Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-15
Discusses What
He Calls Social Lepers

kA
in Preaching Sermon on Social
quito to Catholics.
trip to New York. He has accepted
an invitation to attend a luncheon at
l O'Clock, rendered by the members
of the New York Press club, and says
he will talk to the boys. BILLY" fears
he was a little too severe the other
day, when he branded some of the
New York men who are in Paterson
for the metropolitan newspapers as
Shrinking little reporters sent here to
frame me-" Somebody told him the
Press club was an organization COM
posed of New York's real, working
newspaper men, and apparently he be-
lieves it.
A Saturday night crowd of 5000 fill
ed the tabernacle in the limits for the
preached his sermon on THE Moral
Leper," n which created a furore in
Philadelphia. From the story of Mas
man, as told in the Second Book of
Kings, he found his text in the words,
":But he was a leper." Several hun.
dred reserved !sittings we're filled by
the YIN. G. A. .of Brooklyn and the
Methodist churches of H0boken.
Billy, described the insidious
growth of the. disease of leprosy from
the seemingly innocuous beginnings
until its awful climax in the condi-
ton from which all fed with the cry,
"Unclean, ~unclean!" Then he made
his application to moral leprosy.
The Moral Leper.
Surprising every man that Is a
moral leper," he said, "supposing he
we're impelled and compelled to make
revelations. Supposing he were i'm
PEELED and compelled to make public
what he has been and is still doing in
private Surprising he were impelled
and compelled to make revelations
about when heVgoesf to New York, or
some other place, and crawls into the
arms, of infamy. One night in the
arms of infamy in a red light district
the next night sitting beside a society
queen at some opera. Great stuff, the
way the world is living.
"A nice young fellow goes to call on
his girl to take her to hear the &c
centric preacher. He goes to call on
his best girl and she says, Charley,
have you been down to hear Mr.. Sun
day. No, he is so vulgar Look out
for that young buck. His character
would make a black mark on tarred
,apper.
'Supposing every girl who is a NOR
al leper, every girl in this town that
has merchandised her virtue, were
impelled and compelled to make reve-
lati0ns over which she had no control.
Some gvirtuous young man goes to call
her, rings the door bell and she
comes down the hall. She has sleeves
cut off at the elbow and a decollette
attire, with her collar under arms,
and he says, Good evening" I'm
clean! Unclean!' she cries.
Would Have Stereopticon.
"Supposing / could put a screen up
behind me, pull a string or push a but
ton and produce a stereopticon view
of the hearts of the people. l would
say to you: Give me your attention,
ladies and gentlemen, while l for a
few minutes delve into that which will
entertain you.
"''Here is Mr.. AS heart and life as
people think he is. Here is what the
old geezer really is. Look and e
Here is where he has been. Here is
how much booze he has drung this
week. Here is how much he skinned
that fellow out Of. Here is the num-.
Der Of times he has committed adul-
terry. Here is what he is and there is
what you think he is.
Nov / will show you Mrs. AS
heart. | change the screen and the
scene. There you see what the people
say about her. Here is what the old
sinner is Then l would 60 down
through the alphabet, A, B. c, etc.
How long do you think l would hold
my audience? 1t would be too hot or
too cold for "a good many people"
In his %peroration, "Billy" worked
himself and his auditors up to the
fifth degree of emotionalism. He told
with dramatic force and with a wealth
Of gesture that eliminated in tossing
off his coat and mounting the reading
desk like a tsatue on a pedestal the
story Of Napoleon's drummer boyNof
Marengo, who, when told by the EN-.
peror to beat the retreat, said: sire,
1 don't know how, but I can beat the
charge; | beat it at Marengo and at
Austerlitz,n, Eilly then described with
all the arts of dramatic and acrobatic
elocutionshow the Emperor let the lad
beat the chargeaand how the troops
sweptsalI before them.
That's the spirit that WINS" shout.
ed tie evangelist. He then d%eliveredI