The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-01-25

''All the world loves lover" and
if one may judge by the crowd that
packed st. Paul's M. p. Church last
night, nearly all Cambridge likes
'Sweethearts," the sermon delivered
by Evangelist Morgan Lee Starke, of
Brooklyn. The speaker had an
pounced that the talk would be di-
rected to women, and it surely was,
but it was not the kind that women
usually get, couched in such beauti-
full language that woman compli-
/ ments herself on being the most
etheral thing that inhabits the earth,
but, on the other hand, it was full of
plain truths, with all the veneer
F.! knocked off.
| Mr.. Starke is opposed to intermar-
Eriage among denominations. He be-
lieves that a Methodist man should
| marry Methodist woman, for when
people of opposite faith marry, the
husband generally goes to one
church, the wife to another, and the
Ichildren to the devil. The evange-
Hist says that God never gave a man
Ia greater gift than a good wife and
a large family of children, and the
devil never gave a man greater
curse than a society woman, with
bulldog and canary.
Woman should insist that the man
she marries be her equal morally, be-
cause few women who have failed to
make better men of their lovers ever
succeeded in modelling them into de-
Eirable husbands; the man should
be in a class with her mentally, and
when every man makes his wife his
partner, there will be fewer women
living beyond their means, and in
nOcently plunging their husbands in
10 bankruptcy; and a man should be
physically able to take care of the
woman he loves when he asks her to
share his life. Mr.. Starke lashed the
man who wanted to marry the pref
tiest and best dressed girl in town,
and after marriage he deprived her
of the attractive dresses which help
ed to add to her beauty, or grumbled
because 1T cost so much to keep her
well clothed.
Mr. Starke believes that American
styles should be made in America,
and that we should no longer pattern
our fashions after gay and giddy
France. He scored the V-cut neck,
rouge for the face and all dresses
which are worn for the special pur-
pose of attracting the attention of
men. The evangelist then touched
on card playing, dancing, drinking,
indecent plays, bad movies, sugges-
tive songs, immoral books, smoking,
and about every other present-day
evil one could possibly thing Of He
said that the woman who sits at a
card table and plays for prize, be
it of no more value than tin whis-
tie, is as great a gambler as the man
who frequents the dens of the big
cities. In regard to dancing, he
quoted statistics to show how many
girls had fallen during the past year,
mi Mr.. Starke said that in an inter
view he had with the marshal of po-
lice of New York city, he told him
that the greater percentage of them
had come to ruin through the dance
hall, or the ballroom.
Every girl should make her moth
er her sweetheart, and confide in her
the joys and cares which come into
her life, and every mother should en-
courage her daughter to come to her
with the temptations when they enter
her young life.
Husbands and wives should also be
sweethearts, and Mr.. Starke belongs
to the sentimental class that believes
more in love than in sanitation, for,
according to his talk last night, he
does not believe there is a deadly
germ transferred from the lips when
kissing is INDUCED in by the man
and his helpmeet. He thinks that a
man should kiss his wife and call her
sweetheart at least once a day, and
then do everything he can to help to
take the burden of the home from
her shoulders.
In conclusion the speaker made an
urgent appeal to his audience to take
Jesus for their leader, and give Him
a clean heart and sweet heart.
Tonight Mr.. Starke will preach on
"Be Sweet" and at the close of the
service he will give his first invita-
tion for the unconverted to come to
the altar. The meeting will begin
at 7.3O O'Clock, with song service of
about half of an hour.