Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-10
IS STIRRED
Evangelist Sunday Opens His
Batteries and People Are
Startled.
SOME OF THEM SHOCKED
OF THEM SHOCKED
Sundays Bold Assertions, Sarcasm and
Slang Create CONSERVATION Among
Church People and Fear Among the
Law Breakers - Threatens to Shoot
If Necessary.
Special to Times-Republican.

ottumwa, Nov. 1o.-Evangelist
"Billy" Sunday has made his first APP
pearance in Ottumwa and has startled
the people. both good and bad, in this
wide open city, by the boldness OF his
declarations, by his sarcasm and slang,
and by the frequent use of expressions
and illustrations that border on the
vulgar.
With about 5000 people packed on
the seats and crowding together in the
aisles and every conceivable standing
space in the big tabernacle, Sunday
talked to the biggest crowd that has
ever greeted him at first Sunday
night meeting in any city. In addi-
ton to the immense throng which man
aged to gain access to the building,
fully 1000 people were either stand.
ing up around the entrances on the
outside or left out of the building alto
gether.
Taking his own career as telling
example. the speaker dwelt all evening
on the theme that what a man really
willed to do and made up his mind
to do, he would do. Incidents from his
tory, from everyday life and Biblical
stories clinched his arguments. His
discourse abounded in climaXes and
descriptions. His bottomless supply OF
satire and sarcasm was used with
great effect, as well as his powers OF
pathos and sympathy.
The following are some of the say
ings that have set the people to tax
ing and not few quarreling over the
probable good:
IF your hair is pinned to your hats,
ladies, leave 'em on, otherwise, hats off,
please"
II can take my knife and piece OF
soft pine and make a better set OF city
officials than lots of cities in this coun-
try have"
IF you kids down there in front don't
behave, you'll go out thru the window
"Take the churches from the city and
Ottumwa real estate wouldn't be worth
10 cents on the dollar in year"
"The more people there are that be-
lieve in the Bible, the less there are
for the policemen and judges to deal
with"
"The law of their own desires is the
only law recognized by most church
people"
"Who does not believe in God, is a
child of the devil"
"Half Of the church membership
could die today and there would be
felt no physical loss in the spiritual
world"
This town is going to hell. There
is too much joining church and not
enough joining God. There is too much
playing tag with God and hide and
seek with the devil"
"Once a man said to me. have
never been drunk, I have never COM
mitted adultery He didn't have the
devil bested any,"
God don't look at the fine clothes
you wear, or whether you hoof 1t or
ride in an automobile. Your Dun and
Bradstreet rating is also passed up.
What he looks at is your heart
.I'm plain clodhopper from Iowa.
and don't like this society shake OF
the hands with two fingers"
when I was working for $25 a
month as janitor in the Nevada. Iowa,
school,, nobody called me a CRATER"
81 sometimes wish l could pull
string and all the unpaid for clothes
YOU people are wearing would fall off
Some of you men wouldn't have any
thing on but cellulod collar and a
pair of socks, and you women would
inc on hl1t raj and
some hairpins"
ised her that l would take care of her
husband, and I'm just the boy to DO II,
and don't You forget it."
eff amy lobster tries to tear down
my good Christian character. he VIII
have one of the biggest scraps on MS
hands that he ever had
"Where did Cain get his wife? From
his father-in-law Of course-there were
enough buxom dansels in those days
for Cain to choose any kind of froW
he wanted, no matter what matrlmon-
ial dreams We're busting his belfry.
81 heard it prophesied that Ottum-
wa would be my graveyard. Let me tell
YOU right here that the laws OF TINS
country give a man the right 10 pro-
tect himself and I'll do it-don,t you
forget it. If any man tries to get gay
with this tabernacle he'll be shot SO
full of holes he won't make a good
sieve and I'll pay the attorneys ices
when the trial comes off
eff good preaching would save OF
tumwa the city would have been saved
long ago. You people need something
cleo and NV the grace of God I'm going
to give it to YOU
'Ill be aumjiggered if can see why
YOU are so generous to a circus and SO
pusillanimous and parsimonlous to-
wards religion. It's not a fair deal to
put God on lunch counter basis"
"Pass those plates down the aisles.
/ want every one to put somethln' IN
'em. Spit in 'em if you have no mon
ey"
Men can go to hell as quick from a
church as they can from a bawdy
house or a saloon"
eve never found Catholic priest
that doubted the divinity of Christ. I've
got to listen to some protestant mutt
to hear that
"Pentecost saved 5000 souls with one
sermon. Now it takes 5000 sermons to
save the soul of one blear eyed, double
jawed old skeptic."
"Some husbands let their wives go
about the house in her-hubbards.
They look like a feather bed with
string tied around it. and whenever