New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-11

humanity AT the feet of the evangelist
this afternoon and tonight At the
first service $50 and at tho second GAO.
old and young, poor and rich, good and
bad. publicly announced their faith IN
Almighty God and gripped the hand OF
the man who has come ITO nd TINS
CITY of .he Devil and his works
Scores were on their feet AZ the al
tcrnoou service and halfway down the
Tabernacle aisles before sunday had
finished his announcement chat the
hour Is come II was his first call for
converts. and the effect 81 his appeal,
following terrific deuunciatiou of
modern sins. such As the foN trot. the
maxiNe. the hesitation and other of
the latest dances. was instantaneous.
Row after row the hard pine benches
In the front Of the immense structure
were Gllcd with a swaying. sobblng
throng. \ poor old woman, with
ragced-edged skirt and beshawled
head. who touched Sundays out
stretched fingers, WAS followed by a
young girl with earringed cars ana
jauuty aigrcttc in hat; big, broad
chcStcd man. who looked as II ne
might he a brewer, was next; a niue
woman. with a crying baby IN arms,
was next.
Two youths. fashionably dressed.
with flowers in their buttonholcs, were
next: al were weeping.
The first person TO answer the evan
cclst's call was William Noon, VINO
leaned 10 his feet the moment he re-
allied Sunday was crying for converts
and dashed for the speakers hand.
The second was Mrs. Anna Wiliong.
After them came the others IN a tide
cha. almost swept the ushers and the
notice guards from their fe1< sunday
leaned far over his platform and
grabbed each hand as II was stretched
toward him. the pcTspiratlon bursting
tror, his forehead and his eyes a-gilt-
ter with conquest.
Leading 90 his sensational climax.
Sunday turned his siege guns against
+hc modern dances.
"ENcrythiug the devils IN favor OF
I'm against" he shouted. almost pur-
nj, i'm tho face and the veins on ms
forehead standing out like cords. ! m
against the theatre because the devils
I'm favor Of -. I'm against booze ana
I'm against card parties because the
devils i'm favor of them.
And let me tell YOU he screamed
"I'm against the rotten. lustiul. llcen-
tious dances that have aSSaSsinatc2
the characters of more girls than any
thing else i'm the world. | don't care
il Won have them in your lodge or your
club or your home or YOUR church or
your parish house or your social SCI
Element or your mission. It's the
0cvils principal part to wreck women,
I'll rip them 10 hell and breakfast and
back again
Then he dashed out against the group
of ministers seated at the front OF The
Tabernacle.
"Why do YOU swell up like poisoned
pups?" he yelled. shaking his fists at
them. his body Cuivering from head TO
toe
"Where did you Methodist, you
you Episcopallans come
from except through the blessing OF
God? You sneer at revivals. Don't
YOU know that YOU spit in the face Of
God when YOU sheer at revivals? Don't
YOU know you jab your dirty hands IN
the bleeding palms and feet and body
of Jesus Christ; that you push the
crown of thorns further down on his
head: that you laugh al him on the
way 70 Golgotha? Ha, ha. ha, ha.
Don't you dare sneer at REVEALS.
he shouted. staggering across the stage,
"you infnitesmal, miserable, puny, pig
my intcliects'