The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-12
BROWN BREACHES ID
 1000 DURING DAY Card Playing and Dancing At-
 lacked Last Night SERVICES ALL THIS WEEK Evangelist Says the card-PIayine Home Is the Kindergarten of Gam bIers-over 100 Went For
 ward Last Night.
SERVICES ALL THIS WEEK

Evangelist J. E. Brown preached to no less than 1000 people yesterday at the First Methodist church. There was an average of more than 2O0O at each of the three services. At Il o'clock Dr. Brown preached largely to the church membership and the house was filled to overfiowing.
 At 3;3O o'clock in the afternoon the evangelist held a mass meeting, which was under the auspices of the Young Mems Christian association, the subject being "The Bible and Inhdelity." Eigh- teen hundred men occupied the first floor of the spacious auditorium, while the gall leries were crowded with men and women from all over the Birmingham district. The address was pronounced powerful appeal intellectually and morally and was delivered with great power Dr. Brown uses the conversational style of oratory altogether and his voice has range which easily fills the entire building. At the close of his address MT. Curry sang with telling effect one of his solos, and when an opportunity was given 40 men and women pledged themselves to live the Christian life. MT. Curry's work as evangelistio singer has done much to at tract the people to the services.
 pr. Brown will preach again this morn- ing at 10 o'clock and also at 7;45 this evening. The meetings will continue through the coming week, closing Sum day night, April 1s They will be att tended by the Methodist church member ship of the entire district, since all serv- ices in other Methodist churches have been cancelled for the week. Other de- nominations are cheerfully cooperating, and as a result one of the most largely attended evangelistic meetings ever held In this city Is now in progress.
 pr. Brown preached last night from the text: Galatians, 6: T, Be not deceived. God Is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap" He said in parti
 '"Ths text is true not because 1t Is in the Bible, but is in the Bible because 1t is true.
 Truth is truth, wherever we find 1t; for it is in no way affected by that which surrounds 1t.
 q pity the man or woman who can while away the hours wading through the municipalities of tho trashy novels of the day.
 Truth may be found imbedded in the pages of voltaire. Paine. or Ingersoll, but 1t is unaffected by that which sur rounds 1t.
 "Let us ask ourselves the question, What kind of seed are we sowing, and what kind of harvest are we going to reapT
 ''It Is a demonstrated fact that the laws of time are true of eternity. When we SOW in the natural world we expect to reap. When we SOW in the natural world We expect to reap that which we sowed. When we SOW in the natural world we expect to reap a multiplied harvest of that which we sowed.
 II am sowing today. Don't you know you are sowing for eternity? Don't you know you are going to reap harvest the same in kind as that which you sowed?
 "sweeping behind us is either a mighty harvest of good or a mighty harvest of evil.
 "The reaping time will come-has al- ready come in the lives of many of you. Many a foolish mother says. Let the boys alone. let them SOW their wild oats, they will make all the better husbands and fathers But we might as well say woman will make better mother for having been in the gutter of impurity. God pity the young woman who has been welded to a dissipated young man ex- pecting him to be loyal and loving husband.
 There never was a greater lie than that boy ought to Sow his wild oats in order to know life and men.
 1T have had wives and mothers come to ask that we go ana say a word to their husbands and their sons to bring them back from drunkenness and dssi- patton.
 '"rhere are Christian men today who are dogged step by step by the habits formed in early days of sowing to the flesh
 Some men think they can have their fill of sin and then have their flesh made as the flesh of little child. God in heaven help you to change the sowing.
 Second, we reap as we have sowed. It is a law of nature that like begets like.
 "A blind tiger and saloon can no more be run without boys and men than you can run a mill without grist. sawmill without logs, or cotton gin without cot ton.
 Many mothers SOW cards and reap gamblers.
 ''The card playing home is the kinder garten of gamblers. Study cards in his- tory. Three nations, as nations, have legislated against the game of cards, be- cause they were making a nation of gamblers.
 'As long as mothers, women and wives play cards, legislation will not solve the problem. I pity the home that cannot be run without deck of cards. If had my choice I would never make mention of these things, but it is my duty to speak the truth in public.
 ''In Omaha, Neb., the public dance hall has been closed because of the ruinous effects upon society.
 'I never condemn anything without req son. Nineteen out of twenty leading physicians condemn the modern dance. The men and women in the dance hall assume positions not tolerated anywhere else in good society.
 I've shall reap multiplied harvest. Way back wonder Adam sowed one lit- wave of sin in this great country of ours. man cannot go to hell alone. Don't get the idea that 1t is nobody's business