Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-24

cefved the signatures Of a majority Of
the voters of the city. But the intlu-
ence did not stop there. 1t swept OUT
side the city, and was carried home
last night to the farms and towns AMI
villages Of the county and beyond it to
communities, towns and cities all over
Iowa.
Thousands Promise to Sign.
| When Sunday asked all to arise who
would sign the next petition which
was presented them, to close the sa-
looms. thousands, fully four-flfths Of
the audience, stood on it's feet.
This was but one of the demonstra-
tions which marked this great meeting.
referring to the saloon, as he drew
from the altar the red flag Then lif.-
ing a big American flag above the
platform he cast the red flag from him
and leaped upon 1t, and waving aloft
the stars and stripes he cried, Its an
anarchist.
Every plot against the old flag AMI
our government has been Matched in
some saloon" AS he waved the flag
the crowd arose as one man and yelled,
applauded, and shouted until the build
ing seemed to sway and rock with Il
mighty vibration.
Cheer for Country and God.
4 When closing Sunday asked all to
arise and give three cheers for our
country and our God, and with one
voice the thousands broke into tur-
rahs that could be heard for blocks.
These were but two of the demonstra-
tions, the like OF which have never
been equalled by any multitude which
ever gathered in this city and were
swept away by great feeling and con-
viction. Before he let the congregation
go Mr.. Sunday gave the invitation for
all who would give their lives to Christ
to come forward. Seventy-eight re-
Isponded to the brief invitation.
A Superb Attack.
Without a doubt, and beyond the
possibilities or cav.! or contradiction,
Sundays sermon on booze was the
greatest attack on, the saloon and lis
attendant evils which has ever beer.
heard in Iowa.
4 Before Sunday began to speak he
stripped himself of his coat, collar and
shirt, and stood garbed above the waist
Nine in only a sleeveless undergarment
Because of the heat and Of the tre-
mendous force the evangelist put into
his sermon, the sweat ran from his
body like water from a bather. Sun
day works in all his sermons, but the
energy, nervous force and earnestness
he put into his attack Sabbath after
noon made the other efforts tame in
comparison. At first he was content to
speak from the platform. Later he was
on the chair part of the time Still la
ter he got on top of the bible stand.
Attacks from Every Point.
There was not a point of attack that
Sunday overlooked in his onslaught
against the saloon and the liquor busi-
ness in general. He advanced against
it from all directions, and overlooked
no weak spots in its vulnerable posi-
ton. He attacked it from the stand
point Of morality, from civil and mu-
nicipal evils, from drunkenness, from
crime, from pauperism, from insanity,
from vice, from squalor, from disease,
and from commercial and business
Istandpoints.
n He left no stones unturned in any of
lthese varied attacks, and in every re-
lspect he made good when he prom
ised that he "would shoot It's carcass
full of holes" With the strongest
words in the English vocabulary he
drove home argument after argument
there was no name which a christian
could use that he did not apply in re-
fcrring to it.
Full Of Dramatic Action.
In addition to his words his sermon
was filled with dramatic action. Time
after time he tmpersonated the being
Ter the thing of which he was speak
ing. With magnificent force he depict
led by word and action all the drunk
ards reformed and how, Instead of go-
ms home with a quart, they took home
beefsteak, flour and clothing. Contin-
luing this argument he showed the
commercial influence which would re-
sult. reaching from the. retailer to the
producer Of this vast sum now roine
for booze being diverted into the chan
nels Of legitimate trade Many OF his
arguments were cinched with Stats.
tics.
This famous sermon on booze will he
found in full on page OF this issue
! Thousands Turned Away.
Two other immense congregation.
greeted Sunday at the tabernacle SIM,
day. Six thousand five hundred heart
him in the morning and 5000 at night
Between 1000 and 5000, many Of then
, from out of the city, were turned
away from the morning meeting, AM
an overflow service. led by Mr. Frank
was held at the Presbyterian church
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