The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-08-13
REV. BURKE CULPEPPER
REVIVAL MEETING HERE
Evangelist Invades Territory Of
Worldliness and Hypocrisy.

L.
Rev. Burke Culpepper, the noted
evangelist of the Methodist Church,
is in Union City undertaking in his
characteristic manner to expose and
uproot the fallacies of fast living,
social obsessions and extravagances,
dishonesty, degeneracy, in fact all
the more common sins of the day.
The evangelist is a young man of
short statute, we'll built, fine head
covered with a full suit of hair
streaked with gray, strong features,
kindly gray eyes which he focuses
with intensity when the occasion de-
mands, and the demands are great
with the minister who is intensely
in earnest.
On Sunday he addressed very
large audience, many of whom were
from neighboring towns and COM
munities. On that occasion he con-
fined himself to more conservative
discussion of his work, merely indi-
eating the aggressive campaign to
follow. On Monday night he attack
ed the more @prevalent vices, es-
pecially among the young men and
young women.
The minister has an abundance of
intellect, but he never hesitates to
disregard the rules of polite Ian
guage to lodge a point. He is dy-
manic in action. His countenance
is atiame with purpose and convic-
ton. His whole being is charged
with tension and his body with ener-
gy as he walks from one side of the
platform to the other and then down
thru the aisles of the church.
He has set the town to talking.
He is criticised for sensationalism,
yet he tells you that he is glad he
has started the 'gossips to chattering.
On Tuesday, on account of illness,
was the first opportunity of the
writer to hear the evangelist. The
audience was large notwithstanding
drizzling rain.
The music is under the leadership
of the fine singer, Mr.. John U. Rob-
inson, who gets his chorus or choir
voices to work and then stimulates
the audience to song.
Rev. Armstrong, the pastor, offer
ed prayer and then the evangelist
arose and opened rapid-fire attack
on the delinquencies of the debtors.
His subject was "How Much do You
Owe. and When are You Going to
Pay it," The text was "Render un-
to Caesar the Things that are
Caesars and unto God the Things
that are Gods.
The most hardened cynic or the un-
pardonable critic could hardly fail to s
see the practical logic of this SER {
non. 1t was a direct assault with |
,ut mincing words upon the man or {
who deliberately contracts a |
lebt without making provisions for &
payment 1t was not intended for
he person without means who is i
II or in distress, but for the able q
bodied man or person of means, man s
n woman, whose extravaganza takes |
hem beyond their incomes in order !
o keep up in the mad race of t
ashton. t
That man, the minister says, who h
nvokes the aid of the physician a
When his family is seriously i'll, and \
hen in squandering his money re- l.
'udiates his doctor bill is a thief. f
he father who dresses his daughter a
n the heighth of fashion, a pair of t
hoes and a hat to match every dress A
nd dress for every occasion, and V
efaults his grocery bill is thief. A
he man who mortgages his home to $
uy an automobile hasn't got sense s
nough to saddle mule The man t
yho starves his creditors to buy an t,
utomobile is a thief These people h
ave no right to sit in church on O
undayS with plous races ana sing Il
Jesus Paid it ALL" Il
Stand up for Union City, the min W
ster says; stand up for your neigh c.
or, for home enterprise. Don't send b
our money to Sears & Roebuck; h
hey do not pay your taxes, educate o1
our children, give employment to ts
our workmen, contribute to your il
hurches and charities. One of these fl
a negro and neither has any SYM "
athy with your local interests. He in
'ouldn't give you cent if you were W
arriving. al
The minister spared nobody in Sc
lese remarks. He drove them with re
lie force of sledge hammer, throw
Ig off all restraint and reservation,
nd when the shells had been ex-