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Jesus Christ. Children do not need to
know all about the doctrines of the
church to enter it, they only need to
know enough of Jesus to love Him.
ga minister has criticised this cam
paign, saying that a great many of the
converts were children. Nobody should
ever discredit the coming of children
to Jesus. The strength Of the Catholic
church has always been that it has ta-
ken in the children before they grow
up. Protestants need to take a lesson
in that respect from Rome.
ga boy who is old enough to be a
criminal is old enough to be a Chris
tian. When / look out at the crowd
of young people L ann alarmed. find
that more boys and girls are convert
ed between the ages of IL and IA
than any other periods. Yet large
proportion of children are not con-
verted at that time. When these chill
dren pass on to 16 and is, there comes
the tragedy of life. Then is the laying
of the foundations. If children do not
come to Christ before they are 1 4, they
seldom come before they are in their
twenties.
Dangerous Ages IA to %
"What happens in the intervening
years9 All the artifces of the Devil
are set for youth between the ages of
1 4 and 25. Some of the most dastardly
crimes ON the dockets were committed
in those ages.
''The Sunday schools have a prob
lem to hold the boys after they are
IA. Few boys between IA and 20 at
tend the average Sunday schools than
boys of any other age. This is the time
that worldliness creeps in and takes
away interest in Christ. Young people
throng the theatres, moving picture
shows and dancing halls and lose their
taste for Christianity.
Some children are damned by
their parents. A child that is not
taught to fear God and honor Jesus
Christ is surely damned"
To illustrate his point in the course
of his sermon, the evangelist told
stories of horrible deaths. He described
how small boy was dashed to death
down ravine, on the back of a wild
pony, how woman gave her three
tors medicine and killed them, later
dying herself, prostrated over the
grave of her little ones, and how a
lawyer died without accepting Christ
while his wife struggled with him in
mad efforts to keep him in life.
Firemen Hit Trail
There were seventy trail hitters. in
cluding members of the fire companies.
One young man who rose to shake DR..
Slough g hand in the after meeting.
said he was separated from his wife,
and promised the evangelist he would
send her ga sweet beautiful letter.
asking her to forgive him.
During the Misunderstanding, DIR. Slough
called for the Irish boy to come forward
who had hit the trail while intoxicated
one night last week, who had ON Sun
day afternoon been given a free will
offering, and who is now filing posi-
tion in local business house and is
well dressed and apparently feeling fine
all over. He testified that he was glad
he had taken the step.
The statement read by DIR. Slough
prior to his sermon, regarding the vol
untary Submission of himself and party
w focClhdbiOh y 1SobCIudNs lS dS IOllONS.
All Precautions Taken
Immediately upon my return to
Harrisburg to-day, found that a case
of smallpox had been discovered in the
city.
"From the factthat a gentleman had
been at our home who roomed in the
same place where the patient boarded.
! went Immediately to the City Health
Department and was vaccinated, and ar
ranged to have every member of our
party vaccinated, which has been done,
that no possible risk might be taken
and this, even though the gentleman
who had been in our house had never
come in contact with the patient. The
house has also been thoroughly fumi-
gated, at our request by the City Health
Department.
cdr. Henry w. Slough.
fThis statement has been attested
in the presence of MIR. E. q. Gross,
chairman of the executive committee,
and DR.. J. M. J. Raunick, City Health
Officer, whose signatures are attached
thereto.
(Attests:)
"Mr. E. z. Gross,
CDR J. NJ J. Raunick Director );