Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-13
Billy Sundays Slang Is
School ChIdrpn's Delight
Laugh Uproarously at Times, at Others Are Startled Into Open
Mouthed Silence, But They Find Evangelist's Antics Entertain
ing-"Trail Hitting to Begin Soon. ~"

about your neck 1t is a sad day for
a young fellow when President Taft's
overcoat wouldn't make him a vest
IT l had lived in Napoleon's day I'd
have followed his star, for he knew
how to hit the ball and don't YOU for.
get it, There are lots Of boys who
are good sparrers, but they haven't
got the punch that puts you to sleep.
Cyrus Field and your neighbor.
Tom E~iison-,hey are the kind of
mensthatfhang, their. mugs in. the, Hall
Of Fame. When, they're little dis.
~couraged they, don't lie down and take
the count" i 81 ~4,7st53 HIS a3#,:,
There had gathered in the after.
noon the usual half, house of about
four thousand persons, which. has
been the average daylight attendance
during the week. Before. the ushers
started with their pans to collect the
offering, Billy again ) assured the
people. Of Paterson that he thinks they
are, all right, despite publications in
some Of the h aHnlgoqdly metropolitan retro ~
a want you W., to know" said he.
"how much appreciate the enthus-
iasm and the generosity of you peop.e
of Paterson. You compared with any
city we have been in and I ought to
know about that better than anybody
else. I'm not giving you any taffy.
But, somehow don't know why
they seem to be trying to make you
people the goat"
"Billy's" afternoon topic was
cleansing the Temple" He found
his text in Chronicles, xxx 27:-
when the burnt offering began, the
song of the Lord began By the way
OF. preface he, told, no the idolatrous
King Ahaz had destroyed the holy
vessels and how the temple. of the
Lord had been closed and silent for
sixteen years when Hezekiah. o OF
Ahaz, came to the throne and restor-
ed the temple and the worship Of the
living God instead of the worship of
idols. He emphasized the fact that,
while Hezekiah had had "a miserable
old scoundrel of a father, he had a
mother who was one OF the noblese
women, who ever lived"
81 have known of boys" he said,
who have amounted to something in
life who had a ~rascally old %reprobate
Of a father, but l have never known
of one who amounted to a snap OF
your finger who had a goddess, wine
guzzling, card playing, theatergoing,
fox trotting mother. Hezekiah had
this in his favor, He had a cracker.
jack ma" n $40
The evangelist told how Corinth
had been a, city of temples-temples
raised. to the true God. Then he went
on to say a
"You are going crazy. W. your cul.
ture clubs andGyour ethical societies
and your libraries. I believe in Gull
ture clubs. i am not knocking them
and ] am not knocking libraries, but
I tell you Andrew Carnegie may plant
a library on every corner; you can
have every church member a college
graduate. you can have your swell
clubs! you can endow your Kelley
cures old New York may rear build
ings so high, that they make the Wool
worth building look like a thatched
shack, but when. you leave Jesus
| Christ out, then good night"
Warns C!ergymen.
Turning to the clergymen, several
score of whom we're assembled on the
platform, he urged them 10 bring back
the Bible into the church. as Heze.
kiah restored the vessels to the house
Of the Lord.
"Stop preaching this tommyrot." he
urged, .this assinine higher criticism
stuff. Stop fighting your little theolo-
gical sham battles. If you don't you'll
get yours"
There are symptoms that trail hit
ting is not to be much longer delay
ed. lin ending his afternoon sermon
Billy said:
'If old Paterson falls on her knees
IN prayer the song will not begin in
a brewery; it will not start in a booze
joint; 1t will not start in a red light.
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