Evening journal., 1915-03-13


However. he wasn't to be denied his
laugh:
DO you call man scholar because
he doesn't believe in hell What Pdl
call him would burn hole in mail
sacl,l"
The usual mid-week audience occupied
the afternoons tabernacle. BY twelve
o'clock the structure was little moro
than half full and the rear seats were
almost deserted, except for the little cir
Gle of derelicts. driven in by the cold,
who chung around each of the stoves.
Within the next half hour, however, the
building filled rapidly and by beginning
time a good sized audience was ready to
laugh, sing weep, applaud or come ter
ror. stricken down the sawdust aisles to
accept the evangelist's offer OF saliva
tion.
Local option petitions were set in cir
eulation throughout the tabernacle at
an carly hour. Women were requested
not to keep them too long 10 look over
their list of names and see who had
signed them. The signatures of the men
IN the audience werc in chief request.
As the women. however. made up nine
tenths OF IT, rather "a small return was
recorded for the day.
Two hundred aud twenty-five trail
hitters were received at the afternoon
service. many Of them poorly dressed
and bearing other marks of obvious
need. Three Italian women were among
them.
An interested trail-htter was BILLY"
McLsm. a former National League um-
pire. now said TO bc well past so years
old. Sunday. at the close of the service,
told q group OF visitors how he once had
been fined by "Billy" after scoring q
home run, under the plea that he hadn't
touched second base.
John d. Rockefeller's pastor. the Rev.
w. W. Bustard, ID. d.. of Euclid Avenue
Baptist Church. Cleveland Ohio was a
visitor ut the tabernacle during the al
ternoon, and members OF a Camden dele
cation, which had visited Sunday earlier
IN the day, TO find out how he stood
upon the question of a revival in the
transriparian city, were also accommo-
dated with seats.
Sunday received one gift at this
service "A beautifully worked silk quilt,
the gift Of Mrs. Amanda Beole, OF Jen-
kntown.
A new sermon was preached at the
afternoon. as at the evening service.
Formally entitled zone Thing Thou
Lackest," it was prepared almost
overnight for yesterdays gathering
II had for its basis the story of the
rich young ruler in the gospel of ST.
/ Mark, who asked OF Christ the way
OF salvation: and it held out little
hope Of eternal happiness. or eternal
/ peace, to those who weren't men and
4 women enough" to hit the trail
Innocent churchgoers were given
many a verbal "iolt."
People have come 10 believe that
Ia be lost you've got to be O harlot
or a thief Why, you can slip
! from the very doorsteps OF Heaven
into the depths OF He'll"
Divinity in its function Of wardship
was upheld In q swift phrase:
III you all could go TO Heaven on
your own opinions. you'd all walk in;
but God says, Hold on I've got
somethin' 10 say TO thati'
The churches and the lodges were
once moro cOntrastcd:
"Ball-bearings on the church doors
will never fill the pews with weep
ing sinners. Look at the lodges
/ you couldn't pry open the doors with
a crowbar, and yet where the goat
ridin' Is hardest. there you1l find the
thickest crowdsl
"There isn't a lodge in Philadelphia
/ that wouldn't have taken Jesus Christ
on the FIRST ballot. without a black
! balli"
Intellect and learning have no part
in the spiritual life of mankind:
Learning won't satisfy the SOUL
You can't feed Il horse on an un-
abridged dictionary. he wants corn.
DO you feed a milk COW with the
Twenty-third Psalm? Nol You give
her branl
'You can no more get into the King
dom of God by intellectual processes
than you can reason q boil off the
back OF your neck or a corn of your
toe"
AT the end. he came back to his es-
sential theme:
"If you don't accept Jesus Christ
I'm here 20 tell you there's no hope
for YOU. You'll 20 TO Hellt"