Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-11
.STOUGH TABERNACLE
WILL be ENLARGED
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committee tonight or tomorrow al
Slough headquarters, 26 South Third
street.
Tent Not Feasible
1t has also been suggested that a
large tent be erected near the taber-
nacle to take care of the overflow
but this scheme is not considered teasl-
BILE because of the difficulty of heat
ing.
1t is now the consensus of opinion
among both preachers and lay workers
in charge of the big campaign that
extension of the tabernacle itself Is
the only answer to the crowd problem
DR.. Slough announced to-day that
morrow night.
Slough Rips Into Things
These are a few of the things DIR.
| Slough did last night:
Jumps on two o-by-four" knocler
| preachers.
Sneers at bachelors collaborating
ideas.
Attacks dancing, smoking. wine
drinking, theatergoing and card-play-
ing.
Laments crookedness in business.
Hits at liberal Christians"
Barring the sermon by DR.. Slough,
the biggest feture of the campaign
activities of yesterday was parade
of 1000 young people from Market
Square Presbyterian Church to tho
! tabernacle.
Hundreds OF the marchers failed to
| obtain seats and had to be turned
away because the ushers had failed to
reserve enough seats.
The evangelist took Young Peo-
pies Rights" as the occasion to strike
right and left at vices in and out OF
the church Particularly he singled
out the laity of professed Christians
as the target for his thrusts.
Flowers From "Rum-Dum"
Shortly after the opening of the
service a messenger boy bore an enor-
| nous bunch of chrysanthemums to
the platform directed to DIR. Slough
| and party, from the tishman.' DR..
! Slough explained that the flowers were
| not by any of the "nicey-icey" church
members of the city. but from a man
who called himself "one of the biggest
| rum dums" in town. DR.. Slough said
| that the poor "rummies" of the saloon
were oftentimes the first to appreciate
| his efforts of reform.
In his preliminary talk DR.. Slough
denounced minister whose name, he
said. he. doesn't know, of one of the
| cooperating churches, who, II was
rumored on Sunday morning made
| some uncomplimentary remarks about
! the evangelist. saying that he had
male statements in the pulpit worse
than much of the slangy language
| heard on the streets and acted similar
| to vaudeville performers The minis
| ter in question, DR.. Slough said, had
| told his congregation he would not
| listen to him any more.
AS TO Two-by-Four Preachers
DR. Slough said: II never knock a
preacher from this platform who
merely disagrees with me, but / do 60
against anyone who starts fight with
me. When any little two-by-four min
lister thinks he can get the best of me
! he has fight on his hands. He's no
| account anyway and I'm sorry to waste
! my breath on him.
This mani don't know who he is
has insulted all of you preachers and
| the choir when he knocks on the
! tabernacle services and Is not worthy
to be counted as one OF your number"
The evangelist also took occasion to
| criticism letter appearing in the
! Monday issue of an evening newspaper
| signed by an attorney, who dis
approved of some assertions made in
| one of DIR. Stough's sermons regarding
! the spanking of children. DR.. Slough
: said he found the author to be an at
! torney for brewing interests and that
| he is a bachelor (because he couldn't
! help it), who knew more about little
woolly-do than he did about the
! raising of children"
Charges Christians With Sin
| DR.. Slough preached one of the
strongest sermons he has yet delivered
on the responsibilities of Christian
people for the sins of others, charging
, them with being partakers of other
| mems sins on account of careless ad-
| vice. Indifference, wrong example and
| gross negligence in warning sinners OF
their dangers.
! He intimated that Christian people
| are to be compared with the men
higher up" who have been exposed in
connection with the highway robbery
of the New York, New Haven ana
| Hartford Railroad, the life insurance
companies and the trust scandals of
| recent years He declared that many
| great business men are responsible for
| the dishonesty of their employees by
the example they set in the lying ad-
vertisements they print about their
| wares.
MANY millionaires will go to hell
| because they have taught young men
| in their employ to be crooked. | tell
| you, we need to have the conscience of
the community aroused against this
crookedness in business"
Attacks Cards and Dancing
He then referred to some of the
asses in the pulpit" saying: There
| are lot of the real four-footed kind
! that could do a lot better than some of
| the others we have there"