The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-13
REVIVAL SERVICES
HELD IN HAMMOND
These Take Place in Two Of
the City's Leading
Churches.
palm SUNDAY DULY OBSERVED
Rev. Shannon, the Irish Evangelist,
Talks Before Baptists-Rev.
Sharp's Scathing Sermon.
palm SUNDAY DULY OBSERVED

and Lutheran churches. AT most of
these places there was the usual dis
tribution of palms and in many cases
there was the reading of the lesson
of the Savior.
At two of the churches there were
red hot revivaIs in progress. There are
the Baptist and Christian churches.
The Irish Evangelist arrived here
Saturday night and made his first hit at
the evening service in the Baptist
church. Sunday morning the choir
was a little late, but at time to begin
Shannon started off right on the dot.
Mr. Shannon said: IF you people want
to loot horn you had better get
pay day move on you. I have not
come here to deal out old Mother Win
solos soothing syrup. 1 have come to
tell you folks where to head in or to
get off"
AT the night meeting was the time
when the evangelist hit the high
places. When Mr.. Shannon threw off
his cuffs and entered the second heat
with a tremendous pace, E. w. Bump,
the chorister moved back a pace and
the young ladies of the choir drew in
their feet.
Shannon's hot shot included a few
remarks like the following:
Some people don't like sensation
like sensation better than stagnation.
I would rather ride in a band wagon
than a hearse any old time. Some
preachers get a sheepskin from a col
1ege but they only add a sheepskin
to a sleeps head
You're not a Christian because you
go to church every Sunday; you might
go to a show every day but that
wouldn't make you a monkey.
At the Christian Church.
In dealing with sins among church
members last night the Rev. c. j..
Sharp Of the Christian church hit right
and left, He went after his congEe-
cation and the congregations of other
churches rough-shod, giving quarter to
none He paid some delicate compli-
ments to the mo account member, .
and laid down a few sarcastic rules to
govern the conduct of such.
Here are a. few of the epigrams with
which the congregation was raked fore
and aft, it having been explained how
ever that the remarks meant no more
| for the Christian church members, than
answered the description.
''One kind of mo account church
member is the sore church member.
My finger may be member of my
hand, but it is a no account member as
| long as it is sore"
THE nothing doing church member
is a no account member. Talk about
| the army of the unemployed-just read
| the church rolls, the roster Of Gods
army and see what you come across
God wants to use you to save sim
cursed old Hammond, but how can He
take you into partnership with Him
with a bible in one hand and deck
of cards in the other?"
/ How can you sing Come to Jesus
| to a doctor or a grocer or a merchant
or a landlord whom you have beat out
of just bill by forgetting it?"
| Following is a set of rules for the
no account member:
Don't sing; you might break your
face.
! Find fault with the service but don't
take any part.
If you see a stranger be sure to not
shake hands. He might be encouraged
to come again. Just give him the
frosty nit and the Klondike stare ant
| tramp on his toes in your mad rush
for the door.
Every time you see the pastor be-
sure to say something cute and cutting
about his having not called on yol
lately Never think that you have
made yourself so grouchy and com
planning and generally disagreeabl'
that the preacher would rather be rur
over by an automobile than to endur,
half hour of your complaining.
The usher is the man who stands
through fifty-two services a year t.
find you a comfortable seat Be sur,
to treat him like a dog. Pierce hin
with look and be sure to sit any
where but where he asks you to.
Never subscribe anything to thu
regular support of the church. What
the use for the church to pay its hon
est bills?
Carefully and cheerfu1ly follow thes
rules and you will be a perfect sue
cess as a mo account church member
and one of the most useful hands tn
devil has In town.
One convert came forward in re
Spouse of the invitation. maxim,
twenty-nine additions to the church Ii
!, the last nine Sundays.
The subject for next Sunday evening
is, "Hypocrites Who Have Not Ye
Joined the Church"
Rev. Smith at st. Paurs.
Rev. c. A. Smith at ST. Paurs Epis
copal church gave a sermon appro
pirate to the day. He spoke of tn
first Palm Sunday when Christ entere
Jerusalem and of the reception he wa
given by the populace. He told o
those who welcomed him with gla
| hosanas and of the chief priests VIII
looked upon him with hatred, while tn
Roman soldiers regarded him and hi
coming and the cause he represented
with indifference. The rector apple
! the situation to the Christians of tn
present day, when the circumstance
were exactly similar in spirit If not /
the manifestation thereof
1t was announced that on Tuesday
] Wednesday and Thursday during hol