Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20

if only he knew how to spend his
money. These environments are good
but they are not enough. Adam and
Eve had the best of environments but
they went crooked; Eve did not need
to attend any cooking school, all she
had to do was to pick pies off the
trees, and she didn't have any dishes
to wash either, but still she went
wrong"
At this point DIR. Slough came down
to modern times and local conditions
and said, who are the crookedest
people in this town? Why, among
them are some of the people who live
along the river, the old boys who
have more money than they have re-
ligion, those who can write a 81, 600
check without noticing it. Money is
the quickest thing to damn a man
when he has no religion.
The Baptism Some Need
In regard to the rite of baptism,
he said, he did not want to criticise
or knock this ceremony, but that
you cannot put a little water on the
outside and clean up the heart. Some
people need to be baptised with a
stable mop and then scrubbed with a
curry comb. We don't need any old
commentaries on this, because some
house
"You can not be born again BY edu-
cation. Colleges don't make for
faith. President Eliot, of harvard
once spilled such a theory that more
education was all that is required to
make better men. But why then is it
true that whenever the Harvard foot
ball teams go to New York a special
squadron of police is needed to look
after the college boys who get lost in
the saloons, ambling dens and broth
els of the city?
eff you just put brains into man
who is bad at heart. you only make
him more cussed. The worst crooks
in the country are the college and
university bred lawyers who practice
in the large cities and show men and
corporations how TO evade the laws;
they are refined crooks"
Preachers Jump His Neck
He spoke of the harsh criticisms
made about him and said he hoped
that what some people are saying
about him will not get into his biog-
raphy 'I recently told some of the
preachers they needed cleaning up
and they nearly jumped a-straddle my
neck"
He apologized to the Bethany moth
ers and asked If their pastor ever
preached to them in such a manner.
He then cracked a joke at an elderly
couple in the seat near him, address
ing them as Grandma and Grandpa.
He spoke of how Christ goes to the
Devils garbage cans and reconstructs
the drunkards into sober, Industrious
men and changes the vilest sinners
into the holiest saints. The conclu-
sion of his sermon leading up to the
call for confession was picture of
the Saviour on the cross of Calvary
and an appeal to the sinners to look
and live.
Joins Church OH a Wager
Among the experiences given by
trailhitters was one by young man
who said he had Joined church two
years ago on a wager but he said he
was sincere last night and meant
business When DIR. Slough asked him
about smoking the boy pulled out a
pack of cigarets and promised never
to use them again.
The evangelist said he usually no.
ticed that when a convert gave up
drinking but persisted in the use of
tobacco, he usually slid back into his
old ways. Tobacco, he explained, Is
an irritant to the throat and weakens
a mans resistance power to booze and
tempts him back into the habit of
drinking.
"Tobacco, booze and fast women
are nearly always associated together.
| never heard of sporting woman
but that she used cigarets."
Among the Trailers r.
Among other trailhitters was a
young man who lost his job two weeks