The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-28
AROUSED IRE OF SOUTH CHI.
cAGo's CHURCH PEOPLE.
LOADED WITH EXPLOSIVES
Tou he'd Up Choir Members Whom
He Branded As Bralnless Apes.
Dancing Members He Declared
He'll Was Full Of Them.


Hammond, one of the suburbs of Chi
cago and as result OF his Vtrolic
outbursts he was ordered to leave the
city.
The story as we have it is that the
Evangelist Dan" shannon is moth.
ing II not forceful
In describing garden implement
used for digging purposes ne calls It
"A spade and he begins it with a big
$" And In series of meetings
which have aroused Chicago's soutn
crn enviIons 10 u dazzling white heat
he has brought glsps of astouishmcnt
and mchurchlike language from otuer
members OF the First Baptist church,
Hammond. where he Is conducting a
series OF reviyals.
Some OF the sentiments expressed
by the preacher which made his au-
dience breathe hard were:
OF some young male members OF
the church -"brainlcss, white
livered apes, who ought to be in an
insane asylum
OF the young women choir members
Ia dancing, card playing bunch,
whom | don't want on this PLATFORM
or II. W. II. Jones, former pastor
OF the cnur h-"A humbug who adyo-
Gates humbuggery."
or the University Of Chicago Theo-
logical school faculty sufferers from
fatty enlargement OF the ego, who are
after the fleece, not the sheep"
OF Prcsbyterians-"The Presbyter.
ian church is full Of dancers and he'll
! IS full of Prosbyterians."
OF the Hammond, unemployed
Beer swillers who spent their earn
ings in beer and now seek charity
OF Hammond-The only difference
between he'll and Hammond is that
there's a river in Hammond"
Evangelist Shannon began stirring
things up about fourteen seconds al
ter he entered the pulpit OF the
church. Three minutes later twelve
feminine members OF the choir were
hurrying from the church in an an
cry and chattering group and about
three minutes later an equal number
OF male escorts using explosive Ian.
guage, joined them on the outside.
a few staid members of the church
also quietly followed the angry mem.
bers OF the choir but a large majority
remained to hear the verbal fireworks
when he had taken his pao.
the pulpit Evangelist Shannon faced
Choir Master +. W. Bump.
Before we start" he said, Il want
to say that If you have any Of the
dancing, card playing bunch who pre-
tend TO be CHURCH members up there
don't want them on the platform
) Let them 80 home where they be
{ long, They are bound for he'll anC
, have no business here. | know o
one convert who wanted to join Ia,
| Baptist church pnd be allowed tC
I Keep up his dancing. lie was told h,
I could not and said the Presbyterian
J.. church WAS full OF dancers.
2 Yes told him, "and hell is full
: OF Pre- byteraus, with their feet nang
e ing out OF the windows
!. Some OF these men members of IN,
2 choir are as bad ! have seen SOM
;. OF them-DrGinless, white liyeret
e apes whiting on their cigarettes,
r st.ip of tobacco with fire on one enl
, iad TOOL ou the other, know tueu
$ -.halr baked fellows, dancing am
< drinking who pretend to De churc
10 members They ought to be in a
l. insane asylum.
a AS the prca lher paused there wa
'. another hurried exit OF choir member
IS and the audience neryously brace
" itself Tor the next assault.
Rev. W. II. Jones, now a pastor /
: Belvedere, H., received 1t.
"lhey have an athletic club her
which is not very far removed from
, Dances and friDlities are a part IL ]
1t was organized by a pastor of th
church. He is humbug and this
, hum mbuggery. This is not church wor
and the work OF teachers of the 80
pei.
Some Of the teachers should /
ashamed OF themselves. Look at II
University OF Chicago Theologicy
school They used to pray in the u
per rooms there, Now they pray
the supper rooms.
They are after the loayes and fis
es. 1t is the fleece. not the wool the
seek. these sufferers from fatty e
largement OF the ego. They have |