The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-03-03

the home, in society. in business. and
In politics, failure to follow out the
teachings of our Savior was labeled
as an Inconsistency on the part of
the self professed Christian.
The sins of society were again
| torn to tatters, the divorce evil being
especially the object of his wrath.
when it comes to the divorce ques-
tion. | am Roman Catholic from
the top Of my head to my big toe,
| was his trte way of expressing his
feelings. If Mr.. Sunday can say
anything more in condemnation of
the sins of society in his celebrated
sermon on "Amusements". to come
later may the good Lord have mercy
on their poor souls. He fairly welt
ed with his whip OF sarcasm what he
| termed as the careless. card playing,
matinee-idol, worshipping, dancing
dog coddling. dutch-lunching, decol-
lette society bunch
l E4NeTN NlITlOllC StllN VI HlS was ilfN
with thunderous applause, and still
there are those who say that the
people do not like plain preaching
Before there can be anything plain
er or more expressive language used
somebody win have to coin some new
ladjectives. for Rev. Sunday employees
every one in Webster's Unabridged,
besides using a few of his own maxi
ing that old Noah never heard of.
From society he trained his guns
on the man i'm business, raking caus-
ticaly the man who employs girls
and does not pay them living wages.
A gerat deal of thepresent laxity in
virtue among the working girls OF
our country was caused by the fail
ure of the employer to pay them liv-
ing wages.
The ward heeler and the grating
petty politician ,came in for their
round. and were hoored in the small
{ space of two minutes. the speaker
declaring that God was being over
= looked altogether by the political
parties of today. He deplored the
passing of the old statesmen like
Webster, Clay, etc. for the grating
controlled. petty politicians. whd
I graceC?) our legislative bodies.
Mr.. Sunday did not allow himself
to escape from his own TRADE He
stated that the hardest job for him
| in this world was to turn his left
check after some one had biffed hin
on the right, adding that the old Mo-
sale law was good enough for him
IAN eye for an eye. and a tooth foi
a tooth" However. he tried HARD
to obey the Masters injunction. bu
was able If necessary. to put up as
good an illustration OF muscular
. Christianity as the next one.
He spoke at some length of tn
= blight cast on some generations 2
years before they were born as a re
suit of the sins of the fathers. mali
tanning that a child had the right Il
be well born. and declaring tina
there should be some restriction
placed on marriage besides the pric,
necessary to pay for the license.
Tobacco users were let down com
paratively easy, an occasional chew
of "Buckshoe" or a pun on a Sar
Felice not being considered sumlcien
cause for which to be dumped of
the gospel train. Cigarettes, how
ever, were strongly condemned
He gave an interesting account o
the time that he gave up base bal
bplaying for Y. NJ. c. A. work. II,
turned down an offer of $500 q
month to play ball in order to take 9
position in Y. NJ. c. A. at $50 pei
? month, because he thought 1t was
T Gods will that he do it. He also
informed his audience that 1t was
, only within the last five years that
his evangelistic work had been re-
munerative. Nearly fifteen years
before that he had done evangellstlc
; work, but made hardly enough for
his own support
And he said whole lot more, but
the rest can be discerned by a care
ful perusal of the sermon.
| |
III the women of Seattle did not
take their cue form the men and
II they voted more consclenlously
with the result OF driving out a low
and vicious administration then as a
practical matter female suffrage has
proved to be a success there. And
herein the great argument against
female suffrage of the highly edu-
Gated fails. II Is not true cue from
the men. Where women suffer from
degradation, from drink, from moral
decay the facts seem to show they
Will vote their convictions and will
not be complaisant with political
evil The argument of the literatl
does not meet up, as they say In