Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-13

to the front OF the platform. walked down
on the steps and smiled and offered words
OF announcement to the men and women
who grasped his hand and professed
new belief
The first person to hit the trail last
night was young man. He reached
Sunday with trembling lips and grasped
his hand as though in death grip. HIS
name, he said, was Hunter Wharton, and
he gave his address as 200 oxford street,
The next in line was brawny, khaki-clad
Marlne-one OF the men who had helped
TO plant the Stars and Stripes in Vera
Cruz. Next came q man, who gave his
name and address as John j. McConnell,
of 255 South 24th street.
"I have been going through the world
wildly" he declared, but now l have
found peace and will trot square with
God"
Another young man, one who said he
was backslider. followed Mcconnell,
and close behind him came teacher
who led n girl of Is. Great tears were
pouring from her big, black eyes
On and on the converts came. Their
clothing and their words told they came
from every walk of life Some were
poor, some were rich, some were stu
dents. some were business and profess
sional men and women. Most of them
were men, probably because of the ter
rife storm that made It dangerous for
woman to be on the streets last night.
When Sunday had finished his sermon,
he stood on chair and waved his arms.
He looked like mighty leader calling his
army about him to fight
II sound the charge" he shouted, and
then they came forward with n rush.
NEW "IsMs" DENOUNCED.
Almost all the new "lsms' came in for
their share of denuncation last night.
While the wind howled about the taber-
nacle, the doors slammed and the terrific
fall of rain beat upon the broad roof,
billy" hurled his verbal thrusts at all
who had turned from the old-tlme reli-
gion. Even above the din OF the furious
storm. his voice sounded out like a
clarion call.
Again he attacked the saloon and the
brothel. Again he rounded the preacher
who are afraid to preach hell" From
the devil come all the new ideas on living
| and the new beliefs of religion, Billy
said.
Immigrants who turn the American
Sabbath into a feast of stale beer and
pretzels and manufacturers of the fol-de-
| rol, tonmyrot aesthetic religions and trial
| marriages are all tools of the DEVIL" he
shouted.
HITS AT TRIAL MARRIAGE"
"They see girl who is pretty and
good-lookng," he sneered at the trial
marriage crowd. '"They say Come on,
sissy. let's try It six months, and II
things don't go right we can play quits
Arrh!" he snarled, thank God such an
| Infamous, God-forsaken, licentious, hell
| born doctrine will never exist 50 long as
man breaches Gods word and woman
| hears it,
Sunday assured the good immigrants
| that, so far as he is concerned, they are
nll welcome to this country to help make
| 1t great.
"I'r ee the first to stand at Ellis Island
and welcome the man or woman who
wants to come here and assimlate our
ways, but, so help me God, 1 would not
| yield to any clique, even though they
come half million a year, who turn our
Sabbath into a Continental Sabbath with
their dirty, disgusting beer feasts. They
can't put the Bible out of our public
schools and put their vile. licentious
dances in its place. Let them keep their
hands off our schools. If they don't like
our ways, let them stay out"
Turning to the latest 'isms," BILLY"
sneered
New thought! All this fascinating.
! sugar coated mixture and ethical culture
| and higher criticism! You've got 1t in
| the Bible, and there's nothing new under
| the sun. Whether you call 1t new or
whatever you call it, it's the same old
devil"
MINISTER'S NOT SPARED.
With one of his deft gestures, he dl-
rected the attention of the audience to
the ministers. 'T don't believe you can
remember when you heard sermon on
hell" he said. "They convey the inn
preston that everything's going to be
sweet and lovely and cultured and es-
thetic in the next world It's a lier he
stamped. "Well, you'll hear about hell
while I'm here"
Lets get away from all this sickening,
sweet, namby-pamby, useless, silly. hell
born, devil-begotten rubbish. Let's get
back to Christ! Let's get back to the
Pentecost! Back to the apostolic belief,
back to the belief of our forefathers,
back to Gods kingdom! Oh, Philadel-
phians, Gods got to come first and all
other things can trail"
Suddenly the tension snapped. He
rushed to the edge of the platform.
showed his head far forward and shook
his finger. "The trouble with you is"
he roared, you've got too many preach
ers breaking their necks to please few
society DANES"
SCORES CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
"Damnable heresies keeping people out
of the Kingdom of Heaven; "isms and
clsms'; "Eddyism. labeled Christian Sci
ence"; "MIllennial Dawnism," where all
you have to do is to conceive your son
is Jesus and he is"-these Sunday bonn
barded as he had bombarded nothing else
In this city.
The isms and cisms, he shouted, are
the DEVILS most nsidious, most powerful
weapon. Against them the nation has to
hght; against all who deny that Jesus
Christ is the son OF God.
'Whoever said Jesus Christ is not the
son OF God" he exploded. lies. lies, lies!
The Bible says It and say 1t. There is
no other way to keep out OF he'll. saw
by the shed blood of Christ!'
He smashed Christian Seience-"Eddy-
ism," he insisted ~on calling it-just as
hard as he could.
"oh," he cried. 'Tf Mother Eddy rises
from the dead before the great resurrec-
tion. I'll eat a polecat for supper and
wash 1t down with a quart of whisky"
He charged that "Millennial Dawnism."
in its advertisements, became the Inter-
national Bible Study Association. and
that association was "oAly another heresy
calling people away from Jesus Christ"
We've gotten away from the old faiths
OF the old seers." he stormed. Nobody