The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-07-13
Mcdonnell Meetings are
Ended

congregation which laughed and wept
and went home to put into effect the
lessons it taught. Mcconnell was bur
lesquer, orator, dramatist, humorist,
impersonator. preacher and more,
while giving this address filled with
sound advice and cleyerly conceived
actualities.
Somebody said afterward he'd he
willing to wager more husbands who
had been indifferent to the sacrifices
and love OF their wives hugged those
helpmeets and that more nagging
criticizing wives kissed their spouses
and cooked a good meal for their hus-
band than ever in one days history in
Ghi0kasha.
Few things did Mcconnell overlook
in his treatment of the home, whose
happiness he insisted depended abso-
lutely upon the love that was manifest
In 1t. He touched with magic hand
upon every depart&ent of homo life
pleading for the childten, skipping
from the day o. E,'enic perfection to
the present with its varying condl-
tions.
He burlesqued the wooing young
suitor Of today and the sweethearts
who marry without ever being really
acquainted, and who mourn the awak-
ening His illustrations were absurd
ly funny but had convincing truth in
them He rapped the bachelor who,
If Mcconnell wene in the Oklahoma
legislature, would be compelled to pay
a heavy tax unless he could produce
certificate signed by two estimable
women that he was not responsible
for his unmarried state.
He showed that helpmeet is one who
is adapted, qualified, for another, and
that helpmeets are mated There is so
much mismating, so mueA haste to
satisfy some ambition, good or evil,
and 1t ends in unhapplness and the
divorce court. He scored the deceit
practiced by sweethearts upon each
other and pleaded for honest in court
ship.
Mcconnell was extremely vigorous
against race suicide, declaring that the
Bible said children are an heritage of
the Lord and that the young woman
who does not expect or cherish the
ambition to be a mother should not
become wife He said no man
knew the full joys of life until he had
taken his own child from its mothers
arms, thrown it on his shoulder and
felt stream Of hot milk gush down
the back of his neck. He said poor
men esteemed themselves rich in the
possession Of belovd children.
Mcdonnell mimicked the father try
ing to calm crying baby, and then
endcayorlng to sit down while making
the child believe he was still standing
up. That illustration was so realistic
as to make the congregation roar
with merriment.
FLe drew tears from the eyes OF
many as he told of the boys room, of
how nothing had been prepared it'll
the boy although the horse had its
barn, te pigs their pen the chickens
their yard, the girl her piano and par
lor- and how the boy had to go some
where else to enjoy himself. 1t was
a superb appeal for the boys happi-
ness in his own home.
Mcconnell asked the men Of his
audience to go to sleep. and he pro-
ceeded to teach lesson to women, !
after which he directed them to nap
yhile he lectured the men. Mighty
sound advice was given in both cases. =,
He urged men 80 go home after the
service and give their wives token OF
their affection He detailed exactly |
how it should be done-and his ex-
Dlanation was delightfully."- refreshing
Ind appealing and humorous There
was pathetic strain through it, too.
He closed with a mighty appeal for
lappy homes here so that all might
i've Ia happiness in the home over
here"
Last night Mcconnell preached en-
he subject why Tafriest Thou?" 1t
vas taken from the conversion of
'aul, ans was a powerful, striking ex-
position of the menace of delay and a
trong exhortation for immediate de
,ision He said men and women
hould not ignore or repudiate their
Iebt Of sin. and he gave three reasons
Why all should promptly accept Jesus
,hrlst-their past, their present and
heir future life
He dwelt for some time upon the
Of churches and the con
usion resulting. but pounded home
rith dramatic power that each preach
d Jesus Christ as the savior OF man-
ind He told of a congregation that
ad been busted right IN two by
but that the man who 1
elieved God had any hand in the dis
e.