The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-01
SUNDAY SERVES
MIXTURE :.
SLANG, ELOQUENCE AND
BOASTS, ESPECIALLY FOR
EASILY" COLLECTIONS,
MINGLE n ADDRESS ON
I THE HOME.

Sundays sermon last night on
''The Home" was a curious COM
bination of what might be termed
cracks" virulent remarks and
eloquent and convincing express
sions on motherhood and the home.
He made society women in gen
eral target for abuse and once
flung a harsh remark at an old
man in the audience who was ap-
parently doing his best to smile.
There was perhaps less of the SEN
sational vaudeville style that has
characterized previous addresses.
In serious moments he delivered
some sound teaching in good Eng
lish. These would be followed by
a sudden dropping into the slang
and rough expression that interest
and attract general attention, but
repell a great many who are
anxious to accord all the respect
and credit to Sunday that may be
due him as an ordained minister.
Sunday prefaced his remarks
witha reminder that Spokane, with
her immense bank clearings, was
| falling short in her deposits in the
tabernacle collection box. He made
a plea for great offering to start
the new year right, mentioning the
fact a number of times as usual
that he had no interest in the
collections himself. He said the
Spokane collections thus far were
''pusillanimous, rapacious, pic
kayounous, measly, miserly and
tight listed. You are a good lot of
people, but you ought to do better
by the Lord Sunday demanded
anything from $400 to $1,000.
Sunday portrayed the physical
condition that go to make an IDEAL
home. He said the women in 1.-THE
smart set were not the kind that
produced ideal homes. They Iare
frivolous, silly, coquettish, eY ira
VACANT and throw to the winds all
the virtues that are desirable in
the home. They allow themselves
to be banded by lot of brain1e ss,
silly, whiskey-soaked, Tilted hys
with cracked regulations and ap-
petites for high living. If a plague
should wipe out our society wof1en
they would not be missed. Their
only excuse for living is that they
help to make crowd
The son of the average million
aire has not brains enough : to
amuse kangaroo, and in intelli-
gence will not bear comparison
with chimpanze or an Durango
tang"
The normal way to get rid of
drunkafds is to stop making
drunkards. am against the bust
ness that makes drunkards. X
THE national life will never
rise higher than our home life.
Settle the matter of the religious
training in the home and | will
settle the tariff question and all
other questions that now. bother
the political economists of the ma
ton. The greatest need of
America today is the religion of
Jesus Christ, taught in the home
to the rising generation. | have
no patience with the woman who
talks of heaven and makes hell
of her home"
Every decent man, in the
church or out of it, ought to be
standing at my side holding up
my hand in this fight. The most
striking way in which you can en-
dorse present methods of corrup-
ton is by opposing meetings of
this kind. When you pour out
your maledictions against this
work you are certainly aiding in
the cause of the devil"
Il see that Rabbi Levine thought
| had assaulted his race. If he
had known me better he would
not have said that against this
Humble preacher from the corn
belt of Illinois. We owe the He
ew race a debt of gratitude that
~ never repay. for Christ
vho came to redeems us
q Jew. | never saw a
he weary Willies; or
4 hem to mooch mel for
All hail the Jew, for
chosen people,"
young mind in 1.-THE
direct the young in
h. and you gan I ack
weaker asex
Iesent in 1.-THE
L. ked this bort
some old
az u smile at
kld laugh, would
heavens sake
the brats and
well up like poi
hch them TO be