Evening journal., 1915-01-20


"Im not going to tell you you're
a bunch of old sinners. You know it.
IF you don't repent, it's your fault,
not mine When | look old Philadel-
phia in the face at the Judgment day.
can say, I'm free of your bloodl'"
While the speaker gesticulated,
Giuseppe Donate. the sculptor. sat in
the front row. calmly taking sketch
after sketch of him. In a little while
inhdelity came in for rub.
tom Paine, the drunken old in
fidel, wrote a book on the Age Of Rea-
son-as if drunken old booze-hister
lived by reason!
Take It to yourselves if you like.
Some of you old sinners have had
wagon loads of sermons dumped into
you.
There are two sides to every ques-
tion. But there are no two sides TO
religion. Hell's genuine, and ] don't
want to die and 60 to hell to find out
whether it's literal or not If you
can find a compromising hair on my
head, here's my noodle; you can
pluck il out.
l5 The afternoon audience was prob
ably as large as that in the evening.
! It got there early and proceeded to
make itself comfortable 1t was com
posed of many thousands, yet in the
enormous tabernacle it looked so
small that il actually seemed lonely.
/ IL consoled its loneliness, however
with "Bculah Land If Your Heart
Keeps Right" and other gems of the
Moody and Sankey school.
The afternoon service was not
without its celebrities. DR.. William
Grier Hihben. of Princeton. was re-
ported in the audience. The ushers
declared he could not be induced to
sit with the choir on the vast sweep
of seats known as "the platform. "
because he wanted 10 see the speaker
in action. Lew Bailey, the fight pro-
moter. sat beside Jack Cardiff
throughout the service.
The announcement at the afternoon
service that only a few minutes could
be spared TO receive converts had lit
tie effect upon the penitents. who
thronged up as If the evangelist had
given them hours or time. One younl
man among the first received was Sc
overcome that when led TO a seat in
the front row he covered his face anC
sobbed through the whole Of the pray,
ers and the name-taking which fol.
lowed the conversions. and at the enc
il was with difficulty that he could bC
led away One after another of tho
nearby workers knelt beside him ant
d 4
3 time he shook his head and refused
. to be comforted.
II was re-declarcd at the Afternoon
session that no requests for rcserva
, tions could be considered from out
of-town sources. Churches using tn,
tabernacle for the purpose of distrib
uting their own announcements wer,
called TO task from the rostrum an,
requested to abstain for the good o
the general movement.
Typical Sundayisms we're not lack
ing at any time throughout the "un
even tener" of the sermons
'"GOd Almighty doesn't need a col
lege professor to do business with
He may at any time use the ignoran
TO confound the wise.
Lord, it's wonderful. I want {
thank You for the honor of being
preacher.
There isn't an angel in heaven tina
wouldn't be glad to come down her
and work for God
If you put up a sign over an IN
stitution. "No minors allowed" the
to hell with the institution and tn
men that run il, too.
"If the saloon is no place for boy
its's no place for men.
There are thirteen million youn
men in this country between 16 an
% years old. Twelve million are nc
members of any church Seventy
eight per cent. of the criminals in thi
country arc under the age of twenty
one. Great God, people, what arc yo
doing?
mot all of our modern trouble
are i'm the church, Ninety-nine pc
cent OF business men fail. Sevent!
five per cent. Of the lawyers abando
their profession. and siXty-hve pc
cent. of the physicians. So the fai
ures are not all in the church.
People will do more to win bus
= ness or political power than Il
Christian churches will TO brin
, souls TO Jesus Christ
+ "Im sick of seeing you people
I Philadelphia loaling on the 10
, You're the biggest hot air propositiC
/, I've seen for good while. I've worl
cd myself sick here. You're kin'
hearted and hospitable, and all tina
: but if YOU can't turn in and help I
4 be i'm a coffin inside of a month.
= every excuse for not going ol
and doing Gods work comes straigl
. from the devil.
"You tag off after Christian Scien'
because you've never had a real r
;; ligious experience. All you can {
is to rattle around like dry peas