Evening journal., 1915-02-27


at the daytime sessions. They appeared
to enjoy hugely Billy's antics and in
spircd him to renewed vim and bounce
in the matter of both action and anec-
dote and in an extraordinary piling on
of scurrilous epithets to describe evil
doors. especially of the male persuasion.
The converts numbered S16, max
ing total of 546 for the day. but
owing to the women ushers' inexperi-
enco in rounding them up many got
away before their names could be
recorded Included in the number
we're five nurses from the Hahnemann
Hospital, who were on duty at the
I tabernacle for the evening.
/ Throughout the day and evening tho
crowds were most orderly and man
/ agcable. with the exception of a GER
tain delegation of determined wo-
men who came for the morning SER
mon and sat so far back that they
I could not hear These swept down
upon the front rows between the first
two meetings and although reasoned
( with and ordered out by all sorts Of
/ officials and squad of policemen they
I sat their ground and refused TO
/ bulge In the end Mrs. Sunday was
won over to their cause and they we're
/ allowed to remain for the afternoon
4 session without further protest.
! The few dozen men ushers and re-
porters who we're allowed in to get
! the meeting started we're shooed out
/ without formality by the speaker
I when the time came for his heart-to-
/ heart talk with the girls, as he per-
sisted in calling this vast congrega-
I ton of gray heads. for gray was the
I color which predominated decidedly
in the sea of heads which bent and
! bowed beneath the storm of the
preachers invective against the pre-
, vaiing vices and hereditary taints
which Billy assailed.
, Billy was decidedly nervous. His
: voice showed the effects of wear and
- tear. and the presence of the scrib-
bling women reporters in the boxes
to the right and left usually occupied
= By men known to him upset him a
Bit. especially in the morning
J He prefaced his diatribe by an ad-
d mission of intense embarrassment IN
: touching upon the problems involved
q in his coming talk. but said that in
his capacity of minister Of Christ,
/, husband of wife he loved and father
/, OF four children. he felt he had the
right to discuss such social evils and
he challenged any woman in the audi
ence who thought differently to get
up and leave al once or forever after
to hold her peace.
"This sermon is thrust upon me
by conditions" he said, and launched
az once into a discussion of the evils
of criminal prcventions, of abortions.
especially amongst married women.
backing up his statements with ter
, rife statistics quoted from unques-
tionable authorities.
"Is il we'll with you as a mother?'
was his first searching question, Are
you guilty or are you pure?"
Average up-tO-date matrOns Of to-
day. pride themselves not upon their
wifehood and motherhood, but upon
, their knowledge of criminal preven-
T tivcs. Seventy-five per cent. of all the
, abortions that occur are committed
by married women.
There is a deficiency in the make
up of the average woman of today
The absence of religion in her char
ater is fast making of her a pagan.
~ "'How soon shall we instruct ouI
children about sex perversions?
am often asked. The answer is. AS
soon as they are old enough to prac-
, tice them
every young man about TO marry
should pass a rigorous examination
not only physical, but moral. fol
! marry an infidel and you will have e
rOugh-house on your hands.
Let me tell you. however. that Coo
: is running things yet. and His pun,
ishment for vice is steady and sure
The States cannot build enough in
sane asylums for those ruined as tn,
results OF sexuals evils and the sa
looms. Added to this the families az
fected by veneral diseases cannot sur
vive beyond the fifth generation. W.
know that since the time of Moses
The sins of the fathers are Visitc,
upon the children unto the third an,
fourth generation The fifth genera
tion is invariably idiotic and idiots ar,
sterile, so the stock runs out"
Alarming statistics prepared by Mr.
Sunday included the following com
piled from an observation of fiat an,
apartment houses in different neigh
borhoods in great cities: I'm a fash
ionablc quarter the figures were il
an apartment house containing 10
families, there we're six babies; an
other containing 90 families. tw
babies: 80 families. one baby; 81
families. 4 babies; 75 families, on
baby. In a less fashionable distric
, in house containing as families
there we're $50 babies; q families. Z
he babies, and 40 families, 102 babies, etc
T. He also quoted the State Board @
IL Michigan on the extent to which abor
atl tiOn is practiced in the United State.
stating that there are seventeen abor
tions for every 100 pregnancies an
n that to these may safely be added a
many more where the facts are con
q cealed from the doctors. This. h
stated. caused annually the death b
cold-blooded murder by the mother
of 100000 children in their unbor
state.
The collections for the mornin
were devoted TO the Chndrens' Al
Society and in the afternoon 10 III
Travellers Aid. and were roughly G.
timstod AT about $500. There was n
evening collection.