The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-11

and the Evil That Exists in 9th
err Churches Why the Bad Boy
With the Broken Leg Was Grip
pied for Life-SOme Men on Road
to He'll Not Worth Saving.
Including today, Revs. E. B. Kennedy
and w. F. A. Maccormac, evangelists of
the Christian Catholic church, of which
John Alex Dowie, of Chicago, is general
overseer, have been in St. Paul five days.
They came here from Eau Claire, Wis,
where they held q series of meetings.
The st. Paul gatherings have been held,
afternoons and evenings, at Como hal,
81 Wabasha street.
They advertised as Zion in st. Paul;
Salvation, Healing, Holiness Through
Faith in Jesus Christ
Their meetings have not been numer-
ously attended. Thirty-two were present
Friday evening last including a boy, who
passed out hymn books compiled by Ira
D. Sankey. The sexes of the attendance
were about equally divided. : Mr.. Maccor-
mac spoke first. He was belligerent.
Physically, he is a fine spec men. He
said he was born and raised in France,
but had lived in England for some time.
His discourse was founded upon the Bibli-
cal passage describing the planting of
the fig tree. He grew bitter as a food Of
unhappy recollections appeared to sweep
over him. In Eau Claire he had been
abused and insulted. People there had
accused him of being a-a-a-
|. What did they call me, Brother Ken
nedy?" he inquired, appealing to his COM
rade
"They called you a 'debased priest
replied Rev. Kennedy.
That's it, continued Rev. Maccormac;
"a debased priest. And they told me l
might return to the fold"
The greater part of the speakers ad-
dress was devoted to denouncing the
members of other churches and people in
general as fools The churches did not
know how to attract the attention OF
men. They would get up festivals, guild
parties smoke recitals and other ungodly
devices to attract young men, They were
nothing but counting parties, schemes to
attract young men by the presence or
ladies' In his denunciation of such
things he was bitter. The late Dwight
L. Moody had the right conception of the
way to get men into the church. He laid
hold of them as no other man could
The churches of the present day taught
almost everything else but the word OF
God But the ministers didn't know any
better.
Mr.. Maccormac then seated himself at
the organ and played an accompaniment
to hymn which was lined in the Old
fashioned way by Mr.. Kennedy. No one
In the audience appeared to sing. But
Revs. Maccormac and Kennedy have.
good voices. The latter followed Mr.
Maccormac
He was still more severe on mankind
in general A large number of people IN
world, he said, were not worth saving
They. were en- route to hell and might as
well go there by the most expeditions
route.
81 am angry said Rev. Kennedy. II
have been angry nearly all day. l met a
man this morning who said that Rev
Dowie would never do because he got
angry. OF course he gets angry. He has
a right to- God gets angry, angry with
sin. disease death and the devil
lie then read a passage in the Bible re-
lating how, on one occasion, GOD was
very angry. Rev. Dowie- was perfectly
justified in being angry. Everyone should
be angry with the devil.
1t appears to be the doctrine of these
Dowie disciples that doctors are useless.
Christian Science seems to be incorporate
ed in their creed.
1T knew a man. named Burchard,' said
Rev. Kennedy land he was Presby-
terrain He would get drunk and abuse
mis- family And he was Presbyterian.
A saloonkeeper in town told me Burchard
could not get any liquor in his place.
And Brrchard was a Presbyterian. He
was a wishy-washy sort of fellow with
no backbone And he was Presbyter1-
an. He would say: I am weak, but
49, ,,oiror RI ref0r,o I am going to Quit
drinking whisky You know what that
means Some of you do; at least. Ana
he was a Presbyterian. ~
81 knew another one, boy, and he was
a bad boy perfect wretch. His mother
could do nothing with him. One day he
fell from a bicycle and broke his leg.
We sent him to one of our heaiefs and
could have cured him. The only thing
we asked of him was to right any wrong
he had done in this world. He would
not do It, He had committed adultery.
At this juncture the boy who gave out
hymn books snored terribly. He was fast
asleep in his chair. A woman arose in
the audience walked over and shook the
| boy violently. He awakened.
I'VE told that boy" continued Rev.
Kennedy, that he must go to the. hus-
| band Of the woman, tell him what he
had done and make it right. Then we
could cure him. He would not do go.
He said; -,
Better be killed while making n
wrong right than go to hell told him.
Would he do so? No. Today that young
man is a cripple for life and will go to
hell" :,
A collection was then taken up and
announcement made of future meetings.