The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-08
Charles Reign Scoville Asks
for Reasons and Then An
'swers Them as Fast
as Given
FLAYS WICKED FORCES
Says He Hopes Bootleggers
and Hays and Solicitors
viii be Driven From
Keokuk Now.

| at the tabernacle last night Tonight
/ DR.. scoyiIle will end the seventh
week OF his Keokuk campaign and to
MORROW night viii see the close Of
the series of meetings that has re-
suited In nearly $500 persons hit
ting the glory trail"
The sermon last night was unique
one. ScoyiIIe asked the audience 70
give him the excuses for remaining
out of the church. AS rapidly as they
F.! came he answered them. Some Of
( hig answers we're lengthy, even dra-
matte, and they all combined 10
make a rounded out, interesting ser
mon.
so time" and "hypocrites" and
TOO much fun" were few OF the
/ things that evidently are causing
PEOPLE TO remain out OF the fold
Many others were given, some by
church members who remembered
the excuses they used to exploit, and
others By sinners" who still believed
that they would never Tine up"
The preliminary services were in
teregtfng. H T. Kruger made talk
IN benalf OF the thank offering which
will be taken for Scoville and his
party at the three services on Sun
day. His remarks ELECTED numerous
rounds Of applause and not little
laughter.
He surely means me-" grinned
Kruger as he stepped TO the plat
form after brief introduction by
Rey. Beardsley. chairman OF the
executive committee. The crowd
laughed.
Talks About Thank Offering.
.Dr. Scoyi1e has been with us eight
Sundays. including next Sunday he
said, Tets give him cheer. You
all know how faithfully he and his
party have worked with us. He has
we do is to give this Offering on the
very last day of the campaign We
can't pay DR.. ScoyilIe in full The
only time he will ever be paid in full
viii be when the Lord shall say,
Well done. good and faithful ser
want, come up higher But we can
pay him in part
Now we propose to have the lar
gest delegation OF the entire cam
Dstgn here Sunday. We want every
person to bs member OF that dele
cation. The motto viii be, the
laborer is worthy Of his hire"
Mr.. Kruger had the crowd repeat
The motto" and then continued. we
want 10 do this thing up in the Reo-
kuk way, he asserted. We have
heard a lot about Emporia- Kans., and
Jefferson City, No, and Webb City,
Mo, and Pueblo and Hutchinson,
Kans.. and Nauvoo, but we want DIT.
Scoyille 10 put the o. x on Keokuk
when he leaves here. We want him
To tell It wherever he goes'."
Ed Card was popular again last
night. He made a ten minute talk
before the sermon and had the crowd
laughing practically the entire time.
He had decided, apparently, to let his
remarks take a different trend, al
though he closed with dramatic
appeal for the people Of Keokuk TO
rally around the standard OF the Naza-
rene, proclaiming him to be the only
cure for the afflicted SOUL"
The members Of the evangelistic
company sang the new gong, written
by Dr. Scoville and Mr.. Lillenas. The
title OF the hymn Is "JeSus, the King
Of Glory" Another new hymn, writ
ten by Mr. Liflenas, entitled only a
Little Way" was taught to the choir.
| Hrs. ScoyiIIe and Mr.. Card sang a
duet entitled Pass II On
sootIegsers, Hays and Solicitors.
! DIR. Scoville landed on the boot
! leggers," "old hags" and solicitors"
! Of Keokuk again last night. declared
! that II he were the mayor, city coun-
cilrnen and police officers he would
make a cleaning" and voiced the
hope that the new administration
VIII drive every bootlegger in town
across the Missigsipip river"
81 want that man who surrendered
the bottle Of whiskey the other night
to stand up. If he's here" Scoville
said, az he started his sermon. The
man arose and was cheered. Com e
down here, asked Scoviile. The man
complied with ths request and the
preacher asked him TO the platform.
After the appliance had subsidized the
eyangclist said:
This man looks different tonight.
He had pretty strong breath the
other night. He came down with his
wife and daughter and threw down
his whiskey / would do anything
could do 10 help a man like him"
Scoyille's text was, "Ephraim Is
joined TO his idols, let him alone
He declared that the reason hundreds
of persons haven't hit his glory trail
is that they are tied to some cussed
little idol"
IF | should call any OF you heath
ems" he said. and tell you you are
as bad as the negroes of blacklist