Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-14
Crowded Tabernacle Puts .-
Billy Sunday in Best Form
After Facing Many Vacant Seats in Afternoon Evangelist Finds
Paterson Tabernacle Filled at night and .vehemently Attacks
Devil, Drink and Church Cant. +" .s sl
Mrs. G. Moulton de Asturias.

IOne-tentl. Of them have lost their par.
Tents, one-half have lost either father
or mother and sixty-five percent are
from homes. where the parents have
been divorced.
Broken homes and broken lives
seem to 60 hand in hand. They are
inseparably connected. Many times
sons and daughters are brought UP IN
idleness, unrestrained in the expendt
tire Of their, money. Rapidly acquir.
ing extrayagant habits, they figure
Lin escapades that scandalize society.
At last they go to a, premature grave.
"The women are. silly. frivolous, ex.
travagant. They have thrown to the
winds all modesty, prudence. religion
and the virtues that are so attractive
in women, and have allowed them.
selves to be fattered, cajoled and
bamboozled by q lot of Tilted jays with
cracked characters, and they turn
their homes into a third ra-S gamb.
ling den and booze joint.
"The way to get rid of drunkards
is to stop the reason. A drunkard
makes me sick. It makes me sick to
see in a community like this dirty,
sinking hell holes of corruption, vom-
ting, puking, spewing out damnation.
There goes a man down the street
drunk-1see the cop 60 up and pinch
him. Why not pinch the hell hole
that made him a drunkard?
Don't talk of segregation Of vice.
Get rid of what produces vice.
"Funerai Sermon for Booze"
II expect to- live long enough to
preach the funeral sermon of the
booze business in America.
"You women can make a hell of a
home or a heaven of a home. Don't
turn your, old gatling gun tongue loose
and rip every body up and rip your
husbands up and send them out Of
their homes.
According to our standards. Solo.
NOR was worth five billions Of dollars.
Solomon could have hired Andrew
Carnegie as his chauffeur. He could
have employed Mr.. Rockefeller to
NOW his lawn and j. P. Morgan for
his butler. >,
"The mother Of Nero was an olt
m%urderess, and it is no wonder he
fiddled while Rome burned. The
mother of Patrick Henry was e,o.
quent, and that is the reason every
schoolboy and girl knows Give me
liberty or give me death Philip Col
deridge's mother taught him Biblical
stories from the old Dutch tile of the
fireplace.
Advice for Mothers.
81 tell you. what is the matter with
YOU mothers, you are n%eglecting your
hone for the lodge for your clubs, for
your literaries and your society.
n".We don't let the school teachers
lick the children. Why, when I used
to go to. school, l always tried to wear
three pairs Of pants. Many a kid to-
dav is sent to the reformatory who
ought to be licked and sent home.
Uncontrolled when they're six, they're
outlaws when they're sixteen.
There are homes in which a
switch should nang on the wall and
underneath It the motto, I need thee
every hodr."
This Guip provoked outlaws of
laughter, for to this type of homely
jest the audience was quick to res.
pond.
"But admitting all the faults of
many mothers" said the evangelist,
81 believe if the motherhood of this
country was no better than the man
hood. God would dump the whole
thing into hell.
"Tll tell you two things that are