The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-03-16

sons and daughters of drinkers unto
the third and fourth generation"
read a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
to prove his point, and hammered in
his moral by repeating: Yes, they'll
come home to roost, whether they are
vultures or birds of paradise"
Spurred on by the applause that met
mandom shot at the liquor interests,
he whirled around, pointed his finger
at first one section of the congregation
and then at another, and shouted;
Eyes, and I've got something to say
about the things that rotten, dirty
gang have done in Baltimore to de-
fame my character. I'll cram it down
your dirty throats, if you're here.
eff an emetic were thrown into the
pit of hell the last imp thrown out
would be an archangel compared to
some of the hell-spawn of that dirty,
God-forsaken gang right here in Bal
timore."
When, concluding his sermon, he
S'ohSN I'll b44OSC pACoCA WIZ OClASfOo
it to be right and manly to be Chris
trians to stand up, the great throng
rose in body
Wins the Little Folks.
At the children's afternoon meeting
the Tabernacle was packed by thou
sands, and the children had as much
to do with preaching Rev. Billy Sun
days sermon as did the evangelist him.
self. And the vim they put into the
meeting struck new note in the cam
paign in Baltimore, while it revealed
Mr.. Sunday in an entirely new light,
the light Of a gentle adviser, a cour-
teOus and sympathetic teacher, a man
with keen insight into child psy-
cholOgy.
Grown-ups who heard him then,
who saw the way he stirred the little
ones without frightening them; saw
them expand, saw their eyes light up
with interest, and who heard him
| again at night when he fayed a great
| audience, denOuncing as fools all those
who would not accept Christ, mar.
Of preaching. The children he won
with a smile; the men and women
be belabored with barbed anathemas.
Both Sermons Bear Fruit.
But both sermons bore immediate
fruit. At night men and women and
youths and girls hit the trail to the
number Of 103 In the afternoon there
was no formal trail-hitting, but 1866
boys and girls, averaging around ten
years Of age, We're enrolled as those
who wished to put their feet upon the
road Of Christianity
Two novel features made distinctive
the boys and the girls meeting. One
Of them was the showing, one by one,
Of flags of nearly all the Christian and
a few Of the non-Christian nations and
the calling out of the names Of those
countries By the children. The other
was the breaking Of six highly deco
rated vases, of different designs, by the
evangelist to illustrate the manner In
which small boy broke as many Of
| Gods Commandments on Sabbath
morning
Behind In TraiI-Hitters.
1t is interesting to contrast the
! progress Of the Baltimore campaign
with that Of Trenton for the same pc
riod of their progress.
Sunday was the thirteenth day on
which Tabernacle meetings were held
here, and the outstanding figures were:
Attendance for the day, $4,000; trail
hitters for the day (at the Tabernacle
and the two outside services), 1,131;
total attendance to date 5000 and
/ total of trail-hitters, 2,797.
Trenton's statistics for the first IS
! days of meetings We're: Attendance for
the day. $4,000; total TO date, 243,000;
trail-hitters for the day, TAI; total to
date, 2,045; collections for the day,
| $2,22174; total $13,708.0S.
Baltimore's collections for the IL
days of Tabernacle meetings was $751;
O1096.
Wants Live Christians.
you can't double-cross God with
that sort of bunk" Billy Sunday warn
| ed thousands at the tabernacle.
Il want to strike the death blow to
| the belief that a Christian has to hide
| like sick pup in a garnet, that he has
to be weak, namby-pamby, spineless,
| sissifed eliminate, all-around hot.
house proposition. God expects you
| to be as much of a man outside the
church as you are in.
! THE average man." he went on,
thinks he can crafty his senses all
week and then beat 1t to church and
/ sit with glum look on his mug and
/ get the notion in his noodle that he is
! fooling God. He thinks that God is
not wise that he's been leading rot.
| ten life six days of the week" And
! later, some fellow asked me if l be.
heved in a literal hell. | told him:
| DO look like a fool? By the time
/ dust out of Baltimore, you'll know that
believe in hell all right"
| MIR. Sunday In Baltimore Society.
| Several pages torn at random from
/ the Blue Rock of Baltimore were at
! the home of Mrs. John Gill, 929 North
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