Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02
OF 400 HEARS FIRST
AND ONLY ADDRESS FOR
WOMEN ONLY.
oENoUNcEs AND SCORES
SINS OF FEMINlNlTY
Women Hear Powerful Sermon on
Wicksdness and Sin Peculiar to the
sex-soeiety Scored and Race Sui
eide is Denounced as Murder-Pleads
for Cody Women and Cody Homes.

-Four thousand seven hundred wom-
Ell, the largest audience of its kind
ever gathered together in the city or
county, heard Rev. Mr. Sunday deliver
his first and only sermon to women
only at the tabernacle Tuesday after
noon. Women of all ages, from all
avenues and positions in life, formed
the vast sea of feminine faces that was
upturned to the platform from which
the revivalist spoke.
There was not man in the audience
and the mere sight of curious man as
he peeked thru the doorway, as sew
eral of them did, was the signal for
the 'highball sign from Sunday and a
merry "ha, ha" from his hearers.
When the musical program was COM
pleted, and Mr.. Fischer and Mr.. Ack-
ley babe their chief farewell, and left
the tabernacle the audience was con-
vulsed with laughter.
Was a Fearless Sermon.
With same fearlessness, plainness of
speech, and earnestness, which char
acterized his attack on booze and
| his arragnment of the sins of men,
Sunday bore down upon the women in
his denunciation of those sins and evils,
which, because of the sex, fasten
| themselves especially upon women
His sermon, which was powerful in the
extreme, and which was given the most
thoughtful and earnest attention, was
the plea of a man who was exhorting
womanhood to be God fearing. woman
ly mothers, wives, and sisters.
With poignant phrases, and keen and
cutting sarcasm, Mr.. Sunday. arraign-
ed the women for their wickedness. He
nunciation against the women who
seek to escape maternity, who follow
the pleasures of society rather than
God, who are idle and indolent, or who
do not guide along the paths of right
eousness the footsteps of their child
rem.
Has Water For Painters.
A bucket of water was standing on
the platform, and before Mr.. Sunday
began he gave his hearers this warn
| ing: Don't let me catch any of you
fainting. The first one that does will
Iget this bucket of water full in the
4 face" The water was not needed, as
no one tainted
Before he began Mr.. Sunday gave all
of those a chance to leave who wanted
4 to warning them that he intended tc
talk plainly. No one left.
Rev. Mr.. Sundays text was from
Second Kings, 4:26, els it we'll with
thee? Is it we'll with thy husband? Is
it we'll with thy child?" He prefaced
his sermon by announcing that he in
tended to address his audience from
the triple standpoint of a minister of
the gospel, as the husband of a wife,
and as the father of children. His adj
dress was in part as follows:
"He told of the woman of Shunam,
who was addressed by Elisha in the
text, and told how she had desired
motherhood and how her wish had
been gratified. Branching from this he
scored Numerically the women of this
the responsibilities of maternity. To
give additional weight to his argument
he quoted at length from statistics of
this county and France to show the
extent of race suicide, and how it APP
peared most noticeable in the families
of the rich, well-to-do and middle
classes and not among the poor.
"Society," he said, has put mater
nifty out of fashion" We are following
in the path of France, a path that is
leading to moral ruin. In this connec-
ton he spoke of the crimes of murder
committed to avoid maternity, and de-
clared such women to be just as much
murderesses as tho they had choked to
death a 12-year-old child.
EuIogy for Motherhood.
| He paid a magnificent tribute In his
eulogy for motherhood, and made clea,
the physiological fact that like pro.
duces like. IT tremble," he said, "fol
the oncoming generations when
think of the ungodliness Of the young
people who are to be parents of the
future generation"
Taking up the subject of marriage
he said: Ambition and dndolence and
avarice lead more girls ITO the altar
today than love. Many women endure
wifehood simply as the price paid fol
what the husband can provide hel
with Some marry for novelty, some fol
a home, and some for ease. do no
need to go outside of Marshalltown fo1
a bunch like the latter.
st tell you women have not tough
the devil for years for nothing. l car
4 take five guesses, and can hit with
them every time what is troubling
the woman who growls at my plair
speech.
i Responsibility Of the Child.
SIS it we'll with thy child? Branch.
ing into a discussion of the RESPONSE.
bilities Of rearing children, ne said
"The responsibility is far greater thar
1.-THE privilege. I do not wonder that thu
divorce courts are full to overflow. bu
with God in the heart of mother ant
father, all would be well. We lead tn,
world in divorce. Girls you hold your.
selves too cheaply.
'Girls, do not worry df you neve
marry. There are lots Of worse thing.
q than an old maid" He sighted Flor
ence Nightingale, Clara Barton an,
Frances Willard and others OF exam
Piles of grand old maids. ''Some OF tn
Inoblest women the world has eve
produced never married" he declared
Take a warming girls. Do not let you
actions advertise, man wanted Man
a woman is an old maid because sh
wanted to do more than her share o
the counting.
!. Who Mot to Marry.
"a girl is foolish'.who hasn't grit an
backbone enough TO refuse to marry a
iliidei, e sile has blackstone enough !.