The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-07-11
With "Joy Riding as Subject Nc
Connell Raps the Rush for Show,
Recklessness and Artificial
ity in Living
GODS BLOCKADE
OF ROAD TO HE'LL
Is Subject Of Sermon Tonight =
Sunday Afternoon "A Happy
Home and How to Make
II Great Lecture

Having drawn an oral picture of the
divine Mathematician writing on the
wall the sum of his life's record and
preparing to draw the line for the final
addition, Lincoln Mcconnell with great
emotion extended his arms and turned
his face toward heaven, and cried last
night: 20, Lord God, forgive me for
every foolish sin I've ever commit
ted" And then he said, Il want to
get that in the record before it is fin
ally made up"
He had preached mighty sermon
on Joy Riding" revealing the ten
dency for speed and show and reck-
lessness and artificiality in practically
everything. The phrase, he said, usu-
ally described the crazy autoist; the
riders being simply reckless, thought
less. foolish, not in any especial hurry
to get anywhere because they were GO
nowhere, but having the idea they
must go faster than someone else. must
kick up dust in the peoples eyes
behind and as they passed. The chief
characteristic of the joy rider was his
N her craving to be looked at, he
said.
There are so many little scrubs
who would never be looked at Ii they
didn't have a machine to throw dirt
on somebody" the evangelist empha-
| sized, and he plunged into the details
of joy-riding aside from autoing. eTve
seen joy-riders walking, manifesting
the joy-riding tendency by their high
heels, by the way they reveal an imi-
tation silk stocking, by their beautiful
purchased complexion, by their dainty
artificial moles and ther false hair"
he said. They want to go to the
limit of the extreme!"
In the recklessly nervous state of
the people the old horse didn't go fast
enough, Mcconnell said, and the auto
mobile Just fit in with the spirit of
the times Half the autos run about
this land were owned by people who
couldn't afford them, he said one-third
were bought with borrowed money;
one-third were run by gas bought at
the expense Of grocery bills. There
are more dead-beats riding in autos
than on street cars." the preacher
shot out. and some man in the congre-
cation called out "Amen."
Years ago women Of his congrega-
tton went to dances, he said. Ten or
twelve or fifteen numbers were on the
program, containing one or two
waltzes, starting with a grand march
and ending with the old Virginia reel.
Most of the dances were square The
woman who was fond of the waltz was
the subject for remark. and sometimes
was rather stunned by her acquaint-
ances, he said. But the young folk of
today would laugh to scorn the very
idea of such dance program. he said.
"The young bucks say, They amt
nuthin' in that and they want the
bunny hug" Mcconnell sidled across
the platform to illustrate.
The JOY riding spirit is permeating
everywhere, he said; even entering in
to religion irreverently. At one time
Christians were politely regarded and
religion itself was reverenced by even
those who were irreligious, he declar-
ed, bit now the reyerential spirit is
gone, God has no Sabbath and spirit
of recklessness and irreverence is
manifest
Things are moving so fast and the
demand for show so great that If peo-
pie can't get the genuine they acquire
imitation in extravagant show, he said
There is violent, reckless demand
for external show, Mcconnell said.
and he referred with emphasis to Ok
lahoma City
you can find more cheap-skate Joy
riders to the square inch there than
any place ever saw in my life!" cried
the evangelist Il never saw as much
shoddy, tin-horn, ten-cent aristocracy
in all my lifel You see women on the
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