Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-12-22
DR., STROUSE IS
MAKING BIG SUCCESS
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from the bank OF humanity before anC
the smaller one behind the speaker
and he appended: May God convict
some man tonight and save some home
from q drunken Santa Claus.
1T am pleading now" DR.. stFonSe
confined, sfter breathing space, "fol
che wife ct home, trying TO make both
ends meet, lighting the wolf away from
the door, all the time while taking
care OF those little children, while out
IN some gin mill the husband 10 spend
ing his hsrd.eaFned money. Nay the
good God forgive that man Tonight and
II be has any love left ~ him FeVivIfy
Il; II he has any heart &NakeB IL TO .
realization OF HE awful derediction,
aye, his cFime"
Throughout the big auditorium men
and women, matuTed end youthful,
we're profoundly moved Nothing re-
sembling agitation marked the tones
OF the revlValiSt; IL was just % be call
ed II, pleading, with his heart In every
word. Yet IN the very modeTateneSS
there seemed 9 silent accusation and
here and there In the audience = man
stirred restiVSly 81 II conscience 90 we'll
a. emotion hSd stopped the speakers
arrows.
you've heard the old saying" Dr..
strouse proceeded, "Ii you let whit
key alone, Il will let you alone Well,
it's lie, ;" he cried, and painted with
pathetic VivldnesS picture OF the
mother who knew not the taste. Of IL
quoF, yet whose idolised son, . prey TO
itS fascination, finally StAggers home,
dsEsd from excess Of indulgence, and
falls SenseleSS At her feet,
Has II let her slOne9" he asked In
tenSsly. "Oh, God, answer the CUES.
zion, has that son Sinned only against
himself Have the wages Of Sin been
paid only TO him aud not 70 herr"
There was the wife whose drunken
husbands cruelty and neglect we're
thFustIHR dARRera through her heart.
"And I'm talking 70 some man here
tonight" the evangelist pursued /;
"bome man whom bic neIRhboT does
not suspicion, yet who hasn't for
months iaid q kind word 90 the little
woman he leaves at home while he is
out 90 some show or In some saloon. I"
II seemed from behind the footlights
90 II more than one male component Of
that vast gathering squiFmed IN his
seat 80 the speaker supplemented, II
say that unless there 10 something OF
resurrection In that man there will be
an awful and q terrible oonseq uenee
Tor him 10 face In the other world"
Rewriting TO the wife whose husband
had been reclaimed, Dr., Strouse Hllud'
cd 10 her sending him word Of her
gratitude, OF her telling che tale Of q
household born anew to happiness, and
added earnestly, That single letter Ia
w. Significance paid me salary enough
70 preach the remainder OF my lite"
Every bead OF the Ginning liquor 10 an
eye Of q serpent" said the evangelist,
In speaking Of che time when men
would dnd thsmSslVeS unable 20 turn
away, And 10 every glass there IL u
fang"
The habit, he continued. had put lie
victims asle, p, some Of them being
aroused ia time, tome awakening
when IL was too late Incidental to
this, he gave n graphic narrative OF an
engineer Numbering a. bic throttle
while The monster locomotive aud the
train IL hauled dashed a. siHly miles
an hour toward yAWn,nR chaSm,
which a oulvrtt spNnned un,il Washed
away bya cloudburtt, AZ he started
the recital there were sporadic disturb
Aners eAused 10y people getting up TO go
out, bot mauy ~ thrse turned ia the
aitl's and waited 'pellbound, like the
rest OF the audience, to hear the cli.
muK IL WSs tho huTl,ng ~ = lantern
Though the cab window, the awaken.
inG Of the sleepy driver aud the stop.
page Of the engine twenty Zee, from
che brink Of the Abyss
II bPg you Va che voice % The lost 4"
the speaker pleaded, 10 WAken before
II 10 too late"
Herr the evangelist began hi, s1hot-
tations ~ the mulIiIudSs IN pie and
gallery followed bis Injunction 20 boW
ia prayer Al the same time he called