Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-01-28
THE REV. BILLY SUNDAY.

THE REV. BILLY SUNDAY.
his coat and collar during the discus
sion of some existing evil and jumps
all over the platform, going SO far as to
mount the pulpit. In most remark
able interview the other day the for
mer professional baseball player dis
cussed modern woman, modern man.
modern customs and modern fashions.
saying in part:
"Some of the grandeSt. nObleSt WON
en- the world ever saw are alive and ut
work today. They make you think
that the rib he lost was the choicest
little corner lot in Adams whole body.
They're way up front on the firing line
against the devil. and they potshot
him every time he shows his head.
They've got God in their hearts. and
it's mighty lucky for the rest of us
that they have. | believe if the moth
erhood of this country were no better
than the manhood God would dump
the whole thing in hell
even in New York, that's going to
hell so fast you can't see it for the
dust. there are good, fine Christian Wo-
men that go down on their knees every
night in the good homes they We made
and pray God to get after their city be
fore it's too late. He can do it. you
know. He can get it dead to rights.
rotting, corroding, corrupt. devil ridden
town that it is. He can move it. and
how he will move it!
''The mere society woman is the
most useless being on earth. She has no
occasion to use brains. All she thinks
her body is for is to be fashionable
frame on which to hang fashionable
garments and digestive apparatus
with which to gormandiZe upon all the
viands that a rich husband gives. Her
daughter runs to dancing and embroid
cry and painting her face. If you kiss
ed her you'd die Of painters collie.
about women of the smart set who
are merely that, little can be said III
Justification. They are silly. frivolous.
extravaganza They have thrown to the
winds all modesty. prudence. religion
and the virtues that are SO attractive
in women and have allowed themselves
to be fiattered, cajoled and bambooZled
by lot of Tilted jays with cracked
characters. They turn their homes
into third rate gambling dens and
booze joints
The steel blue eyes opened widely.
wrathful spark glinting in each.
1.-THE way in which a lot Of women
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the spotlight squarely on our degener-
acyv' he exclaimed. What with slit
skirts and slit waists and Transparent
cies and the rest. women act like they
were trying to initiate the daughter OF
that old souse. Herod. who didn't wear
clothes enough to make leggings for
humming bird. The dance craze is an
other thing I'd like to rip from hell to
breakfast and back again. All dane
ing comes from the devil. and it's re-
sponsible for at least three-fourths of
the immortality of women"
And then Billy Sundays eyes sof
tened as he turned them in the direc
ton Of the untiring. capable and af
fectionate woman who has worked
with him for so many years.
THE true Christian woman who is
her husbands companion and help
mate and her children's loving. con-
scientious mother. she's about the
BEST he said simply.
1.-THE modern girl and woman need
to get right with God" said the Rev.
Billy Sunday soberly. God is outside
the lives of too many girls of today.
Their attitude toward religion is that
they should worry-and they should.
too. In the way that they don't mean.
Let them get wise to themselves-and
get right with God