The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-03
Dancing Gets Hottest Shots Of
All From Evangelist's
AZ Centimeter Guns
of Religion.
DIVORCE EVIL is HIT
Evangelist Cites Only Possible
Cause for Severance
of the Marital
Relations.

Charles Reign Scoville's sermon on
amusements took 5000 people by
storm yesterday afternoon. A crowd
that jammed and packed the taber-
nacle, that overlooked into the street,
that caused people to stand in every
available foot Of space in the aisles
and around the exits heard the SER
mon Time and again the evangelist
convulsed the throng with his mimicry
representations and ludicrous stories.
Then, again, he had them in tears
with touch of simple, yet eloquent
pathos.
He hurled invective, after invective
anathema after anathema, epithet
after epithat at the "ten plaques of
this country. The things he pointed
out as composing the decade OF
plaques" are the dance, the divorce
gambling, society cards, muhiciple
misrule, "bad" city carnivals, yellow
journalism, murder, intemperance and
lynching. He dwelt only briefly on
some of the subjects and ignored 9th
ers altogether. He devoted by far the
major portion. of his time to flaying
the dance, divorce (which he charact-
erized as one of the blacklist Of the
plaques and social leprosy'D and
yellow journalism
Scoville landed hard on the dance,
called it "hugging set : to music"
tommy rot" and too dispicable in
its modern form almost to be men,
toned
Crowds on Job Early.
The crowd that heard the sermon
was pouring into the tabernacle few
minutes after twelve o'clock. Many
persons had brought their lunches and
remained in the building following the
morning service. Dozens OF automo-
biles and buggies, many of them bear
Ing the mud signs that told they had
come miles through country roads,
stood along either side of Main and
Twelfth streets, for two blocks each
way. Men and women stood in the ex-
its. Hundreds, arriving late and see
ing the immense crowd, turned away
to auto rides, walks through the city
or some other diversion.
By 2:S0 o'clock, half hour before
time for the service to start, the build
Ing was packed to capacity. The song
service started a few minutes ahead of
time. The choir loft held 500 singers.
The chorus was augmented by large
orchestra and the music was unusually
fine. Scoville preached one hour and
twenty minutes. He gave the invita-
ton and ninety-seven persons chit the
glory trail
'Have hit sin too hard since com.
Ing to this town, wonder?" asked the
revivalist as he stepped to the plat
form to begin his address. Answer
me, yes or no." he requested. "No!"
stormed the crowd. "All right re-
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harder!" The statement was met with
spontaneous applause.
The Millinery Comes Of.
Now ladies' he said. noticing the
super-abundance of spring millinery
that dotted the crowd from one side
OF the shed to the other. take off your
hats like men. We let you wear them
and that's all you wanted wasn't it,"
he asked. I'm sure no woman wears
her hat for comfort. But I'm not 60
Ing to knock the millner. If she can
make those hats that way and get you
to wear 'em. I'm for her
Whenever my wife gets new hat.
no matter what 1t looks like, tell her
like it," he said. IF l don't I'll
have to buy her another one
Scoville started off by telling a few
humNous stories about certain things
and persons that got the crowd into
high good humor Then he went after
the saffron press. He paid a tribute.
however, to the local newspapers.
thanking them for the support they
have given us, God bless them and
asking the crowd q to give 'em a
cheer" which the crowd give en-
Scores Absent Christians.
There are lot of people not here
This afternoon said the speaker, d.
crossing for a moment, because they