Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-15
Evangelist Hits From Shoulder il Preaching Sermon on socia
Evil: Pays Tribute to Catholics. 80

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the industrial concerns of Paterson
all close at noon, the tabernacle at 2
O'clock showed the. smallest attend
.alnce Of. the week. There were not
more than 5000 persons in the build.
ing. The offering, $140.67, also was
the smallest tipped out from the ush.
ers' tin pans.
Attack on Unitarians.
The evangelist preached his sermon
on "The Grenadier." 1t gave him his
opportunity to work in his excoriation
Of the U%nitarians and also to pro-
nOunce his approval of much in the
Catholic church. BILLY" began by
showing that the grenadier was the
old-time fighting man par excellence,
the soldier who alweys led the charge.
The preacher began to hit his gait
when he spoke of sJesus as a youth
~instruftihg the wise men in the tenn
pie. And / tell you," said he, "he
tied that old bunch Of h%ighbrows up
into Knots so they didn't know where
they were at, A reference to Peter
and'?the1 origin t6f the Catholic church
gave him the hook on which he hung
this garland: ~
almost every place l go to preach
somebody asks me why l don't preach
assertion. against the Catholics. l tell
themi1 find l have too much dirt and
rottenness in our own Protestant
backyard-keeps me too busy ham.
mering you Methodists and Baptists
mad Presbyterians.
81 have a lot of respect for the Cath
Ole church, and i want to tell you
that the Catholics fahave, said high
high mass oNer that rotting mess of
rUnitarianism.' notwithstanding Uni.
,tarianism has had Harvard university
at its back, its dying out, and it ought
to die out, antlil am glad If I'm help
ing put IT. inysthe graveyard. Any
church that denies the divinity of aJe.
.susa Christ and makes Him the Son
of a Jewish harlot can get no com.
mendation from your uncle Fuller"
BILLY" emphasized the point that
the Christian grenadier has taken the
oath of allegiance and that among all
decent men there is great binding
force in an oath. This gives him the
cue for his up to date version of the
DIU1lCol 6IOIy VI 11cHO uldS duV lACI
head of John the Baptist.
There was old Herod," he said.
"He had a high rolling bunch up to
his house one night and they were
all soused. Out came the God-forsak.
en-, lewd, licentious dancing woman,
Herodias, half nude, and she began to
wiggle and hootchy-coochee around.
The most licentious, lewd abomina
ton out Of hell is this tang0ing bust
ness. Oh, l can just see that old
whiskey soaked scoundrel laugh as he
said, Sis; you're 2 peach; you can
have anything in my kingdom your lit.
tie heart desires.';q
Continues His Version.
$50 Herodias went to her vile, adul-
ferrous old mother. John had denounc,
ed to her face this old harradan be-
cause she was living in sin, and Her
odias' mother had it in for him. So
when she told her mother what the
King had said, before long Herodias
was demanding the head of John the
Baptist, the lion hearted preacher Of
God.
Nov Herod couldn't help admiring
John the Baptist, although the preach
err had drilled his old immoral carcass
full of holes. Herod didn't want to do
it and he sidestepped and squirmed
and tried to get out of granting the
woman's demand, but in the end the
walters served as the next course the
poor, bleeding, bruised head of John
the Baptist. Why did Herod do it?
ALL he had promised anything in his
kingdom-it was the power Of the
Here MI. Sunday said his devoirs to
Little Old New York.
II think New York; said he, lis
the grandest, most magnificent city
ever reared by the hand ofsman. And
that's not saying thatHfts a Sunday
or a new Jerusalem. But
take off my hat to Little Old New
although I'm from Chicago,
and she can go some, too. But sup.
pose a law were to be passed that no
was to be erected within the
limits. Within one year
you could buy the Woolworth build
ing for 40 cents, and the spiders would
me spinning their cobwebs across the
do you call those underground
Rody Cunning toward his
musical leader)? Oh, yes, subways;
that's what l mean"
Monday being his day" the evan
gelist tomorrow will make a little