Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-12
RECORD BREAKING CROWD LIST
EMS TO EVANGELIST SUNDAYS
ScATHiNG ABANDONMENT.
RoAsTs LAX RELlGloNlsTs
AND THouGHTLEss MOTHERS
Great Audience Expected Something
Sensational When Sermon On
ADJUSTMENTS Was Announced and
Was Not Observation-Disclosures
Renounce Dancing and Cards

near sensational sermon, q record
breaking crowd gathered at the taber-
nacle last night and almost fought for
admission when the doors We're opened
at . o'clock. 1t took all the strength
of big Sam Christensen, the night po-
llceman on duty, and several assistants
to push open the doors against the
immense throng which had been wait
ing for almost an hour and when the
doors were once opened they rushed in
like cattle to a salt-lick
Perhaps it was not so sensational
as they had expected, but it was sem
satlonal enough to make them listen
breathlessly for over two hours and
1t was forceful enough and true
enough to make hundreds of them
stand up when the meeting was over
and declare that they We're thru with
card playing in their homes and else
where and that from henceforth they
We're foes of the dance, round and
square, private. club dance and country
dance, thru with all kinds of dancing
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The charity ball, he declared to be the
biggest insult to God Almighty eXtant.
1T was advertised as a sermon on
amusements, and he stated at almost
the outset that there never came a
man into Cedar Rapids who was more
in favor of clean and legitimate amuse-
ments than he. Enumerating some of
the amusements which he favors, ne
! q y1f inn cd hoc. NI,o11
quet, tennis checkers and chess His
sermon was directed first against the
theater, second card playing. and thitd
against the dance. He dwelt for only
a brief time upon the theater scored
card players mercilessly. but turned
the full torrent of his eNcoriation and
denucation against the dance which he
boldly proclaimed owed its popularity
to the passion of the sexes and was di
rectly responsible for $4,000 out of the
100000 prostitutes in the United States
and for 80 per cent of lost virtue among
American women.
You have got to have something
that panders to the lustful desires of
men," he said, addressing the women
in the audience. DO you know that
the decollette costume was the in
Ventlon OF Partisan harlOt?
Actor and Preacher.
Part of the time he was a consum-
mate comedian. He described a CIR
Who was getting ready for ball with
the aid Of her old cblored woman. He
l-had the vast audience shrielling with
laughter as he went thru the motions
of that girl fixing her hair and wher
| she was all done he old eoIored wonl-
an looked at her i'm amazement an6
said, "Lawd God, honey. YOU amt goin
with all youah meat shown like that
! air ye?'
Another capital bit of acting was
| Mher he described the action of the
caller at a country dance. He aroused
peel after peel of laughter as he gave
the calls and when he shouted: Caller
for a dance! Great sticks. but an'l
that hot job. I'd rather be Il cham
bermad in a livery stable
They Said it Was True.
But there was magnificent oratorS
as we'll as consummate acting. The
Thousands in the seats and the otho.
thousands who We're packed i'm tbs
outside aisles and at all of the door
ways listened intensely. much of the
time With tense faces as he piled fact
upon fact. and told story after sior,
as only he can tell a story, to provl
! the real evils of the amuSemenss
which he was denouning. He had the
statistics ALSO at his tongues emo
They We're statistics which he has
gathered with infinite painstakins
from men and women who have made
the subject almost a life study anu
the figures were both convincing ana
appalling Hundreds went to tina
meeting to laugh and to scott and re-
manned, if not today, at least to pom
der seriously and earnestly on tho
facts as he presented them and tt
say freely, the one to'the other. thu:
lie was telling the truth. THAT.
right That's straight goods, nj
right" Well he's putting it in it;
true colors all right" these and SINH
lar expressions We're exchanged by ne;
Of much experience in the world, mer
who have not been in the habit of 60
ing to religious meetings over-mucn
but who know that What-he said wa:
true There is something in the Am
erican spirit which makes a man free
ly acknowledge the truth when it i
forcbly presented as it was last night
even tho 1t hits some of his weak
nesses and faults some sedge hamme
blows. And that spirit was much il
evidence last night.
Lambasts Some Church Members.
And how he did lambast some o
the church members. Especially thos
who so to card parties where womel
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