The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-05-12
SOME SUNDAY
SCORCHERS
Billy Sunday Unwinds in
Kansas City

Ouludy DcBdl HIS cNdDBellStlC CALI
paign in Kansas City by delivering
three sermons The subject of his
morning sermon was: Have Ye Re-
ceived the Holy Ghost?" The after
noon subject was: Goods Grenadiers,' -
and at night he preached on "The
Sins of Society" Here are some of the
fence busters" of the Baseball Evan
gelist:
Why, an angel of heaven could
not come to Kansas City and loaf
two weeks with the people you loaf
with and then return to heaven with
out first peing disinfected and fumi-
gated and given bath in lysol and
carbolic acid.
AS to the doctrine of future proba-
ton, | say if man doesn't settle
his future before the undertaken
pumps the embalming fluid into him,
then he's a gone
We are all made of one blood and
one man, and | believe in the univer
al brotherhood Of man. Because ycu
rode here today in ON automobile in
stead of hoofing it, does not make
you any better. Ard because you may
yta1 a diamond es big as hickory
nut in your shirt front, doesn't make
you any better.
There is SO much organization N
the church that you can hear the ma
chinery squeak, but we haven't got
oil enough of the Holy Ghost to
grease one axle cf Gods chariot.
Believe that God Almighty can do
something; don't whine around as tho
God was corpse, ready fer the un
dertaker. God is still on the jo6
Some of the greatest devils this
side of perdition are in the church.
A lot of you preachers are going
daffy about social service. believe
in social service if it has Christ IN it,
but as for the Christless kind, none
for mine.
Jesus says: "You cannot serve God
and mammon." The world says.
Serve God on Sunday, mammon the
rest of the week"
Some people are so tight that il
you asked them to sing "Old Hun
dred" they would sing SO and save
l per cent. If they put dime in the
collection they want to sing God
Be With You Till We Meet Again.
A man can use tobacco and be
Christian, but he will be mighty
dirty one.
1t makes me sick to see a woman
hugging a dog. Maybe that is why
some husbands are not so affection
ate. They don't like to play second
fiddle to bow-legged bulldog.
| believe in capital punishment be-
cause it is biblical. A man who de-
plans murder ought to for
felt his life.
don't know your besetting sin.
Mine is temper. I've got temper
like a sheet-iron stove. A bunch of
shavings and a match will make 1t
red hot In two minutes. But | am
getting better.
In your social affairs, society wo-
men of today are selfish, priggish,
contented in their comfortable quar-
ters, with little Joy ride, little
bridge whist, game of polo, fine
gown and hat now and then. Their
lives are perfectly meaningless.
The daughter of society woman
s a penciled-eyebrow, painted, frizzy-
haired nothing, who chews gum, plays
ragtime, flirts, and If you kiss her
are in danger of dying of painters
collie. Her ragtime is "Oh, Does the
Spearmint Lose It's Flavor on the
Bedpost Overnight
The fool mother that allows 16-
year-old sissy to float around town
joyriding at all hours of the night
with a counterfeit sport with weak
mind and weaker morals, opens the
door to allow sin, shame and dis
grace to enter her home.
The modern suitor is wise. 1t is as
hard to pass off a girl that has been
paved over by different fellow six
nights a week with the light turne
low, as it is to fatten sheep on pine
apple ice.