Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-04

described how he had been g7n w..
building UP a Christian character &.
reputation since his conversion, ana ~
fered to let any one follow him arn,'a.
the country and try to find n flaw IN '1 se9
Of his personal habits.
"Our virtues are best discerned wt..
subjected to the severest trials" ha \.
olared in telling how he was someum..
snaligned and misrepresented.
cAUsTtc IN CRITICISM.
"chrlstianity is cross as well ne !.
crown" he said.
Sunday was caustio in his criticisp, !.
the present laxlty in laws rerars..
marriage. He said he would have sv..z
man who wished to marry show ~
feet fitness for marriage He deois,.s
that "multltudes Of children are dannn.s
into life'' and that the three princio.,
curses we're tuberculosis, alcoholism s,s
venereal diseases. Like produces IN.
he asserted vehemently, 'ln human beIns.
as well as in horses, dogs, sheep ans
hogs, and told how breeders OF choIc.
stock paid fabulous sums for the h..,
stock they could obtain to improve tb.,.
breeds, yet cigarette suckers were pe,.
mitted to marry "frfzz1e-headed slssI..
and what will their children be? Chlldrss
reproduce the traits of their parents"
Sunday quoted extensively from M,
tory to show how great men accuratelv
reflected the traits of their mothers, ana
pointed out that the religious trainlny
of child would be mainly what II "a
oeived at its mothers knee.
Then he showed how large part A
the population, particularly in the cities
was composed of people not AFFILIATED
with any church, and how most of ths
criminals came from this part Of ths
population
The next object of attack was the fot.
lies of society. He had nothing against
society in itself, he said, but he did hats
the sinful usages of society. He declared
the most useless being on earth was tha
society woman. He believed in partIss
and receptions. he said, but insisted that
Jesus Christ gave another rule than thai
of society for entertaining, and that was
to call in the lame, the halt and The
blind. apply the gospel of Jesus Chrst
to society and you'll drive out SIM hs
exclaimed.
He asserted that society was loud in h
outcry against the sins of the under
world, but that sin in high places was
condoned and overlooked and declared
llldl <AIlSIlCb ilOl tSCdDb I1e oh.
lFvion of Pompeli and Herculaneum un.
less 1t changed its ways. The danger
lay, he said, not in the bunch of town
loafers in the beer Joint" but in tha
gilded wine room, where the downward
course was started that ended in tina
beer Joint, the last step before hell"
The society woman, he said had nc
occasion to use brains. The society
young man was devoted to fast horses.
fn Gf drinlkipu ha
girl was given to music, embroidery and
"and II you kissed her you'd
die of painters collie" He denounced the
fool mother who allows her 16-year-od
sissie to run around joy riding until Il
or ! O'Clock every night with young men
Of weak jaws and weak morals" and
said she was Opening her front door for
sin and shame to enter"
LACK OF MORAL PRINCIPLES
Taking up the business life of the ma.
ton. the preacher declared that ths
trouble that confronts America Is a lack
Of moral principles" "You can't raiss
the standard of morals by raising wages
and it's an insult to womanhood to say
It. You have got to look higher" He
declared that a moral principle was the
result of Christianity being lived out, and
mat Christianity would settle every ons
IF the problems besetting the business II
given chance. "If evil Is to be stopped
I must be by an old-time revival of the
'ld-time religion" he shouted.
In politics, Sunday declared that he
vas a politician, but not partisan, and
hat he voted for the man land the party
AN go to wherever 1t wants to-"
He asserted that the American nation
vas suffering from a serious degeneracy
n statesmen since Lincoln, Clay and
imilar leaders had passed. Jesus
Christ will abolish saloons, put the for
ent' sign on the brewery, close up the
ed light district, regulate every ques-
ion of tariff and free trade, municipal
capital and labor" he ex-
lnimed.
''There is no reason why the politics
Z today should not become the COM
nunion of tomorrow" he said
I'VE stamp In God we trust, on our
ollars. It's all hot air. It's a bluff.
here is no God in It,"
With considerable vehemence the evan
elist made 1t clear that he was for no
nion of Church and State, and said II
ny one was, in this country he had
better beat 1t back across the pond"
'ut he thought that any political party
Which would have the spunk to come
ut with platform declaring belief In
Creator would prove a winner. Then
e illustrated with the case of a lecturs
l which every view thrown on the screen
ad been met with Kisses and jibes, until
he picture of Christ crowned with thorns
ad appeared, when the tumult was In
tantly stilled. e