Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18
RELIGION MADE UP TO DAT
Various brands of Publicity and PiOu
Wells In Vogue in the
West.


uplift Of religious fervor in that city and
throughout Colorado and adjacent states
due to up-to-date advertising methods and
soul-stirring yells. Not only are the
churches doing more advertising than ever
before. but there is keen rivalry in the
wording Of the advertisements.
This activity dates from last spring, when
Rev. Billy Sunday. the ex-ball player evan
gelist, held meetings in the Colorado gold
camps He caused all the county seat
towns in the neghborhood OF the places
where he conducted revivals TO be pla-
carded, and families drove for miles and
Travelled across the mountains to hear his
sermons.
Sunday introduced what TO Colorado was
an innovation, In the form Of ''stickers."
bearing the legend, Get Right with Cod -
These were pasted on sidewalks, on lamp
posts, on the windows of street cars-in
every place where they would attract at
tenton. One religious campaigneI slipped
into a fashionable hotel at Colorado
Springs one night and pasted a ''sticker'
on the bands Of all the hats he could find
while the owners We're at dinner.
The spirit Of rivalry has spread TO 'he
Sunday schools, and school cries have been
adopted by the children When parties Of
pupils from different Sunday schools meet
they give voice TO their cheers with all the
enthusiasm Of students of rival colleges.
This cheer has been adopted by a society
Of youthful temperance workers In one Of
the Presbyterian churches.
Come, come,
Come. come. come
Come join the forces fighting rum;
A cup Of cold water is better far
Then all the poison upon the bar.
on hQ M
The white ribbon wear,
And help spread the gospel
Everywhere.
A Congregational Sunday school, whose
pupils have made a special study of the
Beatitudes, frequently reminds the COM
munity of its existence by perpetrating
this cry:
oh my goodness, sakes alive,
Matthews gospel chapter five,
Tells how blessings We may win,
How TO rid our hearts of sin.
II were loWly, pure and meek,
We may gain the boon seek
Food when hungry; thirsty. drink
Comfort, when on sorrows brink.
Brother, find thy key to Heaven
BY reading verses one to eleven.
This yell, which occasionally breaks the
Sabbath stiffness at Cripple Creek, is an
outgrowth of the Billy Sunday revival:
Cripple
Greek
All the gold in all our mines
CoUsi not buy the way
To the Heaven that's our home,
Where we're bound TO go,
Cripple
Greek, Colorado.
But Colorado by no means marks the
western limit 10 the territory in which this
religious enthusiasm is rampant. al this cry
/ arising from the Utah capital testihes:
Who who who are we?
| We're the Methodists Of Salt Lake c.
| Are we Mormons?
! No-sir-ee
| M-e-t-h-o-d-i-s-t.
Either the originators Of the foregoing
verse were guilty of plagiarism or else the
/ offense may be charged against the authors
Of the following Jingle:
] Who, who, who are We?
Were the Merry Workers of Salt Lake c
| Utah for Christ"
! That's the hammer we wave;
| We're handed together
! Our dear state 70 save.
| The metropolis of Washington state
1 comes TO the front with this effort:
We're Sunday school scholars Of Seattle,
/ Against all sin Were waging battle.
Come 20 the Lord and seek salvation,
Freedom gain from tribulation.
! II you know the way.
/ II you'd learn the rule.
| Come 10 the Baptist Sunday school
The Sunday school OF the Topeka church
| of the Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon. author OF
In His Steps" boasts Of the following:
/ Topeka, Topeka,
/ Central church, Topeka.
/ We're waging war for prohibition,
! To stamp out sin and crimes our mission
/ When We have won Wen shout Eureka,
/ Hurrah for Central church, Topeka.