Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-25
STIRS THINGS
UP IN OREGON
EVANGELIST w. A. SUNDAY
DROPS LIKE METEOR IN
PORTLAND.
USED "BAR-ROOM" TALK
Western Audience Was Amazed, Dis
USED "BAR-ROOM" TALK
Western Audience Was Amazed, Dis.
gusted aid Pleased" = Citizens
of Pacific Coast Hardly kfaW
How to Take ReviValist.

Portland went mad over william a
Sunday, former baseball player and
most eccentric evangelist in America,
says recent issue of the
Oregon Daily Journal More than TO-
900 persons attempted to gain admit
lance to the White Temple and filled
that edifice and two nearby churches
to the doors.
Though the speaking was not schei-
uled to begin until after O'Clock,
| shortly before Z o'clock orders We're
given to allow no others admittance to
| the temple. A reserve squad OF police
was necessary to keep the crowd
which filled the street and sidewalks
before the structure for blocks, from
breaking in the doors.
Inside the temple more than thou
sand persons were standing and half
| as many We're seated upon the STAR
ways and in the aisles. Many sat fos
hours in the corridors and halls, we'll
out of sight of the speaker but within
range of the strident tones of his harsh
voice
The nearby churches which housed
the two overflow meetings were pack
ed to the doors, and the crowd in tho
corridors was not much less than that
at the principal meeting. Many more
were turned away.
Amazed, Disguised, Pleased.
Sunday amazed, disguised and pleas
ed Portland. Though a convert for
about % years, he has never achieved
meekness and has his own indicate
ideas of propriety. His address was
filled with vulgar illiteracy and every
tradition of church procedure was
| slapped in the face with viciousness
that in anything but Sunday would not
be tolerated Shirt-sleeve oratory, vi.
tuperation, vehemence, vulgarisn,
street slang and bar-room expressions
clattered one after another in pan
demonium of execration of the devil.
Bitterly denouncing society women
he drove off on tangent of oral blus-
ter that astounded his auditors.
"These women of wealth, ne
shrieked, selfish, piggish, players Of
the game of bridge, auto riding, who
have maid to pencil their eyebrows,
manicure their finger and toenails,
. who wear four-karat diamonds in their
ears, go to the opera in sealskias
! hanging to their ankles-who, with
their stomachers of diamonds, sweep
in, with an attendant holding up their
: train, and four or five detectives
watching to see that no one dashes up
) and jerks the four-karat diamonds out
OF their ears; and who, when the
theatre is out go to visit the fashion.
able restaurants and order welsh rare.
{ bit and lobster salad who, when they
get home, tired and jaded, hay :, girl
to put them to bed, after manicuring
their f1ngernails and their toenails.
and to stick them into a perfumed
bath, and who then lie back there like
lazy lizards in the sun--oh it's no
: wonder the church is dead.
: Women, God pity you; you are just
, lot of great, big, ~lpty shells. per
: fectly useless. You never darn sock
or hemstitch a handkerchief or fix
: anything for the kids. Then you &C
! kiss the pug dog. If I was you, fell
lows, wouldn't play second fiddle tc
a crooked-legged bulldog"
Roasts the Church.
! "That kind of card playing, theatre
going, ragtime singing church hasnt
9 power enough to cast the devil out Of
/ a peanut"
e "a lot of you wishywashy money
: loving church members will go to {
e sinking, good for nothing card party
0 to carry home a cut glass dish. Al
/ these card playing, theatre going
e gambling, tobacco chewing church
a members aren't worth three whoop:
n outside of hell.
"You cant weep over this old com
munity going to hell when you han;
on to a beer glass and go to little
= sinking theatre where you can see ;
CHI ~ ictn n criI
> with painted cheeks and a cola.
:, around her waist sing to you. Th
u trouble with the average church mem
d the law of desire. We are just play
IL with the devil
Il Denouncing the married men wh'
o ogle women on the Streets the speak
er said: IF you come ogling aroun'
my wife, your old carcass will ASA.
for lead, and they could tan your oil
hide for chair bottoms"
Is HELL" he said, lis so full of churcl
J members that their feet stick out O
50 the windows"
Switching again, he continued
II "One of these cigarette smokin
IS damning little rogues. that neve
worked day IN MS lie, goes stru
IS ting around the street, with his hat o
20 the back Of his head like fried egg
IA with his varsity pants rolled up--an
S. they have cloth enough in the seat /.
is make four pair of breeches--thi
sinking litele son of a millionair
II goes strutting around the street wit
5e a pistol in his hip pocket. If it e:
= ploded it would blow his brains out
Left at Midnight.
s. Portland heaved sigh of relic
n when Sunday and his party of te
a. left at midnight for San Francisco an
* other California cities, where he wi
. discharge more fireworks.
Sunday breaches the Old doctrine {
ILLUMINATION, and gets results by inspi
if ing fear and gloom. He is filled wit
&C. a fierce, savage zeal to bring sinner