune does condone gambling, as ap-
pears by its stories, as a newspaper it
Is disgrace to the community and not
fit to be read by respectable people.
Does it? 1 ask it publicly and de-
mand an answer, but l don't care if it
answers or not
Gambling is Licensed.
The corrupt, bribed police force
rounds up the gamblers once a month
and makes them pay a fine of $50.
What does it amount to? 1t amounts
to licensing gambling, nothing more,
nothing less.
And your mayor and rotten, dirty
council let's drunken, epewing, filthy,
down the streets with good people.
Folks say that it is 'awfully vulgar,
for me to talk this way, but how much
more vulgar is it to have such condi-
tons Drevail?'
Another thing in your fair city
which is the contamination of disgrace
is the fact that wine rooms are al
lowed to run wide open. Men have
told me that they have seen women
man SAYS that he knows of case of
the seduction of a young girl in a State
street wine room.
Will Investigate.
81 am going to investigate it and if
the report is true 1 intend to see what
can be done. 1 am hot after this buzz
zard gang, and I'm going to pull out
some of their tail feathers before I get
Just as long as the preachers won't
get out and roast the buzZards, lust
so long is the devil going to prosper.
The trouble is that when many preach
ers get off their sermonettes the devil
goes right up in the pulpit and sleeps
alongside of the preacher That kind
of preacher-and you have them right
here in Salt Lake-is the best servant
that the devil has in his employ.
Greedy for Money.
Most towns are so greedy for money
that if you should take bushel basket
of nickles, the whole town would fol-
low you right to the devil. It's idolatry.
The devil offers cups of sweetness to
lure away the fair ones of Christ First
he gives them the card party cup, and
they drink it and like it; then it is the
dancing cup and it, too, is sweet; but
as they drink on, the cups of the devil
become bitter, and more bitter, and
then those fair ones are ruined girls
and their lives are wrecked
I'm return, God presents the cups of
conf ession, assurance and
work. There are too many
people who will not raise a hand TO
assist a fallen woman. because they
say, She has gone. too far to re-
DEEM
Meetings will be held this afternoon
and evening, as usua!