Evening journal., 1915-02-20

tabernacle In order 20 hear u Most
of them were so eager that they took
their places in the building by 11.30
in the forenoon, waiting three full
hours for the evangelist TO arrive
Mrs. John Wanamaker was an af-
ternOon visitor, as was also Bishop
Ethelbert Talbot, of the Protestant
Episcopal Church.
Few non-Christians escaped the
evangelist, and not a great many
Christians. The note of hopelessness
for all who do not accept the Bible as
the inspired Word of God, for those
who do not believe in Christ as the
literal Son of God, and for those who
do not accept without reservation the
principles of life and of conduct laid
down by the dynamite preacher" was
struck once again yesterday. and
struck with the force and the carry
ing power of some huge bell-clepper.
And. as a result, one hundred and
sixty-dve new penitents, of both sexes,
came down the golden aisle" when
the evangelist got through, and kneh
together in the dirt and sawdust.
One penitent drew especial atten-
ton. Unkempt, collarless, with one
hand bandaged and with dried blood
still staining his shirt-front. he look
ed as if labor in the field had led to
compotation, and compotation to war.
fare. After shaking hands with the
evangelist he was led to the mercy
seat" and placed between a we'll
dressed man and woman who had
themselves both hit the trail a minute
or two before. Both, in spite of their
own shaking-up. tried hard to admin
lister comfort. but comfort was not to
be had until the man turned his back
upon the evangelist and knelt upon
the ground, hiding his face IN his
hands upon the bench in front OF him.
Seeing his collapse, the woman .knelt.
too, in her neat clothes, placed an arm
about him and prayed beside him audi
bly,. Seeing the pair so overcome.
others in the nearby seats shook OF
their indifference and Joined them.
Among the afternoons other penl-
tents was a man who declared to Sun
day that he had "been on third base
for twenty years"
Come home. them" replied the
evangelist. quick as a flash. sending
him on to make way for the next.
Jimmy Rogers, otherwise Charles Il
Lodge, welterweight pugilist. was
second athlete received at the Afternoon
I service.
The ineilicacy of wisdom and characte
as means of salvation was hammers
/ into the earlier audience with "fluency
fervor and zeal" Unitarianism, Univer
salism. Millennial Dawnism. Theosophy
| Christian Science. "Ilolv Rollers" Dowie
ism, New Thought. Swedenborgianisn
and a half dozen other forms of indie
/ pendent belief were Jumped together b.
the evangelist in declarations that b
wasn't "afraid of any of these new re
ligious belched out by the Devil"
Original sin was insisted upon:
'Your baby dies because you hav
Adams nature"
Nobility of life was set down as q
mo effect against the fallen nature q
Man:
Read good books, and keep goo
company and be generous and philaI
thropie and you'll 90 to Heavens You
20 to He'll Turn your back ON Jes,
, Christ and there's no hope for you!"
Unitarianism cackled;
at was the Unitarians of Christ
day that stoned Him, and they're stoi
ing Him today. They're not doing
with stones. but with false doctrines"
Critics got an old-fashioned pivo
blow:"
"People say / blaspheme. / prea,
Gods Word; they are the blasphemel
the miserable scoundrelsi"
Apollyon received formal salute
"Even the Devil admitted that jest
| Christ was the Son OF God so you''
got 10 take your hat or 10 the ncvili'