Evening journal., 1915-01-18

and forth across the rostrum, exhort-
ing the ushers to use their noodles
and not get all balled up" as the
newly accepted came down the aisles.
Few of them unaffected, one or two
dropping their hats and making no
attempt to stop and recover them.
Crowds at the morning service began
to assemble long before o'clock. Bv
9 o'clock the auditorium seemed flooded
with solid mass of human heads. set
together as thickly almost as the coh-
blestones in an old-fashioned street. At
the end of the service the audience were
sent out by the rear doors, while the
waiting multitude of men, set upon
hearing the afternoon service. began to
surge in from the sides. Bv ! O'clock
the tabernacle was again filled. When
"Rody" appeared with his trombone he
asked all who had not been to the ser.
vices before to raise their hands. About
third of the gathering responded.
J The evangelist announced at this
meeting. that next Sunday he would
again preach, at the afternoon and even.
ing services, to men only; and that
the sermon would be entitled. "The
Devils Boomerang; or, Hot Cakes OHn
the Griddle." At collection time. he
adjured his audience to put their hands
in their pockets and give literally. "And
don't skim your fingers along the edge
to see whether she's rough or smooth"
added he. "Ushers. 90 TO itl"
The tinkle Of the collection pans had
in consequence a more musical ring 10
1t than the cow-bell note of the earlier
4 sessions.
Attacking vice from the standpoint
of heredity. the speaker declared:
you can't expect COW to produce
pups, or hog to bring lambs into the
world. Like produce like What YOU
are, your children will be.
at hurts you when you think of
your sins, but it hurts your wife far
more when the finger of scorn is point.
ed at her because she married YOU"
STRAY Sundayisms crept in every
where:
IF any physician says you can't he
healthy and pure, he's liar.
There's no better anchorage in Gods
world than your mothers apron string,
young fellow. Tie up that and they'll
never tie You up to a hangman's rope
and Kick the boards away from under
you.
Aff'h II hitW ANfIH was 10 ncHNnn.
no God. no life after death. I'd keen
on leading the kind of life Pm living
today. for the happiness it has given
me. l wouldn't change one iota.
"lf the brewers and the politicians
get closer to God than you do. I'll 20
with the brewers and the politicians,
and turn my back on the church.
"What has Philadelphia got. that il
wouldn't have, if you never had lived?
People have the audacity to give
God the tag-end of everything, while
the devil gets the first choice.
"Predestination God has predes-
tined that you'll go 20 heaven If you
repent, and that you'll go to hell il
you don't
You forfeit all claim to manhood
or womanhood when you fail to ac-
cept Jesus Christ
For every spadeful of earth you
dig and every electric light you set
up in Philadelphia today, you're pay
ing in kindling wood 10 feed the
flames of hell.
I'VE don't need new people in the
church as much as we need the old
ones made over
"One thing you are classed by in
this world-your attitude toward God.
and don't care TO know anything
else about you-not anything on
, earth.
God Almighty has more respect for
, an out-and-out infdel than he has for
luke warm Christian.
Somebody's got to talk plain TO
you. and if | don't do it, I don't know
, who else will"
Attendance at the tabernacle yes
terday was approximately as follows:
Morning ................'.' sS'OOO
Afternoon .................'. Eo'UOu
} Evening .-s...............' zo'VOV
Total .....-......... ....''. .oo'VVV
Collections yesterday were:
b Morning ..............'... Soo5'uo
/ Afternoon ................... .$ooO'OO
Total ................. ..'' @l1OS.Vo
Total collections to date. not in
! cluding last night, S23,3S6.S0.