The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-09
Y. M. C. A. MASS MEETING.
"AMERICANS ARE GREAT BLAS-
 PHEMERSn

Says A. L. ZiInmerman-Meeting the Last of the Series at the Opera House Trinity Choir Rendered Special Music and the Subjects Were Finely Illustrated.
 Yesterdays meeting was a marked success, and was a very strong one for the closing of the series of opera house meetings. This plan of holding a monthly meeting in the opera house has proven so effective that 1t will un- doubtedly be followed next season as a settled policy of the local Y. M. c. A, Special music was rendered by the choir of Trinity church, the Associa- ton orchestra, and MT. George Chad wick stock, who sang The Holy City, which was beautifully Illustrated by the use of the stereopticon and moving pictures.
 MT. Zimmerman spoke in part as fol- lows:
 There are more clean, bright young men in the land to-day than ever be- fore. I thank God that there is clean manhood and 1t is due to the fact that there Is an undercurrent of good about them. There Is light coming from the throne of God He who follows 1t shal see the light, but he who does not Is | walking in the shade These, word: were uttered by A. l.. Zimmerman of | Washington, D. C., yesterday afternoon | at the mass meeting for men in Bun nell's theater, where there was a large assemblage of men gathered for tht last theater meeting of the season MT, zlmmermans theme was "Darkes Manhood and the Way Out" It wal a powerful address, and a fitting eli max to the meetings that have beet held so effectively in the theater thi! year. MT. Zimmerman took up one b, one the various vices which are de stroying America}s manhood at tn present time, dealing with each on, with such telling effect that at tn, close of the meeting when an appea was made for the Christian life, larg, number of young men responded.
 MT. Zimmerman pointed out as on of the most deplorable vices of tn, time that of profanity. He quoted MT Fred B. Smith, the noted evaugelis for men, as having said that He hal travelled the world over, had been il almost every nation of the globe, bu nowhere had he found profanity so uni versally used as in America" We ar fast becoming a nation of swearers, declared Mir. Zimmerman "Temper i a good thing. I would not give mucl for a man who did not have it, bu when his temper gets the best of hin to that extent that it makes a sweare out of him, have little use for hi temper. Temper Is an important ele menc in mans character It temper the axe, but 1t must not lead to pro fanity. You say, Oh, yes. It is wei enough for you to talk, because yo are 9 minister, and do not have tn temptations that I have. But let m tell you that you do not know anythlnt about my temptations. You are mis taken when you think that a ministe does not have temptations. Let me tel you that a minister does. The highe up man gets, the more persistent d the attacks of the devil come upo him"
 MT. Zimmerman alluded to the CUTS of intemperance as another great evi also Sabbath dissertation, and finall dwelt at length upon the social impur ity of our day and age. He declared that owing to this vile habit "eight per cent. of the young men who enter ed 1 nto the marital relationship ar unfit for it." He blamed parents to large extent for this deplorable stat of affairs, because are not sufficientl educated in this direction at an earl age. He stated the fathers and pas tors of churches could do more toward putting down this vice than any othe instrumentalities "Fathers and pas tors should talk more about this ques tion. If pastors were mere open abou 1t we would have a cleaner manhood This awful habit is worming it's wa into all our social life. If fathers an mothers would talk more about it, W might save hundreds of young me each year. I am pleading for a singl standard the world over" Mir, zim merman then pointed to Christ as tn way out, commenting his life to eN cry man as a pattern.