The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-06-10
Ia Vivid Language Evangelist De-
eIaring Sons and Daughters
Gone to Ruin While
Parents are Asleep
SAYS. SATAN GIVES
'EM DOzIN' DRUG
Pleads With Church Members to
Awake, Sounding Call to
Action. Great Chorus is
Singing Splendidly

In a denunciatory passion, Evangel.
iat Tetley startled his congregation at
the tabernacle last night by proclaim
Ing hotly that sons were paving the
way TO misery behind prison bars and
daughters were rushing to ruin while
chickasha parents slept
You have allowed your children to
gather the Wild flowers Of pleasure
and you neither approved nor disan-
proved but dozed as they harvested
fSc fell asleep, aud your boy acquired
companions and sins hat some day
may land him felon in Jail or your
gifl may become fallen woman
What. my daughter fallen? you cry.
Yes yes. your daughterl Because you
slept" Tetley shot ont In the heat
o. his passion
lie had just concluded a strikingiy
illustrative story of a father and little
sons visit to park The parent oc-
cupisd a bench while the small fellow
plncked bouquets OF beautiful wild
flowers. carrying them To HIS fond par
ent with the proud statement. Here's
bunch OF posies Tor you. papa" The
man watched with the love light III his
eyes as the child PLACED. but Al length
ne dozed aud dreamily heard the
baby's voice as something afar or
and then he slept
The child eager Tor more flowers
alth which TO deck It's parents, wan
dered farther and farther away The
man awoke. His glance failed to take
IA his baby SON lie rubbed his eyes
snd looked again. lut the child had
vanished He called tenderly. then
loudly, tnen desperately, but no lisp
ing answer came He rushed frantic
ally about, seeking everywhere. with.
out avail His heart turned TO ice
For he recalled, as he drifted into the
darkness Of slumber seeing his baby
gradually drawing near precipice.
Chilled by dread he crept TO the
edge OF the chasm and peered over
on the rocks below lay the mangled
form OF his baby. cold in death. crush
ed and broken. Horror and grief froze
him to the spot He realized with ter
ror that his child had plunged 10 death
within sound OF his voice and within
the scope OF his eye. but-he had been
asleep He had siumbered just lit
tle while. yet in that brief period OF
neglect the light Of his love had been
anuffed OUT
In Chickasha there are homes Il
whose occupants Satan has admins
tered opiates and father and mothei
have gone 10 sleep" Tetley cried
Their children are not here tonight
The parents are not here None take
interest In such things as this meet
ing. And they'll awake too late.
beg YOU TO lei Gods spirit arouse yor
nowl"
The preacher was intensely earnest
AT one time, the better to illustrate
his point, he reclined on the platform
AT another time he sat on the steps
leaning against a post indolently, i'm
personating the lazy sleeper, He act
ed tha slnmherer, even TO the snore
and wrought home to his audienc'
tha fatality of sleeping when wakefuI
ness and activity demanded.
No Sleeping In Heaven.
Tetley said there would be no nigh
in heaven and residents there woul'
no more be subject to the flesh, there
fore no need would appear for smm
her. But in human life sleep was nee
essary for the physical being, and
appeared to the speaker that man,
church members required so nue.
of IL that they could not keep awak
IN Gods meeting house He wa
preaching on "sleepy-headed Churcl
Members. who received lashlng s.
vigorous as to be almost painful a
times
Tetley told Of the old Scotch woma
who suffered from insomnia. Medica
minlstrations failed and finally sh
told them TO take her to her pew j
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