The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-20
Evangelist Oliver Puts in Some Hot
Shots.
SPECIAL FORMS OF VICE
CARD PLAYING AND DANCING
DENOUNCED.
Says He Has Come to Salt Lake to
Wake Up .'the Old -Buzzard Gang"
That Objects to His Style of
Preaching as Being Too Rough
Loves All of the Preachers.

talker who has preached to Salt Lakers
for long time is French Earl Oliver.
who is holding nightly revival meetings
last night was Conservation, but he
managed to score dancing, card play
ing. sossiping and many other things,
in forcible style.
He took for his text the verse from
Romans: Il beseecn We, therefore,
brethren. by the mercies of God, pre-
sent your Bodies living sacrifice,
wholly acceptable unto God"
''Consecration has been preached in
all ages" said MIR. Oliver. and has not
been lived I'D TO. You can preach like
lightning and pray like thunder, and
go to hell just the same. It's living your
religion thai counts. People come to me
ana say: Brother Oliver, | wish you'd
get the hypocrites out of our church;
there are SO MANY Of them Yes. and
there are whole lot of hypocrites IN
every church. But what can we eX-
pect? The Redeemer had Dne bad man
out of twelve among his disciples. and
we do well if we have one good per-
son out of twelve.
Wakes the "Buzzards."
Some people tell me that they are
shocked at the way L preach. If
couldn't come into Salt Lake and wake
that old buzzard gang up, I'd think
that had backslid myself. If you
have as much sense as a common cow,
you win get along bully with me. A
COW has sense enough to. separate that
which is good to eat from that which
is not, and if you can distinguish the
truths that l present. my preaching
will not be lost
And some of these preachers here
may think that | don't like preachers.
But / do: l love them. They are doing
as well as they have sense enough %
do. They come to me. and with a faith
erly air. say: Brother Oliver, you
shouldn't do il that way And 1 tell
them in reply that if 1 did it the way
they do it l wouldn't be worth any
more than they are. / like my way of
doing it better than their way of not
doing it. That is the way to bring these
rum-soaked, whisky bloated, sin-in-
tected towns to God.
Should Bride Tongues.
Il have seen men baptized by nearly
every different method imaginable, and
they have always come out with their
tongues dry. If a man seems to be re
ligious and doesn't bride his tongue,
that mans religion isn't worth shucks.
That little tongue is an unruly mem
Der. 1t is a circus. Now. here's a
good sister, but she sometimes gets
riled UP and flies off the handle. A
minute later she says that she didn't
mean it, and that it only lasts a min
ute. Yes, and it only takes "a minute
to shoot a shotgun, but think of the
harm it does.
Some OF the most pusillanimous,
scraggy runts that l have ever seen are
those gosslps who go around saying:
Nrra @.11 .....- %
be men. What am | to call such a per-
son but an old she buzzard that car
ries the carrion of the community on
its shoulders?
Our bodies belong to Gcd, and we
have no right to debauch them. We
have no right TO abuse our hands by
singing around a deck of cards, play
ing high five, progressive euchre and
other devilish little games And the
preachers are afraid to speak out
against it. They should not be preach
ing. They could find a better occupa-
ton in the fields following the meek
and lowly mule. And if the feet belong
to Gcd we have no right to fling them
around on a ball room floor. This evil
of dancing has got an awful hold on
this town. and the devil is president,
constable and all the other officers. L
tell you. my friends. that when you
bawdry and harlotry. All. The dance
steals the fresh young flowers, wits
them and casts them into he'll.
Holy Ghost Time.
We are going to have a Holy Ghost
time in Salt Lake, but we have got to
do lots of housekeeping before we get
to it. The trouble is that we have got
too many people in church who are not
what they ought TO be- The church is
at standstill here in Salt Lake. The
gang, all point their fingers with scorn
at the church and say: Look at your
little preachers preaching their SER
monettes. What good do they do2'
There is many little merchant who
comes into the church to get respecta-
bility and because he thinks it will add
to his trade. / am not here to serve
ice cream sodas, but to raise great big
bliSters on the backs of these bar
nacles. People tell me: Why don't
you pour on the balm of Gilead.
Brother Oliver, instead of being so
harsh?' Your preachers have been
pouring on the balm of Gilead until
you have got the oiliest set of preach
srs / ever saw. They slip through your
clutches like q creased pig.
The reason the work doesn't prosper
is because there is too much red tape.
Solos and duets make uD a nice pro-
gramne. And a young man coming in
says: Why. there's Nell singing in the
choir. 1 Rugged her at the dance last
night There is too much unholiness
in church work.
At O'clock this afternoon Miss |
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