The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28
OVER 1000 HEAR
SERMON AT NIGHT
BIGGEST Crowd Of All FlIfe Taber.
nacIe Last Night to Hear SEQ
Vile Hit Sin and
Dancing.
MANY TURNED AWAY
Evangelist Rehearses In His own
Language, How John the Baptist
Lost His Head at Hands
Of Wicked Woman,

More than 1000 persons jammed
Charles Reign Scoville's tabernacle
last night. Men and women lined the
walls of the great shed on all sides
and hundreds were turned away. Boys
sat on the platform steps and on the
floor of the choir loft. The crowd was
by far the largest ever assembled in
Keokuk for a religious service.
The sermon was taken from the
story of the execution of John the
Baptist. The subject as announced by
Scoville was God and Your Con-
science"
The crowds were pouring into the
shed before G o'clock and at 6:45
nearly every seat was filled. The
song service was spicy and Chorus
Director Charles Stewart had his
smile going at full blast.
Mrs. Scoville's solo, Did You Think
to Pray" held the crowd almost
breathless until she had finished. Her
voice carried to every corner Of the
building. Her husband requested the
audience not to applaud the solo last
night.
A crowd that almost filled the tab
e%rnacle, heard the evangelist yester-
day morning and nearly 5000 men at
tended the mems service in the after
room. The Trinity Methodist church
was hardly able to hold the crowd OF
women that packed the edifice to
lear DR.. Ullom speak.
Hurled Epithets FearIessIy.
Scoville's sermon last night was
replete with epithets which he hurlei
f~earlessly at "sin." He scored dane
ing numerically. landed hard on
church members who are against re-
vivals and declared that he 'defed
the town to show him a man damning
this campaign who Is not rotten ONE
where"
You're going to have your choice
In this meeting" he said, as he closed.
Either to line UP for Jesus Christ or
to stay we on the devils side and
drag the town down with you, as much
as you can. And believe me-" he add
ed. you'll have plenty Of company in
hell"
John the Baptist story.
Scoville's version Of the ~beheading
of John the Baptist. was unique, to
say the least. "Old John had pointed
his finger straight at King Herod,'
he said, land told him he was an old
skunk for living with Herodias, his
brother Phillips wife. And right
there a big dancing and beer guzzling
party was started.
"Old Mrs. Herod got out her en-
bossed invitation cards and sent them
out. Mrs. Brown received n inc
Mrs. Black and Mrs. White. They hit
it off down to the department stores,
wore out the lady clerks and bought
their gowns. When Herold's birthday
came around, the gang assembled.
THE old ladies danced and the old
king danced. The more he rank,
the redder his face got, and the redder
his face got the faster he had the
orchestra play. Oh, the whole gang
was there that night. It was some
hug-set to music-free for all!
The x-Ray Skirt.
Suddenly the door opens and in
writhes a beautiful girl. She is
Herodias' daughter. She is dressed IN
one Of these X-ray, low and behold
gowns that didn't near reach her
ankles. and didn't come to her chin by
two feet, She wiggled, and whlrlen
and writhed. The dress stood straight
but.
"Old Herod sat UP and went wild.
The old women sat back. mouths open,
Jealous Of that beautiful girl. Herod
says, I'll give her anything she wants
even to the half Of my kingdom Ihen
this dancing damsel slips up to him.
her lips go to his ear and her tongue
like the singer Of a bee-says'
Give me the head Of John the Bar-
list
John Loses Head.
And" the revivalist concluded,
John lost his pate because of a dane
ing damsel, a drunken king n a
wicked woman That dancing party
was pulled off for a purpose and there
will be dancing parties pulled off right
in this town for the same purpose
to injure the cause OF Jesus Christ.
Scoville slammed the pulpit. And
when they are" he shouted, Il hope
the Almighty God will treat h old
he-devfls or she-devils who pull them
off, just like He did those three back
there. When Christ came a little lat
er. old Herod sat up and cried, tbs
John the Baptist come back to life.
Why did he say it? Because John
had cut that old skunk clear to the
glzard and he had killed him for 1t
Conscience made him say it. Con
~science!"