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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-04-06
STEYER

All our farmers are busily engaged in
making maple sugar. and some Of them
have been furnishing the young people
some fine entertainment by giving
sugar boilings."
Several Of our young folks attended
the school entertainment at Gormania
Thursday night. All report fine time.
Misses Emma and Nora .Steyer spent
Sunday at Blaine.
Misses Maude Moon and Edna Harvey
were pleasant callers IN town last Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. jerome Phillips were
the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Fields Sun
day afternoon.
Misses Mayme Fields and Myrtle
Wilson spent Sunday with Misses Almah
and Edna Harvey.
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Tucker. Miss
LYDIA Steyer, Myrtle Wilson and
Mayme Fields attea ded prayer meeting
at Mrs. Harvey's Sunday night
MIR. and Mrs. Wilmoth spent Sunday
at Mailman, the new lumber town.
Oscar Wolfe and A. J. Wilson spent
Sunday with their families near this
place.
We are sorry to note the absence
from our town of Mr.. Leslie Phillips
who has gone to Parsons to attend
school.
Isaac Lewis preached a very inter
esting sermon at our school house Sun
day night.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Brown
girl. last Saturday.
And Virgil SteYer has also been
wearing broad smile since the arrival
of their big boy.
Two burials have taken place in the
Steyer cemetery during the past week.
one that of the infant child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Cecil Riding of Glade Run and the
other, Mrs. Lichliter. of Dodson.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-04-06
Quit Sin Or Campaign.

Sundays hardest raps so far at the
worldIiness of Baltimore came when
he was calling for trail-hitters in the
afternoon. His audience of 5000 peo-
pie consisted for the most part of
women, and these fairly easped when
he threw his verbal hooks into the
Monumental City, declared that its
church members had better either cast
out the sins that were holding them
away from true lives Of Christianity or
else quit"
II the church of God isn't willing 10
take lis stand for the things that are
right. we1l just about have 70 quit
and be done with This campaign" he
said with bitterness I'm not going
10 stand here and wear myself out
pleading with you I'm not going to
nag you. not going TO beg you. If l
We're you. ia either get right with
God or quit. that's all
There's something wrong with Bal
timore somewhere. Preachers tell me
they've never been in a city where the
church was so tangled up with the
things Of the world that they have
such a hard time here they often try
20 get transferred 70 other charges.
Either get right with God or let's quit.
l want 20 know what you're going to
do. II you're not willing TO purify the
church. to cast out those things that
are worldly and that are holding the
church bacE-why. then, I'm through"
"Shame On Baltimore!"
little before he had fared up in
a criticism Of the hardness of Balti-
moreans in coming forward with larger
collections at the tabernacle.
We've had nearly 100000 people
at the tabernacle meetings here" he
said, and in the FIVE weeks we haven't
raised $4,000. And yet in New York
1900 people paid the other night just
$4,000 for the privilege of seeing two
pugs stand up in the prize ring and
pound each other for 40 minutes.
SHANE on Baltimore" cried
woman's voice.
That's right, sister It is a shame;
it's a disgrace to Baltimore"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-04-06
THE PEOPLES FORUM.
AmusementS.

The question of amusements is an in
teresting one. In discussing the so
called popular ones of the time, 1 shall
not say anything to wound the feelings
of those who may not agree with me
nor would | intimate that they are
worse than others who Go not indulge
in them. Let US look at the dance of
modern society.
do not say that the dance is SINFUL
in itself, nor that there may be some
who can indulge with no evil effects.
but want to look at it from the stand
point of the christian. Is it proper for
christians to engage in it? Let US, first
of all, know what we mean by the
dance. 1T means leaping or step
ping with motions of the body adjusted
to the measure of tune; lively brisk
exercise in which the movements of the
person are regulated by art, in figures
and by the sound of Instruments. a" So
says Webster. Worcester defines it as
"a graceful movement of the figure,
accompanied by measured steps in &C.
cord with music, the act of moving
with regulated and graceful steps. 1"
Surely there is no harm in this. No
one can claim that the mere act of
dancing is sinful in itself.
To take some wine is not always sin
full, but when so much is taken as to
produce drunkenness, or weak brother
is led astray, then the harmless act be-
comes an offense. The same act may
have no moral character, or it NAV be
commendable, or it may be wrong,
even crime, according to the motive
which prompts it &c. g. the act of
killing. There may be no moral char
acter in the act of dancing as when
children dance in the glee of play. Or
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Billy Sundays Powers of Describing
Sin Draws Sinners to Hear Him.
They Love Him But They Also
Love Their Sins and Keep Right
On
Yours truly.
JOASNES.

To the Editor of The Republican.
Every protesting Christian Of every
sect ought TO want to see Billy Sunday
make good. but the facts seem to be
against him. Most decidedly in Balti-
more.
He is a bowling success at drawing Ia
crowd and he is a good prohibition
lecturer, but further than this he is a
failure.
The majority of those who go to the
tabernacle go as they would to a circus.
A large proportion of those who strike
the trail do it for a joke they, say they
are joking with a joker, and to such an
extent has joking been carried that
ministers whose places it is to take the
cards and visit the converts have shed
from doing so. This has made Billy so
mad that he has threatened to quit.
Billy draws a crowd because he en-
larges on the details of sinners lives.
The average sinner is delighted to hear
his every thought and act portrayed.
Even the ministers are now threatening
to mob Billy for showing them up in all
their details.
Billy shows up the rich man and finally
winds up with something largely in his
praise-then the rich man says, 81 like
that! Thus he said, Rockefeller is
firm square with God and is the Job of
our times" That Immediately settles
every rich man for Billy.
Billy will give a sermon on mother
hood. Every old mother who reads it
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will feel that she will become more and
more a cherubim for every child she
has, and every young woman, not
married, will feel an inspiration to
enter upon the cares of life as quickly
as possible. Of course, then the women
want to hear him. One report stated
that there were "a women to one man
present oftimes.
When Billy speaks ito women only
he sets forth what Is called rich, Iacy
and rare" The women. like the rich
men, like to hear their thoughts and
acts portrayed. There is so much of
this portrayal gwen that the poor sin
ners forget all about the hell they must
shun and the heaven they must seek
and plunge that much more into the
joys and sorrows of terrestrial life Of
course, these women want to hear him
and they hang around whole days at
time to do so.
When Billy sermonizes "to men only"
the same minute detail is undertaken.
Innocent Young men and boys receive
in these sermons eye openers that start
them on paths heretofore UNEMPLOYED,
and old young men jolly themselves
with the endorsement they receive and
plunge down to Highlan town all the
more. Many of them are so grateful
that they strike the trail. They 90 to
hear Billy at every chance.
Gentlemen drinkers and bum drinkers
are, alike, absorbed bv Billy's descrip-
ton of their weakness. Like the Young
men, some of them strike the trail in
acknowledgment Of their appreciation,
but they 90 their way in the great ma
jority Of cases fortified to pursue the
old tenor Of their way.
Justice Supplee, Of Baltimore, has
just called attention to the fact that the
records Of his central district shows an
increase in DRINKS and disorderEes since
Billy has arrived. He calls for an ex-
PLANTATION Of that which seems to him to
be a puzzle Of puzzles. The expana-
ton is, as say, found in the fact that
Billy Sunday is actually propagating in
temperance and vice.
a very few sincere converts. made by
the music chiefly, are Forthcoming at
the Sunday meetings: but they are
handed over 10 the churches. where
they patronize the shouting, singing.
o}a.cr Shippers. strawberry and ice
cream festivals and are soon lost to
sight they remain in the churches as
partaEers Of what Billy calls their
hypocrisy, " or fooled and dtsappoiat-
ed, they drop back into the world.
Ia company with one OF the Hearst
papers last year searched the whole
country to find converts who had stuck
for over year and who were worthy
o. being ciassed as truly Christians. BY
a.stretch. might say We found one.
As Christian. was hoping to see
Billy furnish the nucleus Tor revived
Christianity. but Baltimore is proving
that Billy is not delivering the goods.
The papers Of the city are deluged with
letters from the people corroborative Of
all that ! have given IN the above. IL
IS very sad.
FRANCIS BUCK LIyEsEY.
West Friendship. Nd.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-04-06
SUNDAY SAYINGS

Away with the hellish idea that the
preacher has TO do just so and so and
you can live like the devil.
There's too much joining the church
and too little joining Jesus Christ
The church doesn't need new members
half as much as she needs the old
bunch made over Whosoever, will,
let him come; whatsoever won't, let
him 90 TO the devil
If your culture is in the way Of be-
ing a Christian it spells hell
H Z double HELL
l was offered $4,000 to pose for
the movies, but | refused | won't
commercialize religion.
Some men remind me of the signs
in a butcher shop, Dressed pork,
pressed beef"
Any man can give an excuse for
not being a Christian, but no man can
give reason.
The reason many of you men have
not hit the trail is because you are not
men enough.
You will need the chunrch for a
hiding place when the devil forecloses
the mortgage on your soul.
The saloon has no right to exist. 1t
has not leg to stand on.
The stage of today is worse than in
the days of paganism.
A good moral show is financial
loss to its hackers. An obscene show
puts the S. R, o. sign out every per-
Torrance.
l think it's a shame to see a poor
old dame, with skirts above her shoe
tops and face covered with cosmetics,
trying to beat old Father Time.
A leg show makes the most money,
especially the ones that have women,
who don't wear enough clothes to
make tail for a kite.
Religion in Baltimore is loosing it's
grip. 1t has taken us five weeks to
raise less than $35,OOO A prizefight
in New York took in $151,0 in 40
minutes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-04-06

1t may be commendable as when David
danced before the Lord; or 1t may be
wrong as is so often the case with the
fashionable amusement And let me
say here, that, | know Of no town of its
size, that has less of it than our own
town. 1t is said to be innocent This
is doubtful TO say the least. The way
to judge of amusements is to try them
by their effects on our nerves and
spirits the next day. Amusement ought
to be recreation, something that re-
freshes and turns US out anew: that
rests mind and body by change and
gives cheerfulness and alacrity for re-
turn to duty. The dance might do this
but it does not. Were it confined for
an hour or two of exercise to the parlor
or open air. it would be shorn of OBJ
jections, but as 1t is carried on now al
most universally, with large crowds,
insufficient or indelicate attire, freedom
of intercourse that would not be toleI-
ated under other circumstances; revelry
and excitement, entire worldliness and
forgetfulness of God, 1t is evil. | am
talking, of course, of the dance, as
many members of society, leaders too.
including many protesting christians
practice. Now | believe in amuse-
ments. love good healthy, mind in
yigoratlng ones. Perhaps some one
says if you discard the dance you de-
stroy one of the chief sources of
amusement, and we must haye it. Then
why not dance separately. Oh, that
would destroy its fascination, deprive it
of its seductive power and render it go
tame that you would not care for it.
One of the ill omens of the christian
age is to see it wasting energy to de-
wise ways and means by which to amuse
itself. Bad indeed when christians
consent to waste time and talents on
the Pagan question of what, when, how
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-04-06
Bankruptcy Matters.

A petition in bankruptcy was filed at
the office of Deputy Federal Clerk A..
c. Nadenbousch, at Martinsburg, w.
Va, by the Cumberland Sash and Door
Company, of Cumberland, against
William A. Liller. a prominent lumber
dealer and building contractor, of Key
ser. 1t is said the claims against Con-
tractor Liller aggregate $1,000 1t is
also said that he will fight the proceed
ings. on the ground that he is not in
solvent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-04-06
GOLDSBOROUGH THE MAN WHO
FILLS ALL THE REQUIREMENTS
DEMANDED BY THE PEOPLE

+, ed he would support him in the pri-
mares.
Cecil is the home county of DIR.
France. Despite this fact, the voters
in the county are not much enthused
over the native son" proposition and
many are the offers of assistance from
voters of that section that have been
given MIR. Goldsborough.
The announcement of Mr.. Logan
that he was Goldsborough supporter
came as distinct surprise, as it was
believed that he was strongly in favor
of DR.. France. He is member of the
State Central Committee of Cecil and
with his assistance pledged to Mr..
Goldsborough, three members of the
State Central Committee are now
working earnestly IN his interest.
Almost nightly in Baltimore City one
or more clubs are formed to support
Mr.. Goldsborough. Men who are look
ed upon as ward workers" and who
have heretofore been found in the
ranks of the "old organization" are
daily lining up with Mr.. Goldsborough.
On Tuesday night, the Ninth ward
workers met at the home of William A.
Bryan, who is one OF the foremost
figures in the organized labor move
ment in MARYLAND and was formerly
president Of the Baltimore Federation
of Labor, at 1880 Fillmore street. and
adopted resolutions indorsing Mr.. Colds
borough.
THE Ninth ward will be for Colds
borough in the primary election" said
Mr. Bryan, and the men who will
work over here in his campaign are the
ones who can get out the votes. Ow-
ing to the fact that have been active
for years in labor legislation. | fire.
quently came in contact with Mr..
GoldsborouEh when he was Chief Tx
ecutive of the State and | was attract
ed to work in his behalf because he
had always been eminentiy fair 10 the
organized labor movement. | believe
that the election OF Phillips Lee Colds
borough will be a step forward towards
shaping nationa, labor measures with
success.
William S. Cox, of Calvert county.
Joined the Goldsborough camp this
week
Between meetings in Baltimore City.
Mr.. Goldsborough is spending the most
OF his time touring the counties. Last
Monday he was in Talbot and Hartford
counties.
At Belair a conference Of Republi-
cans of Hartford county was held in the
law Offices Of Henry A. Whitaker.
The call for conference was issued by
General Edward NJ Allen. chairman Of
the local State Central Committee. who
presided over the meeting. The follow
ing were selected as delegates TO the
Republican State Convention. Harry
u. Emmord, OF Perryman, Richard
Dailam, Of Bel-Air; Samuel NJ. Kirk
wood, of near Whitehall, and James w.
Davis, of Rock. Henry A. Whitaker.
of Belair, was Endorsed as delegate to
the national convention.
In Easton Mr.. Goldsborough met
many of the leading Republicans. He
said he did not ask any Of them for
their support as he understood they
were pledged to Dr. France. He in
tends, however, to make his fight
among the rank and file of the Repub-
lican voters in the county. While in
Easton he was in close consultation
with States Attorney Charles J. But
Ter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-04-06
Moves Thousands to Tears BY
His Earnest Plea.
BIG TABERNACLE TRRONGED
Trail Harvest Delights Hlm-Brass
Knuckles Found - Junior
Order Has Big
Turnout
NEARLY 1000 PERSONS HIT
THE TRAIL.

Nine hundred and seventy-three
hit the trail at the services at the
tabernacle and outside meetings
Sunday. Eight hundred and forty
went forward at the tabernacle,
691 being men and boys, and pro-
fessed conversion at the meetings
of the afternoon and evening. This
brought the grand total of trail
hitters to 1852.
Fortyone thousand people at
tended the tabernacle services,
bringing the total of attendance
for the campaign to 926,5OO
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-04-06
Women Not Allowed.

Although there was nothing in the
sermon proper for mixed audience
10 hear-and in this respect it was
vastly different from the much-talked-
OF Devils Boomerang sermon-wom-
en- We're excluded, Ma Sunday, who at
tended the evening service. being the
cole representative OF her sex.
For few minutes Mas distinction
was disputed by two women who slip
ped into the tabernacle through one Of
the back doors, They were accom-
panied by TWO men, and were just de.
termined TO stick. whether or no a
police sergeant discovered them after
q while and hurried 10 find Captain
Hurley The captain sent him back
with orders 70 eject the intruders The
ejecment was accomplished without
disturbance
a little before this one Of the ushers
thought he caught sight of a woman's
head about midway of the first sec
ton. He hurried down to make an
investigation and discovered that the
head belonged 10 a long-haired boy
straight-Out Doctrine.
The most distinctive feature of the
sermon of the afternoon and evening
was that it was the first straight-out
doctrinal talk given at a meeting for
men only 1t contained no particular
excoriation of the liquor traffic, no sta
tistic dealing with the social evil. II
flayed not the dance, nor gambling
nor politics; was singularly free from
what Sundays critics would call vul-
garities Yet, although it was by no
means "Sundayesque, 1t brought more
persons up the sawdust aisles even
than did the recently preached sermon
on "Amusements, when the congrega-
tons were half again as large,
Varying the usual program, the even
ing service was launched with a call
for sentence" prayers by members of
the congregation A man arose at the
general invitation, uttered a brief
prayer; two other men stood up when
he concluded and launched into pray
ers simultaneously. Homer Rode
beaver made the last prayer.
Obligated To Conversion.
The keynote of the whole sermon,
which was the shortest that Sunday
has delivered on any Sunday night in
his campaign here, was that men were
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-04-06
Step From That Circle.

He led up to his trail-hitting invita-
ton, with its reference to the ring, by
this:
when the rebels were fighting in
the war against Rome, when the En-
peror sent his ambassador to demand
a surrender, the rebel leader said,
We will give an answer at sunset
The ambassador drew a circle around
the rebel leader with the point Of his
sword and said: If you do not imme-
diately step from that circle We will
take your answer to be No." and that
means war, war, war;
And Sunday concluded with:
1T was never easier TO take the
stand for Christ. If you don't yield,
God have mercy on YOU"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-04-06

Baltimore.-"I draw circle about
you now, and If you don't instantly
step out. God will take it that you do
not intend 10 step out. and il viii be
war through eternity"
Billy Sunday uttered this cry TO
27000 men who made UP his after
noon and evening congregations Sun
day, following the sermon he preached
at both services on the text Choose
ye this day whom you will serve" and
up the sawdust trail surged 691 con
yerts. These, with 14g persons who
had hit the trail at the forenoon serv-
ice. made the days total for the taber-
nacle $40
The sermon to men only was one Of
the most dramatic that Sunday has de-
Hvered here. in that il was hurdened
with warning as imperative AS that
which John the Baptist uttered In the
wilderness. calling upon uubelieyers %
repeat. turn from wleke3ue-= and seek
the true God
Makes Them Sit Up.
This MAY De The funeral sermon
for some 1T you" Sunday Numbered
and men -a, bolt upright eyes wide
with emotion whipped 20 white heat.
scores wept openly and turned again
70 gaze, fairly fascinated. az the man
who was day!ng their sins as lad no
other preacher who ever called upon
Baltimore 20 turn 10 Christ.
When the evangelist saw the effect
Of bis sermon az night, saw the con
ycrts pushing forward in hunters that
babe fair 20 set d new record. his face
lighted up with joy which he could
hardly contain. After the first rush
OF Misunderstanding was over he spraug
about the platform in uncomfortable
eKuberance, took hold the pulpit and
swang upon ii as though he were prac.
tcing In a gymnasium: threw himself
face downward on the carpet 70 reach
the hands Of some helated irailhitters,
sprang upon the press table. grabbed
two outsiretched palms at once and
said exclledly: This has been a great
day in Old Baltimore. boys. great
dayi"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-04-06

under an unavoidable obligation to be-
come Christians. He told long story
of one Valentine Burke, inmate of
penitentiary, whom God winged"
through the account of a Moody ser
mon in a st. Louis newspaper, and
who afterward became noted worker
in the Lords vineyard. He poured the
walls of his wrath upon IngersoH, and
described graphically the death of
Ingersoll's brother and of the funeral
Grafton, tragic in its hopelessness,
made by the famous infidel himself.
After ALL" he said, "Ingersoll was
nothing but a mouthful of sweetened
wind and a painted echo. His doc
trine developed more jailbirds than
did any other influence of his time. I'd
rather be an old nag in gutter than
a man of the mental brilliancy of Bob
Ingersoll If had to have his doctrine.
1ngersoll said he did not know what
would become of him after death. He
knows now, for he has been dead
these many years"
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-06-18

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