Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-10
SUNDAY BREACHES
SERMON FOR MEN.
EVANGELIST MAKES GREAT PLEA
FOR GOOD, MANLY
CHRISTIANS.
THEME WAS, "cHIckENs
COME HOME TO Roosr"
Twenty Six Men Profess Christian
ity-Makes Telling Arguments For
Righteousness For Sake of Self,
Wives and sons-DwelIs Long on
Hereditary Influences.

An immense congregation of men
$500 of them-heard Billy" Sunday
deliver his first sermon for men only
at the tabernacle Sabbath afternoon.
They heard an eloquent and forceful
argument for a clean, pure cody life
and twenty-six of them, when the
invitation was given, came forward and
accepted Christ as their saviour
Scores raised their hands for prayers,
and hundreds of others left the meet
ing with thoughtful faces, an evidence
that burning truths had been scared
into their brains.
The subject was "Chickens Come
Home to Roost," and calling a spade
a spade, and black black, and white
white, with the plainest of English,
Sunday planted his words in the sore
spot of many a mans sin.
Was Extremely Dramatic.
AT times the sermon rose to the
dramatic. Sundays description of the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy fast
mail. in its race across Iowa against
the Northwestern for the government
mail contract a few years ago, was the
most dramatic recital and iinpersona-
ton ever delivered from a local plat
form. He carried his audience with him
until they saw the locomotive leap,
bound and pound as it struck the
curves and chit" the grades. They
heard the rails throb and they felt the
jar in the cab. They saw the engineer
and the fireman, as tho the engine had
just swept down the aisle, and when
Sunday had finished he trembled from
head to foot with the exertion, and
the sweat was pouring from him. His
impersonation and description of the
man writing with the delirium tre-
mems was another dramatic touch of
! high order.
Pleaded for the Youth.
Thru the men of his audience he
pleaded not only for them but thru
them to their sons, and their sons
sons, yet to be born. Like produces
like" he cried. "a cody man will have
godly children, and a drunken, wicked,
besotted father will beget wicked
drunken children" He asked his hear
ers to be godly, manly men, not only
that they would be better, but for the
sake of their wives and families. At
one time, with a pathetic description
he brought tears to many an eye, and
handkerchiefs were used freely for the
moment. At other times he had his au-
dience applauding and laughing.
Takes Text in Psalms.
His text was a part of Psalms
10435, Let the sinners be consumed
out of the earth, and let the wicked be
no more" His sermon was in part as
follows: THAT is a peculiar verse, but
did not choose it for its peculiarities
but because it is often used by men to
justify their wrong doing. David wrote
that psalm, and men would not be
saved in his time He saw wickedness
increasing. He saw that they had
made up their minds not to be saved
then he said let them be consumed
.. out of the earth.
"a lot of you have said many a time
why does not God kill that wicked ole
lobster, or I wonder why that fellow
lives?
But it is not only you If only the
sinner was affected 1 would work jus
as hard as / do today But your child
your wife, they all suffer because O.
you.
No Man Lives for Self.
, mo man lives for self alone. Like
produces like. You never expect (;
chicken to hatch jackass. A no-ac'
count, degenerate lobster will beget
no-account degenerate kid. / Otter
hear men say, it's nobody's bushes
how to live. That is the dirtiest, mos
sinking statement ever made. 1t il
somebody else's business. 1t is every
bodys business how you live. Persona
liberty is not personal license. GU
, forefathers died to establish persona
liberty regulated by law"
He went at some length to explain
the meaning of personal rights and lib
critics, and continuing said: "You hav
no right to exercise your personal lib
erty when the exercising of it will
prejudice the rights of some one else
You have no right to exercise your lib
erty by voting for anything that viii
make it harder for your neighbor t.
live right.
Do Not Do AS You Please.
$50 do not go around saying, I'll
just as / please, for you are interfer
ing with other peoples liberty. If yo
are noble you will inspire others
noble things. If you are wicked 20
will lead others to wickedness. Yo
> have. not a single argument in favo
of sin. Some say, I live about RICH
I do not cuss, do not drink, I am nc
false to my marriage vows All RICH
But how about your boy? Well 20
say he's about like other boys ID
NOT fool Yourself about the kid not he
ing wise to all the wickedness and 81
there is going on. Kids will surpris
you how much they know that Is wick
ed and sinful. Take the average DO,
he knows more about sin than Me
thuselah did when he was 500 year
old. What did Methuselah know abou
shooting craps?" While on the sub
ject he sounded a warning against til
sins of lust and abuses common /
. youth.
Something Better for the Boy.
Men usually want something bet
ter for their boy than they ever en-
joyed. You want the boy to have bet
ter advantages and a better educatio
than your parents could give you" II
continued by describing how the sins
the father were visited on the sol
thru hereditary influences and exam
pies. Following this he took up tn
subject of swearing, saying, "A ma
can not be good man, good cit
zen, a good husband. or good fathe