The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-27
MIR. MARTIN AT
 THE THEATRE He Spoke on "GOing to He'll in DrOveS." GREAT AUDIENCE PRESENT It Was an Argument on the Influence 0f Example. Paid His Respects to Dancing, Card Parties and the Social GIass-
 Mnny Present Made Profess
 sions.

Rev. T. T. Martin, the evangelist, who has been holding successful services | daily at the Southside Baptist church preached to tremendous congregation yesterday afternoon at o'clock at the ! Montgomery Theatre. His subject was Going to Hell in Droves and he made a deep impression on the big audience. Every seat in the big auditorium of the playhouse was filled. The parquet. balcony, and even the gallery was pack ed and Jammed The evangelist mad | made d good impression and had arous- ed considerable enthusiasm at the Southside meetings throughout the week and the people of the Baptist churches were in evidence in the con gregation.
 f Then, too, his subject gave promise of straightforward spicy talk that al- ways make revival meetings interest ing to everyone. The placaros an- nouncing Going to Hell in Droves. " Every body invited attracted no It, tie attention on the streets of Mont gomery throughout the week and as q result few speakers have ever address ed audiences under more favorable cir cumstances.
 There is certain amount of personal magnetism about the evangelist. who spoke at the theatre. He IS small. slenderly built. wiry looking man with a pronounced Southern dialect. In ap- pearance, he is rather the Southern law yer of the old school than minister of the Gospel. He wears the regulation long black coat and trousers. white shirt, black string tie. turned down collar and big wool hat of twenty years, ago. His experience is wide | having been a preacher among the cow boys of the West and the men of the minig camps of Colorado and in a num- Der of the big churches of the South and West His oratorical powers are origi- nal. He speaks In no set way, has a sense of humor and a number of stor- | les with which he illustrates his points
 These stories he tells well, whether 1 they are calculated to arouse the risi-
 bility of his hearers or draw tears from
 the most hardened member of his con- gregation.
 l He was introduced to the big con- gregation by Rev Eldred Nj. Stewart the young pastor of the Southside church On the stage were Rev c. A I Stakcly, pastor of the First Baptist l church., Rev. John Bass Shelton, pastor
 of the Adams Street church. Rev. J. w II O'Hara, pastor of the Clayton Stree church, Rev. A. F. Dix. and Rev. J. W
 Rhinehart, pastor Of the Firth Avenue Methodist church.
 Going to Hell in Droves," the sub ject announced. was not the horro causing address that the subject migh indicate. In fact. MT. Martins speecl was full of love for his fellow men ant
 his plea was rather for the purpose O . showing how persons can assist In pre- venting tht,r fellows from going to hel in droves tEsn an explanation of wh! people are gong to the place mention
 ed in the numbers indicated.
 1 His argument was based on the idei that there would not be near so man!
 souls lost to Christ were 1t nat fo the fact that people are wont to fol How as the greater masses of them leat and by apt story and burning eloquenc' he told of how many a soul was won oi
 lost for Christ by persons being snatch
 ed from the droves or persons who re
 fused to leave the paths that their form
 CT associates and like thinkers passed over
 He attacked dancing. not because
 there is necessarily anything wrong ol
 criminal in the act itself but becaus'
 there are those who take advantage O.
 the dance for things that are agains
 the ten commandments. He said tha lthe wrong was in Christians encourag ing the practice with their attendance
 whether they danced with the pures
 motives or not.
 He also paid his respects to care Iplaying, not because there Is anything
 wrong in the actual playing of card
 but because the playing of cards b.
 Christians encourages those who ar
 not Christians in continuing the prac
 tice, where there are stakes on tn
 game. He made the point that the ne
 gro is being treated far better by tn
 law officers of the South than are tn
 whites. The police will arrest tn
 pickanninny crap shooters" 300 fee
 down the alley in the dark of the mool
 said he land maybe that will caus
 them to desist from the evil But the
 won't pull the game where the big law yers. and doctors, and bankers an
 business men. are playing for tabl