The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-11
CITY COULD Be.
WORSE --DR. STOUCH



Brother Yates, ! wish you'd find out
who that cooperating minister is and
tell hlm to get out. | don t want any
such cooperating ministers.
never knock a preacher. under.
stand, who disagrees with me. but IN
going after the ones who start a fight
with me. Any two by four peanut
preacher VINO starts anything with me
VIII be sorry. Such a minister has in.
suited everybody who attends these
meetings. You have right to disagree
with me, you preachers, but when you
hgnt against me you oppose the great
campaign of God in Harrisburg. A
preacher like that is of no account anv.
way. m sorry l wasted so much
breath on him.
Here is letter contributed to the
Star-lndependent by an attorney. -
went on the evangelist producing a clip.
ping. (which accuses me of saving that
every parent should go home and lick
his innocent child. never said Won
should beat innocent children. That at.
torney didn t get enough hckings when
he was a kid
But. One Church for Dance
Il am speaking tonight said the
evangelist in beginning his sermon.
'on the text. Neither be partakers
of other people S SINS / want to sup-
gest various ways in which it is en-.
tireiy possible for you people here to
oe partakers of other peoples sins.
1t is hard thing to-day to get
christian people to come out fairly and
squarely against the things opposed by
their church laws. They won t come
out against the dance, for one thing,
and IL have more to say about that
later. Yet, | tell you, there ism t a
Protestant evangelical church, or the
Catholic church either. for that matter,
that hasn't placed some time or other
law in their books of discipline
against dancing That all happened
long before the bunny hug, the grizzly
bear and the hesitation came along.
There is only one church that hasn t
anything to say against dancing, and
that S the Mormon Church. Yet it is
hard to get preachers to come out
squarely against the dance.
I'm the Presbyterian Digest, for
instance, ] read in black and white
passages against the dance. If there is
any church that has come out more
strongly and more ponderously against
the dance than the Presbyterian I'd
like to see it. Yet you have lot of
.dinkey Presbyterian ministers who dare
not assert themselves. -
Applause Not Great
After this violent attack the preach
er paused for breath and one or two
persons applauded his efforts. He
turned sharply and said:
''Oh, tell you. the enthusiasm is
something tremendous right at this
point. knew I'd alight on some of
your bunions.
''These high schools are doing lot
of harm with their little theatrieals.
Every girl at certain age gets stage
struck and then she begins going
around with languid look and throws
herself about like sick calf. high
school principal who once encouraged
have TO share part of her soul re.
sponsibility.
Tabernacle in Bloody Eighth
You partake of the sins of others
also by silent approval. You good
people didn't know perhaps that this
part of the city where the tabernacle
now stands, was once a veritable plague
spot, that more souls went to hell here
perhaps than in any other section of
your city. Perhaps YOU didn't know
that this was the bloody eighth
You We been living out on Allison Hill
or along the banks of the dreamy Sus-
quehanna. But if you don t know what
has been going on here You ought to
know it.
In spite of the splendid efforts Of
your chief of police, there are still
places of wickedness open in this city
where persons can enter who know how.
He says he will close them, and | be-
lieve he will. | believe that YOU have
a cleaner city now than ever before.
There is no reason why vice should ex.
ist here. What is the church here for,
what are YOU here for? If every preach.
er and church member did his duty
there is not a place of crime in this
city that could not be forever closed.
Text Pastors Do Not Use
You have heard preachers tell the
children, Children, obey your parents.
! believe that is good thing. But
have you ever heard a minister preach
on the theme, Fathers, provoke not
your children to wrathe' | tell YOU
both these passages are in the Bible
and they should check on each other.
Daddies need preaching to as much as
the kids, and mammies too for that
matter. Many little children will 90
to the tribunal of God with their souls
Scared by their parents.
"Some of the people haven t hearts
hat beat with compassion Modern re-
-igion is too 'dry-eyed.' Where are the
people of old who cried out and sobbed
1ut their grief? There are not enough
Of you crying now, there's not enough
! spirit of revival in the city. When
harrisburg feels the throb and thrill
of compassionate hearts Heaven will
;Ome little nearer. -
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