Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-22

methods as likely to do good to her
students Professor West describes as
grave. They are based upon certain
citations from Mr. Sundays Phila-
delphia sermons. 1t may be objected
that these represent only one side of
the famous evangelists method. that
passages of beauty and lofty spiritual
power could also be selected. But the
presence OF things scalled bad taste"
forms the basis OF Professor Vests
objection. and these are brought for
ward in this form:
a. In matters of religion there is
only one standard for christians, and
that standard is our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. I gladly admit that Mr..
Sunday means to be evangelical in his
statements. But many of his utter
ances are, to put 1t mildly. not Christ
like, and some of them are travesties
of the teaching of Christ Take the
following samples. less vulgar than
many others. which are both a carica-
ture and "a perversion on one OF the
most sacred scenes in the New Testa-
ment:
Mary was one Of those sort OF
uneeda- biscuit, peanut butter, gelatin,
and pimento sort of women.
Martha was a beefsteak, baked po-
tato. apple-sauce with lemon and nut
meg, coffee and whipped cream, apple
pie and cheese sort OF women.
eff woman on the avenue plays a
game OF cards in her home, she Is
worse than any black1eg gambler in
the slums.
IF a minister believes and teaches
evolution, he is a sinking skunk, a
hypocrite. and liar.
III I were the wife OF some OF you
men, I'd refuse to clean your old spit
toons. I say let every hog clean his
own trough.
Your wife has as good a right to
line up before bar and fill I'D her
skin with hoggut you do as you have"
The statements that are plainly in
decent are fortunately few" remarks
the professor, but the following he
thinks should be read with the thought
in mind that they are ''the words of
a protested minister of the Gospel of
Christ spoken at a religious service:"
Il can understand why young bloods
go in for dancing, but some Of you old
ginks-good night.
Ma and I stopt in to look at ball
at an Inauguration ceremony Well,
I will be horn swaggled II didn't see
woman there dancing with all the
men. and she wore a collar OF her
gown around her waist. She had
little corset on. Oh, can't describe it.
You stand there and watch man
after man as he claims her hand, and
puts his name on her list. Perhaps
that fellow was her lover and you
won her hand-and you stand there
and watch your wife folded in his
| long, voluptuous. sensual embrace
| their bodies swaying one against the
| other, their limbs twining and en-
| twining, her head resting on his
breast, they breathe the vitiated air
beneath the glittering candelabra, and
the spell OF the music. and you stand
there and tell me that there is no harm
in it! You're too low down for me.
II mant to see the color Of some
bucks hair that can dance with my
wife! I'm going to monopolize that
hugging myself. -,
4 Then Herodias came in and danced
with her foot stuck out. to quarter to
| IL, and the old Herod said: Sis, you're
a peach. You can have anything you
want, even &c hal! hall az. !Ss;;nS3c:::' she
] hiked OFF to her licentious mother
1 Professor West closes In these
( words:
"Eveny passage quoted In this article
I is taken from the official copyrighted
| report Of Mr.. Sundays Philadelphia
address, published with his sanction
! in the Philadelphia Evening -Tels-
! graph during January and February.
Their accuracy can not be questioned.
1t is true that these quotations are not
Jthe main stock and nnhstance Of his